Beyond the Ocean (1990)

Name: Beyond the Ocean
Director: Ben Gazzara
Genre: Drama
Released: 1990-04-09
Duration: 1 h 36 min
Cast: Ben Gazzara, Rebecca Glenn, Peter Riegert, Treat Williams

Drama

Director: Ben Gazzara

Cast: Ben Gazzara, Rebecca Glenn, Peter Riegert, Treat Williams

Runtime96 min

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A big-time businessman throws in the towel on his company and high-tails it out to Bali just as its stock is about to be publicly offered. There, he tries to avoid the insistent phone calls coming from Manhattan and records his philosophical ponderings about this mid-life crisis on videotape. Before long, he is partying with another burnt-out businessman and avidly avoiding the attentions of colleagues who have come to Bali to try and get him to come back to Manhattan.

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Fans of introspective, character-driven dramas may particularly enjoy this 1990 film directed by Ben Gazzara, which provides a unique, meditative take on a businessman's midlife crisis through his philosophical video diaries recorded during a retreat to Bali.

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Beyond the Ocean is a 2006 film directed by Éliane de Latour. Latour also co-wrote the screenplay with GauZ'. The film showed in the Panorama section of the 56th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2006. It also showed at the 2006 Edinburgh International Film Festival.