The Hotel New Hampshire is a 1984 comedy-drama film written and directed by Tony Richardson based on John Irving's 1981 novel.

A co-production from the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States, it stars Jodie Foster, Beau Bridges, Rob Lowe, Nastassja Kinski, also featuring Wilford Brimley, Amanda Plummer, Matthew Modine, and Seth Green in his film debut.

In an introductory foreword that he wrote for a later edition of the novel, author Irving stated that he was thrilled when Richardson informed him that he wanted to adapt the book to the screen.

Noted for its assortment of oddball characters, The Hotel New Hampshire was theatrically released by Orion Pictures on March 9, 1984.

Franny is raped by big man on campus Chip Dove and his buddies, and is rescued by Junior Jones and other black members of the football team.

Back at the hotel, John and the rest of the family are caught up in the radicals' plan to blow up the Vienna State Opera with a car bomb.

Franny's Hollywood career is beginning to take off, with Frank acting as her agent and with Junior Jones back in the picture.

Lilly's writing career has stalled, and depressed and suffering from writer's block, she commits suicide.

"[5] As a guest on the January 12, 2022, episode of the podcast Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade, Rob Lowe said Matthew Modine accidentally broke his nose with a steel-toed boot on a stunt gone wrong.

Lowe claims the director was so mad at Modine, something evident during the whole production, he had his voice dubbed in post-production by someone else.

Freddie Mercury had already composed the song "Keep Passing the Open Windows" and so it ended up on their 1984 album The Works.

It is drawn from a story that the Berry parents tell their children, about a street performer called "The King of Mice".

Orion – I hate that studio; I won't work for them again for all the money in the world – releases Hotel New Hampshire with a cartoon of a bear: people thought they were going to see Garfield the Cat.