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The Passion of Ayn Rand (1999)

Release Date	:	January 22, 1999
Rating	:	Not Rated
Duration	:	1 hr. 42 min.
Genre	:	Drama

Overwiew :Ayn Rand is critically regarded as a highly unique writer and thinker, the creator of controversial works like The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Her clarion call for individual freedom and societal revolution has attracted a devoted following of a near-worshipful nature. As fascinating an artist as she is, however, what makes this intelligent and dramatic study work on so many levels certainly begins with her portrayal by the extraordinary Helen Mirren. So completely does Mirren infuse this performance with her own marvelous energy and eccentricity that it's impossible to conceive of another actress playing Rand. Director Christopher Menaul makes this period piece ring with contemporary issues as he dramatizes this literary icon's life. The film begins at the end of the 1940s just as Rand's world is being transformed by fame. The Fountainhead has just been acclaimed, and an admiring student and his girlfriend, Nathaniel Blumenthal and Barbara Brandon (Eric Stoltz and Julie Delpy), pay a visit that begins a lifelong relationship destined to alter all of their lives. Peter Fonda, in a marvelously different role as Rand's mate, the loyal, supportive, yet subordinate, Frank O'Conner, rounds out an exceptional cast that carries this biographical tale well beyond the limits of the customary psychodrama. With a great sense of creative detail and flair, The Passion of Ayn Rand is a terrifically realized drama that displays the passions of art and filmmaking with rare quality.

Starring : Eric Stoltz, Helen Mirren, Julie Delpy, Peter Fonda

Directors : Christopher Menaul

Producers : Linda Curran, Peter Crane

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www.cinescene.com - : The Passion of Ayn Rand was worth waiting for. Of course I would have preferred a big-budget musical, starring Barbra Streisand (Anthony Hopkins as Lenin? Keanu Reeves as William F. Buckley, Jr.? Leonardo DiCaprio as the young Alan Greenspan?). I guess part of me had also hoped for some extravaganza of overacting and bad taste. What I got instead was a surprisingly good movie. The screenplay seemed pretty close to Barbara Branden's book, and the acting, I thought, was quite good. I don't think it's any particular trick for an actress to portray Ayn Rand (subtlety would be wasted) but Helen Mirren got some playfulness in, when needed, and was appropriately dominatrix-like in the big rage scenes without going over the top. I thought Julie Delpy was particularly good as Barbara - played as a ''nice girl'' in over her head morally and emotionally - and I'm glad the screenplay made the movie, in essence, her story. Peter Fonda played Rand's doormat husband, Frank O'Connor, with nuance and dignity. more...

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