Beau Bridges

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What happens when Governor Farley of Idaho (Beau Bridges decides to close his state’s borders rather than allow a planeload of immigrant orphans to make it their home? The answer is hilarious, frightening, scandalous – and may well be the start of The Second Civil War.

In this outrageous comedy, a nation watches – on TV – while the President (Phil Hartman) turns to his advisors, including lobbyist Jack Buchan (James Coburn), for advice. As the crisis escalates, it all depends on the Governor of Idaho. Will he be open to peaceful negotiations? Not before he’s negotiated his way back into the bedroom of his businesslike NewsNet reporter Christina Fernandez (Elizabeth Peña) with whom he is having a stormy affair. NewsNet is covering the tension at the Idaho state border as armed forces move in from either side. Will the Governor give way to his immigrant love or anti-immigration war? Either way, it looks like there’ll be nothing civil about The Second Civil War.Read More »

The true story of Ray Johnson, a convict who spent most of his life in and out of prison until he finally decided to turn his life around.Read More »

The story is based on Crystal Lee Sutton’s life as a textile worker in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, where the battle for the workers union took place against a J.P Stevens Textiles mill. Her actual protest, in the mill, is the scene in the film where she writes the sign “UNION” and stands on her worktable until all machines are silent. Although Sutton was fired from her job, the mill became unionized, and she later went to work as an organizer for the textile unionRead More »

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Legendary filmmaker Hal Ashby (Coming Home, 8 Million Ways to Die) makes his directing debut with this acclaimed social satire starring Beau Bridges (The Hotel New Hampshire) as a wealthy young man who leaves his family’s estate in Long Island to pursue love and happiness in a Brooklyn ghetto. When Elgar Enders (Bridges) buys a Park Slope tenement, he fully intends to evict the occupants and transform the building into a chic bachelor pad. But after meeting the tenants, Elgar adopts a “love thy neighbor” policy instead: first he falls head-over-heels for a sexy young go-go dancer… then he begins an affair with the sultry, married “Miss Sepia 1957.” Read More »