Films Directed by Robert Ellis Miller (Study Guide) - Reuben, Reuben, Brenda Starr, Pointman, the Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Sweet November (Paperback)

This is nonfiction commentary. Chapters: Reuben, Reuben, Brenda Starr, Pointman, the Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Sweet November, the Buttercup Chain, Hawks, the Girl From Petrovka, Bed & Breakfast, Any Wednesday, the Angel of Pennsylvania Avenue. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 36. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Brenda Starr is a 1989 adventure film, based on Dale Messick's Brenda Starr comic strip. The film was directed by Robert Ellis Miller, and stars Brooke Shields, Timothy Dalton, and Diana Scarwid. Mike is a struggling artist who draws the 'Brenda Starr' comic strip for a newspaper. When Brenda comes to life and sees how unappreciated she is by Mike, she leaves the comic. To return her to her rightful place and keep his job, Mike draws himself into the strip. Within her fictional world, Brenda Starr is an ace reporter for the New York Flash. She is talented, fearless, smart and a very snappy dresser. The only competition she has is from the rival paper's top reporter, Libby Lipscomb. Brenda heads to the Amazon jungle, in order to find a scientist with a secret formula, which will create cheap and powerful gas from ordinary water. There, she uncovers a plan to blow up the planet with newly developed rocket fuel. The project originally envisioned Jessica Lange as Brenda Starr. The script later came to Anjelica Huston, then to Melanie Griffith, and finally to Brooke Shields. Timothy Dalton began filming his first role as James Bond in the 1987 film The Living Daylights two days after completing work on this movie. The film was finished in 1986, however it was not released for three years, due to lengthy litigation over distribution rights. When the film was released in the United States in 1992, it bombed at the box office, making $30,000 in the first week of its release, after ope...http: //booksllc.net/?id=16205281