Thomas Hill

Quintet -- Robert Altman's somber science fiction tale that takes place after a nuclear holocaust has thrown the world into another Ice Age.

Quintet is Robert Altman's a somber science fiction tale that takes place after a nuclear holocaust has thrown the world into another Ice Age. A man named Essex (Paul Newman), his pregnant wife Vivia (Brigitte Fossey) and her brother Francha (Tom Hill) are wandering the desolate, frozen landscape when they run across a handful of fellow survivors who pass their time playing a mysterious game called Quintet. No one is able to explain just how it's played, but Grigor (Fernando Rey) appears to act as the referee, and the stakes of the game are unusually high -- after Vivia and Francha lose, they're killed in a mysterious explosion. Essex is not happy with the way they've been dragged into the village's game of death but, as he attempts to seek revenge, he is only drawn deeper into the lethal competition.

A frumpy female agent goes undercover, staking out a sexy young widow who trails a string of older, rich - and dead - husbands behind her. Will the sultry spider snare the agent next?

From famed director Wolfgang Peterson ("Outbreak," "In the Line of Fire") comes this $30 million family fantasy/adventure epic based on the acclaimed best-seller about a boy who is drawn into a timeless and wondrous world of fantastic beings that only he can save from total destruction. With music from Oscar-winner Giorgio Moroder ("Flashdance, "Midnight Express"). The Hollywood Reporter calls this "a consistently adventurous delight," and Variety says "it's a marvelously realized flight of pure fantasy." The Boston Globe declares it "brilliant...the most fascinating family film since 'E.T.'"