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Very Serious Person (A)
- Director: Charles Busch
- Writer: Charles Busch; Carl Andress
- Producer: Peter Bobrow; Richard Guay
CGiii Comment
With an exceptional supporting cast, this little comedy manages to both hit and miss the mark in equal measures.
Busch is so deadpan and stiff that he is in danger of being wooden - making the character difficult to believe, the accent lending to the European notion of eccentricity is banal.
It is all a little self-indulgent...but, it is watchable - with a very large pinch of salt.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Jan, an itinerant male nurse from Denmark, takes a new job with Mrs. A, a terminally ill Manhattan woman raising her parentless thirteen-year-old grandson, Gil. Spending the summer by the shore, the emotionally reserved Jan finds himself oddly cast as a mentor to Gil in having to prepare the sensitive boy for life with his cousins in Florida after his grandmother's death. A deep friendship grows between these two solitary people. By the end of the summer, Gil has developed a new maturity and independence, while the enigmatic Jan has revealed his own vulnerability.
Cast & Characters
P.J. Verhoest as Gil;
Dana Ivey as Betty;
Polly Bergen as Mrs. A;
Carmen Pelaez as Terry;
Charles Busch as Jan;
Becky London as Mrs. Kupchunas;
Marvin Einhorn as Mr. Horowitz;
Jonathan Ospa as Travis;
Ben Roberts as Waiter;
Heather Schacht as Little Girl;
Julie Halston as Glenda;
Carl Andress as Lee;
Simon Fortin as Gilles;
Judith Hawking as Maude;
Kevin Scullin as Paramedic