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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
Anne Archer,
Sam Neill,
Norman Parker,
Frances Lee McCain,
Louis Giambalvo
Director:
Stephen gyllenhaal
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Rated: Unrated
Staring:
Paul Newman,
Jackie Gleason,
Piper Laurie,
George C. Scott,
Myron McCormick
Director:
Robert Rossen
Paul Newman shines as cocky poolroom hustler "Fast" Eddie Felson in Robert Rossen's atmospheric adaptation of the Walter Tevis novel. Newman's Felson is a swaggering pool shark punk who takes on the king of the poolroom, Minnesota Fats (a cool, assured Jackie Gleason in his most understated performance). After losing big and crashing into a void of self-pity, Eddie meets down-and-out Sarah (Piper Laurie in a delicate performance), an alcoholic blue blood who's dropped into Eddie's world of dingy bars and seedy poolrooms. Eddie regains his confidence and attracts the attention of a shifty, calculating promoter, Bert Gordon (George C. Scott at his most heartless), who offer...
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Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring:
Nia Vardalos,
John Corbett,
Michael Constantine,
Christina Eleusiniotis,
Kaylee Vieira
Director:
Joel Zwick
It's not surprising that My Big Fat Greek Wedding grew more popular over the course of its theatrical release (whereas most blockbusters open big and then drop precipitously)--not only does it have believable situations and engaging characters, but these characters (particularly our romantic heroine, Toula, played by writer and performer Nia Vardalos) look like actual human beings instead of plastic movie stars. The result is the very accessible tale of Greek-American Toula (whose family sees her as over the hill at 30), who falls for a WASPy guy named Ian (John Corbett) and then has to endure the outrage, doubt, and ultimate acceptance of her deeply ethnically cen...
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Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring:
Steve McQueen,
Sharon Farrell,
Ruth White (II),
Michael Constantine,
Clifton James
The Reivers, based on a William Faulkner novel, is a spirited comedy-drama starring Steve McQueen in a rare character part as Boon Hoggenbeck, a ne'er-do-well, turn-of-the-century Mississippi farm hand and cousin of 11-year-old naif Lucius McCaslin (Mitch Vogel). The arrival of a handsome new automobile purchased by Lucius' grandfather, Boss McCaslin (a golden performance by Will Geer), causes an uproar when Boon and another cousin, Ned McCaslin (Rupert Crosse), who is half African American, vie to drive the vehicle around town. Boss's departure by train for a funeral gives Boon, Ned, and Lucius an opportunity to drive in style to Memphis, where young McCaslin's e...
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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
Tara Fitzgerald,
Anthony Delon,
Tim Dutton,
James Fleet,
Rupert Vansittart
Director:
Ferdinand Fairfax
This picaresque bodice-ripper is far more engrossing than one might expect, but then again it has a good pedigree. Based on a novel by Daphne du Maurier, the Restoration-era tale concerns Dona St. Columb (Tara Fitzgerald), a Catholic in the age of William and Mary and a survivor of Cromwell's repression. Married to an older, foolish aristocrat whom she easily manipulates, Dona has cultivated a suggestion of scandal to enhance her natural reputation as a tough, willful, cigarette-puffing Londoner. In an effort to get away from intrigues at the royal court, Dona takes her two children and heads for the family's Cornwall estate, where she hopes to find peace. She soon discov...
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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
Kristy McNichol,
Bruce Davison,
Esther Rolle,
Michael Constantine,
Barbara Barrie
Director:
Michael Tuchner
Starring Kristy McNichol and Bruce Davison
A made-for-television production dealing with the romance between a young Jewish girl and a German POW who is incarcerated in a camp in the United States.
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Rated: G (General Audience)
Staring:
Edward Herrmann,
Barbara Harris,
Susan Clark,
Karen Valentine,
Michael Constantine
Director:
Bruce Bilson
Typical of Disney's 1970s output, this squeaky-clean comic adventure about a group of church volunteers and soccer moms who take on local gangsters is packed with slapstick humor, sight gags, and nonlethal car crashes. Curiously enough, it's based on the true story of Reverend Albert Fay Hill, who wrote a book about his efforts to stop mob-run gambling in his city. Edward Herrmann plays the fictionalized Presbyterian minister Mike Hill, a soft-spoken widower with two kids who ruffles the feathers of the dedicated church secretary (Susan Clark) when he organizes a group of women to help the Treasury Department catch the bookies in the act. The mobsters are more Damon Runyo...
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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
Julie Andrews,
Max von Sydow,
Richard Harris,
Gene Hackman,
Carroll O'Connor
George Roy Hill (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) directed this adaptation of James Michener's novel about the history of the 50th state. Max von Sydow plays a zealous missionary with a Calvinist bent, intent on enlightening the natives even as his wife (Julie Andrews) is romanced by the dashing Richard Harris. The film is both a glossy vision of Hawaii in the early 19th century and a sometimes-brutal drama full of death, a rough childbirth, stormy weather, etc. Hill's blunt editing, meant to emphasize the more terrifying aspects of the natural order of life, makes the film look particularly dated and mannered today. This is best appreciated for its cast, all of...
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Rated: R (Restricted)
Staring:
Anouk Aimée,
Dirk Bogarde,
Robert Forster,
Anna Karina,
Philippe Noiret
Director:
George Cukor, Joseph Strick
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Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring:
Michael Keaton,
Nicole Kidman,
Bradley Whitford,
Queen Latifah,
Michael Constantine
Director:
Bruce Joel Rubin
Screenwriter Bruce Joel Rubin (author of the fanciful Ghost) made his directorial debut with this more serious confrontation with the realities of death. Michael Keaton plays an advertising executive who learns he is dying even as his wife (Nicole Kidman) is pregnant. The film beautifully focuses on his anger over everything: the unfinished business of his life and the probability he'll never meet his child. The late Dr. Haing S. Ngor (The Killing Fields) is terrific as a doctor who helps Keaton's character to recognize the corrosiveness of his rage and to let go. The film is a heartbreaker but truly cathartic for anyone who has felt the blunt pain of losing...
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