On this day in movie history - A Slipping-Down Life (1999)

A Slipping-Down Life

directed and written by Toni Kalem,

based on the novel by Anne Tyler,

was released at the Sundance Film Festival in the United States on January 22, 1999.

Music by Peter Himmelman.

Cast:

Lili Taylor, Guy Pearce, Irma P. Hall, Tom Bower, Bruno Kirby, Veronica Cartwright, Shawnee Smith, Sara Rue, John Hawkes, Marshall Bell, Jo Ann Farabee, Harv Morgan, Jason Russel Waller, Lew Temple, Jason Kavalewitz, Jeff McMillioan, Brian Stack, Kevin Stack, Billy Harvey, Mike Hynes, Michael Ramos, Eric Tatuaka, Jamie Dickerson, Tony Frank, James N. Harrell, Clea DuVall, Keith McDermott, Topher Glenn, Gary Ragland, Dan Bennett, Kirk Watson, Doris Gramm, Vincent James Prendergast, Brian Prendergast, Mike Keller, Johnny Goudie, Floyd Freeman, Norman Bennett, Margaret Bowman, Stacy Bellew, Greg Corner, Xanna Dont, James Douglas, Dan Eggleston, Johanna Goldsmith, Michael Gottschall, David Houston, Alicia McCutcheon, Daria Prendergast, Brad Schreiber, Jordan Stone, Scott Teeters, Chris Warner. 

On this day in movie history - The Witches of Eastwick (1987)

The Witches of Eastwick

directed by George Miller,

written by Michael Cristofer,

based on the novel by John Updike,

was released in the United States on June 12, 1987.

Music by John Williams.

Cast:

Jack Nicholson, Cher, Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer, Veronica Cartwright, Richard Jenkins, Keith Jochim, Becca Lish, Carel Struycken.

On this day in movie history - Alien (1979)

Alien

directed by Ridley Scott,

written by Dan O’Bannon,

based on a story by Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett,

was released in the United States on May 25, 1979.

Music by Jerry Goldsmith.

Cast:

Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto, Bolaji Badejo, Helen Horton, Eddie Powell.

On this day in movie history - The Birds (1963)

The Birds

directed by Alfred Hitchcock,

written by Evan Hunter,

based on the short story by Daphne du Maurier,

was released in the United States on March 28, 1963.

Cast:

Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette, Tippi Hedren, Veronica Cartwright, Ethel Griffies, Charles McGraw, Ruth McDevitt, Lonny Chapman, Joe Mantell, Doodles Weaver, Malcolm Atterbury, John McGovern, Karl Swenson, Richard Deacon, Elizabeth Wilson, Bill Quinn, Doreen Lang, Morgan Brittany, Darlene Conley, Valerie Ferdin, Betsy Hale, Alfred Hitchcock, Dal McKennon, Mike Monteleone, Bob Morgan, Renn Reed, Arnold Roberts, Jeannie Russell, Bill Scully, Rory Stevens, Tomm Wells, Mitch Zanich.