The Moderns

Apr 15, 1988

2h 6m

★ 5.8

Paris, 1926... there was nothing more modern.

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.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

Nelson Entertainment

Alive Productions

The Moderns Trailers

Cast

Nick Hart

Keith Carradine

Rachel Stone

Linda Fiorentino

Oiseau

Wallace Shawn

Libby Valentin

Geneviève Bujold

Nathalie de Ville

Geraldine Chaplin

Hemingway

Kevin J. O'Connor

Bertram Stone

John Lone

L'Evidence

Charlélie Couture

Gertrude Stein

Elsa Raven

Alice B. Toklas

Ali Giron

New York Critic

Gailard Sartain

Surrealist Poet

Michael Wilson

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