AUTEUR(S)-RÉALISATEUR(S)
Donn Alan Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus
IMAGE
James Desmond, Donn Alan Pennebaker, Nick Doob
SON
MONTAGE
David Dawkins, Erez Laufer, John Paul Pennebaker
PRODUCTION / DIFFUSION
ORGANISME(S) DÉTENTEUR(S) ou DÉPOSITAIRE(S)
Pennebaker Hegedus Films, Jane Balfour Services, Pennebaker Hegedus Films
ISAN : non renseigné - en savoir plus
États-Unis | 1998 | 98 minutes
Un film de Donn Alan Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus
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Chris Hegedus and D A Pennebaker bring their fly-on-the-wall camera backstage to take a fresh, eye-opening, no-holds-barred look at the big bang adventure of producing a Broadway hit. The Broadway show in question is Moon Over Buffalo, starring Carol Burnett and Philip Bosco, a comedy about a low-rent Lunt and Fontaine, hell-bent upon recharging their careers. Cited by The New York Times as “the best documentary of the year,” the film features hilarious turns by its leading actors - and even funnier behind-the-scenes sequences, as everyone mounting this high-risk Broadway production goes into nail-biting overdrive. The play’s director, Tom Moore, and co-producers Rocco Landesman and Elizabeth Williams, help playwright Ken Ludwig through endless rewrites and finally to opening night, which Ludwig dubs “a bar mitzvah from hell.” Only those few who have been lucky enough to glimpse backstage through the curtain have seen Broadway quite like this.