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Box office. $14,205,021. Sweet Liberty is a 1986 American comedy film written and directed by Alan Alda, and starring Alda in the lead role, alongside Michael Caine and Michelle Pfeiffer, with support from Bob Hoskins, Lois Chiles, Lise Hilboldt, Lillian Gish, and Larry Shue . The story was partly inspired by Alda's experiences while caring for ...
- $14,205,021
- Bruce Broughton
- May 14, 1986
- Martin Bregman
Aug 28, 1986 · Sweet Liberty: Directed by Alan Alda. With Alan Alda, Michael Caine, Michelle Pfeiffer, Bob Hoskins. After selling the rights of his book to a movie production company, a writer finds himself fighting the many egos and varying views around him.
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- Comedy
- Alan Alda
- 1986-08-28
Sweet Liberty. "Sweet Liberty" tells the story of a Hollywood movie company that arrives in a small Southeastern college town to shoot a film about the Revolutionary War. It also tells three or four other stories, and that is the problem: The movie wants to juggle a lot of characters all at once, but it keeps dropping the most interesting ones.
Sweet Liberty (1986) Sweet Liberty (1986) View more photos Movie Info. Synopsis A professor (Alan Alda) tries to stop a film crew from making a teen comedy out of his book about the Revolution.
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- Alan Alda
- PG
- Alan Alda
Michael has written a schollarly book on the revolutionary war. He has sold the film rights. The arrival of the film crew seriously disrupts him as actors want to change their characters, directors want to re-stage battles, and he becomes very infatuated with Faith who will play the female lead in the movie. At the same time, he is fighting with his crazy mother who thinks the Devil lives in ...
May 14, 1986 · To make things more complicated, Burgess falls in love with the glamorous female lead in the film, Faith Healy (Michelle Pfeiffer). Meanwhile, his long-time girlfriend, Gretchen (Lise Hilboldt) is pressuring him to get married. The film's male star, Elliott James (Michael Caine), finally shows up in town and becomes Burgess's rival for Faith's ...
Long Island, New York, USA. Duration. 1h 47m. (Com '86). Alan Alda, Michael Caine, Bob Hoskins, Michelle Pfeiffer, Lise Hilboldt, Lillian Gish, Saul Rubinek, Lois Chiles, Linda Thorson. A Hollywood movie crew descends on a small North Carolina college town to make a film about the Revolutionary War which is based on a novel by the town's...
