Jill Clayburgh
Author
Language
English
Description
One of today's most gifted and brilliant actresses, Jill Clayburgh, brings her special sensitivity to the role of Barbara Gordon, a successful television documentary producer who became hopelessly dependent on tranquilizers. But this is much more than a story of addiction and withdrawal; it is an examination of the success syndrome that affects the lives of people whose career triumphs are achieved at great personal sacrifice. It is the dramatic and...
Publisher
Twentieth Century-Fox
Pub. Date
1982, c1976
Language
English
Description
A wild action comedy about a murder mystery aboard a cross-country train. Gene Wilder is a plant-book editor who gets involved. The funniest scene is when Richard Pryor teams up with wilder and tries to teach him how to act black.
Publisher
Troma Entertainment
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Charlie anticipates a happy new life with Josephine, but soon realizes that marriage won’t be quite what he had in mind. After being confronted with countless responsibilities, restrictions, and a bride that is mapping out the rest of his life, Charlie develops an extreme case of wedding day jitters. As the big day dawns, Charlie makes a mad scramble towards freedom as he’s pursued by militant wedding guests and well-wishers in a side-splittingly...
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Mark Pellington's adaptation of Dan Wakefield's seminal novel about a young man coming of age in the 1950s is a timeless story of freedom and repression, friendship and family, sex and love, and the psychological and spiritual struggle to be true to one’s self even if it means going against society’s expectations. In his debut as a feature filmmaker, Pellington constructs an elegant and morally complex tale about two young high school alumni and...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
Description
In this romantic comedy, Burt Reynolds plays Phil Potter, a low-key, contented magazine writer who tries to put his life back together after his wife (Candice Bergen) opts for independence as a singer-songwriter. Jill Clayburgh, a wacky nursery school teacher, tries to help him surmount the emotional hurdles, but it's rough going in this delightful contemporary tale-- he's still hung up on his ex-wife. Nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role...
7) Bridesmaids
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Though lovelorn and broke, thirty-something Annie agrees to serve as maid of honor at her best friend Lillian's wedding, bluffing her way through and leading the bridesmaids on a wild ride to the big event.
9) Shy People
Author
Language
English
Description
Journalist Diana Sullivan is fed up with life in the fast lane in New York City and decides to take her teenage daughter to the backwoods of Louisiana in search of their family roots and a simpler life. What she finds instead is a nightmare of danger and suspense in the dark swamp of family secrets deep in the bayou country.
10) Hustling
Author
Language
English
Description
Fran Morrison, an investigative reporter for a New York City magazine, starts working on an in-depth exposé uncovering the dangerous world of street prostitutes in the city and who really profits from the multi-million-dollar industry. She investigates how the prostitutes work, who their pimps are, and even who their clients are. As she learns more and more about that world, she discovers that many of the sex workers have powerful ties to the...
11) The Terminal Man
Author
Language
English
Description
From best-selling novelist Michael Crichton (ER, Disclosure) comes the chilling thriller of a risky experiment gone awry as a brilliant scientist becomes The Terminal Man. After an automobile accident causes irreversible brain damage, Harry Benson (George Segal) elects to have a microcomputer implanted in his brain to control the fierce outbursts he later cannot recall. But when Harry escapes police custody, his violent seizures turn murderous, and...
Author
Language
English
Description
Manhattan psychiatrist Ann Hecker (Annabella Sciorra, The Hand That Rocks The Cradle, Jungle Fever) is haunted by secret fantasies - recurring erotic dreams inspired by the bondage-and-sex confessions of a lustful patient (Deborah Unger). Seeking help, Ann approaches her university mentor, Dr. Leo Green (Alan Alda). But real treatment comes when Ann meets Doug McDowell (Jamey Sheridan), a ruggedly handsome pilot whose attentions spark a love affair...
13) Starting Over
Author
Language
English
Description
Burt Reynolds plays Phil Potter, a low-key, contented magazine writer who tries to put his life back together after his wife (Candice Bergen) opts for independence as a singer-songwriter. Jill Clayburgh, a wacky nursery school teacher, tries to help him surmount the emotional hurdles, but it's rough going in this delightful contemporary tale; he's still hung up on his ex-wife. Starting Over is sprinkled with comedy, from Bergen's cacophonous singing...
Author
Language
English
Description
Walter Matthau and Jill Clayburgh star in this dramatic comedy that centers around the appointment of the first woman to the U.S. Supreme Court. She is aggressive, witty, magnetic-and an arch-conservative. He is wry, opinionated and roundly liberal. One hundred and one men have preceded the new female justice to seats on the bench of the nation's highest court, but now it's eight men and her. All unanimously accept their new colleague-except Matthau,...