Leland is suicidal, so he hires a hitman called Avocado to kill him. Code word for the hit will be “tulips”. However, that’s when Leland meets his suicidal soulmate Rutanya and changes his mind. Now they must try to stop Avocado.
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Lindsay Wagner stars as Joanne Van Buren, a social worker whose personal and professional life are on the brink of collapse. Her spirit is reawakened, however, when she takes the case of six-year-old Eric Townsend. Found by the police alone at the zoo, Eric shows all the signs of having been molested. Joanne’s compassion for Eric drives her to solve the mystery of Eric’s abuser.
Director Robert Altman’s 1996 film, Kansas City – a jazz-tinged melodrama about a corrupt politician and a determined gangster – was notable if only for some remarkable 1930s music as arranged by the innovative John Cale. This documentary is the offspring of that movie, featuring sessions recorded on the set of the earlier film. With Jazz ’34‘s pumping, grinding blues all set to elevate the spirits.
A crusading reporter plans his own arrest and conviction for first degree murder, trying to show that the death sentence should be outlawed when based on circumstantial evidence alone, but his plan goes awry.
The biggest town problem is worrying whether the high school basketball team will win the championship… until racketeers move into town and the kids begin to bet on horses, become overly fond of stripped-down racing cars, and Genevieve Rogers suspects her father of being too fond of the school principal’s secretary. Town nerd Bill Kennedy invents a new fuel amidst rumors that – horrors – the basketball game might be fixed. River City is not the only town that has trouble starting with a “T” and there’s not a pool hall in sight.
Jean Stapleton stars as Eleanor Roosevelt in this made-for-TV biography, first telecast May 12, 1982. The film recounts Mrs. Roosevelt’s life after the 1945 death of her husband, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. At the request of new president Truman, Eleanor serves as a United Nations delegate, spending much of her time tilting with dedicated anti-FDR politico John Foster Dulles. She goes on to spearhead the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, proving to Dulles–and to Soviet delegate Freddie Jones–that she’s anything but soft on Communism.
Jesse Peretz made his directorial debut with this intimate romantic drama adapted from a short story by Ian McEwan, switching McEwan’s setting from an industrial English seaside town to the Louisiana bayou. Joey and Sissel live in a drab house on stilts, along with Sissel’s lonely younger brother Adrian. After Sissel introduces Joey to her father, Vietnam-vet Henry, the two men form a business catching eels. However, mistrust, anxieties, and arguments threaten the love Joey and Sissel share, and they begin to drift apart.
Muscle Beach is a fascinating location for people-watching in the L.A. area, and in 1963, the strangeness of its sights was much more pronounced than today. Pat O’Neill’s first film (made with Robert Abel) progresses from humorous, curious observation to energetic, graphical interaction with the sights and sounds of Santa Monica’s famed beach.