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551,494 | 989,035 | 373,024 | 4 | An enigmatic suburban scenario | The somewhat-belligerent brother of a suicide finds that he and his mother grieve in much the same way ( by acting out ) but that Dad is morose and blaming himself . Writer-director Dan Harris gives us a dysfunctional family torn at the seams , characters with question marks hanging over them , and then lays all the st... |
551,511 | 989,035 | 122,689 | 4 | A 1968 vanity project for the Stones , who get upstaged by the Who . . . | Long-shelved concert film was originally intended for British television in 1968 , but the Rolling Stones were unhappy their musical sequence was not as dynamic as that of the Who . The project languished in obscurity until it was found and received a theatrical release Stateside in 1996 . It's a raucous , shapeless ex... |
553,272 | 989,035 | 26,525 | 4 | Wan nuttiness is only for Ginger Rogers-addicts . . . | Ginger Rogers plays a popular movie actress ( so famous , in fact , that her face is on the cover of every single magazine at the newsstand ) who seeks solace and anonymity with a businessman in the mountains while disguised as a wallflower . Rogers , who is convincing incognito on and off for the first twenty minutes ... |
552,387 | 989,035 | 52,325 | 4 | Run away , skiddaddle , skidoo | Painful farce , adapted from Peter De Vries ' novel which then became the kind of play dinner-theaters specialized in . It features Richard Widmark in a humiliating ' comedic ' role as a man whose wife can't get pregnant , leading him into a drunken excursion with a sexy adoption agent , whom he later believes he has k... |
553,666 | 989,035 | 61,024 | 4 | Dreadful excuse for a western | Poorly-written remake of the 1939 John Wayne chestnut has stagecoach full of disparate people encountering personal strife and drama on the treacherous route to Cheyenne . Since the characters are such an obvious lot ( what with a prostitute , a pregnant woman , a bank robber , a wily alcoholic , an outlaw , etc . ) an... |
552,981 | 989,035 | 105,414 | 4 | Psycholgical thriller or high-flown slasher movie . . . either way it isn't very entertaining | Tasteless piece of Grand Guignol from Barbet Schroeder , a director who should've known better . Independent New York businesswoman Bridget Fonda , having just broken up with her fiancé , advertises for a female roommate and feels an immediate kinship with Jennifer Jason Leigh , a straggly , down-to-earth young applica... |
551,841 | 989,035 | 61,015 | 4 | It doesn't spin , swivel or sway . . . | Elvis Presley as a rock ' n roll crooner playing clubs with his goofy musical trio ( two men and drummer Deborah Walley , who dresses like a man for no particular reason ) ; he attracts the attention of a wealthy man's daughter who schemes to keep Presley in town - - to drive her father's car in an auto-race AND possib... |
550,574 | 989,035 | 87,722 | 4 | Vacant , sullen murder-melodrama | Scrappy , long on-the-shelf film by James Bridges concerns bank-teller Debra Winger's obsession over finding out what happened to a guy she was dating , who has mysteriously vanished . Bridges put this together with Winger after their partnership on " Urban Cowboy " , but it was a career low-point for both . Many trips... |
551,501 | 989,035 | 70,292 | 4 | If the title is supposed to be ironic , it's the best joke in the picture . . . | Walter Matthau looks mighty dour throughout this grim , convoluted , exasperating crime-file nonsense . A public bus massacre in San Francisco , which included a cop amongst its victims , is investigated by the force , and Matthau is saddled with new partner Bruce Dern ( he hates him on sight , how's that for originali... |
552,472 | 989,035 | 312,329 | 4 | 100 % formula | Sloppy , sentimental boxing comedy-drama is based on successful female boxing manager Jackie Kallen's tough rise to the top ( ' loosely inspired ' seems a more appropriate term ) . Meg Ryan plays Kallen with a streetwise edge in her voice and is appropriately cast , but her outlandish wardrobe certainly belies the sala... |
553,424 | 989,035 | 78,034 | 4 | Caustic comedy with leering , mean-spirited asides . . . | Two years before he wrote and directed " Arthur " , Steve Gordon had a minor hit with his screenplay for this crackpot comedic vehicle for Henry Winkler , then TV's " The Fonz " . A 1950s college thespian ( and all-around jerk ) woos a co-ed and gets married without any employment prospects on the horizon ; to make end... |
551,927 | 989,035 | 61,176 | 4 | Turgid wartime comedy with obvious targets . . . | In 1943 , as American Army troops are invading Italy , an over-eager yet green Commanding Officer is given the choice whether or not to overtake a small Sicilian village ; hungry for the invasion , he leads his men into battle , but the cheery , celebrating Italians ultimately make a surrender difficult to manage . Dev... |
552,089 | 989,035 | 396,652 | 4 | A movie is only as strong as its weakest point . . . | Teen physics whiz ( played by Michelle Trachtenberg , a Scarlett Johansson lookalike with a gorgeous crop of brunette hair ) takes up ice-skating at the local rink as a means of studying kinetic energy - - pretty soon , she's donning a leotard and performing in a pageant ! The downside is , smart girls never get the gu... |
550,638 | 989,035 | 61,173 | 4 | Moderately amusing for about half its length . . . | In the 1990s , the U . S . Air Force wants to send a newlywed couple into outer space to live on the moon in a space-station for a year ; after the first couple drops out , alternate Jerry Lewis is chosen , but he's a bachelor . . . enter Connie Stevens as a prospective bride . Good-looking Jerry Lewis vehicle is amusi... |
552,370 | 989,035 | 489,664 | 4 | a . k . a . " Shattered " . . . or , more appropriately , " Splintered " | Pierce Brosnan , talking like an Irish street tough , puts the lives of an ace advertising executive from Chicago and his wife in turmoil by hanging their young daughter's safety over their heads ; degrading and destroying the upwardly mobile twosome however seems to bring Brosnan no joy , so what is the point of this ... |
552,726 | 989,035 | 61,170 | 4 | Running jokes , a slapstick ballet , and Cary Grant playing matchmaker . . . | American heel-to-toe competitor in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics cajoles his way into a flat occupied by an attractive working girl and her " roommate " , a chipper British corporate executive who couldn't find other lodgings in over-crowded Japan . After a swift , bouncy start , this lackluster comedy seems to lose inspirat... |
551,495 | 989,035 | 34,881 | 4 | Leaden magic | 270 years ago in Salem , a witch and her father were burned at the the stake by a New England Puritan , who is cursed along with all his descendants by black magic and will never find happiness in romance ; jump ahead to the present day ( circa 1942 ) , the witches are released from their holding spot and the bewitchin... |
550,855 | 989,035 | 105,323 | 4 | Over-charged . . . | Prep school lad takes weekend job looking after blind , hard-bitten former Army Colonel , who is on a personal mission of self-destruction . Adapted from the Giovanni Arpino novel and 1974 Italian film " Profumo Di Donna " , this overlong Martin Brest film is unrestrained , overreaching and ham-fisted . Filmed in autum... |
550,704 | 989,035 | 69,897 | 4 | This " Coffy " is lukewarm . . . | Poorly-made " blaxploitation " crime-drama aimed squarely at the black urban market of the early 1970s . Pam Grier stars in the title role , that of a nurse who becomes a one-woman vigilante after drug-dealing thugs make Coffy's little sister a junkie . Violent nonsense plods along doggedly , with canned energy and exc... |
550,675 | 989,035 | 60,726 | 4 | The Munster family in " living " color . . . | Theatrical farewell to Herman , Lily , Grandpa and the gang features many of the same talents behind the popular 1960s television show " The Munsters " , but this misadventure seems a little bereft of imagination - - perhaps a laugh-track might have helped ? The ghoulish clan inherits a British estate , and Herman gets... |
552,617 | 989,035 | 87,464 | 4 | Hardly a satisfying moment in the entire film . . . insulting and poorly-made , as well | City girl Meg Tilly receives a horrifying phone call from her mother and , understandably shaken , returns home to her family's rural digs , only to be faced with a mystery : why are all the homespun residents acting out in bizarre and unsettling ways ? Radiation thriller , with barely a nod to ecology , has small town... |
552,486 | 989,035 | 104,695 | 4 | Religion vs . show-biz . . . and a good cast vs . a mediocre script | Steve Martin certainly took a chance here ( temporarily breaking out of his syrupy family-comedy rut ) portraying a phony faith healer named Jonas Nightengale ( ! ) , but this puzzling drama-lite can't decide how cynical or comedic its ingredients should be and it fails . The uneven screenplay is really just tangled th... |
553,638 | 989,035 | 96,223 | 4 | Dryly irreverent . . . ridiculous . . . and sometimes very funny | Tapeheads , a scrappy , intermittently funny spoof of the music video business , might have been the perfect comedic short , and stars John Cusack and Tim Robbins are effortlessly in the swing of the nonsensical chaos involved . They play two semi-savvy security guards in Los Angeles who start their own company , Vid... |
550,473 | 989,035 | 53,054 | 4 | Yet another mediocre Debbie Reynolds comedy . . . | Labored comedy has I . R . S . agent Tony Randall investigating eccentric farm family in Maryland who have never paid their taxes ; Debbie Reynolds is the tomboy farmer's daughter who puts the squeeze on the not-so-disinterested tax-man . Debbie certainly made her share of inferior theatrical sitcoms during this period... |
552,853 | 989,035 | 104,697 | 4 | Good actresses can't break through the plastic coating . . . | Before the advent of the Lifetime or Women's Entertainment networks , wherein made-for-cable movies regularly turn up about female bonding amidst great inner turmoil , something slight like " Leaving Normal " actually made a run in theaters ; today , I doubt that would happen . Abused wife Meg Tilly hitches up with wor... |
550,437 | 989,035 | 155,776 | 4 | Kidnap-comedy with a dark streak ; from the " Heathers " school of screen writing . . . | A group of ultra-hip teenage schoolgirls ( from Reagan High ! ) accidentally kill one of their own in a birthday prank gone awry ; they struggle to keep their deed a secret even after a nerdy student discovers the truth . Darkly comic tale , brightly-produced yet full of cynicism , has brief moments that go out on a li... |
551,823 | 989,035 | 113,228 | 4 | Snoozing sequel with the leads in need of some No-Doz | Woeful , disappointing sequel to 1993's hit " Grumpy Old Men " is more retread than follow-up . The two crotchety neighbors - - Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon - - bicker over their children ( who will soon be making the sparring oldsters in-laws ! ) and of course who has the better fishing skills ; they stop trading in... |
553,097 | 989,035 | 236,640 | 4 | Valley of the Dolls was a lot more fun . . . | Film-version of Elizabeth Wurtzel's memoir about a turbulent young woman's life turned around by the anti-depressant Prozac wants to have it both ways : to be a finger-wagging diatribe on the perils of curing mental or emotional instability with drugs AND an exaltation of Wurtzel herself , who took Prozac - - and got a... |
552,605 | 989,035 | 96,037 | 4 | A bubblegum movie that makes bubblegum seem like a bad idea | The rock-loving teens in this movie don't seem to know anything about making music . We get no information about their musical backgrounds , and their idea of jamming is to feign a version of " Iko Iko " while driving in their stolen van ( I say ' feign ' because the sound of their unison vocals is distinctly studio-en... |
551,821 | 989,035 | 70,040 | 4 | About the whimsy of childhood - - and how youngsters take things to heart more seriously than we realize . . . | Highly-regarded Spanish film ( released there in 1973 but not Stateside until 1976 ) about a little girl in a small Spanish village in 1940 who sees the film " Frankenstein " in a makeshift theater and becomes obsessed with one certain sequence ( where the monster is befriended by a little girl near the river ) . Havin... |
553,724 | 989,035 | 78,721 | 4 | Sloppy mixture of slapstick and a hipster's idea of smut . . . | Writer-director Blake Edwards is so out of the loop he can't even fake being hip . This middle-age-crazy concoction , about a self-absorbed songwriter chasing after a youthful vision of beauty , has elements of lust without passion , broad comedy without skill , and pathos without anything substantial in the screenplay... |
550,617 | 989,035 | 60,884 | 4 | Lumpy western is pure bull . . . | Curious western handled in cartoony fashion : it's all fired-up , though it ultimately misfires . Fiesty Brit Maureen O'Hara and daughter Juliet Mills bring a royal bull for breeding to Old West America , where both ladies wind up with suitors . Capable cast holds interest but , despite some pleasurable moments , Andre... |
551,041 | 989,035 | 60,921 | 4 | Pushy , noisy comedy with few laughs | Nathaniel Benchley's book " The Off-Islanders " gets turned by Hollywood into yet another " It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World " clone , and still it was one of the biggest hits of 1966 . Panic ensues on America's East Coast when a Russian submarine runs aground , giving an unusually strong cast of players the opportunity to... |
552,696 | 989,035 | 87,313 | 4 | Anne Bancroft on full-tilt . . . | Anne Bancroft plays Estelle , a dying Jewish mother who asks her devoted son ( Ron Silver ) to locate reclusive one-time movie star Greta Garbo and introduce the two before Estelle checks out for good . Might've been entitled " Bancroft Talks " as the actress assaults this uncertain comedic / dramatic / sentimental mat... |
553,105 | 989,035 | 78,400 | 4 | Ragged road comedy / drama , noteworthy for Shields | Brooke Shields in a slightly awkward phase ( she never did go through the braces-and-glasses thing , but she's a skinny smartass here and for her that's awkward enough ) . Her pinball wizardry catches the eye of a con-man and together they take on all-comers . Critics at the time singled out Charles Durning's performan... |
551,704 | 989,035 | 52,844 | 4 | Impossibly clean-cut . . . | Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow appears to take place in a spotless netherworld , an era long gone by , where the biggest sin a kid could commit would be in defying the law and getting a traffic ticket . It opens with a young female auto fanatic getting the business from her arch rival , who pressures her into a car race .... |
552,669 | 989,035 | 60,424 | 4 | A funny comedic set-up , but it loses its way . . . | Sentimental cynicism : TV cameraman is injured while covering a football game and his brother-in-law , a shyster lawyer , persuades him to exaggerate his injuries for the extra insurance money . Handsome Billy Wilder film ( which he also co-wrote with I . A . L . Diamond ) , but that terrific , surefire premise just do... |
551,449 | 989,035 | 95,927 | 4 | Made by people with no sense of humor . . . | A ' dramedy ' about stand-up comedy written and directed by David Seltzer , who shows no wistfulness or whimsy for show-biz - - for him , it's all about the anxiety of getting a performance right . Tom Hanks has acting talent to spare , yet he does not possess the right timing to be convincing as a stand-up comic ( he'... |
551,968 | 989,035 | 87,262 | 4 | Exceedingly low-brow thrills . . . | Campy movies are serious-minded films made with little intentional humor which play all wrong on the screen , leading to unintended laughter . Such is the case with this deliriously silly adaptation of a Stephen King bestseller concerning a youngster who can start blazing fires with her mind ( she talks to the flames t... |
551,488 | 989,035 | 52,792 | 4 | Lots of talent involved , but film offers little dramatic appeal | Pedantic , overlong fabrication which attempts to chronicle the birth of the Federal Bureau of Investigations . Begins quite promisingly , with a still-relevant probe into an airplane explosion , however the melodrama involving James Stewart and wife Vera Miles just gets in the way ( Miles had a habit of playing tepid ... |
552,556 | 989,035 | 35,583 | 4 | Set-bound trifle with fine dancing and pleasant music . . . | Fred Astaire is reteamed with Rita Hayworth one year after their big hit for Columbia , " You'll Never Get Rich " . That was the movie which put Hayworth on the Hollywood map , yet her performance in this wan romantic musical hardly gives a suggestion why she was so suddenly popular . Down Buenos Aires way , a tyrannic... |
552,287 | 989,035 | 320,661 | 4 | Orlando Bloom as a Warrior Messiah | Director Ridley Scott is starting to repeat himself : here's another sword-laden epic , this one covering three ( count ' em , three ) long crusades . Dark Ages tale begins in 1184 France , with a widower blacksmith meeting his absentee father , traveling to downtrodden Jerusalem and defending the country against its m... |
552,036 | 989,035 | 69,822 | 4 | May-December clichés with a nice locale . . . | Trifling romantic drama directed by Clint Eastwood about the loving relationship which grows between a comely hippie ( Kay Lenz ) and a Los Angeles real estate agent in his golden years ( William Holden , surprisingly affable within this highly-concocted arrangement ) . The script is slight but not without some thought... |
552,676 | 989,035 | 43,123 | 4 | Warners time-filler | In a blatant attempt to recapture the spirit of James Cagney's 1942 hit " Yankee Doodle Dandy " ( the trailer even promises this to be " the dandiest Yankee Doodle of them all ! " ) comes a highly-concocted story from Irving Wallace about a down-and-out-showman staging a musical revue at a military academy . Corny in t... |
552,554 | 989,035 | 133,093 | 4 | After this , there is no turning back . . . | Glorified martial arts movie masquerading as a science-fiction thriller , this blockbuster hit struck a nerve with the public , though it isn't as brainy ( or as deep ) as one might be led to believe . Keanu Reeves is typically one-note as a computer-hacking loner who finds his life may not be reality - - and that an a... |
552,944 | 989,035 | 69,765 | 4 | Portentious drama is indeed slow , and heavy-handed | Sickly catcher for a pro-baseball team is cared for by the team's pitcher . Would-be acting showpiece for a group of talented men who are ultimately defeated by the slow-going pace of a melodrama that uses suffering as a noble badge . Mark Harris adapted his own novel , originally filmed as a television drama in the 19... |
553,079 | 989,035 | 60,636 | 4 | Someday when you're older , you'll understand . . . | George Axelrod's film of Al Hine's book isn't so much a satire of teen culture as it is a skewering of teenage-isms , such as bikinis , cashmere sweaters ( in assorted ' flavors ' ) , beach party / monster movies , high school cliques , morally corrupt parents , and the need for mass love . Tuesday Weld , starting her ... |
552,295 | 989,035 | 52,915 | 4 | Genial British military-training comedy with rock-a-boogie asides . . . | Although based upon a book by William Camp , this Albert Broccoli-produced service comedy seems to trail on the tail-end of the real-life Elvis Presley induction story . There's confusion within the British Army when a pop singing star is called upon for service , creating havoc within the ranks ; seems the idol's mana... |
553,684 | 989,035 | 183,649 | 4 | Everyone is on the phone in New York City ! | Joel Schumacher's mercilessly overheated " suspense " drama has cocky publicist Colin Farrell trapped in a phone booth by a sniper who knows all his dirty secrets . Seems cell-phone addict Farrell uses the public phone to ring his girlfriend , thus his wife of one year won't get suspicious when she sees the bill . Begi... |
551,170 | 989,035 | 60,283 | 4 | The Rankin / Bass team working with the best of intentions . . . | Despite a terrific " Emperor's New Clothes " episode , I'm hard-pressed to recall anything in " The Daydreamer " which really works , and that's a shame because the team of Rankin / Bass is obviously working with love and sincerity . Plot concerns a young Hans Christian Andersen who runs away from home and meets up wit... |
553,099 | 989,035 | 265,459 | 4 | Interesting development , murky returns | Wimpering suspense-drama with variable performances and writing . Robin Williams is nearly unrecognizable as a friendless photo developer in a shopping center whose not-so-innocent obsession with a seemingly happy family leads to tragedy . I'm not sure why ' lonely ' always equals ' sociopathic ' in these kinds of movi... |
552,048 | 989,035 | 60,164 | 4 | Even devout Christians passed this one up . . . | The first 22 chapters of Genesis as filtered through the indifferent style of director John Huston , who has an eccentric sensibility but no passion for biblical drama . Begins with surreal Garden of Eden segment and ends on overwrought note with George C . Scott as Abraham being tested by God . The Noah's Ark sequence... |
553,092 | 989,035 | 60,186 | 4 | She's the biggest thing to hit bathtubs since rings ! | Silly , scrappy comedy with Bob Hope trying to hide sleepy sexpot Elke Sommer from his wife . Low-budget screwball antics looks really bad , with sets which are far too large for the minimal action taking place there ( the kitchen in Bob's house is positively drafty ) , and the poor lighting and awkward camera-work do ... |
551,212 | 989,035 | 79,285 | 4 | Farrah's leading men : Kirk , Harvey , and a horny robot named Hector | Would-be foreboding sci-fi looks all shiny and new , like a futuristic department store . Three good actors ( Farrah Fawcett , Kirk Douglas and Harvey Keitel ) come off looking like incompetent dummies in this derivative , cardboard cartoon . When Keitel arrives at the space station of lovers Douglas and Fawcett , he i... |
552,349 | 989,035 | 60,415 | 4 | Stockcars and sourmash | Beach Party leads Frankie Avalon , Annette Funicello , and Harvey Lembeck do what they can with C-minus material involving an ace stockcar racer who gets involved with moonshiners ; the Internal Revenue wants him to work both sides , but he's more interested in finding out who's thwarting the midnight runs by playing... |
550,861 | 989,035 | 25,164 | 4 | One of the weakest of the Fred & Ginger teamings . . . | Screen treatment of the comedic Broadway success " The Gay Divorce " ( a title which was considered too scandalous for American moviegoers , though it was used in the U . K . ) concerns a man and woman ( Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers ) meeting under embarrassing circumstances while she's in the process of divorcing he... |
553,036 | 989,035 | 106,447 | 4 | Hasn't enough on its mind . . . and the women outclass the men | Middling adaptation of Roger Hedden's play about four twentysomethings in small Arizona town trying to find some truth in their lives . Acting showcase for Eric Stoltz , Bridget Fonda , Phoebe Cates and Tim Roth is surprisingly uneventful - - and mercilessly slow-moving . Performances by Fonda and Cates outclass the me... |
551,744 | 989,035 | 78,886 | 4 | Drably ' realistic ' comment on today's society . . . | Stephen Verona co-wrote and directed this story about an elderly married couple living in a decaying New York neighborhood near Coney Island who refuse to relocate despite escalating crime and racial tensions . Low-budget film from I . T . C . doesn't have an exploitation gimmick ( on the level of , say , " Death Wish ... |
551,688 | 989,035 | 106,471 | 4 | With a bigger budget and some directorial finesse , " Boxing Helena " might've been a contender . . . | Poorly-made , scrappy and off-putting erotic drama executed without the courage of its own idea . Lurid story concerns an obsessed surgeon's relationship with an indifferent vixen . Amusing in parts , the film occasionally goes out on the proverbial limb , but it's also messy and unfocused . Perhaps the behind-the-scen... |
552,611 | 989,035 | 78,952 | 4 | The best of Marsha Mason and the worst of Neil Simon | This agonizing comedy-drama got surprisingly sterling reviews upon its release in 1979 . I remember opening the movie-section of the L . A . Times and looking at a 2-page advertisement for " Chapter Two " filled with glowing captions like : " Better than ' The Goodbye Girl ' ! " and " Neil Simon does it again ! " What ... |
551,499 | 989,035 | 78,950 | 4 | Miscast , misguided , and stocked with sap | Remake of a 1931 chestnut involving an ex-boxer , who now trains horses , coaxed back into the ring and cheered from the sidelines by his adoring son and loving ex-wife . Boxing was big business in the late 1970's thanks to " Rocky " , but that was no excuse to dust off this slight , sentimental relic . Jon Voight , ju... |
552,737 | 989,035 | 114,148 | 4 | Latter-day Disney at their dullest . . . | English captain in 17th century Virginia falls in love with a Native American woman who , along with her people , fights to retain control of their land against the invading white man . Disney-animated rewriting of history is shameless in its pandering to political correctness ( and advancing Pocahontas's age to includ... |
553,677 | 989,035 | 366,444 | 4 | A boxer's demons - - in and out of the ring . . . | Fighting Tommy Riley is so naively scripted , and presented in such a pedantic , pedestrian manner , that I couldn't tell what the point of the picture was more than half-way into it . Grossly elongated and slower than molasses , it tells the extremely tired tale of a hot-headed young boxer , once an Olympic hopeful ... |
551,388 | 989,035 | 44,751 | 4 | Dorothy McGuire corners the market on suffering . . . | Wealthy businessman's daughter , who as a young girl caught rheumatic fever and now suffers from a shortness of breath , discovers her marriage to a charming ne'er-do-well was arranged by daddy ( whom she affectionately refers to as " Darling " ) ; worse than that , she may in fact have only a few weeks left to live , ... |
551,621 | 989,035 | 59,916 | 4 | Another " Beach Party " knock-off without the comedy , the chemistry , or the charm . . . | Columbia Pictures dipping deep into their teen bag , coming up with little more than a running advertisement for Coke and James Stacy in a series of ski fashions for men . Ultra clean-cut tale concerns a young man hiring entertainment ( ski bunnies ) and a work crew ( a cook and a soda-jerk ) to work at a mountain lodg... |
552,614 | 989,035 | 94,321 | 4 | If she screamed " Louden ! ! " one more time . . . | An ear-splitting movie . Madonna goes way out on an acting limb here , playing a beyond-vivacious parolee out to nab the scum who framed her and sent her to prison . After an energetic animated credits sequence - - which is much more fun than the rest of the movie - - we have nothing to look at but Madonna's black masc... |
553,029 | 989,035 | 60,094 | 4 | Eternal second-banana Tony Randall fails to carry comedic mystery . . . | Tony Randall has played so many wry neighbors and dryly acerbic sidekicks that it takes a few long moments for him and director Frank Tashlin to suspend our disbelief at the prospect of Tony playing master detective Hercule Poirot ! Randall certainly gives the role a good try , but the improbability of his casting coup... |
551,003 | 989,035 | 473,174 | 4 | Another failed gay comedy , this one with tacky stereotypes | A frightened-seeming heterosexual in his mid-30s and an eyeball-rolling gay salon owner " meet cute " and , despite their differences , become movie buddies ; still , everyone close to the straight guy misinterprets this friendship as an intimate relationship , causing him to question his own sexual preference . Simpli... |
552,155 | 989,035 | 60,050 | 4 | 7 different women . . . 7 different styles of acting | On the border of Mongolia in 1935 , American missionaries suffer through starvation , cholera , a menopausal woman about to give birth , an attack by vicious bandits , and the arrival of a chain-smoking , salty-tongued female doctor / atheist who usurps the power of the self-appointed leader played by Margaret Leighton... |
550,828 | 989,035 | 86,643 | 4 | A remastered mess | David Bowie , on stage at London's Hammersmith Odeon ( circa 1973 ) performing under the guise of his alter-ego , the androgynous space alien Ziggy Stardust . Bowie now claims Ziggy was not his bow to transvestism but rather his way of bucking the system ; that's all well and good , but seeing D . B . in space-drag may... |
552,172 | 989,035 | 114,319 | 4 | Lots of talent and pretty surroundings can't compensate for the fatigue . . . | Director Sydney Pollack ( a very talented filmmaker ) must've have gone into this remake of 1954's " Sabrina " knowing that he could never capture lighting again in the same bottle . Old-fashioned plot about a mousy chauffeur's daughter returning from a Paris trip looking like a million bucks and being wooed by two wea... |
552,653 | 989,035 | 59,726 | 4 | It melts on impact . . . | The " Beach Party " series taking one of its last gasps : Frankie Avalon and sniggering Dwayne Hickman hit the ski slopes and get stuck doing Tony Curtis & Jack Lemmon routines from " Some Like It Hot " , and the comparison isn't favorable . Avalon is actually game , but Hickman has no screen presence and the comic hij... |
552,883 | 989,035 | 95,178 | 4 | Molly Ringwald : camp Lolita or serious thespian ? | Molly Ringwald , softer and more contemplative than in her John Hughes / high school comedies , plays a shady girl from the wrong side of the tracks who meets and has an affair with preppy Cincinnati college kid Andrew McCarthy ; the fact his rich friends disapprove and she has such a questionable background may preven... |
551,456 | 989,035 | 120,863 | 4 | Tiresome meditation | Reclusive director Terence Malick's first film in YEARS is a heavy-going vision of hellish war ( I resist using the term " epic " since Malick's interpretation of mortal combat is frequently rather puny ; he's better at quiet moments of contemplation than dealing with actors in volatile situations ) . Malick seems just... |
550,578 | 989,035 | 166,896 | 4 | Odd cinematic coupling results in slow , impenetrable journey . . . | A curious combination : twisted filmmaker David Lynch with the Disney people , resulting in too-slow story of an elderly man attempting to reach his estranged , ailing brother by driving a John Deere lawnmower 260 miles . The film's opening moments are quirky and funny , with Richard Farnsworth completely at ease in th... |
553,731 | 989,035 | 59,704 | 4 | This is what the " Beach Party " flicks evolved into . . . | Before second-string A . I . P . studios turned into the primary movie-house responsible for scary-castle thrillers and cycle-savages B-flicks , it took another gasp with its " Beach Party " cast , putting GI Frankie Avalon and a chimpanzee into orbit . Deborah Walley is the love-interest , Buster Keaton is an Air Forc... |
551,378 | 989,035 | 70,928 | 4 | Another dud from Disney | John Amos plays a luckless coach who bombs out at football , baseball , basketball - - but during a trip to Africa he discovers a Tarzan-like athlete ( Jan-Michael Vincent , looking like a Tiger Beat pin-up ) and turns his attention to the track and field . Completely inane family comedy from the folks at Disney , who ... |
553,500 | 989,035 | 52,141 | 4 | Jerry Lewis : Babysitter | A Jerry Lewis vehicle that delivers exactly what his fans want while pleasing no one still hoping for a surprise from the comedic actor . Midwestern klutz ( guess who ? ) agrees to act as babysitter to a Hollywood actress and the newborns she has delivered in secret - - all three of them ! Frank Tashlin-directed chaos ... |
553,220 | 989,035 | 114,194 | 4 | Literate but unpleasant | B-flick , full of nastiness , trades in religious exposition for standard thriller clichés as fallen seminarian-turned-police detective becomes a pawn in a war of Heaven's angels . Christopher Walken has his usual sly time as Gabriel ( with both a trumpet AND a chip on his shoulder ) , Viggo Mortensen is an unmemorable... |
553,392 | 989,035 | 71,155 | 4 | Strident , overlong comedy-drama only notable for its breakout star . . . | Critically-lauded , but gloppy-looking , abrasive coming-of-age story about a Jewish kid in 1940's Montreal who hustles his way out of the ghetto . Richard Dreyfuss snuck this in between " American Graffitti " and " Jaws " , but his performance is one-note and not very appealing ( the film did poor business , and when ... |
552,214 | 989,035 | 114,241 | 4 | Successfully bizarre ; unsuccessfully entertaining . . . | There isn't much about " Reckless " that feels right , beginning with the off-putting title ( thanks to screenwriter Craig Lucas , who adapted his own play and brought this title with him ) and continuing with the casting ( Mia Farrow playing wife to Tony Goldwyn , who's young enough to be her son ) . The couple live i... |
553,221 | 989,035 | 52,198 | 4 | Over-simplified , over-eager . . . but at least it looks good | Teen idol Tommy Sands never got as popular as his Virgil Walker character is here ( and if he did , it lasted about a minute ) . Too bad then that his acting chops couldn't compensate for a lack of chart hits . Young man goes from tent-revivals to teen king , but when a funeral back home beckons , his priorities change... |
552,704 | 989,035 | 59,798 | 4 | Teeth-gnashingly ' kooky ' | Screen-adaptation of the Broadway hit grinds itself into the ground with a firm belief that kooky equals lovable , and vice-versa . It's tough to love anything here , particularly Jason Robards ' performance as a life-loving eccentric ( here we go ) who is investigated by authorities to see if he's a proper guardian fo... |
552,526 | 989,035 | 52,218 | 4 | ' Rat Pack ' talent , but with a disillusioned spirit . . . | Frank Sinatra plays a no-goodnik ex-soldier and frustrated writer , hard-living and hard-drinking , who returns to his Midwestern hometown and reunites with his estranged brother ( Arthur Kennedy ) , now the town big-shot with a disinterested wife and headstrong daughter . Frank gets involved with gambler Dean Martin ,... |
550,661 | 989,035 | 51,773 | 4 | Tidy and talky . . . | Star trifle wastes Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman on stuffy , inferior material . Derived from the play " Kind Sir " , plot has a popular stage actress falling for an American Diplomat in London ; trouble is , he says he's married . Director Stanley Donen stages the proceedings just like a play ( the only exception is a... |
551,370 | 989,035 | 51,746 | 4 | Eee-Uuu ! | Pseudo " behind-the-scenes " look at Hollywood from American International Pictures , filmed ( naturally ) on the cheap though still retaining a certain cheesy style that is both commendable and entertaining to watch . A nefarious make-up man for a movie-studio is up to no good , turning the actors he's working on into... |
551,577 | 989,035 | 421,239 | 4 | Routine flight . . . | Rachel McAdams is very good as smart , efficient hotel concierge who meets a charming gentleman at the airport ; turns out they're on same flight , his seat next to hers , and once the plane is up in the sky he reveals himself to be an assassin and her father is in danger of being killed unless she does what he wants .... |
553,117 | 989,035 | 365,830 | 4 | Shreddin ' with the big dogs | Jack Black and Kyle Gass play fantasy versions of themselves in this comic showcase for their side-band Tenacious D , an art-rock outfit with satirical , barbed lyrics . An ex-runaway obsessed with heavy metal and a beachfront-living , pot-smoking slacker who pretends he's a rock god meet and form a band ( the birthmar... |
553,142 | 989,035 | 51,732 | 4 | Tentative and tepid . . . | Jean Simmons as a mentally fragile woman returning home to her dysfunctional family after a stay in an institution . Simmons , a very samey actress , played a lot of these troubled types , women with see-sawing emotions ( and the other characters ' reactions to her are always the same in every circumstance : shock or s... |
551,405 | 989,035 | 59,496 | 4 | Not a thriller - - and not much as a drama - - it has almost nil appeal . . . | Evelyn Piper's novel becomes another Bette Davis vehicle made in the wake of Davis ' second-act success starring in creepy melodramas ; unfortunately , the tools are not present in Piper's material for Miss Davis to make a grand show of it , and the film version seems strictly bush-league as a result . Prim English gov... |
551,578 | 989,035 | 70,723 | 4 | Soylent Green is . . . ! an unbearable downer | Charlton Heston plays a cop in overpopulated , undernourished 2022 New York City who stumbles upon government secret involving the foodstuff everyone is eating . Another pessimistic vision of a grim , grimy future with memorable scenes of angry crowds pushing and shoving , but unmemorable Heston just going through the ... |
552,897 | 989,035 | 79,450 | 4 | Glum horror hodgepodge . . . | Sam Elliott and Katharine Ross play an American couple traveling through England where they are taken in by a mysterious millionaire who apparently heads up a devil's coven . The evil lurking at the mansion won't allow anyone to leave - - and so we're all held prisoner together , watching the guests meet their ' imagin... |
551,660 | 989,035 | 79,437 | 4 | Thoroughly lackluster mystery-thriller . . . | Jonathan Demme is such a character-oriented director that , to see him pulling a Brian De Palma ( which is to say , aping Hitchcock ) , it is nearly predictable when he fails to work up much suspense within this tepid mystery . Working from a screenplay by David Shaber , from Murray Teigh Bloom's novel , Demme attempts... |
551,400 | 989,035 | 114,682 | 4 | America's answer to " Priscilla , Queen of the Desert " . . . | Flabby " feel good " drag queen comedy features Wesley Snipes , Patrick Swayze and John Leguizamo as three drag-pageant contestants traveling cross-country to the show by car , getting stuck in a backwater town and turning the hayseed residents around on their overalls . This movie's comedic / sentimental vision of Bum... |
553,292 | 989,035 | 86,216 | 4 | Gorgeous images , uncompelling characters . . . | Set in an indiscriminate time and place , Francis Coppola's " Rumble Fish " looks like a cross between " Rebel Without a Cause " and " The Last Picture Show " . Matt Dillon , used mainly for his James Dean-like sneer and bravado , plays rebellious younger brother to legendary , motorcycle-riding hellraiser Mickey Rourk... |
551,373 | 989,035 | 86,050 | 4 | Derivative , PG-rated shocker for pre-teens . . . | Threadbare horror outing has an innocent teen ( Meg Tilly , appealing as always ) attempting to get in good with the popular clique at school ( despite the fact they seem to hate her outright ) and letting herself be subjected to their sorority-like initiation : spending the night in a creepy mausoleum . Despite the co... |
551,186 | 989,035 | 79,550 | 4 | Get the big one , Paul ! Get it ! | Disgruntled former scientist with NASA is brought back to the fold after a comet - - " wrenched out of orbit by Jupiter's gravitational pull ! " - - collides with an asteroid in space , sending a chunk of rock five miles wide heading straight for Earth . Disaster flick from American International looks fairly convincin... |
550,726 | 989,035 | 44,070 | 4 | Doris Day is ' S Wonderful . . . not so the rest of " Starlift " | Actress Ruth Roman's real-life philanthropic gesture to help entertain troops arriving from and leaving for the Korean War at an air base near San Francisco jump-started this all-star Warner Bros . salute to patriotism and song . Many celebrities make guest appearances while a love-hate romance develops between a buddi... |
552,732 | 989,035 | 36,422 | 4 | A paltry talent revue - - but , hey , Bette Davis gets to sing ! | Warner Bros . empties out its star-stable for a witless talent round-up . Eddie Cantor is the main focus here , playing both himself and a look-alike tour-bus driver trying to break into show business . Bette Davis ' bit , singing the priceless " They're Either Too Young or Too Old " , is the highlight here , and Davis... |
550,849 | 989,035 | 114,478 | 4 | Improvisational drama without much on its mind . . . | Character-oriented piece from director Wayne Wang centering on the owner of a New York-based smoke shop , his offbeat clientèle and assorted colorful friends . Heavily improvisational - - yet only intermittently interesting - - " Smoke " managed to create a small cult with audiences and critics , although neither the a... |
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