Search - Waiting for the Moon on DVD

MPAA Rating: PG Content Advisory: Adult Situations, Adult Language Movie Release: 1987 DVD Release: 04/25/2006 Format: DVD - Color Audio Tracks: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 41 mins Studio: Facets Members Wishing: 4 Genres: Drama, Period Film, Biopic [feature], Gay & Lesbian Films

Well into the 1930s, there was an expatriate community of Americans who lived in Paris or the French countryside, and who eventually became influential artists and writers. These included the painter Edward Hopper, the writer Ernest Hemingway, and the musician Virgil Thomson. Writer and poet Gertrude Stein and her lifelong companion Alice B. Toklas (perhaps best known for her marijuana recipes) were the patrons of these and other artists, including Guillaume Apollinaire. In this PBS American Playhouse movie, the two are seen in the mid-1930s, and the unflinching loyalty and love that Toklas (Linda Hunt) offered to her irascible companion Stein (Linda Bassett) is the subject of this moving, extremely erudite drama. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

Linda Hunt - Alice B. Toklas
Linda Bassett - Gertrude Stein
Andrew McCarthy - Henry Hopper
Bernadette Lafont - Fernande Olivier
Bruce McGill - Ernest Hemingway