Top billed cast

1. 

   Liza Minnelli

   Francine Evans

2. 

   Robert De Niro

   Jimmy Doyle

3. 

   Lionel Stander

   Tony Harwell

4. 

   Barry Primus

   Paul Wilson

5. 

   Mary Kay Place

   Bernice Bennett

6. 

   George Memmoli

   Nicky

7. 

   Dick Miller

   Palm Club Owner

8. 

   Murray Moston

   Horace Morris

9. 

   Leonard Gaines

   Artie Kirks

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2025-05-31

Much is made of whether or not this is one of Martin Scorsese’s weaker efforts but I think that’s to appraise the wrong talent here. The star of the whole thing is the charismatic chanteuse “Francine” (Liza Minnelli). She a bit of a dreamer who encounters the opportunist sax player “Jimmy” (Robert De Niro) at a party in New York that is celebrating VJ Day in 1945. She isn’t much interested in the patter he has been trolling out to every woman he has met all evening, but a combination of circumstances see the two spending an increasing amount of time together and gradually falling...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$14,000,000.00

Revenue
$16,400,000.00

Keywords

• new york city
• jazz
• jazz singer or musician
• saxophonist
• musical
• borderline personality disorder
• aspiring singer
• falling in love
• band singer
• post world war ii
• egomaniac
• passive aggression
• singer-songwriter
• failing marriage
• nightclub singer
• struggling career
• 1940s
• violent man
• manipulated woman