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Garbo Talks

Country: USA, Language: English, 103 mins

  • Director: Sidney Lumet
  • Writer: Larry Grusin
  • Producer: Burtt Harris; Elliott Kastner

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Estelle is a one-person protest army: she goes to jail over grocery prices, shames construction workers for catcalls to passing women, and won't cross a picket line for her son's wedding. She also loves Garbo films: when she learns she has a brain tumor and six months to live, she decides she must meet Garbo. Her dutiful son Gilbert, a Manhattan accountant named for Garbo's co-star, hires a paparazzo to show him Garbo's flat, stakes it out, gets a job delivering food there, seeks her on Fire Island, and tracks her to a Sixth Avenue flea market. As his obsession distances him from his wife, he's drawn to a struggling actress he meets at work. Can he find Garbo; if so, will she talk?


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Cast & Characters

Anne Bancroft as Estelle Rolfe;
Ron Silver as Gilbert Rolfe;
Carrie Fisher as Lisa Rolfe;
Catherine Hicks as Jane Mortimer;
Steven Hill as Walter Rolfe;
Howard Da Silva as Angelo Dokakis;
Dorothy Loudon as Sonya Apollinar;
Harvey Fierstein as Bernie Whitlock;
Hermione Gingold as Elizabeth Rennick;
Richard B. Shull as Shepard Plotkin;
Michael Lombard as Mr. Morganelli;
Ed Crowley as Mr. Goldhammer;
Alice Spivak as Claire Rolfe;
Maurice Sterman as Dr. Cohen;
Antonia Rey as Puerto Rican Nurse