Anna Waterhouse Movies
A less than auspicious homecoming for an introspective artist sets the stage for this low-key comedy drama directed by Steve Buscemi. Jim (Casey Affleck) is a chronically glum aspiring novelist who, after a failed two-year sojourn in New York City, has returned home to his parents' home in Goshen, IN. Jim's folks, Don (Seymour Cassel) and Sally (Mary Kay Place), run a ladder factory, a family business Jim wants nothing to do with. His older brother, Tim (Kevin Corrigan), is also living at home, and has problems of his own after his marriage ended in divorce and his business went broke. When Tim makes the latest of a number of suicide attempts by driving into a tree, Jim is reintroduced to Anika (Liv Tyler), a nurse who had a one-night fling with Jim a while ago. Jim and Anika strike up a conversation and start seeing one another again, though she seems to have feelings for Tim as well. With Tim in the hospital, Jim is persuaded against his better judgment to take on some of his brother's responsibilities, including doing some work at the ladder factory. At work, he bonds with his uncle Stacy (Mark Boone Jr.), who prefers to use the nickname "Evil" and deals drugs on the job. Jim's attempts to help Uncle Stacy with his side business backfire and implicate his parents, with Sally ending up in jail. But between his budding relationship with Anika and coaching a kids' basketball team that includes Tim's daughters, Jim begins to cautiously consider the notion that life might be worth all the trouble. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Starring:
- Casey Affleck, Liv Tyler, (more)
When her husband dies unexpectedly, a high society woman is forced to give up her lavish estate, and plots to sell the rural Georgia abode that she still owns the title to, but is currently being used as a Foster home. Ester Hobbes' life of luxury was a transparent fallacy, a hard truth that she isn't quite ready to accept upon discovering that her late husband died without a dollar to his name. Instantaneously rendered homeless and penniless, Ester begins drawing up plans to sell the one asset she still possesses - a weather beaten Georgia home that's currently housing a handful of unwanted adolescents. At first Ester's interactions with the kids and their two kindly foster parents are far from amicable, though in time connections are forged that render their relationships more familial than adversarial. Eventually, the fallen society woman discovers that faith and prayer provides her with a much greater purpose in life than the almighty dollar ever did. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- 2010
- R
As directed by Geoffrey Sax and co-scripted by a team of writers that includes Cheryl Edwards, Marko King, Mary King, and Anna Waterhouse, this earnest psychological drama relays the real-life story of Frankie Murdoch (here portrayed by Halle Berry), a troubled young woman suffering from multiple personality disorder in early '70s Los Angeles. Phylicia Rashad and Chandra Wilson co-star. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
- Starring:
- Halle Berry, Stellan Skarsgård, (more)
This documentary, co-written by basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, tells the story of a black professional basketball team known as the New York Renaissance Big Five, shortened to the New York City Rens by all who knew and loved them. Decades before the civil rights movement, this squad overcame racism and financial troubles to become the first black team to capture a national title in their sport. Although society kept them from competing officially against professional white teams for an extended period of time, they did manage to arrange a famous exhibition match against the recognized national powerhouse of that era. The filmmakers use archival footage, interviews with historians, and reenactments in order to share this inspiring sociological and sports story. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi
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