Mainstream Character Flicks?

[sixridgeroad]

Re: Mainstream Character Flicks?

Just about anything by Woody Allen, but my favorite is Another Woman, with Gena Rowlands. Not mainstream but very personal/authentic.

[postalpictures]

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Punch-Drunk Love

[Adam Isaac]

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What about BASIC INSTINCT or FATAL ATTRACTION?

Or even LAST TANGO IN PARIS

[Architeuthis Dux]

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[Pen Dragon]

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Pardon me --


Ace Ventura 1 and 2

[Hairy Lime]

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Pen Dragon, a man with his finger on the pulse of the seventy-somethings.

[Pen Dragon]

Re: Mainstream Character Flicks?

Rocky
The Hustler
The Searchers
Apocalypse Now
Blade Runner
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Close Encounters
Dances With Wolves
Harvey
The Last Hurrah
Young Man With a Horn
Birdman of Alcatraz
Conan the Barbarian
Elmer Gantry
Mister Roberts
Tender Mercies
The Verdict

[Adam Isaac]

Re: Mainstream Character Flicks?

^^^love that one.

Also love TAXI DRIVER.

WHAT'S EATING GILBERT GRAPE
ON THE WATERFRONT
JACKIE BROWN
AMERICAN HISTORY X
STAND BY ME(movie always has a soft spot with me)
SCENT OF A WOMAN
THELMA & LOUISE

&

my all-time favorite Dialogue/Character study/What have you:

GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS

[Authorized]

Re: Mainstream Character Flicks?

Rainman
Casablanca
Citizen Kane
It's A Wonderful Life
Cool Hand Luke
Gladiator
Spartacus
Lawrence of Arabia
Sophie's Choice
Erin Brockovich
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Taylor/Burton)
The Merchant of Venice (Pacino)

[Pencey]

Re: Mainstream Character Flicks?

Ordinary People
And Bill, I'm assuming that Egri's, "The Art Of Dramatic Writing" will be recommended reading...

[Hairy Lime]

Re: Mainstream Character Flicks?

Not necessarily mainstream, per se, but lots of people have seen them:

About Schmidt
Sideways

More mainstream:

Scarface
The Shawshank Redemption
Taxi Driver
Unforgiven

[phatgirl]

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American Beauty?

[The White Album]

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Jerry Maguire

[vig]

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you can count on me, hard eight, smoke, world according to garp, breaking away.

vig

[rumely]

Re: Mainstream Character Flicks?

Forrest Gump
Gladiator
American Splendor
The Godfather
The Aviator