Opening Night

Updated: 18 Jul 2022

Directors:

John Cassavetes John Cassavetes Al Ruban Al Ruban Sam Shaw Bo Harwood Tom Cornwell Michael Lally

Actors:

Gena Rowlands John Cassavetes Ben Gazzara Joan Blondell Paul Stewart Zohra Lampert Laura Johnson John Tuell Ray Powers John P. Finnegan Louise Lewis Fred Draper Katherine Cassavetes Lady Rowlands Angelo Grisanti Meade Roberts Eleanor Zee David Rowlands James Karen Jimmy Joyce Sherry Bain Peter Falk Peter Bogdanovich

Genre:

Drama

Country: no data

Year: 1977

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Actress Myrtle Gordon is a functioning alcoholic actress who is a few days from the opening night of her latest play, concerning a woman distraught about aging. One night a car kills one of Myrtle's fans who is chasing her limousine in an attempt to get the star's attention. Myrtle internalizes the accident and goes on a spiritual quest, but fails to finds the answers she is after. As opening night inches closer and closer, fragile Myrtle must find a way to make the show go on.

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James Franco

Actor

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almost 5 years ago

Woman and Opening Night show Gena Rowlands at her best. These films contain performances that will never be matched, but are also structural innovations. I wish I could make movies like this.

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Steve Buscemi

Actor

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55 FLIISTs

5 months ago

Opening Night with Rowlands and Ben Gazzara

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Kirsten Dunst

Actress, Model

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51 FLIISTs

3 years ago

Dunst recently watched Opening Night, one of the few Cassavetes-Rowlands movies she had missed. "As an actor, that's what you strive to be like. It's the most natural performance, the most authentic," she says.

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Brie Larson

Actress

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116 FLIISTs

almost 5 years ago

Gena Rowlands is absolutely stunning in every way in this film. And I love watching her and John act together, especially with her drunk during an improvised play for hundreds of extras who showed up because John took an ad out in the paper.

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