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Executive Producer: Sharon Harel. Producer: Greg Johnson. Production Designer: Kalina Ivanov. Costume Designer: Adelle Lutz. Producer: Peter Newman. Composer (Music Score): Graeme Revell. Casting: Heidi Levitt. Sound/Sound Designer: Michael Barosky. Director: Paul Auster. Screenwriter: Paul Auster. Composer (Music Score): John Lurie & The Lounge Lizards. Editor: Tim Squyres. Musical Direction/Supervision: Susan Jacobs. Executive Producer: Jane Barclay ,Ira Deutchman. Casting: Ann Goulder...

Paul Newman made his directorial debut and Newman's wife, Joanne Woodward, stars as Rachel Cameron, a 35-year-old unmarried schoolteacher who feels as though she's wasted her life. Rachel's best friend, Calla Mackie (Estelle Parsons), invites her to attend a religious revival meeting. Here Rachel is swept up in the emotional fervor orchestrated by a young guest preacher (Terry Kiser). This is the first of several cathartic incidents which convince Rachel to kick over the traces and express her own...

Released the same year as The Wild Bunch, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid covered similar territory about the end of Western myths, but it expressed its revisionism with tongue firmly in cheek rather than with the brutal violence of Sam Peckinpah's offering. Butch and Sundance never lose their gift for one-liners, even when they have to jump off that gorge; George Roy Hill and screenwriter William Goldman send up the image of outlaws heading south of the border with bank robberies conducted in...