Ask the dust, Paramount Classics presents in association with Capitol Films ; a Cruise/Wagner production ; a VIP Medienfonds 3 production ; an Ascendant production ; executive producer, Redmond Morris ; executive producers, Mark Roemmich, David Selvan ; executive producers, Andreas Schmid, Andy Grosch, Chris Roberts ; produced by Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner ; produced by Don Granger, Jonas McCord ; written for the screen and directed by Robert Towne
Type
Label
Ask the dust, Paramount Classics presents in association with Capitol Films ; a Cruise/Wagner production ; a VIP Medienfonds 3 production ; an Ascendant production ; executive producer, Redmond Morris ; executive producers, Mark Roemmich, David Selvan ; executive producers, Andreas Schmid, Andy Grosch, Chris Roberts ; produced by Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner ; produced by Don Granger, Jonas McCord ; written for the screen and directed by Robert Towne
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
MPAA rating: R; for some sexuality, nudity and language, CHV rating: 14A
Main title
Ask the dust
Oclc number
68571792
Responsibility statement
Paramount Classics presents in association with Capitol Films ; a Cruise/Wagner production ; a VIP Medienfonds 3 production ; an Ascendant production ; executive producer, Redmond Morris ; executive producers, Mark Roemmich, David Selvan ; executive producers, Andreas Schmid, Andy Grosch, Chris Roberts ; produced by Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner ; produced by Don Granger, Jonas McCord ; written for the screen and directed by Robert Towne
Runtime
116
Summary
A young Italian would-be writer comes to Depression-era Los Angeles to make a name for himself. While there, he meets Camilla, who is hoping to marry a rich American. Both are trying to escape the stigma of their ethnicity in blue-blood California
Target audience
adult
Technique
live action
Contributor
- Cruise/Wagner Productions (Firm)
- Grosch, Andreas
- Selvan, David, (Producer)
- Lambert, Robert K.
- Farrell, Colin, 1976-
- Paramount Pictures Corporation
- VIP 3 Medienfonds
- McCord, Jonas
- Cruise, Tom, 1962-
- Sutherland, Donald, 1935-
- Roberts, Chris, 1968-
- Gassner, Dennis
- Warner Home Video (Firm)
- Capitol Films
- Roemmich, Mark
- Fante, John, 1909-1983
- Menzel, Idina
- Wolsky, Albert
- Paramount Classics (Firm)
- Kirk, Justin
- Wagner, Paula, 1946-
- Pereira, Heitor
- Deschanel, Caleb, 1944-
- Schmid, Andreas, (Producer)
- Granger, Don, (Producer)
- Morris, Redmond
- Djawadi, Ramin
- Hayek, Salma, 1966-
- Ascendant Pictures (Firm)
- Atkins, Eileen, 1934-
- Towne, Robert
Genre
Subject
- Melodrama -- Feature
- Mexican American women + Cultural assimilation -- Drama
- United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Drama
- Man-woman relationships -- California -- Los Angeles -- Drama
- Italian Americans + Cultural assimilation -- Drama
- Romance -- Feature
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Melodrama
- Feature films
- Melodramas (Drama)
- Melodrama, American
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- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
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- Cruise/Wagner Productions (Firm)
- Grosch, Andreas
- Selvan, David, (Producer)
- Lambert, Robert K.
- Farrell, Colin, 1976-
- Paramount Pictures Corporation
- VIP 3 Medienfonds
- McCord, Jonas
- Cruise, Tom, 1962-
- Sutherland, Donald, 1935-
- Roberts, Chris, 1968-
- Gassner, Dennis
- Warner Home Video (Firm)
- Capitol Films
- Roemmich, Mark
- Fante, John, 1909-1983
- Menzel, Idina
- Wolsky, Albert
- Paramount Classics (Firm)
- Kirk, Justin
- Wagner, Paula, 1946-
- Pereira, Heitor
- Deschanel, Caleb, 1944-
- Schmid, Andreas, (Producer)
- Granger, Don, (Producer)
- Morris, Redmond
- Djawadi, Ramin
- Hayek, Salma, 1966-
- Ascendant Pictures (Firm)
- Atkins, Eileen, 1934-
- Towne, Robert
- Genre6
- Subject11
- Melodrama -- Feature
- Mexican American women + Cultural assimilation -- Drama
- United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Drama
- Man-woman relationships -- California -- Los Angeles -- Drama
- Italian Americans + Cultural assimilation -- Drama
- Romance -- Feature
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Melodrama
- Feature films
- Melodramas (Drama)
- Melodrama, American
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