North (film)
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| Directed by | Rob Reiner |
| Produced by | Rob Reiner Alan Zweibel |
| Written by | Alain Zweibel Andrew Scheinman |
| Starring | Elijah Wood Bruce Willis Jason Alexander Julia Louis-Dreyfus Dan Aykroyd |
| Music by | Marc Shaiman |
| Cinematography | Adam Greenberg |
| Editing by | Robert Leighton |
| Distributed by | Castle Rock Entertainment |
| Release date(s) | September 19, 1995 (USA release) |
| Running time | 87 min. |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $40,000,000 US (est.) |
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North is a 1994 motion picture directed by Rob Reiner, and starring a formidable cast of Elijah Wood, Bruce Willis, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Dan Aykroyd and Reba McEntire. The story is based on the novel North by Alan Zweibel, who also wrote the screenplay and has a minor role in the film.
Wood portrays a child who tires of his parents, legally emancipates himself from them, and wanders around the world seeking a new family.
North received generally negative reviews, and flopped at the box office, earning about US$7 million for an estimated budget of US$40 million [1]; the film was a multiple nominee at the 1994 Golden Raspberry Awards.
Film critic Roger Ebert seemed especially baffled by North, noting that Wood and especially Reiner had both previously made much better films. Ebert awarded North a rare "zero-stars" rating, and even ten years later it remains on his list of most hated films. His review included the now-famous statement: ""I hated this movie. Hated hated hated hated hated this movie. Hated it. Hated every simpering stupid vacant audience-insulting moment of it. Hated the sensibility that thought anyone would like it. Hated the implied insult to the audience by its belief that anyone would be entertained by it." An abridged version of the review became the title of a 2000 compilation of some of Ebert's negative reviews.
[edit] Bibliography
Ebert, Roger. Review of North. July 22, 1994. Rpt. in I Hated, Hated, Hated this Movie, 261-262. Kansas City: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2000.
[edit] External links
- North at the Internet Movie Database
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