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Noises Off!

7.2

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Original title

Noises Off!

Year

1992

Running time

99 min.

Country

United States

Director

Peter Bogdanovich

Screenwriter

Martin Kaplan. Theater: Michael Frayn

Cast

Music

Phil Marshall

Cinematography

Tim Suhrstedt

Producer

Touchstone Pictures, Amblin Entertainment

Genre

Comedy | Stage Play

Synopsis

Lloyd Fellowes is the director of a theatre company. He's desperately trying to get his production together, despite the best efforts of the cast, the crew, and Lady Luck. We follow the production from final rehersals, through opening night, and onto the tour: as with any group of actors forced to work closely together for any great length of time, romances and arguments are bound to break out. Quite often, what's happening on stage is nothing compared to what's happening backstage....

Critics' reviews

"Moviegoers will be delighted by this sharply calibrated farce"

Duane Byrge: The Hollywood Reporter
"There are a number of hefty laughs scattered throughout 'Noises Off' (...) Yet there are nowhere near as many as the source material deserves"

Vincent Canby: The New York Times
"Bogdanovich has judged his approach to the material astutely, resisting impulses toward comic overkill or transferring focus away from the stage. He takes his cue from the actors, and the camera is always in the right place."

Variety Staff: Variety
"The transition from stage to screen may be bumpy in spots, but this movie is much funnier than Bogdanovich's What's Up, Doc?"

Jonathan Rosenbaum: Chicago Reader
"A movie that doesn't quite feel like a movie, and that's not quite as good as the play, but that's pretty good anyway"

Mick LaSalle: San Francisco Chronicle
"Very little sense of the performers' humanity emerges from behind their stage roles, perhaps because Bogdanovich has directed the supposedly spontaneous dialogue to sound just as forced and theatrical as the scripted lines"

Dave Kehr: Chicago Tribune
"This adaptation of Michael Frayn's stage hit undoubtedly has its moments, but will still disappoint those who laughed themselves silly at the original."

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Noises Off!

1992

Peter Bogdanovich

7.2

(5,219)