What Was the Last Movie You Watched?

Last night on Turner Movie Classics I watched 'Mississippi Burning' 88 directed by Alan Parker starring Gene Hackman,Wilem Defoe.They play 2 FBI agents, who were investigating the disappearance of 3 civil rights workers in Miss the summer of 1964
Defoe's role is the 'tight jaw by the book type',Hackman's role is ex Southern sherriff who has more experience dealing with people. He's the one who figures out what happened to the workers
Other cast members, Frances Mc Dormand,Brad Dourif,Michael Rooker,R.Lee Ermey,Pruitt Taylor Vince
I saw movie when it was 1st released,at times had trouble watching some of the intense scenes.As usual Hackman was terrific ,his scenes with McDormand were tender. He was nominated for Best Actor, lost to Dustin Hoffman.He is my all time #1 favorite movie actor,even though he is retired from acting
 

I kicked cable TV to the curb last week. The only channels I watched were TCM and PBS. As much as I liked both it was not worth one hundred dollars a month. I can stream PBS for free and you tube has a plethora of classic movies. That extra hundred dollars a month in my pocket will serve me well.

 
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With a title like that, why
bother with other films?
Wasn't my last but was a
better one than many.
 

Freeheld (6.6)​

Based on the Oscar®-winning short documentary and adapted by the writer of Philadelphia, Freeheld is the true love story of Laurel Hester [Julianne Moore] and Stacie Andree [Ellen Page] and their fight for justice. A decorated New Jersey police detective, Laurel is diagnosed with cancer and wants to leave her hard earned pension to her domestic partner, Stacie. However the county officials, Freeholders, conspire to prevent Laurel from doing this. Hard-nosed detective Dane Wells [Michael Shannon], and activist Steven Goldstein [Steve Carell], unite in Laurel and Stacie’s defense, rallying police officers and ordinary citizens to support their struggle for equality.

 

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