Laurette, Illinois

Confessions dans un bain (2001)

Actors: Valérie Donzelli (actress), Michaël Abiteboul (actor), Laurent Bénégui (producer), Sabine Emiliani (editor), Virginie Prin (miscellaneous crew), Véronique Dossetto (actress), Marc Gibaja (writer), Marc Gibaja (director), Vincent Courtois (composer), Claire Béguin (costume designer), Donatienne Dupont (actress), Rebecca Convenant (actress), Vincent Berger (actor), Alexis Smolen (actor), Mathilde Guyant (actress),

Les gens en maillot de bain ne sont pas (forcément) superficiels (2001)

Actors: Gérard Chaillou (actor), Gad Elmaleh (actor), Jean-Claude Petit (composer), Agnès Soral (actress), Serge Hazanavicius (actor), Edouard Montoute (actor), Philippe Magnan (actor), Isabelle Gélinas (actress), Guy Courtecuisse (miscellaneous crew), Eric Assous (director), Eric Assous (writer), Sandrine Le Berre (actress), Scott Stevenson (editor), Vanessa Gravina (actress), Véronique Boulanger (actress),

Plot: A week on St-Martin with vacationing Parisians. Camille surprises her lover Philippe, who's with his wife and children. Lonely Laurette, a secretary, hopes to meet a man. Aziz brings his enthusiastic brother Rafik because his boss had two tickets he couldn't use. Lovers Pauline and the pregnant, cranky Anita find their vacation complicated by an ex-lover of Pauline's. The playboy Jimmy is the hotel M.C., and Carla, free-spirited and sensual, coaches Laurette in the ways of seduction. She is hot and cold to these wiles, alternately attracting and putting off Aziz, hoping Jimmy will try to seduce her, and afraid he might. By week's end, with the help of Camille's diary, we'll know the outcomes.

L'enfant du secret (1996)

Actors: Rogério Samora (actor), Richard Berry (actor), Josée Dayan (director), António da Cunha Telles (producer), Caroline Sihol (actress), Christine Murillo (actress), Tozé Martinho (actor), Sylvie Granotier (actress), Annick Alane (actress), Florence Darel (actress), Jacqueline Danno (actress), Josiane Stoléru (actress), João Salaviza (actor), Teresa Roby (actress), Simon de La Brosse (actor),

Plot: Blanche, a social worker living in Southern France is assigned the case of a five year old deaf boy, who is found by a Gypsy lady after having been abandoned and tied to a shed near her trailer. The boy's life is in danger apparently because he is related to the family of a local politician who is seeking election as mayor. Blanche, though suffering from manic depression and thus emotionally vulnerable, decides to take charge of the situation, get her act together and besides being told to drop the case, seeks to discover the secret the boy has inside.

Papa est parti, maman aussi (1989)

Actors: Benoît Magimel (actor), Marie Rivière (actress), Jean-Marie Sénia (composer), Stéphane Bouy (actor), Rémo Forlani (writer), Rémo Forlani (writer), Jérôme Kircher (actor), Marianne Epin (actress), Yves Gasser (producer), Sophie Aubry (actress), Maïté Maillé (actress), Jean Bollery (actor), Christine Lipinska (writer), Christine Lipinska (director), Marie-Claude Lacambre (editor),

The Moderns (1988)

Actors: Gailard Sartain (actor), Alan Rudolph (director), Timothy Webber (actor), Mark Isham (composer), Alan Rudolph (writer), Joanne T. Harwood (miscellaneous crew), Geneviève Bujold (actress), Geraldine Chaplin (actress), Wallace Shawn (actor), Keith Carradine (actor), Michael Rudder (actor), John Bradshaw (writer), Elsa Raven (actress), Renée April (costume designer), Kevin Tierney (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: Nick Hart is a struggling American artist who lives amongst the expatriate community in 1920s Paris. He spends most of his time drinking and socializing in local cafés and pestering gallery owner Libby Valentin to sell his paintings. He becomes involved in a plot by wealthy art patroness Nathalie de Ville to forge three paintings. This leads to several run-ins with American rubber magnate Bertram Stone, who happens to be married to Hart's ex-wife Rachel.

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Down by Law (1986)

Actors: John Lurie (actor), John Lurie (composer), Pruitt Taylor Vince (actor), Jim Jarmusch (writer), Ellen Barkin (actress), Roberto Benigni (actor), Tom Waits (actor), Jim Jarmusch (director), Cary Brokaw (producer), Rockets Redglare (actor), Jim Stark (producer), David Ross McCarty (miscellaneous crew), Eliott Keener (actor), Melody London (editor), Nicoletta Braschi (actress),

Plot: DJ Zack and pimp Jack end up in prison for being too laid-back to avoid being framed for crimes they didn't commit. They end up sharing a cell with eccentric Italian optimist Roberto, whose limited command of the English language is both entertaining and infuriating -but rather more useful to them is the fact that Roberto knows an escape route

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Wild Innocents (1981)

Actors: Alan Adrian (actor), Ron Hudd (actor), Ron Jeremy (actor), Lem Amero (editor), John Christopher (director), Rick Marx (writer), Tiffany Clark (actress), J. Angel Martine (producer), Robin Sane (actress), Lisa Be (actress), Brooke Bennett (actress), Jinger Jaye (actress), Tamara West (actress), Matt West (actor), Jack Rueben (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: Six teen girls arrive at Camp Red Duck. They're there, as their camp counselor, Laurette, reminds them, "Because your parents were too lazy to take care of you this summer". Two, Mary and Susan, walk in and are never seen again. One, Joan, decides to make the best of the situation and begins working her way through the male staff, beginning with the camp director, Mr. Wasserman. The other three, Wendy, Lisa and Jennie, are virgins but don't intend to remain so. The three make a bet. The first girl to lose her cherry will command the other two for a full day.

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Another Part of the Forest (1972)

Actors: Norman Lloyd (producer), Peter Brocco (actor), Kent Smith (actor), Barry Sullivan (actor), Bill Walker (actor), Lee Holdridge (composer), William Bassett (actor), Andrew Prine (actor), Dorothy McGuire (actress), Robert Foxworth (actor), Maidie Norman (actress), Lillian Hellman (writer), Daniel Mann (director), Tisha Sterling (actress), Lane Bradbury (actress),

Le village de la colère (1947)

Actors: Maurice Schutz (actor), Raymond Cordy (actor), Pierre Duncan (actor), Jean Parédès (actor), Marcelle Géniat (actress), Samson Fainsilber (actor), Marcel Lupovici (actor), Raoul André (director), Micheline Francey (actress), Roger Monteaux (actor), Paul Cambo (actor), Louise Carletti (actress), Léon Pauléon (actor), Nicole Riche (actress), René Klein (actor),

Her Face Value (1921)

Actors: Thomas N. Heffron (director), Earl Derr Biggers (writer), Percy Heath (writer), T. Roy Barnes (actor), Harvey Clark (actor), Donald MacDonald (actor), George Periolat (actor), Lincoln Plumer (actor), Richard Rosson (actor), Wanda Hawley (actress), Eugene Burr (actor), Winifred Bryson (actress), Ah Wing (actor),