The Hotel New Hampshire (1984)

User Rating:

5.8/10   

Director:

Tony Richardson

Writers:

John Irving (novel)
Tony Richardson (screenplay)

Release Date:

9 March 1984 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

Tagline:

If you experienced "The World According To Garp" and found it witty, delightful and totally unpredictable, then be happily surprised all over again when you join the fun and games that go on at the...Hotel New Hampshire

Plot:

The film talks about a family that weathers all sorts of disasters and keeps going in spite of it all...

Plot Keywords:

Literature | Bomb | First Sexual Experience | Bear Costume | Satire

Cast

Rob Lowe	...	John Berry
Jodie Foster	...	Frannie Berry
Paul McCrane	...	Frank
Beau Bridges	...	Mr. Win Berry
Lisa Banes	...	Mother
Jennifer Dundas	...	Lilly (as Jennie Dundas)
Seth Green	...	'Egg' Berry
Wally Aspell	...	Hotel Manager
Nastassja Kinski	...	Susie the Bear
Joely Richardson	...	Waitress
Wallace Shawn	...	Freud
Jobst Oriwol	...	German Man (as Jobst Oriwal)
Linda Clark	...	German Woman
Nicholas Podbrey	...	Boy with Rifle
Norris Domingue	...	High School Band Conductor
Matthew Modine	...	Chip Dove / Ernst
Wilford Brimley	...	Iowa Bob
Cali Timmins	...	Bitty Tuck
Dorsey Wright	...	Junior Jones
Richard Jutras	...	Lenny Metz
Johnny O'Neil	...	Chester Pulaski
Colin Irving	...	Chip Dove Gang Member
Anthony Ulc	...	Chip Dove Gang Member
Nick Nardi	...	Chip Dove Gang Member
Charles Fournier	...	Howard Tuck
Anita Morris	...	Ronda Ray
Fred Doederlein	...	Finnish Doctor
Walter Massey	...	Texan
Young Sup Chung	...	Oriental Couple
Inhi Chung	...	Oriental Couple
Ada Fuoco	...	New Jersey Woman
Joan Heney	...	Connecticut Woman
Robert Thomas	...	Harold Swallow
Gayle Garfinkle	...	Doris Wales / Screaming Annie
Jonelle Allen	...	Sabrina
Elie Oren	...	King of Mice
Roger Blay	...	Arbeiter
Timothy Webber	...	Wrench
Janine Manatis	...	Schwanger
Jean-Louis Roux	...	Old Billig
Amanda Plummer	...	Miss Miscarriage
Sharon Noble	...	Babette
Lorena Gale	...	Dark Inge
Jade Bari	...	Jolanta (as Jade D. Bari)
Adrian Aron	...	American Woman
Arthur Grosser	...	American Man
Tara O'Donnell	...	American Daughter
Louis Di Bianco	...	Bartender (as Louis di Bianco)
Michele Scarabelli	...	Chip Dove Girlfriend
Jeffrey Cohen	...	New York Journalist
Jyanna Horey	...	Bar Patron
Benoît Laberge	...	Bookstore Man (as Benoit Laberge)
Jon Hutman	...	Reporter No. 1
James V. Mathews	...	Reporter No. 2
Prudence Emery	...	Mean Female Reporter
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Gerald Iles	...	Austrian President (uncredited)
Marlon Sterling Long	...	Actor (uncredited)

Directed by
Tony Richardson

Writing credits
John Irving		(novel)
Tony Richardson		(screenplay)

Produced by
Jim Beach	....	co-producer
Neil Hartley	....	producer
Grahame Jennings	....	executive producer
Pieter Kroonenburg	....	producer: Filmline Productions
David J. Patterson	....	producer: Filmline Productions (as David Patterson)
Bill Scott	....	associate producer
Norman Twain	....	associate producer
Kent Walwin	....	executive producer
George Yaneff	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Jacques Offenbach

Cinematography by
David Watkin		(director of photography)

Film Editing by
Robert K. Lambert

Casting by
Howard Feuer
Jeremy Ritzer

Production Design by
Jocelyn Herbert

Art Direction by
John Meighen

Costume Design by
Jocelyn Herbert

Makeup Department
Pierre David	....	hair stylist
Richard Hansen	....	additional hairdresser
Marie-Josée La Fontaine	....	makeup assistant (as Marie-Josée Lafontaine)
Martin Ménard	....	additional hairdresser
Bob Pritchett	....	hair stylist
Cécile Rigault	....	makeup assistant
Diane Simard	....	makeup artist
Micheline Trépanier	....	makeup artist (as Micheline Foisy)

Production Management
Mychèle Boudrias	....	production manager
Estelle Lemieux	....	unit manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Robert K. Lambert	....	second unit director
Anne Murphy	....	second assistant director
Bill Scott	....	assistant director

Art Department
Frances Calder	....	prop buyer
Jacques Chamberland	....	property master
Jean-Vincent Fournier	....	set props
Chris Gilmore	....	art department assistant
Richard Hernandez	....	art department assistant
Skipp Hobbs	....	art department assistant (as Skip Hobbs)
Jon Hutman	....	art department assistant
Eudore Leclerc	....	carpenter
Claude F. Powell	....	construction coordinator (as Claude Powell)
Norman Richer	....	chief carpenter (as Normand Richer)
François Séguin	....	prop buyer
Claude Simard	....	construction supervisor
Maurice Tremblay	....	art department assistant

Sound Department
James Beshears	....	sound editor
Mike Dobie	....	sound editor (as Michael Dobie)
Véronique Gabillaud	....	boom woman
Ginette Guillard	....	cable woman
J. Paul Huntsman	....	adr supervisor (as Paul Huntsman)
Gregg Landaker	....	sound re-recording
John Larson	....	sound editor
Steve Maslow	....	sound re-recording
Dan O'Connell	....	foley artist
David Pettijohn	....	supervising sound editor
Patrick Rousseau	....	sound
Jerry Stanford	....	adr supervisor
Lionel Strutt	....	adr mixer
Bill Varney	....	sound re-recording

Special Effects by
Louis Craig	....	special effects
Jacques Godbout	....	special effects

Stunts
Peter Cox	....	stunts
Céline Fournier	....	stunts (as Celine Fournier)
David Rigby	....	stunts
Jérôme Tiberghien	....	stunt coordinator
Jérôme Tiberghien	....	stunts

Camera and Electrical Department
Peter Benison	....	camera operator: second camera
Jacques F. Bernier	....	camera assistant: second camera (as Jacques Bernier)
Michael Connor	....	assistant cameraman
Rodger Dean	....	generator operator
Attila Dory	....	still photographer
Claude Fortier	....	best boy
Gilles Fortier	....	electrician
Jean-Jacques Gervais	....	second assistant cameraman
Denis Gingras	....	camera assistant: second camera
Robert Grenier	....	grip
Serge Grenier	....	key grip
Glen MacPherson	....	camera assistant: second camera (as Glen McPherson)
Marion Mailhot	....	grip
André Ouellette	....	grip
John Palmer	....	camera operator
Jean-François Pouliot	....	camera assistant: second camera
Gregg Schmidt	....	grip
Jean Trudeau	....	electrician
Normand Viau	....	electrician

Casting Department
Barbara Lambertson	....	location casting (as Barbara A. Lambertson)
Vera Miller	....	extras casting
Nadia Rona	....	extras casting

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Huguette Gagné	....	wardrobe mistress
Thomas Lee Keller	....	costume supervisor (as Thomas Keller)
François Laplante	....	costume coordinator
John Stowe	....	wardrobe master
Richard Tautkus	....	costume maker: Ms. Kinski's bear costume

Editorial Department
Barbara Brown	....	assistant film editor
Cathy Carr	....	negative cutter
Richard Ritchie	....	color timer (as Dick Ritchie)
Tim Tobin	....	assistant film editor (as Timothy Tobin)

Music Department
Raymond Leppard	....	arranger
Raymond Leppard	....	conductor
John Richards	....	recording engineer
Ted Whitfield	....	music editor

Transportation Department
Jackie Crane	....	driver: honeywagon
Don Poole	....	driver (uncredited)

Other crew
Leon Askin	....	dialogue consultant
Alain Belhumeur	....	production assistant
Michael Boyer	....	production assistant
Léo D. Carpenter	....	production assistant (as Léo D. Carpentier)
Jean-Claude Cloutier	....	production assistant
Lucie Drolet	....	location accounting staff
Yvette Duguet	....	location accounting staff
Prudence Emery	....	unit publicist
Richard Grégoire	....	production assistant (as Richard Gregoire)
Pierre Houle	....	production assistant
Susan Jenkinson	....	assistant: Ms. Herbert
Scott Johnston	....	production assistant
Jacques Laberge	....	production assistant
France Lachapelle	....	script supervisor
Élisabeth Lamy	....	production assistant (as Elizabeth Lamy)
Wally Naghtin	....	bear trainer
Denis Normandeau	....	production assistant
Louis-Philippe Rochon	....	production assistant
Danièle Rohrbach	....	production coordinator
Danielle Rossignol	....	production secretary
Sandra Maltz Saccio	....	assistant to producer (as Sandra Maltz)
Roger Tremblay	....	production assistant
Claire Williamson	....	location accounting staff
Mona Williamson	....	location accounting staff

Production Companies

• Woodfall Film Productions
• Filmline Productions (in association with)
• Producers Circle (in association with) (as The Producers' Circle)
• Yellowbill Productions Limited (in association with) (uncredited)

Distributors

• Orion Pictures Corporation (1984) (USA) (theatrical)
• MGM Home Entertainment (2001) (USA) (DVD)
• LW Editora (200?) (Brazil) (DVD)
• Lumière (19??) (Brazil) (VHS)
• MGM Home Entertainment (2001) (Canada) (DVD)
• Umbrella Entertainment (2009) (Australia) (DVD)

Special Effects

• Intrigue (special effects) (uncredited)

Other Companies

• Optical House, The  opticals (as The Optical House, L.A.)
• London Philharmonic Orchestra  music performed by (as The London Philharmonic Orchestra)
• Studios CTS  music recorded at (as CTS Studios Ltd., Wembley, London)
• Universal Pictures  courtesy of: still photographs from the motion pictures "This Gun For Hire" [Paramount 1942] and "The Great Gatsby" [Paramount 1949]
• Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)  approved by
• Dennis Davidson & Associates Public Releations (DDA)  publicity (uncredited)
• Mayflower Studios  ADR recording (uncredited)

Runtime:

109 min

Country:

UK | Canada | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Canada:R (Canadian Home Video rating) | Canada:14A (Ontario) | Canada:18+ (Quebec) | USA:R (Approved No. 27215) | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | Norway:16 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | West Germany:16

Filming Locations:

Hudson, Québec, Canada

Company:

Woodfall Film Productions

Trivia:

Early in preproduction, the rock band Queen was asked to record some songs for the movie. They completed at least one song for the soundtrack, "Keep Passing The Open Windows", but the collaboration fell through. The finished film saw no Queen contribution, but that same year their album "The Works" (1984) did feature this song.

Goofs:

Factual errors: In the award ceremony scene, numerous Austrian flags are show, but all are the civil/merchant version. As an official government function, the flags would have been the state flag (the government flag.) Unlike the United States, Austria and many other nations have multiple national flags for different purposes (government, civilian/merchant, military, on shore versus afloat, etc.) Austria's state flag bears the national coat of arms in the centre, overlapping into both of the red bars. The vertical version of the state flag has the coat of arms turned 90 degrees and placed within a shield. None of the flags in the scene bore the coat of arms.

Quotes:

Multiple Characters: Keep passing the open windows.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Dawson's Creek: Hotel New Hampshire (#5.8)" (2001)

Soundtrack:

Tears On My Pillow

Worth a look

Some people might find this a bizarre film but, like the book on which it was based, the "bizarreness" has a point (all families seem somewhat bizarre to those outside the family, though they appear perfectly normal to those within).

The acting is generally good. The story is generally good - the book on which it is based is one of my favourites and is recommended. There are moments of comedy and tragedy, with some difficult subject matter dealt with adeptly by Tony Richardson.

Worth a look.