Margaret Ford (Lindsay Crouse) is a psychiatrist and author of book Driven: Compulsion and Obsession in Everyday Life, which has made her financially well off. One day, she’s in a session with Billy (Steven Goldstein), a compulsive gambler who informs her that his life is in danger. He owes $25,000 to a criminal figure, money […]
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Born On The Fourth of July
The film begins with Ron Kovic’s (Tom Cruise) childhood during a summer in Massapequa, New York. He plays war in the woods, attends a Fourth of July parade, plays and wins at a local neighborhood baseball game, and watches President John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address, which later inspires him to enlist in the Marines. After […]
Drop Dead Fred
This black comedy stars Phoebe Cates is a recently separated young woman who suddenly begins to see her supposedly imagined childhood friend (Drop Dead Fred) after moving back into her mother’s home. Is he a manifestation of her secret desires to ditch the boorish spouse? Or was he real all along? Rik Mayall is a […]