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Drew Barrymore’s character Charlie has the power of pyrokinesis.
Helen Twelvetrees is Frankie, daughter of a prostitute she never knew. She grew up in clip joints and now works in one called the Thalia. Her line to the sucker johns is that she would like to turn things around and start clean. The Thalia was a storied revival movie house in NYC for many years.
Line of Demarcation is an early Chabrol film set in Vichy France. Marcel Ophuls made a monumental documentary of the same period.
Somebody Up There Likes Me—Paul Newman is Rocky Barbella a Bronx hood who looks a lot like Stallone 20 years later in Rocky, sporting a cheap suit and a porkpie hat.