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The Apartment 1960
One of the greatest movies ever made. Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, and Fred MacMurray as the biggest POS ever committed to film. He’s the guy who was the super nice widower in the TV series MY THREE SONS but here is the most casually cruel boss/ boyfriend you’ll ever meet.
It’s about a low level employee at a huge corporation who lends out his sweet uptown apartment to the higher-ups so they can cheat on their wives. He’s in love…
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Shampoo 1975
The Beach Boys’ “Wouldn’t It Be Nice?” opens and closes this great Hal Ashby- Warren Beatty movie. The desire for a normal life— married, work, home, kids— lurks underneath the sexy and glossy surface of this Beverly Hills- Bel Air set dramedy about sexual mores and the difficulty of monogamy when options abound. I never understood this movie until I was divorced and moved to Newport Beach. This movie is like a slightly exaggerated documentary. The world of money is…
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Out of Africa 1985
"I had a farm in Africa,” says Meryl Streep matter-of-factly in voiceover at the start of this movie. We follow her journey from Denmark to Africa where she uses her family's money to buy a farm to try to grow coffee beans with her husband of convenience played by Klaus Maria Brandauer (in a great performance as an amiable cad). Near the end of the movie she repeats the line, again in voiceover, but this time it's delivered freighted with…
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Billy Madison 1995
Classic early Sandler, completely idiotic but hilarious anyway. Not as good as HAPPY GILMORE but right up there with it. I can’t get over that combination of arrested childhood and sudden rage, I find it so funny.
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