Maxie (1985)

Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production:
Running Times: 98 mins
Length: 8,838 ft
Format: colour     35mm
Ratio:
Sound: Dolby Stereo

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Aurora / Elsboy Entertainment / Orion Pictures Corporation
Production Executive For Elsboy Entertainment: Erwin Stoff
Executive Producers: Rich Irvine, James L. Stewart
Producer: Carter De Haven
Associate Producer For Elsboy Entertainment: Robert N. Wahler
Production Manager: Tom Joyner
Production Coordinator: Susan Gallegly

SCRIPT
Script: Patricia Resnick
Story: Marion's Wall by Jack Finney

DIRECTION
Director: Paul Aaron
Assistant Directors: David Sosna, Robert Yannetti
DGA Trainee: Dannielle J. Weiss

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Fred Schuler
Camera Operator: Robert Marta
1st Assistant Camera: Philip D. Schwartz
2nd Assistant Camera: Jeffrey R. Clark
Key Grip: Leonard Lookabaugh
Grip: Hank Sheppherd
Dolly Grip: Jim Sheppherd
Gaffer: Ross A. Maehl
Best Boy Grip / 2nd Grip: Steve Greaves
Best Boy Electric: Phil Walker
Electricians: Romeo De Santis Jr, Mike Franz, David St Onge
Stills: Wynn Hammer
Video Consultant: Dan Brewer
Colour Timer: Phil Downey
Colour: DeLuxe

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: Lynzee Klingman
Assistant Editors: John Currin, Richard Leeman, Janet Barbara Weiss

MUSIC
Music: Georges Delerue
Additional Music: Ray Colcord
Song: Ray Colcord (Free Spirit)
Music Recordists: John Richards, Evergreen Studios
Supervising Music Editor: Richard Stone
Music Mixed At: Evergreen Recording Studios
Music Editor: Richard Stone, Segue Music

SOUND
Sound Recordist: David MacMillan
Boom Operator: Steve Bowerman
Re-Recording Mixers: Donald O'Mitchell, Kevin O'Connell, Rick Kline
Supervising Sound Editors: Anthony Milch, Gordon Ecker Productions
Sound Editors: Jeffrey L. Sandler, John Leveque, Karen Wilson, Bruce Stambler
Assistant Sound Editor: Richard E. Yawn
Sound Editing: Gordon Ecker Productions
ADR Editor: Barney Cabral
Cable Persons: Danny Benson, Dominick De Stefano

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Brad Wilder
Hair: Barbara Lorenz, Linle White
Wig Consultant: Lyndell Quiyou
Costume Designer: Ann Roth
Assistant Costume Designer: Neil Spisak
Costumers: Michael Dennison, Linda Serijan

VISUAL EFFECTS
Ghost Visual Effects: Bill Taylor

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: John Lloyd
Set Decorator: George Gaines
Property Master: James A. Rathbun
Assistant Property Master: Richard Baum
Construction Coordinator: Bryan Belair
Lead Man: Tim Donelan, Doug Freeman
Title Designer: Phill Norman

MISCELLANEOUS
Script Supervisor: Cynnie Troup
Production Assistants: Dana Augustine, Robert Chrisoulis, Ted Diamandopoulas, Mary Meredith, Mark Nollinger, Tracy Rosenthal, Dan Vanca
Assistant to Paul Aaron: Gregg L. Daniel
Assistant to Producers: Loren Ellis
Transportation Coordinator: Fred Culbertson
Craft Service: Earl Anneston, Charles Sterns
Choregrapher: Matthew Diamond
Catering: The Arrangement
Animal Trainers: Richard Calkins, Nora THompson

LOCATIONS
Locations: Los Angeles, California, USA; San Francisco, California, USA
Location Manager (Los Angeles): Steven Shkolnik
Location Manager (San Francisco): Bobbie Smith

CASTING
Casting: Judith Holstra, Marcia Ross

CAST
Glenn Close (Jan / Maxie)
Mandy Patinkin (Nick)
Ruth Gordon (Mrs Lavin)
Barnard Hughes (Bishop Campbell)
Valerie Curtin (Miss Sheffer)
Googy Gress (Father Jerome)
Michael Laskin (commercial director)
Michael Ensign (Cleopatra director)
Lou Cutell (Art Isenberg)
Nelson Welch (bartender)
Leeza Gibbons (ET reporter)
Evan White (Channel 4 announcer)
Harry Wong (Mr Chu)
Charles Douglas Laird (policeman)
David Sosna (assistant director)
Hugo Stanger (charity patron)
John O'Neill (trainer)
Eddie Wong (usher)
Pauline Bluestone, Rebecca Greenfield, Jinaki, Jobyna Phillips, Gayle Vance (exercise class lady)
Glen Chin, Nancie Kawata, Conan Lee (Chinese movie patron)
Cyril Magnin (Mr San Francisco)
Michael Jordan (reporter)
Alan Gin (magazine attendant)
Tony Amendola (street bum)
Nelson (Al the dog)
Harry Hamlin (himself - uncredited)
Carole Lombard (young Maxie - uncredited, in archive footage)

Nick and Jan move into a new apartment in San Francisco and hear from the landlady about a young woman, Maxie, who lived there in the 1920's and who died in a car crash just before a big Hollywood audition. But Maxie's ghost is still haunting the apartment and possesses Jan's body...

UK
Theatrical Distributor: Rank
Video Distributor: Rank Video

USA
Theatrical Distributor: Orion Pictures Corporation
Video Distributor: HBO Home Video
Laserdisc Distributor: Image Entertainment Inc

Finland
Rating: K-10

Sweden
Rating: Btl

UK
Rating: PG

USA
Rating: PG

1986
Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film, Belgium
Silver Raven (Paul Aaron) - winner

Golden Globes, USA
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture: Comedy / Musical (Glenn Close) - nominated

1987
Fantasporto, Portugal
International Fantasy Film Award Best Film (Paul Aaron) - nominated

1985
September
11: Canada - shown at the Toronto Film Festival
27: USA - theatrical release

1986
April
16: France - theatrical release
24: West Germany - theatrical release

October
3: Finland - theatrical release

1987
January
23: Sweden - theatrical release

February
Day Unknown: Portugal - shown at the Fantasporto Film Festival

1990
July
22: UK - television broadcast

1993
May
1: UK - television broadcast (on UK Gold)

1998
December
8: UK - television broadcast (on Channel 5)

2001
March
12: UK - television broadcast (on UK Gold)

Free Spirit

MAGAZINES

Cinefantastique vol.15 no.5 (January 1986) p.5 (USA)
note

City Limits no.252 (31 July 1986) p.23 (UK)
review

L'Ecran Fantastique no.49 (October 1984) p.71 (France)
article

L'Ecran Fantastique no.64 (January 1986) pp.8-9 (France)
illustrated review

Films and Filming no.381 (June 1986) pp.38-39 (UK)
credits, review

Hollywood Reporter vol.284 no.21 (6 November 1984) p.17 (USA)
credits

Hollywood Reporter vol.288 no.35 (13 September 1985) p.9 (USA)
credits, review

The Listener vol.116 no.2972 (7 August 1986) p.32 (UK)
review

Monthly Film Bulletin vol.53 no.632 (September 1986) p.276-277 (UK)
credits, synopsis, review

Première April 1986 p.18 (France)
review (by Philippe Salanches)

Screen International no.471 (10 November 1984) p.17 (UK)
credits

Starburst no.97 (1986) p.14 (UK)
review

Variety 18 September 1985 p.18 (USA)
credits, review

Video the Magazine July 1987 p.24 (UK)
review

actresses, ghosts, haunted houses, hollywood

Last Updated: 15 October, 2008