John Cassavetes gives a compelling performance as a man confronting a mid-life crisis with extraordinary results for everyone around him.John Cassavetes gives a compelling performance as a man confronting a mid-life crisis with extraordinary results for everyone around him.John Cassavetes gives a compelling performance as a man confronting a mid-life crisis with extraordinary results for everyone around him.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 5 nominations
- Director
- Writers
- Paul Mazursky
- Leon Capetanos
- William Shakespeare(uncredited)
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIn 1954, John Cassavetes went into the health food restaurant that Paul Mazursky was working in at the time, and told him that they were looking for juvenile delinquent types for the feature film Blackboard Jungle (1955) and Mazursky got cast as Emmanuel Stoker, his second as an actor in a cinema movie. Twenty-seven years later, Mazursky returned the favor and cast Cassavetes in the lead role in this movie.
- GoofsWhen a helicopter lands in Manhattan, in the last scene of the film, Philip steps out with a haircut in continuity with the early part of the story, set "18 months ago". Since the time on the island takes place 18 months later, over a 24 hour cycle, his hair should be short and gray when he lands, instead of longer and darker.
- Quotes
Phillip Dimitrius: Come on, show me the magic.
- SoundtracksNew York, New York
Written by John Kander and Fred Ebb
Performed by Liza Minnelli, danced by Raul Julia and his goats
Courtesy of United Artists Records
Special Thanks to Liza Minnelli
Featured review
Was there ever anything more beautiful...
...than Susan Sarandon at 36 in The Tempest? Or more intense than Cassavetes? Yes, the film does meander and my attention wandered a bit at the second viewing but the film has many great moments. 1) Cassavetes coming home drunk to a party of his wife's friends and asking her producer played by Paul Mazursky to dance. 2) Susan Sarandon and Molly Ringwald singing "Why do fools fall in love? 3) Cassavetes imploring the gods, "Show me the magic?" Whether or not it's a faithful reinterpretation of Shakespeare is beside the point. One more moment: as the credits roll the actors take their bows, emerging one by one from a Greek doorway. Cassavetes is last. Refusing to bow, he simply walks out the door, gruff and unamused and that's why we miss him so.
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- wormguy
- Jun 22, 2003
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Official sites
- Languages
- Also known as
- Paul Mazursky's Tempest
- Filming locations
- Production company
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Box office
- Budget
- $13,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $5,005,245
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $80,492
- Sep 5, 1982
- Gross worldwide
- $5,005,245
- Runtime2 hours 20 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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