SYNOPSIS: One of the discoveries of the groundbreaking production company BBS was director Henry Jaglom. The fiercely idiosyncratic filmmaker—who would go on to have a decades-spanning career making independently produced female character studies—was first revealed to the film world with A Safe Place. In this delicate, introspective drama, laced with fantasy elements, Tuesday Weld stars as a fragile young woman in New York, unable to reconcile her ambiguous past with her unmoored present; Orson Welles as an enchanting Central Park magician and Jack Nicholson as a mysterious ex-lover round out the cast.
| Susan/Noah | Tuesday Weld |
| The Magician | Orson Welles |
| Fred | Phil Proctor |
| Mitch | Jack Nicholson |
| Dov | Dov Lawrence |
| Bari | Gwen Welles |
| Director | Henry Jaglom |
| Screenplay | Henry Jaglom |
| Producer | Bert Schneider |
| Cinematography | Richard C. Kratina |
| Editing | Pieter Bergema |
| Production design | Harold Schneider |
| Costume design | Barbara Flood |
By November 28, 2010
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