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Mother Night
1996
Keith Gordon's darkly comic film version of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s highly original novel stars Nick Nolte as Howard J. Campbell Jr., an unusual antihero with a twisted story to tell. The tale begins in a Israeli prison cell, where Campbell is on trial for WWII war crimes. Campbell is given a typewriter and enough paper to recount .. Read more
| Starring | Nick Nolte, Sheryl Lee, Alan Arkin, John Goodman |
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| Director | Keith Gordon |
| Genres | Thriller |
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Mother Night
Keith Gordon's darkly comic film version of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s highly original novel stars Nick Nolte as Howard J. Campbell Jr., an unusual antihero with a twisted story to tell. The tale begins in a Israeli prison cell, where Campbell is on trial for WWII war crimes. Campbell is given a typewriter and enough paper to recount his bizarre memoir, which appears as a series of black-and-white and colour scenes that shift between 1940s Germany, 1950s New York, and 1960s Israel. The American Campbell and his parents relocate to Germany between the two world wars and live a happy life. Campbell grows up to be a playwright and marries a beautiful German actress, Helga Noth (Sheryl Lee). On a day like any other, Campbell's life takes a bizarre turn as he is offered a top-secret assignment by a U.S. government official (John Goodman in an unbilled role)--to pose as a Nazi sympathiser while relaying secret American code via the radio. Campbell successfully accomplishes his mission by starting an anti-American, anti-Semitic radio programme that is revered in Nazi Germany and deplored in America. In a strange twist of fate, the unknown American playwright becomes a well-known German celebrity. After the war, Campbell escapes Germany and flees to New York, preferring to remain anonymous in the booming city. Years later, Campbell's life is turned upside down when he is recognised and pursued by Holocaust survivors, eager white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and U.S. law enforcers, leading to his incarceration in the Israeli prison where he awaits his fate. As Campbell, Nolte gives one of the finest performances of his career. A nightmarish maze of one man's misadventures, MOTHER NIGHT is an ironic and deeply stylised tribute to the one-of-a-kind dark humour of Vonnegut's writing.
| Starring | Nick Nolte, Sheryl Lee, Alan Arkin, John Goodman |
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| Director | Keith Gordon |
| Studio | ENTERTAINMENT IN VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 49 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Genres | Thriller |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | Production year: 1996 To Rent: DVD: 28 Jun 2004 |
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An engrossing attempt to film a complex novel concerned with moral relativities, although, despite its intelligence, it doesn't quite capture the original's ironic humour.
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Another failed attempt to bring Vonnegut to the screen
Here's an exercise; Read a Kurt Vonnegut novel, notice the pathos and poetry, the black humour, the beauty of the language and ultimately the feeling of ... read more »
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- Anil Kumar
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- 09 Apr 2006 at 18:43
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Watchable on the whole
Interesting and original story but could see no humour in it . The storyline and the introduction of some of the more weird characters mid way through the film ... read more »
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- 22 Jan 2009 at 17:40
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Another failed attempt to bring Vonnegut to the screen
Here's an exercise; Read a Kurt Vonnegut novel, notice the pathos and poetry, the black humour, the beauty of the language and ultimately the feeling of ... read more »
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- Anil Kumar
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Mother Night
Not sure why this film was called this.
I unfortunately did not watch it, but my partner did so it must have been OK so this is why I have given it 2... read more » - 143828
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- 24 Aug 2005 at 18:48
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Mother Night
Keith Gordon's darkly comic film version of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s highly original novel stars Nick Nolte as Howard J. Campbell Jr., an unusual antihero with a twisted story to tell. The tale begins in a Israeli prison cell, where Campbell is on trial for WWII war crimes. Campbell is given a ...
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