Coast to Coast (2003 film)
- Richard Dreyfuss: Barnaby Pierce
- Judy Davis: Maxine Pierce
- Selma Blair: Stacey Pierce
- Maximilian Schell: Casimir
- Fred Ward: Hal Kressler
- Saul Rubinek: Gary Pereira
- John Salley: Clifford Wordsworth
- Paul Mazursky Stanly Tarto
- David Julian Hirsh: Benjamin Pierce
- Kate Lynch: Nessle Carroway
- Richard Fitzpatrick: Calvin Carroway
- Owen Rotharmel: Randolph Carroway
- Kathryn Winslow: Marsha Kapinski
- Catherine Disher: Paula Hobday
- Laura Catalano: Terri
- Nancy Sakovich: Anthea Tarlo
- Krista Sutton: Georgia
- Paul Essiembre
- Lindsay Leese
- Clare Coulter
- Les Porter
- Carolyn Goff
- Chris Gillett
- Angela Asher
- James Kee
- Catherine Burdon
- Richard Partington
- Dominic Fung
- Paula Garrido
Coast to Coast is a television film directed by Paul Mazursky from the year 2003. Frederic Raphael wrote the screenplay based on his novel of the same name.
Action
Barnaby and Maxine Pierce (played by Richard Dreyfuss and Judy Davis) are a long-standing couple in a relationship after both have already searched in extramarital affairs are lucky, apparently will walk to the end; Maxine is finally that demands a divorce and wants to sell the common house in Connecticut. The house is already advertised for sale as one decides to spend one last time together on vacation in Los Angeles, where the son of Benjamin (David Julian Hirsch) lives, who intends to marry just at that time.
The journey through the continent turns into a road movie of a special kind, since you also decides to acquaintances, friends and lovers from the past, who live along the way to visit, such as Maxine professor from university days ( Maximilian Schell), Barnaby old friend Stanley ( played by the director Mazursky ) and Stacey, Barnaby and Maxine's pregnant daughter ( Selma Blair). All these encounters lead the pair to new revelations of past events with consequences for the emotional life of the couple, the alternately repeatedly develops hatred and feelings of love; the audience remains so to fulminant end at the airport of Los Angeles in the dark as to whether the two pull together once again for a new start or not.
Reviews
- Jack Sommersby, eFilmCritic.com, praised the two main characters, but criticized the mediocre, very ordinary material with which they had to work.
Awards
- Richard Halsey in 2005 was nominated for the section of the American Cinema Editors.
Background
The film was shot in Toronto. The film was first released in 2003 in the UK. In the U.S., he was seen in April 2004 for the first time in Showtime.