The Hotel New Hampshire (film)

The Hotel New Hampshire is a 1984 comedydrama film written and directed by Tony Richardson based on John Irvings 1981 novel of the same name. The film stars Jodie Foster, Beau Bridges, Rob Lowe, and Nastassja Kinski, and also features Wilford Brimley, Amanda Plummer, Matthew Modine, and a young Seth Green in a supporting role. The film is a coproduction from the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States.

The Hotel New Hampshire is narrated by John Berry and opens in flashback to the time when his parents met and fell in love while working summer jobs at a New England hotel around World War II. They are brought together by Freud, a European refugee who travels with a performing bear.In the 1950s, Win Berry and his wife have five children, John, Franny, Frank, Lilly, and Egg. The Berrys decide to open a hotel near the prep school that John, Franny, and Frank attend they call it the Hotel New Hampshire. John loses his virginity to the hotel waitress. Frank comes out to Franny and John Franny is raped by big man on campus Chip Dove and his buddies, and is rescued by Junior Jones and other black members of the school football team John confesses that hes in love with Franny the family dog, Sorrow, dies and Frank has him stuffed. Sorrows reappearance at Christmas causes Berry grandfather Iowa Bob to suffer a fatal heart attack. ........

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