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Whit Stillman (writer)
Release Date:
29 July 1994 (USA)
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Tagline:
Americans. Anti Americans. In Love
Plot:
Ted, a stuffy white guy from Illinois working in sales for the Barcelona office of a US corporation...
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1 win
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The Bible Dancer and the American Deer
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Taylor Nichols | ... | Ted Boynton |
 | Chris Eigeman | ... | Fred Boynton |
 | Tushka Bergen | ... | Montserrat Raventos |
 | Mira Sorvino | ... | Marta Ferrer |
 | Pep Munné | ... | Ramone |
| Hellena Schmied | ... | Greta |
| Núria Badia | ... | Aurora Boval |
 | Thomas Gibson | ... | Dickie Taylor |
| Jack Gilpin | ... | The Consul |
| Pere Ponce | ... | Young doctor |
| Laura López | ... | Nuria (Ted's assistant) |
| Francis Creighton | ... | Frank Robinson |
| Edmon Roch | ... | Javier |
| Diana Sassen | ... | Woman (shootings in America) |
| Àngels Bassas | ... | Woman (jazz) |
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101 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Revealing mistakes: When Fred and Ted are driving through Barcelona early in the film, Ted's driving barely matches the direction the car is moving.
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Fred:
Maybe you can clarify something for me. Since I've been, you know, waiting for the fleet to show up, I've read a lot, and...
Ted: Really?
Fred: And one of the things that keeps popping up is this about "subtext." Plays, novels, songs - they all have a "subtext," which I take to mean a hidden message or import of some kind. So subtext we know. But what do you call the message or meaning that's right there on the surface, completely open and obvious? They never talk about that. What do you call what's above the subtext?
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Ted: Really?
Fred: And one of the things that keeps popping up is this about "subtext." Plays, novels, songs - they all have a "subtext," which I take to mean a hidden message or import of some kind. So subtext we know. But what do you call the message or meaning that's right there on the surface, completely open and obvious? They never talk about that. What do you call what's above the subtext?
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Referenced in "Seinfeld: The Secretary (#6.9)" (1994)
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Soundtrack:
Una lacrima sul viso
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This is one of those movies that get better with age. I first saw it ten years ago, when Mira Sorvino was an unknown actress, and I was surprised to learn later that she wasn't really Spanish. (I lived in Spain for five years, so I'm not easily fooled.) If you've been to Barcelona, you'll like the glowing glimpses of the city, sun-drenched during the day, lit by neon and fireworks at night. There is much charming, often subtle, humor in the film. Who could resist Taylor Nichols dancing alone in his dining room while reading the Bible? Or Chris Eigeman using a felt tip pen to change anti-American graffiti from "American pigs" to "American deer"? Sure, the film is talky, but it doesn't take itself too too seriously.