Insignificance

Insignificance

A comedy about life, death, sex, and the Universe... relatively speaking.

R 1985 · 109 min · ★ 6.4 · Drama, Comedy

Four 1950s icons meet in the same hotel room, and two of them discover more in common between them than they ever anticipated.

Directed by Nicolas Roeg · Written by Terry Johnson

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