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
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 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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