IMDb RATING
6.4/10
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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)
- All cast & crew
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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
Shakespeare's "The Tempest" turned into a middle-age-crazy opus
Paul Mazursky gathered an impressive acting ensemble for this modern reworking of Shakespeare's "The Tempest", with John Cassavetes feeling trapped by his career and his marriage and taking off for Greece, but direct inspiration from the Bard seems to have run dry early on, and the second-half of the picture is awfully dreary. Cassavetes is a questionable actor to put center-stage in a movie like this, one which depends on a light, fanciful touch if it's to work at all; dogged by a perpetual black cloud, Cassavetes doesn't sink into this character, and his furrowed brow and uncertain grimaces aren't interesting or attractive. As his mistress, short-haired Susan Sarandon is like a dangerous pixie, and Molly Ringwald gives the movie some joy as Cassavetes' daughter; Raul Julia has fun as a horny sheepherder, but Gena Rowlands has little to work with (the wife's arrival in the latter stages of the plot signals nothing but gloom up ahead). Although Mazursky initially seems in frisky spirits, he lets the contemplative nature of the material drag him into pretentious waters, and "Tempest" fades so fast it nearly evaporates off the screen. ** from ****
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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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