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When his French wife (Julie Delpy) wants a divorce because he can’t satisfy her, Karol Karol (Zbigniew Zamachowski) loses everything… but gets a new chance back in Poland. The second…
The Truman Show: Before Big Brother
Jim Carrey. Photo: Paramount There’s an episode of Twilight Zone, the 1980s revival, called ”Special Service” that aired in 1989. Written by J. Michael Straczynski, who later created the sci-fi…
Adaptation: The Truth About Charlie
Nicolas Cage and Meryl Streep. Photo: Sony Pictures Releasing In 1994, Jonathan Demme bought the rights to journalist Susan Orlean’s book ”The Orchid Thief”, where she investigated the arrest of…
Miracle on 34th Street
Macy’s event director Doris Walker (Maureen O’Hara) hires Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn) as a santa, first for the Thanksgiving Day Parade and then at the Macy’s store… but it turns…
All About Eve: Blind Ambition
Bette Davis and Gary Merrill. Photo: 20th Century Fox I have no idea if the following is true, but it fits nicely into the mythology. Celeste Holm allegedly walked onto…
Holy Mess
Simon and Oscar (Anastasios Soulis, Anton Lundqvist) invite their whole families for Christmas… but haven’t told them that a woman is moving in and that they’re all having a baby.…
A Man Called Ove
59-year-old widower Ove (Rolf Lassgård) was recently fired and plans to join his wife in heaven as soon as possible… but his suicide keeps getting stalled. Fredrik Backman’s novel first…
Birdman: A Box-Office Lion in Winter
Michael Keaton. Photo: Fox Searchlight Pictures Director Alejandro González Iñárritu reportedly sat down with the legendary Mike Nichols for dinner to discuss his next project, a comedy that would be…
The Sting: Good-Hearted Grifters
Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Photo: Universal One of David S. Ward's first scripts introduced us to the world of confidence men. Not that they hadn't been seen on screen…
The Apartment: Executive Privilege
Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine. Photo: United Artists When Billy Wilder saw Brief Encounter (1945), where Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard have their rendezvous in an apartment belonging to a…