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Tropic of Cancer
| Rating: | NC-17 |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Release Date: | January 1, 1970 |
| Running time: | 87 minutes |
| Cast: | Rip Torn, James T. Callahan, Ellen Burstyn, David Baur, Laurence Lignères |
| Director: | Joseph Strick |
| Producer: | Joseph Strick |
| Writer: | Betty Botley, Joseph Strick |
| Distributor: | Paramount Pictures |
Description: Three years after cinematizing James Joyce's long-censored Ulysses, Joseph Strick mounted an adaptation of another racy literary work -- Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer. Rip Torn plays Miller, an American expatriate author living -- and loving -- in 1920s Paris. The much-vaunted sex scenes were hot enough in 1970 to earn the film an X-rating, and an NC-17 when the film was re-rated in 1992. Ellen Burstyn (then billed as Ellen MacRae) has a few effective scenes as Miller's long-suffering wife, Mona; Phil Kaufman later elaborated on her character in the 1990 film Henry & June. Henry Miller himself appears in Tropic of Cancer, billed as a spectator. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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