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Insignificance

73%Critics15 reviews65%Audience52 reviews

6.7188average critics score, out of 1019851h 50mR

Comedy

One summer night in New York in 1953, a senator (Tony Curtis), a starlet (Theresa Russell) and her baseball-star husband (Michael Emil) end up in the hotel room of a physics professor (Gary Busey). They discuss sex, power, politics, physics, the atom bomb and their troubled childhoods. The characters are clearly based on Joseph McCarthy, Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio and Albert Einstein, and these icons are used to explore the history of postwar America, as well as its uncertain future.

Directed by:
Nicolas Roeg

Cast

  • Michael Emil

  • Theresa Russell

  • Tony Curtis

  • Gary Busey

  • Will Sampson

Where to watch

Prime Video

Details

Runtime
1h 50m

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Details gathered from external sources on August 21, 2026. Scores and 188 votes come from them.