Cape Fear
When he’s released after serving 14 years in prison for rape and battery, Max Cady (Robert De Niro) looks up his former attorney, Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte), hoping to exact…
The Great Lillian Hall
As Broadway star Lillian Hall (Jessica Lange) is rehearsing a new production of Chekhov’s ”The Cherry Orchard”, she struggles with her lines and gets an inevitable update from her doctor.…
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…
Music Box
When Michael Laszlo (Armin Mueller-Stahl) is accused of having committed war crimes in Hungary 40 years earlier, his daughter, attorney Ann Talbot (Jessica Lange), decides to represent him. Another politically…