former captain of the first steamship in the Northwest, the Beaver. He had seen the forests earlier in the 1840’s and accompanied Hinderwell on his venture in the position of supercargo, (a representative of a ship’s owner on board a merchant ship, responsible for...
George Banks (Steve Martin) and his wife, Nina (Diane Keaton), are the proud parents of Annie (Kimberly Williams), but when she returns from studying abroad and announces that she's engaged, their whole world turns upside down, especially that of overprotective George. From meeting the in-...
a live-in housemate. The family reunion is poignant, but nobody is really surprised when they wake up the next morning to find Jack vanished. Laura and JoJo have been through it all before, but it’s a painful loss to Henry, who has come to love his charismatic rogue of a grandfather...
monkey trial decided to ask the jury to find Scopes guilty. The movies and TV shows usually show William Jennings Bryan making a passionate speech about the evils of evolutionary theory and how wrong it was to teach children we weren't created by God in His image. It never actually ...
(Melanie Griffith in her screen debut) to the Florida Keys while evading various problems of his own involving his father and his wife. The labyrinthine mystery plot and pessimistic mood suggest Raymond Chandler and Ross MacDonald, and like them screenwriter Alan Sharp has more than conventional ...