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Pub. Date
2015
Summary
Meet the Weiss family, who are making their way in Hollywood rife with money, fame, envy, and relentless hauntings. Stafford Weiss is a famed TV self-help therapist with an A-list celebrity clientele. Meanwhile, Cristina Weiss has her work cut out managing the career of their disaffected child-star son, Benjie, a fresh graduate of rehab at age thirteen. Yet unbeknownst to them, another member of the Weiss family has arrived in town, mysteriously scarred...
6) The Artist
Pub. Date
[2012]
Summary
In 1927, George Valentin is a silent movie superstar. However, the advent of the talkies will kill his career and he will sink into oblivion. For young extra Peppy Miller, it seems the sky's the limit as major movie stardom awaits. Though their careers are taking different paths their destinies will become entwined.
7) Hurlyburly
Pub. Date
[1999]
Summary
Eddie, a casting director, and his friends engage in the wild life of partying, late night sex, and self-obsession. When the fast life comes to a crashing halt, Eddie has to rediscover his soul.
8) State & Main
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Summary
In order to save money on production costs, a movie production crew moves into a small town in Vermont. The crew soon discovers that their much needed "prop" has burned down, the star can't keep his pants zipped, the starlet won't take off her top and the locals want a piece of the action.
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Pub. Date
[2014]
Summary
When P.L. Travers travels from London to Hollywood in 1961 to finally discuss Walt Disney's desire to bring her beloved character Mary Poppins to the motion picture screen (a quest he began in the 1940s as a promise to his two daughters), Disney meets a prim, uncompromising sexagenarian not only suspect of the impresario's concept for the film, but a woman struggling with her own past. During her stay in California, Travers' reflects back on her difficult...
10) Baadasssss!
Pub. Date
c2004
Summary
A candid portrait of Melvin Van Peeble's struggles as a young, black director during the society-shifting 70's. Determined to make a film that matters, Melvin deals with two-faced backers, a rag-tag crew, threatening creditors, and various shades of Hollywood hypocrisy. With everything on the line, his only choice is to stick to his guns and do whatever it takes to get his neo-blaxploitation epic to the audience for which it was envisioned.
Pub. Date
2006
Summary
Callie & son: Forced by poverty to relinquish her unnamed child to a lawyer for adoption, Callie, a 17-year-old unwed mother, travels to Dallas to seek out a new life. After meeting and marrying wealthy newspaper baron Randall Bordeaux, she finds herself moving amongst the elite of Dallas society and when she can never have other children, she resolves to find the child she was forced to give up long ago.
The Treasure of Jamaica Reef: A suspense...
12) Sunset Boulevard
Summary
Gloria Swanson, as Norma Desmond, an aging silent-film queen, and William Holden, as the struggling young screenwriter who is held in thrall by her madness, created two of the screen's most memorable characters in SUNSET BOULEVARD. Winner of three **Academy Awards**, director Billy Wilder's powerful orchestration of this bizarre tale is a true cinematic classic. From the unforgettable opening sequence - a body found floating in a decayed mansion's...
