George Roy Hill

Funny Farm

Admin — Fri, 03 Jun 1988 00:00:00 +0000

Chevy Chase stars as Andy Farmer, a sportswriter who moves with his schoolteacher wife Elizabeth (Madolyn Smith) to the country in order to write a novel in relative seclusion. Of course, seclusion is the last thing the Farmers find in the small, eccentric town, where disaster awaits them at every turn.

The Little Drummer Girl

Admin — Fri, 19 Oct 1984 00:00:00 +0000

An American Actress with a penchant for lying is forceably recruited by Mosad, the Israeli intelligence agency to trap a Palestinian bomber, by pretending to be the girlfriend of his dead brother.

The World According to Garp

Admin — Fri, 13 Aug 1982 00:00:00 +0000

Based on the John Irving novel, this film chronicles the life of T S Garp, and his mother, Jenny. Whilst Garp sees himself as a “serious” writer, Jenny writes a feminist manifesto at an opportune time, and finds herself as a magnet for all manner of distressed women.

A Little Romance

Admin — Fri, 27 Apr 1979 00:00:00 +0000

A young American girl and a young French boy meet in Paris and fall in love, with the assistance of an old man and his stories.

Slap Shot

Admin — Fri, 25 Feb 1977 00:00:00 +0000

To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging players whose job is to demolish the opposition.

The Great Waldo Pepper

Admin — Thu, 13 Mar 1975 00:00:00 +0000

A biplane pilot who had missed flying in WWI takes up barnstorming and later a movie career in his quest for the glory he had missed.

The Sting

Admin — Tue, 25 Dec 1973 00:00:00 +0000

Set in the 1930s this intricate caper deals with an ambitious small-time crook and a veteran con man who seek revenge on a vicious crime lord who murdered one of their gang.

Slaughterhouse-Five

Admin — Wed, 15 Mar 1972 00:00:00 +0000

“Listen: Billie Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.” Slaughterhouse-Five is an award-winning 1972 film adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s novel of the same name. Director Hill faithfully renders for the screen Vonnegut’s obsessive story of Pilgrim, who survives the 1945 firebombing of Dresden, then lives simultaneously in his past, present, and future.

Thoroughly Modern Millie

Admin — Tue, 21 Mar 1967 00:00:00 +0000

Millie Dillmount, a fearless young lady fresh from Salina, Kansas, determined to experience Life, sets out to see the world in the rip-roaring Twenties. With high spirits and wearing one of those new high hemlines, she arrives in New York to test the “modern” ideas she had been reading about back in Kansas: “I’ve taken the girl out of Kansas. Now I have to take Kansas out of the girl!”

Hawaii

Admin — Mon, 10 Oct 1966 00:00:00 +0000

Abner Hale, a rigid and humorless New England missionary, marries the beautiful Jerusha Bromley and takes her to the exotic island kingdom of Hawaii, intent on converting the natives. But the clash between the two cultures is too great and instead of understanding there comes tragedy.