Comedy, Drama
Packard Schmidt is a burnt-out, middle-aged college English professor. In a desperate attempt to restore some sense of vitality to his lonely existence he embarks on a series of impulsive romantic exploits resulting in a cavalcade of disaster both personally and professionally. These disasters change and educate Pack and serve eventually as a meditation on the meaning and power of desire, loss, and love.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
All the Long Nights
One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
A Million Little Pieces
The Green Shutters
Murder at the Savoy
The Black Candle
Goin' South
The Ax
Magic
The Female Instinct
The Hidden Blade
The Great Gatsby
Front Page Midgets
Way of Youth
Budapeste
Tenjō no Hana
Blonde Venus
The Idle Princes of the Old Court
Bill Hicks: Relentless
George Carlin: Back in Town
SIMILAR MOVIES
All the Long Nights
IMDB 7 | Feb , 2024
Two work colleagues: he suffers from panic attacks, she has extreme PMS. Their company distributes toy planetariums. What may not sound like Ozu Yasujirō is actually precisely that: people are attentive and do each other good, without even realising.One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
IMDB 5.7 | Jul , 1975
Escaping from China with a microfilm of the formula for the mysterious "Lotus X", Lord Southmere, a Queen's Messenger, is chased by a group of Chinese spies.A Million Little Pieces
IMDB 6.1 | Aug , 2019
A young drug-addled writer approaching the bottom of his descent submits to two months of agonizing detox at a treatment center in Minnesota.The Green Shutters
IMDB 5.4 | Aug , 2022
The twilight of a sacred monster, Jules Maugin, an actor at the height of his glory. Beneath the famous personality, the big mouth, and the social shell, lies the intimate portrait of a man laid bare.Murder at the Savoy
IMDB 5.7 | Oct , 1993
A famous industrialist is murdered at a restaurant in Malmoe. Police inspector Martin Beck in Stockholm gets the case. The suspects lead to people involved in illegal arms deals. But who was the biggest criminal, the murderer or the industrialist?The Black Candle
IMDB 4 | Jan , 1991
Lily Whitmore is the heir to a crumbling factory that she's determined to restore to its former glory. Unfortunately, Lily must instead turn her attention to the conniving Lionel Filmore who's determined to marry into the family no matter what.Goin' South
IMDB 5.8 | Oct , 1978
Henry Moon is captured for a capital offense by a posse when his horse quits while trying to escape to Mexico. He finds that there is a post-Civil War law in the small town that any single or widowed woman can save him from the gallows by marrying him.The Ax
IMDB 6.9 | Mar , 2005
Bruno loved his job as a middle manager at a paper company, but optimistically views being laid off as an opportunity. After two years of searching for a comparable position, optimism turns to desperation. His wife works two jobs, and their marriage slowly deteriorates as their hold on the middle class slips away. Bruno concocts a grimly audacious plan to identify and kill his fellow job applicants so that he is the only qualified person left.Magic
IMDB 6.8 | Nov , 1978
A ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy while he tries to renew a romance with his high school sweetheart.The Female Instinct
IMDB 0 | Dec , 1972
A spinster and her widowed sister, both authors of murder mystery novels, try to track down the killer of a former movie star. Pilot to TV series The Snoop Sisters.The Hidden Blade
IMDB 7.4 | Oct , 2004
Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home to begin a new life. He has to take stock of his new life when he is put to the test and ordered to kill a traitor who just happens to be his dearest friend.The Great Gatsby
IMDB 5.4 | Mar , 2000
Stock broker Nick Carraway consents to play Cupid for his rich married cousin Daisy Buchanan and her former love, nouveau riche Jay Gatsby.Front Page Midgets
IMDB 2.2 | Jan , 2018
For 40 year old Nikola, everyday life is just about producing the worst, the most vulgar reality shows and hidden cameras for TV. His life begins to change when he starts to mentor young girl pushed to be star by her ambitious mother. In turn of the events, Nikola starts to wonder if it is he who is the target of some hidden camera show.Way of Youth
IMDB 6 | Sep , 1959
This movie is a Marcel Aymé adaptation and it deals with the not-so-glorious side of the Occupation: black market, war profiteers, cracking open bottles of Champagne while most of the Parisians are almost starving.Budapeste
IMDB 5 | May , 2009
José Costa is a Brazilian ghost writer. Returning from a ghost writers convention his airplane is rerouted to Budapest. His life is also rerouted when he meets Krista and with her help, learns "the only language in the world which, according to the tongue-wagers, the devil respects.Tenjō no Hana
IMDB 0 | Dec , 2022
Tatsuji Miyoshi regards Sakutaro Hagiwara as his teacher. Feelings run deeper since he loves Sakutaro’s youngest sister, Keiko, but she rejects him. A decade later and as the Pacific War rages, Tatsuji finds out that Keiko is recently widowed and he divorces his wife and leaves his children and marries Keiko. They honeymoon quietly Echizen Mikuni but their personalities don’t match as Tatsuji is unable to keep up with the more uninhibited Keiko.Blonde Venus
IMDB 6.8 | Sep , 1932
In an effort to be able to afford expensive treatment for her gravely ill American husband, a retired German entertainer returns to the cabaret as Blonde Venus and catches the eye of a wealthy politician.The Idle Princes of the Old Court
IMDB 6.7 | Jan , 1995
A subtile, soft exploration of the relation between love and death.Bill Hicks: Relentless
IMDB 7.6 | Jan , 1992
Bill Hicks tells us how he feels about non-smokers, blow-jobs, religion, war and peace, and drugs and music.George Carlin: Back in Town
IMDB 7.7 | Mar , 1996
Back in Town is George Carlin's ninth HBO special. It was also released on CD on September 17, 1996. This was also his first of many performances at the Beacon Theater in New York City. He rants about Abortion, The death penalty, prison farms, fart jokes, free floating hostility and words.