George Morfogen

Daisy Miller -- In this version of Henry James's novella 'Daisy Miller', a young, bright, and bubbly 19th Century American girl on her Grand Tour of Europe meets a fellow American, Frederick Winterbourne.

Domineering publishing magnate Isaac Geldhart (Ron Rifkin) has never been much of a father to his three children (Timothy Hutton, Sarah Jessica Parker and Tony Goldwyn). When he refuses to publish a book written by his son's male lover, the siblings retaliate, buying out their father's failing company and successfully running it themselves. Isaac starts a rival business that soon falters, sending him into an emotional downward spiral.

This multi-character comedy follows the path of a single twenty dollar bill in a city neighborhood, focusing on various holders and their intertwining stories, including two convenience store robbers, an estranged father and daughter and a young newlywed.

Despondent because he had to return home to live with his mother after a dry run in the romance and work departments, Richard Dice (Rob Lowe) is thrilled to have something to do when he's picked to sit on a jury. Unfortunately, the accused is a woman (Colleen Camp) he was enamored with when they were both in elementary school. He can't imagine her being responsible for the crime, so he takes it upon himself to find the true perpetrator.

At a Swiss spa, upper-class expatriate American Frederick Winterbourne (Barry Brown) meets pretty, nouveau riche flirt Daisy Miller (Cybill Shepherd); her bratty, xenophobic little brother Randolph (James McMurtry); and her tremulous, nattering mother (Cloris Leachman). Despite warnings from his dowager aunt (Mildred Natwick) about Daisy's recklessness with men, Winterbourne finds himself drawn to her. When he encounters her again in Rome, he tries to convince her that her liberated behavior with an Italian admirer (Duilio Del Prete) may sully her reputation in aristocratic circles. But Winterbourne cannot reconcile his own feelings for Daisy with the manners that he is used to following, nor can he fathom how she may feel about him beneath her veneer of willful coquetry. After society matron Mrs. Walker (Eileen Brennan) ostracizes her, Daisy's final rash action reveals to Winterbourne how his old-fashioned mores may have sealed her fate. With a screenplay by Frederic Raphael and location shooting in Rome and Switzerland, Bogdanovich carefully recreated the rich surroundings and stultifying social strictures of James' story.

In this version of Henry James's novella "Daisy Miller", a young, bright, and bubbly 19th Century American girl on her Grand Tour of Europe meets a fellow American, Frederick Winterbourne.

In this comedy of manners, the American Winterbourne tries to figure out the bright and bubbly Daisy Miller, only to be helped and hindered by false judgments from their fellow friends.

Peter Bogdonavich ("The Last Picture Show," "Paper Moon") directed this wonderful salute to the "screwball comedies" of the '40s and '50s. Superstar and Academy Award-winner Barbra Streisand ("The Prince of Tides," "Funny Girl") and Ryan O'Neal ("Irreconcilable Differences," "Love Story") star as an eccentric girl and an equally eccentric young professor who meet at a musicologist's convention and become involved in a zany chase up and down the hills of San Francisco to recover four identical flight bags containing jewels and secret government papers. This box office hit also features the film debut of comedienne Madeline Kahn ("Blazing Saddles," "Young Frankenstein").

Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal star as an eccentric girl and an equally eccentric young professor who meet at a musicologist's convention and become involved in a zany chase.

Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal star as an eccentric girl and an equally eccentric young professor who meet at a musicologist's convention and become involved in a zany chase.

Peter Bogdonavich directed this wonderful salute to the "screwball comedies" of the '40s and '50s. Superstar Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal star as an eccentric girl and an equally eccentric young professor who meet at a musicologist's convention and become involved in a zany chase up and down the hills of San Francisco to recover four identical flight bags containing jewels and secret government papers. This box office hit also features the film debut of comedienne Madeline Kahn.