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Moonlighting

1982 · 97 min

A quiet, claustrophobic slow burn where mounting pressure and small deceptions make ordinary work feel like a trap closing in.

Overview
A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak has to manage the project and the men as they encounter the tempations of the West and loneliness and separation from their families. Nowak is the only one of the group who speaks English, and he uses this as a tool over his team. When the unrest in Poland leads to a military takeover, Nowak is faced with a much more difficult situation than he expected.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • isolation
  • class
  • power
  • survival
  • betrayal
Places
  • big city
  • single country house
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour3
Realism8
Romance1
Tension6
Darkness6
Complexity6
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Jerzy Skolimowski
Written by
Jerzy Skolimowski
Starring
Jeremy Irons, Eugene Lipinski, Jiří Stanislav, Eugeniusz Haczkiewicz, Denis Holmes, David Calder, Trevor Cooper, David Gant
Music
Stanley Myers
Cinematography
Tony Pierce-Roberts
Runtime
97 min
Country
United Kingdom
Languages
English, Polish

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