All Night Long is a 1981 comedy movie starring Barbra Streisand, Gene Hackman, Diane Ladd, Dennis Quaid, Kevin Dobson, and William Daniels, and directed by Jean-Claude Tramont.
Hackman, as a man nearing middle age, is demoted after a temper tantrum and reduced to working as the manager of an all-night pharmacy/convenience store. The film shows the effects this has on his his wife (Ladd), adult son (Quaid), and on a newfound relationship with his ...
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All Night Long is a 1981 comedy movie starring Barbra Streisand, Gene Hackman, Diane Ladd, Dennis Quaid, Kevin Dobson, and William Daniels, and directed by Jean-Claude Tramont.
Hackman, as a man nearing middle age, is demoted after a temper tantrum and reduced to working as the manager of an all-night pharmacy/convenience store. The film shows the effects this has on his his wife (Ladd), adult son (Quaid), and on a newfound relationship with his sister-in-law (Streisand), an untalented singer-songwriter married to a volatile firefighter (Dobson).
The film was originally planned as a low-budget release, with Hackman and Lisa Eichhorn. Streisand's then-agent, Sue Mengers, who was in a relationship with the film's director, suggested Barbra for the part instead of Eichhorn. Several biographies suggest that because of the film's subsequent failure at the box office, Streisand fired Mengers.
Streisand was nominated for a 1981 Golden Raspberry Award for her performance. The film received...
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