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Release Date:
6 March 1998 (USA) more
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Plot:
Giles De'Ath is a widower who doesn't like anything modern. He goes to movies and falls in love with film star... more | add synopsis
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The second outing of John Hurt
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The second outing of John Hurt
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Wonderful and unique character study more (45 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

John Hurt ... Giles De'Ath

Jason Priestley ... Ronnie Bostock

Fiona Loewi ... Audrey
Sheila Hancock ... Mrs. Barker
Harvey Atkin ... Lou
Gawn Grainger ... Henry
Elizabeth Quinn ... Mrs. Reed
Maury Chaykin ... Irving 'Irv' Buckmuller
Linda Busby ... Mrs. Abbott
Bill Leadbitter ... Eldridge
Anne Reid ... Maureen (as Ann Reid)

Danny Webb ... Video Assistant (as Daniel Webb)
Andrew Barrow ... Harry
Dean Gariss ... Rob
Robert McKewley ... Video Salesman
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Also Known As:
Amour et mort à Long Island (Canada: French title)
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for brief strong language, thematic elements and some sexual content.
Runtime:
93 min | Germany:90 min | UK:103 min | USA:94 min | Argentina:94 min
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Factual errors: When the mailman delivers mail to Ronnie Bostock's mailbox,he raises the mailbox flag, presumably to signal to the resident that mail has been delivered. (Ronnie's girlfriend, seeing the mailbox flag has been raised, seems to interpret the signal accordingly.) Although it may be the convention for mail delivery wherever the director/writer is from, it is not the case on Long Island, where it is the custom for the resident to raise the mailbox flag to alert the mailman that mail is in the mailbox waiting to be picked up. Once the mail has been picked up, the mailman lowers the flag - the opposite of what occurred in the film. more
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Giles De'Ath: It is so difficult to know where I should begin, especially when, unlike you, I already know the ending. But let us say that this story began with end of another.
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Wonderful and unique character study, 3 February 1999
Author: pooch-8 from Fargo, North Dakota

Locked out of his apartment, old-fashioned writer Giles De'Ath (John Hurt) almost reluctantly decides to take in a movie. Accidentally wandering in to see Hot Pants College II instead of the E.M. Forster adaptation for which he bought a ticket, the lonely man becomes transfixed by the sight of a hunky actor (Jason Priestley) and begins an obsession that makes for a thoroughly satisfying and entertaining story. First-time director Kwietniowski expertly observes the wildly disparate natures of these two men while keeping both of them entirely credible and believable. I particularly enjoyed Giles' compilation of Ronnie Bostock clippings from teeny-bopper magazines, carefully arranged and titled "Bostockiana" before being securely locked away in a desk drawer.

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