All That Jazz (1979)

Storyline :  Joe Gideon is a Broadway director, choreographer and filmmaker, he in the process of casting the chorus and staging the dance numbers for his latest Broadway show, starring his ex-wife Audrey Paris in what is largely a vanity project for her in playing a role several years younger than her real age, and editing a film he directed on the life of stand-up comic Davis Newman. Joe's professional and personal lives are intertwined, he a chronic philanderer, having slept with and had relationships with a series of dancers in his shows, Victoria Porter, who he hired for the current show despite she not being the best dancer, in the former category, and Kate Jagger, his current girlfriend, in the latter category. That philandering has led to relationship problems, with Audrey during their marriage, and potentially now with Kate who wants a committed relationship with Joe largely in not wanting the alternative of entering the dating world again. Joe also lives a hard and fast life, he chain ...

Stars :  Roy Scheider,  Jessica Lange,  Leland Palmer,  Ann Reinking,  Ben Vereen, Cliff Gorman,  John Lithgow,  Wallace Shawn,  Deborah Geffner,  Max Wright, Irene Kane,  Michael Tolan,  Susan Brooks,  Anthony Holland,  Robert Hitt, David Margulies,  Frankie Man,  Keith Gordon,  CCH Pounder,  Jennifer Nairn-Smith, K.C. Townsend

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Chi-Raq (2015)

Storyline :  A drama centered on the growing violence in Chicago. Chi-Raq is a modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play �Lysistrata� by Aristophanes. After the murder of a child by a stray bullet, a group of women led by Lysistrata organize against the on-going violence in Chicago�s Southside creating a movement that challenges the nature of race, sex and violence in America and around the world.

Stars :  Nick Cannon,  Wesley Snipes,  Teyonah Parris,  Jennifer Hudson,  Steve Harris, Harry Lennix,  D.B. Sweeney,  Angela Bassett,  John Cusack,  Samuel L. Jackson, Common,  Dave Chappelle,  David Patrick Kelly

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The Owl and the Pussycat (1970)

Storyline :  Can a bickering odd couple in Manhattan become friends and maybe more? Owlish Felix is an unpublished writer who vents his frustration by reporting to the super that the woman in a neighboring flat takes the occasional payment for sex. She's Doris, more wildcat than pussycat, and when Felix's peeping-tom-tattle-tale routine gets her bounced from her apartment, she knocks at his door at 3 AM, aggressive and ticked off. They yell, lose another apartment, and pick up where they left off in a friend's flat and beyond. Dancing by the light of the moon seems unlikely for this owl and pussycat.

Stars :  Barbra Streisand,  George Segal,  Robert Klein,  Allen Garfield,  Roz Kelly, Jacques Sandulescu,  Jack Manning,  Grace Carney

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