Four 1950s icons meet in the same hotel room and two of them discover more in common between them than they ever anticipated.
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Michael Emil | ... | Professor |
| Theresa Russell | ... | Actress | |
| Tony Curtis | ... | Senator | |
| Gary Busey | ... | The Ballplayer | |
| Will Sampson | ... | Elevator Attendant | |
| Patrick Kilpatrick | ... | Driver | |
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Ian O'Connell | ... | Assistant Director |
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George Holmes | ... | Actor |
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Richard M. Davidson | ... | Director of Photography (as Richard Davidson) |
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Mitchell Greenberg | ... | Technician |
| Raynor Scheine | ... | Autograph Hunter | |
| Jude Ciccolella | ... | Gaffer | |
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Lou Hirsch | ... | Charlie |
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Ray Charleson | ... | Bud |
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Joel Cutrara | ... | Bar Drunk |
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Four 1950's cultural icons (Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio and Senator Joseph MacCarthy) who conceivably could have met and probably didn't, fictionally do in this modern fable of post-WWII America. Visually intriguing, the film has a fluid progression of flash-backs and flash-forwards centering on the fictional Einstein's current observations, childhood memories and apprehensions for the future. Written by Jeanne Baker <jbaker@erim.org>
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1950s | new york city | based on play | hotel room | baseball player |Taglines:
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2 August 1985 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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The Actress: Look! Stop talking so goddamn smart! I've heard enough! It just sounds like words! I've heard enough of your words! I came here to know you, and all you've done is hide behind words! What are you hiding from? What are you afraid of?
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Words & Music by Will Jennings, Roy Orbison
Sung by Roy Orbison
Produced by David Briggs, Roy Orbison
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The film's precis for the Cannes Film Festival states: "The cinema seems at its most compelling when it deals with myths. Perhaps this is because it is able, more than any other medium, to give them a sense of reality and somewhere in our subconscious we still believe in the first of all the myths of Cinema... 'The camera cannot lie'. I hope that "Insignificance" is a real, mythical, melodramatic farce". See more »Goofs
When the Ballplayer is at the bar next to a wall calendar, in the medium shots the calendar page is for June 1954, but in a close-up the page says March 1954. The mistake would seem to be the close-up because there is a night-time baseball game on the bar's television and the baseball season didn't begin until April. See more »Quotes
[to The Professor]The Actress: Look! Stop talking so goddamn smart! I've heard enough! It just sounds like words! I've heard enough of your words! I came here to know you, and all you've done is hide behind words! What are you hiding from? What are you afraid of?
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Wild HeartsWords & Music by Will Jennings, Roy Orbison
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It was late at night, and fighting with a dream that refused to take over me I finally saw the movie...
It blew my mind away... Marilyn, Di Maggio, McCarthy & Einstein all in a small hotel room!
I really enjoyed the characterization of Marilyn by Theresa Russell, and the other actors played their parts with grace too.
A nostalgic trip to the yesterday. This movie is now in the list of my favorites.
If you have the chance to see it, don't miss it!