Andrey KONCHALOVSKY
Андрей КОНЧАЛОВСКИЙ
Andreï KONTCHALOVSKI
USA, 1989, 100mn 
Colour, fiction
Homer and Eddie
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Гомер и Эдди

 

 Voyageurs sans permis

 Gomer i Eddi

 
Directed by : Andrey KONCHALOVSKY (Андрей КОНЧАЛОВСКИЙ)
 
Cast
James BELUSHI (Джеймс БЕЛУШИ) ...Homer Lanza
Whoopi GOLDBERG (Вупи ГОЛДБЕРГ) ...Eddie Cervi
 
Music : Eduard ARTEMIEV (Эдуард АРТЕМЬЕВ)
Other persons :
Scénario : Patrick Cirillo
Photographie : Lajos Koltai
 
Sites : Allociné, IMDb

Plot synopsis
Director Andrei Konchalovsky comes a cropper with this mawkish road movie starring Whoopi Goldberg and James Belushi. Goldberg plays Edwina, an escaped mental patient with a brain tumor and only a month to live. Belushi is Homer, a retarded man abandoned by his parents when he was a child after a smack with a baseball bat rendered him an idiot. The two team-up when Homer takes off to Oregon to visit his parents and catch up on old times. Edwina agrees to drive him there to recover the $87 that Homer has stolen from her. As they drive down the American roadways, they bond, and Edwina is granted the shining love of Homer as she lapses into a coma.
Paul Brenner, www.allmovie.com
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Andrey Konchalovsky retrospective at the Cinémathèque française, Paris (France), 2020
- Festival Andrey Konchalovsky, Moscow (Russia), 2012