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Genre
  
Drama

Screenplay
  
Bernard Rose, Lisa Enos

Country
  
United KingdomUnited States

6.7/10
IMDb

Director
  
Bernard Rose

Music director
  
Elmo Weber

Duration
  

Language
  
English

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Release date
  
September 12, 2000 (2000-09-12) (TIFF)July 7, 2002 (2002-07-07) (New York/Los Angeles)July 19, 2002 (2002-07-19) (United Kingdom)

Based on
  
Leo Tolstoy by The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Writer
  
Leo Tolstoy (novel), Bernard Rose (screenplay), Lisa Enos (screenplay)

Cast
  
Danny Huston
(Ivan Beckman),
Peter Weller
(Don West),
Kate Connor
(Avery),
Tiffani Thiessen
(Marie Stein),
Sarah Danielle Madison
(Naomi),
Sofia Eng
(Anita)

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After a hotshot Hollywood agent (Danny Huston) dies, colleagues scramble to dissuade clients from defecting from the agency.

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Ivans Xtc (sometimes stylized as ivansxtc) is 2000 British–American independent drama film co-written and directed by Bernard Rose and stars Danny Huston and Peter Weller. It is based on Leo Tolstoys novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich and is Roses second adaptation of a work by Tolstoy, after the 1997 adaptation of Anna Karenina. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 12, 2000. It was released in the United States (New York and Los Angeles) on July 7, 2002 and on July 19, 2002 in the United Kingdom.

Update on Leo Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilyich," set in contemporary Hollywood.

Cast

  • Danny Huston as Ivan Beckman, a successful film agent working in Los Angeles.
  • Peter Weller as Don West, Beckmans client.
  • James Merendino as Danny McTeague
  • Adam Krentzman as Barry Oaks
  • Sarah Danielle Madison as Naomi
  • Tiffani Thiessen as Marie Stein
  • Dan Ireland as Ted Zimblest
  • Lisa Henson as Margaret Mead
  • Hal Lieberman as Lloyd Hall
  • Valeria Golino as Constanza Vero
  • Angela Featherstone as Amanda Hill
  • Victoria Silvstedt as Melanie

    • Filming

    The film was shot in 1999 in Los Angeles, using a skeleton crew and a Sony HDW-700A digital camera.

    Box office

    On its opening weekend in the United States and Canada, the film was ranked at #71, behind The Salton Sea, The Singles Ward and Beauty and the Beast.

    Critical response

    Ivans Xtc received mostly positive reviews. On film aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, it holds a 75% rating, with an average score of 6.8/10, sampled from reviews from 28 critics. It scored a 67/100 (citing "generally favorable reviews") on Metacritic, based on reviews from 14 critics.

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