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Actors: John Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, Susan Sarandon, Raul Julia, Vittorio Gassman, Molly Ringwald
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Tempest |
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Director and co-writer Paul Mazursky (“Down and Out in Beverly Hills”), gives the classic Shakespeare play contemporary flair in this charming film.
Unhappy with his actress wife Antonia (Gena Rowlands) and his current architectural project for entrepreneur Alonzo (Vittorio Gassman), Phillip Dimitrius (John Cassavetes) finds himself with powerful feelings of wanderlust. In his daydreams, Phillip envisions a calm, joyful and simple way of life. When Antonia, eager to resuscitate her fading acting career, suddenly leaves Phillip, he happily flees Manhattan for his ancestral Greece with the couple's precocious thirteen-year-old daughter, Miranda (Molly Ringwald).
Once in Greece, Phillip and Miranda meet bubbly Aretha Tomalin (Susan Sarandon), a divorcee bohemian from Brooklyn. They soon discover a small slice of heaven on a remote, perpetually sunny Greek island. Unbeknownst to the trio lurks Kalibanos (Raul Julia), a lecherous, cave-dwelling oddball who soon takes an inappropriate interest in young Miranda. Phillip discovers that his estranged wife and former boss (along with a host of other quirky characters) have washed up on his private shore after a yachting mishap during a freak rainstorm.
--Tara Dugan, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Tempest |
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Plot
Comedy, primarily
Yes
Time/era of movie:
- 1980's-1999
Kind of comedy
- married couple fighting
How much humor v. drama
- Mostly humor, but some serious drama
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- engineer
Age:
- 40's-50's
Eccentric:
Yes
- eccentric
- obsessed
- deluded
- emotionally unstable
- wild
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- another color
Hair type
- (man) very short/crewcut
Body type
- (man) average
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- sensitive
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- general circumstances
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 80%
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Greece
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
Misc setting
- beach
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Movie makes you feel...
- thoughtful
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references only
- kissing
Any profanity?
- Some foul language
Is this movie based on a
- play
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