Mill Creek Entertainment offers drama fans four very acclaimed and intresting dramatic features for folks looking to save money. Sydney Pollack directs the 1977 film “Bobby Deerfield,” a film starring Al Pacino as a race car driver who finds himself falling for a mysterious and terminally ill young woman. Through the woman’s final days alive does Pacino’s daredevil character learn more about life. There’s also the 1965 “Baby, The Rain Must Fall” directed by Robert Mulligan starring theg reat Steve NcQuen. McQueen plays Henry Thomas, a young man who loves to sing in his band and is pressured by his mother to go back to school and get his educaiton.
When Thomas’ Wife and daughter come back in to town looking for a home, Thomas gets a new sense of priority. Though McQueen is far fetched as a rockabilly singer in a band, he has a good chemistry with co-star Lee Remick. Marlon Brando stars in the 1966 Arthur Penn directed “The Chase.” In it, Brando a sheriff named Calder known for being something of a puppet who finds a new mission when a local begins having an affair with a gangster Charlie “Bubber” Reeves’ wife.
Director Jared Skolnick’s “The Earth Rejects Him” is one of the most surreal horror films I’ve seen in a very long time. It’s not often I can watch a movie with a baffled expression and still recommend it as a great film. Not many indie directors know how to direct child actors, and director Skolnick brings out the best in his young cast. Ellis Gage gives a very memorable performance as this young boy who finds himself in an extraordinary predicament and has no idea how to handle it without becoming homicidal.
