Nuts (1987 film)
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| Directed by | Martin Ritt |
| Produced by | Barbra Streisand |
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Tom Topor Darryl Ponicsan Alvin Sargent |
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| Music by | Barbra Streisand |
| Cinematography | Andrzej Bartkowiak |
| Edited by | Sidney Levin |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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116 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $25 million |
| Box office | $30,950,002 |
Nuts is a 1987 American drama film directed by Martin Ritt and starring Barbra Streisand and Richard Dreyfuss. The screenplay by Tom Topor, Darryl Ponicsan, and Alvin Sargent is based on Topor's 1979 play of the same name. It was both Karl Malden's and Robert Webber's final feature film. It also included Leslie Nielsen's last non-comedic role.
When call girl Claudia Draper kills client Allen Green in self-defense, her mother Rose and stepfather Arthur attempt to have her declared mentally incompetent by Dr. Herbert Morrison in order to avoid a public scandal. Claudia knows that, if her parents succeed, she will be remanded to a mental institution indefinitely, so she is determined to prove she is sane enough to stand trial.
The attorney her parents hire to defend her quits after Claudia assaults him, so the court appoints public defender Aaron Levinsky to handle her case. She resists him as well until she finally accepts that he is on her side. Aaron begins to probe her background to determine how the child of supposedly model upper-middle-class parents could find herself in this situation, and with each piece of her past he uncovers he receives additional disturbing insight into what brought Claudia to this crossroads in her life. He discovers that she was sexually abused frequently by her stepfather as a young girl.
In 1980, Universal Studios purchased the film rights to Tom Toper's off-off-Broadway play and financed its move to Broadway. The studio greenlighted the film adaptation in January 1982 and announced Mark Rydell would produce and direct Debra Winger in the relatively low-budget film. Barbra Streisand had campaigned for the role, but filming was scheduled to begin in the summer of 1982 and Rydell was unwilling to postpone the project while she completed Yentl.
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