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Mother Night (1996) | User Rating
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Release Date
• USA: Nov 1, 1996
DVD Release Date
• R1: Aug 22, 2000
Budget $5,500,000
MPAA Rating
Rated R for a scene of sexuality.
Running Time
1 hour, 54 minutes
Country USA
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Genre: Drama, Spy, World War II, Mistaken Identity, Satire, Love, Prison, Political, Psychodrama
Tagline: Howard W. Campbell, Jr., is the most patriotic American in the Third Reich.
Plot: 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
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| Directed by |
Keith Gordon
A Midnight Clear, Waking the Dead, The Singing Detective |
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| Written by |
| Robert B. Weide
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 | Sheryl Lee
Vampires, Bliss, This World, Then the Fireworks |
 | Alan Arkin
Edward Scissorhands, Gattaca, Grosse Pointe Blank |
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 | Kirsten Dunst
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2 |
 | John Goodman
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