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The Hotel New Hampshire, 1984

Starring: Jodie Foster, Rob Lowe

Directed by: Tony Richardson

Written by: John Irving

Language: English

Country: UK, Canada, USA

Runtime: 109 min

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Rating:5.8

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The mood of The Hotel New Hampshire is offbeat and humorous. The plot centers around an eccentric family, sibling relations, and family life. It features dark humor. The Hotel New Hampshire is a drama and comedy movie. In approach, it is realistic. It takes place, at least partly, in a hotel. The Hotel New Hampshire is set in New Hampshire, Austria, and New England. It happens in the 1980s. It is based on a book.

Summary of The Hotel New Hampshire

British director Tony Richardson takes on John Irving's picaresque black comedy about an eccentric and unusually peripatetic family in a film starring Rob Lowe as John Berry, the family's oldest son. John's father, Win (Beau Bridges), is obsessed with hotels, so he buys a run-down seminary in New England, transforming it into the Hotel New Hampshire. The extended family includes the profanity-spouting Franny (Jodie Foster); Lily (Jennifer Dundas); a dwarf, Frank (Paul McCrane), who is gay; John, who is strongly attracted to his sister; Egg (Seth Green), the youngest boy; and Iowa Bob (Wilford Brimley), Win's father. After a number of tragic incidents, including the gang rape of Franny, are seen through the special lenses of black comedy, the family is invited to take over another hotel in Vienna, courtesy of their friend Freud (Wallace Shawn). On arrival, they find that the upper floors of the hotel are dedicated to prostitution and the bottom floors are occupied by terrorists. They also meet Freud's companion, Susie the Bear (Nastassia Kinski), a woman so obsessed with her unattractiveness that she spends all her time in a bear suit. Richardson elicits fine performances from his talented cast in this wild ride through the mind of John Irving.