Synopsis CPL 1 - 3 - Criterion Pictures
Synopsis CPL 1 - 3 - Criterion Pictures
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<strong>Criterion</strong> <strong>Pictures</strong><br />
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800-565-1996 Fax: 866-664-7545 • www.criterionpic.com<br />
First Daughter<br />
2004 • 105 minutes • Colour • 20th Century Fox<br />
Director: Forest Whitaker<br />
Cast: Katie Holmes, Marc Blucas, Michael Keaton, Parry Shen<br />
The daughter of the President of the United States goes off to college after insisting that she be able to enjoy her school years without the<br />
omnipresence of the Secret Service. The government agrees to her demands but assigns a young agent to go undercover as a student in<br />
order to keep an eye on her. The first daughter and the agent fall in love, until she learns his true identity.<br />
The First Grader<br />
2010 • 120 minutes • Colour • Maple <strong>Pictures</strong><br />
Director: Justin Chadwick<br />
Cast: Naomie Harris, Tony Kgoroge, Sam Feuer, Nick Reding, Vusi Kunene, John Sibi-Okumu, Oliver Litondo<br />
Set in a mountain village in Kenya the film tells the remarkable true and uplifting story of a proud old Mau Mau veteran who is determined<br />
to seize his last chance to learn to read and write - and so ends up joining a class alongside six year-olds. Together he and his young<br />
teacher face fierce resistance, but ultimately they win through - and also find a new way of overcoming the burdens of the colonial past.<br />
First Monday in October<br />
1981 • 95 minutes • Colour • Paramount <strong>Pictures</strong><br />
Director: Ronald Neame<br />
Cast: Walter Matthau, Jill Clayburgh, Barnard Hughes, Jan Sterling<br />
A most entertaining battle of the sexes reminiscent of the great bouts between Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. In First Monday in<br />
October, Matthau is a cantankerous Supreme Court Justice whose liberalism is challenged by the arrival of conservative Jill Clayburgh, the<br />
first woman appointed to the High Court. Watch the sparks fly!<br />
The First Wives Club<br />
1996 • 102 minutes • Colour • Paramount <strong>Pictures</strong><br />
Director: Hugh Wilson<br />
Cast: Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler, Diane Keaton, Maggie Smith, Heather Locklear, Bronson Pinchot, Dan Hedaya<br />
The First Wives Club is a comic revenge tale of three close friends all of whom have been discarded by their husbands in favour of much<br />
younger "trophy wives." Smarting from the pain, the three concoct a plan to exact the most exquisitely bitter vengeance upon their 'exes."<br />
Great cast and intriguing plot should attract a lot of attention.<br />
Fitzcarraldo<br />
1982 • 150 minutes • Colour • New Horizons<br />
Director: Werner Herzog<br />
Cast: Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, Miguel Angel Fuentes, Jose Lewgoy<br />
This powerful majestic film tells the story of a man obsessed with the dream of building an opera house in the middle of the Peruvian<br />
jungle. In order to fund the project, he conceives the idea of pulling a steamboat over a mountain, and into a river tributary where he can<br />
achieve a monopoly in the rubber trading business.<br />
Five Fingers of Death<br />
1973 • 98 minutes • Colour • Warner Brothers<br />
Director: Cheng Chang Ho<br />
Cast: Lo Lieh, Wang Ping, Wang Ching-Feng<br />
Only interesting in that it is the Kung Fu film that began the craze in America. Family honor defended with every part of the body.<br />
Flicka<br />
2006 • 94 minutes • Colour • 20th Century Fox<br />
Director: Michael Mayer<br />
Cast: Maria Bello, David Burton, Kaylee DeFer, Sierra Doherty Gillin, Steve Fox, Ryan Kwanten, Alison Lohman<br />
A young girl, Katy, adopts a wild mustang she names Flicka, only to see her father sell her now beloved companion. To win back Flicka’s<br />
freedom, Katy secretly schemes to enter a dangerous wild horse race.<br />
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