Eccentric toymaker Kenneth Zevo (Donald O’Connor) last wish is that his brother Read More »
Tag Archives: Joan Cusack
Cradle Will Rock (1999) Tim Robbins, Hank Azaria, Rubén Blades, Joan Cusack
In 1930s New York Orson Welles tries to stage a musical on a steel strike under the Federal Theater Program Read More »
My Blue Heaven (1990) Herbert Ross, Steve Martin, Rick Moranis, Joan Cusack
The mobster Vincent ‘Vinnie’ Antonelli is under the witness protection program Read More »
Runaway Bride (1999) Garry Marshall, Julia Roberts, Richard Gere, Joan Cusack, Comedy, Romance
Ike Graham has his own by-lined column in USA Today, which he usually uses as a forum to rail against the opposite sex. For his latest column which he writes at the last minute as usual, he, based on some information from a stranger in a bar about a woman he knows of back home, includes the story of still single Hale, Maryland residing Maggie Carpenter, who is known as the “Runaway Bride” since she has been engaged multiple times, but always leaves her betrothed standing at the altar. Because an incensed Maggie complains to the newspaper for factual inaccuracies in her story, Ike is fired, but he realizes that the story still has some life in it and thus decides to go to Hale to do further investigation. He finds that Maggie is again engaged, now for the fourth time, this time to high school football coach and adventurist Bob Kelly, who is confident enough in himself to know he will be different than the previous three grooms. When Maggie finds out that her arch enemy Ike is in town, …
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Arlington Road (1999) Mark Pellington, Jeff Bridges, Tim Robbins, Joan Cusack, Crime, Thriller, Drama
Widowed when his FBI agent wife is killed in an operation against suspected terrorists, a college professor becomes increasingly obsessed with the culture and sub-society of these dangerous groups. The arrival of new neighbors, gives him new spirit, as they are gregarious and friendly, with a ten-year-old boy that his son can be friends with. He is even beginning to see another woman. However, he begins to suspect something is odd about the neighbors, something about the way they don’t want him to see certain parts of the house, or a set of blueprints they have there. Are his neighbors terrorists… or is the stress of losing his wife merely driving him past the point of paranoia?
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