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Loved the book and this adaption lives and breaths it. Jessica Tandy ( , , , ) as Ninny Threadgoode is wonderful. Kathy Bates(, ) as a dowdy housewife. How she take control of her life is hilarious. Highly recommend the book and the movie. Enjoyable story-within-a-story film, in which repressed Southern wife Bates meets elderly Tandy at a nursing home and becomes captivated by her tale-spinning about two feisty female friends and their escapades in the 1920s and 30s. First-rate adaptation of Fannie Flagg's novel which is one of my all time favorite books.
Women in a small Louisiana town. The acting is outstanding. Starring Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Daryl Hannah, Olympia Dukakis, Julia Roberts, Tom Skerritt, and Sam Shepard.
Shadrack is a very elderly black man who wants to be buried in the slave graveyard of the plantation where he was born. During the Depression, Shadrack shows up in the front yard of the white family that owned the plantation but now survive on the income of an illegal stil. Harvey Keitel (, , ) does an amazing job in the male lead and Andie MacDowell ( , ) as his wife.
a gourmet feast of Italian food in a TriBeCa restaurant owned by Danny Aiello. Except for a flashback at the beginning that sets up the mafia tie-in, the entire movie takes place during one evening at the busy hot spot. There's the rising star chef, the restaurant critic with a snarl on her incredible lips, the attempted takeover by mafia goons, a sassy artist waitress, the quintessential snotty art-dealer patron with the big mouth, the sous chef who's got a serious gambling problem and a serious debt to the bad guys
Its a keeper. Stars Stanley Tucci and Tony Shalhoub (Monk fame) as two Italian immigrant brothers in New Jersey in the 1950s trying to make a go of it with an Italian restaurant. Their bistro serves the finest in traditional, authentic Italian cuisine. Their every move is foiled by rival restaurant which serves mile-high servings of spaghetti and meatballs and flasks of bad Chianti at exorbitant prices. The music is first rate and adds significantly to the ambiance.
Cookie's Fortune begins beautifully, as handyman Willis (Charles S. Dutton) staggers home from a blues club in the small town of Holly Springs, Mississippi. In the wee hours of a warm night, he has an affectionate chat with elderly matriarch Jewel Mae "Cookie" Orcutt played by the grand Patricia Neal( , ) and the gentle history of their friendship is sketched in a few brief exchanges. Soon enough, Cookie has checked out of this world to join her dear departed husband, prompting her nieces to make the suicide look like a murder---to protect the dubious family name, of course. They are the local drama diva, played by Glenn Close( , , ), a Scarlett O'Hara in her own mind, and her dreamy sister played by Julianne Moore( ) who ain't quite right in the head.
Richard Harris is a feisty retired sea captain in a Florida retirement community who still wants to chase girls and squeeze the most out of life. He forces his friendship on an also-retired, shy, anal-retentive retired barber, and Cuban exile (Robert Duvall), who eventually reciprocates. Shirley MacLaine adds flavor.
Mercedes Reuhel as an eccentric auntie and Irene Worth as miserable granny steal the show from Richard Dreyfuss who plays a gangster uncle. This WWII story centres round two boys whose father sends them to live with their grandmother so he can travel and repay a debt. Wonderful acting all around.
Grandma Peggy dies when she trips over her lover's wooden legs going to the bathroom. Beau Bridges plays the lover, Delta Burke plays his wife and close friend of Peggy, Olivia Newton-John plays as Peggy's lesbian folk singer lover. Lots of Texas accents and humor. I loved it. I swear some of these people could me relatives.
Music professor visits her sister in the remote mountains of Appalachia when travel tooks days and days. She discovers love ballads which are English, Scot, and Irish ballads and sung like they must have been sung 200 years earlier in England. The area was so isolated, the music had not changed.
Wonderful music. Musically in same tradition as O Brother where arth thou?
OK Harvey Keitel as Elvis. Maybe this should be in the odd section. As this lonelyhearts fest begins, guilt-ridden young widower Byron (Johnathon Schaech) picks up hitchhiker Elvis, who is either the aging, regretful real thing or a sadly deluded impersonator. Bridget Fonda ( ) plays a Marilyn Monroe mimic. Keitel dons full Vegas-era Elvis regalia and belts out a rousing version of "Suspicious Minds." Is he, or isn't he Elvis?
Robert Duvall and James Earl Jones as brothers discovering a family bond where none existed before. Duvall plays Earl Pilcher, an aging Southerner whose mother dies, leaving him a letter with a startling secret: in fact, she was not his mother, though she raised him--but his father is really his father. His real mother was a black servant whom his father forced himself upon, and she died in childbirth. Even more shocking, he has a black brother in Chicago, Ray (Jones). Stunned to his soul, Earl heads for Chicago, where he finds that Ray not only knows his secret but wants nothing to do with him. Loved Irma Hall who plays the aunt of both men.
Depression-era Texas dust bowl stars Duvall as a wily old oil prospector who charms a cotton farmer and his wife into believing their land has oil. Conflict between wife and husband whether to risk it all on the scheme or hope for best that they can survive on the dying farm.
James Garner and Joanne Woodward play a middle-aged couple on their one-day detour-filled odyssey to a friend's funeral.
Vanessa Redgrave as a eccentric Miss Amelia, a depression-era rural southerner. She falls for a charming con man (Keith Carradine) and marries him. But her public humiliation of Carradine sets up a battle of wills. True adaptation of , ugly, humorous and unpredictable.
If a San Francisco movie doesn't qualify for regional, I don't know what does. The strong characters make the books and the movies. A 6 part miniseries, the performances are all outstanding, especially Chloe Webb's () spacey ex-hippie Mona, Marcus D'Amico's romantically doomed Michael, and Olympia Dukakis's ( , ) Anna Madrigal, the enigmatic mother hen/landlady of many of the film's central characters.
Lesley Ann Warren is a barmaid by day and by night she's pickin' and singin' her way to country music stardom.
In winter 1938 in Albany, New York. Francis Phelan (Jack Nicholson) wanders the streets, an aimless vagabond sharing his whiskey with longtime "pal" Helen (Meryl Streep). The two cling to each other for friendship and courage, but Francis knows he must now reconcile with the family he abandoned long ago.
The Trip to Bountiful (1985)
Geraldine Page plays Carrie Watts, a woman whose last wish is to return to Bountiful, her childhood home, before she dies. She plans and schemes, waiting for her chance to return to the place and life she knew, wanting only to embrace her past. She is currently trapped in a two room apartment with her son and daughter-in-law, treated as a child, nagged by his son's wife.