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Insignificance is a 1985 British alternate history drama film directed by Nicolas Roeg, and starring Gary Busey, Michael Emil, Theresa Russell, Tony Curtis, and Will Sampson.
Aug 2, 1985 · Insignificance: Directed by Nicolas Roeg. With Michael Emil, Theresa Russell, Tony Curtis, Gary Busey. Four 1950s icons meet in the same hotel room and two of them discover more in common between them than they ever anticipated.
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- Comedy
- Nicolas Roeg
- 1985-08-02
The premise is not too unlikely. Imagine that during one hot and steamy night in a New York City hotel room, the lives of these people crossed paths: Marilyn Monroe, Sen. Joe McCarthy, Joe DiMaggio and Albert Einstein.
Directed by Nicolas Roeg. A comedy about life, death, sex, and the Universe… relatively speaking. Four 1950s cultural icons who conceivably could have met but probably didn’t, fictionally do so in this modern fable of post-WWII America.
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- Nicolas Roeg
Jun 14, 2011 · Insignificance. Four unnamed people who look and sound a lot like Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio, and Joseph McCarthy converge in one New York City hotel room in this compelling, visually inventive adaptation of Terry Johnson’s play, from director Nicolas Roeg.
- The Actress
Four 1950s cultural icons who conceivably could have met but probably didn't, fictionally do so in this modern fable of post-WWII America. Visually intriguing, the film has a fluid progression of flashbacks and flashforwards centering on the fictional Einstein's current observations, childhood memories, and apprehensions for the future.
Insignificance is a 1985 British comedy-drama film directed by Nicolas Roeg, produced by Jeremy Thomas and Alexander Stuart, and adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name. The film is set in 1954, with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City.
