American Express Films
Series
American Film Theatre volume Collection 1
Description
In the faded, Vermeer-like light of Harry Hope's 1912 New York skid row bar, a ragtag group of fallen men await the annual arrival of their friend Hickey. But now Hickey is sober, and he wants his drunken friends to follow the same path.
Description
Short-money hustler Joe May always believed he had a glorious future ahead of him, despite all evidence to the contrary. Released from the hospital after a long battle with pneumonia, Joe is forced to confront the harsh reality of his legacy: Everyone he knew had assumed he was dead, and life had gone on around him without missing a beat. Even as Joe doggedly pursues his comeback, he finds the odds stacked against him. Bonus features included.
3) The Trotsky
Description
Leon Bronstein is a young man who has made the discovery that his birth name is the same as that of Leon Trotsky, the celebrated Russian revolutionary and socialist theorist. This coincidence leads Leon to believe that he is the reincarnation of Trotsky and it is his destiny to follow his path as closely as possible, which is a bit difficult when you have rich parents and attend an upscale private school in Montreal.
Description
Eddie 'Gonzo' Gilman wants to write the truth in the school newspaper. But when he is thrown off the staff by his editor and arch-nemesis, Gavin Riley, Gonzo vows revenge. He starts an underground paper, 'The Gonzo Files, ' to give a voice to the misfits victimized by Gavin Riley and his cronies. 'The Gonzo Files' becomes a runaway hit and turns the whole school upside down, but the more successful Gonzo becomes, the more he learns that with truth...