In 1947, banker Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is convicted of a double murder for murdering his wife and her lover and is sentenced to two consecutive life sentences at Shawshank State Penitentiary. Andy quickly becomes friends with fellow inmate Ellis “Red” Redding (Morgan Freeman). Red procures things for inmates and he gets a rock hammer […]
Archives for October 2008
Synecdoche, New York
Theater director Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman) finds his life unraveling. Suffering from numerous physical ailments and growing increasingly alienated from his wife, Adele, he hits bottom when Adele (Catherine Keener) leaves him for a new life in Berlin, taking their daughter, Olive (Sadie Goldstein, Robin Weigert) with her. Shortly after Adele leaves, Caden unexpectedly […]
The Donna Reed Show: The Series
Donna Reed went from a distinguished film career to an even bigger career on Television as she starred in and co-produced The Donna Reed Show. This beloved and hugely successful sitcom premiered over 50 years ago on the ABC network and aired from 1958-1966. The series was one of several family-based shows that literally helped […]
Courage Under Fire
The pilot of a rescue copter, Captain Karen Walden (Meg Ryan), died shortly before her helicopter crew was rescued after it crashed in Desert Storm. It first appears that she made a spectacular rescue of a downed helicopter crew, then held her own crew together to fight off the Iraqis after her copter crashed. Lt. […]