White Nights (1985)
- Directed by
- Taylor Hackford
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 2h 16m
- Rated
- PG-13
- Rating
- 6.7 of 10 from 146 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A Russian ballet dancer who defected to the United States is forced to return to the Soviet Union after a plane crash. He is paired with an American tap dancer who has also been living in exile, and together they plan an escape from the country.
tensedramaticmelancholicvisually starkpoignanturgentsoberingemotionally charged
What happens
White Nights is a 1985 American musical drama film directed by Taylor Hackford and starring Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, Jerzy Skolimowski, Helen Mirren and Isabella Rossellini. It was choreographed by Twyla Tharp. The title refers to the sunlit summer nights of Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), the setting for the majority of the film, situated just a few degrees below the Arctic Circle. The film is notable both for the dancing of Hines and Baryshnikov and for the Academy Award-winning song "Say You, Say Me" by Lionel Richie in 1986, as well as "Separate Lives" performed by Phil Collins and Marilyn Martin and written by Stephen Bishop (also nominated). The film was the international film debut of Isabella Rossellini and Taylor Hackford met his future wife, Helen Mirren, during filming. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Unfamiliar Case (1985)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.