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Ironweed
An alcoholic drifter spends Halloween in his hometown of Albany, New York after returning there for the first time in decades.
1987 · Directed by Héctor Babenco · 143 min · Drama · 8 frames
Tagline
Hard times and Good times. Francis and Helen.
Crew
- Screenplay: William Kennedy
- Cinematography: Lauro Escorel
- Edited by: Anne Goursaud
- Music: John Morris
- Production design: Jeannine Oppewall
- Produced by: Keith Barish, Marcia Nasatir
Cast
- Jack Nicholson as Francis Phelan
- Meryl Streep as Helen Archer
- Carroll Baker as Annie Phelan
- Michael O'Keefe as Billy
- Diane Venora as Peg
- Fred Gwynne as Oscar Reo
- Margaret Whitton as Katrina
- Tom Waits as Rudy
- Jake Dengel as Pee Wee
- Nathan Lane as Harold Allen
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Taft Entertainment Pictures, Keith Barish Productions
- Budget: $27,000,000
- Box office: $7,300,000
- Themes: forgiveness, loyalty, homelessness, drifter, accidental death, alcoholic, estranged father, haunted by the past, drunkenness, ghosts of the past
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