'Eve's Bayou' Brings Post-Memory Towards West-Indian Culture
In an all-black community in Louisiana, a young girl learns her father has committed infidelity and turns to hoodoo to seek justice.
The House of Blue Leaves (1987)
On the day in 1965 that the Pope visits New York and masses of people line the streets in adulation, Artie, a zookeeper living in Sunnyside, Queens, thinks it's time for his life to be blessed, too. He desperately wants to escape his lower middle-class existence and become a popular singer and songwriter, but his life is complicated by an ambitious mistress, a crazy wife and a bomb-making son.
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On the day in 1965 that the Pope visits New York and masses of people line the streets in adulation, Artie, a zookeeper living in Sunnyside, Queens, thinks it's time for his life to be blessed, too. He desperately wants to escape his lower middle-class existence and become a popular singer and songwriter, but his life is complicated by an ambitious mistress, a crazy wife and a bomb-making son.
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Genre:Comedy, Drama, Music
Written By:John Guare
In Theaters:5/25/1987
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Runtime:113 minutes
Studio:American Playhouse, Brandman Productions
Cast
Kirk Browning
Director
Swoosie Kurtz
Bananas Shaughnessy
John Mahoney
Artie Shaughnessy
Christine Baranski
Bunny Flingus
Julie Hagerty
Corrinna Stroller
Ben Stiller
Ronnie Shaughnessy
Richard Portnow
Billy Einhorn
Debra Cole
Little Nun
Patricia Falkenhain
Head Nun
Jane Cecil
Second Nun
Ian Blackman
MP / El Dorado Bartender
Brian Evers
The White Man / El Dorado Bartender
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