Csilla Horvath Movies
- 2001
Maria Breaux wrote, produced, directed, and stars in this serio-comic look at three friends who decide they need to change their lives for better or worse -- and the latter is just how things seem to be working out. Michelle (Maria Breaux) is a computer programmer trying to put her life back together after her girlfriend decides to break things off. Deciding she needs some time to herself, Michelle takes a month-long leave of absence from work and decides to stay in and figure out her next move. However, Michelle isn't alone with her thoughts for long -- her friend Rocky (Csilla Horvath), a cheerful but emotionally unstable drug addict, appears at Michelle's doorstep with nowhere to go, and Michelle is forced to take her in. Not long afterwards, April (Amy Kelly), a teacher who lacks the courage to go public with her sexual orientation, also reveals she's out of her relationship and without a place to stay, so Michelle has two house guests intruding upon her much-needed privacy in her one-bedroom apartment. The crowded conditions begin to fray everyone's nerves, and Michelle decides a road trip might be just the thing to take their minds off their problems...a notion that hardly proves to be the case. I'd Rather Be...Gone was screened at the 2001 San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Maria Breaux, Amy Kelly, (more)
Director Frank Darabont created this Frank Capra-inspired drama based on a screenplay by his friend and one-time schoolmate Michael Sloane. Jim Carrey stars as Pete Appleton, a screenwriter in the Hollywood of the 1950s. Pete's on top of the world with his first motion picture "Sand Pirates of the Sahara" just released to theaters and his romance with a beautiful starlet (Amanda Detmer) heating up. However, his triumph turns to dismay when he's called before the commie-hunting House Un-American Activities Committee and advised by a studio lawyer and his agent to play ball with the witch hunters. Depressed by the film industry's weak-kneed reaction to the hearings, Pete gets drunk and drives his car north along the California coast, where he crashes from a bridge and wakes up on shore the next morning suffering from amnesia. Wandering into the nearby small town of Lawson, Pete is mistaken for Luke Trimble, a lost hero of World War II who, like most of the area's young men, never returned from the war a decade earlier. "Luke" has soon reunited with both his father (Martin Landau) and his one-time girlfriend (Laurie Holden), and finds that his reappearance has given the citizens of Lawson an emotional boost that's sorely needed. When he refurbishes and reopens his family's decrepit movie theater, the Majestic, Luke revitalizes Lawson just as his memory of his true identity begins to reassert itself. Sloane's original script for The Majestic (2001) was entitled The Bijou. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jim Carrey, Bob Balaban, (more)
