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Box office. $3 million [2] Love and Death on Long Island is a 1997 British-Canadian film adapted from Gilbert Adair 's 1990 novel of the same name, directed by Richard Kwietniowski and starring Jason Priestley, John Hurt, Fiona Loewi, Sheila Hancock and Anne Reid. The storyline of obsession somewhat resembles that of Death in Venice .
Mar 6, 1998 · Love and Death on Long Island: Directed by Richard Kwietniowski. With John Hurt, Jason Priestley, Fiona Loewi, Sheila Hancock. Giles De'Ath (Sir John Hurt) is a widower who doesn't like anything modern.
- (4.2K)
- Comedy, Drama
- Richard Kwietniowski
- 1998-03-06
Mar 13, 1998 · It is this moment of rapture that gives “Love and Death on Long Island” its sly comic enchantment. Giles De'Ath, played by John Hurt as a man long settled in his dry and dusty ways, has fallen in love with a Hollywood teen idol, and his pursuit of this ideal leads him stumbling into the 20th century. He finds that films can be rented, and ...
A chance encounter with struggling B-movie star Ronnie Bostock (Jason Priestley) opens up a whole new world to buttoned-up British author Giles De'Ath (John ...
In Theaters At Home TV Shows. Curmudgeonly author Giles De'Ath (John Hurt), a widower with a marked distaste for modern popular culture, attempts to buy a ticket for a film adaptation of an E.M ...
- (39)
- Richard Kwietniowski
- PG-13
- John Hurt
Giles De'Ath (Sir John Hurt), a widower, stuffy British author, gets locked out of his house one day and opts to see an E.M. Forster adaptation at a local cinema to pass the time. He mistakenly goes into the wrong theater, and as he is about to leave the puerile American movie, notices a young actor who immediately strikes his fancy.
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Mar 6, 1998 · 1 h 33 m. Summary A stuffy British novelist becomes infatuated with a cinematic teen idol and sets out to meet him. Comedy. Drama. Directed By: Richard Kwietniowski. Written By: Gilbert Adair, Richard Kwietniowski.
