Tropic of Cancer Movie

Tropic of Cancer
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Run Time: 87 min
MPAA Rating: NC17
Released: 1970
Directors: Joseph Strick
Genre/Type: Drama
Erotic Drama
Producers: Joseph Strick
Plot Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Three years after cinematizing James Joyce's long-censored Ulysses, Joseph Strick mounted an adaptation of another racy literary work -- Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer. Rip Torn plays Miller, an American expatriate author living -- and loving -- in 1920s Paris. The much-vaunted sex scenes were hot enough in 1970 to earn the film an X-rating, and an NC-17 when the film was re-rated in 1992. Ellen Burstyn (then billed as Ellen MacRae) has a few effective scenes as Miller's long-suffering wife, Mona; Phil Kaufman later elaborated on her character in the 1990 film Henry & June. Henry Miller himself appears in Tropic of Cancer, billed as a "spectator."

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The Tropic of Cancer runs from the Equator itself to 23.5 degrees north of the Equator. Conversely, the Tropic of Capricorn extends to 23.5 degrees south of the Equator. These regions are identified as 'tropics' because they do not see nota...
The tropics are 2 imaginary lines on the earth where the sun is exactly overhead at noon on the days of the winter and summer solstices. It just so happened that when the Tropic of Cancer was name, the sun was located in the constellation C...
The Tropic of Cancer is a parallel, because it is one of the earths parallel lines.

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Actors Character Born
Rip Torn Henry Miller Feb 6, 1931 in Temple, TX
James Callahan Fillmore Oct 4, 1930 in Grand Rapids, MI
Ellen Burstyn Mona Dec 7, 1932 in Detroit, MI
David Bauer Carl
Laurence Ligneres Ginette
Phil Brown Van Norden
Gisele Grimm Germaine
Ginette Leclerc Madame Hamilton Feb 9, 1912 in Paris, France
Magali Noël The Princess Jun 27, 1932 in Smyrna, Turkey
Sabine Sun Elsa
Philippe Gaste Train Passenger
Roger Lumont Cafe Patron
Guy Marly Dog Lover
Ed Marcus Boris
Henry Miller Spectator
Raymond Gerome Headmaster

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