PelÃculas dramáticas de Billy Hopkins
PelÃculas de Billy Hopkins filtradas por género
🎠Casting
6.6
2021
Billie Holiday spent much of her career being adored by fans. In the 1940s, the government targeted Holiday in a growing effort to racialize the war on drugs, ultimately aiming to stop her from s ...
👔 Casting
5.9
2020
Indaga en los esfuerzos que tuvo que realizar Nikola Tesla a la hora de presentar al mundo una revolución energética que cambiarÃa para siempre el curso de la humanidad. ...
🎠Casting
6.3
2020
A college grad takes a clerical job working for the literary agent of the renowned, reclusive writer J.D. Salinger. ...
🎠Casting
4.9
2020
At the turning point of the Iran-Contra affair, Elena McMahon, a fearless investigative journalist covering the 1984 US presidential campaign, puts herself in danger when she abandons her assigne ...
🎠Casting
6.4
2018
A picture-perfect family is torn apart after Tyler finds a cache of disturbing images in his father's possession. He begins to suspect that the man he trusts most in the world may be responsible ...
👔 Casting
7.4
2017
Dos hombres regresan de la Segunda Guerra Mundial a una pequeña población rural en Mississippi. Allà tendrán que adaptarse a su nueva vida tras la guerra y al racismo imperante en la región. ...
🎠Casting
6.6
2017
A traumatised veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, his nightmares overtake him as a conspiracy is uncovered leading to what may ...
🎠Casting
3.9
2017
Successful actress Vera Lockman thrashes during a nightmare in which she struggles with, shoots and kills her drug-dealer ex-boyfriend. Jolted awake, she reveals in her journal that the killing a ...
👔 Casting
6.2
2017
Drama inspirado en la biografÃa del boxeador Chuck Wepner, el hombre que inspiró el personaje de Rocky Balboa. ...
🎠Casting
6.1
2017
A service which creates holographic projections of late family members allows an elderly woman to spend time with a younger version of her deceased husband. ...
🎠Casting
5.1
2016
Tom’s birthday dinner party is turned upside down by the unexpected arrival of Alice, an old flame who changed her identity and vanished without a trace 15 years prior. ...
👔 Casting
5.5
2016
Noah Buschel (Glass Chin) escribe y dirige este drama deportivo sobre un joven atleta tan torturado por su pasado que es incapaz de competir. Por eso el lanzador novato es relegado a jugar en las ...
🎠Casting Director
5.8
2015
After her outlaw husband returns home shot with eight bullets and barely alive, Jane reluctantly reaches out to an ex-lover who she hasn't seen in over ten years to help her defend her farm when ...
🎠Casting
6.5
2015
Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger ...
👔 Casting
6.3
2015
La pelÃcula cuenta la transformación de la legendaria cantante de blues Bessie Smith de aspirante a cantante a ‘la emperatriz del blues’, que se convirtió en una de las artistas con más à ...
🎠Casting
6
2014
Sam, a soldier who had served in Afghanistan and Iraq, meets Amira when he visits her uncle, Bassam, who had served as Sam's Iraqi translator. Bassam and Sam have a special bond due to their time ...
👔 Casting
7.3
2013
Cuenta la verdadera historia de Eugene Allen, un empleado de color de la Casa Blanca que sirvió a ocho familias de presidentes del gobierno estadounidense, a lo largo de tres décadas. ...
👔 Casting Director
7
2013
Un abogado muy trabajador, unido a su teléfono móvil, no encuentra tiempo para comunicarse con su familia. Una pareja se ve arrastrada a una situación peligrosa cuando sus secretos quedan al d ...
🎠Casting
5.6
2012
As investigative reporter Ward Jansen and his partner Yardley Acheman chase a sensational, career-making story with the help of Ward's younger brother Jack and sultry death-row groupie Charlotte ...
🎠Casting
7.6
2011
After her son Kevin commits a horrific act, troubled mother Eva reflects on her complicated relationship with her disturbed son as he grew from a toddler into a teenager. ...
👔 Casting
5.5
2009
Una joven pareja, Bobby y Kate, recibe con entusiasmo la noticia de que ella está embarazada, aunque la incertidumbre sobre su futuro les inquieta. El lanzamiento de una mágica moneda les plant ...
🎠Casting
4.9
2009
This unpredictable story follows an agitated fast-food employee, Joe, who's reached his breaking point from being harassed and tormented by his boss... ...
🎠Casting
5.1
2009
After her boyfriend mysteriously leaves her with little explanation, a doctoral candidate in anthropology at a prestigious East Coast university is left looking for answers as to what went wrong. ...
🎠Casting
5.7
2008
Beautiful Carmen Colson and her ironworker husband Wayne are placed in the Federal Witness Protection program after witnessing an "incident". Thinking they are at last safe, they are targeted by ...
👔 Casting
7.1
2008
La historia trata de una estudiante de 17 años que cree que tiene la vida planeada hasta que conoce a un joven llamado Keith y se enamora de él. ...
🎠Casting
5.1
2008
Yonkers Joe tells the story of a dice hustler whose determination to make one last grab for a big score in Vegas is complicated by the reappearance of his estranged, mentally challenged son into ...
🎠Casting
5.5
2008
Steven Seagal stars in this gritty, no-holds barred action film as an elite ex-cop with a gambling problem and a mountain of debt. When a mysterious man offers to clear his debts in exchange for ...
👔 Casting
6
2007
La historia gira en torno a la violación de una adolescente iraquà y el asesinato de toda su familia por un grupo de soldados estadounidenses en Irak. Hecho real que sucedió en la localidad ir ...
👔 Casting
7.1
2007
Walter Vale, un profesor universitario de Connecticut que viaja a Nueva York, se ve envuelto en la vida de una joven pareja inmigrante a la que encuentra viviendo en su apartamento de Manhattan, ...
🎠Casting
5.7
2007
Christy (Zehetner) returns to her hometown years after a car accident that disfigured her older sister. Haunted by the accident in which she was the driver, she learns that her worst nightmares h ...
👔 Casting
5.8
2007
Postrada en su lecho de muerte, Ann Lord no puede ocultar por más tiempo sus sentimientos. Confiesa entonces a sus hijas Constance y Nina que cuando era joven estuvo enamorada de Harris Arden y ...
🎠Casting
5.5
2007
The death of the Kimbrough family matriarch affects the three male survivors of the clan. Widower Easy tries to reconnect with his old flame, Marg. Eldest son and struggling musician Guy moves ba ...
🎠Casting
6.8
2007
The true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner's name was Nelson Mandela. ...
🎠Casting
5.2
2006
An entire family comes of age during the early 1970s. ...
🎠Casting
5.6
2006
At a sexy, sizzling nightclub, pianist Percival lives life by the rules, while Rooster, the club's flashy lead performer, struts his stuff on the stage. But all changes when greed, fame and murde ...
🎠Casting
6.1
2006
Two police officers struggle to survive when they become trapped beneath the rubble of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. ...
🎠Casting
6.3
2006
Reunited at a wedding after many years, former lovers again feel the pull of a mutual attraction neither is willing to admit. Escaping the reception for the privacy of a hotel room, the unnamed p ...
👔 Casting
6.2
2006
Elvis, un joven que acaba de licenciarse en la Marina, decide emprender la búsqueda del padre al que nunca conoció. El problema es que su progenitor es ahora pastor de una iglesia baptista; ade ...
🎠Casting
6.3
2005
Bettie Page grew up in a conservative religious family in Tennessee and became a photo model sensation in 1950s New York. Bettie's legendary pin-up photos made her the target of a Senate investig ...
👔 Casting
5.1
2005
Rose, una asesina a sueldo que se muere de cáncer, acepta un último trabajo con su socio e hijastro Mikey; pero, cuando está a punto de matar a Vickie, la esposa de un jefe de la mafia, sufre ...
🎠Casting
4.8
2005
Stoic and heartbroken, Einar Gilkyson quietly lives in the rugged Wyoming ranchlands alongside his only trusted friend, Mitch Bradley. One day, the woman he blames for the death of his only son a ...
🎠Casting
5.3
2005
Residents of an adult community in Florida turn to one another for support and companionship after the deaths of their spouses. Lois has a rejuvenating affair with a younger man while acting as ...
🎠Casting
6.2
2005
On New Year's Eve, inside a police station that's about to be closed for good, officer Jake Roenick must cobble together a force made up cops and criminals to save themselves from a mob looking t ...
👔 Casting
6.9
2004
Al salir de la cárcel, tras doce años de condena por agresión sexual a menores, Walter (Kevin Bacon) se instala en una ciudad, consigue trabajo y trata de llevar una vida normal, pero su pasad ...
🎠Casting
5.9
2004
Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians, he leads his army across the then known world, venturing farther than any weste ...
🎠Casting
6.3
2004
Christmas Eve in New York, and the lonely divorced publisher, Rose Collins, needs a miracle to improve the health of her mother, interned in a hospital with Alzheimers. She feels sorry for anothe ...
👔 Casting
5.8
2004
Nochebuena en Nueva York, y la solitaria divorciada, Rose Collins, necesita un milagro para mejorar la salud de su madre, internada en un hospital con Alzheimer. Ella siente pena por otro pacien ...
🎠Casting
6.8
2004
Four friends with one dark secret they could never outrun. ...
🎠Casting
5.4
2004
A fairy tale love-story about pre-med student Paige who falls in love with a Danish Prince "Eddie" who refused to follow the traditions of his parents and has come to the US to quench his thirst ...
🎠Casting
6.8
2003
When his only friend dies, a man born with dwarfism moves to rural New Jersey to live a life of solitude, only to meet a chatty hot dog vendor and a woman dealing with her own personal loss. ...
👔 Casting
🎠Casting
7.4
2002
After her husband leaves her, a woman travels to London for the funeral of the pop star, Victor Fox, she's adored all her life. There, she meets the lover of the dead pop star, and convinces him ...
🎠Casting
6.1
2002
Adam is a dog walker. Adam agrees to watch one of his customers, A.J. Preston, penthouse apartment. Rachel mistakes Adam for Preston. He does not come clean quickly. ...
👔 Casting
6.7
2002
El matrimonio de Edward (Richard Gere) y Connie Sumner (Diane Lane) parece ir bien: tienen dinero, posición, un niño y una bonita casa en un barrio residencial de las afueras de Nueva York. Per ...
🎠Casting
5.2
2002
Connie is a wife and mother whose 11-year marriage to Edward has lost its sexual spark. When Connie literally runs into handsome book collector Paul, he sweeps her into an all-consuming affair. B ...
🎠Casting
6.5
2002
A $10-million diamond rip-off, a stolen identity, a new life married to a diplomat. Laure Ash has risked big, won big. But then a tabloid shutterbug snaps her picture in Paris, and suddenly, enem ...
🎠Casting
6.3
2001
An emotionally-beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life. ...
🎠Casting
5.6
2001
In pre-Revolutionary France, a young aristocratic woman left penniless by the political unrest in the country, must avenge her family's fall from grace by scheming to steal a priceless necklace. ...
🎠Casting
6.1
2001
A young music journalist's dark memories are awakened when he goes to interview a female rock singer, and both are forced to confront troubling secrets from their pasts. ...
👔 Casting
6.9
2001
Jonathan Tragar y Sara Thomas se conocen casualmente una navidad de compras por Nueva York. A pesar de que tienen pareja, ambos mantienen un romántico encuentro. Jonathan desea continuar con la ...
🎠Casting
5.5
2001
Although strangers Sara and Jonathan are both already in relationships, they realize they have genuine chemistry after a chance encounter – but part company soon after. Years later, they each y ...
🎠Casting
4
2001
A group of teenagers wish to rebel against the administrators and teachers (the system) in their suburban Chicago high school called New Port South ...
🎠Casting
4.4
2001
Two parallel tales of redemption, a century apart. In the New York storyline, Edge hunts for Angela's gold to pay back a debt, and gradually grows closer to her. In the Macedonian story, the brot ...
🎠Casting
6.8
2001
A prison guard begins a tentative romance with the unsuspecting widow of a man whose execution he presided over. ...
🎠Casting
5.2
2001
Pendelton "Penny" Wise is a smooth-talking con-artist who makes a living by scamming people with phoney travel comp vacations over the phone when, desperate for more fast cash, he's called to wor ...
👔 Casting
5.9
2001
La historia gira en torno a unos timadores cuya ambición es insaciable. ...
🎠Casting
4.6
2001
A student will do anything to become part of the "in-crowd" at the exclusive school she attends in New York. ...
👔 Casting
5.9
2000
1867. Fiebre del oro en California. Kingdom Come es una pequeña ciudad minera dominada por Daniel Dillon. La inminente construcción del ferrocarril que atravesará la población representa una ...
👔 Casting
7
2000
A Lansquenet, un pueblo francés muy tradicional, donde nada ha cambiado en los últimos cien años, el Viento del Norte lleva consigo a dos forasteras: Vianne Rocher y su hija Anouk. Vianne inau ...
🎠Casting
6.3
2000
A young lunatic director and his devoted cult of cinema terrorists kidnap a Hollywood movie goddess and force her to stair in their radical underground movie. ...
🎠Casting
4.8
2000
After her husband, Carl, suddenly leaves, Joline travels from New York to Texas to track him down. Although Joline tries to remain upbeat, she is discouraged when she discovers that Carl already ...
👔 Casting
🎠Casting
7.4
2000
A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies. ...
🎠Casting
6.8
1999
A star quarterback gets knocked out of the game and an unknown third stringer is called in to replace him. The unknown gives a stunning performance and forces the ageing coach to reevaluate his g ...
🎠Casting
7
1999
Homer is an orphan who was never adopted, becoming the favorite of orphanage director Dr. Larch. Dr. Larch imparts his full medical knowledge on Homer, who becomes a skilled, albeit unlicensed, p ...
🎠Casting
6.7
1999
In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the German Kommondant, Jakob overhears a German radio br ...
🎠Casting
5.6
1999
While on a journey of discovery in exotic India, beautiful young Ruth Barron falls under the influence of a charismatic religious guru. Her desperate parents then hire PJ Waters, a macho cult de- ...
🎠Casting
5.7
1999
A young transgender man explores his gender identity and searches for love in rural Nebraska. ...
🎠Casting
6
1999
A man is cursed with falling in love with other men's women. ...
🎠Local Casting
3.9
1999
When bisexual porn star Valentino meets new-in-town hustler Gary, there is an immediate attraction between the two. Valentino helps get Gary a job at a phone-sex company, and they become fast fri ...
🎠Casting
6.9
1999
After his young son dies from the negligence at a hospital, Harry Fertig takes matters into his own hands and kills the doctors responsible. Slick lawyer Roy Bleakie, looking only to win a case a ...
🎠Casting
7.4
1999
After her mother's death, mediocre chef Amanda Shelton is having trouble attracting customers to her family's restaurant. While shopping for ingredients, she is given a magical crab by mysterious ...
👔 Casting
6
1999
Durante el verano de 1969, la familia Kantrowitz pasa, como todos los años, sus vacaciones cerca de Woodstock. Un verano que será de iniciación adolescente para la joven Alison -Anna Paquin- y ...
🎠Casting
6
1999
A destitute 14-year-old struggles to keep his life together despite harsh abuse at his mother's hands, harsher abuse at his father's, and a growing separation from his slightly older brother. ...
🎠Casting
4.9
1998
Following his discharge from the Navy for hitting a superior officer, Loren takes a chance and moves to France, to learn haute cuisine under a four star chef... ...
👔 Casting
6.1
1998
Pecker (Furlong) es un joven de 18 años aficionado a la fotografÃa en cuyo trabajo se fija una marchante de arte de Nueva York. Una exposición lo lanzará a la fama, pero también le creará n ...
🎠Casting
6.5
1998
A Baltimore teenager who picks up a second-hand camera starts snapping his way to stardom, soon turning into a nationwide sensation, with a fateful choice between his life and his art. ...
🎠Casting
6.3
1998
An alcoholic American couple travel to the UK with their son so he can meet his grandmother but they walk in on their crazed uncle who is in the midst of reviving a centuries-old Druid witch. ...
🎠Casting
6.3
1998
Shane, a Jersey boy with big dreams, crosses the river in hopes of finding a more exciting life at Studio 54. When Steve Rubell, the mastermind behind the infamous disco, plucks Shane from the se ...
🎠Casting
4.3
1998
Passion and infatuation ignite as two lovers flounder through their "first time" in this alarmingly sexy film set in the Louisiana bayou. Joey and Sissel are a young misguided couple trying despe ...
🎠Casting
5.8
1998
Two young women and their friends spend spare time at an exclusive nightclub in 1980s New York. ...
🎠Casting
5.6
1998
Jackson and Helen are in love and about to have their first child when they move in with Jackson's mother, Martha, in order to take care of the family estate. But all is not well in this househol ...
🎠Casting
8.2
1997
When professors discover that an aimless janitor is also a math genius, a therapist helps the young man confront the demons that are holding him back. ...
👔 Casting
6.8
1997
Joe Ross, un ingeniero tan brillante como ingenuo, es el creador de un proyecto altamente secreto que permitirá a su empresa controlar el mercado mundial y, por consiguiente, obtener unas gananc ...
🎠Casting
6.6
1997
Kate is secretly betrothed to a struggling journalist, Merton Densher. But she knows her Aunt Maude will never approve of the match, since Kate's deceased mother has lost all her money in a marri ...
🎠Casting
6.2
1997
When he discovers his girlfriend having sex with his brother, Frankie decides to head to Manhattan, leaving his Bronx pizza shop forever for the fame and fortune of show business. But before star ...
🎠Casting
5.5
1996
Three inner-city losers plan a robbery of a valuable coin in a seedy second-hand junk shop. ...
🎠Director
5.2
1996
School student and her European-born grandmother share sad stories of their lives. ...
🎠Casting
6.4
1996
Aspiring architect Tom Thompson is told by mysterious Ruth Abernathy that his best friend, "Bill," has taken his own life. Except that Tom has never met Bill and neither have his incredulous frie ...
🎠Casting
6.2
1996
Based on the true story of Valerie Solanas who was a 1960s radical preaching hatred toward men in her "Scum" manifesto. She wrote a screenplay for a film that she wanted Andy Warhol to produce, b ...
🎠Casting
6.7
1995
On Christmas Eve, a relentlessly cheerful woman escapes from the killers hired by her husband, and embarks on a series of strange encounters. ...
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🎠Casting
7.3
1995
Jerry and his two pals, Russ and Syd, are just looking for some easy money to help them break out of their nowhere lives in their nowhere town. Despite a bungled jewelry store heist which exposes ...
👔 Casting
7.2
1995
Brooklyn, verano de 1987. Un grupo de personas frecuenta el estanco de su barrio. Auggie Wren (Harvey Keitel), el estanquero, es el gran confidente de todos ellos. La rocambolesca historia de có ...
🎠Father Aiden
6.4
1995
In the midst of the Mariel boat lift -- a hurried exodus of refugees from Cuba going to America -- an immigration clerk accidentally presumes that dissident Juan Raul Perez and Dorita Evita Perez ...
🎠Casting
4.9
1995
A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a young black man condemned to death for the horrific murder of a child. ...
🎠Casting
6
1994
In a contemporary New York City, members of a dysfunctional family of vampires are trying to come to terms with each other, in the wake of their father's death. Meanwhile, they are being hunted b ...
🎠Casting
7.1
1994
Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media. ...
🎠Casting
6.2
1994
The Lone Rangers have heavy-metal dreams and a single demo tape they can't get anyone to play. The solution: Hijack an FM rock radio station and hold the deejays hostage until they agree to broad ...
👔 Casting
6.3
1994
Thomas es un delincuente que se despierta una mañana sobre una acera de Nueva York, sin un céntimo en el bolsillo y totalmente amnésico. Isabelle es una monja virgen y, según ella, ninfómana ...
👔 Casting
6.2
1994
En la España de los años 80, en la que aún siguen siendo impopulares los americanos y la OTAN, Ted Boynton, que representa en Barcelona a una compañÃa de Chicago, se está recuperando de un ...
🎠Casting
5
1994
Morgan Leafy is a secretary to the British High Commissioner to an Africa nation. Leafy is a man that makes himself useful to his boss, the snobbish Arthur Fanshawe, who has no clue about what's ...
🎠Casting
🎠Casting
6.9
1993
A rancher, his clairvoyant wife and their family face turbulent years in South America. ...
🎠Casting
6.5
1993
A veteran actor and a young up-and-comer join for a season of reparatory theatre. ...
👔 Casting
🎠Casting
6
1993
Married couple, Ethan and Zeena, are in need an extra hand around the house due to Zeena's debilitated body and constant illness. The young woman who joins them is a beautiful, spirited person. S ...
👔 Casting
6.3
1993
Tras el fin de la Guerra de Secesión, un combatiente confederado llamado Jake Sommersby (Richard Gere) retorna a su hogar para encontrarse con sus amigos y familia seis años después de su marc ...
🎠Casting
5.7
1993
Set in the South just after the US Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm without her husband, believed killed in battle. By all accounts, Jack Sommersby was not a pleasant ...
🎠Casting
5.7
1992
Men and women search for intimacy and meaning in their lives. ...
🎠Casting
7.6
1991
Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison. ...
🎠Casting
5.7
1991
When his partner is killed in the line of duty, Artie Lewis becomes the legal guardian of his three orphaned girls. But during his investigation of the case, Lewis finds his life – and that of ...
🎠Casting
6.3
1991
Infatuated with the idea of becoming rich, college student Jonathan Corliss secretly dates Dorothy Carlsson to gain the approval of her wealthy father. When Dorothy tells Jonathan that she is pre ...
👔 Casting
7.1
1991
Jim Morrison, cabeza visible de The Doors, para muchos fue un regalo de Dios; para otros, un vástago del Diablo. Vivió al lÃmite, en una anárquica carrera autodestructiva salpicada de escánd ...
🎠Casting
7.4
1990
After returning home from the Vietnam War, veteran Jacob Singer struggles to maintain his sanity. Plagued by hallucinations and flashbacks, Singer rapidly falls apart as the world and people arou ...
🎠Casting
4.6
1990
In Montana, naive teenager George longs to escape from his broken home before his dysfunctional parents push him over the edge. When George meets pretty drifter Lucy, she easily convinces him and ...
🎠Casting
7
1989
Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, Ron Kovic becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for. ...
🎠Casting
6.8
1989
Buck Russell, a lovable but slovenly bachelor, suddenly becomes the temporary caretaker of his nephew and nieces after a family emergency. His freewheeling attitude soon causes tension with his o ...
🎠Casting
7.1
1988
A rude, contemptuous talk show host becomes overwhelmed by the hatred that surrounds his program just before it goes national. ...
👔 Casting
5.1
1988
Theophilus North (Anthony Edwards) es un intelectual dedicado ahora al servicio social, por lo que visita diferentes mansiones donde hace las veces de lector para niños y personas mayores. Un dà ...
🎠Casting
7.2
1987
A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider whom takes the ...
🎠Casting
6.8
1987
For Dan Gallagher, life is good. He is on the rise at his New York law firm, is happily married to his wife, Beth, and has a loving daughter. But, after a casual fling with a sultry book editor n ...
🎠Casting
4.8
1986
Two New York hustlers (Michael O'Keefe, Paul Rodriguez) go to Palm Beach, Fla., and enroll in a charm school to please an heiress. ...
🎠Casting
6.9
1986
Brad Whitewood Jr. lives in rural Pennsylvania and has few prospects. Against his mother's wishes, he seeks out his estranged father, the head of a gang of thieves in a nearby town. Though his ne ...
🎠Casting
6.1
1985
Roberta is a bored suburban housewife who is fascinated with a woman, Susan, she only knows about by reading messages to and from her in the personals section of the newspaper. This fascination r ...