The Moderns (1988)

5.9/10 126 min Comedy Drama Romance

Overview

Nick Hart is a struggling American artist who lives amongst the expatriate community in 1920s Paris. He spends most of his time drinking and socializing in local café's and pestering gallery owner Libby Valentin to sell his paintings. He becomes involved in a plot by wealthy art patroness Nathalie de Ville to forge three paintings. This leads to several run-ins with American rubber magnate Bertram Stone, who happens to be married to Hart's ex-wife Rachel.

Cast

Keith Carradine

Nick Hart

Linda Fiorentino

Rachel Stone

Wallace Shawn

Oiseau

Geneviève Bujold

Libby Valentin

Geraldine Chaplin

Nathalie de Ville

Kevin J. O'Connor

Hemingway

John Lone

Bertram Stone

Charlélie Couture

L'Evidence

Elsa Raven

Gertrude Stein

Gailard Sartain

New York Critic

Robert Gould

Blackie

Brooke Smith

Abigail

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