White Nights (film)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

White Nights
Image:White nights ver1.jpg Promotional movie poster for the film
Directed by	Taylor Hackford
Produced by	William S. Gilmore Taylor Hackford
Written by	James Goldman (story) James Goldman & Eric Hughes (screenplay)
Starring	Mikhail Baryshnikov Gregory Hines Jerzy Skolimowski Helen Mirren Geraldine Page Isabella Rossellini John Glover William Hootkins
Music by	Michel Colombier
Cinematography	David Watkin
Editing by	Frederic Steinkamp William Steinkamp
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	November 22, 1985 (USA)
Running time	136 min.
Language	English
Budget	Unknown
IMDb profile

This article is about a 1985 movie. For other uses, see White nights (disambiguation).

White Nights is a 1985 movie starring Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, Jerzy Skolimowski, Helen Mirren, and Isabella Rossellini.

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Hines plays an American tap dancer, who has defected to, and lives in, the Soviet Union, and who encounters and befriends a Soviet ballet dancer who had defected to the West. Isabella Rossellini plays Hines wife and Helen Mirren is an old flame of Baryshnikov, a former ballerina who never left.

Hines and Baryshnikov perform a cinematic pas de deux after the ballet dancer's plane makes a forced landing in Siberia and he is recognized. The ballet dancer and the tap dancer are brought to Leningrad where the Soviets seek to exploit the ballet dancer's talents. After an initial period of racial and artistic friction, the two dancers (and defectors in opposite directions) become fast friends and Hines helps arrange an escape. Baryshnikov's second defection at the end of the film presages the later fall of the Soviet Union, similar to Rocky IV. The film is notable not only for the dancing of Hines and Baryshnikov, but also for the Academy Award winning song "Say You, Say Me" by Lionel Richie.

[edit] External link

White Nights at the Internet Movie Database

Image:Drama-film-stub-icon.png

This 1980s drama film-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Films Directed by Taylor Hackford

Phil Collins
Bands
Genesis\| Brand X \| Flaming Youth \| The Phil Collins Big Band
Notable Touring And Studio Artists
Phil Collins \| Hugh Padgham \| Daryl Stuermer \| Chester Thompson Other Artists
Studio Albums
Face Value \| Hello I Must Be Going! \| No Jacket Required \| ...But Seriously \| Both Sides \| Dance into the Light \| Testify \| Complete Discography \| List of Phil Collins's awards
Movie and Broadway Soundtracks
Against All Odds \| White Nights \| Buster \| Tarzan \| Brother Bear \| Tarzan (Broadway)
Live Albums
Serious Hits... Live! \| A Hot Night in Paris
Compilations
12"ers \| Hits \| Love Songs: A Compilation... Old and New
Box sets
The Platinum Collection