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review by from Andover, Hampshire England
They don't make babies like they used to! 5 June 2009
review by A customer from Whitstable, England
I'd recommend this 27 November 2004
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typical de palma 11 November 2005
John Cassavetes - filmography
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She's So Lovely
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Tito Larriva, John Travolta, Nina Barry
Director: Nick Cassavetes
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Written by the late John Cassavettes in 1987 and filmed by his son Nick a decade later, the comic drama She's So Lovely (originally and more appropriately titled She's De Lovely in honor of the Cole Porter composition central to the movie) stars real-life couple Sean Penn and Robin Wright-Penn as ..read more »
 
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Big Trouble
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Peter Falk, Beverly D'Angelo, Alan Arkin
Director: John Cassavetes
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Riotous farce from directer John Cassavetes. Peter Falk and Alan Arkin reunite as a wacky pair of insurance swindlers. Beverly D'Angelo aids and abets the inspired lunacy. The trouble and the laughs start when insurance man Leonard Hoffman (Arkin) decides to send his three sons to Yale. To raise ..read more »
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from 129 members
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Tempest
(1982)
Starring: Molly Ringwald, Susan Sarandon, Gena Rowlands
Director: Paul Mazursky
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This modernistic fantasy-drama, is about a New York architect Phillip (John Cassavetes), who is fedup with city living. He takes his wife Antonia (Gena Rowlands), an actress, and their daughter, Miranda (Molly Ringwald in her debut), to Greece to a barren island. There he meets a singer and a ..read more »
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The Incubus
(1981)
Starring: John Cassavetes, John Ireland, Kerrie Keane
Director: John Hough
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Based on the terrifying novel by Ray Russell, John Hough's powerful rendering of a small town gripped in a wave of evil and fear, from which none will survive. Only one man has the secret of this extra-terrestrial nightmare. He alone knows the INCUBUS - the evil, the destruction, the carnage that ..read more »
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from 83 members
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Whose Life Is It Anyway?
(1981)
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, John Cassavetes, Kenneth McMillan
Director: John Badham
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Ken Harrison is an artist that makes sculptures. One day he is involved in a car accident, and is paralyzed from his neck. All he can do is talk, and he wants to die. In hospital he make friends with some of the staff, and they support him when he goes to trial to be allowed to die.
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from 10 members
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Gloria
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Juan Adames, Gena Rowlands
Director: John Cassavetes
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Gloria, the quintessential "tough-talkin' dame" -- complete with time in prison and ties to the mob -- has put those days behind her, now living a quiet, solitary life. That changes when the Mafia marks her neighbors for death and Gloria is asked to care for their young son, Phil. She reluctantly ..read more »
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from 618 members
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The Fury
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, John Cassavetes, Charles Durning
Director: Brian De Palma
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Kirk Douglas plays Peter Sandza, a Secret Service agent whose son Robin has psychic powers. Whilst holidaying with Robin and fellow agent Childress (John Cassavetes) they are attacked by what seems to be a gang of terrorist and Robin is kidnapped. However, when Sandzer discovers that the attack was ..read more »
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from 816 members
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Opening Night
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara
Director: John Cassavetes
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In Opening Night, ageing Broadway actress Myrtle Gordon (Gena Rowlands) begins rehearsals for her role in a play about a middle aged woman living in denial at the onset of her autumn years. A series of pre-show setbacks and disasters threaten preparations and when Myrtle witnesses the accidental ..read more »
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from 734 members
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Opening Night - Blu-ray
(1977)
Starring: Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara
Director: John Cassavetes
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In Opening Night, ageing Broadway actress Myrtle Gordon (Gena Rowlands) begins rehearsals for her role in a play about a middle aged woman living in denial at the onset of her autumn years. A series of pre-show setbacks and disasters threaten preparations and when Myrtle witnesses the accidental ..read more »
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The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
(1976)
Starring: Ben Gazzara, Timothy Carey
Director: John Cassavetes
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Ben Gazarra (Dogville) plays Cosmo Vitelli in crime thriller The Killing of a Chinese Bookie. Cosmo owns a run down LA strip club called The Crazy Horse West and is in danger of losing his beloved club when he gambles away $23,000 one night. The mob offer to clear him of his debt if he agrees to ..read more »
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Mikey And Nicky
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Peter Falk, John Cassavetes, Ned Beatty
Director: Elaine May
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When he hears that the mob have a contract out on him, smalltime hood Nicky (John Cassavetes) calls his old friend Mikey (Peter Falk) and asks for help. The two go on the run, but cracks begin to appear in their friendship and it becomes apparent that one of them has betrayed the other. Written and ..read more »
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from 208 members
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Two Minute Warning
(1976)
Starring: John Cassavetes, David Janssen, Martin Balsam
Director: Larry Peerce
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1970s disaster thriller starring Charlton Heston and John Cassavetes. A psychopath armed with a hunting rifle goes on a sniping spree. When the sniper's two-minute warning shots ring out at a crowded football stadium, panic erupts among the 91,000 sports fans present. Heston plays the police ..read more »
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from 135 members
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Capone
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Ben Gazzara, John Cassavetes, Harry Guardino
Director: Steve Carver
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Roger Corman produced this violent version of the life of America's most notorious gangster, Al Capone (Ben Gazarra), which features footage from Corman's own 1967 movie 'The St. Valentine's Day Massacre'. Capone's rise from humbling beginnings to become Chicago's mobster king prefaces his downfall ..read more »
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from 169 members
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Columbo - Series 2
(4 discs)
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Martin Landau, John Cassavetes, Peter Falk
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Complete second series of the popular 1970s American detective drama, following the investigations of the deceptively disheveled cop Lt. Columbo (Peter Falk), who always asks 'just one more thing' before getting his man. In 'Etude in Black', John Cassavetes guest stars as a conductor who is about ..read more »
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from 1,068 member
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Minnie And Moskowitz
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Val Avery, Timothy Carey, Gena Rowlands
Director: John Cassavetes
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Romantic comedy from filmmaker John Cassavetes, starring Gena Rowlands and Seymour Cassel. After two destructive relationships, Minnie (Rowlands) agrees to go on a blind date with Zelmo Swift (Val Avery), who becomes enraged when he is later rejected. Car park attendant Seymour Moskowitz (Seymour ..read more »
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from 73 members
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Husbands
(1970)
Starring: Ben Gazzara, Peter Falk, John Cassavetes
Director: John Cassavetes
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The quiet, simple family lives of Gus, Harry and Archie (John Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara, Peter Falk) are shattered when their best friend, Stuart, has a heart attack and dies suddenly. Now facing their mortality, the three men fall into their own midlife crises. First by spending their days playing ..read more »
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from 7 members
Currently unavailable
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Rosemary's Baby
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Ruth Gordon, John Cassavetes, Tony Curtis
Director: Roman Polanski
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In Roman Polanski's first American film, adapted from Ira Levin's horror bestseller, a young wife comes to believe that her offspring is not of this world. Waifish Rosemary Woodhouse (Mia Farrow) and her struggling actor husband, Guy (John Cassavetes), move into the Bramford, an old New York City ..read more »
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from 11,124 members
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Faces
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: John Marley, Gena Rowlands, Lynn Carlin
Director: John Cassavetes
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Cassavetes follows the complicated lives of a group of middle class people living in LA and contains some startlingly raw performances from actors Lynn Carlin and John Marley as married couple Maria and Richard who both commit adultery to escape the misery of their loveless marriage. Richard begins ..read more »
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from 829 members
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Faces - Blu-ray
(1968)
Starring: John Marley, Gena Rowlands, Lynn Carlin
Director: John Cassavetes
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Cassavetes follows the complicated lives of a group of middle class people living in LA and contains some startlingly raw performances from actors Lynn Carlin and John Marley as married couple Maria and Richard who both commit adultery to escape the misery of their loveless marriage. Richard begins ..read more »
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from 24 members
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The Dirty Dozen
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: John Cassavetes, Jim Brown, Robert Ryan
Director: Robert Aldrich
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Director Robert Aldrich took what he considered a hopelessly old-fashioned script by Lukas Heller and Nunnally Johnson and fashioned The Dirty Dozen into one of MGM's biggest moneymakers of the 1960s--and the sixth highest-grossing film in the studio's history. Lee Marvin plays Major Reisman, ..read more »
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The Killers
(1964)
Starring: Angie Dickinson, Ava Gardner, Burt Lancaster
Director: Don Siegel, Robert Siodmak
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based on the short story by Ernest Hemingway. Don Siegel builds another whole world around Hemingway's premise. The two assassins of Siegel's film go in search of their intended victim - a teacher at a school for the blind - and find that he not only recognises his fate when they show up, but seems ..read more »
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from 98 members
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A Child Is Waiting
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Bruce Ritchey, Paul Stewart, Burt Lancaster
Director: John Cassavetes
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Drama starring Burt Lancaster and Judy Garland. Psychologist Dr Matthew Clark (Lancaster) runs a controversial boarding school for children with learning difficulties, known for its no-nonsense, tough love approach. When Clark recruits former concert pianist Jean Hansen (Garland) as the school's ..read more »
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from 84 members
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The Killers
on DVD
(1946)
Starring: John Cassavetes, Burt Lancaster, Edmond O'Brien
Director: Don Siegel, Robert Siodmak
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After boxer Swede (Burt Lancaster) is gunned down by a pair of contract killers, insurance investigator Jim Reardon (Edmond O'Brien) sets about piecing together the motives behind the murder. Swede's story is revealed in flashback - how he became involved in the crime world of Big Jim Colfax (..read more »
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John Cassavetes facts
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...that provided the excellent supporting cast which honed the whole performance. John Cassavetes, fresh from 'The Dirty Dozen' played the treacherous husband Guy and Charles Gr...
