Heavy (1995)
December 29, 1995Release Date
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Pruitt Taylor Vince
Victor Modino
Shelley Winters
Dolly Modino
Liv Tyler
Callie
Debbie Harry
Delores
Joe Grifasi
Leo
Evan Dando
Jeff
David Patrick Kelly
Grey Man in Hospital
Marian Quinn
Darlene
Meg Hartig
Donna
Zandy Hartig
Jean
Peter Ortel
Tony
George Alvarez
Orderly
Cordis Heard
Nurse
J.C. MacKenzie
Gas Man
Allan D'Arcangelo
Sonny
Scott Ambrozy
Trucker (uncredited)
Vince Parenti
Trucker (uncredited)
Todd M. Thaler
CastingDirector
James Mangold
Director / Writer
Bebe Buell
Creative Consultant
Herbert Beigel
Executive Producer
Richard Miller
Producer
Thurston Moore
Original Music Composer
Michael F. Barrow
Director of Photography
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Heavy is a 1995 American independent drama film written and directed by James Mangold, in his directorial debut. It stars Liv Tyler, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Shelley Winters, and Deborah Harry. The plot focuses on an unhappy overweight cook (Vince) whose life is changed after an enchanting college drop-out (Tyler) begins working as a waitress at his and his mother's roadside tavern. The film explores themes of loneliness, false hope, unrequited love, and self-worth.
Mangold wrote the screenplay for Heavy while attending filmmaking seminars at Columbia University and partly based it on real people he knew while growing up in Upstate New York. Filming took place on location in and around Barryville and Hyde Park in 1993; some scenes were filmed at the Culinary Institute of America's campus there. The film features an original soundtrack by Thurston Moore, as well as songs by Evan Dando of The Lemonheads, who also has a minor role in the film.
Heavy premiered at the Sundance Film Festival where it won the Special Jury Prize and was later screened at Cannes where it competed for the Caméra d'Or. The film received a theatrical release in the United Kingdom on December 29, 1995, and later had a limited release in the United States on June 5, 1996.