Chantellese Kent Movies
- 1998
- PG13
Sarah Kernochan wrote and directed this nostalgic coming-of-age comedy-drama with some autobiographical touches. In 1963, budgetary problems at the East Coast boarding school Miss Godard's School for Girls, prompt a merger with a boy's academy. The girls are stunned at the prospect of going co-ed and devise a campaign to sabotage the plan. Screenwriter Kernochan, scripter of Sommersby and 9 1/2 Weeks, won an Oscar when she co-directed the 1972 documentary Marjoe, but this film marks her feature directorial debut creating comedy-drama. The upstate New York seen here is actually Toronto. The title created some confusion, since Kernochan's film received reviews the same month the 1998 New York Film Festival unspooled a new 35mm print of Sergei Eisenstein's silent classic Strike (1924). ~ Bhob Stewart, Rovi
- Starring:
- Lynn Redgrave, Gaby Hoffmann, (more)
- 1994
A family is torn apart when two adult sisters decide to take their father to court for sexually abusing them as children. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Marlo Thomas, Mel Harris, (more)
- 1993
Meat Loaf stars in this family-comedy about a Yeti (also known as "Bigfoot" or "Sasquatch") who finds himself lost in an American suburb. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Starring:
- Meat Loaf, Chantellese Kent, (more)
Home for Christmas is a made-for-television film about a young girl who wants a grandfather for Christmas. She chooses an elderly, homeless ex-con (Mickey Rooney) as her pseudo-grandfather and he teaches her and her family--as well as his long-estranged son--the true meaning of Christmas. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi
