Top cast:William West,Edwin Clarke,Robert Brower
Director:William J. Bauman
Genre:Mystery
Region:United Kingdom
Year:2006
Storyline:Only child.Janie""s a pretty typical teenager: angry, insecure, confused.I wish I could tell her that""s all going to pass, but I don""t want to lie o her...Lester was living an unhappy, meaningless existence (an admittedly-sedated life) with an unfulfilling job (as an advertising executive) and a family of two contemptuous females who both regarded him as a "gigantic loser.Meanwhile, in Berlin, Germany, there was a CIA sting operation, led by ambitious CIA Deputy Director Pamela Landy (Joan Allen).Rossen""s shattering experience of naming names in the 1950s HUAC hearings (after being blacklisted and then recanting two years later) influenced his writing for this film - the low-life, bruised film hero is both self-hating and cowardly.This was the second of four films co-starring Hepburn and Grant [the others wereSylvia Scarlett (1936),Holiday (1938), andThe Philadelphia Story (1940)].He realized the gift could be unlocked by causing Erik extreme anger and pain.Schmidt placed the Nazi coin in Erik""s palm.At about the same time in 1944 in his extravagant mansion in Westchester County NY, young, wealthy, telepathic and intelligent Charles Xavier (Laurence Belcher as youth) heard an intruder late at night in his kitchen.