Strangers Kiss

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Strangers Kiss
Directed by Matthew Chapman
Screenplay byMatthew Chapman
Blaine Novak
Story byBlaine Novak
Based onThe making of Killer's Kiss
Produced byDouglas Dilg
Starring
CinematographyMisha Suslov
Edited byWilliam C. Carruth
Music by Gato Barbieri
Production
company
Kill Productions
Distributed by Orion Classics
Release dates
  • August 24, 1983 (1983-08-24)(Montreal)
  • September 17, 1983 (1983-09-17)(Toronto)
  • February 1, 1984 (1984-02-01)(United States)
Running time
94 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Strangers Kiss is a 1983 American drama film directed by Matthew Chapman, and starring Peter Coyote, Victoria Tennant, Dan Shor and Blaine Novak. The screenplay by Chapman and Novak documents the behind-the-scenes of Stanley Kubrick's second directorial feature, Killer's Kiss (1955).

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The film premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival on August 24, 1983 and the Toronto International Film Festival on September 17 before being theatrically distributed in select markets by Orion Classics on February 1, 1984.

Plot

To help his actress girlfriend regain her confidence, a Hollywood bigshot bankrolls a small film being made by a first-time producer and director duo. Despite the hand-to-mouth way it is made, the film turns out well, as does the off-set relationship between the actress and her unknown male lead.

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