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Bodies, Rest & Motion (1993)
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9 April 1993 (USA)
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Nick is leaving. Beth is staying. Carol is waiting. Sid is painting. more
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Nick is a feckless television salesman who gets fired and impulsively decides that he and his girlfriend...
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Excellent indie film with real-life couple as leads
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Phoebe Cates | ... | Carol |
 | Bridget Fonda | ... | Beth |
 | Tim Roth | ... | Nick |
 | Eric Stoltz | ... | Sid |
 | Alicia Witt | ... | Elizabeth |
 | Sandra Ellis Lafferty | ... | Yard Sale Lady (as Sandra Lafferty) |
 | Sidney Dawson | ... | TV Customer |
 | Jon Proudstar | ... | Station Attendant |
| Scott Johnson | ... | Chip |
| Kezbah Weidner | ... | Dine Woman |
 | Peter Fonda | ... | Motorcycle Rider |
 | Amaryllis Borrego | ... | Waitress |
| Rich Wheeler | ... | Elizabeth's Grandfather |
| Scott Frederick | ... | TV Store Kid |
| Warren Burton | ... | Radio Preacher (voice) |
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95 min
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In the end credits there is a special thanks to Harvey Keitel. He was not involved in the movie as such, but he made a very important phone call to Tim Roth. Roth had been offered a big and well paid part in a big budget film immediately before this low budget independent film was to begin shooting. Harvey Keitel made a phone call to Roth, giving him the following advice "Don't take the money. Take the film you really want to make". So Roth stayed with this project.
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Continuity: Driving toward home after his last day at work in Enfield, Nick passes the same American flag twice.
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References Powaqqatsi (1988)
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Hot Burrito #1
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"sex, lies and videotape" doesn't really have much on this film, except for a more prurient twist. Like Steven Soderbergh's seminal indie hit, "Bodies, Rest and Motion" is an intelligent drama dealing with life as a twentysomething in middle (and middle-class) America. It's tightly written, excellently acted and doesn't sound a false note along the way, except for perhaps the mystical scene in the young redhead's house when Tim Roth goes searching for his estranged parents. But that's a small quibble. Revisit this lost gem, which showcases Eric Stoltz's best role and performance, and his real-life lover at the time, Bridget Fonda, as the put-upon Olive Garden waitress who always seems to pick the wrong guy -- this time Roth as a morally bankrupt Circuit City salesman. Phoebe Cates is just right as Roth's ex-lover turned neighbor, who forgives him everything, except perhaps his treatment of Fonda.