A troubled, but extremely rich man John du Pont (Steve Carrell) in his late 40s who is seldom told no. DuPont is an heir to one of the United States’ most storied and venerable fortunes. His opulent, secluded Pennsylvania farm and the top-notch wrestling facility he has constructed there. His self-indulgent dream of achieving personal […]
Basic Instinct
When rock star Johnny Boz (Bill Cable) is viciously stabbed to death with an ice pick during sex by a mysterious blonde woman, homicide detective Nick Curran (Michael Douglas) is sent to investigate. The only suspect is Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone), a crime novelist who was the last person to be seen with Boz on […]
Blue Jasmine
If you want to see this year’s master class in screen acting, you need to watch Cate Blanchett’s mesmerizing performance as Jasmine French, a delusional Park Avenue socialite wife in Woody Allen’s 46th directorial effort, a sly, bicoastal update of Tennessee Williams’ classic A Streetcar Named Desire.As the film opens, her impeccably dressed character has […]
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 […]