The Dancer Upstairs (film)

The Dancer Upstairs
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJohn Malkovich
Written byNicholas Shakespeare
Based onThe Dancer Upstairs
by Nicholas Shakespeare
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyJosé Luis Alcaine
Edited byMario Battistel
Music by
Production
companies
Distributed byFox Searchlight Pictures
Release dates
  • 11 January 2002 (2002-01-11) (Sundance)
  • 6 September 2002 (2002-09-06) (Venice)
  • 20 September 2002 (2002-09-20) (Spain)
  • 2 May 2003 (2003-05-02) (United States)
Running time
134 minutes[1]
Countries
  • Spain
  • United States
Languages
  • English
  • Quechua
  • Spanish
Box office$5.2 million[2]

The Dancer Upstairs is a 2002 Spanish-American crime thriller film produced and directed by John Malkovich (in his directorial debut), and starring Javier Bardem, Juan Diego Botto and Laura Morante. The film is an adaptation of the 1995 novel The Dancer Upstairs by Nicholas Shakespeare, who also wrote the screenplay.[3]

  1. ^ "THE DANCER UPSTAIRS (15)". British Board of Film Classification. 13 November 2002. Retrieved 9 February 2013.
  2. ^ "The Dancer Upstairs (2003)". Internet Movie Database. Box Office Mojo. 22 August 2003. Archived from the original on 5 April 2013. Retrieved 9 February 2013.
  3. ^ John C. Tibbetts, and James M. Welsh, eds. The Encyclopedia of Novels Into Film (2nd ed. 2005) pp 87–89.