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I Want to Go Home (1989)

I Want to Go Home (1989)
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American humorist Jules Feiffer and French director Alain Resnais are oddly paired for this satirical comedy about an American cartoonist in Paris. Adolph Green is a stunner as Joey Wellman, a cantankerous American cartoonist traveling abroad for the first time. In tow is Lena Apthrop (Linda Lavin), and the two are ostensibly journeying to Paris to attend a comic-strip exhibition in which Wellman's work is included. But it turns out the exhibition is just an excuse for Wellman to track down his errant daughter Elsie (Laura Benson), who has left Cleveland to take up literature at the Sorbonne. Her professor, Christian Gauthier (Gerard Depardieu) happens to be a big fan of Wellman, and he corrals the cartoonist and Lena to go to the fashionable country estate of his mother Isabelle (Micheline Presle), who tries to put up with her son's American friends. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi

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Starring:
Adolph GreenGérard Depardieu, (more)
Director(s):
Alain Resnais
Format(s):
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Synopsis of I Want to Go Home

American humorist Jules Feiffer and French director Alain Resnais are oddly paired for this satirical comedy about an American cartoonist in Paris. Adolph Green is a stunner as Joey Wellman, a cantankerous American cartoonist traveling abroad for the first time. In tow is Lena Apthrop (Linda Lavin), and the two are ostensibly journeying to Paris to attend a comic-strip exhibition in which Wellman's work is included. But it turns out the exhibition is just an excuse for Wellman to track down his errant daughter Elsie (Laura Benson), who has left Cleveland to take up literature at the Sorbonne. Her professor, Christian Gauthier (Gerard Depardieu) happens to be a big fan of Wellman, and he corrals the cartoonist and Lena to go to the fashionable country estate of his mother Isabelle (Micheline Presle), who tries to put up with her son's American friends. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi

Theatrical Feature Running Time:
101 mins

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Director(s):
Alain Resnais
Writer(s):
Jules FeifferAlain Resnais
Producer(s):
Marin Karmitz
I Want to Go Home Awards:
  • 1989 - Venice International Film Festival - Osella for Best Screenplay
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Janice C.

The lighting was so weird. It was way too bright and harsh. It did not have the look of a major motion picture because of that unprofessional lighting. I also didn't like the cliche fighting between the 2 main characters. Maybe that was funny in 1989, but not now. Or maybe it was always too much of a cliche and not funny then either. And I really didn't understand the physical lust of a female senior citizen for an unattractive senior citizen man. For some reason throughout the film I felt like I was watching a stage play and not a movie. It felt like staging and scripts. Film school students probably could explain what went wrong. In the special features the producer said it was a flop and he lost a lot of money on it. I can see why. It just didn't have the right look or feel. He said it was in part about the death of cartoons, but how wrong he was. Positives: Linda Lavin was great. The outdoor scenery of Paris was lovely. The cartoon character adding comments was creative.

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