And check out his first Hollywood film, Housekeeping. Unfortunately, misunderstood & mis-handled by the studio. Quirky, great, & funny look at alternate ways to live life. Not a comedy, except in the greater scheme of things. From Marilynne Robinson’s first novel.
Long before Silence of the Lambs, when she was Disney’s favorite tomboy-with-a-heart-of-gold, Jodi Foster starred in an offbeat thriller called The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane. A teen living on her own in a big house. Nobody has seen her parents in Og-Knows-how long. Various people, including a social worker and a creepy af Martin Sheen, keep sniffing around, trying to prove that this girl is living on her own. Problem is, everybody who previously found out her secret has wound up dead.
Don’t know how popular this one was: Kevin Smith’s Red State is a truly scary tale about a fundamentalist cult that goes absolutely bat-shit, leading to The Gummint stepping in to handle the situation and they go bat-shit. Semi-documentary feel enhances the tension. Smith didn’t have the money to film the ending he wanted, but there’s nothing wrong, story-wise, with the one he “settled” for.
A friend of mine summed it up as “Kurt Russell is the main character in the movie, but the sidekick in the story, only he doesn’t know it.”
Speaking of Jodie Foster, how about Little Man Tate, her directorial debut.
Yes, Brave. I think that Brave should be recognized more. It has a strong female lead, one who belongs to a group of people called tomboys. Categorically, they are not a component of the gender ideology phenomenon that is sweeping the nation. I am one of them and I happen to look like her; only reason why I suggest this movie is one that should be considered. I feel like it’s the story of my life and the lives of many others.
Boy Meets Girl is a nice little film about being trans in Kentucky. Definitely “little-known”.
Starman.
Should have received an Oscar for best use of “Yellow means go very fast."
I’ve seen Housekeeping many moons ago, but I had no idea it was a Bill Forsythe film.
Hi shunnedempath, and welcome to the Straight Dope!
Well, it seems to me that that’s because “tomboy” is not a gender identity? Tomboy-hood is about behavioral non-conformity with respect to stereotyped gender roles. Not about gender identity per se.
Consequently, anybody who identifies as a “girl” but prefers stereotypically “boyish” over “girlish” activities, clothing, etc., can be a “tomboy”. There are cisgender-girl tomboys and transgender-girl tomboys, for example.
Wait a minute: you and many others accidentally turned your mother into a bear by means of an enchanted cake?
I was quite the tomboy myself in many respects as a child, but I didn’t even know that that was a possibility! (Not that it would have been on my personal agenda even if I had, Mom and I mostly got along fine.)
Anyway, it sounds like you’re arguing that the Pixar-Disney mega-blockbuster Brave qualifies as a “little-known movie” that gets insufficient “recognition”, as per the OP’s description? I… don’t think so, honestly.
Speaking of Starman, after 39 years in Arizona, I finally went:
Did you like it?
We went there in 2016; dad had been itching to see it for years. I thought it would be a quick but pricy 15 minute stop. Yeah, we were there about 2 hours.
Yes, I enjoyed it, but I’m a science geek. My wife, who is not, thought that it was “OK.”
But, back on the movie topic. I asked her what she would add to this thread, and she said
Harold and Maude, and I couldn’t agree more.
I love Harold and Maudebut I thought this was a cult film, so fairly well known. Or do the kidz these dayz not know about it?
Partial quote from the IMDB synopsis:
“Tom and Jerry are two hit men, they work by day at a third-rate second-hand car dealership. Tom is a veteran and Jerry is a novice in their business, and their attitude toward their profession differs a lot.”
Joe Mantegna
Sam Rockwell
Ted Danson
Charles Durning
Maury Chaykin
William H Macy
Peter Riegert
I watched a sci-fi movie on DVD called “Avalon” that seemed kinda’ neat. It starred Malgorzata Formeniak, and it involved playing an illegal, virtual reality computer war game.
Our local art deco theater used to run old classics once a month or so. I went and saw H&M about 10 years back, the venue was packed with people mostly younger than the film.
Eh, when I think of Pixar movies, it takes me awhile to get to Brave. I think of Toy Story, Monsters, Inc., and Cars. I saw Brave in theaters and haven’t seen it since, though I remember it being good. Brave may be a Pixar movie that made a lot of money, but it didn’t become a franchise like the other three, and Merida isn’t often included among the Disney Princesses. In fact, there was a joke about that in Ralph Breaks the Internet.
Probably too well know, but everyone should watch Breaker Morant
Another movie I watched on DVD was “Coraline”, a stop-motion animated feature that came out in 2009 I believe. I enjoyed this movie quite a bit.