Anne Bancroft
Estelle Rolfe
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Garbo Talks. Garbo Talks is a 1984 American comedy-drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Anne Bancroft, Ron Silver, and Carrie Fisher, with an uncredited appearance by Betty Comden as Greta Garbo . The film was written by Larry Grusin, and also stars Catherine Hicks, Steven Hill, and the first screen appearance of Mary McDonnell.
Oct 12, 1984 · Garbo Talks: Directed by Sidney Lumet. With Anne Bancroft, Ron Silver, Carrie Fisher, Catherine Hicks. The son of a woman dying of a brain tumor tries to fulfill his mother's last wish: to meet Greta Garbo.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Sidney Lumet
- 1984-10-12
A dying woman wants to meet Greta Garbo, the legendary recluse, and her son tries to fulfill her wish. Roger Ebert criticizes the movie for its lack of humor, drama and originality, and for its disappointing ending.
Rent Garbo Talks on Prime Video, or buy it on Prime Video. Garbo Talks finds Lumet shifting into comedic gear while commanding a cast that's often talented enough to distract from the story's ...
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- Sidney Lumet
- PG-13
- Anne Bancroft
Her dutiful son Gilbert, a Manhattan accountant named for Garbo's co-star, hires a paparazzo to show him Garbo's flat, stakes it out, gets a job delivering food there, seeks her on Fire Island, and tracks her to a Sixth Avenue flea market. As his obsession distances him from his wife, he's drawn to a struggling actress he meets at work.
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Garbo Talks -. Veteran director Sidney Lumet favored powerful dramas, alternating between stage adaptations, topical potboilers and the occasional courtroom blockbuster, such as The Verdict (1982). Lumet's atypical comedy, Garbo Talks (1984), was given an ambivalent reception. The whimsical, sentimental screenplay by television writer Larry ...
Director. Larry Grusin. Writer. When New York accountant Gilbert Rolfe finds out his mother has a brain tumor, he is devastated. His incorrigible mother, Estelle, has one last wish: to meet the great Greta Garbo. Gilbert, wanting to do this last thing for her, sets out on a wild goose chase through the streets of New York City to track down the ...
