Love Streams (1984)

PG-1303/22/1984Drama2h 21m
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She loved too much. He didn't love anyone. One fine day, their paths met.

Overview

Two closely-bound, emotionally wounded siblings reunite after years apart.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Gena Rowlands

    Sarah Lawson

  2. Cast 1

    John Cassavetes

    Robert Harmon

  3. Cast 1

    Diahnne Abbott

    Susan

  4. Cast 1

    Seymour Cassel

    Jack Lawson

  5. Margaret Abbott

    Margarita

  6. Jakob Shaw

    Albie Swanson

  7. Cast 1

    Michele Conaway

    Agnes Swanson

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    Eddy Donno

    Stepfather (Swanson)

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    Joan Foley

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It was wonderful seeing John Cassavetes and wife Gena Rowlands play brother and sister, each with serious sanity issues, in 'Love Streams' (I had only previously seen them together in the stellar 'Opening Night', my favourite Cassavetes film), from a script he co-wrote with the author of the 1980 stage play, Ted Allan (Cassavetes' character, Robert Harmon, was originally played by Jon Voight on stage). While his earliest film, 'Shadows', is least pleasing to me simply because I don't feel his cast there was of the quality necessary to handle that large degree of spontaneity and improvisation, ...

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Original LanguageEnglish 

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