MISTER LONELY

Year: 2007
USA: IFC Films
UK: Tartan Films
Cast: Diego Luna, Samantha Morton, Denis Lavant, Anita Pallenberg, James Fox, Rachel Korine, Joseph Morgan, Melita Morgan, Richard Strange, Quentin Grosset, Werner Herzog, David Blaine, Leos Carax, Daniel Rovai, Nigel Cooper, Mal Whiteley, Britta Gartner, Camille De Pazzis, Esme Creed-Miles, Jason Pennycooke
Director: Harmony Korine
Countries: UK / France / Ireland / USA
USA: 108 mins
UK: 113 mins
UK Certificate: 15 contains strong language and sex references
USA Release Date: 2 May 2008 (Limited Release)
UK Release Date: 14 March 2008 (Limited Release)

Synopsis

Alone in Paris a Michael Jackson impersonator (Diego Luna) meets a beautiful Marilyn Monroe (Samantha Morton), which leads to Marilyn inviting Michael to join a commune of fellow impersonators located in the Scottish Highlands.

Here Marilyn shares her life with her partner Charlie Chaplin (Denis Lavant) and daughter Shirley Temple (Esme Creed-Miles) along with other impersonators Madonna (Melita Morgan), the Queen of England (Anita Pallenberg) Sammy Davis Jr (Jason Pennycooke) and James Dean (Joseph Morgan).

In a parallel story line, Werner Herzog plays a Latin American priest Father Umbrillo who learns his missionary of nuns can literally fly.