Director
Margaret Rockland is as depressed as the ubiquitous Christmas carols are cheerful when she returns to the Washington DC suburb of her childhood for a reunion. The wild bunch she grew up with have settled into respectable family life. Adding insult to injury, her former boyfriend is engaged to the most bourgeois blonde on the East Coast. Margaret reacts by diving into a drinking and drugs marathon. With two remaining fellow souls, she roams the suburban no man’s land and ends up in an incomparable adventure with kidnapping, extortion, misunderstandings and clumsy violence as basic ingredients.
Writer
Margaret Rockland is as depressed as the ubiquitous Christmas carols are cheerful when she returns to the Washington DC suburb of her childhood for a reunion. The wild bunch she grew up with have settled into respectable family life. Adding insult to injury, her former boyfriend is engaged to the most bourgeois blonde on the East Coast. Margaret reacts by diving into a drinking and drugs marathon. With two remaining fellow souls, she roams the suburban no man’s land and ends up in an incomparable adventure with kidnapping, extortion, misunderstandings and clumsy violence as basic ingredients.
Henry
Margaret Rockland is as depressed as the ubiquitous Christmas carols are cheerful when she returns to the Washington DC suburb of her childhood for a reunion. The wild bunch she grew up with have settled into respectable family life. Adding insult to injury, her former boyfriend is engaged to the most bourgeois blonde on the East Coast. Margaret reacts by diving into a drinking and drugs marathon. With two remaining fellow souls, she roams the suburban no man’s land and ends up in an incomparable adventure with kidnapping, extortion, misunderstandings and clumsy violence as basic ingredients.
Actor
An unreliable story, a parallax view wherein the scenarios, characters, costumes, genres, and endings, repeat and morph, refusing the logic of conventional narrative.
Thomas
ジェニファー・ローレンスが迫真の演技を披露した感動の実録サクセス・ストーリー。貧乏で冴えない日々を送っていたシングルマザーが、“触らずに絞れるモップ”を思いついたことから億万長者になるまでを描く。監督はデヴィッド・O.ラッセル。
Francis Polito
詐欺師アーヴィンと、その相棒で愛人のシドニー。彼らはFBI捜査官リッチーに逮捕されるが、無罪放免を条件におとり捜査への協力を持ち掛けられる。それは、架空のアラブ人富豪をダシに、カジノ利権に群がる政治家やマフィアを一網打尽にするというもの。アーヴィンとシドニーは、標的のカーマイン市長に近づくが、二人の仲を嫉妬するアーヴィンの妻ロザリンがおとり捜査の邪魔をする。＜1970年代後半のアメリカを揺るがした政治家などの収賄スキャンダル、アブスキャム事件を題材にしたサスペンスドラマ。自由と引き換えに、FBIが仕掛ける悪徳政治家検挙を狙ったおとり捜査に協力させられる詐欺師たちの姿を、スリリングに映し出していく。メガホンを取るのは、『世界にひとつのプレイブック』などのデヴィッド・O・ラッセル。＞
