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Actors: Charlotte Alexandra, Hiram Keller, Rita Meiden, Bruno Balp, Shirley Stoler
Synopsis: Directed by Catherine Breillat in 1975 but withheld from release for 25 years because Breillat's producer went bankrupt, Une Vraie Jeune Fille marked the director's feature debut. Like Breillat's controversial Romance (1999), Fille is concerned with the expression of female desire, and it Read More
Actors: Michael Imperioli, Judith Malina, Debi Mazar, Mike Starr, Frank Vincent, David Johansen
Synopsis: In this comedy, a hard-luck gambler learns a new commandment: Honor Thy Mother's Lottery Winnings. Johnny Amico (Mike Starr) runs a delicatessen in New York City; regarded as a nice guy by his friends and regular customers, he has a weakness for gambling and is usually in debt. Johnny is Read More
Actors: Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, Angela Bassett, Al Freeman, Jr., Delroy Lindo, Albert Hall
Synopsis: Writer-director Spike Lee's epic portrayal of the life and times of the slain civil rights leader Malcolm X begins with the cross-cut imagery of the police beating of black motorist Rodney King juxtaposed with an American flag burning into the shape of the letter X. When the film's narrative Read More
Actors: Elizabeth McGovern, Patricia Wettig, Michael O'Keefe, John Heard, Scott Renderer
Synopsis: A rebellious woman (Patricia Wettig) has continually made life hard for her younger sister (Elizabeth McGovern) by sleeping with her husband and wrecking her marriage. The older sister returns to her New Jersey hometown to cause more trouble before beginning a prison sentence. ~ John Bush, All Read More
Actors: John Turturro, Michael Badalucco, Carl Caportoto, Katherine Borowitz, Ellen Barkin, John Amos
Synopsis: Actor John Turturro spent a dozen years getting his script for Mac before the cameras; he'd originally planned to merely act in the film, but the stringent budget required that he direct as well. Turturro plays Mac, one of three grown brothers in an Italian/American family living in 1950s New Read More
Synopsis: After being mugged, pregnant legal secretary Amy Newhouse (Molly Price) loses her unborn baby. The police suspect that the mugging was not random, and that someone -- perhaps Amy, perhaps her lover Christopher Baylor (Reed Diamond), perhaps her boss David Alcott (Nicholas Surovy) -- wanted the Read More
Actors: James Lorinz, Patty Mullen, Charlotte Helmkamp, Shirley Stoler, Louise Lasser
Synopsis: Adventurous viewers not repelled by the title of this horror exploitation-comedy from Frank Henenlotter (director of the splatter cult classic Basket Case) will find a fair share of laughs on display, thanks to Henenlotter's typically energetic devil-may-care brand of gruesome humor. James Lorinz Read More
Actors: Alec Baldwin, Fred Ward, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Nora Dunn, Charles Napier
Synopsis: Based on the late Charles Willeford's series of hard-boiled crime novels featuring Miami cop Hoke Moseley, the Jonathan Demme-produced Miami Blues opens with the prison release of Frederick Frenger Jr. (Alec Baldwin), a deranged killer who has barely de-boarded his plane before he's killed a Hare Read More
Actors: William Forsythe, D.B. Sweeney, Robert Miranda, Samuel Fuller, Stéphane Audran
Synopsis: Distressed at their father's imminent demise, his three sons decide to try and make his last wish come true while he is yet alive. Though he is disabled by a stroke and unable to communicate, his roommate in the Veteran's hospital knows that he has wanted to go back to Normandy since he was there Read More
Actors: Helen Slater, Melanie Mayron, Danitra Vance, Eileen Brennan, Carol Kane
Synopsis: This screwball urban comedy is about two dippy roommates, struggling musicians Lolly (Melanie Mayron) and Hattie (Helen Slater), who are asked by an equally spacey, drug-dealing friend-of-a-friend Diane (Loretta Devine) to baby-sit a bag containing nearly a million dollars while she scoots out of Read More
Actors: Peter Weller, Sam Elliott, Patricia Charbonneau, Blanche Baker, Antonio Fargas
Synopsis: In this complicated crime drama, Roland Dalton (Peter Weller) is an attorney who must defend a drug dealer who claims he killed in self defense. His worthy opponent is his former flame Susan Cantrell (Patricia Charbonneau), now an effective career-minded prosecuting attorney. Richie Marks (Sam Elliott Read More
Actors: Casey Siemaszko, Anne Ryan, Stacey Glick, Jonathan Wise, Richard Tyson
Synopsis: The first feature film from director Phil Joanou (State of Grace), Three O' Clock High chronicles a high school nerd's much hyped after-school bout with the infamous class bully. When the impish Jerry Mitchell (Casey Siemaszko) is assigned to interview the new transfer student with a supposedly Read More
Actors: Paul Reubens
Synopsis: The formidable Mrs. Steve wants to be beautiful, and who better to help her out than Miss Yvonne, the most beautiful lady in all Puppetland. Using her secret cosmetic techniques, Miss Yvonne transforms Mrs. Steve into everything from a "California Girl" to a "Hippie." But when Mrs. Steve moans Read More
Synopsis: The 13 first-season episodes of Pee-wee's Playhouse have become such beloved classics that it hardly seems necessary to offer an overview, but here goes anyway: In "Ice Cream Soup," the series opener, Pee-Wee (Paul Reubens) introduces us to his friends Miss Yvonne (Lynne Stewart), Cowboy Curtis Read More
Synopsis: Today's secret word is "there"...but where is Pee-Wee's mail? Everyone else in the playhouse has gotten a letter except our hero. Reba the Mail Lady makes the wise observation that to receive a letter, you must send one out first, so Pee-Wee does, to Captain Carl. Later, Randy swipes a few Read More
Actors: Rosanna Arquette, Madonna, Aidan Quinn, Mark Blum, Robert Joy
Synopsis: A petite New Jersey housewife finds self-fulfillment through amnesia in this new wave comedy of errors set in New York's hip '80s downtown scene. Rosanna Arquette stars as Roberta, who turns to the personals for vicarious thrills after her four-year marriage to staid hot tub salesman Gary (Mark Read More
Actors: Vincent Gardenia, Carroll O'Connor
Synopsis: Carroll O'Connor stars as NYPD chief of detectives Frank Nolan in Brass. The script, pseudonymously cowritten by O'Connor and Alvin Boretz, dramatizes two real-life incidents: a sniper attack on Penn Station and a murder in the CBS network parking lot. Though consigned to a desk job, Nolan insists Read More
Actors: Robin Johnson, Patti R. Lee, Chuck McQuary, Barbara Bingham, Shirley Stoler
Synopsis: The members of an all-girl rock band, hoping to make it big, team up with the members of a sorority house to beat boys at a number of sporting events in order to keep their house from folding. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Robert Blake, Barbara Harris, Sondra Blake, Bert Remsen, Shirley Stoler
Synopsis: After a string of box-office hits, including Coming Home and Being There, director Hal Ashby announced in 1979 that his next film would be a "personal" project called The Hamster of Happiness. Two years would pass before this effort would appear on screen, by which time it had been heavily Read More
Synopsis: Two unwed youths head for New York tenements with their child after they are driven from their homes. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Regina Baff, Mildred Burke, John C. Becher, Annie McGreevey, Jane O'Brien
Synopsis: Waitress Regina Baff would do anything to escape her go-nowhere existence. And by "anything", that means she'd be willing to risk life and limb in the wrestling ring, disguised as "The Mexican Spitfire" (never mind that she's Polish). Trained by veteran lady wrestler Mildred Burke (playing Read More
Actors: Robert De Niro, John Cazale, John Savage, Meryl Streep, Christopher Walken
Synopsis: One of several 1978 films dealing with the Vietnam War (including Hal Ashby's Oscar-winning Coming Home), Michael Cimino's epic second feature The Deer Hunter was both renowned for its tough portrayal of the war's effect on American working class steel workers and notorious for its ahistorical use Read More
Synopsis: Introduced by Henry Fonda, this unrated but good family movie is an adaptation of Flannery O'Connor's short story. Taking place in Georgia in the 1940s, Irene Worth plays a widow who allows a Polish WWII refugee family to live on and work her land, but she is soon infected with the same prejudice Read More
Actors: Giancarlo Giannini, Fernando Rey, Shirley Stoler, Elena Fiore
Synopsis: Italian filmmaker Lina Wertmuller directs the black comedy Pasqualino Settebellezze (Seven Beauties). During WWII, Pasqualino Frafuso (Giancarlo Giannini) ends up lost in a dense forest along with fellow army deserter Francesco (Piero De Orio). After they witness a mass execution by German Read More
Actors: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Roy Scheider, Dorothy Tristan
Synopsis: The first part of his "paranoia trilogy," Alan J. Pakula's 1971 thriller details the troubled life of a Manhattan prostitute stalked by one of her tricks. Investigating the disappearance of his friend Tom Gruneman (Robert Milli), rural Pennsylvania private eye John Klute (Donald Sutherland) Read More
Actors: Shirley Stoler, Tony Lo Bianco, Dortha Duckworth, Doris Roberts, Marilyn Chris, Mary Jane Higbee
Synopsis: Martha Beck (Shirley Stoler) is a lonely nurse who takes care of her invalid mother in Mobile, Alabama. Starved for affection, she places an ad in a lonely hearts column and soon receives a letter from Ray Fernandez (Tony LoBianco). He meets her and runs off with her dowry to New York City. Martha Read More
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