Downhill Racer
When a young downhill skier (Robert Redford) arrives in Switzerland to join the U.S. team, his unorthodox attitude rubs the coach (Gene Hackman) the wrong way. The director’s film debut…
The Towering Inferno
Architect Doug Roberts (Paul Newman) arrives at the opening party of a new 138-story building in San Francisco, but parts of it are poorly constructed and when a fire breaks…
Tootsie: Dressed to Kill
Sydney Pollack and Dustin Hoffman. Photo: Columbia In the late 1990s, I was studying English in college when one of our teachers organized a reading of Oscar Wilde's "The Importance…
WarGames
Teenage computer whiz David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) finds a way of connecting with a super-sophisticated computer at the Pentagon and starts playing a war game that turns out to be…