4 Movies Starring Howard Da Silva

The Lost Weekend

The Lost Weekend

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1945-11-16

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

101 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

(22914 Reviews)

Director:

Billy Wilder

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Charles R. Jackson (from the novel by)

Charles Brackett (screen play)

Billy Wilder (screen play)

Fullplot:

Don Birnam, long-time alcoholic, has been "on the wagon" for ten days and seems to be over the worst; but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother Wick and girlfriend Helen, he begins a four-day bender. In flashbacks we see past events, all gone wrong because of the bottle. But this bout looks like being his last...one way or the other.

David and Lisa

David and Lisa

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1963-11-29

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

95 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (1565 Reviews)

Director:

Frank Perry

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Eleanor Perry (screenplay)

Theodore Isaac Rubin (book)

Fullplot:

The emotional story of a young man in a mental institution for teens who begins to understand his psychosis in the environment of others with mental and emotional problems. He finds intimacy with Lisa, a young woman suffering from dissociative identity disorder.

1776

1776

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1972-11-17

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

141 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (6067 Reviews)

Director:

Peter H. Hunt

Cast:

Writer:

Sherman Edwards (play)

Peter Stone (play)

Peter Stone (screenplay)

Fullplot:

The film version of the Broadway musical comedy of the same name. In the days leading up to July 4, 1776, Continental Congressmen John Adams and Benjamin Franklin coerce Thomas Jefferson into writing the Declaration of Independence as a delaying tactic as they try to persuade the American colonies to support a resolution on independence. As George Washington sends depressing messages describing one military disaster after another, the businessmen, landowners and slave holders in Congress all stand in the way of the Declaration, and a single "nay" vote will forever end the question of independence. Large portions of spoken and sung dialog are taken directly from the letters and memoirs of the actual participants.

Mommie Dearest

Mommie Dearest

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1981-09-18

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

129 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (9683 Reviews)

Director:

Frank Perry

Cast:

Writer:

Christina Crawford (book)

Frank Yablans (screenplay)

Frank Perry (screenplay)

Tracy Hotchner (screenplay)

Robert Getchell (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Based on the book about Joan Crawford, one of the great Hollywood actresses of our time, written by her adopted daughter Christina Crawford. Joan decides to adopt children of her own to fill a void in her life. Yet, her problems with alcohol, men, and the pressures of show business get in the way of her personal life, turning her into a mentally abusive wreck seen through the eyes of Christina and her brother Christopher, who unwillingly bore the burden of life that was unseen behind the closed doors of "The Most Beautiful House in Brentwood."

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