Love and Death on Long Island

Love and Death on Long Island

★ 6.3IMDb Score
Released:1998-03-06
Duration:93 min
Director:Richard Kwietniowski
Actors:John Hurt, Jason Priestley, Fiona Loewi, Sheila Hancock, Harvey Atkin
Production:Skyline Films, BBC Film, Mikado Film, Alfalfa Entertainment, Imagex Communications

Overview:

Curmudgeonly author Giles De'Ath, a widower with a marked distaste for modern popular culture, attempts to buy a ticket for a film adaptation of an E.M. Forster novel, but instead finds himself watching a tacky teen sex comedy. Yet when the beautiful Ronnie Bostock appears on the movie screen, Giles finds himself caught in a whirlwind of unanswered questions about both his own sexuality and his place in late 20th-century society.

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