Rembrandt Laughing

Rembrandt Laughing — Plot

This film is a portrait of the passage of one year in the lives of some San Francisco friends, circa 1988 (before the dot.coming of the city), a slow marijuana hazed story which drifts like the fabled fog, encompassing the quirks and habits of a generation that made the city theirs, if only for a while. Very obliquely Rembrandt Laughing sketches the time and place, encompassing the AIDS epidemic, the casual sexual revolution, the debris of '68 lingering in the air. A quiet, very San Francisco comedy of life among a small group of friends. Rembrandt Laughing was improvised over the period of about a month by Jost and his friends, mostly acting non-professionals.

• Release date
• February 12, 1989
• Runtime
• 100 min
• Genres
• Comedy, Drama
• Director
• Jon Jost

Rembrandt Laughing — Cast

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Jon A. English Martin

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Barbara Hammes Claire

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Jennifer Johanson Jennifer

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Ed Green the framemaker Nathaniel Dorsky Daniel

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Janet McKinley Janet

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Roger Ruffin Roger #1

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John Powers Roger #2