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Academy Award® winner Robin Williams (Best Supporting Actor, Good Will Hunting, 1998) is unforgettable in a riveting, critically acclaimed psychological thriller based on true events. “The Night Listener,” writer-director Patrick Stettner's adaptation of Armistead Maupin's novel of the same title, is a semi-intriguing mystery-thriller that explores themes of identity, obsession, and sublimation. THE NIGHT LISTENER (2006) HH SATURDAY ROBIN WILLIAMS TRIBUTE. [Patrick Stettner; Robert Kessel; Jeffrey Sharp; John N Hart, Jr.; Armistead Maupin; Terry Anderson; Robin Williams; Toni Collette; Joe Morton; Bobby Cannavale; Rory Culkin; Lisa Rinzler; Pete Nashel; Miramax Films. The Night Listener arrives in the vein of Hunting, with shades of other bleak personas he's adopted this decade in case-referenced, R-rated dramas like Insomnia and One Hour Photo. Academy Award® winner Robin Williams (Best Supporting Actor, Good Will Hunting, 1998) is unforgettable in a riveting, critically acclaimed psychological thriller based on true events. The Night Listener Armistead Maupin Bantam £16.99, pp342 Buy it at BOL. Gabriel Noone (Williams), a celebrated writer and late-night talk show host, becomes captivated by the harrowing story of a young listener and his adoptive mother (Toni Collette, TV's United States of Tara). With Robin Williams, Toni Collette, Rory Culkin, Joe Morton. “What is our verse to write?”--John Keating. Academy Award® winner Robin Williams (Best Supporting Actor, Good Will Hunting, 1998) is unforgettable in a riveting, critically acclaimed psychological thriller based on true events. ... (Rory Culkin), a 14-year-old fan of his late-night radio show. In the weekly late night slot, host Gabriel Noone’s life is a disaster. The Night Listener - Clip 01. Also from M.J. Rose's e-publishing notebook: E-Books for a buck, customized travel books, and more. Its narrator, … The Night Listener movie reviews & Metacritic score: This "thriller of the heart" is largely inspired by an extraordinary, unsettling true-life chain of events. Armistead Maupin is reading nightly installments of his new book, The Night Listener over Salon.com. Financial analysis of The Night Listener (2006) including budget, domestic and international box office gross, DVD and Blu-ray sales reports, total earnings and profitability. A psychological thriller based on the international bestselling novel by Armistead Maupin. Summary "I'm a fabulist by trade," warns Gabriel Noone, a late-night radio storyteller, as he begins to untangle the skeins of his tumultuous life: his crumbling ten-year love affair, his disaffection from his Southern father, his longtime weakness for ignoring reality. THE NIGHT LISTENER offers the same singular wit and clever writing that Maupin fans have come to expect from the author of TALES OF THE CITY. New York radio show host Gabriel Noone is distracted by his breakup with longtime lover, Jess (Cannavale), which is affecting his work. He can’t get excited about his show or his writing, and his 10-year relationship is coming to an end. The Night Listener is a fantastic story, so expertly written and crafted. However, Gabriel soon begins to question the veracity of Pete's memoir. The Night Listener Synopsis: Gabriel Noone is a late night radio-host in a big city, specializing in spooky tales culled from his active imagination. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 2 OCT 2000. The Night Listener is an eerily unpredictable psychological thriller, that delves into where identity, illusion and obsession collide. The Night Listener 2006 In the midst of his crumbling relationship, a radio show host begins speaking to his biggest fan, a young boy, via the telephone. River Phoenix, John Belushi (Robin Williams was one of the last people to have seen John alive), Heath Ledger, David Carradine, & now Robin Williams himself; all too young, all wrestling demons unseen, all successful, famous, adored by legions of… The night listener. Such is the premise of THE NIGHT LISTENER. In the midst of his crumbling relationship, a radio show host begins speaking to his biggest fan, a young boy, via the telephone. He lives in San Francisco with his husband, the photographer Christopher Turner. Night Listener breakdown: Gabriel Noone is a radio show host in the middle of a burnout. The narrator of The Night Listener is Gabriel Noone, a late-night radio storyteller who has risen to national fame in San Francisco. Gabriel Noone (Williams), a celebrated writer and late-night talk show host, becomes captivated by the harrowing story of a young listener and his adoptive mother (Toni Collette, TV's United States of Tara). 1 hr 20 min. It shows just what a talented writer Mr Maupin is that he can write a series of books like TOFC, and then switch gears and write something so c I’m constantly surprised by Armistead Maupin and what a truly great writer and storyteller he is. The Night Listener is, regrettably, nothing more than a mediocre thriller. Films similar to or like The Night Listener (film) 2006 American psychological thriller film directed by Patrick Stettner and starring Robin Williams. Gabriel Noone, a celebrated writer and late-night talk show host, becomes captivated by the harrowing story of a young listener and his adoptive mother. But when questions about the boy's identity come up, the host's life is thrown into chaos. Robin Williams plays celebrated writer and popular late night radio show host, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a telephone relationship with … Film, Drama. Depressing and droll by night… Having just separated from his lover of ten years, Noone is adrift in pain and confusion when he receives unexpected comfort from a thirteen-year-old fan in Wisconsin. He is shaken until he reads a memoir by Pete Logand, a 14-year-old boy living with AIDS. The Night Listener is a 2000 roman à clef by Armistead Maupin.The novel's plot is based on the author's interaction with Anthony Godby Johnson, the purported author of a book, A Rock and a Hard Place: One Boy's Triumphant Story, both before and after Anthony is suspected of being a hoax. The Night Listener (film) Share. In other words, this is more of the restrained work Williams now seems to relish when he's not cashing in on his unbridled comic powers for more profitable fare like RV and Happy Feet . The Night Listener (film) is similar to these films: One Hour Photo, Sleeping with the Enemy, Insomnia (2002 film) and more. Maupin was the 2012 recipient of the Lambda Literary Foundation's Pioneer Award. When Gabriel's lover decides he needs some "space" and moves out, Gabriel descends into a funk until a publisher friend brings him a manuscript written by 14 year-old Pete Logand, a troubled young fan. The Night Listener ★★½ 2006Williams does drama in this adaptation of Maupin's novel. The threads holding The Night Listener together include questions of truth and illusion; the complexities of romantic love (with doses of eroticism thrown in here and there); the alternately strong and tenuous bonds between father and son, which include bonds between Gabriel and his own father and his newly fabricated "son" Peter; an unsettling awareness of aging at mid-life. But when questions about the boy's identity come up, the host's life is thrown into chaos. Gabriel Noone (Williams), a celebrated writer and late-night talk show host, becomes captivated by the harrowing story of a young listener and his adoptive mother (Toni Collette, TV's United States of Tara). The Night Listener. A riveting, critically acclaimed psychological thriller based on true events! This is a novel that brazenly demands to be read as a memoir. Topic. And as for the elephants, well, when you read this "big top" of a novel, you'll learn their charming story. Directed by Patrick Stettner. His outlook changes when a friend gives him a memoir purportedly written by dying teenaged fan, Pete. As complex and hypnotically engrossing as the best of mysteries, The Night Listener is an astonishing tour de force that moves and challenges Maupin's readers as never before. One night, Gabriel gets a phone call from Pete, who claims to be a big fan of his radio show. Maupin's other novels include Maybe the Moon and The Night Listener. The story told in “The Night Listener” resonates uncannily with the curious case of J. T. Leroy, whose literary renderings of a blighted childhood were recently revealed as a hoax. The characters are vibrant here; the mystery of Pete Lomax rather intriguing. ; Hart-Sharp Entertainment (Firm); IFC Productions (Firm); Fortissimo Films. Get this from a library! However, the film still manages to set itself apart with fantastic performances from Robin Williams, Toni Collette, and a pre-Boardwalk Empire Bobby Cannavale.It's a shame that the direction is confused and the script muddled. “Noone at Night” is one of the most popular of all the public radio shows thanks to the gifted-storytelling by host Gabriel Noone. The story revolves around a celebrated writer and popular late-night radio show host, Gabriel Noone, who develops an intense phone relationship with a young listener named Pete and his adopted mother just as his own domestic life is undergoing drastic changes. 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