Who you think is a better actress?
BQ:Favorite movie by both?
BQ2: Who you think was a true Oscar winner in 1990
-Whoopi Goldberg in "Ghost" (Winner)
-Annette Bening in "The Grifters"
Whoopi Goldberg for sure!
BQ:
Whoopie Goldberg--Boys on the Side
Lorraine Bracco--Probably The Basketball Diaries, even though I'm not really a fan of that movie.
BQ2: I'm really not sure because I haven't seen all
On a train trip to La Jolla, Myra (Annette Bening) is pleased to discover that her boyfriend Roy (John Cusack) is a con artist.
JOHN CUSACK
Date of Birth: June 28, 1966
Born in Evanston, Illinois, John Cusack is one of the few actors who managed to successfully graduate from the "Brat Pack" of the '80s by proving he can effectively carry a film. He feels his success in Hollywood is a result from his refusal to sell out: "I haven't sold out so far, although I have made bad movies. By selling out, I mean crashing cars, pulling out guns, killing people, idiotic stories. If you see the words 'there's an eerie silence' a few times in a script, that's a clue."
Cusack was only seven when he became a member of the Piven Theatre Workshop, a breeding ground for Chicago's theater stars. At 17 Cusack landed his first feature role in the teen sex comedy Class . A slew of teen flicks like Sixteen Candles , Better Off Dead , and The Sure Thing made the boyish-looking actor a thinking-girl's heartthrob but it was his portrayal of Lloyd Dobbler in 1989's Say Anything
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Luke Kirby lands in The Samaritan He thinks The Samaritan falls into the same category as 1990's The Grifters and the 1981 remake, Body Heat. "Those were the movies, and the sub-genre, I was referencing for the movie," he says. Born in Hamilton, Ont. Kirby studied drama at Montreal's |
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John Cusack films - critics' favorites The Grifters (1990) 90% Witty, quirky, and down-and-dirty, this is an exceptional neo-noir with terrific direction from Frears (Academy Award director nominee) and an outstanding performance from Cusack as a small-time con artist caught between two |
Stephen Frears Joins Lineup To Honour Ford at Symposium
In 1990, the 70-year-old director was nominated for an Academy Award for his film 'The Grifters.' He was again nominated in 2006 for 'The Queen.' Frears' contribution to Irish film includes two well received adaptations of Roddy Doyle's novels,
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VIEWING THE VIDEOS: "The Avengers" And Movies To Watch At Home For a much better movie with John Cusack, check out “The Grifters.” It's a contemporary noire film (1990) about the extremely dark side of con artists with Cusack as Roy, a small time grifter and son of Lily (Angelica Houston) who also works the wrong |
Stephen Frears frontrunner to direct the upcoming Freddie Mercury biopic
In addition to his 2006 drama The Queen, Frears' credits include My Beautiful Laundrette (1985), Dangerous Liaisons (1988), The Grifters (1990), Mary Reilly (1996), High Fidelity (2000), Dirty Pretty Things (2002) and Tamara Drewe (2010),
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