Love and Death on Long Island

6.3(56)19981h 33m

DramaRomance

Curmudgeonly author Giles De'Ath, a widower with a marked distaste for modern popular culture, attempts to buy a ticket for a film adaptation of an E.M. Forster novel, but instead finds himself watching a tacky teen sex comedy. Yet when the beautiful Ronnie Bostock appears on the movie screen, Giles finds himself caught in a whirlwind of unanswered questions about both his own sexuality and his place in late 20th-century society.

Director

Richard Kwietniowski

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Cast

John Hurt

Giles De'Ath

Jason Priestley

Ronnie Bostock

Fiona Loewi

Audrey

Sheila Hancock

Mrs. Barker

Harvey Atkin

Lou

Maury Chaykin

Irving Buckmuller

Gawn Grainger

Henry

Elizabeth Quinn

Mrs. Reed

Linda Busby

Mrs. Abbott

Bill Leadbitter

Eldridge

Anne Reid

Maureen

Danny Webb

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1 review

Geronimo1967

6mo ago

7.0

“Giles De’Ath” (John Hurt) is a rather reclusive writer who has largely shunned publicity until he goes to the cinema and inadvertently finds himself watching a piece of throwaway teen nonsense starring heartthrob “Ronnie” (Jason Priestly). For reasons that he can’t immediately explain this recently widowed gent finds himself enthralled by this young man and has soon bought himself a VCR (without ...