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Sweet Liberty (1986) [PG]

Release Date:
May 16, 1986

Original Title:
Sweet Liberty

Alternate Titles:
Den søde frihed

Genres:
Comedy | Romance

Production Companies:
Universal Pictures

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
SE: 15  US: PG 

Runtime: 106

Michael Burgess wrote a book about the American Revolution. Now, Hollywood's come to his town to make a movie of it -- Plunging him into a summer of madness.

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Michael Burgess is an academic who has written a scholarly book on the American Revolution which Hollywood has bought the film rights to. The arrival of the film crew seriously disrupts him as actors want to change their characters, directors want to re-stage battles, and he becomes infatuated with Faith who will play the female lead in the movie. At the same time, he is fighting with his crazy mother who thinks the Devil lives in her kitchen, and his girlfriend who is talking about commitment.

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Art Direction:
Christopher Nowak

Associate Producer:
Judith Stevens
Michael Economou

Casting:
Mary Colquhoun

Costume Design:
Jane Greenwood

Director:
Alan Alda

Director of Photography:
Frank Tidy

Editor:
Michael Economou

Executive Producer:
Louis A. Stroller

Hairstylist:
Anthony Cortino
Bob Grimaldi

Makeup Artist:
Irving Buchman
Fern Buchner

Original Music Composer:
Bruce Broughton

Producer:
Martin Bregman

Production Coordinator:
Kate Guinzburg

Production Design:
Ben Edwards

Set Decoration:
Alan Hicks
William Durnin Sr.

Sound Editor:
Ian MacGregor-Scott

Stunts:
Chuck Picerni Jr.
Henry Kingi
Erik Cord

Writer:
Alan Alda

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