Schoolteacher and family man Ed Avery (James Mason), who has been suffering bouts of severe pain and even blackouts, is hospitalized with what’s diagnosed as polyarteritis nodosa, a rare inflammation of the arteries. Told by doctors that he probably has only months to live, Ed agrees to an experimental treatment: doses of the hormone cortisone. […]
Less Than Zero
Clay Easton (Andrew McCarthy) is a college freshman who returns home to Los Angeles, California, for Christmas to find things very different from the way he left them. His high school girlfriend, Blair (Jami Gertz), has become addicted to drugs and has been having sex with his high school best friend, Julian Wells (Robert Downey, […]
Almost Famous
In 1973 San Diego, California, William Miller (Patrick Fugit)is a teenager and aspiring rock journalist. His mother, Elaine (Frances McDormand) is a local college professor with conservative beliefs who wants him to become a lawyer. Miller writes for underground papers, sharing the love of rock music instilled in him through a gift of albums given […]
The Hurt Locker
The Hurt Locker opens with a quotation from War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, a best-selling 2002 book by Chris Hedges, a New York Times war correspondent and journalist: “The rush of battle is a potent and often lethal addiction, for war is a drug.” Sergeant First Class William James (Jeremy Renner), a […]
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