Story of movie Fool For Love Film : Fool for Love is a 1985 drama directed by Robert Altman. The film stars Sam Shepard, who also wrote both the original play and the adaptation's screenplay, alongside Kim Basinger, Harry Dean Stanton, Randy Quaid and Martha Crawford. It was entered into the 1986 Cannes Film Festival. It was filmed in Eldorado and Las Vegas, New Mexico.
| Fool for Love | |
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| Directed by | Robert Altman |
| Written by | Sam Shepard |
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| Music by | George Burt |
| Cinematography | Pierre Mignot |
| Edited by | Stephen P. Dunn Luce Grunenwaldt |
| Distributed by | Cannon Group |
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Running time | 106 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2 million |
| Box office | $900,000 |
Screenplay
May (Kim Basinger) is hiding out at an old motel in the Southwest. An old flame and childhood friend, Eddie (Sam Shepard) shows up. He threatens to metaphorically and, at times, literally drag her back into the life she had fled from. The film focuses on the couple's fluctuating past and present relationships, and the dark secrets hidden within, including one from an old man who lives near the motel (Harry Dean Stanton).
- Sam Shepard - Eddie
- Kim Basinger - May
- Harry Dean Stanton - Old Man
- Randy Quaid - Martin
- Martha Crawford - May's Mother
- Louise Egolf - Eddie's Mother
- Sura Cox - Teenage May
- Jonathan Skinner - Teenage Eddie
- April Russell - Young May
- Deborah McNaughton - The Countess
- Lon Hill - Mr. Valdes
Sandy Rogers wrote the soundtrack songs including the title country pop ballad ("Fool for Love"), which later would also appear in the film Reservoir Dogs and on its soundtrack album release.
The film received average reviews, though was praised by several high-profile critics, like Roger Ebert, who said, 'With "Fool for Love," he (Altman) has succeeded on two levels that seem opposed to each other. He has made a melodrama, almost a soap opera, in which the characters achieve a kind of nobility.'
- Fool for Love (play) - the original 1983 play, often considered part of a quintet with Shepard's other works.
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