The Man Who Came to Dinner (2000)
Жанр : комедия
Время выполнения : 2Ч 46М
Краткое содержание
Broadcast of a live performance of the Roundabout Theater Company's 2000 New York revival of the classic Kaufman-Hart comedy, about a famous (and famously acid-tongued) theater critic who is forced to stay in a Midwestern couple's home and the havoc that ensues.
По мотивам одноименной пьесы Бертольда Брехта. Знаменитая история любви дочери короля нищих Лондона Полли Пичем и молодого бандита Мэкки-Ножа.
Julian Marsh is an out of work ladies' man who lands a job directing a bizarre adaptation of Hamlet. After casting his best friend and his ex-girlfriend in the show, Julian finds himself in the middle of a two thousand year old conspiracy that explains the connection between Shakespeare, the Holy Grail and some seriously sexy vampires. It turns out that the play was actually written by a master vampire name Theo Horace and it's up to Julian to recover the Grail in order to reverse the vampire's curse...If only being undead wasn't so much God-damned fun!
История взлетов и падений группы молодых амбициозных актрис.
A country girl (Simone Berriau) finds work as a chorus girl in Paris, gets embroiled with a bad egg, and then finds true love with a good-looking milkman.
Доктор Виктор Франкенштейн создает Чудовище, вдохнув жизнь в тело, созданное из частей разных умерших людей. Однако, в ужасе от безобразности своего творения, он бросает его на произвол судьбы. Одинокий, уродливый, по-детски невинный монстр ждёт от мира доверия и любви, но повсюду сталкивается лишь со злобой, жестокостью и ненавистью. Окончательно отчаявшись, Чудовище клянется разыскать своего создателя и отомстить ему самым страшным образом.
Бродвейская звезда Миртл Гордон впадает в глубочайшую депрессию, став свидетельницей гибели своей поклонницы. Ее начинает преследовать призрак девушки. Не в силах избавиться от видений, Миртл начинает сильно пить. Ее странное поведение грозит сорвать премьеру новой пьесы. Миртл продолжает ходить на репетиции, но агрессивно сопротивляется режиссерской трактовке пьесы. Несмотря ни на что премьера состоялась. Представление за представлением, переосмысливая свою роль и импровизируя на сцене, Миртл начинает обретать внутреннее равновесие.
A war between two families, who live in the same building.
Старшеклассница Алекса мечтает стать актрисой, и, дабы набраться необходимых для этой профессии жизненных переживаний, бросается в омут страстного романа с одноклассником Джонни (Гилфорд). Ситуация осложняется тем, что Бен (Спрингер), лучший друг Алексы, тоже неравнодушен к школьному мачо.
Оскар Уайльд наблюдает за возмутительной постановкой своей запрещенной пьесы «Саломея» в лондонском борделе, где играют проститутки, хозяин Уайльда, его любовник Боузи и леди Алиса.
The story of an egotistical crime writer who gets involved with the case of a notorious art thief (who is believed to be dead) while at the same time romancing a lovely young actress who's in a play that also happens to be the cover for massive jewel job. Art connoisseur and criminologist George Melville is hired to track down art thieves, assisted by perky Claire Peyton and goaded by Phil Bane, the roaring newspaper editor who has employed him. The mastermind poses as a theatrical impresario and stages a war drama, replete with loud explosions, to divert attention from his band of thieves, who are cracking safes in a bank adjacent to the theater.
Silent comedy about the travails of a third-rate traveling theatre company.
A private stationed in Hawaii gets involved with the general's engaged daughter. In order to avoid a scandal, the pair break up, but meet again years later when he's at West Point producing the annual play that turns out to star her.
A provocative and ironic pamphleteering documentary about the making of Christoph Schlingensief’s Nazi-'Hamlet’ (2001). Both a media event and a form of political action Schlingensief let ex-neo-Nazis play themselves. His provocation in so-called Nazi-free Switzerland was not appreciated and when he added fuel to the flames by calling for the local political party SVP to be banned, his media offensive made front-page news far beyond Switzerland.
On a bitterly cold London evening, schoolteacher Kyra Hollis receives an unexpected visit from her former lover, Tom Sergeant, a successful and charismatic restaurateur whose wife has recently died. As the evening progresses, the two attempt to rekindle their once passionate relationship only to find themselves locked in a dangerous battle of opposing ideologies and mutual desires.
The film is a stage play hybrid showcasing dark and absurd sketches based on contemporary Hungarian news of the 2000's with campy, senseless musical interludes in-between. Highly experimental in nature that - like Marmite - will split its' crowd into ones that'll love it and others that'll loathe it. There's no middle grounds here. The topics included are: The Hungarian Olympians' doping scandal, political terrorism, the national elections... and more.
A successful couple with a beautiful daughter, gorgeous home and a mother-in-law and housekeeper that are both eccentric are all the ingredients necessary for a somewhat perfect yet always interesting family. But when Jennifer finds out that her husband Terrance has been cheating on her for years, the family is changed forever. Can Jennifer learn to forgive Terrance so their marriage can be saved, or is it too late to make amends?
