Jonathan Demme Turns the Kurt Vonnegut Story, “Who Am I This Time?,” Right into a TV Film, with Susan Sarandon & Christopher Walken in Starring Roles (1982)

Again in 1982, the PBS American Playhouse collection aired Jonathan Demme’s made-for-TV movie primarily based on the Kurt Vonnegut story, “Who Am I This Time?” Now, because of the YouTube channel Rooster Soup for the Soul TV, you possibly can watch the rarely-seen movie on-line. The channel writes:

Combine collectively a small city group theatre’s shy main man and the beautiful phone employee who strikes into city and you’ve got an ideal recipe for a pleasant romantic comedy. Academy Award-winners Susan Sarandon and Christopher Walken star because the couple who uncover that affairs of the center on the stage could also be a bit simpler than persevering with the romance off the stage. Director Jonathan Demme, an Academy Award-winner, deftly weaves this endearing story of affection in bloom from Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.’s story.

Whereas the video high quality is grainy, the film remains to be vital for serving as an early profession car for Sarandon, Walken and director Demme. This isn’t precisely ‘Earlier than They Have been Stars’ – in any case, by 1982, Walken had already gained an Oscar for “The Deer Hunter,”
Sarandon had already starred in “Rocky Horror” and been nominated for an Oscar for Atlantic Metropolis, and Demme, though nonetheless a decade away from his largest work, had already directed the acclaimed “Melvin & Howard.”

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