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This story is about a ne'er-do-well and his girlfriend as they search for a thief.This story is about a ne'er-do-well and his girlfriend as they search for a thief.This story is about a ne'er-do-well and his girlfriend as they search for a thief.
Roger Lloyd Pack
- Frankie
- (as Roger Lloyd-Pack)
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Did you know
- TriviaElizabeth Perkins was originally cast to play Joan, but had to drop out due to illness. Lolita Davidovich was eventually cast in her place.
- ConnectionsEdited into Screen Two: The Object of Beauty (1992)
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living well is the best revenge
The object in question is a pint-sized Henry Moore statuette, owned by shallow sophisticate Andie McDowell and appraised at $35,000, an amount in many ways even more beautiful to its owner than the item itself. Especially when McDowell and her 'husband' (played to haughty perfection by John Malkovich) find themselves at a fiscal disadvantage while living beyond their means in a posh London hotel. In the vernacular of the upwardly mobile, they aren't 'fluid', and when the statuette disappears they immediately accuse each other of plotting to collect the insurance value. The film is an underhanded, cynical, satirical poke at American materialism, pointless in the end because nothing is resolved. But the plot itself is secondary to the characters (ugly though they are), and rarely have two actors been better suited to their roles: McDowell's poor little rich girl routine is by now second nature, and Malkovich captures all the self-absorbed boredom of the ersatz upper class with his languid voice and steady reptilian gaze.
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- Also known as
- Предмет краси
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $5,136,759
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $208,119
- Apr 14, 1991
- Gross worldwide
- $5,136,759
- Runtime1 hour 43 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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