Afterglow
Winner - Best Actress Julie Christie
Nick Nolte, Julie Christie, Lara Flynn Boyle and Trainspotting's Johnny Lee Miller star in director Alan Rudolph's wry romance about a handyman who wreak havoc and builds romance in two marriages.
Desperate to have a baby, Marianne hires Lucky Mann to remodel a nursery. There's just one problem: Marianne's not pregnant and her husband isn't interested in sex. So what's a handyman do?
Intimate, intelligent, reckless and romantic, "you'll delight in this one and you'll leave in an Afterglow of pleasure!" - Gene Shalit, Today, NBC-TV
Member Reviews
Boy this was boring! - BIKO
I have a lot of patience, but this really strained it.There was absolutely nothing to this movie but a chance for out-of-work actors to work. Who doesn't love Julie Christie? Looking great but doing nothing much here but looking great. Nick Nolte? Often interesting, cute, lost here. Nice to see Lara Flynn Boyle again but ( understandably ) too nervous. Are these real people? I hope not, at least in my life. The music was not bad, especially the fact French-Canadian music was used. Give this one a pass! Really!For Me It Seemed A Bit Too Pretentious. - Gregg
Set in Montreal, this is the story of two couples who inadvertently switch partners for a romantic interlude. The older couple are respectively a faded ‘B’ movie star (Julie Christie) and a handy man named Lucky (Nick Nolte) who have moved to Montreal to find their daughter who fled the family vowing never to return when she found out the Lucky was not her biological father at the same time he discovered this. The younger couple are respectively a cold calculating passionless young executive (Jonny Lee Miller) who seems to find only older women attractive and his neglected and confused young wife (Lara Flynn Boyle).
Good performances by both Christie and Nolte in a role which seems quite a departure from most of his work but this is not nearly enough to overshadow the seemingly very weak performance by Miller and the uneven performance from Boyle (though at least she had an excuse in the character). Not entirely sure where the story was going either and it seemed some of the scenes were either very poorly written or simply just not realized as they were intended.
The film was both written and directed by Alan Rudolph. I have read that Rudolph is considered a very polarizing film maker and that most will either love his films or hate them, for this film at least I would definately fall into the latter camp.
For her performance Julie Christie would receive an Oscar nomination.after glow - PowaPete
until the two of them get put with with a strange, Albee-like climax related to a lost daughter, Nolte and Christie basically appear here as agreeable, limber scenery in Alan rudolph's soggy valentine to love—and to Montreal, which has never looked more gorgeous than it does here as the background for all these not-quite horseplay. On video, the sheen of the city will no doubt diminish, but perhaps the TV is exactly the right medium for a project of such miniscule scope and direction. Afterglow made me crazy to see all of these actors' next projects, even as I grew wearily impatient for this one enterprise to conclude. Now when I hear the title, I think, "Oh, that was that long advertisement fo Christie's rueful smile and what Montreal looks like at dusk."
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Boy this was boring! - BIKO
I have a lot of patience, but this really strained it.There was absolutely nothing to this movie but a chance for out-of-work actors to work. Who doesn't love Julie Christie? Looking great but doing nothing much here but looking great. Nick Nolte? Often interesting, ...For Me It Seemed A Bit Too Pretentious. - Gregg
Set in Montreal, this is the story of two couples who inadvertently switch partners for a romantic interlude. The older couple are respectively a faded ‘B’ movie star (Julie Christie) and a handy man named Lucky (Nick Nolte) who have moved to Montreal to find ...after glow - PowaPete
until the two of them get put with with a strange, Albee-like climax related to a lost daughter, Nolte and Christie basically appear here as agreeable, limber scenery in Alan rudolph's soggy valentine to love—and to Montreal, which has never looked more gorgeous ...