Love and Death on Long Island
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| Love and Death on Long Island | |
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| Directed by | Richard Kwietniowski |
| Written by | Gilbert Adair Richard Kwietniowski |
| Starring | Jason Priestley John Hurt Fiona Loewi |
| Release date(s) | 1997 |
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Love and Death on Long Island is a cult novella written by Gilbert Adair and first published in 1990, it was subsequently adapted to make the 1997 movie directed by Richard Kwietniowski, starring Jason Priestley, John Hurt, Fiona Loewi, Sheila Hancock and Ann Reid. It has latterly been adapted as Stage play with music by Kate Young, book and libretto by Gilbert Adair himself, directed by Edward Williams with Anna Carteret, Gordon Fraser (Actor) and Richard O'Callaghan in pre-production for presention in London's West End 2008.
Giles De'ath (Hurt) is an academic who, while attempting to see an E.M. Forster movie, inadvertently sees the teen flick Hotpants College II starring Ronnie Bostock (Priestley). Ronnie captures Giles' fancy and De'ath sets out to meet him.
The storyline of Obsession somewhat resembles that of the movie Death in Venice, which was adapted from a short story by German author Thomas Mann and is accompanied by a musical score by Richard Grassby-Lewis.
Note the pun in the title: Death/De'Ath ...
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