Patricia Falkenhain

Dar kafalı bir işadamı, New York şehir merkezindeki greasy spoon'da tuhaf, özgür ruhlu bir kadınla tanışır. Ofisine geri dönme teklifi, öğle yemeğinde bir motel buluşmasıyla sonuçlanır - bu, ikisini gizli benlikleriyle yüz yüze getiren kaprisli bir eyaletler arası yolculuğun başlangıcıdır.

Nora Ephron'un çok satan romanından uyarlanan ve yönetmenliğini Mike Nichols'un (The Graduate, Postcards From The Edge) yaptığı bu filmde Meryl Streep ve Jack Nicholson ikilisiyle modern hayata romantik bir bakış atıyoruz. Rachel rolünde izlediğimiz Streep başarılı bir yemek yazarını canlandırıyor. Diğer tarafta Nicholson'ın canlandırdığı Mark ise kadın avcısı bir köşe yazarı. Kadın New York'ta, adamsa Washington, D.C.'de yaşıyor. Bütün bu karmaşa bir ilişkiyi zorlamazsa, başka ne zorlayabilir ki!

A reporter, fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee, takes a part-time job as companion to an old lady. While working she overhears a noisy argument in the neighboring house, being conducted largely in German and involving her HUAC prosecutor. She begins to investigate, enlisting the help of the FBI Agent initially detailed to surveil her.

On the day in 1965 that the Pope visits New York and masses of people line the streets in adulation, Artie, a zookeeper living in Sunnyside, Queens, thinks it's time for his life to be blessed, too. He desperately wants to escape his lower middle-class existence and become a popular singer and songwriter, but his life is complicated by an ambitious mistress, a crazy wife and a bomb-making son.

In the turn of the century South, a woman feels unfulfilled by marriage and motherhood and has an affair with a younger man. Later, the woman leaves her family and tries to start a new life alone.

American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.

In 1988, renegade filmmaker Robert Altman and Pulitzer Prize–winning Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau created a presidential candidate, ran him alongside the other hopefuls during the primary season, and presented their media campaign as a cross between a soap opera and TV news. The result was the groundbreaking Tanner ’88, a piercing satire of media-age American politics.