Insignificance

Insignificance

1985 · 109 min · EN · R · 6.4 (71 votes)
Dir. Nicolas Roeg · Starring Michael Emil, Theresa Russell, Tony Curtis, Gary Busey, Will Sampson, Patrick Kilpatrick · Music Hans Zimmer

“A comedy about life, death, sex, and the Universe... relatively speaking.”

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Four 1950s icons meet in the same hotel room, and two of them discover more in common between them than they ever anticipated.

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A bizarre, thought-provoking chamber piece where historical figures grapple with existential questions. It feels like a dream logic fever-pitch, blending intellectual curiosity with a touch of absurdity in a stylized 1950s setting.

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