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The Celluloid Closet

CGiii Rating

Paul Rudd as a gay who commits suicide.
Gay interest

Public Rating

Betsy (The)

Country: USA, Language: English, 125 mins

The Celluloid Closet | Minor Interest | Drama | 1978
  • Director: Daniel Petrie
  • Writer: William Bast; Walter Bernstein
  • Producer: Jack Grossberg; Robert R. Weston

CGiii Comment

There's a car, a gay son and copious amounts of ham acting - especially from Olivier.

2 hours wasted.

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The(ir) Blurb...

The patriarch of a family-owned corporation hires a young race car driver to help him design a fuel efficient car in secrecy. They face resistance from the president of the company (the patriarch's grandson), who wishes to eliminate the motor car division because of bad blood between himself and his grandfather. During flashbacks, a parallel set of problems is revealed in the family's past, problems that persist into the present, and the race car driver gets deeper into the web of deception and corporate intrigue.

Cast & Characters

Laurence Olivier as Loren Hardeman;
Robert Duvall as Loren Hardeman III;
Katharine Ross as Sally Hardeman;
Tommy Lee Jones as Angelo Perino;
Jane Alexander as Alicia Hardeman;
Lesley-Anne Down as Lady Bobby Ayres;
Joseph Wiseman as Jake Weinstein;
Kathleen Beller as Betsy;
Edward Herrmann as Dan Weyman;
Paul Rudd as Loren Hardeman Jr.;
Roy Poole as John Duncan;
Richard Venture as Mark Sampson;
Titos Vandis as Angelo Luigi Perino;
Clifford David as Joe Warren;
Inga Swenson as Mrs. Craddock

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077228