ABCs at the Movies: The Doubles Round!

[Fran]

"Kicked in the Head" featured Linda Fiorentino, who co-starred with Paul Newman in "Where the Money Is."

From film.com:  Downwardly mobile, Redmond is living on New York's Lower East Side and admits he is participating in some self-destructive behavior. Only a few people will deal with Redmond--one is his uncle, Sam, who gives the boy a bag to deliver to a small-time criminal. Redmond fails to make the drop, causing trouble for them both. After Redmond is evicted, his buddy Stretch is willing to take him in if he will work at a beer distributing center. Ultimately, Redmond has a tryst with a sexy flight attendant.

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Paul Newman starred in the title role.  Also starred John Huston, Roddy McDowell, Anthony Perkins, Victoria Principal, Jacqueline Bisset and Ava Gardner as Lily Langtry.

Plot:  A no account outlaw establishes his own particular brand of law and order and builds a town on the edges of civilization in this farcical western. With the aid of an old law text and unpredictable notions Roy Bean distinguishes between lawbreakers and lawgivers by way of his pistols.

[memento]

IMDB: "Mr and Mrs Bridge" is an amazingly accurate depiction of upper middle class lives, caught in the trap of repression and respectability. To watch the fate of Mrs Bridge (exquisitely portrayed by Joanne Woodward) as a woman trapped in a marriage to an inexpressive, career-focused man is to understand how women, even today, can lead limited, unfulfilled lives, bound up with a decisive husband and children who grow into self-absorbed adults, leaving their mother with a longing they won't or can't assuage.

Seeing the character of Mr. Bridge (another outstanding performance by Paul Newman), himself caught in the routine of his life, his sexual yearnings repressed, convinced of his correctness and respectability is a picture of the rigidity of ideas, values and prejudices rampant in our society, even in our own time.
 

[Fran]

Paul Newman starred as Sully Sullivan in "Nobody's Fool."

From IMDb:  Sully is a rascally ne'er-do-well approaching retirement age. While he is pressing a worker's compensation suit for a bad knee, he secretly works for his nemesis, Carl, and flirts with Carl's young wife Toby. Sully's long forgotten son and family have moved back to town, so Sully faces unfamiliar family responsibilities. Meanwhile, Sully's landlady's banker son plots to push through a new development and evict Sully from his mother's life.

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Paul Newman played the Stage Manager in this famous production of the Thornton Wilder classic.

[memento]

Paul Newman starred as Jim Kane in "Pocket Money."



IMDB: Broke and in debt, an otherwise honest cowboy gets mixed up in some shady dealings with a crooked rancher.

[Fran]

From Wikipedia:

"When Time Ran Out..." is a disaster film released in 1980, starring Paul Newman, Jacqueline Bisset, William Holden, James Franciscus, Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons, Burgess Meredith, Valentina Cortese, Veronica Hamel, Pat Morita, Edward Albert, and Barbara Carrera.

Produced by the "Master of Disaster," Irwin Allen, "When Time Ran Out..." is loosely based on a novel detailing the factual 1902 volcanic eruption of Mount Pelée on Martinique, which killed 30,000 people in five minutes (by pyroclastic flow). "When Time Ran Out..." has the distinction of being both the last notable "disaster film" produced at the tail-end of the 1970s cycle of the genre and Irwin Allen's last theatrically released picture.

Paul Newman was contractually obligated to do another Irwin Allen film after his starring role "The Towering Inferno" and was less than enthusiastic about appearing in "WTRO..." (In a 1998 interview with Larry King, when Newman was asked if he ever regretted making any film, he responded "that volcano movie"). Despite his reluctance, it is thought his salary for this film was used to start up his extremely successful Newman's Own company.

[Lynne]

From Wiki:

Road to Perdition is a 2002 period drama directed by Sam Mendes. The screenplay was adapted by David Self, from the graphic novel of the same name by Max Allan Collins. The film stars Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Jude Law, Tyler Hoechlin and Daniel Craig. Hanks stars as Michael Sullivan, an assassin who is forced to flee with his son from the crime syndicate for whom he had worked.

[Ellemeno]

A powerful Ken Kesey novel turned into a powerful movie, directed by and starring Paul Newman.





Title taken from the song "Goodnight Irene"

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Plot:  A retired ex-cop and private detective (Paul Newman) who lives with a rich actor (Hackman) who is dying from cancer and his actress wife (Sarandon) gets mixed up in murder when he is asked to deliver blackmail money. He walks into a 20 year old case involving the mysterious disappearance of the actress's former husband. James Garner appears as another ex-cop who also does occasional errands for the couple.