Seymour Cassel
Series
Criterion collection volume 157
Language
English
Description
Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal, had left them long ago, but now returns to make things right with his family.
3) Rushmore
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English
Description
A gifted, rebellious teenager finds himself in competition with a wealthy older man for a favorite teacher's affections.
4) Stuck on you
Language
English
Description
Conjoined twins, Bob and Walt, are happy living their lives together and manage just fine, playing hockey, working at the diner, and cruising for babes, until one decides he wants to be an actor and the other has stage fright and panic attacks.
5) White Fang
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English
Description
Story of a young man who hopes to strike it rich in the Yukon gold country at the turn of the century and his relationship with the wolf-dog White Fang.
6) The crew
Language
English
Description
The story about a set of golden-year goodfellas fighting to protect their last piece of turf! Back in the days when mobsters were larger than life, none lived bigger than Bobby, "Bats", "The Brick", and "Mouth". But now well into retirement, the old crew find themselves suddenly facing eviction from their run-down Miami Beach hotel -- The Raj Mahal. That's when they decide there's only one thing left to do -- turn back the clock and pull one last...
Language
English
Description
After her lover Karl's death, the mysterious Eleanora (Giada Colagrande) travels to his unique home, known as the Rubber House, in an attempt to discover who he really was. Once there she becomes romantically involved with the house's darkly eccentric caretaker Leslie (Willem Dafoe). While searching for remnants of Karl's life she realizes that, like Karl, Leslie has some secrets of his own he is not sharing.
9) Fort McCoy
Language
English
Description
Frank Stirn moves with his family to become a barber for the American Army and POW camp at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, in the summer of 1944. Embittered that he cannot fight, Frank must take a stand when a Nazi SS Officer threatens his wife.
Language
English
Description
Minnie Moore (Rowlands) is an art museum curator with a duplex apartment and a large library. Seymour Moskowitz (Cassel) is a free-spirited, long-haired parking lot attendant who steps in when her date threatens her in his car lot. The two dissimiliar, but lonely, people begin an unlikely romance.
11) Shadows
Series
Language
English
Description
The story of an interracial romance and the obstacles it puts on family relationships. When appearing on Jean Shepherd's radio program Night People, Cassevetes mentioned the improvisation work he had done with his acting class, and asked for funding to film it. When listeners actually sent in money, he worked up a script based on the classwork, and with additional funding filmed his story of three siblings, two of whom can pass as white.
12) Rushmore
Series
Criterion collection volume 65
Language
English
Description
Max Fischer, a tenth-grader at Rushmore Academy, is involved in too many extra-curricular activities, and, as he tries to avoid getting expelled because of his grades, Max befriends a first-grade teacher, whom he falls in love with, and a melancholy, self-made millionaire.
13) Love streams
Series
Criterion collection volume 721
Language
English
Description
Two closely bound, emotionally wounded siblings reunite after years apart.
Series
Criterion collection volume 254
Language
English
Description
A small-time Los Angeles night club owner falls for a lavish invitation to gamble at a private club.
15) Faces
Series
Language
English
Description
Powerful story of the dissintegration of a marriage of a captain of industry and his wife.
Series
Criterion collection volume 250-256
Language
English
Description
"Shadows": Explores interracial friendships and relationships in the 1950's Beat-era New York City. "Faces": Richard and Maria are attempting to escape the anguish of their dissolving marriage by falling in the arms of others. "A woman under the influence": Mabel, is loved by her husband Nick, but her madness proves to be a problem in their marriage. "The killing of a Chinese bookie": To clear his debt, a strip club owner grapples with his own conscience...
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English
Description
Parmie wants to take control over the Mafia connections in Staten Island. Sully is a dim-witted septic tank cleaner who is going to be a dad. Jasper works in a deli and gets caught up in Parmie's dealings. The lives of three ambitious men intersect when Sully decides to rob a local mob boss of $50,000.
19) Love streams
Series
Criterion collection volume 721
Language
English
Description
The story of a middle-aged brother and sister who find themselves caring for one another after the other loves in their lives abandon them.
20) Beer league
Language
English
Description
A group of misfits have weekly softball games that descend more into fights for macho dominance than making home runs. When love enters his life, it unexpectedly alters Artie's low self-esteem; and the odds for winning, not only the league trophy but a new life, are considerably amped.