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Vanya on 42nd Street

1994 · 120 min

You sit inside a bare room with actors and slowly forget the walls, caught up in quiet, aching performances.

Overview
An uninterrupted rehearsal of Chekhov's 'Uncle Vanya' plays out by a company of actors. The setting: their run-down theater with an unusable stage and crumbling ceiling. The play is shown act by act with the briefest of breaks to move props or for refreshments. The lack of costumes, real props and scenery is soon forgotten.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • isolation
  • grief
  • love
  • work
  • aging
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • single location
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour4
Realism8
Romance4
Tension4
Darkness5
Complexity7
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Louis Malle
Written by
David Mamet, Andre Gregory
Starring
Wallace Shawn, Julianne Moore, Larry Pine, Brooke Smith, George Gaynes, Lynn Cohen, Phoebe Brand, Jerry Mayer
Music
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Cinematography
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Runtime
120 min
Country
United States of America, United Kingdom
Languages
English

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