Directed by:
John CassavetesScreenplay:
John CassavetesCinematography:
Victor J. KemperCast:
Ben Gazzara, Peter Falk, John Cassavetes, John Kullers, Xan Cassavetes, Nick Cassavetes, Judith Lowry, Charles Gaines, David Rowlands, Jenny Runacre (more)VOD (2)
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The trailblazing independent auteur John Cassavetes pushes his raw, uncompromising emotional realism to its limit in this unflinching portrait of masculinity in crisis. Cassavetes joins Ben Gazzara and Peter Falk—both of whom would become key collaborators of the director’s—playing a trio of middle-aged Long Island family men who, following the sudden death of their best friend, channel their grief into an epic, multiday bender that takes them from Manhattan to London in a desperate, debauched quest to feel alive. By turns painfully funny and woundingly perceptive, this self-described “comedy about life, death, and freedom” stands as perhaps the most fearless, harrowingly honest deconstruction of American manhood ever committed to film. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
![Ben Gazzara](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/271/271607_f89a8d.jpg)
Ben Gazzara
USA
Best movies:
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Dogville (2003)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
![Peter Falk](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/473/162473287_4f5ea5.jpg)
Peter Falk
USA
Best movies:
Griffin and Phoenix: A Love Story (1976) (TV movie)
Prescription: Murder (1968) (TV movie)
Wings of Desire (1987)
![John Cassavetes](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/165/333/165333105_c2d012.jpg)
John Cassavetes
USA
Best movies:
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981)
John Kullers
USA
Best movies:
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
House of Strangers (1949)
Kiss of Death (1947)
![Xan Cassavetes](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/307/158307262_4b3eb5.jpg)
Xan Cassavetes
USA
Best movies:
A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
Minnie and Moskowitz (1971)
Love Streams (1984)
![Nick Cassavetes](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/269/269469_53e0a0.jpg)
Nick Cassavetes
USA
Best movies:
Blow (2001)
A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
Face/Off (1997)
Judith Lowry
USA
Best movies:
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1972)
Husbands (1970)
The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968)
Charles Gaines
USA
Best movies:
Husbands (1970)
David Rowlands
USA
Best movies:
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
Faces (1968)
Opening Night (1977)
Jenny Runacre
South Africa
Best movies:
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
The Duellists (1977)
The Passenger (1975)
![Fred Draper](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/378/161378760_969b27.jpg)
Fred Draper
USA
Best movies:
A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
A Child Is Waiting (1963)
Columbo (1971) (series)
Harry Fielder
UK
Best movies:
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
The Elephant Man (1980)
K.C. Townsend
USA
Best movies:
All That Jazz (1979)
Husbands (1970)
The Burning (1981)
Gwen Van Dam
Best movies:
Coming Home (1978)
Halloween (1978)
The Best Little Girl in the World (1981) (TV movie)
Claire Malis
USA
Best movies:
'night Mother (1986)
Husbands (1970)
A Mother's Prayer (1995) (TV movie)