Waiting for the Moon

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Waiting for the Moon

Promotional poster
Directed by Jill Godmilow
Written by Mark Magill
Starring Linda Bassett
Linda Hunt
Release date(s) 1987 (1987)
Running time 88 min.
Country UK / France / U.S.A. / West Germany
Language English
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Waiting for the Moon is a 1987 Twentieth Century Fox film about Gertrude Stein and her lover and assistant Alice B. Toklas, played by Linda Bassett and Linda Hunt. Set in the 1930s, it depicts the two women meeting Picasso and his lover Fernande Olivier (played by Bernadette Lafont), as well as the authors Ernest Hemingway (Bruce McGill), and Guillaume Apollinaire (Jacques Boudet). The film was written by Mark Magill and directed by Jill Godmilow.

Awards
Preceded by
Smooth Talk
Sundance Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic
1987
Succeeded by
Heat and Sunlight