Exposed is a 1983 American drama film written, produced and directed by James Toback. It stars Nastassja Kinski, Rudolf Nureyev, Harvey Keitel, Ian McShane and Bibi Andersson.
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Directed by | James Toback |
Written by | James Toback |
Produced by | James Toback |
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Cinematography | Henri Decaë |
Edited by | Robert Lawrence |
Music by | Georges Delerue |
Production company | United Artists |
Distributed by | MGM/UA Entertainment Company |
Release date | April 22, 1983 (1983-04-22) |
Running time | 100 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $18 million[1][2] |
Box office | $1.4 million[3] |
The subject of her professor's romantic designs, Elizabeth Carlson a college girl from Wisconsin, packs up and moves to New York City, finding a job as a waitress while she attempts to launch a career as a fashion model.
As her career takes off, she meets Daniel Jelline, a violinist, who aggressively stalks Elizabeth until they begin an affair. When work takes her to Paris, however, Elizabeth encounters a terrorist named Rivas and her life is placed in considerable danger.
James Toback claims he tried for a number of years to get the film financed but was unsuccessful. He says he won $2 million gambling in Las Vegas and spent a portion of this to bribe David Begelman, then head of MGM, to get him to authorise MGM to finance the film. MGM provided a budget of $18 million of which Toback's fee was $500,000. Filming took 80 days.[4][1] Serge Silberman was executive producer.
Toback says he based the script on a romance he had with an airline stewardess.[5]
"I've changed roughly 80% of the script I showed MGM," he said later, "and I write and rewrite every night."[5]
This movie was filmed on UVM campus in Burlington, VT.
It was the last film role for Ron Randell.[6]
"The movie is unlike anything being released by major studios today," said Toback at the time of the film's release, "and so its confusing to people who market movies".[7] Toback was allowed to be involved in the promotion of the film. "I'm being treated a lot better than most studios would treat me," he said. "I'm not getting much money but I'm being treated a lot better than most studios treat me... I figure now I have a remote chance of putting across a movie that only got made by a miracle anyway."[7]
Toback says the film had a "mixed" reception.[1]
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