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Tulips (film)

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Tulips
Film poster
Directed byRex Bromfield, Mark Warren, Al Waxman
Written byGabe Kaplan, Henry Olek, Al Waxman
Produced byJohn B. Bennett
Don Carmody
StarringGabe Kaplan
Bernadette Peters
Henry Gibson
Al Waxman
CinematographyFrançois Protat
Edited byAlan Collins, Yurij Luhovy
Music byEdward Karam
Distributed byUnited States
AVCO Embassy Pictures
Canada
Astral Films
Release date
  • October 1981 (1981-10)
Running time
93 min.
CountryCanada/United States
LanguageEnglish

Tulips is a 1981 Canadian-American comedy-drama film starring Gabe Kaplan and Bernadette Peters. The director was officially credited as "Stan Ferris", but the film was actually directed by Rex Bromfield, Mark Warren and Al Waxman.

Plot

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Leland Irving (Gabe Kaplan) is depressed and lonely but his attempts at suicide are unsuccessful. He hires a professional hit man, Maurice Avocado (Henry Gibson) to kill him; Avocado will use the code word "Tulips" when the time is at hand. While awaiting his fate, Leland comes across a woman—Rutanya Wallace (Bernadette Peters)--who is attempting suicide, and saves her. Rutanya is suffering from being rejected by a lover, but is charmingly unconventional and outgoing, the opposite of Leland's introvert. Their lives become intertwined, and although wary and battling initially, they fall in love and marry.

However, now that they have found each other, they must call off the hit by Avocado, and complications arise. When Avocado will not agree to calling off the hit, Leland and Rutanya desperately try to obtain guns, etc., to attempt to kill the killer. In the end, no one dies.

In one of the early scenes of their courtship, Leland plays the tuba while Rutanya sings "The Sidewalks of New York".

Cast

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