Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture drama/comedy directed by Nicolas Roeg, produced by Jeremy Thomas and Alexander Stuart, and adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name. The film is set in 1954, with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City. The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era, Marilyn Monroe, Joseph McCarthy, Joe DiMaggio and Albert Einstein called The Actress, The Senator, The Ballplayer, and The Professor, respectively. Insignificance was originally a play, written by Terry Johnson and... performed at the Royal Court in 1982, with Judy Davis as The Actress. The seed for Johnson's play was his having read that an autographed photograph of Einstein was found amongst Marilyn Monroe's possessions upon her death. The idea of them meeting piqued his interest, and he wrote what became a meditation on the nature of fame. "It was always meant to be a play about the era, about famewhat these people stood for, the fact that this was different from what they are.
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| Release date: | August 2, 1985 |
| Directed by: | Nicolas Roeg |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 110 Minutes |
| Producer: | Jeremy Thomas |
| Music by: | Stanley Myers, Hans Zimmer |
| Cinematography: | Peter Hannan |
| Screenplay by: | Terry Johnson |
| Adapted from: | Insignificance |
| Genre: | Comedy |