Love and Death on Long Island
Curmudgeonly author Giles De'Ath, a widower with a marked distaste for modern popular culture, attempts to buy a ticket for a film adaptation of an E.M. Forster novel, but instead finds himself watching a tacky teen sex comedy. Yet when the beautiful Ronnie Bostock appears on the movie screen, Giles finds himself caught in a whirlwind of unanswered questions about both his own sexuality and his place in late 20th-century society.
Synopsis
Curmudgeonly author Giles De'Ath, a widower with a marked distaste for modern popular culture, attempts to buy a ticket for a film adaptation of an E.M. Forster novel, but instead finds himself watching a tacky teen sex comedy. Yet when the beautiful Ronnie Bostock appears on the movie screen, Giles finds himself caught in a whirlwind of unanswered questions about both his own sexuality and his place in late 20th-century society.
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Cast
Directed by Richard Kwietniowski
John Hurt
Giles De'Ath
Jason Priestley
Ronnie Bostock
Fiona Loewi
Audrey
Sheila Hancock
Mrs. Barker
Harvey Atkin
Lou
Maury Chaykin
Irving Buckmuller
Gawn Grainger
Henry
Elizabeth Quinn
Mrs. Reed
Linda Busby
Mrs. Abbott
Bill Leadbitter
Eldridge
Anne Reid
Maureen
Danny Webb
Video Assistant
Andrew Barrow
Harry
Dean Gatiss
Rob
Robert McKewley
Video Salesman
Tusse Silberg
Abigail's Mother
Production
The details
Release
1998
Runtime
93 min
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