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Eight on the Lam [Eight on the Run] ** (1967, Bob Hope, Phyllis Diller, Jonathan Winters, Shirley Eaton, Jill St John) – Classic Movie Review 8335
Veteran director George Marshall’s 1966 comedy Eight on the Lam [Eight on the Run] stars Bob Hope as a widowed bank clerk who goes on the lam (run) with his seven kids (including his real-life […]
To Paris with Love ** (1955, Alec Guinness, Odile Versois, Vernon Gray, Elina Labourdette, Jacques François, Austin Trevor) – Classic Movie Review 7753
Director Robert Hamer’s 1954 British comedy drama To Paris with Love stars Alec Guinness as the ageing, greying British widower Colonel Sir Edgar Fraser who takes his grown-up son John Fraser (Vernon Gray) off to […]
Winter People *** (1989, Kurt Russell, Kelly McGillis, Lloyd Bridges) – Classic Movie Review 7653
Director Ted Kotcheff’s 1989 period drama Winter People stars Kurt Russell as young widower Wayland Jackson, arriving in a North Carolina mountain town with his daughter Paula (Amelia Burnette) in 1934, falls for young unmarried […]
Madame Bovary *** (1991, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-François Balmer, Christophe Malavoy) – Classic Movie Review 7344
The ideally cast Isabelle Huppert and Jean-François Balmer are splendid in Claude Chabrol’s lavish, handsome and well-played but dry, chilly, dark and depressing French 1991 film production of Gustave Flaubert’s much re-told story of how […]
Bed of Roses ** (1996, Christian Slater, Mary Stuart Masterson, Pamela Adlon, Josh Brolin, Debra Monk) – Classic Movie Review 6726
Writer-director Michael Goldenberg’s 1996 romantic drama stars Christian Slater as shy widowed florist Lewis Farrell who sends roses to workaholic banker Lisa Walker (Mary Stewart Masterson) and they begin a whirlwind love affair, with Masterson […]
Betrayed *** (1988, Debra Winger, Tom Berenger, John Heard, Betsy Blair, John Mahoney, Ted Levine) – Classic Movie Review 6664
Director Constantin Costa-Gavras’s 1988 thriller-with-a-message is extremely powerful and gripping, with strong performances and important things to convey about prejudice, even if it is not always as convincing or distinguished as his masterworks Z (1969) and […]
Murphy’s Romance **** (1985, Sally Field, James Garner, Brian Kerwin, Corey Haim) – Classic Movie Review 6457
Director Martin Ritt’s 1985 romance finally provides a great role for James Garner as Murphy, a crusty, widowed chemist who gradually falls for another of life’s waifs and strays – younger divorced mother Emma Moriarity (Sally […]