Bells Are Ringing 1960  N/R, 127 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy / Romance
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Judy Holliday, Dean Martin, Fred Clark, Eddie Foy Jr., Jean Stapleton, Frank Gorshin, Ruth Storey, Dort Clark, Ralph Roberts, Valerie Allen, Bernard West, Steve Peck, Gerry Mulligan, Jimmy Ames, Jan Arvan
Judy Holliday recreates her Broadway role of Manhattan telephone operator Ella Peterson who works for an answering service run by her cousin, Sue (Jean Stapleton). Ella gets involved with her clients and, while on the phone with playwright Jeffrey Moss (Dean Martin), Ella falls in love with him. Problems develop because Ella will not reveal her true identity, but Moss and other clients appear together at Ella's doorstep, and all ends happily. The songs include "Just in Time" and "The Party's Over." The film received an Oscar nomination for Best Scoring of a Musical Picture.
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Damn Yankees 1958 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: George Abbott, Stanley Donen
Cast: Gwen Verdon, Tab Hunter, Ray Walston, Russ Brown, Shannon Bolin, Nathaniel Frey, James Komack, Jean Stapleton, Albert Linville, Bob Fosse
Frustrated baseball fans will understand the deal made with the Devil to help a hapless team win the pennant. Gwen Verdon is great in her role of Lola, the Devil's (Ray Walston) helper. Her rendition of "Whatever Lola Wants" is worth the price of the rental and more!
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Dead Man's Folly 1986  TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery
Director: Clive Donner
Cast: Peter Ustinov, Jean Stapleton, Constance Cummings, Ralph Arliss, Tim Pigott-Smith, Jonathan Cecil, Kenneth Cranham, Susan Wooldridge, Christopher Guard, Jeff Yagher, Nicollette Sheridan, Caroline Langrishe, Margorie Yates, Leslie Schofield, Jack Ellis
A detective novelist, Ariadne Oliver (Jean Stapleton), has been asked to create a "Murder Hunt" game with a pretend murder for a fair at Nass House. She calls in friend Hercule Poirot (Peter Ustinov) when she suspects problems. It's a good thing she called him because people are found dead during the hunt. Now, Poirot and his assistant, Captain Hastings (Jonathan Cecil), set out to solve the real murders.
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Klute 1971  R, 114 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Alan J. Pakula
Cast: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Roy Scheider, Jean Stapleton, Rita Gam, Dorothy Tristan, Richard B. Shull, Vivian Nathan, Nathan George
Jane Fonda won an Oscar for her insightful depiction of a prostitute, Bree, whose life is in danger. John Klute (Donald Sutherland) meets her when the trail of his missing friend leads to Bree.
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Michael 1996  PG, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Nora Ephron
Cast: John Travolta, Andie MacDowell, William Hurt, Robert Pastorelli, Bob Hoskins, Jean Stapleton, Teri Garr, Wallace Langham, Joey Lauren Adams, Carla Gugino
Michael (John Travolta) is a pot-bellied, beer guzzling, sugar-craving archangel womanizer who is on Earth to perform a mission. During this visit–the last of 26 vacations allowed during the course of human history–he is convinced by three reporters (Andie MacDowell, William Hurt, and Robert Pastorelli) to go with them to Chicago where they plan to exploit him.
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Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World 1998 N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Fantasy / Musical
Director: Tom Ellery, Bradley Raymond
Cast: Irene Bedard, Judy Kuhn, Billy Zane, David Ogden Stiers, Jean Stapleton, Russell Means, Linda Hunt, Donal Gibson, John Kassir, Jim Cummings, Finola Hughes, Jeff Bennett, Rodger Bumpass, Frank Welker
In this animated, historical fantasy, after hearing rumors that Capt. John Smith (voice of Donal Gibson) has died, Pocahontas (voice of Irene Bedard) heads for England in an effort to keep peace in Jamestown. After many problems, Pocahontas does convince King James (voice of Jim Cummings) to call off the British armada.
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Something Wild 1961 N/R, 112 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jack Garfein
Cast: Carroll Baker, Ralph Meeker, Mildred Dunnock, Charles Watts, Jean Stapleton, Martin Kosleck, Clifton James, William Hickey, Diane Ladd, Reid Cruickshanks
This offbeat, dark drama follows Mary Ann (Carroll Baker) who lives with her overbearing mother (Mildred Dunnock). Mary Ann is raped one night and, rather than tell her mother, she runs away, taking a job in a seedy store in Manhattan. Despondent, she finally attempts suicide by jumping off a bridge but is stopped by Mike (Ralph Meeker) who takes her in. While drunk, Mike tries to rape Mary Ann, but she gets away. She soon returns and asks him to marry her.
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The Trial 1993 PG-13, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: David Hugh Jones
Cast: Kyle MacLachlan, Anthony Hopkins, Jason Robards, Juliet Stevenson, Polly Walker, Alfred Molina, David Thewlis, Jean Stapleton, Tony Haygarth, Michael Kitchen
This version of Frank Kafka's novel features Josef K. (Kyle MacLachlan) as a bank clerk who awakens one morning to find himself arrested, but he has no idea of what the charges are. A trial follows in which the tentacles of government bureaucracy envelop Josef.
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 You've Got Mail 1998 PG, 116 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Nora Ephron
Cast: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Parker Posey, Jean Stapleton, Steve Zahn, Dave Chappelle, Greg Kinnear, Dabney Coleman, Michael Palin, John Randolph, Heather Burns, Hallee Hirsh, Cara Seymour, Katie Finneran, Michael Badalucco
Joe Fox (Tom Hanks) manages a chain of bookstores that threatens to run Kathleen Kelly's (Meg Ryan) small bookstore out of business. Kathleen turns to the chat room on AOL for help, and, of course, her anonymous online friend turns out to be Joe.
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| 1. Bells Are Ringing (1960)
2. The Buddy System (1984)
3. Damn Yankees (1958)
4. Dead Man's Folly (1986)
5. Klute (1971)
6. Michael (1996)
7. Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (1998)
8. Something Wild (1961)
9. The Trial (1993)
10. Up the Down Staircase (1967)
11. You've Got Mail (1998)
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