David Trim Movies
A woman dealing with an unexpected death has to help her friends with their own crises in this comedy-drama. Rebecca Lott (Elizabeth Perkins) gets an unpleasant surprise while waiting for her husband to return from his daily jog -- he was hit by a car and instantly killed. A handful of Rebecca's friends and relatives rally around her, including her close friend and neighbor Sylvie (Whoopi Goldberg), her former stepmother Alberta (Kathleen Turner), and her younger sister Lucy (Gwyneth Paltrow), but she has a hard time accepting the fact that she's now a widow (or, as she prefers to put it, "the 'W' word"). It also seems that the women trying to offer Rebecca emotional support could use some of their own; Sylvie's marriage is hanging by a thread, and Lucy is depressed and cynical owing to her inexperience with men. But romance begins to find its way back into Rebecca's life when a handsome younger man (Jon Bon Jovi) -- hired to paint the house -- takes a shine to her. Moonlight and Valentino was based on a play written by Ellen Simon, daughter of comic playwright Neil Simon. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Elizabeth Perkins, Whoopi Goldberg, (more)
- 1994
Corky (Faith Ford) finally gets the chance to conduct her first truly hard-hitting interview when she goes one-on-one with ruthless retail mogul Ross Bowen (William Windom). Though she acquits herself quite well, Corky suffers the usual professional consequences when she is deluged with hate mail. Murphy (Candice Bergen) and the gang are all for sheltering Corky from this assault, but the plucky girl reporter insists upon meeting her attackers head-on--by inviting all of the mail writers to the "FYI" studios. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
A government worker (Tom Bosley) informs several diner patrons of a $4 million treasure he stole from a group of Libyans and then hid, but dies before uttering more than a few clues. What follows is a mad dash for the cash. As part of the film's promotion, the sponsors offered $1 million to the first person to correctly guess the location of the loot. (The winner, Alesia Jones, was selected from over 300,00 entries.) ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Eddie Deezen, Wendy Sherman, (more)
