Tom Peters

Manager Dick Harper and his attractive young wife Jane are used to a comfortable lifestyle. They just build a swimming pool when Dick is fired very unexpectedly - leaving him with $70,000 in debt on the house. They try to hide this from the neighbors and just cut down their expenses, but soon it's obvious. Living from unemployment drives them crazy - it's uncertain if they can keep the house. Dick decides that robbing drug stores is their only way out - but this takes more skill than expected! Only as a team Dick and Jane can succeed.

Screen legend Burt Lancaster stars in this fictional account of a plot against President Kennedy by a powerful group of political conspirators who object to his foreign and domestic policies as a threat to their control of the economy. A topic of constant curiosity, even decades after the assassination. Scripted by one of the infamous "Hollywood Ten," blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo("Johnny Got His Gun").

Blowing into the Windy City by train with a noble but naïve plan to "seek his destiny," small-town youth Ben Harvey (Beau Bridges) finds himself apprenticing under a curmudgeonly reporter (Brian Keith) at one of Chicago's largest newspapers and befriending a madame (Melina Mercouri). Norman Jewison directs this period comedy based on Ben Hecht's autobiographical novel that earned Oscar nods for sound, art direction and costume design.

When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.