Mother Night [Import]

The truth is more shocking than the uniform he wears... HE WAS AN AMERICAN SPY.
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  • Run Time: 1 hours, 54 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
  • Released: August 27, 2013
  • Originally Released: 1996
  • Label: Imports

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User Ratings: 2,437
Rating: 3/4 -- Wonderfully mysterious and emotionally draining. Full Review
SPLICEDWire
Jan 1, 2000
...Nick Nolte does his best acting in years...
Rolling Stone
Nov 28, 1996
Rating: 4/5 -- Frankie Faison comes the closest to Vonnegut's spirit in his bold caricature of the Black Fuehrer of Harlem. Full Review
Hartford Courant
Apr 25, 2018
Rating: 2.5/4 -- Director Keith Gordon emphasizes the speeches more than other issues, and his otherwise thoughtful movie needlessly romanticizes hate. Full Review
Chicago Tribune
Aug 23, 2017
A mixture of the disturbing and the bizarre, it's both haunting and thought-provoking.
Uncut
Sep 1, 2004
Rating: 3.5/4 -- A serious drama that is also funny without crossing into burlesque.
USA Today
Jan 1, 2000
Rating: C+ -- Nick Nolte is excellent in Keith Gordon's ambitious but flawed adaptation of Vonnegut's fascinating novel. Full Review
EmanuelLevy.Com
Apr 28, 2011

Product Description:

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 booming city. Years later, Campbell's life is turned upside down when he is recognized and pursued by Holocaust survivors, eager white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and U.S. law enforcers, leading to his incarceration in the Israeli prison where he awaits his fate. As Campbell, Nolte gives one of the finest performances of his career. A nightmarish maze of one man's misadventures, MOTHER NIGHT is an ironic and deeply stylized tribute to the one-of-a-kind dark humor of Vonnegut's writing.

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