"You work for the American Dream you don't steal it." So says a Minnesota family man early in "A Simple Plan," but he is only repeating an untested theory. Confronted with the actual presence of $4 million in cash, he finds his values bending, and eventually he's trapped in a horror story of greed, guilt and murder.
Film History Comes to Life in Hollywood Home Movies: Stars at Work and Play
From all-star tennis to Alfred Hitchcock eating a banana, these Academy Film Archive home movies show a different side of Hollywood throughout history.
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Some of the most interesting stories that come out of Old Hollywood happened off the silver screen and in the everyday lives of legendary stars. Home movies provide the best visual look into stars’ lives in a less curated and controlled way than feature films and press media. The Academy Film Archive gives TCM Film Festival attendees a sneak peek into their selection of Hollywood home movies every year in person, but this year they are giving everyone a chance to see stars in their personal lives and at work with their
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Antoine Fuqua is to direct and produce an all-Black film adaptation of Tennessee Williams play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
The project is based on the hugely successful 2008 Broadway revival, which made history as the first all African-American presentation of the play.
The Training Day director has joined forces with producers Stephen C. Byrd and Alia Jones-Harvey, who backed the history-making production on Broadway, and they said in a statement that the new movie will combine elements of the play with new storylines and weave them together to bring the production to the big screen.
Fuqua will also serve as producer on the project, alongside Byrd and Jones-Harvey, according to Variety.