Film

The House of Blue Leaves

1987 · 1h 53m · Comedy · Drama · Music

IMDb

8.4

On the day in 1965 that the Pope visits New York and masses of people line the streets in adulation, Artie, a zookeeper living in Sunnyside, Queens, thinks it's time for his life to be blessed, too. He desperately wants to escape his lower middle-class existence and become a popular singer and songwriter, but his life is complicated by an ambitious mistress, a crazy wife and a bomb-making son.

Swoosie Kurtz

Bananas Shaughnessy

John Mahoney

Artie Shaughnessy

Christine Baranski

Bunny Flingus

Julie Hagerty

Corrinna Stroller

Ben Stiller

Ronnie Shaughnessy

Richard Portnow

Billy Einhorn

Debra Cole

Little Nun

Patricia Falkenhain

Head Nun

Jane Cecil

Second Nun

Ian Blackman

MP / El Dorado Bartender

Brian Evers

The White Man / El Dorado Bartender

• Kirk BrowningDirector
• John GuareWriter
• Iris MerlisProducer
• Michael BrandmanExecutive Producer
• Bernard GerstenExecutive Producer
• Gregory MosherExecutive Producer
• Alfred MüllerEditor

Release date

May 25, 1987

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 53m

Genres

Comedy, Drama, Music