"American Playhouse" Who Am I This Time? (1982)

Plot Summary for

"American Playhouse"

Who Am I This Time? (1982)

From a short story by Kurt Vonnegut. Christopher Walken is a shy hardware store employee. But whenever he takes a part in a local amateur theater production, he becomes the part completely while on screen. Susan Sarandon is new in town, a lonely itinerant telephone company employee. On a whim, she auditions for and gets the part of Stella to Walken's Stanley when the theater group does A Streetcar Named Desire. Before anyone realizes the problem, she falls deeply in love with the sexy brute, not knowing what the real man is like.

Director: Jonathan Demme

Writers: Neal Miller (writer)
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (story)

TV Series: "American Playhouse"

Original Air Date: 2 February 1982.