The Hotel New Hampshire (1984)
Average Rating: 6.3/10
Reviews Counted: 13
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 3
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Release Date: Mar 9, 1984 Wide
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This macabre, whimsical, erotic, dark, seriocomic film is a complex tale about an eccentric family and the psychological and emotional maelstroms that follow them around from New England to New York to Vienna, where the Hotel New Hampshire is located. Writer-director Tony Richardson worked from the convoluted novel by John Irving that covers most universally saleable topics -- homosexuality, death, incest, abandonment, Nazis, masochism, terrorists, rape, mental instability, and anarchists. The
Mar 9, 1984 Wide
Jul 10, 2001
Vestron Video
Cast
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Jodie Foster
Franny -
Beau Bridges
Father/Win Berry -
Rob Lowe
John -
Nastassja Kinski
Susie the bear -
Wilford Brimley
Iowa Bob -
Dorsey Wright
Junior Jones -
Jennifer Dundas
Lilly -
Matthew Modine
Chip Dove/Ernst -
Paul McCrane
Frank -
Anita Morris
Ronda Ray -
Amanda Plummer
Miss Miscarriage -
Lisa Banes
Mother -
Seth Green
Egg -
Wallace Shawn
Freud -
Gayle Garfinkle
Doris Walker/Screaming ... -
Jonelle Allen
Sabrina -
Wally Aspell
Hotel Manager -
Louis Di Bianco
Bartender -
Norris Domingue
High School Band Conduc... -
Arthur Grosser
American Husband -
Richard Jutras
Lenny Metz -
Walter Massey
Texan -
Joely Richardson
Waitress -
Jean-Louis Roux
Old Billie -
Michele Scarabelli
Chip Dove's Girl Friend -
Cali Timmins
Bitty Tuck -
Anthony Ulc
Chip Dove Gang Member -
Timothy Webber
Wrench -
Jeffrey Cohen
New York Journalist -
Jon Hutman
Reporter -
Janine Manatis
Schwanger -
Jerome Tiberghien
Stunts -
Joan Heney
Connecticut Woman -
Roger Blay
Arbiter -
Adrian Aron
American Woman -
Jade D. Bari
Jolanta -
Lorena Gale
Dark Inge -
Tara O'Donnell
American Daughter -
Johnny O'Neil
Chester Pulaski -
Fred Doederlein
Finnish Doctor -
Linda Clark
German Woman -
Robert Thomas
Harold Swallow
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All Critics (17) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (10) | Rotten (3) | DVD (2)
Erratic failure of comedy featuring Jodie Foster, Beau Bridges.
Celebrates one family's resiliency in facing the accidents and perplexities of sex, violence and death.
Too deliberately quirky, but always watchable.
Veers between brilliance and banality with an almost manic enthusiasm.
So-so John Irving adaptation suffers from cinematic schizophrenia.
Audience Reviews for The Hotel New Hampshire
Super Reviewer
Incest, rape, suicide, terrorism and sexuality issues populate the novel, but its author handles these and other cultural touchstone issues with weight and dignity.
If time has cast a harsh light on the filmmaking decisions here, however, it has only made more scintillating the youthful performances in the film; Natassja Kinski (25), Jodie Foster (21), Rob Lowe (20) and Seth Green (10) each forecasts long, bright burning careers, with the stately Beau Bridges holding together the film's disparate tendrils.
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Foreign Titles
- Das Hotel New Hampshire (DE)
