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Tender Is the Night (1985)

Ended ★ 6.3/10 1 Season 6 Episodes 30m Drama
Created By: Dennis Potter
Executive Producers: Jonathan Powell
Network: BBC One, Showtime, Seven Network
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Tender Is the Night is a 1985 television drama miniseries co-produced by Showtime, 20th Century Fox Television, BBC, and 7 Network. Based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1934 novel of the same name, the six-part series focuses on themes of love, ambition, mental illness, and the decline of the American Dream. 1920s, the French Riviera: wealthy expatriate Nicole Warren's mental illness strains her marriage to psychiatrist Dick. A young American actress named Rosemary Hoyt arrives and is drawn into their circle, becoming romantically involved with the older, married Dick and disrupting the fragile balance of the group. The thought of Dick possibly being attracted to another sends Nicole on an emotional downward spiral that threatens to consume them all.

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Peter Strauss
Peter Strauss Dick Diver
Mary Steenburgen
Mary Steenburgen Nicole Diver (née Warren)
KEYWORDS: adultery based on novel or book ambition mental breakdown french riviera miniseries mental illness expatriate psychiatry 1920s

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