Opening Night

1977 "The Show Must Go On…"

Opening Night

7.9 | 2h24m | PG-13 | en | Drama

Actress Myrtle Gordon is a functioning alcoholic who is a few days from the opening night of her latest play, concerning a woman distraught about aging. One night a car kills one of Myrtle's fans who is chasing her limousine in an attempt to get the star's attention. Myrtle internalizes the accident and goes on a spiritual quest, but fails to finds the answers she is after. As opening night inches closer and closer, fragile Myrtle must find a way to make the show go on.

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7.9 | 2h24m | PG-13 | en | Drama

Synopsis

Cast

Gena Rowlands , John Cassavetes , Ben Gazzara

Director

Bryan Ryman

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Faces Distribution ,

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Cast

Gena Rowlands

as Myrtle Gordon

[2014] Parts Per Billion [2014] Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks [2014] Yellow [2011] Olive [2007] What If God Were the Sun? [2007] Broken English [2006] Stardust: The Bette Davis Story [2005] The Skeleton Key [2004] Taking Lives

John Cassavetes

as Maurice Aarons

[2006] Operation Dirty Dozen [1984] Love Streams [1982] Incubus [1982] Tempest [1981] Whose Life Is It Anyway? [1979] Flesh & Blood [1978] The Fury [1977] Heroes [1977] Opening Night

Ben Gazzara

as Manny Victor

[2010] Christopher Roth [2009] Holy Money [2008] Empire State Building Murders [2007] Paris Je T'aime [2007] Donne sbagliate [2004] Dogville Confessions [2004] Dogville [2002] Hysterical Blindness [2001] Brian's Song