Sweet Liberty (1986)

Directed by

Alan Alda

Genre

comedy film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 46m

Rated

PG

Rating

5.3 of 10 from 43 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A mild-mannered history professor is shaken when a Hollywood film crew arrives in his small town to adapt his book. He deals with the director's commercial changes and the actors' quirky behavior.

lightheartedwryreflectivegentleamusingobservationalsatirical

What happens

Sweet Liberty is a 1986 American comedy film written and directed by Alan Alda, and starring Alda in the lead role, alongside Michael Caine and Michelle Pfeiffer, with support from Bob Hoskins, Lois Chiles, Lise Hilboldt, Lillian Gish, Larry Shue and Saul Rubinek. The story was partly inspired by Alda's experiences while caring for his parents who had both been ill and were in two different hospitals. During a visit to see his dying father, a nurse approached him with a head shot and résumé. In an interview prior to the film's UK release he said, "It was the worst year of my life and I thought this is so miserable there must be a funny movie in it!". Sweet Liberty featured the penultimate film appearance of Lillian Gish, who made her screen debut 74 years earlier in 1912. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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