MOVIE · 1985

Insignificance

ComedyDrama110 min

One night in 1954, four figures modeled on some of America’s most recognizable public faces end up in the same New York hotel room: an Actress, a Professor, a Ballplayer, and a Senator. Theresa Russell is the Actress, a Marilyn Monroe-like star whose late-night visit to Michael Emil’s Professor, an Einstein echo, shifts from flirtation to talk of fame, intelligence, and the bomb. Outside that connection, Gary Busey’s Ballplayer and Tony Curtis’s Senator bring jealousy, swagger, and political pressure into the room. The result is a closed-door collision of celebrity, sex, and Cold War anxiety.