The Designated Mourner
Updated June 26, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
| Director: | David Hare |
| Writer: | Wallace Shawn |
| Director of Photography: | Oliver Stapleton |
| Editor: | George Akers |
| Music: | Richard Hartley |
| Production Designer: | Bob Crowley |
| Producers: | Donna Grey and David Hare |
| First Look Pictures; R; 95 minutes | |
| Release: | 5/97 |
| Cast: | Mike Nichols, Miranda Richardson and David de Keyser |
| Based on the play by Wallace Shawn |
The Designated Mourner comes close to matching the intelligence and wit of My Dinner With André — no easy feat in an era when film audiences crave action and don't have the patience to absorb high-minded dialogue. Through Jack (Nichols), Jack's wife (Richardson) and Jack's father-in-law (de Keyser), Shawn laments the disintegration of high culture. As a newly installed repressive regime violently bears down on the unnamed country's intelligentsia, Jack, a second-rate intellectual, grapples with joining his highbrow wife and father-in-law or slumming it in the totalitarian society the government seeks to create.
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