Last of the Belles(1973)

Synopsis

A semi-fictional account of how writer F. Scott Fitzgerald met his wife while he was in the army and stationed in Alabama in 1919. In a strange blending of reality and fantasy, this is the story of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s use of the creative process to try to work out and ameliorize his own marital difficulties, writing the fictional “The Last of the Belles” while trying to work out his own relationship with Zelda during WWI.

Director

George Schaefer

Cast

Brooke Adams – Norman Barrs – Richard Chamberlain – Blythe Danner – Tom Fitzsimmons – Richard Hatch – David Huffman

Misc. Info

Genre: Drama – Romance – Biography

Runtime: 98 minutes

Ginger in the Morning(1972)

Synopsis

Veteran art director Gordon Wiles occasionally wielded the directorial megaphone in both films and television with mixed results. Ginger in the Morning is an aggressively “small” picture, its success or failure totally reliant on the rapport between its stars. A young Sissy Spacek plays the title character, a gangly teenaged hitchhiker who thumbs a ride from travelling salesman Joe (Monte Markham). He is drawn to her free-spirited outlook on life. She, in turn, is attracted by his conservative…

Director

Gordon Wiles

Cast

David F. Doyle – Beatrice Kay – Fred Ward – Monte Markham – Mark Miller – Marion Charles

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Genre: Drama – Comedy – Romance

Runtime: 90 minutes

How Stella Found Love(2009)

Synopsis

Meet Stella James (Sean Young) – sensuous, fiercely independent and possessing a fiery appetite for living. She leads a rather empty life with alcoholic friend, Teo Dylan Walsh). One day, Teo gives her a plane ticket to Los Angeles to live without him. She gets work in a restaurant as a chef run by George Babbington (John Heard) and falls in love with younger photographer Frank (Richard Hillman). Stella vigorously pursues her career as a top chef while also seducing a selection of men to educate herself in love and lust, including a lesbian encounter with Clara (Shawnee Smith). Her passion for food is matched only by her appetite for men, and her journey of exploration shatters the sexual double standards that surround her. But Stella discovers that sex is only one element of true love when lust turns into something more. “How Stella Found Love” is a film that shatters the roles of what you think women want.

Director

Michael Manasseri – Jonas Barnes

Cast

Sean Young (Blade Runner, No Way Out) – Dylan Walsh (Nip/Tuck) – John Heard (CSI: Miami) – Shawnee Smith (Saw 1,2,3) – Karen Black (House of 1,000 Corpses)

Producer

Richard Hillman – Stephen Eckelberry

Misc. Info

Genre: Romance – Comedy