Curtains (1983)

Curtains (1983)

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(Foreign Titles)

Tagline(s):	Behind Every Curtain, Someone Is Watching...Something Is Waiting
	The Ultimate Nightmare!
	The Stage is Set for the Final Act
	Six beautiful girls, trying to get ahead... when the curtains fall, five will be dead.

Nomination Year: 2014

SYNOPSIS: A once-famous actress past her prime concocts a plan with her sleazy agent to catapult her back into the limelight: In order to be a shoe-in for landing the part of an insane person in Hollywood’s hottest director’s latest film, she feigns a nervous breakdown and purposely commits herself. The plan was for her to study and model the behavior of real mentally ill patients close-up for a week or two, then get released by telling the sanitarium staff, “Ha! It was all an act! My bad!” with her agent to corroborate. The agent, though, has other plans…he leaves her there to rot. Then she really does go crazy and vows to eliminate him and all those who stand in her way of getting that part.

Bryan Cassidy

Smithee Award Nominations

Inane Dialogue
Extreme Behavior "I must say I expected more extreme behavior..." Two seconds later -- she attacks!

Directors

Director	Claim to Fame
Richard Ciupka	Curtains was the first of his 13 directorial projects. He did it under the alias "Jonathan Stryker," which was not coincidentally the name of the main character.

Cast

Actor	Character	Claim to Fame
John Vernon	Jonathan Stryker	You've seen him. Usually in the role of rod-up-butt beaurocratic heavies, his first role was in 1956's 1984 as Big Brother. He was also the mayor in Dirty Harry and the Dean in Animal House. See, I told you you've seen him.
Samantha Eggar	Samantha Sherwood	Elegant and pretty English actress and scream queen. Starred in The Collector. Played Emma in 1967's Doctor Dolittle and voiced Hera in Disney's Hercules.
Linda Thorson	Brooke Parsons	Replaced Diana Rigg on "The Avengers" as Tara King.
Anne Ditchburn	Laurian Summers
Lynne Griffin	Patti O'Connor	Got a lot of weird little parts. Was Mrs. Claus in the Santa Baby franchise.
Sandee Currie	Tara DeMillo	In a few B-movies. Sometimes as "Sandra Warren."
Maury Chaykin	Monty	Hefty award-winning Canadian-American actor who's been in LOTS, including WarGames, My Cousin Vinny, Dances with Wolves, Mousehunt... What's he doing here??


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