The Rapture (1991)

User Rating:

6.6/10   

Director:

Michael Tolkin

Writer (WGA):

Michael Tolkin (written by)

Release Date:

4 October 1991 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Mystery

Tagline:

Rapture (rap'chur) 1. ecstatic joy or delight. 2. a state of extreme sexual ecstasy. 3. the feeling of being transported to another sphere of existence. 4. the experience of being spirited away to Heaven just before the Apocalypse.

Plot:

A telephone operator living an empty, amoral life finds God and loses him again.

Plot Keywords:

Telephone Operator | Sex | Tattoo | Group Sex | Faith

Awards:

4 nominations

Cast

Mimi Rogers	...	Sharon
Darwyn Carson	...	Maggie
Patrick Bauchau	...	Vic
Marvin Elkins	...	Bartender
David Duchovny	...	Randy
Stephanie Menuez	...	Diana
Sam Vlahos	...	Wayne
Rustam Branaman	...	Conrad
Scott Burkholder	...	Evangelist
Vince Grant	...	2nd Evangelist
Carole Davis	...	Angie
Patrick Dollaghan	...	Executive
James LeGros	...	Tommy
Dick Anthony Williams	...	Henry
DeVaughn Nixon	...	First Boy

Runtime:

100 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Canada:R (Ontario) | Germany:16 | Iceland:12 | South Korea:18 | UK:18 | Australia:M | Argentina:18 | Chile:18 | Finland:K-16 | France:-16 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

New Line Cinema

Trivia:

In the DVD commentary, David Duchovny and Michael Tolkin remind Mimi Rogers that Brad Pitt read for the role of Tommy. She even read with him, they said; but she responds that she doesn't remember him. James LeGros got the role. Rogers persuaded Tolkin to cast him, even though his audition was not very good.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Sharon: Please hold for the number. Operator 134. What city please? Is that a business or residence?

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "The Larry Sanders Show: The Flirt Episode (#1.6)" (1992)

Soundtrack:

DIRECTLY FROM MY HEART TO YOU

Complicated and uncompromising -- possibly Mimi Rogers' finest performance.

A haunting movie -- one that lingers in the mind (and the heart) for a long time afterwards. Mimi Rogers turns in a stunning performance as a woman trapped in a cycle of dull work and duller play, whose life is transformed twice -- first by a religious conversion, and then by coming face to face with the literal meaning of that conversion. She is incandescent in her belief, and in the movie's final scenes, takes on the epic proportions of a Job or King Lear. You may be puzzled, conflicted, or even offended by what the movie "means," but you won't be able to walk away from it untouched.