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Afterglow|Nick Nolte

Afterglow

Nick Nolte and Julie Christie
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Overview

Director-screenwriter Alan Rudolph once again teams with producer Robert Altman (THE PLAYER) for this haunting, funny film starring Nick Nolte and Julie Christie as a married American couple living in Montreal haunted by the memory of their runaway daughter. Plumber Lucky (Nolte) starts an affair with beautiful young client Marianne (Lara Flynn Boyle), who's desperate to have a baby and stifled by her marriage to her narcissistic husband, Jeffrey (Jonny Lee Miller). Meanwhile, Lucky's wife, former B-movie actress Phyllis (Christie), spends her time looking for their daughter on the streets of Montreal and watching videotapes of her old movies. When she inadvertently finds herself meeting Jeffrey and agreeing to spend the weekend with him, the stage is set for an inevitable showdown among all concerned. This beautifully photographed and brilliantly written film is marked by a stunning, Oscar-nominated performance by Christie, who masterfully combines sexuality, class, and world-weary pain. Nolte is also top-notch, again proving himself one of America's most formidable actors. AFTERGLOW is that rare combination in movies: sexy, funny, intelligent, tragic, and deeply moving.

Awards:

Main Cast & Crew:
Alan Rudolph - Director
Nick Nolte
Julie Christie
Lara Flynn Boyle
Jonny Lee Miller
Jay Underwood
Domini Blythe
Yves Corbeil
Alan Fawcett
Michèle-Barbara Pelletier
France Castel

Details

    DVD Format
  • Format: DVD
  • Run Time: 119
  • Color Format: Color
  • UPC: 760137428299
  • Genre: COMEDIES
  • Rating: R (MPAA)
  • Release Date: January 2021

Movie Reviews

Synopsis:
While a sensitive but unfaithful Montreal plumber initiates an affair with a frustrated, childless housewife, his own wife, an aging, weary former B-movie starlet, falls for the housewife's own husband, a self-possessed businessman.

Notes:
Theatrical release: December 26, 1997. Filmed in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Reviews:
"...A hypnotic twist on love and loss....Christie defines 'class act'..." - 01/22/1998 Rolling Stone, p.61-2


"...Surprisingly theatrical..." - 06/01/1998 Sight and Sound, p.38


"...Catch Julie Christie in an...award-winning role..." - 12/26/1997 USA Today, p.3D


"...Sinuous....[Christie] is as haunting as ever....[She] still conveys the same wounding wisdom, the same readiness to drift into a dream..." - 12/25/1997 New York Times, p.E1


"...A mature, offbeat, beautifully made pas de quatre..." - 09/26/1997 Entertainment Weekly, p.54


"...Bearing fine performances by Nick Nolte and Julie Christie..." - 02/01/1998 Box Office, p.53


"...An artful, stylized portrait of emotional isolation that delivers equal parts pain and pleasure..." - 02/01/1998 Premiere, p.20


"...[Christie] projects the wounded perfection of a great beauty who has had the wrong luck....How mysterious and intriguing some performances can be..." - 01/16/1998 Chicago Sun-Times, p.36

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