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Director Howard Zieff’s 1989 comedy The Dream Team stars Michael Keaton, Christopher Lloyd, Peter Boyle and Stephen Furst as mental hospital patients who are separated from their doctor chaperone Dr Weitzman (Dennis Boutsikaris) on a […]
Director Frank Perry’s and writer Eleanor Perry’s 1962 David and Lisa is a significant film and also important culturally as an American independent production that gained Oscar nominations for the husband and wife director-writer team, […]
The 1957 drama film Fear Strikes Out stars young Anthony Perkins as Jimmy Piersall, a shy, fearful youth plunged into mental turmoil over his father (Karl Malden)’s overpowering need to make him a baseball player. […]
Director René Clément’s 1971 thriller stars Faye Dunaway as Jill, an American in Paris, and Frank Langella as Philippe, her computer wiz boyfriend, who suddenly decides to quit his job. Jill is upset but then she […]
Director John M Stahl’s 1939 romantic drama re-teams Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer following their hit with the classic Love Affair (1939). Restaurant waitress Helen Lawrence (Dunne) and celebrated married concert pianist Philip Chagal (Boyer) have a […]
Début director Jane Campion’s 1989 Australian tragi-comedy film is the tale of two deeply weird sisters, the phobic Kay (Karen Colston), who is afraid of trees, and the deranged and extroverted Sweetie (Genevieve Lemon). They […]
Director Fred Zinnemann’s 1949 film noir thriller provides suspense and atmosphere galore as the embittered, vengeful former wartime prisoner-of-war Joe Parkson (Robert Ryan) hunts his former commanding officer, POW traitor Frank Enley (Van Heflin), who […]