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Tag Archives: John Sayles
The Secret of Roan Inish (1994) John Sayles, Jeni Courtney, Eileen Colgan, Mick Lally
10-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Ireland. Read More »
Silver City (2004) John Sayles, Chris Cooper, Thora Birch, Maria Bello
Set against the backdrop of a mythic “New West,” a satire that follows grammatically-challenged Read More »
Amigo (2010) John Sayles, Joel Torre, Chris Cooper, Garret Dillahunt
AMIGO, the 17th feature film from Academy Award-nominated writer-director John Sayles Read More »
City of Hope (1991) John Sayles, Vincent Spano, Tony Lo Bianco, Stephen Mendillo
City of Hope is a portrait of a typical middle-sized American city of the present day. Read More »
Baby It’s You (1983) John Sayles, Rosanna Arquette, Vincent Spano, Joanna Merlin
In 1966 New Jersey, Jill Rosen, a frustrated high schooler, is intrigued by an enigmatic Read More »
Untama giru (1989) Go Takamine, Chikako Aoyama, Kaoru Kobayashi, John Sayles
Magical realist film about Okinawa. It’s about the occupation of Okinawa – both by the United States Read More »
The Brother from Another Planet (1984) John Sayles, Joe Morton, Daryl Edwards, Rosanna Carter
The Brother is an alien who has crash-landed on Earth, in New York City. Read More »
Return of the Secaucus Seven (1979) John Sayles, Bruce MacDonald, Maggie Renzi, Adam LeFevre
Seven former college friends, along with a few new friends Read More »
Limbo (1999) John Sayles, David Strathairn, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Vanessa Martinez, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Limbo tells the story of people trying to reinvent themselves in the Southeastern islands of Alaska. Read More »
Matewan (1987) John Sayles, Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell
Mingo County, West Virginia, 1920. Coal miners, struggling to form a union, are up against company operators and the gun thugs of the notorious Baldwin-Felts detective agency. Read More »
Go for Sisters (2013) John Sayles, LisaGay Hamilton, Yolonda Ross, Edward James Olmos, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Fontayne is enlisted by Bernice – her estranged old friend and current parole officer – along with a disgraced cop to search for Bernice’s son, who went missing on the Mexican border.
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Eight Men Out (1988) John Sayles, John Cusack, Clifton James, Michael Lerner, Drama, History, Sport
The great Chicago White Sox team of 1919 is the saddest team to ever win a pennant. The team is bitter at their penny pincher owner, Charles Comiskey, and at their own teammates. Gamblers take advantage of this opportunity to offer some players money to throw the series. (Most of the players didn’t get as much as promised.) But Buck Weaver and the great Shoeless Joe Jackson turn back at the last minute and try to play their best. The Sox actually almost come back from a 3-1 deficit. Two years later, the truth breaks out and the Sox are sued on multiple counts. They are found innocent by the jury but baseball commissioner Landis has other plans. The eight players are suspended for life, and Buck Weaver, for the rest of his life, tries to clear his name.
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Lianna (1983) John Sayles, Linda Griffiths, Jane Hallaren, Jon DeVries
Lianna and her husband Dick have been married for a few years but the marriage isn’t a happy one, since Dick treats her with arrogance. One day Lianna falls in love – with Ruth, a teacher. The people who know them act different: her husband with feelings of sexual betrayal, her children with curiosity and Lianna’s friends with ambivalence.
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