True to Life (1943)
ONLY REAL LIFE COULD BE SO SCREWY! SO SENSATIONAL! SO GOOD!
ジャンル : コメディ
上映時間 : 1時間 34分
演出 : George Marshall
脚本 : Don Hartman, Harry Tugend
シノプシス
A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins to secretly write about their true life antics. The show becomes a big hit, but he begins to feel guilty about his charade when he falls in love with the family's pretty older daughter.
ウォーターゲート事件で辞任に追い込まれたニクソン元米国大統領。彼が77年に行なった、イギリスの司会者デヴィッド・フロストとの伝説的な単独インタビューをもとにした実録ドラマ。舞台裏で繰り広げられた熾烈な駆け引きと緊迫のトーク・バトルを描く。
Shaun Brumder is a local surfer kid from Orange County who dreams of going to Stanford to become a writer and to get away from his dysfunctional family household. Except Shaun runs into one complication after another, starting when his application is rejected after his dim-witted guidance counselor sends in the wrong form.
生まれ育ったニューヨークを捨ててアルゼンチンで暮らす兄を探しに、異母弟のベニーがブエノスアイレスに降り立つが、名前を「テトロ」と変えた兄はそっけない態度をとるだけだった。そんなある日、ベニーは兄が密かに執筆していた自伝を盗み見てしまい、それをきっかけに兄弟の仲は決裂。さらにベニー自身の出生にかかわる家族の秘密が明らかになっていく。
Austin, Texas, is an Eden for the young and unambitious, from the enthusiastically eccentric to the dangerously apathetic. Here, the nobly lazy can eschew responsibility in favor of nursing their esoteric obsessions. The locals include a backseat philosopher who passionately expounds on his dream theories to a seemingly comatose cabbie, a young woman who tries to hawk Madonna's Pap test to anyone who will listen and a kindly old anarchist looking for recruits.
ホロコーストを題材に、ナチスの強制収容所から生き延びたヒロインをメリル・ストリープが圧倒的な存在感で演じた感動作。ストリープは本作でアカデミー賞主演女優賞を受賞した。
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A magazine writer poses as a Jew to expose anti-Semitism.
The documentary story of Harlan Ellison
「戦争と平和」「アンナ・カレーニナ」を世に生み出した、ロシアの大文豪トルストイ。比類なき文学的才能と家柄、作家としての名声。莫大な印税と多くのものに恵まれた彼はなぜ、82歳で家出し名も無き田舎の駅で客死せざるをえなかったのか。始まりは、彼の残した遺言にあった。トルストイの作品に関する権利を家族ではなくロシア国民に与えるというその内容は、妻ソフィヤとの関係を思いがけぬ方向に導いてゆく…“世界三大悪妻"と名高いソフィヤ。しかしすべては女としてトルストイを愛し、母として家族を守るための行動だった…
Erin and Garrett are very much in love. When Erin moves to San Francisco to finish her journalism degree and Garrett stays behind in New York to work in the music industry, they gamely keep the romance alive with webcams and frequent-flyer miles. But just when it seems the lovers will soon be reunited, they each score a big break that could separate them for good.
A young journalist buys a used typewriter and notices some text still legible on the ribbon; he reconstructs the story of a scientist who discovered that some types of terrain have the power to revive the dead.
A novelist wakes up with a gun in his hand and a corpse in the house he woke up in. He doesn't remember how he got there or even if he committed the killing.
A dabbler-in-crime and his assistant hire an ex-police reporter to recover some stolen papers.
Two strangers, whose paths are always crossing, finally meet when fate steps in. It took them twenty years to fall in love at first sight.
On Ironbound Island, native Fiona McKay arrives from Europe with her teenage daughter Clair, hoping that the peace of the island will help the girl get over the death of her boyfriend. The girl finds comfort in the company of a visiting American girl and more so in the stories of Celia, a crazy old local who weaves enchanting tales which cleverly combine her own experiences on the island with mystifying legends.
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