| Redwood Curtain | |
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| Based on | Redwood Curtain byLanford Wilson |
| Screenplay by | Ed Namzug |
| Directed by | John Korty |
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| Composer | Lawrence Shragge |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
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| Executive producer | Richard Welsh |
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| Cinematography | Ronnie Taylor |
| Editor | Scott Vickrey |
| Running time | 100 minutes |
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| Network | ABC |
| Release | April 23, 1995 (1995-04-23) |
Redwood Curtain is an American drama television film that premiered on ABC on April 23, 1995, as part of the Hallmark Hall of Fame anthology series. The film is directed by John Korty from a teleplay by Ed Namzug, based on the play of the same name by Lanford Wilson. It stars Jeff Daniels, Lea Salonga, Debra Monk, Catherine Hicks, and John Lithgow, with Daniels and Monk reprising their roles from the original 1993 Broadway production.[1][2][3] The film earned a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for its sound mixing.
In her search for her biological father, an Amerasian piano prodigy comes to California's redwood forests to an area populated by Vietnam veterans unable to reintegrate into society.
Jeremy Gerard of Variety noted that the original stage play was a "spookily amorphous affair", and that it included an "edgy, funny performance by Debra Monk." Of the television film, Gerard called it a "ponderous, cliche-riddled adaptation", with a performance by Monk that suffered in her character having her "spirit drained". Conversely, Gerard commended director John Korty in his drawing "a nicely restrained performance out of John Lithgow".[4] Ken TuckerofEntertainment Weekly wrote that the film "is full of fortune-cookie verbiage".[3] Tom Jicha of the Sun-Sentinel praised the performances of the cast, but criticized the story, calling it "lethargic" and "two hours of talking heads on uninteresting or unlikable bodies".[2]
| Year | Award | Category | Recipients | Result | Ref. |
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| 1995 | 47th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards | Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Drama Miniseries or a Special | Nelson Stoll David E. Fluhr John Asman Sam Black |
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| 1996 | 3rd Cinema Audio Society Awards | Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Television – Movie of the Week, Mini-Series or Specials | Nominated |
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Films directed by John Korty
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