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. […]
The Big Chill
Harold Cooper (Kevin Kline) is bathing his young son when his doctor/wife, Sarah (Glenn Close), receives a phone call at their Richmond home telling her that their friend, Alex, has committed suicide by slashing his wrists in the bathtub of their guest house in South Carolina.At the funeral Harold and Sarah are reunited with college […]
Ordinary People
The Jarretts are an upper-middle-class family in the northern suburbs of Chicago trying to return to normal life after the accidental death of one teenage son and the attempted suicide of their surviving son Conrad (Timothy Hutton). Conrad has recently returned home from a stay in a psychiatric hospital. Feeling alienated from his friends and […]
Practical Magic
Sally (Sandra Bullock) and Gillian (Nicole Kidman) Owens have always known they were different. Raised by their aunts (Stockard Channing and Dianne Wiest) after their parents’ death, the sisters grew up in a household that was anything but typical. For example, their aunts fed them chocolate cake for breakfast and taught them the uses of […]
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