Matthew Broderick makes up for years of wet-noodle performances with his low-key but unsparing characterization of Jim McAllister, a high school teacher at George Washington Carver High School in Omaha, Nebraska. Driven by a strange mixture of loathing and lust for pathologically overachieving student Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon), McAllister encourages a dim but popular athlete, […]
Clueless
Alicia Silverstone won everyone over with her portrayal of a Beverly Hills teen, Cher Horowitz, whose penchant for helping others with their relationships and self-esteem is a cover for her own loneliness. Director Amy Heckerling (Fast Times at Ridgemont High) made a smart, funny variation on Jane Austen’s novel Emma, sweetly romantic and gently satirical […]
Prince of Tides
Nick Nolte plays Tom Wingo, a football coach who is estranged from his wife (Blythe Danner) and who enters into an affair with the psychiatrist Susan Lowenstein (Barbara Streisand) of his suicidal sister (Melinda Dillon). As a unemployed-football-coach, Wingo is unhappy with his life. His wife doesn’t understand him and he also doesn’t get along […]
Platoon
In 1967, Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) has dropped out of college and volunteered for combat duty in Vietnam. Assigned to Bravo Company, near the Cambodian border, he is worn down by the exhausting conditions and his enthusiasm for the war wanes. One night his unit is set upon by a group of North Vietnamese Army […]
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