Exposed (1983 film)
| Exposed | |
|---|---|
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| Directed by | James Toback |
| Produced by | Serge Silberman |
| Written by | James Toback |
| Starring |
Nastassja Kinski Rudolf Nureyev Harvey Keitel Ian McShane Iman |
| Music by | Georges Delerue |
| Cinematography | Henri Decaë |
| Edited by | Robert Lawrence |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | MGM/UA Entertainment Company |
Release dates | April 22, 1983 |
Running time | 100 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $18 million[1][2] |
| Box office | $1,352,083 |
Exposed is an English-language 1983 film directed and written by James Toback. Nastassja Kinski, Rudolf Nureyev and Harvey Keitel star.[3]
Plot
A college girl from Wisconsin whose professor has romantic designs on her, Elizabeth Carlson packs up and moves to New York City, finding a job as a waitress while she attempts to launch a career as a fashion model.
As her career takes off, she meets Daniel Jelline, a violinist, who aggressively stalks Elizabeth until they begin an affair. When work takes her to Paris, however, Elizabeth encounters a terrorist named Rivas and her life is placed in considerable danger.
Cast
- Nastassja Kinski as Elizabeth Carlson
- Rudolf Nureyev as Daniel Jelline
- Harvey Keitel as Rivas
- Ian McShane as Greg Miller
- James Russo as Nick
- Bibi Andersson as Margaret
- Ron Randell as Curt
- Tony Sirico as Record Store Thief
- Janice Dickinson and Iman appear as Models
Production
James Toback claims he tried for a number of years to get the film financed but was unsuccessful. He says he won $2 million gambling in Las Vegas and spent a portion of this to bribe David Begelman, then head of MGM, to get him to authorise MGM to finance the film. MGM provided a budget of $18 million of which Toback's fee was $500,000. Filming took 80 days.[4][1]
Toback says he based the script on a romance he had with an airline stewardess.[5]
"I've changed roughly 80% of the script I showed MGM," he said later, "and I write and rewrite every night."[5]
Reception
"The movie is unlike anything being released by major studios today," said Toback at the time of the film's release, "and so its confusing to people who market movies".[6] Toback was allowed to be involved in the promotion of the film. "I'm being treated a lot better than most studios would treat me," he said. "I'm not getting much money but I'm being treated a lot better than most studios treat me... I figure now I have a remote chance of putting across a movie that only got made by a miracle anyway."[6]
Toback says the film had a "mixed" reception.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 Alec Baldwin (30 September 2013). "James Toback". Here's The Thing (Podcast). Retrieved 24 July 2016.
- ↑ Osenlund, Kurt (25 October 2013). "Seduced and Abandoned's James Toback on Movies, Mortality, Shooting in Cannes, and Literally Shooting his Enemies". Filmmaker Magazine. Retrieved 24 July 2016.
- ↑ Weldon, Michael J. (1996), The Psychotronic Video Guide To Film, Macmillan, p. 193, ISBN 0312131496.
- ↑ Rushfield, Richard (4 November 2013). "On Getting "Exposed" Green Lit". Rushfield Babylon. Retrieved 24 July 2016.
- 1 2 Turner, Adrian (23 January 1982). "Nothing Against Murder". The Guardian. London. p. 12.
- 1 2 Pond, Steve (18 November 1982). "Dateline Hollywood". The Washington Post. p. C7.
External links
- Exposed at the Internet Movie Database
- Exposed at the TCM Movie Database
- Review of film at New York Times