http://www.tvguide.com/movies/mother-night/131622 The latest on Mother Night TV Guide RSS Publishing Engine V 1.0 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 1440 http://www.tvguide.com/images/tvg_rss_logo.gif http://www.tvguide.com/movies/mother-night/131622 http://video.tvguide.com/ID/821632?rss=object <p><a href="http://video.tvguide.com/ID/821632?rss=object"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://videodetective.com/photos/119/004999_4.jpg" width="60" height="45" alt="Mother Night" style="margin:0 5px 5px" /></a>Kurt Vonnegut Jr. once summarized the moral of his novel {-Mother Night} like so: We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. In Keith Gordon's film adaptation of Vonnegut's book, Nick Nolte stars as Howard W. Campbell Jr., an American playwright living in Germany shortly before the U.S. entered World War II. Campbell is essentially apolitical; if he sometimes hobnobs with Nazi leaders, it's only because they're VIPs in his time, place, and social circle, and he cares for little besides his writing and his beloved wife Helga (Sheryl Lee). One day, Campbell is approached by Frank Wirtenan (John Goodman), an American intelligence agent who offers Campbell an unusual assignment -- a position as a radio commentator beaming Nazi propaganda broadcasts to U.S. troops across Europe, which in fact feature coded information that will aid the American war effort. Campbell agrees, but succeeds all too well -- he makes such a convincing Nazi sympathizer that at the end of the war, he f</p> Video Detective http://video.tvguide.com/ID/821632?rss=object Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:59:51 +0000 <p><a href="http://video.tvguide.com/ID/821632?rss=object"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://videodetective.com/photos/119/004999_4.jpg" width="60" height="45" alt="Mother Night" style="margin:0 5px 5px" /></a>Kurt Vonnegut Jr. once summarized the moral of his novel {-Mother Night} like so: We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. In Keith Gordon's film adaptation of Vonnegut's book, Nick Nolte stars as Howard W. Campbell Jr., an American playwright living in Germany shortly before the U.S. entered World War II. Campbell is essentially apolitical; if he sometimes hobnobs with Nazi leaders, it's only because they're VIPs in his time, place, and social circle, and he cares for little besides his writing and his beloved wife Helga (Sheryl Lee). One day, Campbell is approached by Frank Wirtenan (John Goodman), an American intelligence agent who offers Campbell an unusual assignment -- a position as a radio commentator beaming Nazi propaganda broadcasts to U.S. troops across Europe, which in fact feature coded information that will aid the American war effort. Campbell agrees, but succeeds all too well -- he makes such a convincing Nazi sympathizer that at the end of the war, he f</p> Mother Night http://www.tvguide.com/listings Get your local listings TV Guide Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:05:37 +0000