An actress suffers an emotional uproar in her personal life after a fan dies trying to see her.
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| Gena Rowlands | ... | Myrtle Gordon | |
| John Cassavetes | ... | Maurice Aarons | |
| Ben Gazzara | ... | Manny Victor | |
| Joan Blondell | ... | Sarah Goode | |
| Paul Stewart | ... | David Samuels | |
| Zohra Lampert | ... | Dorothy Victor | |
| Laura Johnson | ... | Nancy Stein | |
| John Tuell | ... | Gus Simmons | |
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Ray Powers | ... | Jimmy |
| John Finnegan | ... | Bobby | |
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Louise Lewis | ... | Kelly (as Louise Fitch) |
| Fred Draper | ... | Leo | |
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Katherine Cassavetes | ... | Vivian |
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Lady Rowlands | ... | Melva Drake |
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Carol Warren | ... | Carla |
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A young woman gets killed in an accident trying to meet her favorite actress Myrtle Gordon after a play. Then Myrtle Gordon felt responsible for the killing leading her down to an emotional crisis that interferes with her professional work as an actress. Written by Chemi González <chemi01@hotmail.com>
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17 April 1978 (Sweden) See more »Also Known As:
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A bus rolls by the New Haven theater with an ad for KBIG FM 104, a Los Angeles station. See more »Quotes
Maurice Aarons: I have a small part. It's unsympathetic. The audience doesn't like me. I can't afford to be in love with you.See more »
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Beautiful film, pure Cassavetes style. Gena Rowland gives a stunning performance of a declining actress, dealing with success, aging, loneliness...and alcoholism. She tries to escape her own subconscious ghosts, embodied by the death spectre of a young girl. Acceptance of oneself, of human condition, though its overall difficulties, is the real purpose of the film. The parallel between the theatrical sequences and the film itself are puzzling: it's like if the stage became a way out for the Heroin. If all american movies could only be that top-quality, dealing with human relations on an adult level, not trying to infantilize and standardize feelings... One of the best dramas ever. 10/10.