The Hotel New Hampshire (1984)

Directed by Tony Richardson

Running Time: 100 minutes (approx)

Production Year: 1984

Rating: 18 Certificate

Production Country: UK/Canada

Filmed in Colour

British director Tony Richardson adapts the popular John Irving novel about an eccentric family and their wild ride through life.

The father, Win (Beau Bridges), is obsessed with hotels so he buys a run-down seminary in New England, transforming it into the Hotel New Hampshire.

But after a number of tragic incidents, including the gang rape of Franny, the family is invited to take over another hotel in Vienna, courtesy of their friend Freud (Wallace Shawn).

On arrival, they find that the upper floors of the hotel are dedicated to prostitution and the bottom floors are occupied by terrorists. They also meet Freud's companion, Susie the Bear (Nastassia Kinski), a woman so obsessed with her unattractiveness that she spends all her time in a bear suit.

The extended family includes the profanity-spouting Franny (Jodie Foster); Lily (Jennifer Dundas); a gay dwarf, Frank (Paul McCrane); John (Rob Lowe), who is strongly attracted to his sister; Egg (Seth Green), the youngest boy; and Iowa Bob (Wilford Brimley), Win's father.

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Cast

	Rob Lowe		John Berry
	Jodie Foster		Frannie Berry
	Paul McCrane		Frank Berry
	Beau Bridges		Mr. Win Berry
	Lisa Banes		Mrs. Berry
	Jennifer Dundas		Lilly Berry
	Seth Green		'Egg' Berry
	Wally Aspell		Hotel Manager
	Nastassja Kinski		Susie the Bear
	Joely Richardson		Waitress
	Wallace Shawn		Freud
	Jobst Oriwol		German Man
	Linda Clark		German Woman
	Nicholas Podbrey		Boy with Rifle
	Norris Domingue		High School Band Conductor