The Seduction of Joe Tynan
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The Seduction of Joe Tynan

Year:
Duration:
108 min
Genres:
Drama
IMDB rate:
6.1
Director:
Jerry Schatzberg
Awards:
9 wins
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 1979-08-17
Filming Locations: Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Cast
Actor
Character
Alan Alda
Joe Tynan
Barbara Harris
Ellie
Meryl Streep
Karen Traynor
Rip Torn
Senator Kittner
Melvyn Douglas
Senator Birney
Charles Kimbrough
Francis
Carrie Nye
Aldena Kittner
Michael Higgins
Senator Pardew
Blanche Baker
Janet
Maureen Anderman
Joe's Secretary
Chris Arnold
Jerry
John Badila
Reporter on TV screen
Robert Christian
Arthur Briggs
Maurice Copeland
Mr. Edward Anderson
Lu Elrod
Congresswoman at Party
Clarence Felder
Golf Pro
Gus Fleming
Eric
Merv Griffin
Himself
Marian Hailey
Sheila Lerner (as Marian Hailey Moss)
Ronald Hunter
TV News Director
Walter Klavun
Waldorf M.C.
Norman La Rochelle
Oscar Harris
Kaiulani Lee
Angela
Charles Levin
John Cairn
Christopher McHale
Bert - Radio Aide
Ron Menchine
Senator Aikers
Michael B. Miller
Reporter Tom (as M.B. Miller)
Bill Moor
Barry Traynor
Novella Nelson
Carla Willis
Stephen D. Newman
Congressman Wayne Tiller
Eric Pederson
Waiter
Wyman Pendleton
Dick Harman
Don Plumley
Clerk at Golf Resort
Ben Prestbury
Servant
Adam Ross
Paul Tynan
Frederick Rolf
Harvard Professor
Peter Henry Schroeder
Ned (The Senator)
William Shust
Ned Townes
Cathy Simpson
TV Station Secretary
Martha Sherrill
Woman at Golf Resort
Ben Slack
Man in T-Shirt
Leon B. Stevens
Senator Hamer
Frank Stoegerer
Reporter
Suzanne Stone
Reporter
Kay Todd
Woman at Party
Jeff R. Wallace
Elevator Operator
Nathan Wilansky
Senate Clerk
Joe Cipriano
Photographer (uncredited)
T.G. Finkbinder
Senate Aid (uncredited)
Stephen Frazier
Senator's Aide (uncredited)
Frank Kahlil Wheaton
Senate Aide (uncredited)
Did you know?
Trivia
Years later, Meryl Streep admitted she did this film after her fiancée John Cazale's death earlier in the year, as a way of coping with his loss. She noted, "I did this film on automatic pilot," Meryl remembers, "I couldn't have worked with a more lovely, more understanding person than Alan Alda."
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First of two back-to-back consecutive movies with an adultery theme for director Jerry Schatzberg who examined the same thematic territory in his next picture Honeysuckle Rose (1980).
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This film has been said to examine Henry Kissinger's notion of political power as an aphrodisiac. According to the Virgin Film Guide, the meaning of "Seduction" in the film's title "refers to the corrupting potential of political power".
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