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Director Julian Schnabel's award winning biopic Before Night Falls details the life of exiled Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas. Javier Bardem was nominated for both an Oscar and a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Arenas.
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Fast Facts
- Release date: December 22, 2000
- Director: Julian Schnabel
- Screenwriter: Cunningham O'Keefe, Lazaro Gomez Carriles
- Producer: Jon Kilik
- Distributor: Fine Line Features
- Music by: Carter Burwell
- Language: English, Spanish, Russian, French
- MPAA rating: R
- Run time: 133 minutes
- Worldwide box office gross: $8,524,534 Box Office Mojo: Before Night Falls Box Office
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Plot Summary
Before Night Falls details nearly 40 years in the life of Reinaldo Arenas, from his impoverished upbringing, through his university education, during which he learns to express both his creative voice and homosexual tendencies. Under Fidel Castro's communist regime, Arenas is persecuted and later jailed for expressing his opinions and being openly gay. After his release from prison, Arenas flees to the United States, where he struggles to achieve literary success and eventually commits suicide after battling AIDS for several years. -
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- Javier Bardem: Reinaldo Arenas
- Johnny Depp: Lieutenant Victor/Bon Bon
- Andrea Di Stefano: Pepe Malas
- Sean Penn: Cuco Sanchez
- Michael Wincott: Herberto Zorilla Ochoa
- Najwa Nimri: Fina Zorilla Correa
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#fb Five Cups of Coffee - The Day Progressing - how much can be done before night falls.
@knatchwa | November 09, 2009 08:06 PM -
Having a beer before the wall falls again. A rainy night in Berlin. #fb
@Nasslander | November 09, 2009 05:38 PM -
OK - break time - quick frosty dog walk before the dark falls. Smells of Christmas out there (can use that word now Bonfire night's over!)
@Amanda13Jane | November 09, 2009 04:07 PM -
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i just love when the boy falls asleep before me :(.. good night everyone! xox.
@aandruskiewicz | November 09, 2009 05:08 AM
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Before The Night Falls (Antes Que Anochezca) [PAL/REGION 4 DVD. Import-Australia] - $28.99
Description From the director of BASQUIAT comes this hypnotic account of the life of Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas. Arenas is played by Spanish actor Javier Bardem in a performance that has won him both a Golden Globe and Academy Award nomi...
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Before Night Falls: A Memoir - $15.00
This shocking personal and political memoir from one of the most visionary writers to emerge from Castro's Cuba recounts Arenas' stunning odyssey--from his poverty-stricken childhood through his suppression as a writer and imprisonment as a...
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Before Night Falls [Region 2] - $34.72
Based on the posthumously published memoir by Cuban poet Reinaldo Arenas, Before Night Falls is artist-director Julian Schnabel's second exercise in artist biography, but where Schnabel's earlier film Basquiat was relatively c...
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Before Night Falls - $19.98
An incredible journey through the life and work of the late cuban poet reinaldo arenas whose courageous fight for personal expression defied censorship and persecution. Special features: subtitles in english spanish and french theatrical tr...
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