Vanya on 42nd Street (1994)
- Starring:
- Wallace Shawn, Larry Pine, (more)
- Director(s):
- Louis Malle
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- PG
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Synopsis of Vanya on 42nd Street
In the late 1980s, noted theatrical director Andre Gregory assembled a group of friends and actors and began rehearsing a new translation of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya by David Mamet, not with any specific performance in mind but as a way of exploring the beauty and precise construction of Chekhov's play. Louis Malle, a friend of Gregory's, became interested in the project and spent two weeks filming Gregory's actors as they performed Uncle Vanya without an audience in a run-down theater near New York's Times Square. In these performances, the line between theater and real life is blurred as conversations between actors -- juggling take-out cups of coffee and wearing street clothes -- slowly grow into a superb performance of Chekhov's classic, with Wallace Shawn as Vanya, Julianne Moore as Yelena, Brooke Smith as Sonya, and Larry Pine as Dr. Astrov. With a certain sad irony, this marvelously realized adaptation of a play about people wondering what they've done with their lives proved to be Louis Malle's final film; he died of cancer in 1995. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 119 mins
Complete Cast of Vanya on 42nd Street
- Wallace Shawn - Vanya
- Julianne Moore - Yelena
- Brooke Smith - Sonya
- Madhur Jaffrey - Mrs. Chao
- Lynn Cohen - Maman
- Andre Gregory - Himself
- Larry Pine - Dr. Astrov
- George Gaynes - Serybryakov
- Phoebe Brand - Marina
- Jerry Mayer - Waffles
- Director(s):
- Louis Malle
- Writer(s):
- David Mamet, Andre Gregory
- Producer(s):
- Fred Berner
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- PG(Suitable for Children, Adult Situations)
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