Beverly Weston, the elderly poet patriarch of a white collar Oklahoma family, hires a young Cheyenne woman, Johnna, as a live-in caretaker for the home he shares with his cancer-sick wife, Violet. His subsequent disappearance brings his three daughters, Barbara, Ivy, and Karen, back under their mother's hot, tomblike roof. Toss in their helmet-haired aunt Mattie Fae and the rest of the extended family and the house is a tinderbox by the time of the inevitable funeral. more ›

There's a story on one of Kevin Smith's comedy DVDs where he talks about being on the set of Live Free or Die Hard. He explains that, during a particularly heated argument with the director about what his character was doing, Bruce Willis picked up the phone to call the studio. They sided with the director, and he finally offered to end the argument for good. "Let me ask you something," He says in Smith's recount of the conversation, "Who's your second choice to play John McClane?" The point was made, and they made the choice that Willis wanted. more ›