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Albert Brooks directs himself as a successful film editor with far too many issues that affects the relationship between him and his remarkably patient girlfriend.Albert Brooks directs himself as a successful film editor with far too many issues that affects the relationship between him and his remarkably patient girlfriend.Albert Brooks directs himself as a successful film editor with far too many issues that affects the relationship between him and his remarkably patient girlfriend.
Thelma Leeds
- Mother
- (as Thelma Bernstein)
Harvey Miller
- Harvey
- (as Harvey Skolnik)
- Director
- Writers
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Did you know
- TriviaBecause of the minimal amount of editing needed during post-production, writer-director Albert Brooks was able to deliver his final cut to the Columbia Pictures studio about two weeks earlier than expected. This facilitated the film's U.S. release date being brought forward about a couple of months from May 1981 back to March 1981.
- GoofsWhen Albert is high on Quaaludes, he puts on a record album and the disco hit "A Fifth of Beethoven" comes on. But watch the needle on the turntable--the arm visibly retracts and returns from the spindle while the music is playing.
- Quotes
Robert Cole: [selecting a prop for the space film he's working on] How much would you say this weighs?
Head Mixer: I don't know. Maybe it doesn't weigh anything--did you ever think of that? Maybe it's on one of those planets that doesn't have any gravity.
- SoundtracksYou Are So Beautiful
Written by Dennis Wilson, Billy Preston and Bruce Fisher
Performed by Joe Cocker
Courtesy of A&M Records
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Albert Brooks was not at his best in this movie
I love Albert Brooks. I cannot stress that enough. I was let down by this movie. Maybe I missed something? He breaks up "again" with his girlfriend and spends the rest of the movie pining for her and acting obsessively jealous.
The whole Quaalude bit was just lame and not funny although when he puts on the disco record and says it's depressing was funny. Even though his girlfriend kept saying she loved and missed him I never believed it. I always felt she wanted to be somewhere else with someone else, so in the end when he asks her to get married and she says yes I couldn't believe it. I didn't feel Albert was up to his full neurotic obsessive potential, like he was holding back. O.K. movie but probably only bearable to Albert Brooks fans.
The whole Quaalude bit was just lame and not funny although when he puts on the disco record and says it's depressing was funny. Even though his girlfriend kept saying she loved and missed him I never believed it. I always felt she wanted to be somewhere else with someone else, so in the end when he asks her to get married and she says yes I couldn't believe it. I didn't feel Albert was up to his full neurotic obsessive potential, like he was holding back. O.K. movie but probably only bearable to Albert Brooks fans.
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Modern Romance - Muß denn Liebe Alptraum Sein?
- Filming locations
- 122 S Beverly Dr, Beverly Hills, California, USA(Hamburger Hamlet)
- Production company
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $2,863,642
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $18,225
- Mar 15, 1981
- Gross worldwide
- $2,864,224
- Runtime1 hour 33 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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