Susan Forristal

Movies15

• Movie6.8

  DramaComedy

  In 1965, a young woman with dreams of becoming a writer has a son at the age of 15 and struggles to make things work with the drug-addicted father.

  Riding in Cars with Boys

  2001 · 493 votes

• Movie6.5

  RomanceDrama

  After being shot, a lawyer loses his memory and must relearn speech and mobility, but he has a loving family to support him.

  Regarding Henry

  1991 · 651 votes

• Movie6.2

  DramaComedy

  In this adaptation of the best-selling roman à clef about Bill Clinton's 1992 run for the White House, the young and gifted Henry Burton is tapped to oversee the presidential campaign of Governor Jack Stanton. Burton is pulled into the politician's colorful world and looks on as Stanton -- who has a wandering eye that could be his downfall -- contends with his ambitious wife, Susan, and an outspoken adviser, Richard Jemmons.

  Primary Colors

  1998 · 358 votes

• Movie6.4

  CrimeDrama

  Keen young Raymold Avila joins the Internal Affairs Department of the Los Angeles police. He and partner Amy Wallace are soon looking closely at the activities of cop Dennis Peck whose financial holdings start to suggest something shady. Indeed Peck is involved in any number of dubious or downright criminal activities. He is also devious, a womaniser, and a clever manipulator, and he starts to turn his attention on Avila.

  Internal Affairs

  1990 · 463 votes

• Movie6.0

  ComedyDrama

  She's a magazine writer who gives up her career for love and family. He's a playboy newspaper columnist who can't quite give up his old tricks. And if that combination doesn't give a relationship heartburn, nothing will.

  Heartburn

  1986 · 223 votes

• Movie6.0

  Comedy

  A Florida con man uses the recent death of the long time Congressman from his district, who he just happens to share a last name with, to get elected to his version of paradise, the U.S. Congress, where the money flows from lobbyists.

  The Distinguished Gentleman

  1992 · 339 votes

• Movie6.2

  ComedyRomance

  Good-natured astronomer Sam is devastated when the love of his life leaves him for a suave Frenchman. He therefore does what every other normal dumpee would do — go to New York and set up home in the abandoned building opposite his ex-girlfriend's apartment, wait until she decides to leave her current lover, and then win her back.

  Addicted to Love

  1997 · 457 votes

• Movie6.0

  CrimeMystery

  Real estate developer Jake Berman hires private investigator and war veteran Jake Gittes for some run-of-the-mill matrimonial work. After Berman shoots his wife's lover, who happens to be his business partner, Gittes is drawn into a web of conspiracy and deceit involving the oil reserves beneath Los Angeles. While investigating, Gittes hears a voice from his past that causes him to revisit a traumatic case in Chinatown.

  The Two Jakes

  1990 · 291 votes

• Movie6.5

  ComedyFantasy

  With the help of a talking freeway billboard, a "wacky weatherman" tries to win the heart of an English newspaper reporter, who is struggling to make sense of the strange world of early-90s Los Angeles.

  L.A. Story

  1991 · 396 votes

• Movie6.6

  ComedyDrama

  A substance-addicted actress tries to look on the bright side even as she's forced to move back in with her mother to avoid unemployment.

  Postcards from the Edge

  1990 · 306 votes

• Movie6.9

  CrimeDrama

  A short Arizona motorcycle cop gets his wish and is promoted to Homicide following the mysterious murder of a hermit. He is forced to confront his illusions about himself and those around him in order to solve the case, eventually returning to solitude in the desert.

  Electra Glide in Blue

  1973 · 108 votes

• Movie4.8

  Comedy

  When the very moralistic college ethics instructor Jack Lambert finds himself living next door to an accused German death camp commander, he takes it upon himself to rid the world of this man.

  Getting Away with Murder

  1996 · 21 votes

• Movie5.3

  Comedy

  Mike O'Donoghue's parody of "Mondo Cane" showcases curious performers, strange musicians, celebrity mutations and unusual short films, including Thomas Alva Edison's "Elephant Electrocution". In the tradition of films like Groove Tube (1974), The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977), and Saturday Night Live.

  Mr. Mike's Mondo Video

  1979 · 13 votes

• Movie4.4

  Comedy

  Wills is an ex-cop who pairs up with Bobby, a wacky psychic, to form the "Second Sight Detective Agency." Bobby's clairvoyant abilities come in handy during their investigations. When a nun recruits them for a case involving car theft, they suddenly find themselves dealing with the abduction of a prominent cardinal who has a chance of becoming the next pope. Bobby's psychic powers go haywire as they pursue the case.

  Second Sight

  1989 · 38 votes

• Movie6.0

  TV MovieDrama

  Holly Hunter plays a lonely, single, poorly educated Texan who finds herself pregnant with no means to support a child. To avoid giving up the child, she seeks an abortion. Denied an abortion in Texas the young woman hires a novice lawyer to plead her case in the US supreme court. Eventually the law is changed, but for the character it takes longer than nine months.

  Roe vs. Wade

  1989 · 12 votes