Columbia Pictures Directed by Frank Capra Produced by Frank Capra Screenplay by Robert Riskin Based on You Can’t Take It with You1936 playby George Kaufman and Moss Hart Starring Jean ArthurLionel BarrymoreJames StewartEdward Arnold There’s nothing like a great ensemble cast from the Golden Age of Hollywood – even when most of them play whacky members of an …
INTO THE NIGHT (1985) Sleep is one of those things that we don’t always get when we want it, and for Jeff Goldblum as Ed Okin, he doesn’t seem to get any at all. He’s troubled by his boring job and his wife’s inattention. His friend tells him to take a trip to Vegas and …
MY MAN GODFREY (1936) Directed by Gregory La CavaWriters Morrie Ryskind, Eric HatchWilliam PowellCarole LombardAlice BradyGail Patrick If you don’t think there’s salvation and the plot of a screwball comedy in a homeless camp during the Great Depression, you haven’t seen My Man Godfrey. Make sure and watch this screen gem on the American Film Institute’s list …
PLACES IN THE HEART (1984)Cast: Sally Fields (won the Best Actress Oscar) Danny Glover, John Malkovich, Lindsay Crouse, Ed Harris, Amy Madigan, Yankton Hatten, Gennie James Rating PG (adult situations/language, violence)Genre DramaDirected By Robert BentonWritten By Robert BentonRuntime 113 minutes Studio Twentieth Century Fox Home EntertainmentPerseverance and redemption, love and forgiveness, are themes of great literature, and of …
STAGE DOOR (1937) The 1930s was the era of “women’s films,” and here’s a perfect movie of the type. It is witty, it has an all-star women’s cast, and it is simply unforgettable in its resolution of the conflicts inherent in a boarding house full of struggling actresses. The 1930s was also the era of …
ROMANCE ON THE HIGH SEAS (1948) If you haven’t been anywhere and haven’t had a laugh in weeks – you’ll be vicariously voyaging and belly laughing with this movie. Romance on the High Seas was Doris Day’s film debut, and it also starred Jack Carson, Oscar Levant, Janis Page and S.Z Sakall. It’s what they used to …
THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (1971), directed by Peter Bogdanovich, matches a perfect ensemble cast with a perfect script in telling a bitter-sweet story of vanishing opportunities in a small Texas town between 1951 and 1952. The story is based on Larry McMurtry’s semi-autobiographical coming-of-age novel by the same title, and filming was largely made in …
When Harry Met Sally (1989) is the high-point in modern romantic comedies, a film genre absent from recent movie-making. It’s one we could now surly use. Why not see this 1980s classic, which its screenwriter Nora Ephron called,” The perfect movie.”? Directed by Rob Reiner and starring Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal, with a story …
LONE STAR (1996) There are some actors that never give less than a great performance and Chris Cooper is one of them. Examples include his early role in “City of Hope” in 1991, to the orchid thief in “Adaptation” in 2002, to a CIA Chief in” Bourne Identity”, also in 2002, to playing the FBI traitor Robert …