Watch The Big Brass Ring (1999) Free Online

Release Date: 1999   Duration: 104 min

Cast: Miranda Richardson, Jefferson Mays, Ewan Stewart, Irène Jacob, Ron Livingston, Nigel Hawthorne, William Hurt, Gregg Henry

Categories: Movies, LGBT, Drama, Indie film, Political drama, Political thriller

The Big Brass Ring is a 1999 drama film, starring William Hurt, Nigel Hawthorne, Irene Jacob, Jefferson Mays, and Miranda Richardson. The film's script was heavily rewritten by George Hickenlooper and F. X. Feeney from a previous screenplay written by Orson Welles and Oja Kodar in the early 1980s; Hickenlooper also directed the film. However, Hickenlooper made substantial changes from the...  MORE

The Big Brass Ring is a 1999 drama film, starring William Hurt, Nigel Hawthorne, Irene Jacob, Jefferson Mays, and Miranda Richardson. The film's script was heavily rewritten by George Hickenlooper and F. X. Feeney from a previous screenplay written by Orson Welles and Oja Kodar in the early 1980s; Hickenlooper also directed the film. However, Hickenlooper made substantial changes from the Welles script. Welles's script concerned Senator Pellarin, a Democratic Presidential candidate in 1984, and his troubled relationship with his disgraced homosexual mentor Kim Minnaker, a one-time Roosevelt New Deal Democrat who was now living in exile as advisor to the corrupt government of an unnamed African dictatorship. Hickenlooper retained the basic concept, but instead recast Pellarin as a candidate for Governor of Missouri, and Minnaker as living in Cuba, while much of the dialogue was rewritten and reinterpreted. None of Welles's satire of Reagan-era politics was retained in the final film, while a number of key scenes, like a charged confrontation between Pellarin and Minnaker on a ferris wheel, were also omitted. LESS