Ithaca (2015)
One message will change everything.
ジャンル : ドラマ
上映時間 : 1時間 36分
演出 : Meg Ryan
脚本 : Erik Jendresen
シノプシス
In a small town in California's San Joaquin Valley, 14-year-old Homer Macauley is determined to be the best and fastest bicycle telegraph messenger anyone has ever seen. His older brother has gone to war, leaving Homer to look after his widowed mother, his older sister and his 4-year-old brother, Ulysses. And so it is that as spring turns to summer, 1942, Homer Macauley delivers messages of love, hope, pain... and death... to the good people of Ithaca. And Homer Macauley will grapple with one message that will change him forever - from a boy into a man. Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Saroyan's 1943 novel, The Human Comedy, ITHACA is the quintessential wartime tale of the Home Front. It is a coming-of-age story about the exuberance of youth, the sweetness of life, the sting of death and the modesty and sheer goodness that lives in each and every one of us.
New York, 1937. A teenager hired to star in Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar becomes attracted to a career-driven production assistant.
テレビ番組「クイズ＄ミリオネア」に出演し、賞金を獲得したジャマールだったが、インドのスラム街で育った少年が正解を知るはずがないと不正を疑われ逮捕される。ジャマールになぜこれほどの知識があり、この番組に出演するに至ったのか。警察の尋問によって、真実が明らかになっていく。
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元英国首相アダム・ラング（ピアース・ブロスナン）の自叙伝執筆を依頼されたゴーストライター（ユアン・マクレガー）。ラングが滞在する真冬のアメリカ東海岸の孤島に1ヵ月閉じ込められることと、締め切りまで時間がないことを除けば、おいしい仕事のはずだった。しかし、前任者のゴーストライターは事故で死んだという―。とにかく、気乗りがしなかった…。仕事を始めた直後、ラングに、イスラム過激派のテロ容疑者を‘不法’に捕らえ、拷問にかけたという戦犯容疑がかかる。しかし、この政治スキャンダルもまだ序章に過ぎなかった。
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鬼才ケン・ラッセルが人類進化の謎に迫ったSFスリラー。人間の肉体が変化していく特殊メイクアップが話題を呼んだ。細胞に眠る人類進化の起源を探ろうと、タンクに浸かりドラッグを試みる学者。実験は成功し、彼は太古のイメージを見るのだが、その効果は精神だけでなく肉体にも影響を及ぼし始めていた……。
侵略SFの古典、ジャック・フィニイの『盗まれた街』を、D・シーゲルが映画化した劇場未公開の逸品。カリフォルニアのある街が、異星生物の侵略を受けた。その生物は次々と人間の複製を造り上げ、本物と入れ換わっていく。主人公はその事実を知り、恋人と共に街を脱出しようとするが……。
