Strange Affair (1944)
Chuckle While You Shudder! Shiver While You Laugh!
ジャンル : 謎, コメディ
上映時間 : 1時間 18分
演出 : Alfred E. Green
脚本 : Eve Greene, Jerome Odlum, Oscar Saul
シノプシス
Eminent psychiatrist Dr. Brenner invites cartoonist Bill Harrison and his wife, Jack, to a banquet honoring war refugees. Bill volunteers to pick up fellow psychiatrist Dr. Baumler at the train station, but the man vanishes when he has Bill stop so he can use a pay phone. At the dinner, Bill and Jack are seated with Brenner's daughter, Freda, and, to Bill's surprise, another man is introduced as Baumler -- who dies moments later.
仕事に人生をささげた大富豪エドワード(ジャック・ニコルソン)と、家族のために地道に働いてきたカーター(モーガン・フリーマン)は、入院先の病室で知りあった。共に余命は6か月。やりたいことをすべてやり尽くそうと決意し、無謀にも病院を脱出。“やりたいことリスト”を手に、さまざまなことに挑戦する。
Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an alcoholic father and an unstable mother, he's handed off to his mother's therapist, Dr. Finch, and spends his adolescent years as a member of Finch's bizarre extended family.
After Dick Harper loses his job at Globodyne in an Enron-esque collapse, he and his wife, Jane, turn to crime in order to handle the massive debt they now face. Two intelligent people, Dick and Jane actually get pretty good at robbing people and even enjoy it -- but they have second thoughts when they're reminded that crime can hurt innocent people. When the couple hears that Globodyne boss Jack McCallister actually swindled the company, they plot revenge.
Determined to unseat Steve Finch's reign as the town's holiday season king, Buddy Hall plasters his house with so many decorative lights that it'll be visible from space! When their wives bond, and their kids follow suit, the two men only escalate their rivalry - and their decorating.
After a yachting accident, a millionaire and his wife are shipwrecked on a desert island along with their former deckhand, Manuel.
When a marriage of convenience becomes the real thing, Joe moves his pregnant French wife to a tenement building on New York's Lower East Side. The street is like a war zone with none of the nostalgic appeal that Joe remembers from tales of his immigrant grandparents arriving in the same neighborhood with a new life. This is the urban frontier filled with comic mixture of gentrifies, homeboys, dealers and local residents simply bent on staying a float
Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt return as heads of the Baker family who, while on vacation, find themselves in competition with a rival family of eight children, headed by Eugene Levy,
Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship. One night she goes to a bar frequented by Arab immigrants and strikes up a friendship with middle-aged mechanic Ali. Their relationship soon develops into something more, and Emmi's family and neighbors criticize their spontaneous marriage. Soon Emmi and Ali are forced to confront their own insecurities about their future.
ジョニーは出所したばかりにも関わらず、競馬場の売上金強奪を企み仲間を集める。周到な準備の末、いよいよ決行の時が来るが、計画が成功したかに思えた瞬間、思わぬ展開がジョニーたちを待っていた……。
On the verge of retirement, Commissioner Gintas must undertake the investigation of a series of heinous murders, a dangerous task that could expose the many dirty secrets of several prominent members of the social elite of a small Lithuanian town.
The young Bavarian princess Elisabeth, who all call Sissi, goes with her mother and older sister Néné to Austria where Néné will be wed to an emperor named Franz Joseph, Yet unexpectedly Franz runs into Sissi while out fishing and they fall in love.
Sissi is now the empress of Austria and attempts to learn etiquette. While she is busy being empress she also has to deal with her difficult new mother-in-law, while the arch-duchess Sophie is trying to tell the emperor how to rule and also Sissi how to be a mother.
After a wonderful time in Hungary Sissi falls extremely ill and must retreat to a Mediterranean climate to rest. The young empress’ mother takes her from Austria to recover in Madeira.
Germany director Dani Levy filmed this comedy about Jewish life in today’s Germany along side the familiar east-west conflict. With it great success this film is a joyful comedy of humor and knowledge.
ミシシッピー州の大農園の邸宅に、当主ビッグ・ダディが病院での検査を終えて帰ってくる。ビッグ・ダディはガンで余命わずかと診断されていたが、本人はそのことを知らない。莫大な遺産を狙う長男一家が父を異常なほどに歓待する一方、次男ブリックと美しい妻マギーの間には冷え切った空気が漂う。しかしビッグ・ダディは昔から、長男一家より次男夫婦の方を気に入っていた。酒に溺れ妻の愛も父の遺産も受け取ることを拒否するブリックにいら立ちを募らせたマギーは、ついにブリックの亡き親友スキッパーの名前を口にしてしまう。
In the style of a documentary this tragic comedy tells the story of a relationship crisis between two married couples and their longing to break out of their miserable daily lives. In this East German post-wall movie Andreas Dresen introduces the sad everyday life of two couples from Frankfurt an der Oder in a honest and tolerable manner.
Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep her from learning what happened (as she was an avid communist supporter) to avoid shocking her which could lead to another heart attack.
An average, everyday metalworker and volunteer firefighter content in his marriage to his childhood sweetheart finds his emotions unexpectedly stirred when he falls for a pretty waitress from a nearby town.
Second-hand car sales man Willenbrock has everything that he could ever wish for. He is married, has two lovers, a cottage in the German city Grünen, and a BMW. Yet one day while at his cottage he gets mugged and his life is drastically changed. Little by little the world he once felt safe in falls apart around him.
イギリス。バクスター夫妻は、突如として愛娘クリスティン(シャロン・ウィリアムズ)を水難事故で失ってしまう。 数ヶ月後、ジョン(ドナルド・サザーランド)は妻ローラ(ジュリー・クリスティ)を連れ、教会修復の仕事でイタリアのベニス(ヴェネツィア)へと赴いていた。ある日、夫妻は年老いた姉妹と邂逅する。姉ウェンディ(クレリア・マタニア)曰く、盲目の妹ヘザー(ヒラリー・メイソン)には霊感があり、赤いレインコートを着た亡き娘さんの姿が視えるというのだ。その後、姉妹と再会したローラは、亡き娘の言葉を借りたヘザーから「ベニスを去らなければ、ジョンの身に危険が降りかかる」と忠告される。ジョンはその警告に取り合わず、ローラは不安になるのだった。