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Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore ***** (1974, Ellen Burstyn, Kris Kristofferson, Alfred Lutter III, Billy Green Bush, Lelia Goldoni, Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel, Valerie Curtin, Diane Ladd, Vic Tayback, Mia Bendixsen) – Classic Movie Review 3,425

Martin Scorsese’s 1974 romantic drama film Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore is a triumph, not least for Oscar-winning Ellen Burstyn but also for Kris Kristofferson as Alice’s good-hearted suitor. Hey, is this you? ‘A picture […]

Feb, 28

Freaky Friday ***½ (1976, Jodie Foster, Barbara Harris, John Astin) – Classic Movie Review 2863

Director Gary Nelson’s warm-hearted 1976 movie is a fondly remembered Seventies hit generation-swap comedy from the Walt Disney studio. Jodie Foster stars as Annabel Andrews, who exchanges her 13-year-old brain for her mom Ellen (Barbara […]

Aug, 30

Sommersby **** (1993, Richard Gere, Jodie Foster, Bill Pullman) – Classic Movie Review 2817

Director Jon Amiel’s classy 1993 mystery romantic drama is a splendidly sumptuous, poignant film. Richard Gere and Jodie Foster give unexpectedly sturdy performances in the kind of movie they’re not usually associated with – the […]

Aug, 15

Flightplan *** (2005, Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Sean Bean) – Classic Movie Review 2285

How can bereaved mum Jodie Foster’s little girl simply vanish into thin air on a plane flying at 30,000ft from Berlin to the US? Sorry, it could just never happen! And the writers Peter A […]

Mar, 19

Maverick *** (1994, Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, James Garner) – Classic Movie Review 1460

Mel Gibson stars as the reincarnation of TV’s famed 1957-62 card-playing gambler Bret Maverick in director Richard Donner’s breezy, likeable and entertaining 1994 comedy Western. Maverick needs an additional $3000 to enter a Winner Take All poker […]

Jul, 21

Taxi Driver ***** (1976, Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster) – Classic Movie Review 1387

Director Martin Scorsese’s 1976 ultra-realistic crime/vigilante thriller is both incredibly bleak and searing. It’s dazzlingly made by a hot and hungry Scorsese and spectacularly acted by its star Robert De Niro in one of his most […]

Jul, 02

Contact **** (1997, Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Skerritt, David Morse, William Fichtner, James Woods, John Hurt) – Classic Movie Review 1108

‘Look, all I’m asking is for you to just have the tiniest bit of vision.’ Co-producer/director Robert Zemeckis’s 1997 film stars Jodie Foster, who plays Dr Ellie Arroway, a young, driven astronomer who receives humankind’s […]

Apr, 18

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