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Mr. North
(1988)
Genre(s):
Books to Film: Thornton Wilder, Comedy Drama, Doctors & Nurses, Kindness of Strangers
Cast:
Anthony Edwards, Robert Mitchum, Lauren Bacall, Harry Dean Stanton, Anjelica Huston, Mary Stuart Masterson, Virginia Madsen, Tammy Grimes, David Warner, Hunter Carson, Christopher Durang, Mark Metcalf, Katharine Houghton, Christopher Lawford; DIRECTED BY: Danny Huston; WRITTEN BY: John Huston, Janet Roach, James Costigan; CINEMATOGRAPHY BY: Robin Vidgeon; MUSIC BY: David McHugh. PRODUCER: Samuel Goldwyn Company.
Review:
Capra-corn fable about a charming, bright Yale graduate who encounters admiration and disdain from upper-crust Rhode Island residents when news of his miraculous "cures" spreads. Marks the directorial debut of Danny Huston, son of John Huston, who co-wrote the script and served as executive producer before dying several weeks into shooting. Set in the 1920s and adapted from Thornton Wilder's "Theophilus North."
NSS:
88-367
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