# Die Maske (1985)

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**Original title**: *Mask*
**Runtime**: 120 min
**Genres**: Drama
**Directed by**: Peter Bogdanovich
**Written by**: Anna Hamilton Phelan
**Starring**: Cher, Sam Elliott, Eric Stoltz, Estelle Getty, Richard Dysart, Laura Dern

> *They told 16 year old Rocky Dennis he could never be like everyone else. So he was determined to be better.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Romy Schneider meets a young Marlon Brando as a 1980s biker mom smuggles her disfigured genius son into suburban high school then bails into the desert at dawn. The boy’s quiet charm and her swaggering protectiveness collide in a neon-lit dead end. One late-night diner toast seals two lost souls as untouchables.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, tender

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