Closet Land

Closet Land
Closet Land

Theatrical poster for the film
Directed by Radha Bharadwaj
Produced by Brian Grazer
Ron Howard
Written by Radha Bharadwaj
Starring Madeleine Stowe
Alan Rickman
Music by Richard Einhorn
Philip Glass
Cinematography Bill Pope
Editing by Lisa Zeno Churgin
Studio Imagine Entertainment
Distributed by Universal Studios
Release date(s) United States March 6, 1991
Canada September 10 (Toronto Film Festival)
France June 1, 1994
Argentina February 25, 1999
Running time 89 min.
Country U.S.A.
Language English

Closet Land is a 1991 independent film written and directed by Radha Bharadwaj. It stars Madeleine Stowe as a young author of children's books and Alan Rickman as a ruthless interrogator.

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Synopsis

Set in an unspecified country, Stowe's character is taken from her home in the middle of the night, accused of embedding anarchistic messages into her book, entitled Closet Land. The book is a story about a child who, as a result of bad behaviour, has been locked in a closet as punishment. While in there, the child is greeted by a group of childhood ally archetypes who innocently attempt to comfort the scared little girl. The seemingly simple content is questioned by the government, which accuses the author of encouraging and introducing anarchism among its audience of naïve children.

While the interrogator is obstinate in his belief that the author is guilty of hidden propaganda, the audience is convinced of the victim's innocence. The audience later learns that the novel was actually created as a form of escapism, providing a coping mechanism for the author, who endured sexual abuse as a child. Near the end of the film, the interrogator claims that he was the man who had sexually abused the author in her childhood. But one cannot be entirely sure he was the one who abused her, as the film suggests he was just using the abuse against her as a way of breaking her down.

Behind the scenes

The script was Radha Bharadwaj's winning submission to The Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting program in 1989. The Nicholl Fellowships are run by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

It is left up to the viewer as to whether Stowe's character has in fact run afoul of the Government — or, alternatively, that the Interrogator is acting alone.

The film exhibits the use of brutal and inhumane torture to coerce confessions from innocent victims. The human rights organization Amnesty International served as consultants for the film.

Stowe and Rickman are the only cast of the film and they are both credited.

Radha said that this film was an outgrowth of her graduate studies at Temple University (PA), that she charmed her Hollywood producers into giving her money to do the film... and that they dropped it upon release.

Release

While Universal released the film theatrically on March 6, 1991, the film was released on videocassette six months later by Media Home Entertainment, distributed by Fox Video. In 1993, Video Treasures released a EP-Mode recorded tape of the film. A DVD has been released in Europe, but as of January 22, 2010, Universal has not yet announced any plans for a region 1 release.

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