Tell Me a Riddle

December. 15,1980      
Rating:
6.3
Trailer Synopsis Cast

Touching story of elderly couple David and Eva who go on one last journey across the USA when they discover Eva is dying, ending up with their granddaughter Jeannie in San Francisco. Restored in 2022 by the Academy Film Archive and The Film Foundation. Restoration funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation.

Melvyn Douglas as  David
Lila Kedrova as  Eva
Brooke Adams as  Jeannie
Dolores Dorn as  Vivi
Zalman King as  Paul
Peter Coyote as  Young David
Nora Heflin as  Young Eva
Lee Grant as  Flight Attendant (voice)

Similar titles

How to Have Sex
How to Have Sex
Three British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holiday—drinking, clubbing and hooking up, in what should be the best summer of their lives.
How to Have Sex 2024
First Match
First Match
Hardened by years in foster care, a teenage girl from Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood decides that wrestling boys is the only way back to her estranged father.
First Match 2018
Sadie
Prime Video
Sadie
While her father is away serving in the military, Sadie battles to preserve his place on the home front when her mother takes an interest in the newest resident at the Shady Plains Trailer Park.
Sadie 2018
Write When You Get Work
Prime Video
Write When You Get Work
Ruth Duffy is getting by on an assistant's salary at a pricey school for girls in Manhattan, managing to move beyond the trouble and loss of her teenage years. Jonny Collins is working local jobs near the Throgs Neck Bridge in the Bronx. When they cross paths after years apart, Jonny is as consumed with Ruth as he was in their high school days, and he infiltrates her life for love and profit.
Write When You Get Work 2018
Let Me Down Easy
Let Me Down Easy
In a small town where tradition has reigned, adolescents are rounded up and tested in an ultimate deviation. In their twentieth year, the youth are brought to forbidden territory and in one night will be overcome by the darkness of sin.
Let Me Down Easy 2015
He Hated Pigeons
He Hated Pigeons
Love is everything with a young man journey's from the north to south of Chile to fulfill a promise. A wistful road trip through the grieving process of a recently bereaved gay young man. Love is everything when a young man journeys from the north to the south of Chile to fulfil a promise. Being the film takes place in Chile and the partner was not only a foreigner (Canadian) and gay it echoes the past history of Chile’s many ‘disappeared’ and how ,as a person or country, one can deal with loss when no one really seems to know or want to admit what happened.
He Hated Pigeons 2015
Girl Asleep
Prime Video
Girl Asleep
The world is closing in on Greta Driscoll. On the cusp of turning fifteen she can't bear to leave her childhood, it contains all the things that give her comfort in this incomprehensible new world. She floats in a bubble of loserdom with her only friend Elliott, until her parents throw her a surprise 15th birthday party and she's flung into a parallel place; a world that's weirdly erotic, a little bit violent and thoroughly ludicrous - only there can she find herself.
Girl Asleep 2015
Home for the Holidays
Prime Video
Home for the Holidays
After losing her job, making out with her soon-to-be former boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson faces spending the holiday with her unhinged family.
Home for the Holidays 1995
Now and Then
Now and Then
Waxing nostalgic about the bittersweet passage from childhood to puberty, four childhood girlfriends — Teeny, Chrissy, Samantha and Roberta — recall the magical summer of 1970. During their walk down memory lane, they reconcile experiences with boys, secrets, bullies and more.
Now and Then 1995
Poison Ivy
Poison Ivy
A seductive teen befriends an introverted high school student and schemes her way into the lives of her wealthy family.
Poison Ivy 1992

Reviews

Nonureva
1980/12/15

Really Surprised!

... more
Curapedi
1980/12/16

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

... more
Humaira Grant
1980/12/17

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

... more
Ariella Broughton
1980/12/18

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

... more