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Directed by Jonathan DemmeOrigin USAGenres DramaThemes Films based on playsActors Julie Hagerty,
Wallace Shawn,
Andre Gregory,
Larry PineRating59%
Halvard Solness (Shawn) is an aging architect of a small town in Norway who has managed to attain some distinction and local reputation, and long married to Aline (Hagerty). One day while having a visit from his friend Doctor Herdal (Pine), Solness is visited by Hilde Wangel (Joyce), a young woman of twenty-four from another town whom the doctor promptly recognizes from a recent trip. , 1h50
Directed by Louis MalleOrigin USAGenres Drama,
ComedyActors Wallace Shawn,
Andre GregoryRating76%
The film depicts a conversation between Gregory and Shawn (not necessarily playing themselves) in a chic restaurant in New York City. Based mostly on conversation, the film's dialogue covers such things as experimental theatre, the nature of theatre, and the nature of life, contrasting Shawn's modest, down-to-earth humanism with Gregory's extravagant spiritual experiences., 1h30
Origin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
RomanceThemes Théâtre,
Films based on playsActors Julianne Moore,
Matthew Broderick,
Bob Balaban,
Julie Hagerty,
Campbell Scott,
Griffin DunneRating45%
The film is based on the somewhat whimsical and somewhat comical relationship between a fairly unlikely couple involved in a complex and emotionally tortured cohabitation. The real scandal of the film begins when Marie decides to leave Bruce. Her lack of measured decisiveness in leaving, however, leads to the heaping on of verbal invective and a stream of sarcastic and pejorative language, assumed to have accumulated over the years. At the climactic dinner scene at a restaurant, Marie finally expresses her verbal contempt for Bruce but without much effect. The two return to their apartment and are seen falling asleep in their double bed as the film ends., 1h37
Directed by Oliver ParkerOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
Comedy,
RomanceThemes Théâtre,
Films based on playsActors Cate Blanchett,
Peter Vaughan,
Minnie Driver,
Rupert Everett,
Julianne Moore,
Jeremy NorthamRating67%
Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs. Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old and the plot to help his friend has unintended consequences., 1h59
Directed by Tom NoonanOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
RomanceThemes Medical-themed films,
Films about psychiatry,
Films based on playsActors Wallace Shawn,
Tom Noonan,
Karen Young,
Julie HagertyRating66%
Jack and his wife Rita, both professional therapists, live and work in virtual isolation in a remote Vermont cottage. One night, one of Jack's patients, Cosmo, unexpectedly turns up with young wife Arlie in tow. And the more the couples talk and drink, the more tension builds over what personal issues are being shared in analysis, as well as the private troubles of the therapists themselves., 1h28
Directed by Louis MalleOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Action,
CrimeThemes Heist films,
Gangster films,
EscroquerieActors Donald Sutherland,
Jack Warden,
Sean Penn,
Wallace Shawn,
Trinidad Silva,
Christine BaranskiRating52%
The action is set in San Francisco during the 1980s. Weslake, who was laid off from his job, is working in a low-paying position at Garvey's pawn shop. Weslake has one friend nicknamed 'Turtle' who's homeless and is seen throughout the whole film searching for something to eat., 1h36
Directed by Frank WhaleyOrigin USAGenres Drama,
ComedyThemes Films based on playsActors Carla Gugino,
Ethan Hawke,
Frank Whaley,
Lynn Cohen,
Joanna Merlin,
Raynor ScheineRating52%
The film centers on the life of Jimmy O'Brien (Frank Whaley), a warehouse clerk by day and a standup comedian by night. He lives with his wife (Carla Gugino), daughter, and a disabled grandmother. Jimmy's aspiration to succeed contrasts sharply with the numbness of his pothead friend Ray (Ethan Hawke), who is just trying to get by. When performing, Jimmy contradicts the role of a comedian and instead uses the stand-up form to relate the tragedies in his life, which causes indifferent to hostile reactions from the audience; however, he also provokes members of the audience. Eventually Jimmy is fired from his day job for stealing beer, which he abuses, and his wife leaves him. At the end of the film, Jimmy runs seemingly aimlessly in different directions in what appears to be him either on the verge of nervous breakdown or spiritual awakening., 2h10
Directed by Robert Z. LeonardOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Musical theatre,
Musical,
RomanceThemes Théâtre,
Films based on playsActors Ginger Rogers,
Lana Turner,
Walter Pidgeon,
Van Johnson,
Edward Arnold,
Keenan WynnRating65%
The film focuses on various guests staying at New York City's famed Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Among them are lonely screen star Irene Malvern, in town with her maid Anna for a childhood friend's wedding and the premiere of her latest movie; war correspondent Chip Collyer, mistaken for a jewel thief by Irene but playing along to catch her attention; flyer Capt. James Hollis, wounded in World War II and facing perilous surgery in three days; wealthy shyster Martin X. Edley, who is trying to sign the Bey of Aribajan to a shady oil deal; Oliver Webson, a cub reporter for Collier's Weekly hoping to expose Edley; and bride-to-be Cynthia Drew, whose upcoming wedding is endangered by her belief her fiancé Bob is in love with Irene Malvern. Also on the scene are Bunny Smith, the hotel's stenographer/notary public, who hopes to escape her low income roots by marrying Edley, and reporter Randy Morton, who loiters in the lobby hoping to stumble upon a scoop for his newspaper., 1h16
Directed by Harry LachmanOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Crime,
RomanceThemes Théâtre,
Films based on playsActors Shirley Temple,
James Dunn,
Claire Trevor,
Alan Dinehart, Sr.,
Ray Walker,
Ralf HaroldeRating63%
After serving time in Sing Sing, Eddie Ellison marries his fiancée Kay, and eventually the two have a daughter they name Shirley. Eddie helps his friend and former convict Larry Scott, who is engaged to Shirley's dance instructor Jane, get a job as a chauffeur for his employer, factory owner Stuart Carson., 1h52
Directed by Bud YorkinOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
RomanceThemes Théâtre,
Films based on playsActors Frank Sinatra,
Lee J. Cobb,
Molly Picon,
Barbara Rush,
Tony Bill,
Jill St JohnRating59%
Buddy Baker is bored living with his parents. He goes to the big-city apartment of older brother Alan, who works for their father's artificial-fruit company but never lets business interfere with a good time.