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Box office. $69 million [1] The Brave One is a 2007 vigilante action-thriller film directed by Neil Jordan and written by Roderick Taylor, Bruce A. Taylor and Cynthia Mort. The film stars Jodie Foster as Erica Bain, a New York City radio host whose fiance is beaten to death by criminals. Terrified for her safety, she buys a pistol and undergoes ...
Roger Joseph Ebert ( / ˈiːbərt / EE-burt; June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, film historian, journalist, essayist, screenwriter, and author. He was a film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. Ebert was known for his intimate, Midwestern writing style and critical views informed by ...
Roger Ebert. . . ( m. 1992; died 2013) . Children. 2. Chaz Ebert (born Charlie Hammel, October 15, 1952) is an American businesswoman. [1] [2] She is best known as the wife and widow of film critic Roger Ebert, having been married to him from 1992 until his death in 2013.
Terms of Endearment is a 1983 American family tragicomedy [3] film directed, written, and produced by James L. Brooks, adapted from Larry McMurtry 's 1975 novel of the same name. It stars Debra Winger, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Jeff Daniels, and John Lithgow. The film covers 30 years of the relationship between Aurora ...
Roger Ebert, film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times for nearly half a century, and a game-changing television presenter, died Thursday at the age of 70. Ebert had been in ill health for some time.
Million Dollar Baby is a 2004 American sports drama film directed, co-produced, scored by and starring Clint Eastwood from a screenplay written by Paul Haggis, based on stories from the 2000 collection Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner by F.X. Toole, the pen name of fight manager and cutman Jerry Boyd. It also stars Hilary Swank and Morgan ...
Nurse Betty is a 2000 American black comedy film directed by Neil LaBute and starring Renée Zellweger as the title character, a small town, Kansas housewife-waitress who suffers a nervous breakdown after witnessing her husband's torture murder, and starts obsessively pursuing her favorite television soap opera character (Greg Kinnear), while in a fugue state.
Life Itself is a 2014 American biographical documentary film about Chicago film critic Roger Ebert, directed by Steve James and produced by Zak Piper, James and Garrett Basch. The film is based on Ebert's 2011 memoir of the same name. [3] It premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and was an official selection at the 67th Cannes Film ...