Biography: Jim McBride |
One of the most active and least heralded of the Manhattan-based experimental filmmakers of the 1960s, director/writer Jim McBride won several awards for his first feature, David Holzman's Diary (1967). He didn't have to dig around much for story... more
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Tags: Family Drama Drama Political Drama
Length: 105min
This made-for-cable drama concerns political unrest and personal crises set against the battle for a free Ireland in Belfast in 1983. Gingy McAnally (Anthony Brophy) is a member of the Irish Republican Army who, after serving a stretch in prison, is...
Cast: Peter Falk James LeGros Glenne Headly
Tags: Crime Drama Crime
Length: min
Based on a best-selling novel by Elmore Leonard, this crime drama centers upon a Florida bookie's attempts to leave behind his sordid life and to build a clean new life for himself and his ex-stripper girlfriend. He has a nice little nest egg to help...
Cast: John Wood Michael Gough Sinéad Cusack
Tags: Drama Psychological Thriller
Length: 107min
Julia (Kate Beckinsale) has been busy about her job, doing painstaking restoration work on a fifteenth-century painting. As good restoration work is at least as much about doing good research and detective work as it is about the physical process of...
Cast: Kevin Anderson John Lithgow Rosanna Arquette
Tags: Mystery Drama Detective Film
Length: 98min
In the made-for-cable thriller The Wrong Man, an American sailor (Kevin Anderson) is framed for the murder of a Mexican smuggler. The sailor escapes the police by hooking up with a weird couple (John Lithgow and Rosanna Arquette), who drag him into a...
Cast: Jim McBride
Tags: Thriller Psychological Sci-Fi
Length: 100min
John Larkin (Timothy Hutton would seem to have the ideal life: A great job, a beautiful home, a happy marriage. Nonetheless, John has always been nagged by the feeling that "something is missing." The truth of this suspicion is violently driven home...
Tags: Creature Film Horror
Length: 90min
This passable made-for-cable-TV vampire opus explores the clever concept of a Transylvanian immigrant community in the western United States. Young Cody (Jason London) is introduced to their legacy one fateful night when his parents are awakened,...
Cast: John Goodman Dennis Quaid Ned Beatty Ellen Barkin
Tags: Romantic Mystery Police Detective Film Thriller
Length: 101min
A film that captures the steamy, colorful essence of New Orleans, this crime thriller tells the romantic story of a classy detective whose investigation of a gangland murder lands him in trouble with the city's new District Attorney, a woman with a...
Cast: Richard Gere Richard Sylbert
Tags: Drama Crime Drama Romantic Drama
Length: 105min
A botched attempt to remake Jean-Luc Godard's classic nouvelle vague entry, Á Bout de souffle, Breathless follows Jesse (Richard Gere), a fugitive wanted for the murder of a police officer. In the course of his flight from the law, he hitches up with...
Cast: Alec Baldwin Steve Allen Winona Ryder
Length: 108min
Until its last 10 minutes or so, this filmed biography of controversial recording star Jerry Lee Lewis plays like a live-action cartoon. As played by Dennis Quaid, "the killer" is a very mixed-up individual: a saintly sinner, a world-wise naif, a...
Tags: Comedy
Length: 82min
Jim McBride's low-budget sex comedy stars Henry Cory as Archie, a young man obsessed with losing his virginity. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide
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