Looking to sit down with a good movie to take your mind off things? Then choose one of these great American films, selected by the Talekey review team, and get your popcorn popping!
Rebecca by Alfred Hitchcock
Joan Fontaine disappears into the role as the second wife of Laurence Olivier, who disappears into the memory of the first. Judith Anderson is deliriously wicked as the dead wife’s most loyal housekeeper.
Stormy Weather by Andrew L. Stone
The story is nothing special — it's a fictionalized version of the life of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson — but oh, that music, singing and dancing. Lena Horne sings the title song, with at-their-peak performances by Robinson, Cab Calloway, Fats Waller and others. The Nicholas Brothers' jaw-dropping dance number was thought by Fred Astaire to be the best dance ever filmed. He was right.
The Graduate by Mike Nichols
This film not only captured the spirit of its time, it helped create and perpetuate it. Dustin Hoffman is lost and drifting after graduation from college and, in the midst of his anti-establishment urges, falls in love with the daughter of the married, middle-aged woman (the wonderful Anne Bancroft) with whom he is having an affair.
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