Rent Garbo Talks (1984)
3.2 of 5 from 55 ratings
1h 30min
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- Synopsis:
- Estelle Rolfe (Anne Bancroft) is a one-woman army, protesting against the world. She shames construction workers for cat calling women, refuses to cross a picket line for her son's wedding and even goes to jail over grocery prices! She also loves Greta Garbo. Then Estelle learns she has a brain tumour, with just six months to live. Having always felt like a disappointment to his outspoken mother, Estelle's dutiful son Gilbert (Ron Silver) hires a paparazzo to lead him to Garbo's flat. He uses increasingly desperate tactics, including becoming a food delivery boy, to catch a moment with the star and grant his mother's dying wish to meet her.
- Actors:
- Anne Bancroft, Ron Silver, Carrie Fisher, Catherine Hicks, Steven Hill, Howard Da Silva, Dorothy Loudon, Harvey Fierstein, Hermione Gingold, Richard B. Shull, Michael Lombard, Ed Crowley, Alice Spivak, Maurice Sterman, Antonia Rey
- Directors:
- Sidney Lumet
- Producers:
- Burtt Harris, Elliott Kastner
- Writers:
- Larry Grusin
- Aka:
- Garbo Talks!
- Studio:
- Simply Media
- Genres:
- Classics, Comedy, Romance
- Collections:
- Cinema Paradiso's 2022 Centenary Club, The Instant Expert's Guide to Sidney Lumet
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Reviews (1) of Garbo Talks
Garbo Stalls. - Garbo Talks review by PE
A disappointing film. Anne Bancroft is hardly in it and is a fantastic character, everyone else is pretty bland: Carrie Fisher to the point of being unrecognizable!
Somehow they even made Harvey Fierstein dull and sad.
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