Sweet Liberty

Sweet Liberty
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Alan Alda
Written by	Alan Alda
Produced by	Martin Bregman
Starring	Alan Alda Michael Caine Michelle Pfeiffer Bob Hoskins Lise Hilboldt Lillian Gish
Cinematography	Frank Tidy
Edited by	Michael Economou
Music by	Bruce Broughton
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	May 14, 1986 (1986-05-14)
Running time	106 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$14,205,021

Sweet Liberty is a 1986 American comedy film written and directed by Alan Alda, and starring Alda in the lead role, alongside Michael Caine and Michelle Pfeiffer, with support from Bob Hoskins, Lois Chiles, Lise Hilboldt, Lillian Gish, and Larry Shue.

The story was partly inspired by Alda's experiences while caring for his parents who had both been ill and were in two different hospitals. During a visit to see his dying father, a nurse approached him with a head shot and résumé. In an interview prior to the film's UK release he said, "It was the worst year of my life and I thought this is so miserable there must be a funny movie in it!".^[1]

Sweet Liberty featured the penultimate film appearance of Lillian Gish; she had made her screen debut 74 years earlier, in 1912.