The Untouchables (1987)
Robert De Niro plays a mobster like a boss. Case in point: he played the role of Chicago mobster Al Capone really well. In The Untouchables Capone is pitted against Prohibition agent Eliot Ness (portrayed by Kevin Costner). The movie also stars Sean Connery, who plays the Irish-American cop Jimmy Malone that teamed up with Ness in order to take down the infamous gangster of the bootleg era. Eliot Ness himself wrote the story of The Untouchables in part, but Oscar Freely and David Mamet adapted the story into a screenplay. Sean Connery won an Academy Award for his performance in the film.
The Untouchables (1987)
Mommie Dearest (1981)
The docudrama Mommie Dearest is about the glamorous actress Joan Crawford, who adopted a child, Christina. The film depicts the acting decline of Crawford and how it affected Christina, since Crawford becomes more abusive. The family starts out happily in Mommie Dearest, but Crawford gets fired from MGM and cannot get a date. Those professional and personal setbacks led to Crawford abusing her daughter. Christina decides to leave home and attempts to become an actress, but she struggles to get out of her mother’s shadow. Faye Dunaway’s portrayal of Joan Crawford earned her a National Society of Film Critics Award.
Mommie Dearest (1981)
