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MPAA Raing: R
Director: Alan Rudolph
Genres: Period Film, Ensemble Film, Comedy Drama
Box Office: / Domestic gross: $2,011,000
Sound By: Dolby
Released Date: April 15, 1988 (USA)
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Summary:
In the expatriate-littered Paris of the 1920s, painter Nick Hart (Keith Carradine) mingles with Ernest Hemingway (Kevin O'Connor) and other leading lights of the Lost Generation while palling around with gossip columnist Oiseau (Wallace Shawn), whose reportage has helped establish the international reputation of the writers and artists who fled America for France after ... Full Summary >>

Cast:
Keith Carradine - (Nick Hart)
Linda Fiorentino - (Rachel Stone)
John Lone - (Bertram Stone)
Wallace Shawn - (Oiseau)
Geneviève Bujold - (Libby Valentin)
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Review:
Its plot may concern intrigue, greed, and heartache in the world of painting, but the screenplay for this stylish paean to the Lost Generation leans more toward literature than the visual arts. Full of subtle parallels, gentle ironies, and tons of literary and artistic in-jokes, The Moderns unfolds like a highbrow novel, its involved plot merely... Continue >>

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