The Dressmaker (2015)
Director: Jocelyn Moorhouse
Actors: Caroline Goodall, Hayley Magnus, Hugo Weaving, Judy Davis, Kate Winslet, Liam Hemsworth
Country: Australia
Billy’s Dad Is a Fudge-Packer (2004)
In this, her first non acting effort, writer/director Jamie Donahue parodies the 1950’s high school educational film.
Project Pay Day (2021)
When three teen friends are forced by their parents to get summer jobs, they decide to invent fake jobs and hang out instead, but then embark on a series of…
Man Friday (1975)
Englishman Robinson Crusoe, stranded alone on an island for years, is overjoyed to find a fellow man, a black islander whom he names Friday. But Crusoe cannot overcome the shackles…
The Sessions (2012)
Though a childhood bout with polio left him dependent on an iron lung, Mark O’Brien maintains a career as a journalist and poet. A writing assignment dealing with sex and…
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1972)
A couple uses extremely black comedy to survive taking care of a daughter who is nearly completely brain dead. They take turns doing the daughter’s voice and stare into the…
Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)
Detective Rita Veder is assigned to a baffling serial murder case. After examining the crime scene — a corpse-filled ship found adrift at sea — she meets Maximilian, a smooth-talking…
The Prince and the Pauper (1990)
Long ago in a land with an ailing king, there was a pair of boys who looked exactly alike, a pauper called Mickey and the other, the Crown Prince.
A Family Thanksgiving (2010)
A happily single, self-absorbed, workaholic corporate lawyer is living the high life in New York City until she awakes in alternative reality. Now a wife and stay-at-home mom, Claudia struggles…
It Happened at the World’s Fair (1963)
Mike and Danny fly a cropduster, but because of Danny’s gambling debts, a local sheriff takes custody of it. Trying to earn money, they hitch-hike to the World’s Fair in…
Cedar Rapids (2011)
A naive Midwesterner insurance salesman travels to a big-city convention in an effort to save the jobs of his co-workers.
Eloise at Christmastime (2003)
Eloise is a precocious but lovable six-year-old girl who lives in New York’s Plaza Hotel. The owner’s daughter is getting married, but Eloise discovers that the fiance has devious plans…