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Marty, 1955. An aging butcher named Marty is shot down by the dames so much at the dances that these days he spend his weekends sitting in a park listening to his fellow chronic bachelors grouse about girls while they drink, listen to the ball game, or talk about Mickey Spillane’s novels. One night he encounters a school teacher who has likewise given up on finding someone, and they hit it off. But Mickey’s mom and friends are jealous of the girl and tell Marty he should dump her for being a “dog”
The Trouble with Angels, 1966. Teenage cloister hijinks
Showgirls, 1995. A young woman hitchhikes to Vegas to be become a dancer and does what she needs to do, including sleeping with her boss and kicking his current girlfriend down the stairs, to make it to the top.
Serial Mom, 1994. A…comedy/horror about a family who realizes that their June Cleaver mom might be more of a literal cleaver…..
Hannah and her Sisters, 1986. Character drama about three sisters and the men who love them;’ Woody Allen has an existential crisis. Lots of stars in this: Woody himself, Mia Farrow, Michael Caine, and Carrie Fisher for starters.
Going in Style, 2017. Michael Caine, Alan Arkin, and Morgan Freeman are in dire financial straits and about to hit eighty. The obvious solution is to rob the bank that’s robbed them. Solid comedy.
Party Girl, 1995. Parker Posey is a dance hall fanatic who, upon finding herself financially strapped, decides to become a librarian. This film is amusing from a librarian POV because she begins working in an early 1990s system that still uses a physical card catalog, in which digital records are nonexistent. I did appreciate Parker growing to love the order of library & information sciences, and the magic of being an information voodoo operator. Also, the part where she screamed at a patron was fun.
The Year of Living Dangerously, 1982. Mel Gibson is a reporter from Sydney who is dispatched to Jakarata on the eve of armed unrest against a military dictatorship. He befriends a local photographer, “Billy”, as well as Sigourney Weaver, who is playing an assistant to a western military officer. He betrays both of their confidences after they feed him some information intending to save his life, and then boogies – but still gets the girl.
The Benchwarmers, 2006. Rob Schnedier repeatedly beats an entire team of children in baseball. I only watched this because it was baseball related and free to stream on prime
After the Thin Man 1936. A cinematic sequel to the movie based on Hammett’s original novel, reusing some of the same principal actors. Amusing/engaging. .
