Although it wasn’t a box-office success when originally released in 1958, Vertigo has since taken its deserved place as Alfred Hitchcock’s greatest, most spellbinding, most deeply personal achievement. In fact, it consistently ranks among the top 10 movies ever made in the once-a-decade Sight & Sound international critics poll, placing at number 4 in the […]
Misery
Novelist Paul Sheldon (James Caan) is the author of a series of highly successful novels featuring a character called Misery Chastain. Wanting to focus on more serious novels, he writes a manuscript for a new unrelated novel. He departs from Silver Creek, Colorado to head to Los Angeles but is caught in a blizzard and […]
Raising Cain
Dr. Carter Nix (John Lithgow) is a respected child psychologist. His wife, Jenny (Lolita Davidovich), becomes concerned that Carter is obsessively studying their daughter, Amy; he regards her like a scientist tracking the development of his creation. Carter actually suffers from multiple personality disorder. His multiples are Cain, a streetwise hustler, Josh, a traumatized little […]
Psycho
Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), a secretary in Phoenix, Arizona, steals $40,000 from one of her employer’s clients to help her financially strapped divorced boyfriend, Sam Loomis (John Gavin). She flees in her car en route to Sam’s California home, parking along the road midway to sleep. A highway patrol officer awakens her, becomes suspicious of […]