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Insignificance, Zenith in association with the Recorded Picture Company presents a film by Nicolas Roeg ; screenplay written by Terry Johnson ; produced by Jeremy Thomas ; directed by Nicolas Roeg

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MPAA rating: R

Insignificance

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Zenith in association with the Recorded Picture Company presents a film by Nicolas Roeg ; screenplay written by Terry Johnson ; produced by Jeremy Thomas ; directed by Nicolas Roeg

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The Criterion collection, 566

Four unnamed people who look and sound a lot like Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio, and Joseph McCarthy converge in one New York City hotel room for a compelling, visually inventive adaptation of Terry Johnson's play. With a combination of whimsy and dread, director Nicolas Roeg creates a fun-house-mirror picture of cold war America that questions the nature of celebrity and plays on a society's simmering nuclear fears

On set -- The Professor and the Senator -- Daydreams -- The Actress -- The theory of relativity -- Bedtime -- The Ballplayer -- Not okay -- Cherokees -- Needs and wants -- The Elevator man -- The Senator -- The Professor -- New plans -- Fears -- Color bars

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