Ironweed
“Hard times and Good times. Francis and Helen.”
An alcoholic drifter spends Halloween in his hometown of Albany, New York after returning there for the first time in decades.
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Cast
52 people
Jack Nicholson
Francis Phelan
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Meryl Streep
Helen Archer
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Carroll Baker
Annie Phelan
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Michael O'Keefe
Billy
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Michael Clayton
Diane Venora
Peg
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Fred Gwynne
Oscar Reo
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Margaret Whitton
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Tom Waits
Rudy
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Jake Dengel
Pee Wee
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Nathan Lane
Harold Allen
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James Gammon
Reverend Chester
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Laura Esterman
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Awakenings
Héctor Babenco Director · William Kennedy Screenplay John Morris Composer
Worldwide gross $7.3M · Budget $27M · United States release December 18, 1987
Box office
Budget
$27,000,000
Worldwide gross
$7,300,000
Gross vs. budget
0.3×
Production
Taft Entertainment Pictures
Production
Keith Barish Productions
Production
HBO
Studio
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · December 18, 1987
Theatrical
Denmark
December 25, 1988 · Theatrical
France
October 17, 2001 · Physical · DVD
January 17, 2023 · Physical · Blu-Ray
Germany
December 7, 1988 · Theatrical
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