John Costelloe’s Typical Vibe
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John Costelloe has 4 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2000s.
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In 1964 Bronx, two Catholic school nuns question the new priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled African-American student.
Dir. John Patrick Shanley · With Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams

A gallery of characters in Brooklyn in the 1950s are crushed by their surroundings and selves: a union strike leader discovers he is gay; a prostitute falls in love with one of her clients; a family cannot cope with the fact that their daughter is illegitimately pregnant.
Dir. Uli Edel · With Stephen Lang, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Burt Young

In the year 1935, a teen named Billy Bathgate finds first love while becoming the protégé of fledgling gangster Dutch Schultz.
Dir. Robert Benton · With Loren Dean, Dustin Hoffman, Nicole Kidman
When Max fools a gang of local toughs, he finds himself in big trouble. Fleeing from the thugs, Max runs into an old warehouse and bumps into a boom box. By doing that, he manages to release Kazaam, a genie who has been held captive for thousands of years.
Dir. Paul Michael Glaser · With Shaquille O'Neal, Francis Capra, Ally Walker