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Valerie Curtin has 5 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 1990s.
Borsalino
1970
Crime · Comedy

After her husband dies, Alice and her son, Tommy, leave their small New Mexico town for California, where Alice hopes to make a new life for herself as a singer. Money problems force them to settle in Arizona instead, where Alice takes a job as waitress in a small diner.
Dir. Martin Scorsese · With Ellen Burstyn, Alfred Lutter, Kris Kristofferson

An ethical Baltimore defense lawyer disgusted with rampant legal corruption is forced to defend a judge he despises in a rape trial under the threat of being disbarred.
Dir. Norman Jewison · With Al Pacino, Jack Warden, John Forsythe

A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man thrown from the train. When he can find no one who will believe him, he starts doing some investigating of his own. But all that accomplishes is to get the killer after him.
Dir. Arthur Hiller · With Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, Richard Pryor

Beverly Hills couple Barbara and Dave Whiteman find their lives altered by the arrival of a vagrant who tries to drown himself in their swimming pool.
Dir. Paul Mazursky · With Nick Nolte, Bette Midler, Richard Dreyfuss
Leslie Zevo is a fun-loving inventor who must save his late father's toy factory from his evil uncle, Leland, a war-mongering general who rules the operation with an iron fist and builds weapons disguised as toys.
Dir. Barry Levinson · With Robin Williams, Michael Gambon, Joan Cusack