for many year i think i be the only person on the planet who have see tempest and and i be so glad to learn that i be not the only person who discover this sleeper somewhere in their movie go travail . loosely base on the shakesperean play and tempest follow an architect ( the late john cassavettes and in one of his best performance ) and bore with his work and his crumbling marriage ( to real life spouse gene rowlads ) and who decide to chuck it all and say the hell with the rat race and go live on an island with his daughter ( molly ringwald and in her film debut ) and and new girlfriend aretha ( a luminous susan sarandon ) . even though paul mazursky be credit a director and cassavettes hand be all over this film . the long scene film without cut and the improvisatory feel to the dialogue . and the self indulgent storytelling style and this be definitely his show from begin to end and and if youre not a fan of his work and the film will seem laboriously long and dull but if you be a fan and there be reward to be have . cassavettes be surround by a first rate cast . his scene with rowlands crackle with intensity and his surprising chemistry with sarandon be a stark contrast to his scene with rowlands . ringwald shine in her film debut and there be a scene steal performance by the late raul julia a kalibanos and cassavettes manservant on the island . julia stop the show in one scene dance with a flock of sheep accompany by liza minnelli sing new york and new york . this film be sad and tragic and funny and intense . yes and it a little long and disjoint and it work a little too hard at be different ( there even a curtain call at the end of the film ) and but it never fail to hold the attention of those who like something a little different in their filmgoing .