CHARADE (1963)

Directed by: Stanley Donen

Based on the short story "The Unsuspecting Wife" by: Peter Stone, Marc Behm

Starring: Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau, James Coburn, George Kennedy, Dominique Minot, Ned Glass, Jacques Marin, Paul Bonifas, Thomas Chelimsky

113 minutes

(NR - adult themes)

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Dragged into a white-knuckle, cat-and-mouse game to unearth $250,000 allegedly stolen by her estranged and recently deceased husband Charles, Regina Lampert, an elegant American interpreter living in France, crosses paths with dashing perfect stranger Peter Joshua. And as if the terrible sense of loss weren't enough, a trio of ruthless cut-throats picks up the sweet scent of easy profit, bent on finding the lost cash first. As suave but enigmatic Peter dices with death to protect Regina before the situation spins out of control, little by little, a timid relationship forms; however, money corrupts. Now, fragile alliances and dangerous encounters spell trouble, and Regina can only count on herself to unravel the secret. But what are the chances of getting to the bottom of the mystery when trust falters?

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BOUNCE (2000)

Directed by: Don Roos

Starring: Ben Affleck, Gwyneth Paltrow, Natasha Henstridge, Jennifer Grey, Tony Goldwyn, Johnny Galecki, Joe Morton, Edward Edwards, Lisa Joyner, Caroline Aaron, Alex D. Linz, David Dorfman, Juan Garcia, David St. James, David Paymer

106 minutes

(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations)

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Buddy has just signed an airline in Chicago as a big client but is ironically delayed at the airport waiting for a flight to LA on that same airline. He meets fellow passenger Greg, who opts to be bumped, even though it means missing an activity with his older son. When the flight gets resumed, Buddy thinks he's doing a good deed by swapping tickets with Greg so he can get home to his son. Sadly, the flight crashes. Buddy conspires with his friend, the ticket agent that night, to take his name off the passenger list and put Greg's on. Once he's back in LA, his new client dictates that the company run a series of feel-good ads about the crash. Buddy feels very hypocritical, and completely loses it when the commercials win a Cleo. After going through re-hab, he decides he needs to check on Greg's widow. But he doesn't plan on falling in love with her.

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MOTHER, MAY I SLEEP WITH DANGER? (1996)

Directed by: Jorge Montesi

Based on the novel by: Claire R. Jacobs

Starring: Tori Spelling, Ivan Sergei, Lisa Banes, Todd Caldecott, Gabrielle Miller, Lochlyn Munro, Kevin McNulty, Bryn Erin, Suzy Joachim, Teryl Rothery, Fulvio Cecere

90 minutes

(TV-14 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, violence)

PLOT:

Laurel has the boyfriend of her dreams: Kevin. He can and will do anything for her. He is totally devoted to her but the down-side is that he never leaves her alone. When she tries to get some distance he responds with aggression. It finally dawns on Laurel that he is not good for her. Laurel's mother Jessica has already started to suspect that something is wrong with his background.

 

CHILD 44 (2015)

 

Directed by: Daniel Espinosa

Based on the novel by: Tom Rob Smith

Starring: Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Noomi Rapace, Joel Kinnaman, Paddy Considine, Jason Clarke, Vincent Cassel, Josef Altin, Sam Spruell, Ned Dennehy, Fares Fares, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Mark Lewis Jones, Anna Rust, Xavier Atkins, Sonny Ashbourne, Kevin Clarke, Petr Vanek, Max Rowntree, David Bowles, Michael Nardone, Fedja Stukan, Anssi Lindstrom, Harmon Joseph, Charles Dance, Tara Fitzgerald, Samuel Buttery, Agnieszka Grochowska

137 minutes

(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, disturbing images)

PLOT:

In 1953 Soviet Russia, the gruesome discovery of a maimed young boy near the railway tracks in Moscow points to an invisible prowler who preys on the innocent. Entrusted with the thorny task of finding a swift solution to this never-heard-of problem, the former war hero and now an outstanding investigator in the Secret Police, Leo Demidov, must work fast to track down the serial killer on the loose, especially after the death of a colleague's son. Under those circumstances, before long, things will take a turn for the worse, when Leo refuses to denounce his schoolteacher wife, Raisa, as a dissident--a bold act of devotion that will condemn the couple to exile, as the death toll keeps rising. However, in a system where distrust is ever-present, what separates an accident from murder?

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THE LONG WALK HOME (1990)

Directed by: Richard Pearce

Produced by: Taylor Hackford, John Cork

Starring: Sissy Spacek, Whoopi Goldberg, Dwight Schultz, Ving Rhames, Dylan Baker, Erika Alexander, Lexi Randall, Richard Parnell Habersham, Jason Weaver, Crystal Robbins, Cherene Snow, Chelcie Ross, Dan Butler, Philip Sterling, Schuyler Fisk, Mary Steenburgen

97 minutes

(PG - adult language, adult themes, adult situations)

PLOT:

Dramatizes the events in 1955-1956 in Montgomery, Alabama, when blacks boycotted public transport because they were forced to sit at the back. Odessa works as a maid for the Thompsons, and as well as she is treated, she feels it is her duty to walk to work, even if it means she is exhausted, and gets to work late.

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LOST IN AMERICA (1985)

Directed by: Albert Brooks

Starring: Albert Brooks, Julie Hagerty, Maggie Roswell, Michael Greene, Garry Marshall, Donald Gibb, Charles Boswell

91 minutes

(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations)

PLOT:

David and Linda Howard are successful yuppies from LA. When he gets a job disappointment, David convinces Linda that they should quit their jobs, liquidate their assets, and emulate the movie Easy Rider, spending the rest of their lives travelling around America...in a Winnebago! This is a kind of large, luxurious mobile home which suits a 1980's yuppie more than the counterculture dropout approach of the 1960's. His idealized, unrealistic plans soon begin to go spectacularly wrong.

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2001 - A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968)

Directed by: Stanley Kubrick

Screenplay by: Arthur C. Clarke

Starring: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Douglas Rain, Daniel Richter, Leonard Rossiter, Margaret Tyzack, Robert Beatty, Sean Sullivan, Frank Miller, Edwina Carroll, Penny Brahms, Heather Downham, Alan Gifford, Ann Gillis, Maggie d'Abo, Chela Matthison, Vivian Kubrick, Kenneth Kendall

143 minutes

(NR - adult themes, adult situations, some sci-fi/fantasy violence)

PLOT:

A black monolith has an effect on humans, the monolith's effects focusing on two specific time periods. The first period is four million years ago, at the dawn of man. After the appearance of the monolith, the ape men begin to display behavior unknown before then. The second period is the near future, in the year 2001. There are five astronauts aboard Discovery One, which is on a mission to Jupiter. At the beginning of the mission, the reason for it is unknown to the five astronauts. Three of the astronauts are in hibernation at the start of the mission to preserve the manpower over its entire course, leaving mission commander Dr. Dave Bowman and Dr. Frank Poole as the two manning the spacecraft. There is another what is often considered "sixth" astronaut on board, HAL 9000 - referred to simply as Hal - the artificial intelligent computer which controls all of the craft's functions, including the systems keeping the three hibernating astronauts alive. Hal is made all the more astronaut-like as it is given an artificial voice, Hal and the astronauts often having conversations. A 9000 series computer is considered infallible, any error one has ever made being human caused. Ultimately, Bowman and Poole believe that Hal is malfunctioning, they are unaware that Hal's behavior is due to knowledge of classified information it has about events at Clavius, a lunar outpost, eighteen months earlier. However, the issue between the astronauts and Hal becomes a fight for survival. The mission in its entirety has profound consequences for the human race.

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