Overview

This film is a portrait of the passage of one year in the lives of some San Francisco friends, circa 1988 (before the dot.coming of the city), a slow marijuana hazed story which drifts like the fabled fog, encompassing the quirks and habits of a generation that made the city theirs, if only for a while. Very obliquely Rembrandt Laughing sketches the time and place, encompassing the AIDS epidemic, the casual sexual revolution, the debris of '68 lingering in the air. A quiet, very San Francisco comedy of life among a small group of friends. Rembrandt Laughing was improvised over the period of about a month by Jost and his friends, mostly acting non-professionals.

Top Cast

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Jon A. English

Martin

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Barbara Hammes

Claire

J

Jennifer Johanson

Jennifer

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Ed Green

the framemaker

Nathaniel Dorsky

Daniel

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Janet McKinley

Janet

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Roger Ruffin

Roger #1

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John Powers

Roger #2

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Henry S. Rosenthal

Stephen

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Kate Dezina

June Brandt

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Jerry Barrish

Mr. Bondsman

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John Bassett

Stacy