Mark Anger

ジョージ・ルーカス製作総指揮、フランシス・フォード・コッポラ監督のコンビが1988年に放った実録ドラマ。理想の車を作り上げ、米自動車産業界を牛耳る連中にたった一人で立ち向かったプレストン・タッカーの夢と苦悩を描く。

Chinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with tuberculosis who writes pulp fiction for a living, receives an unexpected visit from an old friend asking for help.

A divorced woman (Michael Learned) moves to San Francisco from Omaha with her young son. She's trying to re-build her life after her divorce, she leaves her son with his grandmother. She joins the choir of a local church. She has some issues with the choirmaster (John Houseman) who tries to get the choir into shape before the Christmas concert. The choir overcome some personal setbacks as they all deal with personal issues. Zoe (Michael Learned) thinks of quitting the choir all together when push comes to shove.

Attendees at a horror-film convention in San Francisco keep disappearing. It turns out that the guest of honor is a real vampire, and his henchmen are kidnapping the convention guests. A horror writer, a Sherlock Holmes fan and an Israeli Nazi-hunter set out to stop him.

It's time again for California's "Young American Miss" beauty pageant, the biggest event of the year for Big Bob Freelander and Brenda DiCarlo, who give their all to put on a successful pageant. But Brenda is having marital difficulties and Bob's son is up to some mischief. Could this year's pageant be in jeopardy?

１９６２年、カリフォルニア北部の小さな田舎町を舞台に、ハイスクールを卒業し東部の大学へ出発しようとする若者たちの、最後の一夜を描いた愛すべき名編。スティーヴ（今や一線級監督のロン・ハワード）とカート（「ＪＡＷＳ／ジョーズ」以前のリチャード・ドレイファス）は故郷での最後の夜を楽しく過ごそうと、テリー（「アンタッチャブル」のチャールズ・Ｍ・スミス）とビッグ・ジョン（ポール・ル・マット）を誘い町に繰り出す。暴走族の仲間に入らされたり、酒を買おうと四苦八苦したり、マセた女の子にせまられたりという数々のエピソードが、当時のヒット・ナンバーに乗せて軽やかに描かれるが、やがてそれぞれの決意を秘めた朝がやって来る……。今や定番と化した感のある、懐メロ青春群像モノの原点であり最高峰、後の青春映画に与えた影響は大きい。