2024-09-29
Terrence Howard gives a commanding performance in this inspiring, fact-based biopic. Howard plays Jim Ellis, caretaker of an inner-city Philadelphia community center in the 1970s, who forms a swim team at the run-down facility. Soon he has a championship squad that can match privileged suburban white hotshots stroke for stroke. Bernie Mac provides comic relief as a sage building janitor. Directed
West German, Italian and Czechoslovakian locations highlight this WWII action tale. George Segal, Robert Vaughn, Ben Gazzara, Bradford Dillman, E.G. Marshall. Van Brock: Peter Van Eyck. Jellicoe: Matt Clark. Pattison: Tom Heaton. Dent: Fritz Ford. Grebs: Bo Hopkins. Bissell: Robert Logan. Directed by John Guillermin.
A flamboyantly gay couple pretend to be straight in order to impress the parents of the woman their son wants to marry because the girl's father is a rabidly right-wing U.S. Senator.
In this goofy comedy, Norm Macdonald stars as a hapless loser who agrees to help his equally inept best friend (Artie Lange) raise money to finance his father's heart surgery. To get the cash, they start their own lucrative revenge-for-hire business. Jack Warden, Christopher McDonald, Traylor Howard, Don Rickles, Chevy Chase, John Goodman, Chris Farley. Directed by Bob Saget.
A waitress invites estranged family to Thanksgiving dinner. Well-made comedy-drama.
In this heartfelt drama, a white man raising his biracial granddaughter gets into a custody battle with the girl's paternal grandmother, who is black, after his wife dies and he develops a drinking problem. As the two factions attempt to figure out how best to support the child, the man must face his feelings of anger toward the girl's father, as well as examine his own racist attitudes.
A priest, a friend of a homicide detective, is a suspect in the murder of a prostitute since he was the last person seen with her.
In this heartfelt drama, a white man raising his biracial granddaughter gets into a custody battle with the girl's paternal grandmother, who is black, after his wife dies and he develops a drinking problem. As the two factions attempt to figure out how best to support the child, the man must face his feelings of anger toward the girl's father, as well as examine his own racist attitudes.
West German, Italian and Czechoslovakian locations highlight this WWII action tale. George Segal, Robert Vaughn, Ben Gazzara, Bradford Dillman, E.G. Marshall. Van Brock: Peter Van Eyck. Jellicoe: Matt Clark. Pattison: Tom Heaton. Dent: Fritz Ford. Grebs: Bo Hopkins. Bissell: Robert Logan. Directed by John Guillermin.
Mary Steenburgen as novelist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings ("The Yearling") in a film based on her memoirs. Rip Torn, Peter Coyote. Geechee: Alfre Woodard. Ellie: Dana Hill. Mrs. Turner: Joanna Miles. Paul: Ike Eisenmann. Floyd: Cary Guffey. Directed by Martin Ritt.
This arresting historical romance delves into the relationship between legendary scientist Charles Darwin (Paul Bettany) and his devoutly religious wife (Jennifer Connelly), as Darwin struggles between faith and science and whether to finish writing "On the Origin of Species.".
In this uproarious comedy, a teen is devastated to learn that her classmates consider her the "designated ugly fat friend." In response, she enlists a jock's help in regaining her confidence, and plots to dethrone the school's queen bee.
This arresting historical romance delves into the relationship between legendary scientist Charles Darwin (Paul Bettany) and his devoutly religious wife (Jennifer Connelly), as Darwin struggles between faith and science and whether to finish writing "On the Origin of Species.".