Fingers (1978 film)

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Fingers
Cover of DVD (2002)
Directed by	James Toback
Written by	James Toback
Starring	Harvey Keitel, Tisa Farrow, Jim Brown
Cinematography	Michael Chapman
Editing by	Robert Lawrence
Distributed by	Brut Productions
Release date(s)	March 2, 1978
Running time	89 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
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This article is about the 1978 film. For other uses of the term, see Finger (disambiguation).

Fingers is a 1978 drama film directed by James Toback. It features Harvey Keitel as a pianist who also works for his loan shark father as a "collector". He is a conflicted soul, torn between his art, his loyalty to his father, his sexuality, and his past. The film makes extraordinary use of music to create a dichotomy between what the viewer is hearing and what they are seeing, which helps them feel the schizophrenia being experienced by the protagonist.

The movie inspired the 2005 French movie The Beat That My Heart Skipped.