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On Golden Pond
: essential video:Writer Ernest Thompson, who came up with the original stage play of On Golden Pond and adapted it for film, is lucky to have two giants of the screen give dignity and breadth to his sometimes trite dialogue. Henry Fonda, in his last role, plays a prickly English professor at the disagreeable age of 80. Visiting his summer house by a Maine lake with his wife (Katharine Hepburn), the old man forges an unlikely bond with a lonely boy, comes to terms with his daughter (Jane Fonda), and suffers disorienting effects ...
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Cowboys
: :Notorious as the first John Wayne film that does the unthinkable--subject Wayne's character to a nasty fate after only a short time--the 1972 Cowboys isn't much more interesting beyond that. The story finds Wayne playing a rancher who takes 11 boys on a cattle drive. They run into a nut case (Bruce Dern) who deprives the kids of their leader, and the rest of the film is a tale of revenge. Mark Rydell (Cinderella Liberty) directs an unexciting production, although performances by some of the younger actors such as A. Martinez and Robert ...
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Rose (1979)
: essential video:Bette Midler plays a Janis Joplin-like singer overwhelmed by stardom and its excesses. Mark Rydell (On Golden Pond) directs what is a kind of hybrid showcase for Midler's concert talents and a standard pop biopic, with the usual rhythms of desire, success, betrayal, failure, and such. Alan Bates is the best thing about the movie as the Rose's ruthless manager, and Harry Dean Stanton and Frederic Forrest add some interesting seasoning. But as a whole, the film can't rise above its mixed purposes or clichés. --Tom Keogh
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Intersection
: :The temptation here is to make a joke about Intersection and dead ends--but this disappointing film has too much talent involved to kid about how wrong it went. Based on the French film Les Choses de la Vie, the film was adapted by the usually reliable Marshall Brickman (Annie Hall) and David Rayfiel (The Firm). Richard Gere plays a man caught between two women: his chilly, remote wife (Sharon Stone) and his vibrant young mistress (Lolita Davidovich). How the marriage declined, how the affair began, and how the two women's paths eventually cross--everything ...
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Crime of the Century
:Description:Known as 'The Crime of the Century' famous aviator Charles Lindberg's son was kidnapped in 1932. The baby was held for ransom and murdered soon after. This film follows the investigation against the man who was eventually convicted of the crime (and executed for it) - Bruno Richard Hauptmann. In thi s dramatic interpretation of historic events, the cops have the wrong man - and will frame him by any means necessary.
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I Spy: Honorable Assassins/A Few Miles West of Nowhere
:Description:Known as 'The Crime of the Century' famous aviator Charles Lindberg's son was kidnapped in 1932. The baby was held for ransom and murdered soon after. This film follows the investigation against the man who was eventually convicted of the crime (and executed for it) - Bruno Richard Hauptmann. In thi s dramatic interpretation of historic events, the cops have the wrong man - and will frame him by any means necessary.
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I Spy: My Mother the Spy/So Coldly Sweet
:Description:Known as 'The Crime of the Century' famous aviator Charles Lindberg's son was kidnapped in 1932. The baby was held for ransom and murdered soon after. This film follows the investigation against the man who was eventually convicted of the crime (and executed for it) - Bruno Richard Hauptmann. In thi s dramatic interpretation of historic events, the cops have the wrong man - and will frame him by any means necessary.
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I Spy: Home to Judgement/Trial By Tree House
:Description:Known as 'The Crime of the Century' famous aviator Charles Lindberg's son was kidnapped in 1932. The baby was held for ransom and murdered soon after. This film follows the investigation against the man who was eventually convicted of the crime (and executed for it) - Bruno Richard Hauptmann. In thi s dramatic interpretation of historic events, the cops have the wrong man - and will frame him by any means necessary.
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River (1984)
:Description:Known as 'The Crime of the Century' famous aviator Charles Lindberg's son was kidnapped in 1932. The baby was held for ransom and murdered soon after. This film follows the investigation against the man who was eventually convicted of the crime (and executed for it) - Bruno Richard Hauptmann. In thi s dramatic interpretation of historic events, the cops have the wrong man - and will frame him by any means necessary.
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For the Boys
: :Bette Midler poured her heart and soul into this story of a pair of entertainers who repeatedly took time from their careers to entertain U.S. troops at war, from World War II to Vietnam--and it sank like a stone at the box office. Granted, it's corny and emotionally over the top. But there are strong emotions at play here in the tale of an unlikely team of singer and comedian (played by Midler and James Caan), who are brought together for a reunion show in their dotage. As they nervously anticipate seeing each ...
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