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Record #
FRL-14831

Object Name
videorecording

Media Title, Year of Release
Insignificance, 1985

Other Title(s)
Original Title Insignificance

Director(s)

Film Category
feature

Country
United Kingdom

Language
English

Translation

Format
Betamax

Playback/Region
NTSC

Measurements
Duration 01:50:00

Publishing Info.
[Toronto] : Cineplex Odeon Home Video/MCA Home Video, 1986

Details
1 videocassette(s) (Beta) 110 min.: sd., Colour ; 1/2 in.

Genre
comedy; drama

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ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION INFORMATION

Art Director Brockhurst, David

Cinematographer Hannan, Peter

Executive Producer Stuart, Alexander

Film Editor Lawson, Tony

Music Myers, Stanley

Screenwriter Johnson, Terry

Sound Le Mare, Paul

Production Company Recorded Picture Company

Production Company Zenith

Principal Cast Busey, Gary

Principal Cast Curtis, Tony

Principal Cast Emil, Michael

Principal Cast Russell, Theresa

Principal Cast Sampson, Will


DESCRIPTION


TIFF NOTE

New York 1954, the object of every man's fantasy and the greatest mind of the century are about to meet. Insignificance is a comedy about life, death, sex and the universe...relatively speaking. If you can imagine the following, you will witness the plot of this comedy...while Albert Einstein (Michael Emil) is being threatened in his hotel room by Senator Joe McCarthy (Tony Curtis), Marilyn Monroe (Theresa Russell) arrives. She explains the theory of relativity rather efficiently to its creator and while propositioning the scientist, her husband, Joe DiMaggio (Gary Busey) intervenes to take his wife home with him. He loves his wife too deeply and is jealous of her popularity as an actress. She refuses to leave with him, preferring to spend the night with the trouserless Einstein. -- cassette case


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