Ms. Isabel Archer isn't afraid to challenge societal norms. Impressed by her free spirit, her kindhearted cousin writes her into his fatally ill father's will. Suddenly rich and independent, Isabelle ventures into the world, along the way befriending a cynical intellectual and romancing an art enthusiast. However, the advantage of her affluence is called into question when she realizes the extent to which her money colors her relationships.

Classical Period

2018

English

6.4

Drama

escapism

intellectual

philadelphia, pennsylvania

Ted Fendt Director

Calvin Engime as Cal

Christopher Stump as Chris

Evelyn Emile as Evelyn

Sam Ritterman as Sam

The members of a reading group exchange cultural and literary references with such vigor that there’s little room for anything else: an attempt to leave the modern world behind or merely their own solitary existences?

Murder by Numbers

2002

English

6.2

♡ 36

30%

Barbet Schroeder Director

Sandra Bullock as Cassie Mayweather

Michael Pitt as Justin Pendleton

Jim Jansen as Lawyer

Ryan Gosling as Richard Haywood

Tenacious homicide detective Cassie Mayweather and her still-green partner are working a murder case, attempting to profile two malevolently brilliant young men: cold, calculating killers whose dark secrets might explain their crimes.

Maggie's Plan

2015

English

6.2

♡ 53

86%

Rebecca Miller Director

Julianne Moore as Georgette

Travis Fimmel as Guy Childers

Ethan Hawke as John Harding

Wallace Shawn as Kliegler

Maggie's plan to have a baby on her own with a sperm donor is derailed when she falls in love with John, an older married professor, destroying his volatile marriage to the brilliant and impossible Georgette. But three years later, married to John with one daughter, Maggie is out of love and in a quandary: what do you do when you suspect your man and his ex-wife are actually perfect for each other?

Second Sight

2016

English

6.5

♡ 2

intellectual

sight

Thriller

Michael Scott Director

Tatyana Ali as Clara

Jose Yenque as Det Mateo Ruiz

Rick Chambers as Newscaster

Sharif Atkins as Richard

Cursed with horrifying visions of the future, Tatyana Ali stars as a woman looking to save a kidnapped girl in this TV One original movie.

My Dinner with Andre

1981

English

7.7

♡ 36

93%

Louis Malle Director

Andre Gregory as Andre Gregory

Deborah Eisenberg as Patron

Jean Lenauer as Waiter

Wallace Shawn as Wally Shawn

Wally, a struggling playwright and actor, reluctantly agrees to catch up with his old friend Andre, a theater director who disappeared several years prior in order to travel the world. Meeting at a posh Manhattan restaurant, the two share life stories, anecdotes and philosophical musings over the course of an evening meal.

Funny Face

1957

English

7.0

♡ 35

87%

Stanley Donen Director

Colin Kenny as Fashion Show Guest

Jean Del Val as Hairdresser

Kay Thompson as Maggie Prescott

Forbes Murray as Man at Duval's Fashion Show

A shy Greenwich Village book clerk is discovered by a fashion photographer and whisked off to Paris where she becomes a reluctant model.

Best of Enemies: Buckley vs. Vidal

2015

English

7.6

♡ 16

93%

Robert Gordon Director

John Lithgow as Gore Vidal

Nancy Reagan as Herself

Paul Newman as Himself

Hugh M. Hefner as Self

A documentary about the legendary series of nationally televised debates in 1968 between two great public intellectuals, the liberal Gore Vidal and the conservative William F. Buckley Jr. Intended as commentary on the issues of their day, these vitriolic and explosive encounters came to define the modern era of public discourse in the media, marking the big bang moment of our contemporary media landscape when spectacle trumped content and argument replaced substance. Best of Enemies delves into the entangled biographies of these two great thinkers, and luxuriates in the language and the theater of their debates, begging the question, "What has television done to the way we discuss politics in our democracy today?"

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