Geraldine Chaplin
Emily
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Nov 8, 1978 · With Geraldine Chaplin, Anthony Perkins, Moses Gunn, Berry Berenson. Just released from prison, a young woman arrives in town to "start a new life", but soon begins stalking a married construction worker for no apparent reason, turning his life inside out and eventually terrorizing him and his wife.
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- Drama, Thriller
- Alan Rudolph
- 1978-11-08
Remember My Name may refer to: Remember My Name (film), a 1978 American dramatic thriller. Remember My Name (album), a 2015 album by Lil Durk, or the title song. Remember My Name, a song by Chris Brown, from the album Fortune. Remember My Name, a song by Mitski, from the album Be the Cowboy.
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Neil Curry (Perkins) is living a happy life with his second wife Barbara (Berenson) in California after abandoning his first wife Emily (Chaplin) in New York. Their life of domestic bliss is interrupted when Emily comes back from prison, where she had served a 12-year sentence for murdering Neil's former lover. She arrives in California to wreak ha...
Rudolph described the film as "an update of the classic woman's melodramas of the Bette Davis, Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Crawfordera."
The film's soundtrack was composed of songs written for the film and original recordings by singer and composer Alberta Hunter, a veteran of the 1920s–30s nightclub scene and Broadway who appeared in the musicals Shuffle Along and Show Boatwith the London cast. The 82-year-old Hunter was in the midst of a musical reemergence when the film was relea...
Critical response
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 67% based on 9 reviews. The San Francisco Chronicle gave the film 4 out of 5 stars, praising Perkins and describing Chaplin's performance as "extraordinary" and that she "adopts a unique speech pattern as Emily. She says everything as though she's rehearsed it and now is blurting it out in what she hopes will be accepted as a reasonable replica of casual speech. Emily's manner only loses its furtive, dodging qu...
Home Release
Apart from cable television airings, some years apart, as of 2021 Remember My Namehas not been released on any home video format, an unusual situation for a film with prominent actors and a growing critical reputation.
Remember My Name at IMDbRemember My Name at Rotten TomatoesRemember My Name at AllMovieRemember My Name at the TCM Movie DatabaseRemember My Name. An ex-convict (Geraldine Chaplin) invades the life of her former husband (Anthony Perkins) and his new wife.
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- Alan Rudolph
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- Geraldine Chaplin
Remember My Name (1978) -- (Movie Clip) Loose Fitting Clothing Housewife Barbara (Berry Berenson) takes a call from spooky Emily (Geraldine Chaplin), who then goes shopping, with a piece of the original title song by Alberta Hunter, early in writer-director Alan Rudolph's Remember My Name, 1978.
- Alan Rudolph
- Anthony Perkins
Apr 30, 2018 · The writer and director Alan Rudolph’s modernist melodrama, from 1978—about a woman who, after her release from prison, finds and stalks her ex-husband—suggests a quiet revolution in...
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Chaplin plays an ex-convict and sociopath seeking a reunion with her former husband, a carpenter who has remarried and resides on the west coast; lacking interpersonal skills of any kind, she decides to get his attention by stalking he and his wife and breaking into their house.
