Lucy and Larry, after many years of marriage, get convinced wrongly that they have both cheated on the other and decide to get a divorce. The divorce, complicated because of the problem of the custody of Mr. Smith, the fox terrier dog of the couple, is to become final in 90 days, but Larry is still jealous of his wife. After having come to blows with Armand Duvalle, an "inno...
Allie lives in New York and shares an apartment with a girl. At nights, he wanders adrift around deserted streets. The surrounding buildings are covered with vegetation and at distance you can hear the shower of bombs of a non specified war. After having stolen and sold again a car for 800 dollars, Allie comes back home, packs his stuff and leaves a message for his friend. ...
In the 23rd century, Commander John Adams and his crew are sent on expedition to a distant planet to investigate on the silence of the scientists living there. On arrival, they finds out that an unknown "planetary force" killed nearly everyone except doctor Morbius and his daughter, Altaira. Later on, doctor Adams finds out something he doesn't want to share with anybody e...
While on holiday, Scott Carey is exposed to a cloud of radioactive spray shortly after he accidentally ingests insecticide. The radioactivity acts as a catalyst for the bug spray, causing his body to shrink at a rate of approximately 1/7 of an inch per day. A few weeks later, Carey can no longer deny the truth: not only is he losing weight, he is also shorter than he was and...
Secaucus, New Jersey, 1972: un gruppo di sette amici diretti a Washington per una manifestazione contro la guerra nel Vietnam viene arrestato e trattenuto per una notte dalla polizia con un pretesto qualsiasi, impedendo così loro di raggiungere la meta. Passati gli anni delle comuni battaglie, il gruppo si riunisce per passare un weekend nel New Hampshire. Durante la ...
Dopo un matrimonio fallito, una viziata giovane ereditiera di Filadelfia sta per risposarsi con un arricchito. Ma il primo marito è deciso a riprendersela. Commedia intelligente e sofisticata del periodo d'oro di Hollywood, interpretata da tre grandi attori (Helburn, Grant e Stewart). Il successo al botteghino permise alla Hepburn di risollevare la sua carriera in...
In 1940, Joseph Mitchell, a New Yorker staff writer, meets Joe Gould, a homeless writer who attended Harvard and cadges contributions to the Joe Gould Fund. Mitchell is fascinated with this Harvard grad and writes a piece about him, bringing Gould some celebrity. Gould tells to Joseph that he is writing a voluminous "Oral History of the World", a record of 20,000 conversatio...
Per oltre cinquant'anni, JD Salinger, lo sfuggente autore de Il giovane Holden, è stato oggetto di un flusso inarrestabile di indagini, ricerche e pettegolezzi. Su di lui sono stati scritti ogni sorta di articoli, illazioni e biografie, una di queste talmente controversa da finire in tribunale. Tuttavia, tutti i tentativi di saperne di più sullo scrittore n...
Wren is a young punk who tries in any way to succeed on the musical scene of Manhattan. With no money and talent, she meets Paul, a young man who has just arrived in New York from Montana, and Eric, an arrogant musician. Susan Seidelman's first movie, Smithereens has been the first Independent American movie to compete for the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival.
A Saigon, durante la guerra in Vietnam il capitano dei corpi speciali Benjamin Willard riceve dai superiori l'ordine di trovare ed eliminare il colonnello Walter Kurtz che - uscito con i suoi soldati dai ranghi dell'esercito americano - sta combattendo una guerra personale ai confini fra il Vietnam e la Cambogia. Scortato da alcuni uomini, Willard risale un fiume a c...
