The House of Blue Leaves (1987)

Movie
The House of Blue Leaves
NR 1 hr 53 minMay 25th, 1987
On the day in 1965 that the Pope visits New York and masses of people line the streets in adulation Artie a zookeeper living in Sunnyside Queens thinks its time for his life to be blessed too He desperately wants to escape his lower middleclass existence and become a popular singer and songwriter but his life is complicated by an ambitious mistress a crazy wife and a bombmaking son
StarringSwoosie KurtzJohn MahoneyChristine Baranski
DirectorKirk Browning
WriterJohn Guare

Movie Details

Original Language:English
Executive Producers:Michael Brandman, Gregory Mosher, Bernard Gersten
Production Companies:American Playhouse Brandman Productions