Reuben, Reuben
1983 American film directed by Robert Ellis Miller / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the 1983 film. For the opera by Marc Blitzstein, see Reuben, Reuben (opera). For the old song, see Reuben and Rachel.
Reuben, Reuben is a 1983 comedy-drama film directed by Robert Ellis Miller and starring Tom Conti, Kelly McGillis (in her film debut), Roberts Blossom, Cynthia Harris, and Joel Fabiani.[2]
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Directed by | Robert Ellis Miller |
Written by | Peter De Vries (novel) Julius J. Epstein Herman Shumlin (Spofford play) |
Produced by | Julius J. Epstein Walter Shenson |
Starring | Tom Conti Kelly McGillis |
Cinematography | Peter Stein |
Edited by | Skip Lusk |
Music by | Billy Goldenberg |
Production companies | Saltair Productions TAFT Entertainment Pictures |
Distributed by | Twentieth Century Fox International Classics[1] |
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Running time | 101 min. |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $3.5 million |
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The film was adapted by Julius J. Epstein from the 1967 play Spofford by Herman Shumlin, which in turn was adapted from the 1964 novel Reuben, Reuben by Peter De Vries.[3]
The main character in DeVries's novel was based largely on the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, who was a compulsive womanizer and lifelong alcoholic, finally succumbing to the effects of alcohol poisoning in November 1953, while on a speaking tour in America.[4]