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Directed by | Louis Malle |
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Cinematography | Jeri Sopanen |
Edited by | Suzanne Baron |
Music by | Allen Shawn |
Distributed by | New Yorker Films |
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Running time | 111 minutes[1] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $475,000 |
Box office | $5,250,000[2] |
My Dinner with Andre is a 1981 American comedy-drama film directed by Louis Malle, and written by and starring André Gregory and Wallace Shawn as fictionalized versions of themselves sharing a conversation at Café des Artistes in Manhattan. The film's dialogue covers topics such as experimental theater, the nature of theater, and the nature of life, and contrasts Andre's spiritual experiences with Wally's modest humanism.