Germany I 2004/2005 I English [CR1] I 2K DCP I Colour I 122 minutes I 1:2.35
Director: Wim Wenders
Screenplay: Sam Shepard, according to an idea of Wim Wenders and Sam Shepard
Script: Sylvie Michel-Casey
Producer: Peter Schwartzkopff
Director of Photography: Franz Lustig
Editor: Peter Przygodda
Music: T-Bone Burnett
Sound: Matthew Nicolay C.A.S.
Cast: Sam Shepard (Howard), Jessica Lange (Doreen), Tim Roth (Sutter), Gabriel Mann (Earl), Sarah Polley (Sky), Fairuza Balk (Amber), Eva Marie Saint (Howard’s Mother)
Hollywood star Howard Spence (Sam Shepard) has seen better days. Today he just lives off of his former glory. After another night of debauchery, he flees the set of his latest Western, riding away into the open prairie like one of the heroes he so often portrayed. He seeks refuge at his mother’s (Eva Marie Saint), whom he has not seen for ages. But even there he does not stay long after he learns that somewhere he might have a son he never knew about. To Howard this seems like a ray of hope that his life was not all in vain. Maybe there even is a place out there where he belongs! Thus Howard sets out to search for that son (Gabriel Mann), only to discover an entire life in a small town that he had missed so far, and a love (Jessica Lange) he had thought lost, and even a daughter (Sarah Polley), whose existence was unknown. If only there wasn’t this tenacious insurance detective (Tim Roth) who wants to get Howard back on set at any cost.
