TV Guide: Hope Davis

Listing: Kiss of Death

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Video: American Splendor

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:43:18 +0000

The documentary directing team of Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman makes their narrative feature debut with the biographical comedy drama American Splendor. Harvey Pekar (Paul Giamatti) is a comic book writer inspired by the work of his friend Robert Crumb (James Urbaniak). Pekar writes his comics about the sad monotony of everyday life, based on his own life in Cleveland, OH, working as a file clerk at a veteran's hospital and spending his time reading books and listening to jazz. He meets up with Joyce Brabner (Hope Davis) and they enjoy a depressive relationship together. The filmmakers employ a combination of live-action film, video, and animation, including narration and commentary from the real-life Harvey Pekar. The screenplay was based on Pekar's comic book series {-American Splendor}, which he has been writing since 1976 on Dark Horse Comics, and the 1994 book-length comic {-Our Cancer Year}, written by Pekar and Brabner. American Splendor won the Grand Jury Prize in the Dramatic Competition

Video: Hoax, The

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:29:32 +0000

Director Lasse Hallstr m offers a brisk account of the scam that shook the literary community with this semi-comic biographical drama starring Richard Gere as the man who sold a fraudulent biography of Howard Hughes to publishing giant McGraw Hill. The year was 1971; the Vietnam War was raging and protestors filled the streets. Clifford Irving (Gere) was a struggling author with bold ambitions, and the determination needed to see them through. When Irving's attempt to sell his latest novel to McGraw Hill via his in-house publisher, Andrea Tate (Hope Davis), falls through at the last minute, the frustrated author loudly proclaims that his next novel will be the book of the century. Upon returning to his wife Edith's (Marcia Gay Harden) makeshift studio, the humiliated author catches a glimpse of eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes on a magazine cover. Later, almost jokingly, Irving and his best friend Dick Suskind (Alfred Molina) begin to fantasize about a scenario in which the author convinces his publishers

Video: Duma

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:45:13 +0000

Carroll Ballard, director of The Black Stallion and Never Cry Wolf, presents another story of an unusual relationship between humans and animals in this drama. Xan (Alexander Michaletos) is a young boy who lives with his father and mother (Campbell Scott and Hope Davis) on a ranch in Kenya. One day, Xan and his folks discover a cheetah cub whose mother has died. With no one to care for the cat, Xan and his family take the cheetah under their wing, and after naming the cub Dooms (from Duma, which means male cheetah cub in Swahili), Xan and his new friend become inseparable. However, Xan and his parents discover in time that nature doesn't always have a happy ending planned for a little boy. Duma was based on a book for children called {-How It Was With Dooms: A True Story From Africa}, by Carol Cawthra Hopcraft and Xan Hopcraft, which told the story of Xan's real-life friendship with a cheetah. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide.

Video: Movie Minutes: 'The Hoax'

NY Times — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:09:45 +0000

A. O. Scott, chief movie critic of The Times, reviews "The Hoax," starring Richard Gere and Hope Davis.

Photo: Greg Kinnear, Hope Davis and Pierce Brosnan - The Weinstein Company's "The Matador" Los Angeles premiere, December 11, 2005

courtesy Steve Granitz/WireImage.com — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +0000

Greg Kinnear, Hope Davis, Pierce Brosnan

Photo: Six Degrees - "The Puncher" - Erika Christensen as Mae and Hope Davis as Laura

courtesy Eric Liebowitz/ABC

Six Degrees, Erika Christensen, Hope Davis

Photo: Six Degrees - "Get a Room" - Hope Davis as Laura

courtesy Eric Liebowitz/ABC

Six Degrees, Hope Davis

Photo: Six Degrees - "Masquerade" - Bridget Moynahan as Whitney and Hope Davis as Laura

courtesy Eric Liebowitz/ABC

Six Degrees, Bridget Moynahan, Hope Davis

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