Amateur
Synopsis
A man wakes up in an alley, bleeding and with no memory of who he is. He stumbles into a coffee shop and is befriended by a charitable ex-nun who is failing in her attempts to write marketable pornography.
Production Budget Analysis
The production budget for Amateur (1994) has not been publicly disclosed.
CAST: Isabelle Huppert, Martin Donovan, Elina Löwensohn, Damian Young, Chuck Montgomery, Dave Simonds DIRECTOR: Hal Hartley CINEMATOGRAPHY: Michael Spiller MUSIC: Hal Hartley, Jeffrey Taylor PRODUCTION: UGC, American Playhouse, La Sept Cinéma, Channel Four Films, Zenith Entertainment, True Fiction Pictures
Box Office Performance
Theatrical box office data is not publicly available for Amateur (1994). This may indicate a limited release, direct-to-streaming, or a release predating modern box office tracking.
Profitability Assessment
Insufficient publicly available data to assess profitability.
INDUSTRY IMPACT
PRODUCTION NOTES
▸ Music & Score
The soundtrack features excerpts from various alternative artists:
* "Mind Full of Worry" – The Aquanettas * "Only Shallow" – My Bloody Valentine * "Water" – PJ Harvey * "Japanese to English" – Red House Painters * "Shaker" – Yo La Tengo * "Tom Boy" – Bettie Serveert * "Girls! Girls! Girls" – Liz Phair * "Then Comes Dudley" – The Jesus Lizard * "Here" – Pavement
The soundtrack also included original music by "Ned Rifle" (a pseudonym used by Hal Hartley) and Jeff Taylor. It was released by Matador Records.
AWARDS & RECOGNITION
No awards data currently available for this title.
CRITICAL RECEPTION
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 79% based on 28 reviews, with an average rating of 6.1/10.
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