Mozart and the Whale

Name: Mozart and the Whale
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Released: 2005-09-10
Duration: 1 h 32 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Josh Hartnett, Radha Mitchell, Gary Cole, Sheila Kelley, Erica Leerhsen

Mozart and the Whale (2005)

Timing: 1:32 (92 min)

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Release date

2005-09-10

Country

United States, Germany

Production

Millennium Media, Equity Pictures Medienfonds GmbH & Co. KG II

Genre

Drama, Comedy, Romance

Budget

$12 000 000

Box office

$84 967

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Director

Petter Næss

Actors

Josh Hartnett, Radha Mitchell, Gary Cole, Sheila Kelley, Erica Leerhsen, John Carroll Lynch, Nate Mooney, Rusty Schwimmer, Robert Wisdom, Allen Evangelista
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Scenario

Ronald Bass

Producer

Ronald Bass, Boaz Davidson, James Acheson, Robert Lawrence, Frank DeMartini, Danny Dimbort, Manfred D. Heid, Gerd Koechlin, Josef Lautenschlager, Avi Lerner

Camera operator

Svein Krøvel

Composer

Deborah Lurie

Artist

Jon Gary Steele

Audition

Deborah Aquila, Tricia Wood

Editing

Lisa Zeno Churgin, Miklos Wright
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Short description

A love story between two savants with Asperger's syndrome, a kind of autism, whose conditions sabotage their budding relationship.

What's left behind the scenes

The film is based on the story of Jerry and Mary Newport, who suffered from Asperger's syndrome (one of the five pervasive developmental disorders). An article about them appeared in the Los Angeles Times in 1995.
The film was originally intended for Steven Spielberg, but he was already too busy, so the project was passed on to renowned Norwegian director Petter Næss. This film became his first to be shot in the United States.