A lonely woman is anxious to marry her long-time fiancé, whose mother she's never even met. She waited through his military service in the Korean War, the mother's illness, all the while worried that her younger, wealthier fiancé will find someone who's his equal. How long must the less educated woman wait to move from her small, furnished apartment to his family's mansion - an...
Film version of the Neil Simon play has three separate acts set in the same hotel suite in New York's Plaza Hotel with Walter Matthau in a triple role. In the first, Karen Nash tries to get her inattentive husband Sam's attention to spruce up their failing marriage. In the second, brash film producer Jesse Kiplinger tries to get his former one-time flame Muriel to see him for w...
A killer on the run demands help from 2 cantankerous Western prospectors, when his car breaks down near their remote shack. The old couple already face eviction unless they can demonstrate that they are homesteading, but in a patch of Nevada desert which can barely support a juniper tree, how can they ?
The story-telling event that made me want to become a writer was the premier of the classic TV show, Route 66. I was 17, doing so-so in high school, lacking plans and ambition, going nowhere. But all that changed at 8:30 p.m. on the first Friday of October in 1960 when a drama about motion gave me a destination. The series was about two young men (brilliantly portrayed by Marti...
年轻作家拉瑞因为发现女朋友跟别的男人睡觉而感到郁郁不乐,而好友华伦则是一个忧郁症患者。两个寂寞的伤心人于是一齐去参加了一个纽约的“寂寞男子汉俱乐部”。后来,拉瑞执笔写了一本书,把“寂寞”变成一种“爱情药方”,他的整个生命顿时为之改观。阿瑟·希勒执导的喜剧一向表现中规中矩,本片主要是看史蒂夫·马丁的个人秀表演,搭档演出的查尔斯·格罗丁则因太低调而擦撞不出惹笑的火花。