Word: hitchcockian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sterling Hitchcock as he dazzled the Blue Jays inning after inning. In the upper deck, where a fan could stretch out, enjoy the game and catch a foul ball without much competition, two teenage girls serenaded Yankee batters by mellifluously calling out their names: "Mattingly ... Strawberry...Velarde..." In the Hitchcockian suspense of the ninth inning, the fans were on their feet as the chubby lefthander retired the Jays and completed his 2-1 victory. The fans who left that night were the kind of fans who come back and maybe bring a friend. Perhaps what the owners and players...
...plot of Raising Cain -- about a child psychologist (John Lithgow) still under the spell of his mad-scientist father and an evil twin named Cain -- swipes from Psycho and Michael Powell's sicko classic Peeping Tom. What's fun here is that De Palma has rung cunning changes on Hitchcockian twists. What if the car that Norman Bates watched sink into the swamp had a woman inside, clawing to save her life? What if abnormal Norman were to be questioned by the shrink who has decoded his warped family life? And what if Norman were to escape from custody...
Misery In this Stephen King thriller, James Caan is a romance writer rescued from an accident and held captive while he recuperates. Kathy Bates is his nurse and "biggest fan" -- alternately giddy and menacing in a great turn. Rob Reiner proves himself a director of Hitchcockian wit and wiliness...
Jackoby and Strick take further license with Arachnophobia's classic formula when they comically juxtapose Daniels' Hitchcockian character against the supporting roles, each of which represent the far extremes of man's relationships to spiders...