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Romantic novelist Joan Wilder (Kathleen Turner) finds her stories
coming to life when she enlists the help of mercenary Jack Colton
(Michael Douglas) to find her sister missing in Columbia, and the
priceless El Corazon jewel. As Joan has the only map leading to the
treasure, the pair are relentlessly pursued through the jungle,
where passion blooms. With Danny DeVito, Zack Norman and Mary Ellen
Trainor.
Box set of eight classic Clint Eastwood films. In 'Play Misty for
Me' (1971) Dave Garland (Clint Eastwood) is a Californian DJ who
runs a late night call-in show, and receives regular requests from
a female caller for Erroll Garner's 'Misty'. The fan, Evelyn Draper
(Jessica Walter), turns out to be a maniacal stalker. In the
western 'High Plains Drifter' (1973) the unwelcome arrival of a
stranger (Eastwood) in the town of Lagos causes resentment and fear
among the locals. However, when they come under threat from a band
of escaped convicts, it is to the stranger that the townsfolk turn
for salvation. In 'The Beguiled' (1970), during the American Civil
War, a wounded Union soldier (Eastwood) is taken in by the
all-female staff of a Confederate Louisiana girls' school as their
'prize'. However, the soldier cunningly plays the women off against
each other, working on their sexual frustrations and biding his
time until he can make an escape. 'Breezy' (1973) is an
Eastwood-directed effort in which Breezy (Kay Lenz) is a teenage
hippy hitchhiker taken advantage of by a ruthless rotter who wants
to use her for sex. She escapes in a remote area and meets kindly
middle-aged man Frank Harmon (William Holden) whom she hopes will
take her in. Harmon is (rightfully) reluctant and his worst
imaginable scenario comes true when the impressionable teen falls
in love with him. In 'Joe Kidd' (1972) Eastwood plays a drunken
tracker coerced by American business tycoon Robert Duvall to go in
search of Mexican agitator John Saxon. The film is scripted by
renowned crime writer Elmore Leonard. In 'Two Mules for Sister
Sarah' (1969) a gold-digger (Eastwood) in old Mexico shows his
fundamentally noble nature by saving a 'nun' (Shirley Maclaine)
from being raped. She turns out in fact to be a prostitute, and the
odd couple team up, facing continual confrontation with the French
forces. In 'Coogan's Bluff' (1968) Eastwood is Arizona deputy Walt
Coogan, sent to New York city to escort a prisoner home. The
prisoner isn't ready to be transferred back to Arizona so Coogan
cuts a few corners. This helps the prisoner escape and, after
Coogan clashes with the Sherrif McElroy (Lee J. Cobb), he is
ordered back to Arizona. In 'The Eiger Sanction' (1975) college
lecturer Jonathan Hemlock (Eastwood) tops up his university
paypacket by carrying out the occasional assassination. His latest
assignment involves joining a climbing expedition up the Eiger,
identifying the Russian killer amongst the group, and then
neutralising his threat.
Growing up with a Colombian father for whom magical realism was a
way of life made ordinary reality feel like an immigrant experience
for author Jose Chaves, who was born in the U.S. but, as his father
would insist, made in Colombia That experience comes alive like a
movie on the page in The Contract of Love, a memoir about family
that is both hilarious and heartbreaking. Chaves' straightforward
style turns the familiar exotic and makes the unfamiliar feel like
home as he takes readers on a cultural journey from small-town,
muscle-car America to the Chaves family farm in Colombia, where the
cow is named Lyndon Johnson, and an emotional journey from his
father's volatile world where unrequited love is sung out loud in
restaurants, to a fraternity where the most important rule is to
never reveal your feelings to another guy in public. With
tenderness, humor, and hypnotic clarity, Chaves explores the
landscape of love that holds us together, beyond the addictions
that bind us-- from the broken faith that sends a boy spiraling
down, to the grace that finds the man.
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