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Insignificance (1985)
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Reviews Counted:8
Fresh:7
Rotten:1
Average Rating:6.6/10
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: This unique film takes place in 1953, and explores such themes as fame and emotional detachment. The four disparate main characters -- The Professor, The Actress, The Senator, and The Ballplayer,... This unique film takes place in 1953, and explores such themes as fame and emotional detachment. The four disparate main characters -- The Professor, The Actress, The Senator, and The Ballplayer, are thinly-veiled versions of Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joseph McCarthy and Joe DiMaggio, respectively. When they all wind up in the same hotel room one night, the quartets' interactions with one another reveal fascinating aspects of their personalities, including vulnerability, naivete and guilt. But sadly, one trait is common to all four characters: despair. [More]
Starring: Tony Curtis, Gary Busey, Theresa Russell, Michael Emil
Starring: Tony Curtis, Gary Busey, Theresa Russell, Michael Emil
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Director: Nicolas Roeg
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Reviews for Insignificance
This audacious hypothetical is at once funny and dramatic, sometimes a little lopsided but always interesting
A weird meditation on sex, power, knowledge and fame for those who enjoy exotic fare.
It is a noble idea for a film to satire some of the best known American pop culture heroes of the 1950s.
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