A bank accountant approaching middle age and dissatisfied with the blandness of his life, uses a computer to “borrow” money to finance gambling on his trip to Las Vegas. He steals more and more to cover but when the big win never comes he decides to take even more from the bank and drop out of sight with a young woman he has met. Escaping overseas with five million dollars, he finally winds up back in trouble when he discovers that right from the start he has been part of a cruel conspiracy.
Tag: 1980s
The story of an Aboriginal family’s attempts to forge a new life for themselves within the segregated society. At the urging of headstrong teenager Trilby, the Comeaways relocate from their family camp, to a house in the main town.
In this adolescent-oriented comedy, a head camp counselor is traumatized after he and his staff take their nine-year-old campers out for a little nature hike.
This sometimes confusing erotic drama about the incestuous relationship of a mother and daughter is based on the autobiography of Italian theater actress Piera Degli Esposti though it focuses more on her mother Eugenia.
During a police strike in Nova Scotia’s capital city, a gang of hoodlums end up unintentionally causing the owner of a gay bar to be killed. This escalates into a string of murders with a lone survivor trying to not be next.
A one act play about a young doctor who ditch his safe middle-class existence to become a cowboy out West.
A Pittsburgh apartment superintendent loses his job and home when the apartment building where he lives and works at is suddenly destroyed by fire. Daniel and his family moves in with his brother but that doesn’t last for long due to the two families not getting along with each other. The family moves from rundown hotels to homeless shelters as Daniel searches work as a electrician while his wife takes waitress jobs to try to make ends meet.
The siblings Kate and Ben and their friend Spider are fascinated by an old mansion called ‘Castle House’ on the far side of the river next to their village. The mansion has been uninhabited for 15 years, but when they explore the premises they notice a mysterious coming and going. When the old owner, the friendly Mrs. Markham suddenly appears – and as suddenly disappears again – things become even more mysterious.