THE LAST DETAIL/AVALON/GARDENS OF STONE/BIRDY

"The Last Detail": Jack Nicholson stars as a Navy Chaser who decides to show his callow young prisoner (Randy Quaid) one last good time before delivering him to the brig. Screenplay by Robert Towne (Chinatown). - "...truly great performances.." - Turner Classic Movies/Paul Tatara. "Avalon": A Jewish family comes to the USA at the beginning of the century and they and their children try to make themselves a better future in the promised land. - "...funny and moving.." - Entertainment Weekly/Owen Gleiberman. "Gardens of Stone": A war-toughened sergeant (James Caan) passionately longs to train soldiers for fighting in Vietnam,but instead is assigned to a special division away from the battle zone, but the sergeant's girlfriend (Anjelica Huston) is a Washington Post reporter fervently against the war. - "The performances are wonderful (Caan and Huston have a very special chemistry)." - Roger Ebert/Chicago Sun-Times. "Birdy": Academy Award(R)-winner Nicolas Cage (Best Actor, 1995, "Leaving Las Vegas") and Matthew Modine star in this riveting drama about two childhood friends and the physical and mental wounds they suffer in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. - "...a story so interesting it is impossible to put this movie out of my mind." - Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times.