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Tag Archives: Craig Wasson
Why Me? (1984) Fielder Cook, Glynnis O’Connor, Armand Assante, Craig Wasson
Leola Mae Harmon, a pregnant military nurse who is the victim of a drunk-driving accident. Read More »
Go Tell the Spartans (1978) Ted Post, Burt Lancaster, Craig Wasson, Jonathan Goldsmith
A unit of American military advisors in Vietnam prior to the major U.S. involvement find similarities between their Read More »
Second Thoughts (1983) Lawrence Turman, Lucie Arnaz, Craig Wasson, Ken Howard
Lawyer Amy finds herself courted by two very different men: her client, a roguish street musician named Will, and her old boyfriend John Michael. Read More »
Ghost Story (1981) John Irvin, Craig Wasson, Alice Krige, Fred Astaire
Four successful elderly gentlemen, members of the Chowder Society, share a gruesome, 50-year old secret. Read More »
The Outsider (1979) Tony Luraschi, Craig Wasson, Sterling Hayden, Patricia Quinn
Idealistic Vietnam veteran Michael Flaherty (Wasson), enthralled by the stories told to him by his grandfather (Hayden) and disillusioned by the lack of a clear cut cause in Vietnam Read More »
Body Double (1984) Brian De Palma, Craig Wasson, Melanie Griffith, Gregg Henry, Mystery, Thriller
Jake Scully comes home to find his girlfriend with another man and has to find a new place. In between his acting workshops and his job in a vampire B-movie, he scans the paper looking for anything. He happens to meet Sam Bouchard, a fellow actor who needs a house sitter. Both are pleased with the arrangement that will have Jake staying in the house and for a sweetener, Sam shows him his favorite neighbor, a well-built woman who strips with her window open each night. Jake becomes obsessed with meeting her and is able to help recover her purse from a thief, but shows his own phobia, he is incapacitated by claustrophobia when the thief runs through a tunnel. When Jake witnesses a murder, he finds out that the police love to pin crimes on peeping Toms. Jake discovers that here are just too many coincidences but must hunt them down himself without the police.
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Four Friends (1981) Arthur Penn
This story of four working-class kids in a small industrial town–who go their separate ways after high school in the innocence of 1961 and come together again at the end of the turbulent Sixties–is as much about the coming of age of America as it is about the changes the characters go through. The four friends of the title are thoughtful Danilo, a Yugoslavian immigrant with dreams of being a writer and a scholar; Tom, good-looking and athletic, who is bound for the army; cautious David who has mixed feelings about staying in town and joining the family mortuary business; and lovely, ditzy, exasperating Georgia, who tries to inspire all of them with her longings for a life of Bohemian adventure. It is told through the eyes of Danilo, whose story is loosely based on the writer Tesich’s own life growing up in Bloomington, Indiana.
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