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Insignificance

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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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Feb 18, 2003

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Walter Chaw
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Film Freak Central

Fascinating, flawed Roeg film.

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01/16/03
Ken Hanke
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05/20/03
Vincent Canby
Vincent Canby
New York Times

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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Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
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A weird meditation on sex, power, knowledge and fame for those who enjoy exotic fare.

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Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
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Geoff Andrew
Geoff Andrew
Time Out

This audacious hypothetical is at once funny and dramatic, sometimes a little lopsided but always interesting

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