The Front

Sep 17, 1976

1h 35m

★ 7.0

America's most unlikely hero.

Overview

A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

Devon/Persky-Bright

Persky-Bright Productions

Columbia Pictures

Jack Rollins & Charles H. Joffe Productions

The Front Trailers

Cast

Howard Prince

Woody Allen

Hecky Brown

Zero Mostel

Philip Sussman

Herschel Bernardi

Alfred Miller

Michael Murphy

Florence Barrett

Andrea Marcovicci

Hennessey

Remak Ramsay

Myer Prince

Marvin Lichterman

Delaney

Lloyd Gough

Phelps

David Margulies

Sam

Joshua Shelley

Howard's Attorney

Norman Rose

Committee Counselor

Charles Kimbrough

Elizabeth has just been through a particularly nasty breakup, and now she's ready to leave her friends and memories behind as she chases her dreams across the country. In order to support herself on her journey, Elizabeth picks up a series of waitress jobs along the way. As Elizabeth crosses paths with a series of lost souls whose yearnings are even greater than her own, their emotional turmoil ultimately helps her gain a greater understanding of her own problems...

6.6

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7.6

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7.4

The Station Agent

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6.3

Spoiled Children

Sep 6, 1977

Successful writer/director Bernard Rougerie is at a creative dead end and decides to isolate himself from his wife in order to complete the script for his next film. Bernard moves into an apartment building whose tenants are in the midst of a revolt against their abusive landlord. Reluctant at first, he joins their cause and then becomes involved in an affair with young, unemployed resident Anne.

7.8

L.A. Confidential

Sep 19, 1997

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6.8

James Dean

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7.0

The Summer of Whales

May 3, 2014

Chuya, who spends his days in a local city without any purpose or dream, suddenly decides to go to Tokyo. His best friends: J, Gizmo, and Machida, from high school try to hold a big farewell party on the last day that Chuya spends locally, but Chuya remembers the past. It seems that he is clinging and hesitating to move. There, the three make a proposal for Chuya, but Yumiko, a longing senior who should be active as an entertainer in Tokyo, appears, and Chuya's heart shakes even more.

5.3

Savage Dog

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0.0

Any Given Sundae

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6.5

The Bookshop

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Set in a small English town in 1959, a woman decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop, a decision which becomes a political minefield.

5.0

Never Speak Ill of the Dead

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Tragicomic story about Communist activist who wants to bring the benefits of Communism to the inhabitants of a Serbian village after WW2.

6.5

Genius

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6.4

Bikini

Mar 14, 2014

Spain, 1953. Pedro Zaragoza, mayor of the city of Benidorm, in the province of Alicante, by the Mediterranean Sea, visits the Palacio del Pardo, General Franco's residence in Madrid, to ask him for help, in the hope of solving a very delicate problem.

7.2

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5.7

Time of Miracles

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September 1945. The new communist authorities go into the church, hang the flag of the Party and paint over the old frescoes, but each time the frescoes miraculously return. A stranger comes to town and works miracles; the townsfolk are convinced he is the Messiah. Director Paskaljevic cut his TV miniseries, based on the novel by Borislav Pekic, to feature film length.

6.6

Sweet Girl

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A man vows to bring justice to those responsible for his wife's death while protecting the only family he has left, his daughter.