A woman who has lost her memory is taken in by a Los Angeles orphanage, and a private eye is enlisted to track down her identity, but he soon finds that he might have a past life connection to her that endangers their lives.
Six former college friends, with two new friends, gather for a New Year's Eve weekend reunion at a large English countryside manor after ten years to reminisce about the good times now long gone.
During World War I, in an unnamed country, a soldier named Tamino is sent by the Queen of the Night to rescue her daughter Pamina from the clutches of the supposedly evil Sarastro. But all is not as it seems.
When the brilliant but unorthodox scientist Dr. Victor Frankenstein rejects the artificial man that he has created, the Creature escapes and later swears revenge.
Director:
Kenneth Branagh
Stars:
Robert De Niro,
Kenneth Branagh,
Helena Bonham Carter
A former radio DJ, suicidally despondent because of a terrible mistake he made, finds redemption in helping a deranged homeless man who was an unwitting victim of that mistake.
Tommy Wilhelm is a good honest man who's fallen on hard times after losing his job, but what really gets to Tommy is seeing both his friends and family turning their backs on him one after the other. He tries to seize the day - in vain.
Director:
Fielder Cook
Stars:
Robin Williams,
Richard B. Shull,
David Bickford
An update of the classic Shakespeare story, Director Sir Kenneth Branagh shot this movie like a classic 1930s musical. This movie tells the story of four best friends who swear off love.
A struggling young writer finds his life and work dominated by his unfaithful wife and his radical feminist mother, whose best-selling manifesto turns her into a cultural icon.
Director:
George Roy Hill
Stars:
Robin Williams,
Mary Beth Hurt,
Glenn Close
Mike Church is a Los Angeles private detective who specializes in finding missing persons. He takes on the case of a mute woman who is suffering from a total amnesia and doesn't even know her name. She keeps having nightmares involving the murder of a pianist, Margaret, by her husband Roman Strauss in the late 1940s. In an attempt to solve the mystery about her identity and her nightmares, Church accepts the help of an antiquary who arrives to offer his services as a hypnotist. The hypnosis sessions soon begin to reveal some surprises.Written by
Sami Al-Taher <staher2000@yahoo.com>
Mike (Sir Kenneth Branagh) tells Dr. Carlisle (Robin Williams) that his former patient left him $11,000 in his will. He then gives Dr. Carlisle a number to call to claim $8,800, which he says is less his fee for finding him. This means that Mike's fee is twenty percent. See more »
Goofs
Gray Baker has a pierced ear and that would not have been acceptable for the late 1940's. See more »
Quotes
Roman Strauss:
What I believe, Mr. Baker, is that this is all far from over.
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Crazy Credits
Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branagh are each credited twice for their dual roles in this movie. See more »
This is a gripping film, multi-layered, with a good script and good performances from its cast.
The story is interesting: a woman (plagued by a recurring nightmare) lands up, unable to speak, with amnesia, at a local convent. Mike Church (Branagh) must find out who she is. (We 'know', owing to black and white footage (featuring the same actors, but different characters, about 40 years ago, shortly after WW II) Through hypnotherapy, questions of reincarnation and past lives emerge.The film creates, rather than answers, questions. There are a number of twists and turns in the plot to make this film gripping.
I was not totally convinced that the ending of the film serves its purpose, but the film is gripping. Do see it.
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This is a gripping film, multi-layered, with a good script and good performances from its cast.
The story is interesting: a woman (plagued by a recurring nightmare) lands up, unable to speak, with amnesia, at a local convent. Mike Church (Branagh) must find out who she is. (We 'know', owing to black and white footage (featuring the same actors, but different characters, about 40 years ago, shortly after WW II) Through hypnotherapy, questions of reincarnation and past lives emerge.The film creates, rather than answers, questions. There are a number of twists and turns in the plot to make this film gripping.
I was not totally convinced that the ending of the film serves its purpose, but the film is gripping. Do see it.