The Man Who Came to Dinner (2000)
Género : Comedia
Tiempo de ejecución : 2H 46M
Sinopsis
Broadcast of a live performance of the Roundabout Theater Company's 2000 New York revival of the classic Kaufman-Hart comedy, about a famous (and famously acid-tongued) theater critic who is forced to stay in a Midwestern couple's home and the havoc that ensues.
In London at the turn of the century, underworld kingpin Mack the Knife marries Polly Peachum without the knowledge of her father, the equally enterprising 'king of the beggars'.
Basada en una obra teatral del propio Stoppard. Narra la historia del príncipe Hamlet a través de dos personajes secundarios que aparecen en el drama de William Shakespeare.
Un grupo de chicas, unidas por el mismo deseo de triunfar en el teatro, conviven en una residencia regentada por antiguas actrices, las cuales muestran su entusiasmo y envidia al mismo tiempo ante el futuro que espera a sus pupilas. Algunas logran alcanzar el éxito, pero otras no tendrán más remedio que olvidar sus sueños y volver al pueblo del que partieron un día.
A country girl (Simone Berriau) finds work as a chorus girl in Paris, gets embroiled with a bad egg, and then finds true love with a good-looking milkman.
Infantil en su inocencia pero de forma grotesca, la Criatura desconcertada de Frankenstein es arrojada a un universo hostil por su horrorizado creador. Al encontrarse con la crueldad donde quiera que vaya, la Criatura sin amigos, cada vez más desesperada y vengativa, se determina a rastrear a su creador y hacer un trato aterrador. Preocupaciones urgentes de responsabilidad científica, negligencia de los padres, desarrollo cognitivo y la naturaleza del bien y del mal están incrustados en esta historia emocionante y profundamente inquietante.
Myrtle Gordon, actriz de Broadway, ensaya su último obra sobre una mujer incapaz de admitir que envejece. Cuando es testigo de la trágica muerte de una de sus fieles seguidoras, comienza a enfrentarse al torbellino en la que su propia vida personal y profesional se ha adentrado. "Opening Night", con escenas rodadas con la presencia de público que reaccionan con libertad a las actuaciones que ven sobre el escenario, expone el drama de una actriz que, con gran desgaste personal consigue hacer suyos los papeles que interpreta.
A war between two families, who live in the same building.
Una chica que se lanza a vivir; su mejor amigo; y un tipo problemático. Tres adolescentes en pleno proceso de autoconocimiento, tres incógnitas para una ecuación imposible.
Londres, Inglaterra, 5 de noviembre de 1892, Noche de Guy Fawkes. El famoso dramaturgo Oscar Wilde y su amante, lord Alfred Douglas, acuden discretamente a un burdel de lujo donde el propietario, Alfred Taylor, ha preparado una sorpresa para el renombrado autor: una representación privada y muy especial de su obra «Salomé», prohibida por las autoridades, en la que participarán el propio Taylor y los peculiares habitantes del exclusivo establecimiento.
The story of an egotistical crime writer who gets involved with the case of a notorious art thief (who is believed to be dead) while at the same time romancing a lovely young actress who's in a play that also happens to be the cover for massive jewel job. Art connoisseur and criminologist George Melville is hired to track down art thieves, assisted by perky Claire Peyton and goaded by Phil Bane, the roaring newspaper editor who has employed him. The mastermind poses as a theatrical impresario and stages a war drama, replete with loud explosions, to divert attention from his band of thieves, who are cracking safes in a bank adjacent to the theater.
Una eterna aspirante a primera actriz, encargada del guardarropa, un joven deslumbrado por las "stars" de Broadway que busca trabajo de lo que sea... Ella le apadrinará para entrar en el teatro de la farándula y esto acarreará mil situaciones complicadas y divertidas. (Eddie Constanti)
A private stationed in Hawaii gets involved with the general's engaged daughter. In order to avoid a scandal, the pair break up, but meet again years later when he's at West Point producing the annual play that turns out to star her.
A provocative and ironic pamphleteering documentary about the making of Christoph Schlingensief’s Nazi-'Hamlet’ (2001). Both a media event and a form of political action Schlingensief let ex-neo-Nazis play themselves. His provocation in so-called Nazi-free Switzerland was not appreciated and when he added fuel to the flames by calling for the local political party SVP to be banned, his media offensive made front-page news far beyond Switzerland.
On a bitterly cold London evening, schoolteacher Kyra Hollis receives an unexpected visit from her former lover, Tom Sergeant, a successful and charismatic restaurateur whose wife has recently died. As the evening progresses, the two attempt to rekindle their once passionate relationship only to find themselves locked in a dangerous battle of opposing ideologies and mutual desires.
The film is a stage play hybrid showcasing dark and absurd sketches based on contemporary Hungarian news of the 2000's with campy, senseless musical interludes in-between. Highly experimental in nature that - like Marmite - will split its' crowd into ones that'll love it and others that'll loathe it. There's no middle grounds here. The topics included are: The Hungarian Olympians' doping scandal, political terrorism, the national elections... and more.
A successful couple with a beautiful daughter, gorgeous home and a mother-in-law and housekeeper that are both eccentric are all the ingredients necessary for a somewhat perfect yet always interesting family. But when Jennifer finds out that her husband Terrance has been cheating on her for years, the family is changed forever. Can Jennifer learn to forgive Terrance so their marriage can be saved, or is it too late to make amends?
