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Writers:
Tom Kempinski (play)
Tom Kempinski (screenplay)
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Release Date:
February 1987 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
Stephanie, a famous violin player married to a composer becomes ill from multiple sclerosis. Her whole... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for Golden Globe. more
NewsDesk:
(2 articles)
Gold Derby nuggets: 'August: Osage County' vies for West End kudos | Dave Karger: 'Amazing achievement' of 'Precious' | 'Avatar' is half billion dollar baby
 (From Gold Derby. 9 November 2009, 2:46 PM, PST)
Stevenson and Goodman to Star in West End Transfer of Duet For One
 (From BroadwayWorld.com. 13 March 2009, 9:56 AM, PDT)
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How to rip the guts out of your own work... more (5 total)

Cast

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Julie Andrews ... Stephanie Anderson

Alan Bates ... David Cornwallis

Max von Sydow ... Dr. Louis Feldman

Rupert Everett ... Constantine Kassanis
Margaret Courtenay ... Sonia Randvich
Cathryn Harrison ... Penny Smallwood
Sigfrit Steiner ... Leonid Lefimov

Liam Neeson ... Totter
Macha Méril ... Anya
Siobhan Redmond ... Totter's wife
Janette Newling ... Mrs. Burridge
John Delaney ... Drunk
Kevin Ranson ... Derek
Dorothea Phillips ... Betty
Marcia Linden ... Gail
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Runtime:
107 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Rankcolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Certification:
Iceland:L | Finland:K-16 | UK:15 | USA:R
Filming Locations:
London, England, UK
Company:
Golan-Globus Productions more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
In 1987, on the set of Barfly (1987), Faye Dunaway told film critic Roger Ebert that she was originally cast in the role of Stephanie Anderson. more
Quotes:
Stephanie Anderson: You know I have nothing but contempt for you. Sitting there year after year listening to miserable people like me tell you how the world does destroy them. Have you ever once felt anything like the pain they feel? All the despair...all the fear? You make your living from their suffering and you don't understand a shred of it. Anyone of us is more qualified to speak than you because we have been there. We are still there. more

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2 out of 13 people found the following comment useful.
How to rip the guts out of your own work..., 24 February 2003
Author: Silasss from London, England

...and also make a nonsense of your title. The film is based on a stage play, which is so called because, although a two-hander, it is much closer to being a one-woman show. The stage version was produced for BBC Television with Frances De La Tour, the original star, and is much more worth watching than this sentimentalised claptrap. For one thing, when in a magnificent outburst she attempts to shock the psychiatrist by admitting that she has been "f***ing a totter", part of the power of this is by your wondering what is going on in the head of this refined and cultural woman, for her to be taking a dirty Steptoe-like rag and bone man into her bed. The point is completely lost if you *show* the totter, and what is more cast Liam Neeson in the part!

Kempinski remained on the credits as the screenwriter, so it seems he only has himself to blame for this utter emasculation of what was really an excellent play, loosely based on the shattering loss of Jacqueline Du Pré's art, career and normal life to multiple sclerosis.

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