Unmade Beds (1997 film)

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Unmade Beds
Directed byNicholas Barker
Written byNicholas Barker
Produced by
  • Sam Bickley
  • Gretchen McGowan
  • Michael Porte
  • Steve Wax
Starring
  • Aimee Copp
  • Michael De Stefano
  • Brenda Monte
  • Mikey Russo
CinematographyWilliam Rexer
Edited byPaul Binns
Distributed byChelsea Pictures
Release date
  • September 10, 1997 (1997-09-10)
(Toronto International Film Festival)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$75,7526 [1]

Unmade Beds is a 1997 art house film [2] by the British director Nicholas Barker set in the United States. It shows the lives of four New York singles, playing themselves. [3] [4]

It won the Bronze Horse prize for best 1997 feature film in the Stockholm International Film Festival. [5]

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References

  1. "Unmade Beds". The Numbers . Retrieved 18 September 2023.
  2. "Nicholas Barker Makes and Manipulates "Unmade Beds"". 5 August 1998.
  3. "Unmade Beds (Nicholas Barker, 1997)". 2 December 1998.
  4. "Nick Barker's Unmade Beds Shows Unreal Lives of Real New Yorkers". The New York Observer . 17 August 1998.
  5. "Unmade Beds From the Feature Film by Nicholas Barker".