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Enemies, A Love Story

Original title: Enemies: A Love Story
  • 19891989
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  • 1h 59m
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6.6/10
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Lena Olin, Anjelica Huston, Ron Silver, and Malgorzata Zajaczkowska in Enemies, A Love Story (1989)
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ComedyDramaRomance
A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.
IMDb RATING
6.6/10
2.3K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
25,372
1,482
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Director
      • Paul Mazursky
    • Writers
      • Isaac Bashevis Singer(novel)
      • Roger L. Simon(screenplay)
      • Paul Mazursky(screenplay)
    • Stars
      • Ron Silver
      • Anjelica Huston
      • Lena Olin
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Paul Mazursky
    • Writers
      • Isaac Bashevis Singer(novel)
      • Roger L. Simon(screenplay)
      • Paul Mazursky(screenplay)
    • Stars
      • Ron Silver
      • Anjelica Huston
      • Lena Olin
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 16User reviews
    • 18Critic reviews
    • Nominated for 3 Oscars
      • 4 wins & 10 nominations total

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    Lena Olin, Anjelica Huston, Ron Silver, and Malgorzata Zajaczkowska in Enemies, A Love Story (1989)
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    Anjelica Huston and Ron Silver in Enemies, A Love Story (1989)
    Anjelica Huston in Enemies, A Love Story (1989)
    Lena Olin in Enemies, A Love Story (1989)
    Anjelica Huston in Enemies, A Love Story (1989)
    Ron Silver and Malgorzata Zajaczkowska in Enemies, A Love Story (1989)
    Paul Mazursky in Enemies, A Love Story (1989)
    Lena Olin and Ron Silver in Enemies, A Love Story (1989)
    Ron Silver in Enemies, A Love Story (1989)
    Lena Olin, Alan King, and Ron Silver in Enemies, A Love Story (1989)
    Ron Silver and Malgorzata Zajaczkowska in Enemies, A Love Story (1989)

    Top cast

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    Ron Silver
    Ron Silver
    • Herman
    Anjelica Huston
    Anjelica Huston
    • Tamara
    Lena Olin
    Lena Olin
    • Masha
    Malgorzata Zajaczkowska
    Malgorzata Zajaczkowska
    • Yadwiga
    • (as Margaret Sophie Stein)
    Alan King
    Alan King
    • Rabbi Lembeck
    Judith Malina
    Judith Malina
    • Masha's Mother
    Rita Karin
    • Mrs. Schreier
    Phil Leeds
    Phil Leeds
    • Pesheles
    Elya Baskin
    Elya Baskin
    • Yasha Kobik
    Paul Mazursky
    Paul Mazursky
    • Leon Tortshiner
    L.J. Dollinger
    • Reb Nissen Yaroslaver
    Zypora Spaisman
    • Sheva Haddas
    Arthur Grosser
    Arthur Grosser
    • Doctor
    Burney Lieberman
    • Yom Kippur Cantor
    Nathaniel Katzman
    • Wedding Cantor
    Gayle Garfinkle
    • Mrs. Lembeck
    Shel Goldstein
    Shel Goldstein
    • Mrs. Regal
    • (as Shelley Goldstein)
    Henry Bronchtein
    Henry Bronchtein
    • Benny
    • Director
      • Paul Mazursky
    • Writers
      • Isaac Bashevis Singer(novel)
      • Roger L. Simon(screenplay)
      • Paul Mazursky(screenplay)
    • All cast & crew
    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

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    • Trivia
      After the screenplay had been completed, the Disney studio put the project into turnaround, then after this, every major Hollywood studio turned it down. Writer-director Paul Mazursky declared that the various movie studios thought the story was "too Jewish".
    • Quotes

      Tamara: Don't worry. She won't divorce you. If she does, you can always go to the other one. She throws you out too -- you can come to me.

    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: She-Devil/Driving Miss Daisy/War of the Roses/Glory/Enemies: A Love Story (1989)
    • Soundtracks
      Sunny Side Of The Street
      Composed by Jimmy McHugh

      Lyrics by Dorothy Fields

      Performed by Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra

    User reviews16

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    Top review
    9/10
    Paul Mazursky's best film.
    Paul Mazursky's best film but then he was working with great material, in this case Issac Bashevis Singer's novel about a Holocaust survivor who, having moved to America after the war, finds himself with three living wives; he's a bigamist more by design than choice, believing his first wife died in the concentration camps, he remarried in America, (now wife number three is a whole different story).

    This is a great tragi-comedy; the situation is farcial and sometimes very funny but the horror of the Holocaust permeates every frame and Mazursky treats the material with the respect it is due. This is a movie that comes close to perfection from the superb period design down to the faultless performances of the entire cast.

    Ron Silver is superb as Herman, a man confident enough to try to balance three relationships at once, convincing himself he loves all the women in his life, Angleica Huston, the wife who returns from the dead, Margaret Sophie Stein as the simple servant girl he marries after the war and Lena Olin as the clinging beauty who emotionally blackmails him into marriage. Herman is a liar and a cheat and a shyster but Silver makes him hugely sympathetic, an amoral man who, nevertheless, wants to do right by everyone but who is constantly doomed to failure. This is a great movie that deserves to be better known.
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    Details

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    • Release date
      • December 13, 1989 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Feinde - Die Geschichte einer Liebe
    • Filming locations
      • Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
    • Production company
      • Morgan Creek Entertainment
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $9,500,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $7,754,571
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $63,636
      • Dec 17, 1989
    • Gross worldwide
      • $7,754,571
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 59 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby SR
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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