Movie Notes: Pirate Radio
Synopsis
Set in 1966, a group of anti-establishment DJs broadcast banned rock records to the shores of England.
Movie Notes: Doubt
Synopsis
Set in 1965, sister Aloysius Beauvier (Meryl Streep) suspects the worst about Father Flynn’s (Philip Seymour Hoffman) relationship to a young student at a Bronx Catholic high school.
Movie Notes: Synedoche, New York
Synopsis
Playwright Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman), separated from his wife and daughter and suffering from a mysterious disease, receives a grant which allows him to construct one great play based on his depressing life.
Movie Notes: Happiness
Synopsis
Wanna-be musician Joy (Jane Adams) is unhappy. Her sister Trish, is a housewife who “has it all” but her psychiatrist husband Bill (Dylan Baker) is struggling with an attraction to young boys. Their attractive sister Helen (Lara Flynn Boyle) is being stalked by lonely introvert Allen (Philip Seymour Hoffman).
Movie Notes: The Savages
Synopsis
Siblings Jon (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and Wendy (Laura Linney) Savage are abruptly forced to care for their estranged, abusive father, Lenny (Phillip Bosco).