A sloppy, self-indulgent valentine to the theater, delivered with all the grace of a letter-bomb by actor-turned-director John Turturro. In turn-of-the-century NYC, playwright Tuccio (Turturro) is desperate to get his latest opus,
Illuminata, mounted by the
theater company run by his actress girlfriend Rachel (Katherine Borowitz). But the play — an intense profile of an adulterous affair performed in spare, modernist style — doesn't have a proper ending, and theater owners Astergourd and Pallenchio (Beverly D'Angelo, Donal McCann) would
rather do
A Doll's House. After the star of the company's latest production collapses onstage, Tuccio seiz...
Released:
1999
Rated:
R
Length:
115 mins