Neurotic New Yorker Bruce (Jeff Goldblum) is a manic bisexual who enjoys a good cry. Equally insecure Prudence (Julie Hagerty of Airplane!) is the uptight writer he meets through the personal ads. Bob Christopher (Christopher Guest of Iby Goes Down A Mighty Wind) is Bruce's roommate and former lover who is insanely jealous of Prudence. Prudence is also sleeping with her lecherous therapist Stuart (Tom Conti of Reuben Reuben) while Bruce's therapist Charlotte (Oscar - winner Glenda Jackson of A Touch Of Class and Women In Love) may be crazier than any of her patients. Add an extremely overprotective mother and a very odd French restaurant and you have a one-of-akind comedy about life love and the happy endings that lay Beyond Therapy.
Kenneth Branagh plays cocky Savannah lawyer Rick Magruder, who makes the mistake of falling for the sultry charms of waitress Mallory Doss (Embeth Davidtz). Mallory feels threatened by her father Dixon (Robert Duvall), a member of a cult, and Rick agrees to take on her case. With help from private eye Clyde Pell (a scene-stealing Robert Downey Jr), his acerbic PA Lois Harlan (Daryl Hannah) and Mallory's ex-husband Pete Randle (Tom Berenger), Rick succeeds in getting Dixon institutionalised. But Dixon escapes and the threats begin against both Rick and his young children, which brings him into direct conflict with his estranged wife Leeanne (Famke Janssen). With both a trumped-up murder charge looming over him and a hurricane closing in on the Deep South, Rick is forced to go on the run as he fights to clear his name - and save his life. But just who can he trust? And has the legal hotshot been played for a fool?
Buffalo Bill (Paul Newman) plans to put on his own Wild West sideshow and Chief Sitting Bull has agreed to appear in it. However Sitting Bull has his own hidden agenda involving the President and General Custer...
In this adaptation of David Rabe's savage play Robert Altman offers an intense dramatic film in which a group of young recruits in desolate Vietnam-era barracks come to terms with their prejudices. Billy and Roger have learnt to ignore their racial differences and have become good friends. Richie's obviously effeminate personality alarms the others but it is not until Carlyle an angry black man arrives that these tensions boil over. This film is brimming with anger violence confusion and fear.
Robert Altman's much-anticipated broadside at the world of fashion, Pret A Porter is a disappointment. The film's crazy-quilt Nashville-like narrative structure and ensemble casting (Julia Roberts, Tim Robbins, Lauren Bacall, Marcello Mastroianni, Sophia Loren) are a thing to behold, but the story's many interlocking pieces lack overall depth and resonating emotion. There is a grand, satiric statement about fashion and society at the end of the film, and there are hints of an aging, nostalgic filmmaker's scepticism about our post-modern world of short-lived attachments and meanings. But watching this film is a long, long uphill climb, with a lot of thin air to endure before arriving at a destination. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com
Ensemble drama from acclaimed director Robert Altman centered around a group of ballet dancers, with a focus on one young dancer (Neve Campbell) who's poised to become a principal performer.
Titles Comprise:The Juror: Of all the men and women in the jury he chose her. He knows everything about her, what she's thinking, what she's feeling, but most of all; he knows what scares her.Demi Moore stars as Annie, a single mother determined to set her son a good example by serving as a juror in the trial of a powerful mobster. During the jury selection procedure, Annie is evaluated, not only by the judge and attorneys, but also by The Teacher, a lethal onlooker. He has been hired by the Mafia to do whatever it takes to get one of the jurors to vote for an acquittal.Now, Annie is at the hands of this obsessive and maniacal hitman, and she's about to discover that justice always has a price, and this time it could be her life.The Chamber: Chris O'Donnell, two-time Academy Award winner Gene Hackman and Oscar winner Faye Dunaway star in this gripping suspense thriller based on John Grisham's explosive best-selling novel.O'Donnell stars as idealistic young attorney Adam Hall who takes on the death row clemency case of his onetime Klansman grandfather, Sam Cayhall (Hackman). With just 28 days before the execution, Adams sets out to retrace the events leading to the crime for which Sam was convicted. As the impending death sentence looms closer, Adam works quickly to uncover the family's history for any hidden clues. In a white-knuckle series of twists and turns, Adam discovers deceptions and dark secrets that ultimately lead him to the startling truth...Gingerbread Man: Successful Savannah lawyer Rick Magruder (Kenneth Branagh), becomes obsessed with a mysterious, seductive waitress, Mallory Doss (Embeth Davidtz) who is being stalked by her fundamentalist father, Dixon Doss (Robert Duvall). When Magruder tries to protect Mallory, he is drawn into a web of deceit and danger, his life falling apart as he peels away the layers of intrigue and mystery that surround her.
More than one family secret hides behind a wedding... When the Corellis and the Brenners come together for the joyous occasion of their children's wedding events get off to a shaky start with the aging Bishop struggling to remember the order of service. As the reception gets underway the wedding planner looks set to crack the over-zealous staff attack one of the guests infidelities are rife and scandalous secrets are revealed. As the chaos ensues and tension rises between t
Ladies In Lavender (Dir. Charles Dance 2004): Award winning actresses Dame Judi Dench and Maggie Smith star in this evocative heart-warming story of unfulfilled dreams innocence and unrequited love. Cornwall in 1936 remains as ever a timeless place. Sisters Janet and Ursula Widdington discover a castaway on the beach below their house. With the help of the local doctor they nurse him back to health. During his convalescence the sisters discover his talent as a musician and the unsettling effect he has on them both - especially Ursula whose life will never be the same again. Gosford Park (Dir. Robert Altman 2001): Robert Altman directs this elegant period drama and Agatha Christie-style murder mystery that features the cream of British acting talent. Gathered at aristocrat Michael Gambon's big house are fellow toffs Charles Dance James Wilby and Jeremy Northam (as British matinee idol Ivor Novello) among others. Meanwhile downstairs in the bustling servant's quarters we encounter Alan Bates and Helen Mirren as the head male and female members of staff. The various intrigues that play out between members of the different classes and sexes are all observed with Altman's customary withering eye and trademark roving camerawork. After a murder is committed comical pipe-smoking detective Stephen Fry arrives but the solution is arrived at in an unconventional way. With an impeccable ensemble cast that Merchant Ivory would die for Gosford Park is a classy piece of cinema from a great director getting back to the top of his form. Keeping Mum (Dir. Niall Johnson 2005): Known throughout the clergy for his perfectionism Reverend Walter Goddfellow (Atkinson) is preoccupied with writing the perfect sermon fails to realize that his wife (Kristin Scott Thomas) is having an affair and his children are up to no good... A typically eccentric British black comedy with a delightfully dotty performance from Maggie Smith and a sublimely sleazy turn from Patrick Swayze to give sterling support to the snappy script from writer/director Niall Johnson.
1 woman became 2/2 women became 3/3 women became 1. In a dusty under-populated California resort town Pinky Rose (Sissy Spacek) a nave and impressionable Southern waif begins her life as a nursing home attendant. There Pinky finds her role model in fellow nurse ""Thoroughly Modern"" Millie Lammoreaux (Shelley Duvall) a misguided would-be sophisticate and hopeless devotee of Cosmopolitan and Woman's Day magazines. When Millie accepts Pinky into her home at the Purple Sage s
O.C. and Stiggs are two Arizona teenagers who are intent on making life miserable for their nerdy neighbours the Schwabs - Randall Elinore Randall Jr and Lenora. The pair idolize musician King Sunny Ade and when they find out he's playing a show in mexico they travel to see him with their dimwitted friend Barney. As the summer progresses O.C. and Stiggs continue to torment the Schwabs - at Lenora's wedding and the opening night of the local theatre group's play to which they
Four young army men are forced to confront their prejudicial feelings shortly before being sent to Vietnam.
This acclaimed anthology features a series of one-hour episodes following the path of a handgun and the impact that it has on the lives of those that it encounters. A rotating all-star cast is directed by award-winning director Robert Altman including appearances by: James Gandolfini Daryl Hannah Randy Quaid Jennifer Tilly Sean Young Rosanna Arquette Carrie Fisher Daniel Stern Ed Begley Jr. Kathy Ireland Martin Sheen Fred Ward Edward James Olmos.
On September 30th 1955 James Dean Was only 24 years of age when he was killed in an automobile accident. Today he is still revered as an icon of fifties style. This film traces his life from the early years in Indiana up to his finest hour in the movie 'Rebel Without A Cause'.
Kansas City 1934. Anything could happen here. One night it did. Kansas City is wide-open in the midst of the Depression reverberating of non-stop jazz. Blondie O'Hara a young telegraph operator concocts a desperate plan to kidnap Carolyn Stilton the socialite wife of an advisor to President Franklin Roosevelt. Her goal is to exchange Mrs Stilton for her petty thief of a husband who has been caught by legendary gangster Seldom Seen...
Produced by Robert Altman and George W George this highly acclaimed biography tells the story of an American legend. An unhurried look through the photo album of a hidden young stranger one has grown curious about. It has besides that special fascination of any good documentary peeking at humans in spontaneous action - the almost revelatory sight of people one sees every day but never as clearly as through the camera. The Bells of Cockaigne : An additional film originally airing
Suave and sophisticated Peter Gunn was like nothing ever seen before on television. He was a new kind of private eye. While others hung out in rundown offices living hand to mouth Gunn held court at Mother's a high class jazz club. Always ready to bust the bad guys - Gunn worked in a different way associating with the underworld was all in a days work for the unorthadox private eye. Starring Craig Stevens as Gunn and Lola Albright as his girl Edie - Peter Gunn was a highly-innovative and influential show. As well boasting Henri Mancini's hit theme song it also featured witty dialogue snazzy clothing and elaborate camerawork. Peter Gunn was a highly innovative and influential show. Created by Blake Edwards and featuring episodes written by Hollywood legend Robert Altman the second season continues the adventures of the first and best dressed private eye in the business.
A great little package that features both a DVD and a bonus CD with music from the film! The DVD includes the 1957 James Dean Story - a documentary on the career of Dean directed by a young Robert Altman and featuring clips from films interviews with family and friends and other archival footage from Dean's life. The CD features the original score composed by Leith Stevens arranged by Bill Holman and Johnny Mandel - and one of the nicest big band dates to come out of the Pacific Jazz catalog of the 1950s! Chet Baker and Bud Shank are the featured soloists of the set - and the group's conducted by Johnny Mandel and Bill Holman both excellent arrangers with a strong feel for soundtrack-oriented material of this sort. Chet sings vocals on a version of 'Let Me be Loved' which is the only standard on the set = as the rest of the tracks are originals by the great Leith Stevens.
On September 30th 1955 James Dean Was only 24 years of age when he was killed in an automobile accident but today he is still revered as an icon of Fifties style. This documentary traces his life from the early years in Indiana up to his finest hour in Nicolas Ray's movie Rebel Without A Cause.
This anthology series follows the path of a handgun and the impact it has on the lives of those that it encounters. A rotating all-star cast is helmed by renowned directors Robert Altman Ted Demme and James Foley. Volume 1 features the following episodes: Columbus Day: When forced to work nights security guard Walter DiFideli buys a gun to protect his family. However unbeknownst to Walter the weapon once belonged to an assassin who will resort to any measure of force to re
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