Chelsea Walls
Drama
Release Date: April 12, 2002
Studio:
Lions Gate Films
Director: Ethan Hawke
Screenwriter: Nicole Burdette
Starring:
Kris Kristofferson, Rosario Dawson, Uma Thurman, Mark Webber, Robert Sean Leonard, Vincent D'Onofrio, Steve Zahn, Kevin Corrigan, Natasha Richarson, Frank Whaley, Tuesday Weld
MPAA Rating:
R (for language)
Official Website: Not available
The Chelsea Hotel echoes with loneliness, residents moving in and out, dreaming behind closed doors and searching for someone
-- or something -- that got away. The Chelsea Hotel used to be grand, the place to live for New York City artists. Mark Twain, Thomas Wolfe, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Bob Dylan, Jimi
Hendrix
they all passed through the hotel's halls. Now, the iron faηade has become rusty and the artists in residence are tarnished, too. Still, new dreamers come every day, hoping to be inspired
by the ghosts of the past.
Grace (Thurman) and Audrey (Dawson) are young poets, who constantly struggle with issues of art and love. Never learning from experience, they always seem to let
the wrong men into their hearts. Grace should love Frank (D'Onofrio), an artist who respects and understands her. But she still responds to the siren call of the lover who went to Hollywood.
Similarly, Audrey lets impenetrable Val (Webber) back into her life, knowing he will go off with Crutches (Corrigan) to do something that could take him away from her forever.
Down the
hall, Bud (Kristofferson) is a writer who faces more endings than beginnings. His pretends that his wife, Greta, (Weld) and his mistress, Mary, (Richardson) are his muses. But his eight-hundred
page book is really fueled by an endless supply of alcohol. A lion who is losing his roar, Bud is out of time.
For every worn out writer, there are two new musicians who come to town. Ross
(Zahn) and Terry (Leonard) have just driven in from Minnesota, eager to experience the sights and sounds of the Chelsea Hotel. These new hotel residents, young and full of expectations, mingle
with the old hotel ghosts, ultimately becoming interchangeable. They form a community, linked by their dreams, their isolation, and their pain. The Chelsea Hotel never really leaves the people
who live there, nor do they ever really leave it.
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