The Hotel New Hampshire (1984)

Not Recommended

UK/USA/Canada
Feature Film
Director: Tony Richardson
Writers: Tony Richardson, John Irving
Cinematographer: David Watkin
Cast: Rob Lowe, Jodie Foster, Paul McCrane, Beau Bridges, Lisa Banes, Jennie Dundas, Seth Green, Wally Aspell, Nastassja Kinski, Joely Richardson, Wallace Shawn, Matthew Modine, Wilford Brimley, Cali Timmins, Dorsey Wright

Richardson’s brave/foolish adaptation of Irving’s meandering novel – a sprawling, idiosyncratic examination of an unconventional family’s various dalliances with hoteliery, in which gang rape, incest, and suicide, amongst other unpleasant things, are presented for comic effect – is a maddeningly self-indulgent and only occasionally mildly entertaining film. Iain.Stott