Sandy Dennis

The Indian Runner

Admin — Sun, 19 May 1991 00:00:00 +0000

An intensely sad film about two brothers who cannot overcome their opposite perceptions of life. One brother sees and feels bad in everyone and everything, subsequently he is violent, antisocial and unable to appreciate or enjoy the good things which his brother desperately tries to point out to him.

Parents

Admin — Fri, 27 Jan 1989 00:00:00 +0000

Michael is a young boy living in a typical 1950’s suburbanite home… except for his bizarre and horrific nightmares, and continued unease around his parents. Young Michael begins to suspect his parents are cooking more than just hamburgers on the grill outside, but has trouble explaining his fears to his new-found friend Sheila, or the school’s social worker.

Another Woman

Admin — Thu, 13 Oct 1988 00:00:00 +0000

Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acoustic anomaly she can hear all that is said in the next apartment in which a psychiatrist holds his office. When she hears a young woman tell that she finds it harder and harder to bear her life, Marion starts to reflect on her own life. After a series of events she comes to understand how her unemotional attitude towards the people around her affected them and herself.

Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean

Admin — Fri, 12 Nov 1982 00:00:00 +0000

The Disciples of James Dean meet up on the anniversary of his death and mull over their lives in the present and in flashback, revealing the truth behind their complicated lives.

The Four Seasons

Admin — Fri, 22 May 1981 00:00:00 +0000

Three middle-aged wealthy couples take vacations together in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Along the way we are treated to mid-life, marital, parental and other crises.

God Told Me To

Admin — Sun, 31 Oct 1976 00:00:00 +0000

A New York detective investigates a series of murders committed by random New Yorkers who claim that “God told them to.”

The Out of Towners

Admin — Thu, 28 May 1970 00:00:00 +0000

George & Gwen Kellerman make a trip to New York, where George is going to start a new job, it turns out to be a trip to hell.

That Cold Day in the Park

Admin — Sun, 08 Jun 1969 00:00:00 +0000

Frances Austen, whose well-appointed apartment overlooks a park in Vancouver, one cold day, observes a rain-soaked young man on a park bench whom she assumes is homeless. Hoping to repress her loneliness, Frances invites ‘the boy’ inside her home to get warm and ends up encouraging him to stay. The young man accepts her every hospitality—food, clothes, profuse conversation, and a room of his own. Little does she realize that her guest is not the person he appears to be. Nor, for that matter, is Frances the woman that she appears to be.

Up the Down Staircase

Admin — Thu, 19 Jan 1967 00:00:00 +0000

Sylvia Barrett is a rookie teacher at New York’s inner-city Calvin Coolidge High: her lit classes are overcrowded, a window is broken, there’s no chalk, books arrive late. The administration is concerned mainly with forms and rules (there’s an up and and a down staircase); bells ring at the wrong time. Nevertheless, she tries. How she handles the chaos and her despair in her first semester makes up the film: a promising student drops out, another sleeps through class, a girl with a crush on a male teacher gets suicidal, and a bright but troublesome student misunderstands Sylvia’s reaching out. A discussion of Dickens, parents’ night, and a mock trial highlight the term. Can she make it?

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Admin — Tue, 21 Jun 1966 00:00:00 +0000

A bitter, aging couple, with the help of alcohol, use a young couple to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other.