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Carolina Moon

Wasn’t it one of the Wolfe boys who said that you can’t go home again? I suppose it is true in an abstract sense since all places and those returning are not the same as time passes. You can go back but you shouldn’t expect things to be the same as when you left. Tory Bodeen (Claire Forlani) is back to stay in her small home town but she’s not expecting much to be different when she left. Via a psychic vision, she knew where to find the body of her best friend Hope who had been murdered, the first of a string that continues every year on the same day. Her father had been the principal suspect when he was paid off to skip town. Folks are not too welcoming when she begins to open up her small shop on main street. But a few are able to move beyond the gossip. Cade Lavelle (Oliver Hudson) is still goofy over her and his sister Faith (Josie Davis) proves to be a fountain of support that Tory (and Faith) finds surprising.


Director:  Stephen Tolkin
Writer:  Stephen Tolkin; Nora Roberts
Cast:
Claire Forlani -  Victoria ‘Tory’ Bodeen
Oliver Hudson -  Cade Lavelle
Josie Davis -  Faith Lavelle
Jonathan Scarfe -  Dwight Collier
Chad Willett -  Wade Mooney
Jacqueline Bisset -  Margaret Lavelle
Shaun Johnston -  Han Bodeen
Greg Lawson -  Police Chief Carl Russ
Maureen Rooney -  Sari Bodeen
Kailin See -  Sherry Bellows
Shae Keebler -  Young Hope Lavelle / Young Faith Lavelle
Gabrielle Casha -  Young Tory Bodeen
Brieanna Moench -  Lissy
Kade Phillips -  Young Cade
Connor Robinson -  Young Wade
Taison Gelinas -  Young Dwight









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Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber

What would you do to climb the social ladder? Spread malicious gossip, do some discrete blackmail, sleep around? Sure, why not? The view from the top is better and the perks are glamourous. Katya Livingstone (Jennifer Love Hewitt) is working her way up the social ladder. One of the steps on that ladder is an invite to a gala but she’s still too many rungs down to get one. But she finds out where the hostess Dove Greenstein (Stefanie von Pfetten) is getting a salon massage and wax. Subbing for a masseuse doing the waxing, Katya captures on film the hirsute hostess with the intention of swapping the polaroid for an invitation.


Director:  Dana Lustig
Writer:  Nicole Snyder; Eric Charmelo
Cast:
Jennifer Love Hewitt -  Katya Livingston
Joseph Lawrence -  Ferguson
Colin Ferguson -  Charles Fitz
Natassia Malthe -  Frangiapani
Daniel Roebuck -  Alex
Stefanie von Pfetten -  Dove Greenstein
James Kirk -  Sebastian
Sonja Bennett -  Eliza
Jennifer Clement -  Gatekeeper
Melissa Rivers -  Herself









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Chicago

I don’t have an inclination to be famous. It seems to me to be a self-defeating process. The more you make yourself open to be scavanged by those who think that others want to know about you, the less you are who you want or need to be. Roxie Hart (Renée Zellweger) and Velma Kelly (Catherine Zeta-Jones) both seem to live, dream and yearn for fame. It is their direction in life and the only way they can make a living and remain in the spotlight. But what gyrations they must go through to gain the appreciation by others.


Director:  Rob Marshall
Writer:  Maurine Dallas Watkins; Bob Fosse; Fred Ebb; Bill Condon
Cast:
Taye Diggs -  The Bandleader
Clive Saunders -  Stage Manager
Catherine Zeta-Jones -  Velma Kelly
Renée Zellweger -  Roxie Hart
Dominic West -  Fred Casely
Jayne Eastwood -  Mrs. Borusewicz
Bruce Beaton -  Police Photographer
Romano Prada -  Sgt. Fogarty
John C. Reilly -  Amos Hart
Colm Feore -  Assistant District Attorney Martin Harrison
Rob Smith -  First Photographer
Sean Wayne Doyle -  Reporter
Steve Behal -  Prison Clerk
Robbie Rox -  Prison Guard
Chita Rivera -  Nickie
Queen Latifah -  Matron ‘Mama’ Morton









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The Color Purple

Do you have control over your life? Can you do what you want, when you want, go where you want and feel safe when doing it? Then consider yourself lucky. For this hasn’t always been the case. Whether a serf or a slave, it hasn’t been that long since most folks had little or no control over their lives. But some of them do find the gumption to try. Celie (Whoopi Goldberg) is forced to marry a local widower whom she calls “Mister” (Danny Glover) whose real name is Albert Johnson. With his wandering eye, he’s leaning towards Celie’s younger, more attractive sister Nettie (Akosua Busia). He treats Celie like a slave, prodding her to clean his disorderly household and to care for his annoying children. He beats and rapes her often, intimidating Celie into submission. But Celie builds a friendship with Albert’s mistress Shug (Margaret Avery) which pushes her to make a stand against him and decide to leave in search of a new and better life.


Director:  Steven Spielberg
Writer:  Alice Walker; Menno Meyjes
Cast:
Danny Glover -  Albert
Whoopi Goldberg -  Celie
Margaret Avery -  Shug Avery
Oprah Winfrey -  Sofia
Willard Pugh -  Harpo
Akosua Busia -  Nettie
Desreta Jackson -  Young Celie
Adolph Caesar -  Old Mister
Rae Dawn Chong -  Squeak
Dana Ivey -  Miss Millie
Leonard Jackson -  Pa
Bennet Guillory -  Grady
John Patton, Jr. -  Preacher
Carl Anderson -  Rev. Samuel
Susan Beaubian -  Corrine
James Tillis -  Buster









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Casablanca

There has been so much written about Casablanca over the years, I doubt whether a goof like me is going to convince you to watch it. If you’d like a reason to view this quintessential American flick, take a piece of paper and write down the number of lines you have heard other people in your life use. Count them up and I imagine you will be surprised at the total. Then remember these lines appeared here for the first time. This is where they come from and you’ll understand why so many people have it listed as their favourite movie.


Director:  Michael Curtiz
Writer:  Murray Burnett; Joan Alison; Julius J. Epstein; Philip G. Epstein; Howard Koch; Casey Robinson
Cast:
Humphrey Bogart -  Rick Blaine
Ingrid Bergman -  Ilsa Lund Laszlo
Paul Henreid -  Victor Laszlo
Claude Rains -  Capt. Louis Renault
Conrad Veidt -  Maj. Heinrich Strasser
Sydney Greenstreet -  Signor Ferrari
Peter Lorre -  Guillermo Ugarte
S.K. Sakall -  Carl
Madeleine LeBeau -  Yvonne
Dooley Wilson -  Sam
Joy Page -  Annina Brandel
John Qualen -  Berger
Leonid Kinskey -  Sascha
Curt Bois -  Pickpocket