Who Am I This Time? (film)

Who Am I This Time?
The DVD cover
Directed by	Jonathan Demme
Produced by	Neal Miller
Written by	Story: Kurt Vonnegut Screenplay: Neal Miller
Starring	Christopher Walken Susan Sarandon
Music by	John Cale
Cinematography	Paul Vombrack
Editing by	Marc Leif
Release date(s)	February 2, 1983
Running time	53 minutes
Country	USA
Language	English

Who Am I This Time? is a 1982 film directed by Jonathan Demme and based on a short story of the same name by Kurt Vonnegut.

Synopsis

Christopher Walken portrays Harry Nash, a hardware store clerk who has achieved a degree of local celebrity due to his powerful performances in community theater. Yet when not on the stage or in a rehearsal, Harry retreats into an insecure and painfully shy personality. The story is set in motion when Helene Walsh (Susan Sarandon), a woman intending to stay in town for only a few weeks, is talked into auditioning for the role of Stella, opposite Harry's Stanley Kowalski in a production of A Streetcar Named Desire. Ignoring warnings of Harry's introverted personality, Helene falls in love with Harry's "Stanley" persona, and mistakes his cluelessness and shyness for rejection. This results in a clumsy and uneven performance on the second night of the play, but Helene bounces back in time for closing night, due to an inspiration; her closing-night gift to Harry is a copy of Romeo and Juliet. Harry and Helene find that they can pursue a relationship by reciting stage romances to each other, and the story ends with him proposing in character, from a scene in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.

Production

The film's score was composed by John Cale of The Velvet Underground. Hinckley, Illinois served as stand-in for fictional North Crawford.

External links

• Who Am I This Time? at the Internet Movie Database