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6 March 1998 (USA)
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Giles De'Ath is a widower who doesn't like anything modern. He goes to movies and falls in love with film star...
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The second outing of John Hurt
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The second outing of John Hurt
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(From The Guardian - TV News. 20 November 2009, 4:11 PM, PST)
The second outing of John Hurt
(From The Guardian - Film News. 20 November 2009, 4:11 PM, PST)
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Simple film that works
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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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Amour et mort à Long Island (Canada: French title)
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Rated PG-13 for brief strong language, thematic elements and some sexual content.
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93 min | Germany:90 min | UK:103 min | USA:94 min | Argentina:94 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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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.
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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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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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References Cliffhanger (1993)
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Love and Death On Long Island follows Giles (John Hurt) a semi recluse English novelist who wonders through his life with very little intense purpose, challenges or any sense of being 'alive'. That all changes when one day when he gets locked out of his house. Eventually he ends up wandering to the local cinema and mistakenly walks into Hotpants College II. "What rubbish". He's just about to leave when Ronnie Bostock (Jason Priestly) appears on screen. He's mesmerized.
When he leaves the theater he's a different man. It's not long before Giles thinks and does nothing that doesn't revolve around Ronnie Bostock. He buys teeny bopper magazines featuring anything involving Ronnie. Makes a Ronnie Bostock scrapbook from hand including the pictures from the magazines and eventually he makes sure to view all of Ronnie's other movie exploits. He's a man consumed by one thought, one action. Obsession has taken over. Things get deeper as you can imagine when Giles sets out and actually meets Ronnie and befriends him.
John Hurt turns in another great performance in a long list of great performances and it's nice to see Jason Priestly doing something of worth. The supporting players are apt too. Sheila Hancock as Giles housekeeper kept reminding me of the God and Monsters Lynn Redgrave as James Whale's housekeeper. Fiona Loewi as Ronnie's girlfriend is a mite refreshing. She's not stupid or naive. We can see at one point she's figured out what is going on and what the "real" story is.
I guess it's a nice plus that some of the movie was shot in my home too -- Nova Scotia, Canada. I think it's always nice to see where you live in a movie. 'Hey, I know that place! That's Lawrencetown beach!' Now I suppose if you live in Los Angeles, New York or any big American city that supports motion picture filming that seeing your city/town isn't such a big deal. In any case Love and Death on Long Island is a movie bathed in human nature. It's a good watch on a rainy day.