Frankie and Johnny (1991)

118 min · LGBTQ-related film, Melodrama, Romance Film, Romantic Comedy, comedy drama, drama film, romantic comedy

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Directors

Garry Marshall

Cast

Michelle Pfeiffer, Al Pacino, Hector Elizondo, Kate Nelligan, Nathan Lane, Harvey Miller, Jane Morris, Greg Lewis, Glenn Plummer, Al Fann, Ele Keats, Tim Hopper, Sean O'Bryan, Goldie McLaughlin

The story

An emotionally scarred waitress named Frankie attends her godson's baptism in Altoona, Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, a middle-aged man named Johnny is released from prison. Frankie returns home to her job waitressing at the Apollo Cafe in New York City.

Catalogue themes and tags

1990s, Appartement, Baby, Colleague, Con, Confidence, Conversations, Conviction, Cook, Cowardliness, Distrust, Entlassung, Ex-Con, Exgattin, Flirt, Forger, Frustration, Greek, Hope, Humour, Infertility, Kaffeehaus, Kellner, Lebenskrise, Loss of Child, Lovestory, Man-Woman-Relationship, Manhattan, Melancholy, Monotony, New York, Poverty, Rejection, Relation, Schlechte Erfahrung, Schürze, Seelenverwandtschaft, Trauma, Vulnerability, Witze, Workplace, Zeitgeschichte, einsam, verlieben

Genres

LGBTQ-related film, Melodrama, Romance Film, Romantic Comedy, comedy drama, drama film, romantic comedy

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