Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore 1974  PG, 112 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Kris Kristofferson, Billy Green Bush, Diane Ladd, Alfred Lutter III, Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel, Vic Tayback, Lelia Goldoni, Valerie Curtin, Lane Bradbury, Murray Moston, Harry Northrup
Ellen Burstyn won the Oscar for her portrayal of Alice, a widow who wants to be a singer. On the trip to Hollywood with her son (Billy Green Bush), Alice's stardom is put on hold when they run out of money in Arizona, and Alice finds work and happiness as a waitress. Diane Ladd was nominated for Best Supporting Actress.
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Big Trouble 1986  R, 93 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: John Cassavetes
Cast: Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Beverly D'Angelo, Charles Durning, Robert Stack, Paul Dooley, Valerie Curtin, Richard Libertini, Steve Alterman, John Finnegan
"The In-Laws" duo (Peter Falk and Alan Arkin) are back with some funny moments, but not as many as in the original film. An insurance agent (Arkin) needs more money if he wants to get his boys through college. One way is to help the flighty Blanche (Beverly D'Angelo) in her plot to kill her husband (Falk).
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A Christmas Without Snow 1980  TV, 95 min.
Genre: Drama / Musical
Director: John Korty
Cast: Michael Learned, John Houseman, Ramon Bieri, Ruth Nelson, Valerie Curtin, James Cromwell, David Knell, Calvin Levels, Beah Richards, Barbara Tarbuck, William Swetland, Ed Bogas, Daisietta Kim, Joy Carlin, Anne Lawder
After her divorce, Zoe Jensen (Michael Learned) relocates to San Francisco to start a new life. She joins the church choir but has conflicts with tough, old choirmaster Ephraim Adams (John Houseman). Pressures rise as the choir practices for the big Christmas show, and the problems of other choir members– including Ephraim–are revealed.
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Down and Out in Beverly Hills 1986  R, 103 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Paul Mazursky
Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Bette Midler, Nick Nolte, Little Richard, Tracy Nelson, Elizabeth Pena, Paul Mazursky, Evan Richards, Valerie Curtin, Barry Primus
What happens when a couple (Richard Dreyfuss and Bette Midler) save a bum (Nick Nolte) from drowning himself in their massive swimming pool behind their opulent B.H. mansion? You've got the plot of this film. Of course, Midler is the over-dieted, over-analyzed, over-pampered wife who ends up in bed with the bum and Dreyfuss is the coat hanger manufacturer.
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The Last of the Cowboys 1976 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Adventure
aka: The Great Smokey Roadblock
Director: John Leone
Cast: Henry Fonda, Eileen Brennan, Robert Englund, John Byner, Susan Sarandon, Austin Pendleton, Melanie Mayron, Dub Taylor, Leigh French, Valerie Curtin
This is the story of an aging trucker (Henry Fonda) who is deep in debt. To stay one step ahead of his creditors, he steals a truck and heads across country.
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Maxie 1985  PG, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Paul Aaron
Cast: Glenn Close, Mandy Patinkin, Ruth Gordon, Barnard Hughes, Valerie Curtin, Googy Gress, Michael Laskin, Michael Ensign, Lou Cutell, Nelson Welch
A very conservative woman (Glen Close) has humorous experiences when a dead soul, a 1920s Flapper, inherits her body. A dead comedy.
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Silver Streak 1976 PG, 113 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Arthur Hiller
Cast: Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, Richard Pryor, Patrick McGoohan, Ned Beatty, Ray Walston, Scatman Crothers, Clifton James, Stefan Gierasch, Valerie Curtin
Gene Wilder plays a book executive, and Jill Clayburgh is a student of art who is in the next compartment on the Silver Streak, a train going from New York to Los Angeles. An art thief (Patrick McGoohan) is also aboard. That combination should cause some excitement; however, it is not until Richard Pryor comes onto the scene that the thrills and laughter are fast and furious. Fun.
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Why Would I Lie? 1980  PG, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Larry Peerce
Cast: Treat Williams, Lisa Eichhorn, Gabriel Swann, Susan Heldfond, Anne Byrne, Valerie Curtin, Jocelyn Brando, Nicolas Coster, Severn Darden
Cletus (Treat Williams) is a compulsive liar who cannot resist interfering in the lives of Jorge (Gabriel Swann) and his ex-con mother, Kay (Lisa Eichhorn).
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| 1. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
2. Big Trouble (1986)
3. A Christmas Without Snow (1980)
4. Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986)
5. The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened (1977)
6. The Last of the Cowboys (1976)
aka: The Great Smokey Roadblock
7. Maxie (1985)
8. Silver Streak (1976)
9. Why Would I Lie? (1980)
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