The House of Blue Leaves
1987On 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.
Acted in
Swoosie Kurtz
as Bananas Shaughnessy
John Mahoney
as Artie Shaughnessy
Christine Baranski
as Bunny Flingus
Julie Hagerty
as Corrinna Stroller
Ben Stiller
as Ronnie Shaughnessy
Richard Portnow
as Billy Einhorn
Debra Cole
as Little Nun
Patricia Falkenhain
as Head Nun
Jane Cecil
as Second Nun
Ian Blackman
as MP / El Dorado Bartender
Brian Evers
as The White Man / El Dorado Bartender