Latest movies

Just loved everything I've seen lately:

True Grit - wonderful performances and the evocation of a place that is the hallmark of the Coen Brothers.

The Fighter - terrific movie: great acting, great writing, and the kind of feel good story arc that sends you home with a smile.  Bonus - no one dies!

The King's Speech - enjoyed it even more than I expected to!  The most entertaining movie imaginable about a guy who stutters and his speech therapist! 

Maze (2000) - written, directed by, and starring Rob Morrow as a guy with Tourette's. It's not a Lifetime channel/disease of the week movie at all. Very adult, very beautiful (he's an artist).  Costars the incomparable Laura Linney, who I would watch in anything. It's not super romantic (though there's a great kiss), but it's very good. It would make a good double feature with Dedication. Or something offbeat like Sex and Death 101 or The Last Word.  I wish he'd make more - I think he's a terrific director!

A quick check of Netflix shows that I missed THIS classic - his acting debut:

Private Resort (1985) - Chasing women for the weekend at a luxurious Miami resort, teen buddies Ben and Jack (Rob Morrow and Johnny Depp) get more than they bargained for after crossing paths with a crafty criminal. Throwing their hormone-driven plans off kilter, the two friends run afoul of a cross-dressing jewel thief (Hector Elizondo) and find themselves under scrutiny from a prying hotel detective. George Bowers directs the racy high jinks of this 1985 sex romp.

But a TV movie that he co-wrote with Fisher Stevens in 2009, called The Green Teem, is nowhere to be found.