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Overview

User Rating:
6.3/10   8,749 votes
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Director:
Michel Gondry
Writer (WGA):
Charlie Kaufman (written by)
Contact:
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Release Date:
12 September 2001 (France) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama more
Tagline:
In the Interest of Civilization... Conform.
Plot:
A woman is in love with a man in love with another woman, and all three have designs on a young man raised as an ape. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
2 wins more
NewsDesk:
(11 articles)
Michel Gondry to Direct Green Hornet!
 (From Beyond Hollywood. 25 February 2009, 8:10 AM, PST)

Michel Gondry to direct 'Green Hornet'
 (From screeninglog. 24 February 2009, 5:00 PM, PST)

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beauty is desire is suffering is beauty more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Patricia Arquette ... Lila Jute

Rhys Ifans ... Puff

Tim Robbins ... Dr. Nathan Bronfman
Ken Magee ... Police Detective

Sy Richardson ... Police Detective

David Warshofsky ... Police Detective

Hilary Duff ... Young Lila Jute

Stanley DeSantis ... Doctor (as Stanley Desantis)

Peter Dinklage ... Frank
Toby Huss ... Puff's Father
Bobby Harwell ... Congressman

Daryl Anderson ... Congressman
Bobby Pyle ... Young Puff
Chase MacKenzie Bebak ... Young Nathan (as Chase Bebak)

Mary Kay Place ... Nathan's Mother
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Human Nature (France) (USA)
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MPAA:
Rated R for sexuality/nudity and language.
Runtime:
96 min
Country:
France | USA
Language:
English | French
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Filming Locations:
Los Angeles, California, USA

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Hilary Duff's first feature film. more
Quotes:
Puff: Apes don't assasinate their presidents, gentlemen! more
Movie Connections:
References Sophie's Choice (1982) more
Soundtrack:
El Internado more

FAQ

How does it end?
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16 out of 23 people found the following comment useful:-
beauty is desire is suffering is beauty, 24 August 2004
10/10
Author: Doug Galecawitz (dougg@evilnet.net) from Lisle, IL

This may be one of the most undereatimated movies on the imdb. Trumped only by it's more popular cousin Adaptation, this movie in the best that film language has to offer express all the joy, sorrow, misery, agony, torment, ennui, sillyness, and boozy lust of being a biologacal creature in a social super structure. I love this movie. I love how it translates the dry language psychological philosophy into an entertaining movie that is both emotional heavy and light heartedly funny. Rhys Ifans is absolutely wonderful in his portayal of the apotheosis of the destructive nature of language on human emotion. As with adaptation I just can't say enough about this movie. They seem so intelligent and full of joy that Charlie Kaufman is quickly becoming one of my favorite writers in hollywood along with Linklater and Tarantino.

10 out of 10 i'm drunk

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