Insignificance [1985] Nicolas Roeg

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Insignificance (1985)


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Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture drama/comedy directed by Nicolas Roeg, produced by Jeremy Thomas and Alexander Stuart, and adapted by Terry Johnson from his play. The film is set in a hotel in 1954, and follows four characters who bear a striking resemblance to iconic figures of the era; Marilyn Monroe, Joseph McCarthy, Joe DiMaggio and Albert Einstein. The film stars Theresa Russell, Tony Curtis, Michael Emil, Will Sampson and Gary Busey. They are never identified by name, but the credits refer to the four characters as The Actress, The Senator, The Ballplayer and The Scientist.

Michael Emil ... The Professor
Theresa Russell ... The Actress
Tony Curtis ... The Senator
Gary Busey ... The Ballplayer
Will Sampson ... Elevator Attendant
Patrick Kilpatrick ... Driver
Ian O'Connell ... Assistant Director
George Holmes ... Actor
Richard Davidson ... Director of Photography
Mitchell Greenberg ... Technician
Raynor Scheine ... Autograph Hunter
Jude Ciccolella ... Gaffer
Lou Hirsch ... Charlie
Ray Charleson ... Bud
Joel Cutrara ... Bar Drunk

Cannes Film Festival
1985 Won Technical Grand Prize Nicolas Roeg
1985 Nominated Golden Palm Nicolas Roeg


The year is 1954. As Monroe, Einstein, DiMaggio and McCarthy, Roeg assembles an excellent cast of non-stars, confines them in anonymous hotel rooms, and lets them rip on all his favourite topics: life, love, fame, hate, jealousy, atomic firestorm and the whole damn thing. As usual with Roeg, the firmament is streaming with large ideas and awkward emotions, which grow larger and larger in significance, and most of which come together in a delightful scene when Marilyn (Russell) explains relativity to Einstein (Emil) with the aid of clockwork trains and balloons. Curtis is Senator McCarthy, still witch-hunting phantoms of his mind; Busey is the washed-up ballplayer, aching for Marilyn's return. It may be a chamber piece, but its circumference is vast.