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The House of Blue Leaves (1987)
Directed by Kirk Browning
Overview
On the day in 1965 that the Pope visits New York and masses of people line the streets in adulation, Artie, a zookeeper living in Sunnyside, Queens, thinks it’s time for his life to be blessed, too. He desperately wants to escape his lower middle-class existence and become a popular singer and songwriter, but his life is complicated by an ambitious mistress, a crazy wife and a bomb-making son.
Length 113 minutes
Actors
Swoosie Kurtz | John Mahoney | Christine Baranski | Julie Hagerty | Ben Stiller | Richard Portnow | Debra Cole | Patricia Falkenhain | Jane Cecil | Ian Blackman | Brian Evers