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Writer:
Yale Udoff (screenplay)
Release Date:
October 1980 (USA)
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His terrifying obsession took them to the brink of death and beyond. [Video Australia] more
Plot:
The setting is Vienna. A young American woman is brought to a hospital after overdosing on pills, apparently in a suicide attempt...
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3 wins
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intense work from forgotten master
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Art Garfunkel | ... | Alex Linden | |
| Theresa Russell | ... | Milena Flaherty | |
| Harvey Keitel | ... | Inspector Netusil | |
| Denholm Elliott | ... | Stefan Vognic | |
| Daniel Massey | ... | Foppish Man | |
| Dana Gillespie | ... | Amy Miller | |
| William Hootkins | ... | Col. Taylor | |
| Eugene Lipinski | ... | Hospital Policeman | |
| George Roubicek | ... | Policeman #1 | |
| Stefan Gryff | ... | Policeman #2 | |
| Sevilla Delofski | ... | Czech Receptionist | |
| Robert Walker | ... | Konrad | |
| Gertan Klauber | ... | Ambulance Man | |
| Ania Marson | ... | Dr. Schneider | |
| Lex van Delden | ... | Young Doctor |
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123 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
Singapore:R21 |
Canada:18+ (Ontario) |
UK:18 |
West Germany:18 |
South Korea:18 |
Argentina:16 |
Australia:R |
UK:X (original rating) (cut) |
USA:R |
Iceland:16
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Theresa Russell and Nicolas Roeg fell in love during the shooting of the film. They later married, had two children and were later divorced.
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Milena Flaherty:
Leave and you kill me. Leave and I'm dead.
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Featured in "Zomergasten: (#18.2)" (2005)
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Berceuse
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Bad Timing is not an easy film, but one that rewards effort. Art Garfunkel joins the line (Jagger, Bowie) of singers who produced career best acting performances for this director - the scene of him smoking while staring over a bridge into the abyss of his life is worth buying the dvd alone - and Theresa Russell is simply incendiary. The story is a relatively simple one of how two people who should never have got together become obsessed with each other, but is told in Nicolas Roeg's fluid, labyrinthine style with flashes back and forward and disconcerting edits. The sexual content is extreme for some tastes, but raw and painfully honest in a way which defies simple titillation. Intense work from one of the giants of British and world cinema, now sadly neglected, and one of a string of great films, Performance, Walkabout, Don't Look Now and The Man Who Fell to Earth which mark Nicolas Roeg out as a great director.