A renowned actress teeters on the edge of a breakdown as she counts down the days toward a big Broadway opening.A renowned actress teeters on the edge of a breakdown as she counts down the days toward a big Broadway opening.A renowned actress teeters on the edge of a breakdown as she counts down the days toward a big Broadway opening.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 3 nominations
Louise Lewis
- Kelly
- (as Louise Fitch)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIn a 1978 television interview, Cassavetes said this was the best film he had anything to do with.
- GoofsA bus rolls by the New Haven theater with an ad for KBIG FM 104, a Los Angeles station.
- Quotes
Maurice Aarons: I thought that small talk was too small, I thought big talk was too pretentious, I thought music was noise, and I thought art was bullshit.
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My brief review of the film
Full of interesting ideas and really rather chilling at times, this account of a mental breakdown is fascinating to watch, with Gena Rowlands a glorious choice for the lead. It is in the way that Rowlands is able to carry emotion on her face that makes her performance so stunning, and along with some well used music and effective close-up photography, it is an intriguing piece of cinema, even if awkwardly very melodramatic at times and a tad hard to digest. The on and off-stage action in the protagonist's life is mixed together, and it is sort of muddled in this sense, though perhaps only as muddled as her mind is. The film poses such interesting questions about how much one should or does care, it portrays mental illness, and, it also has some insight into theatre production. It is very good stuff and only really brought down by being fatally overlong, with the content stretched to its limits.
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Die erste Vorstellung
- Filming locations
- Production company
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $23,488
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $10,491
- May 19, 1991
- Gross worldwide
- $28,758
- Runtime2 hours 24 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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