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Michael Burgess wrote a book about the American Revolution. Now, Hollywood's come to his town to make a movie of it -- Plunging him into a summer of madness.
Michael Burgess is an academic who has written a scholarly book on the American Revolution which Hollywood has bought the film rights to. 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 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 her kitchen, and his girlfriend who is talking about commitment.Read moreLess
Michael Burgess is an academic who has written a scholarly book on the American Revolution which Hollywood has bought the film rights to. 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 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 her kitchen, and his girlfriend who is talking about commitment.
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Michael Burgess is an academic who has written a scholarly book on the American Revolution which Hollywood has bought the film rights to. 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 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 her kitchen, and his girlfriend who is talking about commitment.
Watch trailerCast & crew
Alan AldaMichael Burgess
Michael CaineElliott James
Michelle PfeifferFaith Healy
Bob HoskinsStanley Gould
Lise HilboldtGretchen Carlsen
Lillian GishCecelia Burgess
Saul RubinekBo Hodges
Lois ChilesLeslie
Linda ThorsonGrace James
Leo BurmesterHank
Dann FlorekJesse
John C. McGinleyFloydExplore the crew
- Director
- Alan Alda
- Writer
- Alan Alda
- Editor
- Michael Economou
- Original Music Composer
- Bruce Broughton
- Director of Photography
- Frank Tidy
- Producer
- Martin Bregman