Blaze(Movie, 1989)

Name: Blaze
Genre: Drama, Romance / Love
Released: 1989
Duration: T01:57:00
Rating: 3.2

1h 57min | Genres: Drama, Romance / Love

Rating: 3.2/5 (with 21 votes)

Blaze is a 1989 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Ron Shelton. Based on the 1974 memoir, Blaze Starr: My Life as Told to Huey Perry, by Blaze Starr and Huey Perry, the film stars Paul Newman as Earl Long and Lolita Davidovich as Blaze Starr. Starr makes a cameo appearance as well. At the 62nd Academy Awards in 1990, the film received a nomination for Best Cinematography for Haskell Wexler. However, the award went to Freddie Francis for Glory. This was Wexler's fifth and final nomination, having previously won for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) and Bound for Glory (1976). ()

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Awards & Nominations for Blaze

nominated for: Academy Award for Best Cinematography

About Blaze

This movie tells the story of the latter years of Earl Long, a flamboyant governor of Louisiana. The aging Earl, an unapologetic habitue of strip joints, falls in love with young stripper Blaze Starr. When Earl and Blaze move in together, Earl's opponents use this to attack his controversial political program, which included civil rights for blacks in the 1950's.

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)

Plays in: New Orleans (Louisiana)

Main subject: Blaze Starr (Person)

Made by: Touchstone Pictures

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 12 languages: German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date DE: 12/15/1989

Cast: Paul Newman, Lolita Davidovich, Jerry Hardin, Jeffrey DeMunn, Gailard Sartain, James Harper, Richard Jenkins, Robert Wuhl, Brandon Smith

Director: Ron Shelton

Producer: Dale Pollock

Screenwriter: Ron Shelton

Film Editor: Robert Leighton

Director of Photography: Haskell Wexler

Composer: Bennie Wallace

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Blaze - O Escândalo"

Keywords: civil rights, stripper, based on memoir or autobiography, louisiana, governor

Revenue: 19,131,000 USD

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