Showing posts with label James Spader. Show all posts
Showing posts with label James Spader. Show all posts

Friday, January 17, 2025

THE NEW KIDS (1985)

 


Directed By: Sean S. Cunningham 

Written By: Stephen Gyllenhaal

Story By: Stephen Gyllenhaal and Brian Taggert 

Cinematography: Steven Poster 

Editor: Rita Roland 


Cast: Shannon Presby, Lori Loughlin, James Spader, Eric Stoltz, Eddie Jones, John Philbin, Tom Atkins, Brad Sullivan 


Newly orphaned siblings Abby and Loren McWilliams arrive in a small Florida town to help their Aunt Fay and Uncle Charlie run a family-owned amusement park, and they find that the town is terrorized by a local street gang.


Saturday, September 9, 2023

DREAM LOVER (1993)

 



Written & Directed By: Nicholas Kazan  Cinematography: Jean Yves Escoffier  Editor: Susan Cruthcher and Jill Savitt


Cast: James Spader, Madchen Amick, Bess Armstrong, Larry Miller, Frederic Lehne, Kathleen York, William Shockley, Carl Sundstrom, Clyde Kusatsu

Ray is young, charming, successful, and the owner of a prosperous architecture company. However, he has recently gone through a very painful divorce. His friends try to cheer him up by showing him the positive sides of being single but for Ray marriage and stability are just too important. But when he meets Lena his gloom is quickly forgotten. She is beautiful, sensual, and mysterious and he is drawn to her like a moth to a candle. They marry quickly, have their first child and Ray lives in total bliss. But then strange incidents occur which shed some light on Lena's background. Ray slowly realizes that he hardly knows anything about her at all. Who has he really married?

Saturday, October 23, 2021

WOLF (1994)

 



Directed By: Mike Nichols  Written By: Jim Harrison & Wesley Strick  Cinematography: Giuseppe Rotunno  Editor: Sam O’Steen 


Cast: Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, James Spader, Christopher Plummer, Richard Jenkins, Kate Nelligan, Eileen Atkins, David Hyde Pierce, Om Puri, Ron Rifkin, Allison Janney 

Worn down and out of luck, aging publisher Will Randall is at the end of his rope when a younger co-worker snatches his job out from under his nose. But after being bitten by a wolf, Will suddenly finds himself energized, more competitive than ever, and possessed with amazingly heightened senses. Meanwhile, the beautiful daughter of his shrewd boss begins to fall for him - without realizing that the man she's begun to love is gradually turning into the creature by which he was bitten.

Friday, April 3, 2020

SEX, LIES & VIDEOTAPE (1989)



Written, Edited & Directed By: Steven Soderbergh 
Cinematography: Walt Lloyd 
Music By: Cliff Martinez 


Cast: James Spader, Peter Gallagher, Laura San Giacomo, Andie McDowell 



Ann is married to John, who is having an affair with her sister Cynthia. Ann's a quiet type and unwilling to let herself go. When John's old friend, Graham, shows up, all their lives change. Graham likes to videotape interviews with women.

Friday, August 25, 2017

JEFF OF THE CINEFILES & UNFINISHED BUSINESS: HALL OF FAME: FILE #0050: LESS THAN ZERO (1987)



Directed By: Marek Kanievska 
Written By: Harley Payton 
Based on the novel written By: Bret Easton Ellis 
Cinematography By: Edward Lachman 
Editor: Peter E. Berger & Michael Tronick 


Cast: Andrew McCarthy, Jami Gertz, Robert Downey Jr. James Spader, Tony Bill, Michael Bowen, Nicholas Pryor, Donna Mitchell, Sarah Buxton, Lisanne Falk, Flea 

Clay, an eighteen-year-old freshman, comes back from his first term at Princeton to spend his Christmas vacation with his broken-up wealthy family in Los Angeles. His former girlfriend, Blair, is now involved with his ex-best-friend, Julian. She warns Clay that Julian needs help: he is using a lot of cocaine and has huge debts. What follows is a look at the youth culture of wealthy post adolescents in Beverly Hills with a strong anti-drug message. Apart from the setting and the names, the film has very little to do with Bret Easton Ellis's book by the same title on which it was based.

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

JEFF OF THE CINEFILES: HALL OF FAME: FILE #0013: SECRETARY (2002)




Directed By: Steven Shainberg
Written By: Steven Shainberg & Erin Cressida Wilson
Based on a Short Story By: Mary Gaitskill
Cinematography By: Steven Fierberg
Editor: Pam Wise

CAST: Maggie Gyllenhaal, James Spader, Amy Locane, Jeremy Davies, Oz Perkins, Lesley Ann Warren, Stephen McHattie