American Dreamer
American Dreamer ★★ 1984 (PG)
A housewife wins a trip to Paris as a prize from a mystery writing contest. Silly from a blow on the head, she begins living the fictional life of her favorite literary adventure. Sporadic comedy with a good cast wandering about courtesy of a clumsy screenplay. 105m/C VHS, DVD . JoBeth Williams, Tom Conti, Giancarlo Giannini, Coral Browne, James Staley; D: Rick Rosenthal; M: Lewis Furey.
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C S Lewis , Lewis, C.S.
DIED: 1963, Oxford, England
NATIONALITY: British
GENRE: Fiction, nonfiction
MAJOR WORKS:
The Pilgrim's Regress (1933)
The Allegory of Lov… Wyndham Lewis , Lewis, Wyndham
Infuriating and erratic, but brilliantly creative, the Canadian-born British artist and writer Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) was an always… C.s. Lewis , Literary historian, Christian apologist, scholar, critic, writer of science fiction and children's books; b. Belfast, Ireland, Nov. 29, 1898; d. the… Tripwire ★½ 1989 (R) , tripwire •sapphire • backfire • campfire •shellfire • ceasefire • misfire • spitfire •speechifier •humidifier, solidifier •modifier • codifier • ampl… Matthew Gregory Lewis , Matthew Gregory Lewis
Matthew Gregory Lewis
The English novelist and playwright Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775-1818), known as Monk Lewis, a popular wri… Sinclair Lewis , Lewis, Sinclair
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Published in 1922
Anative of the midwestern United States, Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951) chronicled through novels…
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