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Opening Night
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Actress Myrtle Gordon is a functioning alcoholic who is a few days from the opening night of her latest play, concerning a woman distraught about aging. One night a car kills one of Myrtle's fans who is chasing her limousine in an attempt to get the star's attention. Myrtle internalizes the accident and goes on a spiritual quest, but fails to finds the answers she is after. As opening night inches closer and closer, fragile Myrtle must find a way to make the show go on.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to psychologically raw backstage dramas about unstable performers, blurred reality, and the terror of confronting obsolescence.
- Tone
- melancholic, eerie, cerebral
- Payoff
- catharsis, reflection
- Pacing
- slow-burn
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- aging, artistic identity, grief, obsession, performance
- Setting
- late twentieth century, backstage corridors and urban theaters
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