LAST DETAIL/AVALON/GARDENS/BIR

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• Genre: Drama
• Plot: 4 Critically Acclaimed Dramas!; ; The Last Detail; Jack Nicholson is at his very best in this highly-acclaimed dramatic comedy about three sailors on the loose. Two hard-boiled career petty officers, Buddusky and Mulhall, are detailed to take a young sailor, Meadows, from a Virginia Naval Base to a New Hampshire Naval Prison to serve an eight-year sentence for a trivial offense. Buddusky and Mulhall take a liking to Meadows and are determined to show him a good time on their journey north. Their escapades begin in Washington where they narrowly escape a bar fight, then get blind drunk in their hotel room. In New York, they tangle with some Marines, and in Boston, Buddusky takes Meadows to a brothel for his first sexual experience. Finally, after reluctantly turning in Meadows, Buddusky and Mulhall realize they are as much prisoners of their own world as Meadows now is of his.; ; Avalon; From the Academy Award® winning director of BUGSY, AVALON is based loosely on Barry Levinson's own family and their real experiences emigrating to Baltimore in the early 20th century from Eastern Europe. Avalon is the third in Levinson's group of 'Baltimore' chronicles, which include DINER and TIN MEN.; ; Gardens of Stone; A war-toughened sergeant (James Caan) passionately longs to train soldiers for fighting in Vietnam,but instead is assigned to a special division away from the battle zone, but the sergeant's girlfriend (Anjelica Huston) is a Washington Post reporter fervently against the war.; ; Birdy; Soar to new heights in this spellbinding movie starring Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage. To escape an irrational world, Birdy (Modine), a Vietnam veteran, sits in an almost catatonic state in an Army hospital, where he has come to believe he is one of the feathered creatures of his boyhood dreams. In an effort to break Birdy's silence, his psychiatrist brings in Al Columbato (Cage), Birdy's loyal best friend of his youth. Al desperately tries to reach the disturbed Birdy and bring him back to reality. The answer may lie in their youth, where the eccentric Birdy first donned wings and the happy-go-lucky Al helped him to fly.
• Runtime: 7:43
• Media Format: Movie