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Name: Vanya On 42nd Street
Released: 1994-10-19
Cast: Andre Gregory, Brooke Smith, Julianne Moore, Phoebe Brand, Wallace Shawn

Vanya On 42nd Street

PG
2h 0m
1994

89%

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Wallace Shawn and Julianne Moore head an extraordinary ensemble cast in a striking adaptation of Chekhov's drama of people trapped between reality and longing. When an elderly retired professor and his beautiful young wife return to the country estate left to the family by the professor's deceased first wife, they find themselves surrounded by other family members. Quickly, the estate becomes a hothouse of unspoken passions, jealousies and regrets. Based on David Mamet's adaptation of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya."

Director:

Louis Malle

Producer:

Fred Berner

Writer:

Andre Gregory, David Mamet

Cast:

Andre Gregory, Brooke Smith, Julianne Moore, Phoebe Brand, Wallace Shawn, Larry Pine

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

89%

Critics Consensus: Beautiful performances and the subtle hand of master Louis Malle make this adaptation of Chekov's Uncle Vanya an eccentric presentation of an enduring classic.

Reviews

IONCINEMA.com

Nicholas Bell

Louis Malle's swan-song, while perhaps not his most noteworthy work, happens to contain a priceless amount of cultural significance, a romantic document of the ultimate theatrical experience.

The alchemy of Gregory's staging and Malle's direction turn what could have been an exercise in canned theater into something very nearly sublime.

A deeply moving, inspirational secular-sacred experience both for its beautiful embodiment of Chekhov's story of unmoored souls and for the beauty of the greatest collaborative art form, practiced with pure joy and for love. [Blu-ray]

June 25, 2017

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Turner Classic Movies Online

Sean Axmaker

... a record of a creative collaboration that has a life of its own, at once documentary, filmed rehearsal, play within a play, and private production restaged for a camera...

Reuniting with Andrew Gregory, Louis Malle, in what became his swan song, has made a modern, captivation version of the Chekhov play.

June 22, 2017

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