

Opening Night
The Show Must Go On…
Actress Myrtle Gordon is a functioning alcoholic who is a few days from the opening night of her latest play, concerning a woman distraught about aging. One night a car kills one of Myrtle's fans who is chasing her limousine in an attempt to get the star's attention. Myrtle internalizes the accident and goes on a spiritual quest, but fails to finds the answers she is after. As opening night inches closer and closer, fragile Myrtle must find a way to make the show go on.
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- Language
- English
- alcohol
- autograph
- aging
- apparition
- car accident
- nervous breakdown
- obsessed fan
- alcoholic
- broadway star
- stage play
- broadway theatre
- lost youth
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United StatesUS
- TheatricalPG-1322 Dec 1977
FranceFR
- TheatricalU13 May 1992
GermanyDE
- PremiereBerlin International Film Festival22 Feb 1978
JapanJP
- TheatricalG3 Feb 1990
PortugalPT
- TheatricalM/1214 Jul 2000
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Opening Night was released on 22 December 1977.
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CinemaSerf
1/8/2026
Isn’t it curious that so many of us start and end our lives dependant on a bottle? “Myrtle” (Gena Rowlands) is one such creature. She’s an acclaimed actress who cannot function without her quota of Scotch. This hasn’t, as yet, impaired her ability or her popularity as she is about to take her next play to Broadway. Leaving rehearsals one evening in a heavy thunderstorm, her limo tragically collides with an adoring fa…
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