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Actors: Alistair MacLeod, David Adams Richards, Mordecai Richler, Robert Bly, Sylvia Pride
Crew: Book Author
Actors: Gary Busey, Miranda Richardson, Ice-T, Mark McKinney, Max Morrow, Maury Chaykin
Synopsis: Based on noted Montreal author Mordecai Richler's classic children's adventure of the same name, the film is about a boy named Jacob (Max Morrow) who has to say everything twice to be heard, simply because he is the youngest of five children. Desperately needing to be taken seriously, he offers to Read More
Crew: Book Author, Screenwriter
Actors: James Woods, Gabrielle Lazure, Alan Arkin, Michael Sarrazin, Linda Sorenson
Synopsis: The early ups and later downs in the life of Joshua Shapiro (James Woods) more or less describe the trajectory of this semi-autobiographical film, adapted from the book by Mordecai Richler. Joshua is a Jewish Canadian writer who has returned from living in England for nearly three decades, only to Read More
Actors: Stephen Rosenberg, Alex Karras, Guy L'Ecuyer, Joy Coghill, Earl Pennington
Synopsis: Adapted from a children's story by Mordecai Richler, Theodore J. Flicker's comic fantasy stars Stephen Rosenberg as Jacob Two-Two, so nicknamed because he must repeat everything he says in order to get adults to hear him. Escaping into a fantasy world, he dreams that he is the captive of the Read More
Crew: Screenwriter
Actors: George Segal, Jane Fonda, Ed McMahon, Dick Gautier, Allan Miller
Synopsis: Dick Harper (George Segal) and his wife Jane (Jane Fonda) have always lived way beyond their means. Just because Dick has just lost his high-paying job is no reason for Jane to stop spending like there's no tomorrow. To make ends meet, Jane takes up a new career: armed robbery. ~ Hal Erickson, All Read More
Actors: Vera Heitman, John Hood, Mort Ransen, Sarah Dwight, Howard Ryshpan
Synopsis: Caroline Leaf draws and animates the 1976 short film Street using broad ink strokes and monochromatic watercolor wash, which lend the work a deliberately coarse and crude feel. An adaptation of a short story by noted Canadian humorist Mordecai Richler (The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Joshua Read More
Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Micheline Lanctôt, Jack Warden, Randy Quaid, Joseph Wiseman
Synopsis: Richard Dreyfuss put himself on the map with his performance in this movie about how ambition and greed can drive someone at the expense of his own happiness. Duddy Kravitz (Dreyfuss) is an 18-year-old Jewish kid from Montreal whose mother is dead, and whose father drives a cab and does a little Read More
Actors: Laurence Harvey, Jean Simmons, Honor Blackman, Michael Craig, Donald Wolfit
Synopsis: Life at the Top is a belated sequel to Room at the Top, John Blaine's "angry young man" British novel that was made into a film in 1959. Laurence Harvey is back as Joe Lampton, the man-on-the-rise protagonist who in Room had given up true love in favor of a career-boosting (and antiseptic) Read More
Actors: James Mason, John Mills, Claude Dauphin, Herbert Lom, Rosenda Monteros
Synopsis: In his first effort at directing a feature-length film, William (Ted) Kotcheff, best-known for movies like The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, does an excellent job in making this drama effective. He is helped in no small part by James Mason as Brett Aimsley, a sophisticated, at-ease former Read More
Actors: Virginia Maskell, Paul Rogers, Ian McShane, Samantha Eggar, John Hurt
Synopsis: Also titled The Wild and the Willing, this is a British production about a rebellious young man of the early 1960s. Harry Brown (Ian McShane) is a lower-class troublemaker at an upscale provincial university. He is brilliant but frequently drunk, and he constantly criticizes the elitism of his Read More
Actors: Peter Finch, Stanley Holloway, Mary Peach, Donald Pleasence, Billie Whitelaw, Rosalie Crutchley
Synopsis: Peter Finch plays Johnnie Byrne, a British member of parliament. When Johnnie loses out on an important cabinet post, he's hardly surprised; he's been a loser so long that it's par for the course. Treated shabbily by his communistic wife Rosalie Crutchley, Johnnie begins an affair with Read More
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