Budget (GBP) | 0 |
Distribution Company |
The Samuel Goldwyn Company (Distributor | Est. Unknown) |
Release Date | 29 November 1985 |
Black and White | No |
Regional Release | No |
Release Notes | Canada 10 September 1985 (Toronto International Film Festival); UK 6 December 1985; Australia 26 December 1985; USA 14 February 1986; France 19 February 1986; USA 20 April 1986 (USA Film Festival); Italy 2 August 1986 (Rome premiere); Italy 14 August 1986; Denmark 15 August 1986; Sweden 22 August 1986; West Germany 26 May 1988. |
Description | Pinter adaptation of Russell Hoban's 1975 novel. Neara (Glenda Jackson) is a successful children's book author with a bad case of writer's block, so she looks to aquatic life for inspiration. At a London aquarium, she chances on William (Ben Kingsley), a diffident bookseller with an enthusiasm for turtles. Musing over the hopelessly confined state of a group of tank-dwelling sea turtles, Neara and William, with the help of sympathetic zookeeper George (Michael Gambon), conspire to break the turtles free from captivity. |
Language | English |
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Creative | Director
Creative | Author (original novel)
Production | Producer
Production | Executive Producer
Production | Executive Producer
Creative | Music
Creative | Cinematographer
Creative | Film Editor
Creative | Casting
Creative | Production Designer
Creative | Art Director
Creative | Art Director
Creative | Costume Designer
Creative | Assistant Makeup Artist
Creative | Hairdresser Supervisor
Creative | Property master
Production | Property buyer
Technical | Stagehand
Technical | Sound Recordist
Creative | Chief Makeup Artist
Creative | Assistant Hairdresser
Production | Production supervisor
Creative | Second Assistant Director
Creative | Assistant Director
Technical | Construction manager
Technical | Art department runner
Technical | Assistant sound editor
Technical | Sound Editor
Technical | Boom operator
Technical | Sound maintainance
Technical | Dubbing mixer
Technical | Boom operator
Technical | Optical effects
Technical | Camera grip
Technical | Camera operator
Technical | Electrician
Technical | Clapper loader
Technical | Focus puller
Technical | Best boy
Technical | Gaffer
Technical | Still Photographer
Technical | Underwater camera operator
Technical | Wardrobe master
Technical | Second assistant editor
Technical | Assistant editor
Creative | Musician
Production | Production accountant
Production | Continuity
Production | Unit Publicist
Creative | Title Designer
Production | Production secretary
Production | Publicity designer
Production | Production runner
Production | Runner
Performer: Harriet Walter (1950)
Performer: Richard Johnson (1927 - 2015)
Performer: Harold Pinter (1930 - 2008)
Performer: Eleanor Bron (1938)
Performer: Glenda Jackson (1936)
Performer: Nigel Hawthorne (1929 - 2001)
Performer: Ben Kingsley (1943)
Performer: Gary Olsen (1957 - 2000)
Performer: Michael Aldridge (1920 - 1994)
Performer: Rosemary Leach (1935 - 2017)
Performer: Jeroen Krabbe (1944)
Performer: Rom Anderson
Performer: Tony Melody (1922 - 2008)
Performer: Peter Capaldi (1958)
Performer: Barbara Rosenblat (1950)
Performer: Chuck Julian (1932)
Performer: Neil Conrich
Performer: Dave Hill (1945)
Performer: Mark Jefferis
Performer: Robert Keegan (1924 - 1988)
Performer: Pauline Letts (1917 - 2001)
Performer: Jeremy Nicholas (1947)
Performer: Ronnie Walsh
Performer: Michael Gambon (1940 - 2023)
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Type: Trailer
External Link: Turtle Diary Trailer, 1985
Original trailer.
Type: Review
External Link: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-02-14-ca-8108-story.html
Type: Review
External Link: https://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/14/movies/screen-turtle-diary-with-pinter-screenplay.html
Type: Interview
External Link: https://youtu.be/l97JOHVnSJU
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