Modern Romance (film)
| Modern Romance | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Albert Brooks |
| Written by | Albert Brooks, Monica Mcgowan Johnson |
| Produced by | Andrew Scheinman, Martin Shafer |
| Starring | Albert Brooks, Kathryn Harrold, Bruno Kirby |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
Release dates | March 13, 1981 |
Running time | 93 minutes |
| Language | English |
Modern Romance is a 1981 film written and directed by Albert Brooks.
Cast
- Albert Brooks .... Robert Cole
- Kathryn Harrold .... Mary Harvard
- Bruno Kirby .... Jay
Robert Cole (Albert Brooks) is a Hollywood film editor right in the middle of cutting a new science fiction film with George Kennedy. His relationship with very patient bank executive Mary Harvard (Kathryn Harrold) is caught between undying devotion and endless agony. It's all because selfish Robert is a bit of a self-involved neurotic who can't quite decide if their relationship is meant to be, mainly because he's not sure if she's the one or there's someone else. So Robert breaks off their relationship only to find that modern romance isn't as easy as it seems, and the people you love might be the ones you constantly hurt the most.
Bruno Kirby co-stars as Jay, Robert's co-worker and confidant, and Brooks' brother Bob Einstein, best known as hapless daredevil Super Dave Osborne, plays a pushy salesman at Foot Locker. The family name is "Einstein", which explains why Albert changed his last name.
A third brother, Cliff, has a cameo in the scenes set in the recording studio. He plays the music mixer, the bald man sitting to the left of the head mixer, who gets up and goes to his car during the break.
David, the director of the film that Robert is editing, is played by real-life film director James L. Brooks - no relation to Albert. He would later return the favor by casting Albert in his Academy Award-nominated role of Aaron Altman in "Broadcast News".
According to Albert Brooks, Stanley Kubrick was a big fan of the film. He tells the story that Kubrick called him after viewing the film and asked "How did you make this movie? I've always wanted to make a movie about jealousy."[1]
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