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The Shadow Box (1980)
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Audio: English MP3 2.0 @ 128 Kbps | Subs: None
Genre: Drama | USA

The play takes place over twenty-four hours, in three separate vacation cabins on the grounds of a large hospital, in the United States. Within the three cabins are three patients: Joe, Brian and Felicity, who are to live with their respective families as they have reached the end of their treatment. They have agreed to be part of a psychological scheme where they live within the hospital grounds and have interviews with a psychiatrist.

IMDB 5.5/10 from 122 users

Director: Paul Newman
Writer: Michael Cristofer (play), Michael Cristofer (screenplay)
Actors: Joanne Woodward, Christopher Plummer, Valerie Harper, James Broderick
Rated: N/A
Runtime: 103 min

The Shadow Box is a play written by actor Michael Cristofer. The play made its Broadway debut on March 31, 1977. The original cast included Simon Oakland as Joe, Laurence Luckinbill as Brian, Mandy Patinkin as Mark, Geraldine Fitzgerald as Felicity, and Vincent Spano as Steve (originally credited as Vincent Stewart). It is the winner of the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play.

REVIEWS
"Paul Newman's directional central piece (his fourth, after almost eight years of silence) is, by far, the best American film of the decade. Not only for its very controlled, moving, unusual tone and rhythm, nor for the exceptional actors and actresses, but mainly for the treatment of such a theme like this, the easiest to fall into a stupid tear jerker. "The shadow box" is like Naruse Mikio's "Midareru", the definitive proof that a great director (and Paul Newman is one of the best of his time) can make wonders with any argument, even with the most boring ones, the less "important", even if the plot is tedious and the ending predictable. A gem"

TRIVA
• Advertised as "Paul Newman's First Film for Television," Shadow Box was more specifically the first TV movie to be directed by Newman.
• Original Broadway production by Lester Osterman, Ken Marsolais, Allan Francis and Leonard Soloway in association with The Mark Taper Forum/Long Wharf Theatre.
• The Broadway production of "The Shadow Box" by Michael Cristofer opened at the Morosco Theater in New York on March 31, 1977, ran for 315 performances and won the 1977 Tony Award for Best Play. Michael Cristofer also wrote the screenplay for the movie version.
• Cristofer adapted the play for a television movie in 1980, directed by Paul Newman. It went on to win a Golden Globe and nominations for three Emmy Awards.

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