The film begins as “Don” Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando), the head of a New York Mafia “family”, oversees his daughter Connie’s (Talia Shire) wedding. His beloved son Michael (Al Pacino) has just come home from the war, but does not intend to become part of his father’s business. Through Michael’s life the nature of the […]
Family Ties: The Series
Steven (Michael Gross) and Elyse (Meredith Baxter) Keaton were two hippies with liberal viewpoints who had married during the 1960s. The young couple had hoped their children would adopt the same values. How wrong they were, especially in the case of oldest son Alex (Michael J. Fox). “Family Ties,” which was based in Columbus, Ohio, […]
Contact
The opening and closing moments of Robert Zemeckis’s Contact astonishes viewers with the sort of breathtaking conceptual imagery one hardly ever sees in movies these days. Each scene is an expression of the heroine’s lifelong quest (both spiritual and scientific) to explore the meaning of human existence through contact with extraterrestrial life. The movie begins […]
The Verdict
In this 1982 courtroom drama written by David Mamet and directed by Sidney Lumet, Paul Newman found the perfect role for a transitional period of his stellar career. As alcoholic Boston lawyer Frank Galvin, Newman shook off his screen persona as a handsome, blue-eyed hunk to portray an aging, weary man whose best years are […]
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