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Turning Point
: essential video:Mikhail Baryshnikov made his film debut in this lightweight but entertaining drama about the relationship between a renowned ballerina (Anne Bancroft) and the woman (Shirley MacLaine) who had trained with her but had given up dance to become a wife, mother, and teacher. Between MacLaine's envy over her friend's career and the attention her own ballerina daughter (Leslie Browne) is getting, MacLaine's character goes through a complicated crisis. The two actresses carry the story very well and probably camouflage its thinness; they even ...
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Widow's Kiss
:Description:Haunted by the memory of his mother's death, Sean is suspicious of his father's new flame and her ' 'son.' ' But their marriage, followed soon after by his father's mysterious death, leads Sean to uncover a plot that can only be solved by entering the widow's lair.
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Dancers
:Description:Film about a dance company preparing a new production of 'Giselle.' Julie Kent is the young dancer who becomes infatuated with the artistic director of the company, Baryshnikov, and like Giselle suffers a breakdown.
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Hellcats of the Navy
: :As the sole movie co-starring Hollywood's only First Couple, Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis, Hellcats of the Navy is either a privileged artifact or a hootworthy campfest, depending on your politics. Reagan plays a submarine ('hellcat') commander in the Pacific during World War II; Davis is the game little nurse back on shore who's decided he's (this is a quote) 'Mr. Right.' They share maybe eight minutes among the film's 82. Reagan's commander is a pretty glum guy, making unpopular life-or-death decisions into which his ...
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Nijinsky
: :As the sole movie co-starring Hollywood's only First Couple, Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis, Hellcats of the Navy is either a privileged artifact or a hootworthy campfest, depending on your politics. Reagan plays a submarine ('hellcat') commander in the Pacific during World War II; Davis is the game little nurse back on shore who's decided he's (this is a quote) 'Mr. Right.' They share maybe eight minutes among the film's 82. Reagan's commander is a pretty glum guy, making unpopular life-or-death decisions into which his ...
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Bad Lord Byron
: :As the sole movie co-starring Hollywood's only First Couple, Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis, Hellcats of the Navy is either a privileged artifact or a hootworthy campfest, depending on your politics. Reagan plays a submarine ('hellcat') commander in the Pacific during World War II; Davis is the game little nurse back on shore who's decided he's (this is a quote) 'Mr. Right.' They share maybe eight minutes among the film's 82. Reagan's commander is a pretty glum guy, making unpopular life-or-death decisions into which his ...
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Shattered Vows
: :As the sole movie co-starring Hollywood's only First Couple, Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis, Hellcats of the Navy is either a privileged artifact or a hootworthy campfest, depending on your politics. Reagan plays a submarine ('hellcat') commander in the Pacific during World War II; Davis is the game little nurse back on shore who's decided he's (this is a quote) 'Mr. Right.' They share maybe eight minutes among the film's 82. Reagan's commander is a pretty glum guy, making unpopular life-or-death decisions into which his ...
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Woman of Distinction
: :As the sole movie co-starring Hollywood's only First Couple, Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis, Hellcats of the Navy is either a privileged artifact or a hootworthy campfest, depending on your politics. Reagan plays a submarine ('hellcat') commander in the Pacific during World War II; Davis is the game little nurse back on shore who's decided he's (this is a quote) 'Mr. Right.' They share maybe eight minutes among the film's 82. Reagan's commander is a pretty glum guy, making unpopular life-or-death decisions into which his ...
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Pygmalion
: :This bold 1938 production of George Bernard Shaw's famous play about a linguist who turns a Cockney flower peddler into a princess was codirected by Anthony Asquith (The Browning Version) and star Leslie Howard, who brings a calculated coldness to the character of Henry Higgins. There's no My Fair Lady sugarcoating here: Higgins is a brute using language as a weapon of class war and patriarchal subjugation of women. He's a likable brute, mind you, but a bully nonetheless, and his molding of poor Eliza ...
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Brain from Planet Arous
: :This bold 1938 production of George Bernard Shaw's famous play about a linguist who turns a Cockney flower peddler into a princess was codirected by Anthony Asquith (The Browning Version) and star Leslie Howard, who brings a calculated coldness to the character of Henry Higgins. There's no My Fair Lady sugarcoating here: Higgins is a brute using language as a weapon of class war and patriarchal subjugation of women. He's a likable brute, mind you, but a bully nonetheless, and his molding of poor Eliza ...
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