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A Balasaur Score of 68 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 6.6/10, Rotten Tomatoes 81%. Critics rate it 15 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 70% of the 997 1980s comedy movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
Nick Hart is a struggling American artist who lives amongst the expatriate community in 1920s Paris. He spends most of his time drinking and socializing in local café's and pestering gallery owner Libby Valentin to sell his paintings. He becomes involved in a plot by wealthy art patroness Nathalie de Ville to forge three paintings. This leads to several run-ins with American rubber magnate Bertram Stone, who happens to be married to Hart's ex-wife Rachel.
Ratings
IMDb6.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes81%
Critics rate it 15 points higher than audiences do.
37 audience votes
Key crew
- John BradshawWriter
- Alan RudolphWriter
- Alan RudolphDirector
- Mark IshamOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Keith CarradineNick Hart
- Linda FiorentinoRachel Stone
- Wallace ShawnOiseau
- Geneviève BujoldLibby Valentin
- Geraldine ChaplinNathalie de Ville
- Kevin J. O'ConnorHemingway
- John LoneBertram Stone
- Charlélie CoutureL'Evidence
- Elsa RavenGertrude Stein
- Ali GironAlice B. Toklas
- Gailard SartainNew York Critic
- Michael WilsonSurrealist Poet
Stills
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Themes
paris, franceartsensualityexpatriateexpressionismforgery1920s