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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Title: Insignificance (1985)
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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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blown up skirt | 1950s | reference to marilyn monroe | reference to joseph mccarthy | reference to joe dimaggio |Taglines:
'The story of life, death, sex and the universe . . . relatively speaking' See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
UKLanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
2 August 1985 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Insignificancia See more »Filming Locations:
New York City, New York, USACompany Credits
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The Professor: Ha, ha. I'm an old man. I wouldn't survive the publicity.
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The Professor's pocket watch always shows the time at being 8:15 which was the time of the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. 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
The Actress: But if you've finished it, and so much as you've studied it, you'd know how it all fits... how it all works. In fact, you'd know everything!The Professor: Ha, ha. I'm an old man. I wouldn't survive the publicity.
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I agree with the synopsis: it's not the best of Roeg's works but it has what just might be the best scene in movie history, which describes in elegant detail Einstein's theory of relativity. The fact that Marilyn Monroe explains it to Einstein is the capper! It makes it even more interesting knowing that MM and Einstein not only knew each other but admired one another.