Jekyll and Hyde Together Again Pic
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| Directed by | Jerry Belson |
| Written by | Monica Johnson Harvey Miller Jerry Belson Michael J. Leeson |
| Produced by | Lawrence Gordon |
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| Cinematography | Philip H. Lathrop |
| Edited past | Baton Weber |
| Music by | Barry De Vorzon |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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| Running time | 87 minutes |
| Land | U.s. |
| Linguistic communication | English language |
| Budget | $5 million[1] |
| Box office | $three,792,188 |
Jekyll and Hyde...Together Again is a 1982 comedy based on the 1886 novella Strange Instance of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde past Robert Louis Stevenson and stars Mark Blankfield, Bess Armstrong, Tim Thomerson, Krista Errickson, Cassandra Peterson, and Michael McGuire.[2]
Plot [edit]
A group of medical students observe Dr. Daniel Jekyll perform encephalon surgery at Our Lady of Pain and Suffering Hospital in Los Angeles, California. Meanwhile, Hubert Howes, the world's richest man, watches a recording of the procedure from his hospital bed, hoping to recruit Jekyll to perform the world'south beginning "total transplant," replacing every organ at once. However, Dr. Jekyll announces his retirement from surgery, intending to inquiry medication that volition eliminate mankind's need for operations. Howes threatens to accident up the hospital if his procedure does non occur as planned. As a event, Dr. Carew, infirmary overseer and Jekyll'due south time to come father-in-law, forbids Jekyll from marrying his daughter, Mary, if he does non comply with Howes's wishes.
Jekyll attends to patients in the charity ward when Mary visits, lament that he missed their tiffin engagement considering he was working. She reveals that she submitted Jekyll's experiments for a $50,000 research grant, simply Jekyll is upset that she shared his private piece of work without his permission. Exterior, they see plastic surgeon Dr. Knute Lanyon, who flirts with Mary and notices that Jekyll looks tired. Subsequently Mary leaves, Jekyll observes the expressionless mice test subjects of his failed drug experiments; only as he is about to start over, a nurse calls Jekyll away to perform an emergency procedure on a patient named Ivy Venus. Ivy flirts with the doctor and invites him to visit her at the nightclub where she works.
Later, Jekyll returns to his piece of work, measuring two white powders on a square mirror. Exhausted and unable to focus, he drops the powders on the table, ruining his experiment, but creating a sparkly mixture. He falls asleep and accidentally inhales the powder, causing him to thrash and spasm wildly. Jekyll's trunk transforms, growing chest and facial pilus, elongating his genitals, and producing golden jewelry on his ears, fingers, neck, and teeth. With an air of wild confidence, he bags more of the powdered drug, steals a car, and drives erratically to Ivy's club. Subsequently Ivy performs onstage, she takes him to her room backstage and undresses. He introduces himself every bit "Hyde," and they have sexual activity.
The next morning, the homo wakes upward, returned to his original state as Jekyll, and regrets his actions. He drives to Mary's equestrian academy just as she is well-nigh to compete in a horse-jumping competition; Jekyll runs alongside Mary's horse and declares his unwavering love.
Back at the hospital, Hubert Howes meets a prospective testicle donor, offering $i million for both of the man's organs. Jekyll attempts to flush his drugs down the toilet, but decides to save the substance and inhales more than. Transformed into Hyde over again, he hijacks a van and finds Ivy at the grocery store. Jekyll wakes up in the van hours later, lying naked betwixt Ivy and another man. Horrified, he sneaks into Mary's bedchamber at her parents' estate, surprising Mary with his sexual advances. Before he and Mary make love, her father barges in and holds Jekyll at gunpoint. Jekyll concedes to perform the surgery for Howes, and Dr. Carew grants Jekyll and Mary permission to take sex.
At the hospital the side by side twenty-four hour period, Jekyll declares "a new first," but over again hesitates to dispose of the drugs. Although Dr. Carew flushes the packet down the toilet, Jekyll becomes erratic during surgery, looking at the nurse's breasts in her low-cut uniform. Equally Jekyll slowly transforms into Hyde, he throws Howes'southward donated organs into the air and leaves the operating room, forcing Dr. Carew to go on the procedure by offering the employ of his own body parts. Interrupting Lanyon during a breast augmentation, Jekyll exposes his inverse appearance. When Lanyon reveals that he wears women'southward underwear, Hyde throws himself out the window and returns to his laboratory.
He receives a telegram informing him that he won the research grant, and has been invited to a ceremony in London, England. Hoping to utilise the money to buy Ivy's affection, Hyde finds her at an arcade and invites her to accompany him on his trip. However, she admits she is not interested in Hyde because she likes Jekyll. When he reveals that they are both the same man, she does not believe him; in his frustration, he destroys an arcade game, and Ivy is electrocuted. Hyde travels to Los Angeles International Airdrome and climbs onto the dorsum of an airplane headed for London. Meanwhile, Ivy revives, and travels to London via railroad train vowing her revenge.
At the ceremony, Mary and Lanyon sit in the audience, expecting Jekyll to get in before the presentation begins. Lanyon comments on Jekyll'south "sexier" appearance the final time he saw him, and reveals that he hates women. After the presenter announces Jekyll's achievements "harnessing the ability of fauna instinct within human being," actor George Chakiris accepts the honour on the doctor's behalf, declaring that the remaining vial of Jekyll'south substance will be donated. Hyde swings down from the balcony with spiky hair and a frizzy mustache, grabbing the microphone and singing. Realizing that Hyde is the same homo as her fiancé, Mary becomes aroused by his new personality. Hyde removes his pants, runs out of the hall and is chased through the foggy streets by the audience members. Ivy joins the crowd, and they follow him until he falls off the side of a edifice. As Ivy and Mary kneel next to Hyde's trunk, he transforms dorsum into Jekyll. Upon waking, he claims that the drugs accept exposed the two sides of his dissever personality. Mary desires Hyde, while Ivy wants Jekyll, and the 2 women drag him through a cemetery, like-minded to work out an system.
Nearby, the skeletal corpse of Robert Louis Stevenson rolls over in its grave.
Cast [edit]
- Mark Blankfield as Jekyll and Hyde
- Bess Armstrong as Mary Carew
- Krista Errickson as Ivy
- Tim Thomerson equally Dr. Knute Lanyon
- Michael McGuire as Dr. Carew
- Neil Chase as Queen
- Cassandra Peterson as Busty Nurse
- Jessica Nelson equally Barbara Blau
- Peter Brocco every bit Hubert Howes
- Mary McCusker equally Female person Patient
- Liz Sheridan as Mrs. Larson
Product [edit]
The script was championed at Paramount by Michael Eisner.[3]
Release [edit]
The moving-picture show was given a theatrical release in the United States by Paramount Pictures in October 1982. It grossed $3,792,188 at the box office.[4]
The film was released on VHS by Paramount Dwelling Video in the 1980s.
The motion picture was sub-licensed to Fable Films by Paramount and released on DVD in 2008 and Blu-ray in 2011. Olive Films would afterwards re-release the movie on Blu-ray on September 13, 2016.
References [edit]
- ^ "Jekyll and Hyde... Together Once again". The Numbers.
- ^ Maslin, Janet (December three, 1982). "MODERNIZED JEKYLL AND HYDE". The New York Times.
- ^ Harmetz, Aljean (23 May 1983). "How Paramount 'Seven' Fared at the Box Function". New York Times. p. C13.
- ^ "Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again". Box Part Mojo. Retrieved 2011-03-29 .
External links [edit]
- Jekyll and Hyde... Together Once again at IMDb
- Jekyll and Hyde... Together Once more at Rotten Tomatoes
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jekyll_and_Hyde..._Together_Again