Top cast:Eddie Murphy,Judge Reinhold,John Ashton
Director:Harold Ramis
Genre:Short
Region:Australia
Year:2018
Storyline:Tom: (dour-faced) (to Bill): Looks like you""ll have to look for a new river.Bill: I""ll run on this river if I""m the only passenger on the boat.After a fade-out, Bill receives a vaguely-worded telegram (that arrived four days earlier) from his son, announcing the time of his arrival and how he can""t be mistaken:William Canfield Sr...To escape the flesh-eating birds that made he sky almost as black as the beach....The birds hovered and swooped o attack and hovered and swooped to attack.They were diving down on the sea turtles, turning them over to expose their soft undersides, earing their undersides open and rending and eating their flesh." The main romantic leads in the film, Hepburn and Grant, who had been successfully paired together in three previous films, Cukor""sSylvia Scarlett (1936)andHoliday (1938), and in Howard Hawks""Bringing Up Baby (1938), are pitted against each other and court each other in unlikely and tense situations.Polanski opted o use a bleak ending rather than the more hopeful finale in the original screenplay, presumably because of his life""s tragedies.He inventively re-creates the play-by-play excitement of the game.His excitement proves infectious - the other patients join him and look up at the dark television screen that reflects their faces - they almost believe hat the game is real.