Tempest (1982)

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Release Date:

Aug 13, 1982

Runtime:

2hr 20m

Synopsis

Unhappy middle-aged architect Philip Dimitrius leaves his wife Antonia and career for a spiritual awakening on a Greek island with his new girlfriend Aretha and teenage daughter, leading to extraordinary results for everyone around him.

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  • Jul 24, 2021

    "What I wouldn't give for a different nightmare." What's left when you modernize (read: remove all the elevated language from) Shakespeare's most plotless play? Not much—so why not just reshape it into a generic mid-life crisis farce? Please forgive me for not addressing…

    110 Likes
    Richard Chandler
    Richard Chandler
    Dec 14, 2017

    this film was.... not great..... but it starred john cassavetes and gena rowlands, my actual real biological parents..... so i loved it

    87 Likes
    sydney lou who
    sydney lou who
    Jul 18, 2021

    has the hot-headedness of a cassavetes, but with goats jumping off cliffs to "new york, new york"? i loved it

    83 Likes
    KYK
    KYK
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    Oct 1, 2024

    "I love feta cheese" After learning his wife Antonia (Gena Rowlands) is having an affair with his boss Alonzo (Vittorio Gassman), famous architect Phillip Dimitrius (John Cassavetes) takes their daughter Miranda (Molly Ringwald) to a idyllic remote Greek island to midlife…

    54 Likes
    Jesse Snoddon
    Jesse Snoddon
    Dec 16, 2020

    John Cassavetes looks SO in place as a bisexual grey-haired greek god type with a long robe waving in the wind

    52 Likes
    art
    art
    Dec 26, 2020

    molly ringwald said that while filming this she was madly in love w john cassavetes ...girl get in line 🙄

    52 Likes
    melody
    melody
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    Mar 18, 2024

    Overlong and could've benefited from being told linearly instead of boucing back and forth from Greece to New York 18 months prior — but the looseness allows for two musical numbers (one with goats) and for Susan Sarandon's eyes to get big whenever John Cassavetes looses…

    37 Likes
    Brian Formo
    Brian Formo
    Jan 9, 2017

    Couldn't finish. Bloated beyond belief and by the time Raul Julia says "I want to balanga you with my 'bonijoni'" to a 14-year old Molly Ringwald, that was the sign to call it quits

    32 Likes
    Catherine Stebbins
    Catherine Stebbins
    May 8, 2022

    Mazursky riffing on Shakespeare's Tempest which means the play is turned in the tale of a wealthy American guy licking the wounds of his failed marriage in a Greek island. It should be unbearable and at 142 minutes it is way self-indulgent, but the guy is played by John…

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    Filipe Furtado
    Filipe Furtado

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75

Mazursky lets it all run too long, by a half-hour at least, but he also offers a menu of rare delights. [27 Aug 1982]

Bob Thomas
The Associated Press
70

It's bold, and big, and even beautiful at times. That's more than most recent movies can claim. [26 Aug 1982, p.19]

Metacritic review by David Sterritt
David Sterritt
Christian Science Monitor

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Tempest (1982) (1982) family-friendly?
The movie has been rated as PG (Parental Guidance Suggested). It's generally considered a family-friendly movie.
How long is Tempest (1982) (1982)?
The movie is 2hr 20min long.
What's Tempest (1982) (1982) about?
Unhappy middle-aged architect Philip Dimitrius leaves his wife Antonia and career for a spiritual awakening on a Greek island with his new girlfriend Aretha and teenage daughter, leading to extraordinary results for everyone around him.