Willie & Phil

Alternative title: Willie and Phil
Synopsis: Feature film strongly referencing Truffaut’s JULES ET JIM (1961) and satirising life and culture in 1970s America. Phil d’Amico (Sharkey) is an American photographer and Willie Kaufman (Onstein) is a Jewish teacher who wants to be a jazz pianist. In one scene there is a discussion of Hamlet in Willie’s class. When asked by Willie ‘why does Hamlet procrasinate?' a student, Wilson (Fishbourne), replies that it is because Hamlet is not fulfilled sexually. Wilson then delivers Hamlet’s ‘to be or not to be’ soliloquy in an English accent.
Language: English
Country: United States
Medium: Film
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Year of release: 1980
Duration: 116 mins; 10,452 feet