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Director:
Writers:
Nicholas Klein (story) &
Wim Wenders (story) ...
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Release Date:
12 September 1997 (USA) more
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Nothing Lasts Forever
Plot:
Mike Max is a Hollywood producer who became powerful and rich thanks to brutal and bloody action films... more | add synopsis
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1 win & 4 nominations more
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A game for pseudo-intellectuals - and it's terrible! more (65 total)

Cast

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Traci Lind ... Cat
Rosalind Chao ... Claire

Bill Pullman ... Mike Max

Andie MacDowell ... Page
K. Todd Freeman ... Six O One

Gabriel Byrne ... Ray Bering

Chris Douridas ... Technician
Pruitt Taylor Vince ... Frank Cray
John Diehl ... Lowell Lewis

Soledad St. Hilaire ... Anita

Nicole Ari Parker ... Ade (as Nicole Parker)
Daniel Benzali ... Brice Phelps
Samuel Fuller ... Louis Bering (as Sam Fuller)

Marshall Bell ... Sheriff Call

Frederic Forrest ... Ranger MacDermot
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Also Known As:
Am Ende der Gewalt (Germany) (informal literal title)
Am.Ende.der.Gew@lt. (Germany)
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Rated R for language.
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122 min
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There is a scene in the film where we see a live recreation of the painting "Nighthawks" by Edward Hopper. more
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Revealing mistakes: When Page is holding Mike at gunpoint she holds the gun upward with the bottom of the handle facing outward and the ammo clip is clearly missing. Yet when Mike exits through the patio door she fires the gun and shatters the glass. more
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Ray Bering: I'm a computer scientist. This is Hollywood. What's not strange? more
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Referenced in Edward Hopper (2007) (V) more
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Bailare (El Merecumbe) more

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5 out of 7 people found the following review useful.
A game for pseudo-intellectuals - and it's terrible!, 9 June 2007
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Author: Martin Bradley (MOscarbradley@aol.com) from Derry, Ireland

A movie about the business of making movies in all its vacuity and of recording things on camera. This is Wim Wenders' "Le Mepris" and his "Rear Window", (it's all about looking and not about seeing), and it's full of movie references. Sometimes they are about the only thing to distract you from all the ennui and the lack of anything remotely interesting happening up on the screen. In place of believable characters and a decent script or lines you might want to listen to Wenders fills his screen with images that are supposed to engage us on a movie-buff level. The film's like a game pseudo-intellectuals play; you fill in the blanks and if you can guess the better film the blanks come from, all the better, you get brownie points. In other words, this is pretty terrible, the kind of unmitigated disaster only a great director could make when he starts believing his own hype. I mean, Wenders can't lay the blame entirely on the cack-handed script; after all, he co-wrote the original story with script writer Nicholas Klein. I was going to say it goes deeper than that, (or aspires to), but deep isn't really a word you want to use when reviewing this pile of horse dung. OK, it looks terrific; what more can I say? Oh, except he talked the legendary Samuel Fuller into appearing in it and he's terrible, too.

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