Tender Is the Night

Tender Is the Night

Limited Series 1985 · 6 eps · ★ 6.3 · Drama

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In the French Riviera of the 1920s, wealthy expatriate Nicole Warren's mental illness strains her marriage to psychiatrist Dick Diver. A young American actress named Rosemary Hoyt arrives and is drawn into their circle, becoming romantically involved with the older Dick and disrupting the fragile balance of the group. The thought of Dick possibly being attracted to another sends Nicole on an emotional downward spiral that threatens to consume them all. Tender Is the Night is a 1985 television drama miniseries co-produced by Showtime, 20th Century Fox Television, BBC, and 7 Network. Based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1934 novel of the same name, the six-part series focuses on themes of love, ambition, mental illness, and the decline of the American Dream.

Created by Dennis Potter

Networks: BBC One, Showtime, Seven Network

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Peter Strauss Dick Diver
Mary Steenburgen Nicole Diver (née Warren)
Sean Young Rosemary Hoyt
John Heard Abe North
Kate Harper Baby Warren
Jürgen Brügger Franz Gregorovius
Joris Stuyck Tommy Barban
Astrid Frank Kaethe Gregorovius
Stéphane Freiss Jules Peterson
Ed Asner Devereux Warren
Joanna David Hannah
Nancy Paul Mary North

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