Hal Ashby – MRQE

8 Million Ways to Die

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Scudder is a detective with the Sheriff’s Department who is forced to shoot a violent suspect during a narcotics raid. The ensuing psychological aftermath of this shooting worsens his drinking problem and this alcoholism causes him to lose his job, as well as his marriage.

The Slugger’s Wife

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Darryl Palmer (Michael O’Keefe) is a major league baseball player who meets and pursues an attractive singer (Rebecca De Mornay). After some setbacks, the two are married and sent on an emotional journey that sees his career take off, while hers doesn’t. When she gives up her dreams to support her husband, she can’t escape her own unhappiness. With a separation on the horizon, Darryl must choose between his big-league life and his one true love.

Let’s Spend the Night Together

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The Rolling Stones’ record-breaking 1981 North American arena tour documented by director Hal Ashby. Featuring the biggest Rolling Stones songs from the first 20 years – in the words of Mick Jagger, “a feel of what it’s like to be there”, as 20 cameras take you onstage with the band in this groundbreaking, dynamic tour.

Lookin’ to Get Out

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Two gamblers must leave New York City after one loses a lot of money. Doing what all gamblers in trouble would do, they hurry to the gambling capital Las Vegas to turn their luck around.

Second-Hand Hearts

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A boozy drifter tries to get to know the widow he married while on a bender.

Being There

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.

Coming Home

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The wife of a Marine serving in Vietnam, Sally Hyde decides to volunteer at a local veterans hospital to occupy her time. There she meets Luke Martin, a frustrated wheelchair-bound vet who has become disillusioned with the war. Sally and Luke develop a friendship that soon turns into a romance.

Bound for Glory

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A biography of Woody Guthrie, one of America’s greatest folk singers. He left his dust-devastated Texas home in the 1930s to find work, discovering the suffering and strength of America’s working class.

Shampoo

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

George Roundy is a Beverly Hills hairstylist whose uncontrolled libido stands between him and his ambitions. He wants the security of a relationship. He wants to be a hairdressing “star” and open his own salon. But the fact that he beds down with the wife, daughter and mistress of a potential backer doesn’t help. It also does little for his relationship with his current girlfriend.

The Last Detail

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison, but decide to show him one last good time along the way.