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Dennis Potter (written by)
Release Date:
October 1988 (USA)
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He Was Her Dream And Her Obsession. Her Son... And Her Lover
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A doctor's wife tires of his obsession with model trains, and spends her days wondering about the son she gave up for adoption at birth...
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Model Train
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Adoption
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Spanking
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Dominatrix
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Theresa Russell | ... | Linda Henry |
 | Gary Oldman | ... | Martin |
 | Christopher Lloyd | ... | Henry Henry |
 | Colleen Camp | ... | Arlanda |
 | Sandra Bernhard | ... | Nurse Stein |
 | Seymour Cassel | ... | Dr. Bernard Fairmont |
 | Leon Rippy | ... | Trucker |
 | Vance Colvig Jr. | ... | Mr. Ennis |
| Kathryn Tomlinson | ... | Receptionist |
| Jerry Rushing | ... | Redneck |
| Tommy Hull | ... | Counterman |
| J. Michael Hunter | ... | Waiter |
 | Richard K. Olsen | ... | Delegate |
| Ted Barrow | ... | Old Man |
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Germany:86 min | USA:90 min | UK:91 min
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The young Linda is seen with posters of George Harrison (executive producer of the film) and 'David Bowie' (star of Roeg's hit _Man Who Fell To Earth, The (1976)_) on her bedroom wall.
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Young at Heart
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The plot is wacky enough to promise a great film: a repressed alcoholic middle-class housewife with incestuous tendencies, married to a doctor with infantilism tendencies, encounters a young English guy who turns out to be her lost son (fruit of a teenage rape, whom she had to give for adoption). But it's not clear what's real & what's not. Freud would be proud.
The bad thing is seeing how generic Hollywood-ian Nicolas Roeg's direction has become. There really is very little here that reminds of "Don't Look Now" or "Bad Timing". Not that it's not worth watching. The spanking sequence is hilariously disturbing, the film has the feel of a hysterically surreal 80's soap opera, and the interplay between past, present, reality & fantasy is sometimes inspired.
In fact David Lynch ended up copying lots of stuff from here, particularly on "Twin Peaks" and "Lost Highway". Notice for example the demonic rape scene, or the merging of the truck driver and lost son characters.