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The Passion of Ayn Rand (1999)
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The rather eccentric (especially in her thinking) author of "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged" becomes involved with a much younger, and married man... to the dismay of those close to her. full summary | add synopsis
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Won Golden Globe.
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Mirren Considers Auctioning Off Emmy Shoes
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Delpy: "Da Vinci Role Is Mine"
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(From WENN. 7 September 2006)
Delpy: "Da Vinci Role Is Mine"
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Good movie by any standards
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Helen Mirren | ... | Ayn Rand |
 | Eric Stoltz | ... | Nathaniel |
 | Julie Delpy | ... | Barbara |
 | Peter Fonda | ... | Frank |
 | Sybil Temtchine | ... | Caroline (as Sybil Temchen) |
 | Tom McCamus | ... | Richard |
| Don McKellar | ... | Alfred |
| David Ferry | ... | Interviewer |
| Donald Carrier | ... | David |
| Hamish McEwan | ... | Henry |
| Elyssa Livergant | ... | Naomi |
| Christopher Marren | ... | Aaron (as Chris Marren) |
| Jennifer Gould | ... | Janet |
| Robert Thomas | ... | Security Guard |
| John Lefebvre | ... | Funeral Director |
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104 min
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Based upon Barbara Branden's book with the same title.
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Factual errors: Alfred Tells Nathaniel about the new book Ayn Rand is working on, "Atlas Shrugged". The working title for that book was "The Strike". It didn't become "Atlas Shrugged" until in 1956 when Rand's husband suggested that title.
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Featured in The 57th Annual Golden Globe Awards (2000) (TV)
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A Perfect Day / I Love You Truly
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As an Ayn Rand fan who is interested in anything about the author, I couldn't be sure that this movie was as good a drama as I thought it was, so I showed it to intelligent friends who don't know her work. They all loved it. Complaints that it doesn't project the whole huge structure of Ayn Rand's philosophy are beside the point. This film is about the mesmerizing personality of Ayn Rand and the effect it had on the life of a disciple, Barbara Branden, and that of her husband, Nathaniel Branden, and, perhaps most pitiably, on the life of Rand's husband, Frank O'Connor. Rand was a superior person whom success convinced she was even more superior than she was. Power corrupts, and she became intoxicated by the attention of her devotees, and wound up going against her own principles (enlightened egoism and independence of mind) to demanding that her followers obey her unthinkingly and serve her ends self-sacrificially. None of this validates or invalidates her philosophy. It just teaches us again the ages-old lesson that idols are only human, and pride goes before a fall.,