Bathtubs Over Broadway

Apr 21, 2018

1h 27m

★ 8.1

A toe-tapping new documentary

Overview

When he started as a comedy writer for the Late Show with David Letterman, Steve Young had few interests and not many friends outside of his day job. But while gathering material for a segment on the show, Steve stumbled onto a few vintage record albums that would change his life forever.

Genres

Documentary

Comedy

Music

Production Companies

Impact Partners

Blumhouse Productions

Chicago Media Project

Bathtubs Over Broadway Trailers

Cast

Self

Steve Young

Self

Martin Short

Self

Florence Henderson

Self

David Letterman

Self

Chita Rivera

Self

Sheldon Harnick

Self

Susan Stroman

Self

Jello Biafra

Self

Willi Burke

Self

Don Bolles

Self

Hank Beebe

Self

Sid Siegel

It all starts with a bang. The car breaks through the crash barrier and falls off the bridge. The lights go out. After that, he is not able to see anymore. His optic nerve is severed, from now on the young stage-director Jakob is blind. His life will change and nothing will ever be the same. Jakob cannot handle the idea of never being able to see again and screams at the only woman who is able and willing to help him, Lily. A rehabilitation teacher, she helps the blind deal with the darkness. Lily has been living with it since birth, she too is blind.

8.0

Enescu, Skinned Alive

Nov 4, 2024

Brilliant composer and violinist George Enescu is at the peak of his career and wants to compose an opera. He falls in love with a princess, Maruca, who inspires and challenges him. She is fascinated by Enescu and his music, she loves him passionately, but has a duty towards her husband and her two children. Destiny will release her from the chains of marriage, but will that be enough for the genius and the princess to live happily ever after?

5.7

Side Effects

Mar 7, 2005

America! Built on a better pill. Karly Hert has spent the last ten years selling drugs. Legally, that is. Karly is a pharmaceutical sales representative. She sells pills to doctors. She makes lots of money. She has a company car. She has a nice fat expense account. But there's a growing pit in Karly's stomach. Something isn't right behind the scenes at big pharma. Based on the director's decade working directly for the industry.

5.6

The Banger Sisters

Sep 20, 2002

In the late '60s, the self-proclaimed belles of the rock 'n' roll ball, rocked the worlds of every music legend whose pants they could take off -- and they have the pictures to prove it. But it's been more than two decades since the Banger Sisters earned their nickname -- or even laid eyes on each other. Their reunion is the collision of two women's worlds; one who's living in the past, and one who's hiding from it. Together they learn to live in the moment.

5.8

10

Oct 5, 1979

A Hollywood songwriter goes through a mid-life crisis and becomes infatuated with a sexy blonde newlywed.

5.9

By Heart

Dec 28, 2022

It’s summertime, 2021. Isabelle Huppert plays Lioubov, Chekhov’s unforgettably heroine in The Cherry Orchard. In a near theatre, Fabrice Luchini recites Nietzsche. Both actors are premiering at Avignon’s Festival. When they leave backstage to stand out on stage, they are completely transformed. As everything seems utterly natural, audience does not imagine what happened before. By following their daily lives during the weeks preceding the premieres, Benoît Jacquot brings a singular perspective of the two actors and shows them like we’ve never seen before.

7.0

The Broken Melody

May 15, 1934

A composer goes to Devil's Island for killing his wife's lover, then writes an opera about it.

6.4

Cookie's Fortune

Mar 24, 1999

Conflict arises in the small town of Holly Springs when an old woman's death causes a variety of reactions among family and friends.

5.5

Saint Louis Blues

Aug 9, 2009

This sweet musical takes us on a cross-country trip through Senegal, from Dakar to Saint Louis in a battered taxi, as passengers sing their stories.

8.0

Amadeus

Sep 19, 1984

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the hedonistic and remarkably talented young Salzburger composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

4.5

About the Looking for and the Finding of Love

Jan 27, 2005

Director helmut Dietls and Patric Susskinds illustrate a legendary story of two lovers who cant keep themselves away from death.

6.0

Yo soy Arturo Fernández

Jul 7, 2019

A gentle portrait of the mythical Spanish actor Arturo Fernández (1929-2019) in the hour of his passing, in his own words, through his latest interviews, not previously broadcast, and the words of those who knew him thorough decades of charming and good performance on stage, his true home, as well as in cinema and television.

6.8

The Life and Loves of Beethoven

Jan 15, 1937

Lyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantic hero, an accursed artist.

7.0

The Music of Kander & Ebb: Razzle Dazzle

Dec 3, 1997

A profile of composing team John Kander and Fred Ebb, who have written many Broadway musicals. Highlights include interviews with Lauren Bacall, Joel Grey and others, as well as the two men themselves, plus clips of performances of their songs.

5.8

Alvin and the Chipmunks

Dec 13, 2007

A struggling songwriter named Dave Seville finds success when he comes across a trio of singing chipmunks: mischievous leader Alvin, brainy Simon, and chubby, impressionable Theodore.

0.0

To Cross; One Nail, Metal Spit

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Filmed over a period of 3 years, this video work is a meditation on the borderline of the river Tejo, between Marvila and Barreiro. A psychogeographic piece that seeks out a feeling of doubt, inertia, and waiting. "Two sides, along the boundary line All the weight of the water above Metal arms extended to the heavens As if the sky was tilting to meet them And those giants again; Four by four . . . . all in a line, up against the tide."

7.2

Die Deutschmeister

Aug 11, 1955

Young Stanzi who is visiting Vienna helps a young corporal and musician to become famous for his marching song "Die Deutschmeister".

5.0

Actresses

Dec 26, 2007

Marcelline is an actress. Forty, single and childless, she begins rehearsals for Turgenev’s A Month in the Country. Denis, the director, admires her greatly and promises he’ll make her happy on stage — she will shine. But things don’t go to plan.

6.7

A Life in Waves

Mar 12, 2017

Explores the life and innovations of composer and electronic music pioneer Suzanne Ciani.