Tune in Tomorrow ( Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter ) ( Tune in Tomorrow... )

Tune in Tomorrow (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
Alternate Title: Tune in Tomorrow...
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Subtitles )
Polish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Swedish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
103 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1990 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Jon Amiel

Written By:
Mario Vargas Llosa
William Boyd

Actors:
Barbara Hershey ..... Aunt Julia
Keanu Reeves ..... Martin Loader
Peter Falk ..... Pedro Carmichael
Bill McCutcheon ..... Puddler
Patricia Clarkson ..... Aunt Olga
Richard Portnow ..... Uncle Luke
Jerome Dempsey ..... Sam & Sid
Richard B. Shull ..... Leonard Pando
Paul Austin ..... Donald Loader
Joel Fabiani ..... Ted Orson
Crystal Field ..... Josephine Sanders
Jayne Haynes ..... Aunt Hortensia
Mary Joy ..... Frances Loader
Rob Kramer ..... Jamie
Anna Levine ..... Faith Hope

Synopsis:

Quirky romantic comedy based on Mario Vargas Llosa's novel 'Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter' and transposed to New Orleans. Set in the 1950s, the film stars Keanu Reeves as Martin Loader, a young newswriter for a struggling local radio station which, in an attempt to boost its ratings, has just taken on an eccentric new scriptwriter, Pedro Carmichael (Peter Falk), to write a daily soap opera. Simultaneously, Martin's aunt Julia, not related to him by blood, returns home after two divorces and many years away, and Martin finds himself falling in love with her. When Pedro finds out about their blossoming romance, he starts using it as creative fodder for his drama series - and it isn't long before Julia and Martin are hearing every detail of their 'fictionalised' affair broadcast to the entire region.

Tune in Tomorrow is based on Mario Vargas Llosa's novel, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter. In New Orleans, circa 1951, a news writer for a local radio station, Martin Loader (Keanu Reeves), meets and falls in love with his aunt Julia (Barbara Hershey), a divorced woman who is looking for a new husband. Meanwhile, new-in-town eccentric radio-soap-opera writer, Pedro Carmichael (Peter Falk) has been hired to help boost the station's bad ratings. Pedro begins manipulating Martin and Julia's affair and using it as the basis for his radio show. Director Jon Amiel uses the same story-within-a-story construction from The Singing Detective, the miniseries that he directed for British television.

Martin works at the local radio station, which just hired a new scriptwriter with a reputation for great drama, Pedro Carmichael. Martin's aunt Julia, not related by blood, returns home after many years away and Martin falls for her. Once Pedro finds out about this romance, he starts incorporating details of it into the script of his daily drama series. Soon, Martin and Julia are not only hearing about their fictional selves over the radio, but about what they are going to do next.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 19 December, 2011.