4 Movies Starring Estelle Parsons

Rachel, Rachel

Rachel, Rachel

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1968-08-26

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

101 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (2096 Reviews)

Director:

Paul Newman

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Stewart Stern (screenplay)

Margaret Laurence (novel)

Fullplot:

Rachel is a 35 year old school teacher who has no man in her life and lives with her mother. When a man from the big city returns and asks her out, she begins to have to make decisions about her life and where she wants it to go.

I Never Sang for My Father

I Never Sang for My Father

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1971-11-22

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

92 min

Rated:

GP

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (1567 Reviews)

Director:

Gilbert Cates

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Robert Anderson (play)

Robert Anderson (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Hackman plays a New York professor who wants a change in his life, and plans to get married to his girlfriend and move to California. His mother understands his need to get away, but warns him that moving so far away could be hard on his father. Just before the wedding, the mother dies. Hackman's sister (who has been disowned by their father for marrying a Jewish man) advises him to live his own life, and not let himself be controlled by their father.

Watermelon Man

Watermelon Man

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1970-05-27

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

100 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.5 (1153 Reviews)

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Fullplot:

Jeff Gerber, an insurance agent, lives in a typical suburban neighborhood. He is also both racist and a fitness freak. But Jeff's bigoted world of taunting and harassing black people on and off the job is turned upside down when his skin inexplicably turns dark overnight. As Jeff tries to come to terms with this unexplained phenomenon that has befallen him, he soon becomes the victim himself when all of his friends and neighbors suddenly shun and harass him. This puts a strain on his marriage and loyal wife Althea, who begins to crack under the pressure. When all medical attempts to change his skin back to his former color fail, Jeff accepts that Kharma has caught up with him. Jeff tries to see the light of being a persecuted black man in this cruel and segregated world with the help of some of some new black friends, some of whom were people he, as a white man, taunted and harassed.

The Love Letter

The Love Letter

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1998-02-01

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

99 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (1364 Reviews)

Director:

Dan Curtis

Cast:

Writer:

Jack Finney (short story)

James S. Henerson (television story)

James S. Henerson (teleplay)

Fullplot:

Scotty Corrigan buys an antique desk and finds a Civil War-era letter inside it, written by a woman who died over a hundred years ago. Fancifully, he writes and mails a reply...only to have it reach its destination in the past. As Elizabeth and Scotty continue their remarkable correspondence, they find themselves falling in love, and more than restless about their impending, respective, marriages.

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