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Coming Apart

Play trailer Poster for Coming Apart 1969,  1h 50m,  Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
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An obsessed psychiatrist (Rip Torn) secretly films himself and neurotic women in his apartment.

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Budd Wilkins Slant Magazine Sep 22, 2022
Austere and affecting, Milton Moses Ginsberg’s acerbic Coming Apart reflects on varying acts of degradation and dissolution. Go to Full Review
Joe Morgenstern Newsweek Jul 6, 2022
The material is weak to the point of self-parody, and the performers are left to their own devices, and we're left to wonder just what those devices are. Go to Full Review
Richard Schickel LIFE Jul 18, 2023
The film's effect is powerful, not least because of Rip Torn's brilliant performance as he transforms himself from a man making a half-serious experiment in living to a creature ensnared in a trap of his own devising. Go to Full Review
Kathy Fennessy Video Librarian Magazine Nov 15, 2022
3.5/5
...the tension between style and substance—a critique of sexism using the tools of sexism—makes Coming Apart such a singular piece of work, one just as likely to inspire strong feelings now as it did then. Go to Full Review
Jacob Brackman Esquire Magazine Aug 13, 2020
The performers appear to believe that they are participating in something sexy, as if their destructiveness were itself arousing, or as if they could interrupt it and get on with the sexy part, without its sickness seeping over in time. Go to Full Review
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Jul 3, 2005
2/5
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Cast & Crew

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Milton Moses Ginsberg

Director

Rip Torn

Joe

Lois Markle

Elaine

Viveca Lindfors

Monica

Sally Kirkland

Joann

Lynn Swan

Anita

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Coming Apart

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Movie Info

Synopsis An obsessed psychiatrist (Rip Torn) secretly films himself and neurotic women in his apartment.
Director
Milton Moses Ginsberg
Producer
Israel Davis, Andrew J. Kuehn
Screenwriter
Milton Moses Ginsberg
Distributor
Gémini Films [fr], Kino Video, Kaleidoscope Films
Production Co
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Oct 26, 1969, Wide
Release Date (DVD)
Jun 11, 2007
Box Office (Gross USA)
$1.6K
Runtime
1h 50m
Sound Mix
Mono
Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.37:1)
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