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DVD Release Date
• R1: Jul 10, 2001
Budget $7,500,000
MPAA Rating
R
Running Time
1 hour, 49 minutes
Country USA, UK, Canada
Studio Orion, Woodfall
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Other Titles
• The Hotel New Hampshire
• Das Hotel New Hampshire (1985)
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Genre: Drama, Comedy, Racy, Coming Of Age, Gay/Lesbian, Christmas, Black Comedy, On The Road, Disturbing, Satire, Hostage, Terrorism, Prostitution
Plot: British director Tony Richardson takes on John Irving's picaresque black comedy about an eccentric and unusually peripatetic family in a film starring Rob Lowe as John Berry, the family's oldest son. John's father, Win (Beau Bridges), is obsessed with hotels, so he buys a run-down seminary in New England, transforming it into the Hotel New Hampshire. The extended family includes the profanity-spouting Franny (Jodie Foster); Lily (Jennifer Dundas); a dwarf, Frank (Paul McCrane), who is gay; John, who is strongly attracted to his sister; Egg (Seth Green), the youngest boy; and Iowa Bob (Wilford Brimley), Win's father. After a number of tragic incidents, including the gang rape of Franny, are seen through the special lenses of black comedy, the family is invited to take over another hotel in Vienna, courtesy of their friend Freud (Wallace Shawn). On arrival, they find that the upper floors of the hotel are dedicated to prostitution and the bottom floors are occupied by terrorists. They also meet Freud's companion, Susie the Bear (Nastassia Kinski), a woman so obsessed with her unattractiveness that she spends all her time in a bear suit. Richardson elicits fine performances from his talented cast in this wild ride through the mind of John Irving.
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John Irving
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Rob Lowe
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