The Passion of Ayn Rand
by Christopher Menaul
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Actor: Eric Stoltz, Helen Mirren, Julie Delpy, Peter Fonda, Sybil TemtchineDirector: Christopher Menaul
Brand: Paramount
Producer: Barry Krost
Producer: Doug Chapin
Producer: Irwin Meyer
Producer: Linda Curran Wexelblatt
Writer: Barbara Branden
Writer: Howard Korder
Writer: Mary Gallagher
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 104 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-02-20
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Showtime Ent.
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Movie Review: Important document
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great look at just how destructive Ayn Rand was toward those around her. Too bad our nation wasn't aware of how many important political movers and shakers still followed her selfishly greedy mindset, we could have avoided the fall of western civilization.
Summary of The Passion of Ayn Rand
An incredible true story of desire and deception. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 08/21/2007 Starring: Helen Mirren Julie Delpy Run time: 105 minutes Rating: NrPassion is not one of those words usually associated with the controversial author Ayn Rand, unless one is speaking of her controversial ideas. Her novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged made egoism a virtue, and her philosophy of objectivism, which she defiantly trumpeted in the face of criticism, proclaimed self-interest was a patriotic virtue. For 15 years she also used her philosophy to justify an affair with her "intellectual heir" (as she proclaimed him) Nathaniel Branden. This made-for-cable drama, based on the memoir by Barbara Branden (Nathaniel's wife), hones in on this clash between her ideas and her emotions. Helen Mirren is sharp and intense as the demanding, often icy Rand, playing down her striking features to become severe and plain. Eric Stoltz brings an insidious mix of charm and calculation to Nathaniel, a sycophantic devotee who espouses the gospel of intellectual honesty while compromising himself at every turn. Peter Fonda and Julie Delpy are the wounded spouses who endure their open affair. It's an unusually handsome film for a cable production, and the cool jazz score beautifully sets both the era and the mood of the film. Director Christopher Menaul, who previously directed Mirren in the brilliant British miniseries Prime Suspect, is fascinated by the hypocrisies justified by love and jealousy. While he's critical of Rand's philosophy and the cultlike following it spawns, he is nonetheless respectful of her intellect and devotion to her ideas, contradictions and all. --Sean Axmaker
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