Jack Nicholson in a restrained role trying to find himself after his wife's death while attending his estranged daughter's wedding.

Oliver Stone's film dissects the professional football industry, down to every kind of person making money off of it. Fascinated even me, who knows nothing about football. Al Pacino, Dennis Quaid, Cameron Diaz.

Coppola's war epic stars Martin Sheen as the officer who travels up river to kill Colonel Kurtz, Marlon Brando, because he is out of control in the Vietnam War. A modern version of Conrad's HEART OF DARKNESS."

Mike Nichols film based on a Jules Feiffer play about two college roommates, Jack Nicholson and Art Garfunkel, who never move beyond their college days obsession over women. Their lives begin to unravel as the years take their cumulative toll on their personal lives. Ann-Margaret and Candice Bergen star as two of the women.

Burt Lancaster as the evangelical Christian recruiting sinners into the fold for Sister, his leader. Sinclair Lewis's novel. Oscar winner for film and Lancaster.

Terry Gilliam's film starring Robin Williams, Jeff Bridges, Mercedes Ruehl and Amanda Plummer. All revolve around Williams who lost his sanity the day his wife was killed in a shoot out which was brought about by Bridges's radio show.

Clint Eastwood's film where he stars as a man whose wife just died and is on his last legs himself. He has remained in the city of Detroit and when the Asian boy next door tries to steal his Gran Torino restored automobile, he takes him under his wing to make him a man.

A Woody Allen film. During his breakup with Mia Farrow, this was their final project together. They also were playing roles which involved domestic breakups. They completely break up in the movie. But they are eclipsed by the late Sydney Pollack in his very best acting role as he and his wife Judy Davis split up over his affair with his young yoga instructor.

Tom Wilkinson and his wife, Sissy Spacek, lose their son as a result of his affair with a lower class woman in their town, Marisa Tomei, and her trashy ex-husband.

Paul Schrader's film stars Willem Dafoe who is still hung up on his old love (Dana Delaney) who is visiting her mother in the city because her mother is dying in the hospital. Dafoe becomes intrigued again but he has another woman to handle, his partner in the drug trade Susan Sarandon who is getting them into a new business so they can go straight.

Oscar winning film starring Dustin Hoffman and John Voight which brought New Wave, European realism to USA films with two down and out characters in New York. Film won Oscar.

Robert Mitchum pursues two children in an atmospheric dream landscape. One hand has good stamped on it and the other has evil stamped on it. Charles Laughton directed.

Elia Kazan's Oscar winning film starring Oscar winning Marlon Brando who takes on the corrupt Longshoreman's Union which his brother (Rod Steiger) has helped keep crooked. "I coulda been a contender."

Harry Dean Stanton and Nastasia Kinski in Wim Wenders' film about two characters who used to be married but are now light years apart as she works in a glass enclosed booth at a porn shop. Wim Wenders film.

Oliver Stone's film stars Charlie Sheen, Willem Dafoe and and Tom Berenger who fight the Vietnam War and each other, all at grunt level. Oscar winner for both Stone and the film.

Billy Wilder's film starring William Holden as the young,handsome screenwriter who gets entangled in the sad, mad world of faded screen star, Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson). "I'm ready for my closeup, Mr. Demille."

Burt Lancaster is a Walter Winchell style columnist who wields his power in the New York world by persuading Tony Curtis to help in his scheme against his sister's boyfriend. Curtis, a press agent, needs favors.

Bruce Beresford's film based on Horton Foote's writing about an alcoholic washed up country western star (Robert Duvall) who must embrace life's tender mercies if he is to survive and go on. Duvall won the Oscar.

Lasse Hallstrom's film starring Johnny Depp and Leonardo DiCaprio as two brothers in a rural backwater. DiCaprio is mentally disabled and many other family members are dysfunctional. Depp is forced to consider what he should do for himself rather than for his family all of the time.

A film that one appreciates with age as it is a long contemplation by its aged protagonist about looking back on his life and preparing to finishing out his life as death approaches.