Forty years ago, Charlotte Hollis’d been witness to the dismemberment murder of her fiance and the suicide of the murderer, her own father. Now, plagued by the horrifying family secret, she descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative.
Jane Hudson is an aging child star left to care for her wheelchair-bound sister Blanche, also a former child actress. Then Jane starts to torment her sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.
The movie is based on a real-life association football game in 1942 between German soldiers and Ukrainian prisoners of war during World War II, known as the Death Match. An ex-football star doing time is forced by the warden to organize a team of inmates to play against (and get pummeled by) his own line-up of guards.
Peter Falk is a ‘win-at-all-costs’ type manager of a ladies tag-team wrestling combo. These girls are good and Falk wants them great. Their fortunes seem on the slide but then the big grudge match beckons.
A Major with an attitude problem and a history of getting things done is told to interview military prisoners with death sentences or long terms for a dangerous mission: to parachute behind enemy lines and cause havoc for the German Generals at a rest house on the eve of D-Day.