Click here to copy URL

Vanya on 42nd Street

1994

Louis Malle

Julianne Moore, George Gaynes, Brooke Smith, Wallace Shawn ...

7.1

2,356

Drama David Mamet wrote the screenplay for this staging of Andre Gregory's play, "Vanya," itself based on Chekhov's masterpiece, "Uncle Vanya." A group of actors enter a theatre on New York's 42nd Street and run through a full-length rehearsal of "Vanya" --no costumes, no sets and no 19th-century pretensions. This stirring 1994 work by Louis Malle brought the legendary French filmmaker into another collaboration with actors-writers-directors ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"A film which reduces Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" to its bare elements: loneliness, wasted lives, romantic hope and despair. (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)"	POS

Return to movie

We encourage you to check the reviews' original sources. Intellectual property rights of these reviews belong to their authors and/or the correspondent media from which they have been extracted. If you'd like to help us to add more reviews to your favorite movies, just send us a message.