It's Friday! Time to kick back, and if you are enjoying being at home, perhaps to stream a movie? My sister and I have been enjoying Netflix -- and all the movies I offer in these diaries are available there (at least as of the time I post).
This week's subject is:
Cheaters Never Prosper
Because sometimes we need stories where the good guys win! Actually, we need these type of stories always.
Movies are below the fold...
Never Too Late
This film has Chloris Leachman and Olympia Dukakis in it -- that should be all I need to say! It's about a group of friends who are shocked by the death of a friend in a nursing home -- and find that he had been cheated of money by said establishment. Wrongs WILL be righted! Check it out...
No trailer on YouTube...and apparently this is not in the Netflix streaming catalogue any longer (but I am sure you can rent it elsewhere)...so I am going to add another film about cheating, this time in a contest, that being:
Butter
From 2011, Butter is a satire of politics in America's heartland in which the battleground is the butter carving contest at the Iowa State Fair. Longtime title holder, Bob Pickler, retires from butter carving -- but his ambitious wife, played by Jennifer Garner, can't stand the thought of their family not holding the title. She enters the contest. And so does a little black girl, placed in a foster home in this lily white community, just trying to survive among people she finds to be truly odd. Who knew she had a gift for carving butter? Her new foster father, played by Rob Corddry, is truly supportive of her. Olivia Wilde chews scenery very, very well as the hooker trying to shake down Bob Pickler and Hugh Jackman has a cameo of a not-too-bright car salesman who is willing used by the awful Laura Pickler. The film is very funny until you realize that the type of people who try to steal contests like butter carving actually do end up in politics...
The Guv'nor
From 1935, England, a film about a tramp with an (ahem!) famous name (spoiler: it's Rothschild) who, on the basis of that name alone, becomes a bank director. And from that position, he makes some much needed changes in a town that depends upon its failing business... Classic! Also suitable viewing for children.
No trailer on YouTube...
Blow Dry
From 2001, a battle royal of hairdressing! Bill Nighy plays an unscrupulous character, Alan Rickman an upright one, and Natasha Richardson is transcendant... It's about a big hairdressing competition, come to a smaller town, where a couple of locals, divorced because the wife left to live with her lesbian lover, come back together to compete against a rather bad man -- and that bad man cheats. Oh, and the divorced couple have a son, and he's right there with them, competing. A bit of British fun, this one...
Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year
From India, 2009, this is a very creative story of a young man who gets his first job as a salesman in a company that supplies computors to other companies. He's rather naive, though, and when he shuns the graft that was going on, he himself is shunned within the company. What does he do? He starts another company (within his employer's company) that works at night -- and outsells his employer. Well, it is even more complicated than that -- but very clever! Five stars.
Got any favorite movies about underdogs prevailing? Cheaters getting their just desserts? What a meme!
Please share your movies, weekend plans, menus, and anything else that is on your mind.
Prior Streaming Movies on a Friday Night subjects:
At the Table
Ghosts
Resilient People
Love
Food and Our Health
Cozy Mysteries
Playing Shakespeare
For Children
Romantic Comedy
Pirates and Thieves
Fantasy Adventures
Spies
Funny with a touch of religion/spirit
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