Considered by many to be Tony Richardson's best film since Tom Jones, this is a Herculean adaptation of John Irving's extraordinary novel surveying life, love and death through the eyes of an eccentric American family. A stunning cast includes Rob Lowe and Jodie Foster as a brother and sister with an unhealthy fascination for each other, Matthew Modine in a dual role, Beau Bridges as the idealistic father and Nastassja Kinski as a girl who spends her life inside a bear suit! Adult audiences with a taste for the bizarre will find this black tale exerts a strange fascination that makes it one of a kind. Joely Richardson appears ever so briefly as a waitress.

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