Maxie ( Free Spirit )

Maxie (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Free Spirit
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Fantasporto Awards
Golden Globes
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
98 min

Special Features:
Fullscreen
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1985 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Paul Aaron

Written By:
Jack Finney
Patricia Resnick

Actors:
Glenn Close ..... Jan / Maxie
Mandy Patinkin ..... Nick
Ruth Gordon ..... Mrs. Lavin
Barnard Hughes ..... Bishop Campbell
Valerie Curtin ..... Miss Sheffer
Googy Gress ..... Father Jerome
Michael Ensign ..... Cleopatra Director
Michael Laskin ..... Commercial Director
Lou Cutell ..... Art Isenberg
Nelson Welch ..... Bartender
Leeza Gibbons ..... E.T. Reporter
Evan White ..... Channel 4 Announcer
Harry Wong ..... Mr. Chu
Charles Douglas Laird ..... Policeman
David Sosna ..... Assistant Director

Synopsis:

In this comedy, an ordinary woman finds herself sharing both her home and her body with a ghost who has a pronounced wild streak. Jan (Glenn Close) and Nick (Mandy Patinkin) are a couple moving into an apartment in an old Victorian house in San Francisco. Jan is a straight-laced secretary working for a Catholic bishop, while Nick deals in used books. While stripping some old wallpaper in their new home, they discover a message written on the wall, which their flaky landlady Mrs. Lavin (Ruth Gordon) informs them was written by Maxie, a high-spirited flapper who had a career in silent films before dying in a car wreck on her way to audition for D.W. Griffith. Out of curiosity, Jan and Nick rent a video of one of Maxie's films to see her in action, but it just so happens that Maxie's ghost still lives in the house -- and is looking for a human host. Maxie's spirit enters Jan's body and makes her presence known at the most inconvenient times; suddenly mild mannered Jan is kicking up her heels, swilling gin, starting arguements, and acting like a flaming youth straight out of the 1920s. Nick finds Maxie a good bit more exciting than Jan and even tries to launch Maxie back into a movie career by having her audition for a remake of Cleopatra opposite Harry Hamlin; Jan, however, just wants to have her body to herself again. Maxie proved to be one of the last screen appearances for veteran actress Ruth Gordon, who died several weeks before the film was released.

A successful, married woman becomes possessed with the spirit of a 'Roaring 20s' flapper, much to her husband's delight.

When Nick and Jan move into their new apartment in San Francisco, the batty landlady upstairs tells them about a girl who used to live there in the 20's: a brash young party girl named Maxie, who died in a car crash the morning before her big audition for a Hollywood studio. The trouble is, Maxie, or rather her ghost, hasn't left the house. Worse, she can take over Jan's body. And the only way she's going to leave is if she gets that audition.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 14 May, 2009.

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