Opening Night
The Show Must Go On…
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12/22/1977Runtime
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Actress Myrtle Gordon is a functioning alcoholic who is a few days from the opening night of her latest play, concerning a woman distraught about aging. One night a car kills one of Myrtle's fans who is chasing her limousine in an attempt to get the star's attention. Myrtle internalizes the accident and goes on a spiritual quest, but fails to finds the answers she is after. As opening night inches closer and closer, fragile Myrtle must find a way to make the show go on.
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A fractured portrait of an aging actress unraveling in real-time as she spirals through guilt, alcohol, and supernatural visions in the days before opening night. Cassavetes dissolves the boundary between performance and reality until you're never quite sure what's happening or whether Myrtle is losing her grip on sanity.
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