The New York Underground invaded the mainstream with Robert Downey Sr.’s completely irreverent Madison Avenue satire, in which a token black executive takes over an Ad agency, renames it ‘Truth and Soul’ and goes on a mad reign of creative terror. Arnold Johnson, Stan Gottlieb, Allen Garfield, and Antonio Fargas star in a farce that some critics found intolerably crude — but an independent distributor gave it a national release. 1969 was the year that the Production Code took a tumble — and Downey’s picture proved that freedom of expression was alive and well in the U.S. of A..
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Powerhouse Indicator
1969 / B&w + Color / 1:37 Academy / 85 min. / Street Date July 25, 2022 / available from Powerhouse Films UK / £15.99
Starring: Arnold Johnson, Stan Gottlieb, Allen Garfield, Archie Russell, Ching Yeh, Norman Schreiber, Wendy Appel, Antonio Fargas, Laura Greene, Allan Arbus, Pepi Hermine, Larry Wolf, Ronnie Dyson, Shelley Plimpton, Marlene Clark,...
Putney Swope
Region Free Blu-ray
Powerhouse Indicator
1969 / B&w + Color / 1:37 Academy / 85 min. / Street Date July 25, 2022 / available from Powerhouse Films UK / £15.99
Starring: Arnold Johnson, Stan Gottlieb, Allen Garfield, Archie Russell, Ching Yeh, Norman Schreiber, Wendy Appel, Antonio Fargas, Laura Greene, Allan Arbus, Pepi Hermine, Larry Wolf, Ronnie Dyson, Shelley Plimpton, Marlene Clark,...
- 11/19/2022
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Much of the accolades for Bleecker Street’s “Mass” have centered around Ann Dowd, and deservedly so. But I wanted to take a moment to shine an Oscar spotlight on the equally impressive Martha Plimpton. The Emmy winner (and former Goonie) gives a career-best performance as Gail, the heartbroken mother of a boy who’s killed in a school shooting/bombing. Jason Isaacs takes on the role of Jay, her supportive husband. Dowd and Reed Birney play Linda and Richard, respectively, the guilt-ridden parents of the teenager who caused the murders. In other words, if you haven’t seen “Mass” yet, bring the tissues. You’re gonna need ’em.
SEEAnn Dowd is early Oscars front-runner for ‘Mass’: Will she finally get her due a decade after financing her own campaign?
Fran Kranz wrote, directed and produced this minimalistic film that takes place almost entirely within a small room at a church.
SEEAnn Dowd is early Oscars front-runner for ‘Mass’: Will she finally get her due a decade after financing her own campaign?
Fran Kranz wrote, directed and produced this minimalistic film that takes place almost entirely within a small room at a church.
- 10/11/2021
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
The tomboyish daughter of movie stars, Martha Plimpton never got the pretty-girl parts. But by 15, she was in The Goonies and dating River Phoenix. The actor talks to Ryan Gilbey about her looks, stage fright – and growing up with the cast of Hair
Martha Plimpton steps out into the street for an early-evening smoke and is immediately pounced upon by two middle-aged men in windcheaters. "Ooh," says the stage-door manager at the Old Vic, sucking his teeth. "She walked straight into that one." We watch the autograph-hunters retreat with their signed glossies while Plimpton becomes absorbed in her mobile phone.
"It comes with the territory," she says, after climbing the stairs back to the rehearsal room. Her voice has a Marge Simpson huskiness to it, with a New Yorker's seen-it-all fatigue. Plimpton has not, all things considered, had to put up with too much intrusion, though, apart from the abusive...
Martha Plimpton steps out into the street for an early-evening smoke and is immediately pounced upon by two middle-aged men in windcheaters. "Ooh," says the stage-door manager at the Old Vic, sucking his teeth. "She walked straight into that one." We watch the autograph-hunters retreat with their signed glossies while Plimpton becomes absorbed in her mobile phone.
"It comes with the territory," she says, after climbing the stairs back to the rehearsal room. Her voice has a Marge Simpson huskiness to it, with a New Yorker's seen-it-all fatigue. Plimpton has not, all things considered, had to put up with too much intrusion, though, apart from the abusive...
- 3/25/2014
- by Ryan Gilbey
- The Guardian - Film News
When people see Martha Plimpton, they often think, "Oh, that girl," as in the gawky teen who climbed into the caverns with Mouth, Chunk and the kid with all the cool gadgets in The Goonies. "I turned 14 on that movie," she says. "We had no idea there would be reunions and T-shirts and fan sites 25 years later!"
But while her peers hit rehab and the reality-tv circuit, the daughter of actors Keith Carradine and Shelley Plimpton became a rare thing for child stars — a character and stage actress. She filled her
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But while her peers hit rehab and the reality-tv circuit, the daughter of actors Keith Carradine and Shelley Plimpton became a rare thing for child stars — a character and stage actress. She filled her
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- 10/12/2010
- by Steve Gutierrez
- TVGuide - Breaking News
By Marilyn Beck and Stacy Jenel Smith
HollywoodNews.com: Martha Plimpton laughs at the notion, advanced by a TV blogger, that her Sept. 21-debuting “Raising Hope” has nowhere to go with its premise of a 24-year-old slacker trying to take care of his baby as a single dad, with help from his ne’er do well family.
Four shows into filming, she says, “It’s going great, really fun. The possibilities are endless, really, when you’re dealing with family life.”
Their low socio-economic position adds to their appeal, for her. “I like the fact that we’re playing people who are jerry-rigging their lives. It’s like they’re using duct tape, staples, anything they can get their hands on to make it work. The opportunities for comedy are endless in that sense.
“And also, it’s all coming from a warm and loving place,” adds the brilliant performer,...
HollywoodNews.com: Martha Plimpton laughs at the notion, advanced by a TV blogger, that her Sept. 21-debuting “Raising Hope” has nowhere to go with its premise of a 24-year-old slacker trying to take care of his baby as a single dad, with help from his ne’er do well family.
Four shows into filming, she says, “It’s going great, really fun. The possibilities are endless, really, when you’re dealing with family life.”
Their low socio-economic position adds to their appeal, for her. “I like the fact that we’re playing people who are jerry-rigging their lives. It’s like they’re using duct tape, staples, anything they can get their hands on to make it work. The opportunities for comedy are endless in that sense.
“And also, it’s all coming from a warm and loving place,” adds the brilliant performer,...
- 9/11/2010
- by Beck / Smith
- Hollywoodnews.com
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