Yep the movie marathon watching goes on and on and on, and I've still got a long way to go to even remotely catch up.
Can I pray for the weather to turn chilly and rainy so I have an excuse to curl up on the sofa and watch movies all day?
"Goes outside to start a rain dance"
All The Presidents Men
Starring: Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman
Original release: 1976
Synopsis:Two reporters uncover the details of the Watergate scandal.
A gripping look into one of the most famous political scandals of all time.
Starring: Barbara Streisand and Robert Redford
Original release: 1973
Synopsis: Two very different people begin a romance.
The lies we tell each other and the lies we tell ourselves pretty much sums up this movie.
It's kind of sad and wistful in way and yet in many ways a very realistic look at relationships and first loves.
Side note: Robert Redford's hair once again deserves an award.
Starring: Jane Fonda and Robert Redford
Original release: 1979
Synopsis: A rodeo star steals his company's horse and rides into the desert, with a feisty reporter accompanying him.
And my Redford watching continues.
This time he's a rodeo star whose days in the rodeo are far behind him and now he's stuck staring in commercials for a living. Like the horse he rescues he's old and tired and longs for something more. A life of freedom, of simple things, of the way it use to be. The romance really is just an added note to help move things along but this really is a story about a man and a horse.
Starring: Meryl Streep and Robert Redford
Original release: 1985
Synopsis: In colonial Kenya, a Danish plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.
Gorgeous to look at but not much depth. This goes not only for the movie but also the romance which comes across as much less passionate but more like some kind of casual re-occurring fling which weirdly was probably much more closer to the truth.
Watch and wallow and don't expect much beyond the gorgeousness of it all.
Starring: Jessica Lange
Original release: 1982
Synopsis: The rise and fall of actress Frances Farmer.
It's hard to separate the myths from the facts and even now there's a lot of debate as to what actually happened to her, but either way you look at it Frances Farmer was a woman who struggled to fit in a world that expected her to conform to the norms of the day and the price she paid was a harrowing one.
A somewhat cold and detached look at a much misunderstood woman.
Starring: Unfamiliar names
Original release: 2002
Synopsis: Four young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Laundry.
Brutal and shocking and made even more so because these places actually existed and life inside them was no gentle Catholic charity but instead a place of horrific abuse.
Made all the more personal for me as my mum spent time in a Catholic Orphanage and the children were all pretty much treated as slave labour while there.
Everyone should watch this movie.
Starring: Judi Dench and Steve Coogan
Original release: 1959
Synopsis: A political journalist picks up the story of a woman's search for her son, who was taken away from her decades ago after she became pregnant and was forced to live in a convent.
Another tale focusing on the Magdalene Laundries and still just as shocking.
After watching this and the above I seriously wanted to hit something.
Starring: Anthony Hopkins and Anne Bancroft
Original release: 1987
Synopsis: True story of a transatlantic correspondence between a writer and a bookstore manager that developed into a close friendship.
Bookstore fix. You just know I needed it after watching 2 harrowing movies back to back.
If only this had been a romance...
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