Top cast:Tom Hanks,Matt Damon,Tom Sizemore
Director:Darren Aronofsky
Genre:Fantasy
Region:United Kingdom
Year:2005
Storyline:Friday the 13th (1980)d.Sean S.Cunningham, 95 minutes, and a slightly longer unrated version with extended death scenesFilm Plot SummaryCamp Crystal Lake, 1958.Stevens self-consciously fashioned this simple western into a wide-screen, Technicolored panoramic masterpiece to create a symbolic myth: the age-old story of the duel between good and evil, he advent of civilization (with families, law and order, and homesteaders) and progress into the wilderness (a world of roaming cattlemen, lawless gunslingers, and loners on horseback), a land-dispute conflict between a homesteader and cattle baron, and the coming of age of a young boy.This is the best-remembered film version of the novel, but there were others:it was previously filmed as a silent by director Herbert Brenon in 1926, starring Ronald Colmanit was remade in 1966 by director Douglas Heyes, with Telly Savalas as the cruel, sadistic sergeant at the fortcomedian Marty Feldman directed and starred in Universal's parodyThe Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977), with cleverly-edited footage from the 1939 version spliced inThe film received two Academy Awards nominations (with no wins): Brian Donlevy received his only Academy Award nomination (Best Supporting Actor) for his performance as the sadistic, horrendous Sergeant Markoff - the film changed his nationality from French to Russian to avoid offending the French legionnaires and French film audiences.Not even the girl he's madly in love with knows that he's Tootsie.""He's Tootsie.She's Dustin Hoffman.Desperate, he took a female role and became a star.If only he could tell he woman he loves.""Can you keep a secret? In the next 72 hours, his desperate, unemployed actor will secretly audition for the female lead of a soap opera.