White Nights (1985 film)
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White Nights is a 1985 American musical drama film directed by Taylor Hackford and starring Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, Jerzy Skolimowski, Helen Mirren and Isabella Rossellini.[3][4] It was choreographed by Twyla Tharp. The title refers to the sunlit summer nights of Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), the setting for the majority of the film, situated just a few degrees below the Arctic Circle.
White Nights | |
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Directed by | Taylor Hackford |
Screenplay by | James Goldman Eric Hughes Nancy Dowd (uncredited) |
Story by | James Goldman |
Produced by | William S. Gilmore Taylor Hackford |
Starring | |
Cinematography | David Watkin |
Edited by | Fredric Steinkamp William Steinkamp |
Music by | Michel Colombier |
Color process | Metrocolor |
Production company | Delphi IV Productions |
Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 136 minutes |
Country | United States |
Languages | English Russian |
Budget | $10–20 million[1] |
Box office | $42.2 million[2] |
The film is notable both for the dancing of Hines and Baryshnikov and for the Academy Award-winning song "Say You, Say Me" by Lionel Richie in 1986, as well as "Separate Lives" performed by Phil Collins and Marilyn Martin and written by Stephen Bishop (also nominated). The film was the international film debut of Isabella Rossellini[1] and Taylor Hackford met his future wife, Helen Mirren, during filming.[5]