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Mother Night (VHS, 1997)

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Actor
Nick Nolte
Director
Keith Gordon
Leading Role
Sheryl Lee, John Goodman
UPC
0794043454837
Rating
R
Genre
Drama
Movie/TV Title
Mother Night

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Keith Gordon's darkly comic film version of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s highly original novel stars Nick Nolte as Howard J. Campbell Jr., an unusual antihero with a twisted story to tell. The tale begins in a Israeli prison cell, where Campbell is on trial for WWII war crimes. Campbell is given a typewriter and enough paper to recount his bizarre memoir, which appears as a series of black-and-white and color scenes that shift between 1940s Germany, 1950s New York, and 1960s Israel. The American Campbell and his parents relocate to Germany between the two world wars and live a happy life. Campbell grows up to be a playwright and marries a beautiful German actress, Helga Noth (Sheryl Lee). On a day like any other, Campbell's life takes a bizarre turn as he is offered a top-secret assignment by a U.S. government official (John Goodman in an unbilled role)--to pose as a Nazi sympathizer while relaying secret American code via the radio. Campbell successfully accomplishes his mission by starting an anti-American, anti-Semitic radio program that is revered in Nazi Germany and deplored in America. In a strange twist of fate, the unknown American playwright becomes a well-known German celebrity. After the war, Campbell escapes Germany and flees to New York, preferring to remain anonymous in the booming city. Years later, Campbell's life is turned upside down when he is recognized and pursued by Holocaust survivors, eager white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and U.S. law enforcers, leading to his incarceration in the Israeli prison where he awaits his fate. As Campbell, Nolte gives one of the finest performances of his career. A nightmarish maze of one man's misadventures, MOTHER NIGHT is an ironic and deeply stylized tribute to the one-of-a-kind dark humor of Vonnegut's writing.

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0794043454837
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Rating
R
Movie/TV Title
Mother Night
Genre
Drama

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Vhs
LeafCats
309
Film Country
USA

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  • by LeivGSgORdu@Deleted
    Jun 05, 2007

    Mother Night

    I realize that movies and books are different art forms. Mother Night, the excellent Vonnegut novel was not translated successfully into the film medium. Despite some great performances, Mother Night, the movie, does not capture enough of the spirit of the novel to make it a good screen adaptation. It is worth watching but not more than once. I bought it thinking that it would do justice to the book as the, 'Slaughterhouse Five,' movie did for the book. Nick Nolte and the rest of the cast did an excellent job trying to make this movie work. James A. Baker Opelika, AL

  • by mannlicher_schoenauer
    Jul 26, 2012

    Dark side of self-sacrifice for humanity.

    Plot revolves about an American-German playwright (Nick Nolte) in Germany who wants to make a difference in the WWII and does without any fame or recognition and ends up sacrificing everythng he lived for. There are lots twists in the plot with even stranger characters.

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