Angels in America (I & II)

Tony Kushner's groundbreaking, Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway play (the basis for this 6-hour HBO dramatic miniseries) took more than 10 years to make it to the small screen. Starring Al Pacino (as real-life legal counsel Roy Cohn) and Meryl Streep, Angels is at once heartbreaking and funny as it examines the first few years (the mid-1980s) of the AIDS epidemic against the moral absolutism and unresponsive backdrop of the Reagan Administration.

This film(s) is NOT appropriate for children.

Antonia's Line

Winner of the 1995 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and many other prestigious international honors, Antonio's Line is the remarkable story of a woman who builds a new life with her daughter in a quiet Dutch village after World War II. Earthy, sexy, romantic and filled with laughter and warmth, it's a joyous, multi-generational celebration of simple pleasures and enduring passions.

Radio

A small-town high school football coach (Ed Harris) befriends an illiterate, developmentally disabled man (Cuba Gooding Jr.) nicknamed "Radio," who has always been the target of jokes and teasing. Although their friendship raises eyebrows at first, Radio's growth under the coach's guidance ultimately inspires the local townsfolk. Based on the true story of the life of James Robert Kennedy.

For more information on James Robert Kennedy & Coach Harold Jones: Chasingthefrog.com

A Beautiful Mind

John Forbes Nash Jr. (Russell Crowe) was a brilliant economist -- when his mind was clear. But life changed forever with the revelation that he was a schizophrenic. Nash's brilliance persisted amidst the anguish his mental illness caused for him and his wife (Jennifer Connolly), and 40 years after his diagnosis, he won the Nobel Prize for economics. Connolly's acting and Ron Howard's direction won Oscars, and the film was named Best Picture.

This film also received significant criticism for distorting the life of John F. Nash. For those interested in Nash's background from Nash's perspective, he's written his own biography which is available via the Nobel Website and was originally published in Les Prix Nobel/Nobel Lectures.

Mr. Nash's faculty page at Princeton also provides a glimpse into his work on Economics.

Following Sean

In 1969, writer-director Ralph Arlyck filmed an intimate conversation with 4-year-old Sean Farrell -- the son of free-spirited parents living in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district -- who talked openly about smoking marijuana and walking among speed freaks. Revisiting his subject 30 years later, Arlyck finds a much-changed man with thoughtful reflections about his childhood, his parents and the contradictions of the 1960s.

I found this movie through Netflix.

Spring on the Rogue...

Emily and I created a video documentary. This is our first collaborative project and we think we did an exceedingly fine job of it...The title of this mini documentary is Spring on the Rogue (View video here).

Greenfingers

Greenfingers (2000)

This is a hilarious flick elevated not only by Clive Owens' great acting demeanor and excellent good looks but even more so by the phenomenal theatrical dexterity of David Kelly (Waking Ned Devine). Helen Mirren plays a fantastic early English version of Martha Stewart, but with spicey attitude.

Netflix Review:
"A (green) thumbs-up for this affecting true-life tale about hardened con Colin Briggs (Clive Owen), who gets a new lease on life -- behind prison bars -- as an award winning gardener. Wonderful in support are David Kelly as a prisoner chum of Briggs' who coaches him out of his shell and Helen Mirren as a world class gardener who fears for her daughter when she falls for Briggs." (R)

Kinky Boots

Kinky Boots (2005)

I've been engrossed in the idea of product innovation lately and came across this gem of a flick about the efforts of a shoe factory to survive after four generations of operation:

"After inheriting a shoe factory, Charlie Price (Joel Edgerton) aims to take the fashion world by storm with help from a cabaret dancer in htis whimsical comedy. Charlie risks it al when he hires sassy Lolo (Chiwetel Ejiofor) to help design a facy line of women's styled boots for cross dressing men. But on the eve of the Milan Shoe Fair, just as he's about to introduce the world to his signature shoes, everything falls apart. Sarah Jane Potts and Jemima Rooper co-star." Rated - PG 13

Reviews & Flick Info (Here)