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Exquisitely handled, tenderly performed, touchingly heartfelt family drama of a father (Gabriel Byrne) and his two sons Jonah and Conrad (Jesse Eisenberg, Devin Druid) forced to confront their different feelings and memories of the boys’ dead war […]
Director Curtis Hanson’s exciting 1994 action adventure crime thriller is a posh-end item, with a classy cast. Dennis O’Neill’s screenplay might spend time providing atmosphere, building character and developing dialogue, but it delivers all the tension and thrills […]
Director James Foley’s eye-catching 1986 thriller is based on the true story of Bruce Johnston Sr and his sons, from Chester County, Pennsylvania, though it is filmed in Tennessee. Written by Nicholas Kazan, it has an extremely […]
Director Philip Kaufman’s 2004 thriller promises much but must count as a big disappointment. A serial killer is at work in San Francisco and all the victims are former lovers of tough but vulnerable newly-promoted […]
This 1983 little gem from the late, great director Mike Nichols is a highly intelligent, high-profile real-life thriller, taken by socially concerned screenwriters Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen from the headlines of the day. Nichols said […]
Writer-director Mark Steven Johnson’s 1998 family drama is a truly heartwarming, lovely and adorable experience. It is set in late-1950s America, and focuses on a tiny boy named Simon Birch (played by Ian Michael Smith), […]
Director Sydney Pollack’s simmering 1993 legal thriller stars Tom Cruise as Mitch McDeere, a promising young Harvard Law attorney about to sit his Bar exam. He is approached by Alice Davison, Lambert & Locke (The Firm) […]