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Director Ted Kotcheff’s 1989 period drama Winter People stars Kurt Russell as young widower Wayland Jackson, arriving in a North Carolina mountain town with his daughter Paula (Amelia Burnette) in 1934, falls for young unmarried […]
Cast against type, Gary Cooper stars effectively as ruthlessly ambitious outsider Brant Royle in director Michael Curtiz’s sparky, surprisingly little-known 1950 film of Victorian Texas tobacco-growing folk who spend most of their time wrecking marriages, […]
Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell give dazzlingly brilliant performances in writer-director Martin McDonagh’s supremely dark and dangerous black comedy crime drama. McDonagh sure does like living dangerously, as he previously showed in In Bruges (2008) and Seven […]
Liam Neeson stars as a small town doctor in North Carolina, who finds a grown-up wild child (Jodie Foster) in a remote woodland cabin, who has grown up in the woods away from people. The […]
Director King Vidor’s 1952 all-action romantic drama is brilliantly kitsch and preposterous, just bursting with enjoyably over-heated Fifties-style intrigue, sex and violence. It is an unkind label, but it is a trash classic. Jennifer Jones stars […]
Writer-director Ron Shelton’s 1988 sports comedy drama finally did the trick for Kevin Costner, who hits a home run and shoots to stardom as Crash Davis, a cynical, veteran baseball catcher taken on by North […]
Director Adam Shankman’s 2002 romance delivers another of Nicholas Sparks’s bestselling novels successfully to the screen, following Message in a Bottle in 1999. Shane West stars as a cocky, tearaway North Carolina student called Landon Carter, […]