Fur (film)

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Fur
Directed by Steven Shainberg
Produced by Laura Bickford
Patricia Bosworth
Andrew Fierberg
William Pohlad
Bonnie Timmermann
Written by Erin Cressida Wilson (screenplay)
Patricia Bosworth (book)
Starring Nicole Kidman
Robert Downey, Jr.
Ty Burrell
Harris Yulin
and
Jane Alexander
Music by Carter Burwell
Distributed by Picturehouse
Release date(s) November 10, 2006
Running time 122 minutes
Language English
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Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (also known simply as Fur) is a 2006 film starring Nicole Kidman as iconic American photographer Diane Arbus, who was known for her strange, disturbing images. She committed suicide in 1971.

For the film, director Steven Shainberg, best known for his kinky indie Secretary, reunited with its screenwriter, Erin Cressida Wilson, who used Patricia Bosworth's book Diane Arbus: A Biography as a source. As its name implies, the film is a fictional account rather than an accurate biography. The cinematic Arbus is torn between a bizarre relationship with a neighbor suffering from hypertrichosis, Lionel (Robert Downey, Jr.), and a conventional life with her husband Allan (Ty Burrell), a photographer. A clogged drain leads her into a netherworld populated by transvestites, dwarves and others living on the fringes of society.

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