This film is an excellent biography of Woody Guthrie, one of America’s greatest folk singers. Read More »
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The Slugger’s Wife (1985) Hal Ashby, Michael O’Keefe, Rebecca De Mornay, Martin Ritt
Darryl Palmer (Michael O’Keefe) is a major league baseball player who meets Read More »
Let’s Spend the Night Together (1982) Hal Ashby, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts
The Rolling Stones’ shows in Tempe, Arizona and East Rutherford, New Jersey during their 1981 US tour. Read More »
Shampoo (1975) Hal Ashby, Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn
Thirty-something George Roundy is a Beverly Hills hairdresser, who spends as much time sleeping with his female clients as he does doing their hair. Read More »
Being There (1979) Hal Ashby, Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Comedy, Drama
A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. Read More »
8 Million Ways to Die (1986) Hal Ashby, Jeff Bridges, Rosanna Arquette, Alexandra Paul, Action, Adventure, Crime
Scudder is a detective with the Sheriff’s Department who is forced to shoot a violent suspect during a narcotics raid. The ensuing psychological aftermath of this shooting worsens his drinking problem and this alcoholism causes him to lose his job, as well as his marriage. During his recovery through Alcoholics Anonymous, he meets a mysterious stranger who draws him back into a world of vice. In trying to help this beautiful woman, he must enter a crime-world of prostitution and drugs to solve a murder, while resisting the temptation to return to his alcohol abuse.
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