75% (3) Scarecrow 112 min, R, [Drama] [Jerry Schatzberg] [11 Apr 1973]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 73%, Rotten Tomatoes: 82%, Metacritic: 72%, External Reviews
Awards: 4 wins.
Actors: Al Pacino, Ann Wedgeworth, Dorothy Tristan, Gene Hackman
Writer: Garry Michael White
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Plot: Max is an ex-con who's been saving money to open a car wash in Pittsburgh. Lionel is a sailor who's returning home to the midwest to see the child born while he was at sea. They form an unlikely pair as the brawling Max learns a little how Lionel copes with the world: Lionel believes that the scarecrow doesn't scare birds, but instead amuses them - birds find scare-crows funny.
Rotten Tomatoes: An ex-con learns the value of friendship in Jerry Schatzberg's picaresque road movie. Trying to hitch a ride on a desolate California road, fresh-out-of-prison Max (Gene Hackman) meets ex-sailor Lion (Al Pacino). They are both headed east, as Max dreams of opening a deluxe car wash in Pittsburgh and Lion believes that the wife and child he left behind will still welcome him home. The two decide to journey together, forging an increasingly deep yet uncertain friendship, as Lion teaches Max how not to be so pugnacious and Max senses Lion's fragility. When the pair hits Detroit, Lion finally gets in touch with his wife and discovers how she really feels. When Lion is shattered by the revelation, Max must decide if he should forge on alone or sacrifice his carefully guarded savings to help his friend. One of a cycle of late 1960s-early 1970s buddy movies that included Midnight Cowboy (1969) and California Split (1974), Scarecrow suggests how alienated men had become from such traditional institutions as marriage and family. Max's and Lion's salvation comes from being on the road with each other, rather than settling down with jobs and families. Pacino's first film after his triumph in The Godfather (1972), and Hackman's follow-up to The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and his Oscar for The French Connection (1971), Scarecrow won the 1973 Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, but the two stars were not enough to make it a hit. Even so, their nuanced performances enhance this moody study of contemporary dislocation. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi
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76% (1) Griffin and Phoenix 97 min, [Drama] [Daryl Duke] [27 Feb 1976]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 76%, External Reviews
Actors: Dorothy Tristan, Jill Clayburgh, John Lehne, Peter Falk
Writer: John Hill
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Plot: Geoffrey Griffin who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer in his chest, meets Sarah Phoenix as they both attend a university lecture on the psychology of dying. Sarah Phoenix has got terminal leukemia, but Griffin doesn't know that, and she doesn't know that he is terminally ill. They start spending time together and fall in love, both struggling with their fate. This is the beginning of a beautiful and sad love story!
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68% (1) End of the Road 110 min, X, [Comedy, Drama] [Aram Avakian] [10 Feb 1970]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 68%, External Reviews
Awards: 1 win & 1 nomination.
Actors: Dorothy Tristan, Harris Yulin, James Earl Jones, Stacy Keach
Writer: John Barth (novel), Dennis McGuire, Terry Southern, Aram Avakian
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Plot: After a catatonic episode on a railway station platform, Jacob Horner is taken to "The Farm", a bizarre insane asylum run by Doctor D. After being cured, Jacob takes a job as an English lecturer and begins a disastrous affair with Rennie, the wife of a colleague.
Rotten Tomatoes: In this exploitation film, Jake Horner is a college professor beset with a wide variety of emotional problems. He seeks out help from an unorthodox psychologist. This treatment has a disastrous effect on Horner, leading him into the arms of Rennie Morgan, the wife of a fellow teacher.
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66% (1) Man on a Swing 110 min, PG, [Crime, Mystery, Thriller] [Frank Perry] [27 Feb 1974]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 66%, External Reviews
Actors: Cliff Robertson, Dorothy Tristan, Elizabeth Wilson, Joel Grey
Writer: David Zelag Goodman (screenplay)
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Plot: A small-town police chief investigating a murder is offered help by a self-described psychic. However, when the chief discovers that the "psychic" is in possession of information known only...
Rotten Tomatoes: In this fact-based crime thriller, a psychic helps a detective solve the case of a psycho sex killer.
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60% (1) California Dreaming 92 min, R, [Comedy, Drama, Romance] [John D. Hancock] [01 Apr 1979]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 60%, External Reviews
Actors: Dennis Christopher, Dorothy Tristan, Glynnis O'Connor, Seymour Cassel
Writer: Ned Wynn
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Plot: Young T.T. comes from Chicago to spend the summer in California. He slowly becomes "California-ized," while learning about love and life in the Golden State.
Rotten Tomatoes: T.T. (Dennis Christopher), a Midwesterner, has traveled to the beaches of California for a dose of the surfin' life. He believes that the people he finds there are glamorous and knowledgeable. They reject his Midwestern nerdiness, make fun of him, and generally give him a hard time for not fitting in and wanting to. However, eventually he figures out that they are no wiser than he is, and that their lives are surprisingly empty.
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