Friday Night Film viewers saw the trailer for this film and requested it. Three retired sea captains live together and agree to advertise for a reliable, able woman to cook and keep house. The catch—one must marry her so the other two can stay on for free. The plans go awry when a lovely, strong-willed woman appears.

David Carradine, Rip Torn, Bruce Dern, Mariel Hemingway, special appearance Julie Harris.

A curmudgeon tends a remote Cape Cod lighthouse, away from society, especially women, and then a young man washes up with a past full of secrets and a similar aversion to women. Two beautiful, spirited women test the men’s resolve.

Richard Dreyfuss, Tom Wisdom, Bruce Dern, Blythe Danner, Mamie Gummer.

Selected because the plot sounds similar to The Lightkeepers, but the scene is Switzerland and England.

Based on Michael Palin’s grandfather, a don at Oxford. A stuffy professor at St. John’s College, Oxford, heads off for a walking holiday in Switzerland. High up on a rocky Swiss plateau, he encounters an American woman and her young ward. Being in the company of two charming women is a refreshing change from his well-ordered world at Oxford. Back in England, with somewhat altered views on life, about to be elected president of his college—a post for a bachelor—he is taken aback when the two women appear for a visit at the all-male school (where no women are supposed to be) and it becomes apparent that both are competing for his affection. American Friends is a beautiful, charming film.

Michael Palin, Trini Alvarado, Connie Booth, Alfred Molina.
From a story by Michael Palin, screenplay by Michael Palin and Tristram Powell (director).

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: “Ramin Bahrani is the new Great American Director.”

The profound, unlikely friendship between two men of different generations delivers “the fullest possible emotional impact,” Leonard Maltin, Los Angeles Times. An ex-con in his first job out of prison works with an older man. Wary of each other at first, the two men gradually develop a friendship and trust. In one of the most memorable scenes the two men talk on a porch all the while looking straight forward. Liev Shreiber, Ned Beatty, Ian Scott, Teri Gilpin.

Variety: “…deeply affecting.”