The Crying Game -Book by James Giles

Tittle: The Crying Game

Genre: Crime,Drama,Romance,Thriller

Year:1997

Author: Jane Giles
Publisher: University of California Press
Synopsis: Jane Gile's study of The Crying Game traces the origins of the film in Neil Jordan's early, award-winning books and films. Drawing on exclusive interviews with Jordan and producer Stephen Wolley, Giles details the film's tense and troubled production history and anatomizes the different permutations of sexuality and politics that it unravels.  tlabooks

The Crying Game - Award Winning Movie

Tittle: The Crying Game

Genre: Drama,Crime,Romance,Thriller

Year:1992

Plot: The film explores themes of race, gender, nationality, and sexuality against the backdrop of the Irish troubles.The Crying Game is about the main character Fergus' experiences as a member of the IRA, his brief but meaningful encounter with Jody who is held prisoner by the group, and his unexpected romantic relationship with Jody's girlfriend, Dil whom Fergus promised Jody he would protect. However, unexpected events force Fergus to decide what he wants for the future, and ultimately what his nature dictates that he must do.

    The film is notable for containing a dramatic plot twist and for its sympathetic portrayal of characters from often-reviled subcultures, presented here as complex and likable human beings. Audiences accepted the film as a thriller, but also as an unconventional romance

The film received 6 Academy Award nominations, winning only for Best Original Screenplay.

• Best Picture
• Best Director
• Best Actor
• Best Supporting Actor -
  
• Best Original Screenplay (win)-Neil Jordan
  
• Best Film Editing
  

The film's soundtrack was released on February 23, 1993 as The Crying Game: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack album. The Crying Game  by Boy George 

Reaction and criticism

Roger Ebert- gave the film a four-star rating and described it as one that "involves us deeply in the story, and then it reveals that the story is really about something else altogether.

Gene Siskel- during Siskel and Ebert's annual "Memo to the Academy" program, gave away the ending of the film while giving his review      source wikipedia

   

Dressed to Kill -The Latest Fashion is Murder

Tittle: Dressed to Kill

Genre: Thriller,Mystery, Horror

Year: 1980

Plot:

"The Latest Fashion In Murder" It centers on the murder of a housewife, and the investigation headed by the witness to the murder, a young prostitute, and the housewife's teenage son.

Sexually frustrated housewife and mother Kate Miller visits her New York City psychiatrist, Dr. Robert Elliott, to complain about her unfulfilling erotic life. When she the goes to meet her husband at a museum, she meets an unknown man whom she follows out to a taxicab. After an afternoon of satisfying sex, Kate discovers that the unknown man has a venereal disease, but that information becomes a moot point when a razor-wielding blonde woman slashes Kate to ribbons in the elevator of the man's building.

Blonde prostitute Liz Blake, who caught a glimpse of the murderer, becomes both the prime suspect and the killer's next target. With the police less than willing to believe her story, Liz joins forces with Kate's son Peter to get the psychopath themselves. The murderer has been finally revealed as Dr. Elliott, a transsexual, is arrested by the police and placed in a mental asylum. In a dream sequence, Dr. Elliott escapes from the asylum and slashes Liz in the throat in a bloody act of vengeance.

Dog Day Afternoon Award Winning True Story

Tittle: Dog Day Afternoon

Genre: Drama, Crime, Thriller

Year: 1975

Actor: Al Pacino

Plot: Based upon a real-life story that happened in the early seventies in which the Chase Manhattan Bank in Flatbush, Brooklyn, was held siege by a gay bank robber determined to steal enough money for his male lover to undergo a sex change operation.  TLA Video