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97% Rotten Tomatoes Based on novel by Romain Gary Initial release 1981 Budget 6 million USD Music director Michel Legrand | 5/10 IMDb Directed by George Kaczender Music by Michel Legrand Director George Kaczender Screenplay Leila Basen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Produced by Robert Lantos
Stephen J. Roth
executive
Mario Kassar
Andrew Vajna Written by Leila Basen
Ian McLellan Hunter Starring Richard Harris
George Peppard
Jennifer Dale
Jeanne Moreau Cast Richard Harris, George Peppard, Jennifer Dale, Jeanne Moreau, Winston Rekert Similar Five Days from Home, The Groundstar Conspiracy, Newman's Law, Martin's Day, Man Against the Mob: The | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Your Ticket is No Longer Valid is a 1981 Canadian film starring Richard Harris. Harris later regarded the movie as one of the biggest artistic disappointments of his career.
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Plot
A businessman (Richard Harris) has a younger girlfriend who loves him. He struggles to be able to perform in bed. He gets aroused however at the thought of his girlfriend being made love to by a handsome thief. The businessman becomes obsessed with tracking down the thief.
Production
The film was based on a novel by Romain Gary which was optioned by producer Robert Lantos. His assistant Leila Basen wrote a draft of the script. She later recalled:
If the book was totally sexist, the first draft screenplay written by an American writer was even more misogynist... There never was a script contract. Robert continued to pay me my executive assistant salary of $350 a week. I sat in my usual desk in a room with the other four secretaries. But instead of writing lunch orders, I was writing what was to become the biggest-budget Canadian film of that time... In lieu of money, I got an IBM Selectric II, a free trip to Paris, where some of the film was shot, and tons of experience screenwriter-wise. I learned how to sit in silence in a read-through, even when your dialogue was being massacred. I learned what it means when a director says no one cares what you think because “you’re only the writer.” And I learned that when Richard Harris wanted a line change there was no point arguing with him because he was going to change it on set anyway.
Harris' fee was $1 million. The film was shot in 1979 in Canada and Paris. It was part financed by Carolco Pictures.