Tag Archives: novelist

The Razor’s Edge

IMDB Rating: 7.50
1112 votes

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Well-to-do Chicagoan, Larry Darrell, breaks off his engagement to Isabel and travels the world seeking enlightenment, eventually finding his guru India. Isabel marries Gray, and following the crash of 1929, is invited to live in Paris with her rich, social climbing, Uncle Elliot. During a sojurn there, Larry, having attained his goal, is reunited with Isabel. While slumming one night Larry, Isabel and company are shocked to discover Sophie, a friend from Chicago. Having lost her husband and child in a tragic accident, Sophie is living the low-life with the help of drugs an abusive brute. Larry tries to rehabilitate her, but his efforts are sabotaged by Isabel who has tried in vain to reignite Larry's interest in her.
Actors
Larry DarrellTyrone Power
Isabel BradleyGene Tierney
Gray MaturinJohn Payne
Also posted in 1946, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Iris

IMDB Rating: 7.10
6092 votes

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A moving and tender depiction of the novelist Iris Murdoch's descent into Alzheimer's Disease, covering the period from just before her marriage to intellectual John Bayley until her death. The film is based on the two books by John Bayley (Iris, Iris & The Friends).
Actors
Young Iris MurdochKate Winslet
Young John BayleyHugh Bonneville
Iris MurdochJudi Dench
Also posted in 2001, Biography, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Romancing the Stone

IMDB Rating: 6.80
15826 votes

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Joan Wilder is a mousey writer of romance novels. She finds a package from her sister mailed from Colombia in her mailbox. A call from her sister tells her that she has been kidnapped and that bringing the package to Colombia is necessary for her safety and release. Being fairly clueless, she leaves for Colombia to rescue her sister. She is lost within hours of her arrival. She is nearly murdered by one of the men searching for the package when Jack Colton, a fairly low life American rescues her. They begin a journey through the jungle with bullets flying nearby. Is Joan up to all of this? What a way to find out.
Actors
Jack T. ColtonMichael Douglas
Joan WilderKathleen Turner
RalphDanny DeVito
Also posted in 1984, Action, Adventure, Comedy, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Angel

IMDB Rating: 5.70
140 votes

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Based on the book by Elizabeth Taylor, "Angel", this is the story of a young woman with incredible imagination who refuses to accept the world around her, and creates her own realities.
Actors
AngelRomola Garai
HermioneCharlotte Rampling
Nora Howe-NevinsonLucy Russell
Also posted in 2007, Drama, Romance | Comments (0)

The Human Stain

IMDB Rating: 6.30
7706 votes

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The Human Stain is the story of Coleman Silk (Hopkins), a classics professor with a terrible secret that is about to shatter his life in a small New England town. When his affair with a young troubled janitor (Kidman) is uncovered, the secret Silk had harbored for over fifty years from his wife, his children and colleague, writer Nathan Zuckerman, fast explodes in a conflagration of devastating consequences. It is Zuckerman who stumbles upon Silk's secret and sets out to reconstruct the unknown biography of this eminent, upright man, esteemed as an educator for nearly all his life, and to understand how this ingeniously contrived life came unraveled.
Actors
Coleman SilkAnthony Hopkins
Faunia FarleyNicole Kidman
Lester FarleyEd Harris
Also posted in 2003, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance, Thriller | Comments (0)

Duplex

IMDB Rating: 5.60
8981 votes

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Alex Rose (Stiller) and Nancy Kendricks (Barrymore) are a young, professional, New York couple in search of their dream home. When they finally find the perfect Brooklyn brownstone they are giddy with anticipation. The duplex is a dream come true, complete with multiple fireplaces, except for one thing: Mrs. Connelly (Eileen Essel), the cranky old lady who lives on the rent-controlled top floor. Assuming she is elderly and ill, they take the apartment but their hopes are quickly dashed when they realize that Mrs. Connelly is an energetic senior who enjoys watching her television at top volume day in and day out and rehearsing in a brass band. A writer, Alex is attempting to finish his novel against a looming deadline. However, each day as he begins to write, he is interrupted by Mrs. Connelly's numerous demands and requests and what begins as a nuisance quickly escalates into an all-out war. When Nancy loses her job and the pair are trapped at home together with Mrs. Connelly, their rage turns to homicidal fantasy as they plot ways to get rid of their no-good neighbour...
Actors
Alex RoseBen Stiller
Nancy KendricksDrew Barrymore
Mrs. ConnellyEileen Essell
Also posted in 2003, Comedy | Comments (1)

Basic Instinct

IMDB Rating: 6.70
22321 votes

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Former rock star and San Francisco nightclub owner Johnny Boz is found murdered in his bed. Detective Nick Curran is assigned to the case; he has a history of alcoholism and drug abuse although he is clean now. The prime suspect is Catherine Tramell, an attractive and manipulative novelist who had been seeing Boz for a while. Police psychiatrist Beth Gardner (who happens to be Nick's ex-girlfriend) is brought in on the case when it is discovered that Boz's murder was copied directly from one of Catherine's novels. Nick starts to get too involved and everyone seems to be a suspect.
Actors
Det. Nick CurranMichael Douglas
Catherine TramellSharon Stone
Gus MoranGeorge Dzundza
Also posted in 1992, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Jewel of the Nile

IMDB Rating: 5.70
7573 votes

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This is the sequel to "Romancing the Stone" where Jack and Joan have their yacht and easy life, but are gradually getting bored with each other and this way of life. Joan accepts an invitation to go to some middle eastern country as a guest of the sheik, but there she is abducted and finds her- self involved with the "jewel". Jack decides to rescue her with his new partner Ralph. They all go from one adventure to another... What is the story of this "jewel"?
Actors
Jack ColtonMichael Douglas
Joan WilderKathleen Turner
RalphDanny DeVito
Also posted in 1985, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance | Comments (0)