Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "yuppie"

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Company Limited [Seemabaddha] **** (1971, Sharmila Tagore, Barun Chanda, Paromita Chowdhury, Haradhan Bannerjee, Dipankar Dey) – Classic Movie Review 10,981

Indian film director Satyajit Ray’s witty, perceptive and incisive 1971 Bengali black and white social comedy drama Company Limited [Seemabaddha] examines Calcutta business life and the dilemmas of an honest hero afflicted by ambition. Barun […]

Mar, 03

The Secret of My Success *** (1987, Michael J Fox, Helen Slater, Richard Jordan, Margaret Whitton) – Classic Movie Review 8712

Director Herbert Ross’s entertaining 1987 yuppie movie The Secret of My Success stars the young Michael J Fox in a charismatic performance as Brantley Foster, the hick from the sticks (that would be Kansas) who […]

Jul, 15

Bright Lights, Big City ** (1988, Michael J Fox, Kiefer Sutherland, Phoebe Cates, Frances Sternhagen, Dianne Wiest, John Houseman, Jason Robards, William Hickey) – Classic Movie Review 8419

Director James Bridges’s 1988 topical drama Bright Lights, Big City stars a too lightweight and too young-looking Michael J Fox as the anti-hero of this careful and meticulous but rather tedious screen version of Jay […]

May, 01

Into the Night **** (1985, Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dan Aykroyd, David Bowie, Richard Farnsworth, Irene Papas, Vera Miles, Dan Aykroyd, Clu Gulager, Kathryn Harrold) – Classic Movie Review 7621

Director John Landis’s dark and dangerous 1985 comedy thriller Into the Night stars Jeff Goldblum as wimpish Los Angeles aviation designer Ed Okin, who cannot sleep, so he drives aimlessly around LA and ends up in the parking garage […]

Sep, 27

Jersey Girl *** (1992, Jami Gertz, Dylan McDermott, Sheryl Lee, Aida Turturro, Molly Price, Star Jasper, Joseph Mazzello, Joseph Bologna) – Classic Movie Review 5765

‘It takes a special kind of girl to know exactly what she wants… and not give up anything to get it.’ Jami Gertz stars as New Jersey girl Toby Mastallone, who imagines a way out […]

Jul, 15

Pacific Heights *** (1990, Melanie Griffith, Matthew Modine, Michael Keaton, Laurie Metcalf) – Classic Movie Review 5545

‘It seemed like the perfect house. He seemed like the perfect tenant. Until they asked him to leave.’ Director John Schlesinger’s scary, satisfying, sweaty-palm 1990 neo noir yuppie horror thriller stars Michael Keaton as Carter […]

Jun, 04

Something Wild **** (1986, Jeff Daniels, Melanie Griffith, Ray Liotta, Margaret Colin, Tracey Walter) – Classic Movie Review 4063

Mixing crime, romance and comedy, director Jonathan Demme’s crazed 1986 thriller is perhaps the best of the cycle of mid-Eighties yuppie-in-peril movies. Jeff Daniels stars as businessman Charles Driggs, a very proper, middle-class man who decides […]

Jul, 21

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