A veteran of World War I returns to the United States but cannot find his place in the society. Read More »
Tag Archives: Charles Durning
When a Stranger Calls Back (1993) Fred Walton, Carol Kane, Charles Durning, Jill Schoelen
Julia is babysitting two young kids while a doctor and his wife are out. Read More »
North Dallas Forty (1979) Ted Kotcheff, Nick Nolte, Charles Durning, Mac Davis
A semi-fictional account of life as a professional (American-style) football player. Read More »
Two of a Kind (1983) John Herzfeld, John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Charles Durning
God has had just about enough of the human’s attitude so he will destroy the planet very soon. Read More »
The Best Little Girl in the World (1981) Sam O’Steen, Charles Durning, Eva Marie Saint, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Teenage Casey Powell secretly suffers from anorexia nervosa, a mental and physical illness of deliberately Read More »
V.I. Warshawski (1991) Jeff Kanew, Kathleen Turner, Jay O. Sanders, Charles Durning
Victoria “V.I” Warshawski is a Chicago based private detective who agrees to babysit for her new boyfriend; then he is murdered. Read More »
An Enemy of the People (1978) George Schaefer, Steve McQueen, Bibi Andersson, Charles Durning
It’s winter in a small southern Norwegian town in the late nineteenth century. Read More »
When a Stranger Calls (1979) Fred Walton, Carol Kane, Charles Durning, Rutanya Alda
High school student Jill Johnson is traumatized over an evening of babysitting by a caller who repeatedly asks, “Have you checked the children lately?” Read More »
The Choirboys (1977) Robert Aldrich, Charles Durning, Louis Gossett Jr., Perry King, Comedy, Crime, Drama
A group of Los Angeles cops opt to take off a few of the pressures of the jobs by participating in a variety of kinds of following hours debauchery. Read More »
Cat Chaser (1989) Abel Ferrara, Peter Weller, Kelly McGillis, Charles Durning, Crime, Thriller, Drama
The Rosary Murders (1987) Fred Walton, Donald Sutherland, Charles Durning, Belinda Bauer, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Life in the Catholic Church of the Holy Redeemer in Detroit is upset by a series of killings whose victims are all priests and nuns. Read More »
Queen of the Stardust Ballroom (1975) Sam O’Steen, Maureen Stapleton, Charles Durning, Michael Brandon, Romance, Drama
A middle-aged woman finds herself simply a widow, a grandmother and a person when a friend takes her to the Stardust Ballroom Read More »
True Confessions (1981) Ulu Grosbard, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Charles Durning, Crime, Drama
De Niro (a Catholic Priest) and Duvall (a Homicide Detective) play brothers drawn together after many years apart, in the aftermath of the brutal murder of a young prostitute.
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Sisters (1973) Brian De Palma, Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning, Horror, Thriller
The Staten Island apartment of lovely model Danielle becomes the scene of a grisly murder that is witnessed by her neighbor, Grace, a reporter. But the police don’t believe her story, so it’s up to Grace to solve the murder mystery on her own.
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Tough Guys (1986) Jeff Kanew, Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Charles Durning
Harry and Archie are released from prison ready to collect their Social Security. How could they get into trouble at their age? Let’s count the ways; A parole officer who is a famous criminal groupie, Dead end where people don’t know they are dealing with dangerous, though older, criminals, a hit man who can barely see, but who still has an outstanding contract on them. Does anyone still rob trains?
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