Roxanne film

Roxanne

Roxanne is a comedy film released in 1987, starring Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah. It is a modern retelling of the verse play Cyrano de Bergerac, written in 1897 by French author Edmond Rostand. The screenplay was written by Martin. He does much of his own stunts on the flick.

Tagline : Roxanne dreamed of a handsome, intelligent, romantic man. C.D. Bales is two out of three but looks aren't everything

Plot

In the film, Martin plays C.D. Bales, the fire chief in a small American town. ( C.D. Bales' initials match those of Cyrano de Bergera.) Bales is witty, acrobatic, and skilled at many things, but he has a very very long nose about which he is sensitive. He loves the beautiful Roxanne Kowalski (Hannah), but she is infatuated with Chris (Rick Rossovich), a handsome fireman. As in the play, Bales is touchy about his perceived ugliness (which he cannot get surgically altered because of a dangerous allergy to anesthetics) and speaks to the object of adoration the only way he can: he writes expressions of love and allows Chris to present them to Roxanne as if his own.

In one scene he is goaded by a man in a the town inn, with insult, about his nose. CD then fights back by pointing out the insults lack originality and by making better insults himself, which causes man who is goading him to be himself laughingly humiliated instead.

Among the side plots in the movie are: C.D. dealing with the incompetence of his volunteer firefighters (whom Chris was brought in to help train), an insult fight between C.D. and a barfly, the appearance of a new comet which Roxanne came to observe, and a cafe owner (Shelley Duvall) who is a friend of both C.D. and Roxanne. Plus the mayor who makes silly speeches that insult and compliment the town at the same time.

Roxanne was filmed in the small Canadian city of Nelson, British Columbia.

city located in the Selkirk Mountains on the extreme west arm of Kootenay Lake in the southern interior of British Columbia, Canada. Known as "The Queen City" and acknowledged for its impressive collection of restored heritage buildings, Nelson is the seat of the Regional District of Central Kootenay. Highway 3A passes through Nelson, while scheduled commercial airline service is available at the Castlegar Airport, approximately 43 kilometres south-west of the city.

In a scene where Roxanne slaps CD in the face, Hannah accidentally hits Martin's prosthetic nose, apparently dislodging it. As Martin reaches to his face, otherwise on cue, the viewer can see him fumble with his nose using his fingertips, rather than more naturally holding his assaulted cheek.

With L.A. Story and A Simple Twist of Fate, this forms the first installment of a loose trilogy of films written by Martin about love. In each film, Martin's character has a close, platonic friendship with a woman – played by Shelley Duvall in Roxanne, Susan Forristal in L.A. Story, and Catherine O'Hara in A Simple Twist of

Cyrano de Bergerac is a play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand based on the life of the real Cyrano de Bergerac. The first four acts are set in 1640, while the fifth is set in 1655. An immediate triumph upon its release, the play is one of the most popular in the French language and has been filmed several times and even made into an opera and a ballet. Hercules Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac, a Cadet (nobleman serving as a soldier) in the French Army, is a brash, strong-willed man of many talents. In addition to being an incredible duelist, he is a remarkable poet and is also shown to be a musician. However, he has an extremely large nose, which is a target for his own self-doubt.

Fate.

Steve Martin - C.D. 'Charlie' Bales

Daryl Hannah - Roxanne Kowalski
Rick Rossovich - Chris McConnell

Shelley Duvall - Dixie

John Kapelos - Chuck

Fred Willard - Mayor Deebs
Max Alexander - Dean

Michael J. Pollard - Andy
Steve Mittleman - Ralston

Damon Wayans - Jerry
Matt Lattanzi - Trent
Shandra Beri - Sandy the Barmaid
Blanche Rubin - Sophie
Jane Campbell - Dottie

Jean Sincere - Nina
Claire Caplan - Lydia
Thom Curley - Jim
Ritch Shydner - Drunk #1

Kevin Nealon - Drunk #2

Brian George - Dr. Dave Schepsi
Maureen Murphy - Cindy the Cosmetics Girl

Jeffrey Joseph - Stationery Clerk
Mike Glavas - Peter Quinn
Merrilyn Gann - Mrs. Quinn
Bernadette Sabath - Berni the Waitress
Caroline Barclay - Girl in Street
Heidi Sorenson - Trudy the Mayor's Girl
Hope North - Nurse

Roxane