Joan Macintosh Movies
- 1995
The detectives discover that a young junkie found dead in the yard of a day-care center was the daughter of a wealthy family. Further investigation reveals that the woman was taken to her final "resting place" as she was dying. The question: Is it possible that someone very close to the victim would have allowed her to perish in so ignominious a fashion? ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Fresh Horses features Molly Ringwald as Jewel, a Kentucky shanty gal. Jewel finds herself romantically involved with wealthy University of Cincinnati student Matt Larkin (Andrew McCarthy). Though willing to throw over his "proper" fiancee for Jewel, Matt isn't prepared for the horrible secret that Jewel holds within her. Directed by David Anspaugh, Fresh Horses is also known as The Eccentricity of People and Syntax. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Molly Ringwald, Andrew McCarthy, (more)
- 1984
A John D. MacDonald novel was the source material for A Flash of Green. Ed Harris plays a reporter for a Florida resort-town newspaper. His best friend is shady county-commissioner Richard Jordan. When Harris shows signs of sympathizing with a local ecology group that is dead set against a new land-fill development, Jordan tries to keep the editor quiet with a bribe. At first, Harris acquiesces, but rapidly develops a conscience when Jordan enlists a local right-wing terrorist group to keep the ecologists in line. A secondary plot involves Harris' romance with Blair Brown, an affair tainted by the fact that Harris' wife lies comatose in the hospital. Thanks to its pro-eco stance, A Flash of Green was financed by and telecast as an edition of PBS' American Playhouse. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Ed Harris, Blair Brown, (more)
- 1970
Produced, directed, shot, and edited by Brian De Palma, Robert Fiore, and Bruce Rubin, Dionysus in '69 documents a landmark late-'60s experimental-theater work. Adapted by theater director Richard Schechner and the Performance Group as an eroticized and politicized version of Euripides' The Bacchae, Dionysus in '69's "total theater" style aimed to redefine the relationship between the theater experience and "real life," with the audience invited to participate in as well as watch the play. Merging two live performances of the play at New York's Performing Garage, the black-and-white film's split-screen editing also became a precursor to De Palma's subsequent 1970s feature films. Made while he was finishing Hi Mom! (1970), the sequel to his theatrical breakthrough Greetings (1968), Dionysus in '69 was De Palma's last independent film during his late-'60s stint in the cutting edge, no-budget New York film scene, as well as a record of the period's avant-garde art. With this pedigree, Dionysus in '69 is clearly not for all tastes. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi
- Starring:
- William Finley, William Shephard, (more)
