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551,131 | 989,035 | 156,934 | 4 | Preposterous . . . but not without interest | Unusually cold and silly drama from director Sydney Pollack . Soapy plot revolves around adulterous couple perishing in a plane wreck , leaving their spouses to find eachother and connect on their own intimate level . Romance-novel writing gets sluggish treatment , although I thought the performances by leads Harrison ... |
552,932 | 989,035 | 79,574 | 4 | A sci-fi stiff . . . | James Bond blasts off into the galaxy in order to stop a madman from creating his own ' perfect ' world in space and destroying Earth . Roger Moore was very much in command as James Bond for the often eloquent " The Spy Who Loved Me " in 1977 ( it was really Moore's peak as Agent 007 , as he exuded both charm and mascu... |
553,533 | 989,035 | 44,112 | 4 | Overwrought | Extremely moody melodrama ( told mostly in flashback ) has young war vet struggling to adjust to civilian life , bringing over Italian bride to live with him and his parents . But trouble begins almost immediately , mostly because the kid's mom is a neurotic mess . Film takes an ETERNITY setting up it's story ( which i... |
551,134 | 989,035 | 166,485 | 4 | Ready-made star-crossed tale | Although I found this version of the story more palpable than the musical " The King And I " , which was so stagy and heavy it felt like a pound cake soaking wet , I still can't understand why this is such a beloved story . It has a musty , old-fashioned theme - - which is constructed here like a connect-the-dots book ... |
552,477 | 989,035 | 114,550 | 4 | Events leading up to the Gay Uprising of 1969 - - told in connect-the-dots fashion | A young gay man from the sticks comes to New York City in 1969 hoping for a better life , but finds the homosexual lifestyle just as stifled in the big city under police pressure , corruption and harassment . The legendary gay riots near the Stonewall Inn take up just five minutes of the film's running-time , the final... |
553,356 | 989,035 | 70,814 | 4 | Well-intentioned , but tuneless and lumbering G-rated boys ' adventure . . . | Mark Twain's timeless story turned into a wholesome , plastic-coated musical with cutesy-poo asides and unmemorable songs . Composers Richard and Robert Sherman also adapted the screenplay , but they don't have the feel of Twain's prose down ( or perhaps the book is singularly impossible to adequately get on film ? ) .... |
550,966 | 989,035 | 59,557 | 4 | James Coburn is lean and mean . . . but he's no James Bond | Mad scientists attempt to control the world by managing our weather patterns ; cocky super-agent Derek Flint ( a shockingly youthful James Coburn ) is assigned to stop them . In the spy-saturated 1960's , this rather slack addition to the genre would seem an unlikely stand-out , and yet it was successful enough to warr... |
553,502 | 989,035 | 70,791 | 4 | Had promise , but the ' dark humor ' goes too far . . . | Shakespearean thespian Edward Lionheart ( Vincent Price ) strikes back at the stuffy critics who've skewered him in print and plots an elaborate death for each one . A delicious idea for a black farce is unfortunately hampered by a direction that takes things too far ( did Douglas Hickox forget this was supposed to be ... |
553,059 | 989,035 | 51,913 | 4 | Folksy tale has since been improved-upon , but this cast is very fine . . . | Thornton Wilder's play about a matchmaking busy-body named Dolly Levi in 1880s Yonkers , New York who has been hired to find a mate for a wealthy , grumpy business owner ; she comically attempts to keep him for herself , while the gal he admires is quickly falling for one of his own employees . The later stage ( and fi... |
553,053 | 989,035 | 89,945 | 4 | Blazing Saddles on Valium | Writer-director High Wilson must have been a big admirer of those gentle , low-keyed western serials from the ' 30s and ' 40s , but how he managed to sell this homage in the mid-1980s is a mystery . Deliberately mild outdoor yarn features Tom Berenger as a singing cowboy and Andy Griffith as a corrupt sheriff . Both ac... |
553,663 | 989,035 | 97,579 | 4 | Full of howlers , inane manipulation , and " justice gone wrong " . . . | Ordinary Joe Tom Selleck is in the right house at the wrong time when two scummy cops invade his home to arrest him for drugs ; Selleck is clean , the cops made a mistake , so they rectify their gaffe by planting the goods on him . Next stop : the courtroom ( where an ages-old marijuana infraction rears its ugly head )... |
552,545 | 989,035 | 97,570 | 4 | The Vietnam war used strictly for sentiment . . . | Modern-day story has an inquisitive young teen unearthing the past and discovering the father she never knew by reading his diary ; he died in combat before her birth , and the girl's interest spurs her war-scarred uncle to take her on an emotional visit to the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial . Opening in late September 198... |
551,955 | 989,035 | 97,567 | 4 | A sickly succession of trial and error , contrasted with smiles all around . . . | Mary Stuart Masterson attempts to give a subtle , thoughtful , nuanced performance as a pregnant , unwed teenager about to give up her soon-to-be-born baby to a married couple who have chosen adoption , but the cutesy-coy writing here defeats her - - and everyone else . Glenn Close and James Woods are credible as the p... |
550,995 | 989,035 | 97,557 | 4 | Cruddy-looking thriller - - but Jenny Wright is fun | Jenny Wright is engaging as an offbeat young woman - - a bookworm addicted to pulpy thrillers - - who is stalked by a monster right out of the pages of her latest read . Nicely set in Hollywood , California , this B-flick unfortunately doesn't have the budget to cover its pulp-thriller aspirations . Director Tibor Taká... |
553,462 | 989,035 | 50,658 | 4 | Audrey's chic , lithe charm provides the film's only asset . . . | One of Audrey Hepburn's lesser romantic entries , a well-coiffed valentine in which she's improbably paired with wooden Gary Cooper , a star-combo gambit which fails to pay off . Hepburn , playing a French detective's daughter , is in love with an American smoothie , a playboy who wants this new girlfriend investigated... |
550,608 | 989,035 | 72,608 | 4 | Undisciplined cuteness ; where's Brooks when you need him ? | Eyesore comic farce has detective Sherlock Holmes throwing his brother a bone and letting him solve baffling blackmail case in foggy London . Gene Wilder , who wrote , directed and stars , obviously needed some restraint ; when Wilder doesn't have a director or co-hort like Mel Brooks to help level his excesses , he ca... |
551,031 | 989,035 | 110,649 | 4 | Satire of Hollywood phonies - - by phonies | Michael Tolkin impressed me so much with his film " The Rapture " that it was certainly depressing to then see his talents go to waste with this absurd comedy of lost morals . A graphic designer and her Hollywood honcho husband are in big financial trouble : she has no clients and he just quit his job . Some of their s... |
553,217 | 989,035 | 120,461 | 4 | Los Angeles is already doomed . . . never mind the theatrics | Uneven plateaus under the earth in Los Angeles have separated far enough for molten lava at the Earth's core to come erupting to the surface . . . of the La Brea Tar Pits ? " Volcano " IS the pits , what with an Emergency Management Director rushing around after his daughter and a female seismologist tossing off sarcas... |
550,836 | 989,035 | 50,569 | 4 | Crying-on-the-inside masochism | Interminable biography of comedian / singer Joe E . Lewis is transformed into a Frank Sinatra star-vehicle , which is handicapped by a leaden script that turns over all the old show-biz clichés , rarely revealing anything human . Lewis , a crooner in 1920s Chicago , is bullied by gangsters but rebels and has his throat... |
552,917 | 989,035 | 134,273 | 4 | Dim-bulb film-making . . . | Joel Schumacher is perfectly capable of making a slambang thriller , even if his courses of action don't always jibe with audience expectations , however his more serious efforts can be completely off the mark . Here , his intention to make a gritty , no-holds-barred film about the porno underworld is laced with tediou... |
553,627 | 989,035 | 89,892 | 4 | Chained Heat revisited | Women-in-prison flick involving an innocent American tourist in West Germany who is mistaken for a spy , grilled until exhaustion sets in , and sent to jail without a word to her soldier-fiancé . After publicly nixing her hit " Chained Heat " on just about every talk show of the 1980s , it's amazing that star Linda Bla... |
550,616 | 989,035 | 149,691 | 4 | Phony star-driven vehicle . . . | Talented screenwriter Alvin Sargent sadly cannot get any engaging ideas cooking in this artificial trifle about a wayward mother and her mature teenage daughter trying to make their lives work in Los Angeles despite mom's flighty behavior . Apart from several good sequences , I didn't quite buy Susan Sarandon as a flak... |
551,651 | 989,035 | 59,183 | 4 | Perhaps if they had had Elke Sommer or Kim Novak on-board . . . ? | Disparate group of men ( James Stewart , Peter Finch , Richard Attenborough , Hardy Kruger , Ernest Borgnine , and George Kennedy ) are lost in the Arabian desert after their plane crashes in a sandstorm . Two-and-a-half hours of grim uncertainty , staged by Robert Aldrich like a cross between " And Then There Were Non... |
550,440 | 989,035 | 384,680 | 4 | A blank slate of human despair . . . | There's nothing cunning about the approach taken in " The Weather Man " . It isolates us in one man's depressive vacuum of bloat and helplessness , yet it never digs deeper to become a meaningful treatise on Life , and the lead performance seems to encourage that . Nicolas Cage plays a Chicago weather announcer on TV w... |
552,110 | 989,035 | 41,949 | 4 | Anemic marital shenanigans . . . | Thin comedy rests solely on the appeal of the stars , and Rosalind Russell and Robert Cummings are a very companionable screen-team . She's a smart , sharp , yet somewhat clumsy lady lawyer - - being nominated for judgeship - - whose career may be hindered by her association with Cummings , the no-goodnik ex-husband st... |
552,710 | 989,035 | 50,439 | 4 | Surly whodunit set in Utah ; camp with a clenched-jaw . . . | Unbelievable murder-mystery centering around an upscale lodge in Utah , wherein sheriff John Dehner ( in a cowboy hat ) investigates the gruesome slaying of a blonde actress , a " man-hating witch " who had plenty of enemies . Soon , more bodies start popping up , the main suspects being : Lex Barker as the local he-ma... |
552,858 | 989,035 | 120,324 | 4 | Incredible talents promise more than the film delivers . . . | Woefully overwritten , overbaked melodrama with a familiar but nonetheless intriguing central idea : three men in a snowy small town come upon a downed plane in an isolated area and find that it is full of money - - should they split the loot up and keep it a secret or should they report their findings ? Scott B . Smit... |
552,076 | 989,035 | 33,279 | 4 | Paging Lucy Ricardo . . . | Second-biller from R . K . O . is an early , creaky vehicle for the young Lucille Ball , who had yet to make a big impression in Hollywood . Certainly this picture wasn't going to do it for her , however she's pretty good in the film's early moments . A plain-Jane housewife , whose workaholic accountant husband is assi... |
553,662 | 989,035 | 80,128 | 4 | A curious change of pace for an acting Angel . . . | Before Farrah Fawcett starred in the wife-abuse television film " The Burning Bed " - - unintentionally spawning a new genre for TV movies ( glamorous actresses going gritty with serious material ) , another " Charlie's Angels " star , Cheryl Ladd , went dramatic ; here , she's the abuser . A suburban wife and mother f... |
552,188 | 989,035 | 120,777 | 4 | Vicious wit gone limp . . . | Brazen teenage girl leaves an unhappy home to live with her gay half-brother , but she ends up seducing her brother's chiseled-but-naive lover - - convincing him that she's carrying his child . Over-stuffed , acid-tongued comedy-of-ills is chockful of unlikable people . Credit director Don Roos for going full-throttle ... |
552,895 | 989,035 | 110,950 | 4 | Offensively trite . . . | Old-fashioned coming-of-age clichés and young romance packaged in new-fangled wrapping . Ben Stiller made his directorial debut with this would-be irreverent look at Generation X-ers making a go at life after graduating from college , exposing his soft penchant for normalcy in the second-half and slushing the movie wit... |
551,668 | 989,035 | 80,116 | 4 | Prospecting for gold with an actor / director asleep at the wheel . . . | Peter Fonda is so intentionally enervated as an actor that his lachrymose line-readings cancel out any irony or humor in the dialogue . He trades sassy barbs and non-witty repartee with Brooke Shields as if he were a wooden block with receding hair ; even his smaller touches ( like fingering a non-existent mustache on ... |
552,657 | 989,035 | 120,791 | 4 | Mild magic . . . | Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman are well-cast as estranged sisters in the present day who reunite , only to become involved in a murder , covering their tracks while dodging an out-of-town cop who's hot on the case . After rocketing to stardom with her co-starring role in " Speed " , Sandra Bullock has struggled with ... |
553,682 | 989,035 | 134,619 | 4 | Thriller about robotized teens - - made for robotized teens . . . | Youthful variation on " The Stepford Wives " ( and perhaps even " The Parallax View " ) has square-jawed James Marsden - - a jock-equivalent of Tom Cruise - - playing a high school misfit ( ! ) , relocated East from Chicago and finding a clique of sweater-wearing , easy listening-loving teenagers to be more dangerous t... |
552,149 | 989,035 | 103,241 | 4 | The kind of witless farce talented actors usually run from . . . | Thank God Bill Murray doesn't have to make films like this anymore ! A relentlessly unfunny affair , " What About Bob ? " resembles a movie in limbo : half farce , half dark comedy , and neither half successful . Richard Dreyfuss plays a prominent psychiatrist , currently on the bestseller's list with his new self-help... |
550,709 | 989,035 | 41,515 | 4 | In-jokey Warners musical overdoses on perky cuteness . . . | Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan play themselves as two egotistical movie stars arguing over the direction of their latest film-project , later attempting to make an actress out of bumpkin-waitress Doris Day . This was Doris ' third film , and it forces her to overdo her freckle-faced , tomboyish sweetness ( she has energ... |
553,005 | 989,035 | 50,306 | 4 | Glossy , forgettable Vincente Minnelli nonsense . . . | Witless romp featuring Gregory Peck as a sports writer who has a whirlwind courtship with fashion guru Lauren Bacall , leading to a quick trip to the altar . Cinemascope fluff does allow Peck to loosen up for a change , but the screenplay seems to have been written around the opportunities for mini-fashion shows ( inde... |
551,354 | 989,035 | 111,094 | 4 | Some good one-liners in asinine comic set-up | Albert Brooks co-wrote and stars in this sometimes-bright but terribly unsubtle comedy about a talent scout for the New York Yankees who loses his reputation after getting a skittish college Freshman signed to the team ( the Yankees apparently scheduled the kid to pitch in a televised game without any training or pre-g... |
551,007 | 989,035 | 120,660 | 4 | Outlandish conspiracy thriller ; does anything good ever happen in Washington , D . C . ? | Georgetown attorney Will Smith gets help from conspiracy-expert Gene Hackman after a videotape has been passed to him showing a Washington , D . C . Congressman being ambushed and killed by the Director of Security and his goons . Highly ridiculous Tony Scott-directed thriller with laughably bad dialogue and secondary ... |
550,986 | 989,035 | 52,545 | 5 | The anchor is heavier than the ship . . . | Assured and self-amused Bob Hope glides smoothly through jokey western involving an insurance salesman from New York unknowingly selling a valuable life policy to the infamous gunslinger / train robber Jesse James ; he's forced by his boss to head West to find Jesse and ask for the policy back . Hope's nervous shtick r... |
553,314 | 989,035 | 427,327 | 5 | Hummable and hammy , weighted down with ostentatious ' attitude ' | Musical remake of John Waters ' cult-comedy from 1988 , adapted from the Broadway triumph and full of toe-tapping songs - - each one a ' showstopper ' that hopes to obliterate the number that came before - - has a " short and stout " white high schooler in 1960s Baltimore becoming a teen-sensation on the TV dance-progr... |
552,543 | 989,035 | 78,199 | 5 | A sitcom in soft-focus | An adulterous couple meet at the same cabin every year for a weekend tryst ( we see them every five years ) , while the world's fashions , morals and mores change around them . Ellen Burstyn repeats her Broadway triumph on the screen , and garnered an Oscar nod for Best Actress ; though she's a terrific actress , this ... |
551,057 | 989,035 | 112,883 | 5 | Not much of a movie beyond the wonderful veteran performances . . . | Suicidal young man believes himself to be a descendant of the legendary Latin lover Don Juan ; he's treated by a psychiatrist who could use a little romance in his own staid marriage . Johnny Depp , in a straggly goatee and unkept hair , isn't quite Don Juan material , but portly Marlon Brando is very likable as the do... |
553,095 | 989,035 | 88,024 | 5 | Constipated sci-fi . . . | Michael Crichton's writing skills are undeniably gripping , and as a movie director he has occasionally shown a deft sense of pacing ; unfortunately for science-fiction fans , Crichton has mainly chosen to waste his craft on piddling , throwaway material like " Runaway " , which is so overloaded with mechanical energy ... |
552,699 | 989,035 | 43,968 | 5 | Jane Powell as . . . all of the above | Jane Powell sparkles as Texas gal Elizabeth Rogers who travels to Europe with her single father and finds romance with a young man - - and also meets the mother she never knew . MGM musical on a less-than-grand scale , yet underrated Powell really pours on the charm and her song numbers are fairly witty . The picture i... |
551,774 | 989,035 | 88,044 | 5 | Sick ! Stupid ! . . . but I certainly wasn't bored | Call " Savage Streets " what it is : trash . However , it is amusing , lowest-of-all-levels trash , and I enjoyed Linda Blair's upfront , colorful performance as the vengeful big sister of a rape victim . The dialogue is hilariously vulgar and self-conscious , and the girls ' locker room sequence ( filled with naked ba... |
553,309 | 989,035 | 78,158 | 5 | Good cast and interesting teenage characters sacrificed for yahoo thrills . . . | Disney's sequel to their not-bad 1975 hit " Escape To Witch Mountain " brings back Ike Eisenmann and Kim Richards as the teen-tykes from outer space , here battling wits and powers with villainous Bette Davis and Christopher Lee ( and their chauffeur , Anthony James , who also played a chauffeur alongside Davis in " Bu... |
552,582 | 989,035 | 105,151 | 5 | A commercial comeback for Altman , but it's overloaded with stars . . . | Director Robert Altman practically resurrected his quirky film-making career with this in-jokey , acerbic overview of show business , and the many celebrities who dot the cast prove that Altman's prestigious name and reputation made much of Hollywood want to jump on-board . Still , this murder mystery , with studio hot... |
552,342 | 989,035 | 105,156 | 5 | Lolita in the ' 90s | Nabokov's Lolita used the affections of a fawning , elderly man ( her stepfather ) for her own purposes - - which never amounted to much more than sex and cash . It only figures that today's Lolita would be dressed to kill , literally . As Drew Barrymore plays her here , she's a sexy homicidal figure with maternal delu... |
550,738 | 989,035 | 87,951 | 5 | Cheesy stuff | The very first scene of " Protocol " is all wrong : Goldie Hawn ( again playing a sweet ditz ) holds up traffic on a busy Washington , D . C . street when her car breaks down . Not only has her engine blown but she can't get out of the car because the door is also broken . Who wrote this ? Buck Henry ? ! ! Hard to beli... |
550,462 | 989,035 | 43,910 | 5 | Nearly forgotten Bette Davis soaper . . . | Bette Davis works her usual magic with a colorless role as a wealthy society matron whose miserable husband wants her to give him a divorce . Film's best moments are the flashbacks to the couple's happier times , which are filmed in a dreamy , surreal manner . Jane Cowl gives an outstanding supporting performance as an... |
552,438 | 989,035 | 52,527 | 5 | Not that miserable old so - & - so again ! | The Near-Sighted Mr . Magoo ( amiably voiced by Jim Backus ) gets his own starring vehicle in this not-bad animated comedy-fantasy from UPA . Lamp-seller in Budhapest demands that his loaf-off nephew Aladdin get married ; the boy becomes smitten with the Sultan's daughter , but she's in danger of being snatched by the ... |
552,748 | 989,035 | 405,159 | 5 | Ready-built for tragedy | Clint Eastwood's directorial career has brought forth some very spotty pictures ; when he loses his dryly-askew sense of humor , Eastwood becomes a muddled , one-dimensional filmmaker . " Million Dollar Baby " is much better than " Mystic River " in that it features sympathetic characters , multi-layered performances a... |
551,901 | 989,035 | 95,705 | 5 | Nothing wrong with a little slapstick - - but that's all this is | Theatrical expansion of the failed TV show " Police Squad ! " managed to catch on with laugh-hungry audiences of the late ' 80's and became a surprise success . The plot is really secondary to the sketches as eternally stupid police lieutenant Frank Drebin acts as bodyguard to the Queen of England on her visit to the U... |
552,268 | 989,035 | 112,792 | 5 | Sentiment-driven update of " The Blackboard Jungle " . . . and every teen rebellion movie since 1955 | Michelle Pfeiffer works very hard as an ex-Marine-turned-inner city schoolteacher who butts heads with the prim school-board over how she should teach her unruly classes ; seems Michelle has been resorting to candy bar rewards and Bob Dylan poetry readings to get her students attention . Apparently heartfelt , but almo... |
550,593 | 989,035 | 52,680 | 5 | Disappointing star-vehicle | Cameron Hawley's book about ruthlessness and romance in the world of high finance becomes well-dressed but tepid star-vehicle for James Garner ( then riding high on TV's " Maverick " ) and perpetual second-biller Natalie Wood ( even after spending years in the business , Wood got stuck in the role of the ' love-interes... |
550,680 | 989,035 | 112,715 | 5 | Rote , old-fashioned formula from curious modern talents . . . | Though it did manage to draw in audiences , " Congo " plays like an old John Agar flick from the 1950s , a manipulative , special effects-laden co-feature straight off the assembly line . Motley expedition team in Africa ( which includes a " talking " gorilla ) come upon murderous gray apes guarding a lost fortune in d... |
552,234 | 989,035 | 95,489 | 5 | Not superior animation , but not-bad Disney duplication . . . | Animated family film from Don Bluth and his animation team concerns orphaned dinosaur and his misfit friends searching for vegetation during prehistoric freeze . Some of the action sequences are hectic and confusing , with one dinosaur battle taking place during a mammoth earthquake ( ! ) , but otherwise the picture is... |
553,153 | 989,035 | 210,358 | 5 | Creepily indifferent . . . | A chilly examination of the female heart looks at the lives of several women in five separate stories which purport to dig to the very core of a woman's emotional being . These chapters , handled oddly and in clinical fashion , fail to show off the star-actresses to their individual advantages ( particularly in the cas... |
552,260 | 989,035 | 78,294 | 5 | Farrah leaves TV for this ? | Ironic that Farrah Fawcett-Majors would break her " Charlie's Angeles " TV contract to do this picture and her next ( the ill-fated " Sunburn " ) : both look and play like TV movies lost on the big screen . I was absolutely astounded that this film was shot by cinematographers Andrew Laszlo and Ralf Bode - - two vetera... |
552,413 | 989,035 | 43,859 | 5 | Nobody ever had as sane a freak-out as Jimmy Stewart . . . | Rather unpleasant melodrama , often referred to as " No Highway in the Sky " , has fidgety scientist James Stewart flying in a crowded plane that he believes will suffer from metal fatigue ; convincing the other passengers they are in great danger becomes quite a problem . Although the film stretches its central idea o... |
551,826 | 989,035 | 70,578 | 5 | An interesting attempt | Cynical detective investigates the murder of a prostitute , a case which has occult underpinnings . Murky , unpleasant picture with bloody deaths and odd nude shots of Karen Black ( perhaps it's Black's body-double , for you rarely see Karen's face connected to the shapely naked figure ) . Christopher Plummer does a gr... |
552,716 | 989,035 | 95,593 | 5 | Loopy mobster comedy with squirrelly moments but not enough jokes | After her shady mobster husband is rubbed-out , Michelle Pfeiffer tries to cut ties with her past and make an independent life for herself and her young son , but Mafia don Dean Stockwell doesn't want her to get away . Schizophrenic comedy-drama from director Jonathan Demme is excessively barbed , edgy , and uncertain ... |
552,388 | 989,035 | 52,639 | 5 | The film isn't really about teen-pregnancy at all - - it's about the pain of telling your parents you made a big mistake | Trouble in Ozzie & Harriet-land : moody suburban teen begins an awkward sweetheart-relationship with the pretty blonde bobbysoxer down the street . After a couple of tender embraces , we learn she is three months pregnant . An issue movie , and an unfortunately timeless one , but the film is extremely flawed : Brandon ... |
552,225 | 989,035 | 61,391 | 5 | Snotty comics cutting up . . . | Bedazzled is dazzling to some , deadening to others . I quickly grew tired of all the tight close-ups of Dudley Moore's perspiring , beady little face , or listening to Peter Cook's repetitious lines and snotty delivery . The production has a nice feel in the early scenes at the diner where Moore works as a short-ord... |
553,686 | 989,035 | 61,385 | 5 | The movie's tag-line was " Fall over laughing ! " - - but nobody does , nor will you . . . | Neil Simon-written comedy , as staid and as sterile as they come . Robert Redford and Jane Fonda are extremely attractive as newlyweds who move into a cumbersome New York walk-up , but this inexplicably-popular material is suffocatingly twee . Mildred Natwick has some funny moments as Fonda's seemingly uptight mother ,... |
552,856 | 989,035 | 352,248 | 5 | Hoary boxing-movie clichés abound ! | Heavyweight champ James J . Braddock looks back on his humble beginnings : in the Depression Era as a washed-up boxer with a broken hand and a revoked license , he struggles to take care of his wife and three kids before making a miraculous comeback . Director Ron Howard builds every scene as something extraordinary , ... |
550,601 | 989,035 | 70,640 | 5 | Contrived realism | Social-issue movie which touches on the moral decline of modern civilization with vague and detached results . Jack Lemmon won a Best Actor Oscar playing Harry Stoner , a war-vet and white-collar businessman in the fashion industry who is forced by circumstance to be both a producer and a pimp at work , straining to ma... |
552,903 | 989,035 | 70,643 | 5 | One of the more perplexing acting vehicles of the early 1970s . . . | Despite the high-powered names in the credits ( and Warner Bros . at the picture's helm ) , this is one odd package , gritty but meek , somnambulent instead of artistic . Two drifters ( Gene Hackman and Al Pacino ) become friends on the road , dreaming up a scheme to go into the car-wash business together . Director Je... |
552,836 | 989,035 | 43,762 | 5 | The Hit Parade and Ballyhoo . . . | Overstuffed Warner Bros . vehicle for Doris Day , here playing a nightclub singer who travels from England to New York to be reunited with her mom , a former Broadway star who has fallen on hard times ; meanwhile , an elderly B-way producer hires Day for his new show , causing rumors that he's her lover ! Since the man... |
551,174 | 989,035 | 87,799 | 5 | Lively , sloppy Valley girl sci-fi . . . | Catherine Mary Stewart and Kelli Maroney are exceptionally cute as cynical California siblings from the Valley who survive the nuclear holocaust and spend the rest of the movie fending off radioactive mutants . Mary Woronov , always a great presence in B-flicks like this , is unfortunately stuck in the draggy sub-plot ... |
552,250 | 989,035 | 105,378 | 5 | Expressionist film-making satirized ( weakly ) by Woody Allen . . . | Writer-director-star Woody Allen sends up German Expressionism , and filmmakers like Fritz Lang , for a decidedly unfunny paranoia comedy about a schnook in a small village who is fingered for a rash of killings . Unfortunately , film plays more like a retread of Martin Scorsese ' " After Hours " ( right down to the gi... |
552,317 | 989,035 | 77,889 | 5 | Gloomy hocus-pocus . . . | William Goldman adapted his own novel , a melodrama about an unstable ventriloquist comedian - - not exactly a winning match-up . Anthony Hopkins gives an agonizing actors ' performance playing a magician / ventriloquist who revels in a sort of naughty burlesque style ; however , at this stage in his career , Hopkins s... |
552,213 | 989,035 | 61,052 | 5 | Bumping and grinding to a halt . . . | Ann-Margret alternates between come-hither pussycat and uptight do-gooder playing a would-be writer who attempts to pass herself off as sexually depraved in order to get a deal with a sleazy men's magazine . The problem with this picture is the very same predicament Annie faces : it's a square piece of goods palming it... |
553,654 | 989,035 | 43,669 | 5 | It curdles from cuteness . . . | Danny Thomas plays real-life hit songwriter Gus Kahn , responsible in the 1900s for such innocent , old-fashioned tunes as " I Wish I Had a Girl " , " Toot , Toot , Tootsie ( Goodbye ) " and " It Had To Be You " . Doris Day plays Kahn's songbird spouse and Mary Wickes is their wiseacre maid - - and both are much prefer... |
553,209 | 989,035 | 43,667 | 5 | Begins wonderfully , but the religious-coated sentiment is sometimes tough to get through . . . | In the early 1900s , a city girl ( Susan Hayward ) marries a country parson ( William Lundigan ) from North Georgia's hill country , coming to live with him and be the proud preacher's wife , but there are obstacles to overcome . After a spunky start , this adaptation of Corra Harris ' book becomes mired in pointless ,... |
552,436 | 989,035 | 70,294 | 5 | Spooky atmospherics in place of genuine thrills . . . | Screenwriter Richard Matheson , adapting his own book " Hell House " , knows instinctively how to create an intense and shuddery atmosphere , but what he lacks in versatility he makes up for in unoriginality . This film , though with effective scenes , makes no new headway from 1963's " The Haunting " . A ( rather skep... |
550,865 | 989,035 | 70,287 | 5 | Not especially deep , but more provocative than it had to be . . . | Lamont Johnson directed this critically-lauded , though under-appreciated stockcar drama ( often referred to as " Hard Driver " ) concerning a young hellion ( Jeff Bridges ) in North Carolina who's into racing cars and " hot doggin ' the law ! " It isn't Shakespeare , though the William Roberts script ( adapted from To... |
552,843 | 989,035 | 34,890 | 5 | Good Sister-Bad Sister potboiler from John Huston | Sisters from a wealthy family ( named Stanley and Roy ! ) become estranged when rascally Stanley runs off with Roy's surgeon husband ; Roy rebounds after meeting a smitten attorney , but Stanley's erratic behavior spells doom . John Huston-directed yarn seems to be a cautionary tale about playing with fire , and it isn... |
553,486 | 989,035 | 264,464 | 5 | Superficial whiff of an idea | Although taken from an intriguing true story about a teenage con-man , this Steven Spielberg film is neither funny enough to be a comedy , dramatic enough to be a solid drama , nor suspenseful enough to be a good caper . It's blandly straightforward film-making , hurt mostly by a script that needs us to fill in the bla... |
552,097 | 989,035 | 70,379 | 5 | A barrage of artistic overtures and general indulgence . . . | Director Martin Scorsese kicked around the indie circuit and second-unit work out in Hollywood before breaking through as a director with this melodrama set in New York's " Little Italy " district . Harvey Keitel plays a struggling Catholic trying to keep clean , and the character is most likely a highly personal one b... |
553,471 | 989,035 | 25,740 | 5 | Quality soap opera with a masochistic bent . . . | Honest working girl ( Joan Crawford ) , the daughter of a cook who's employed by a high society family , is jilted at the altar by her no-good fiancé and decides not to go home ( despite an apparently warm relationship with her mother ) ; instead , she takes a job as a hoochie-koochie dancer , catching the eye of an al... |
552,201 | 989,035 | 96,171 | 5 | Very slight , but with one stand-out performance | Burnt-out ball player Mark Harmon , upon hearing of the suicide of a childhood friend , hearkens back to his younger days , eventually returning home to put peace to the past . As the pre-teen's muse , Jodie Foster is a bit like Auntie Mame at 20 , raffish and exciting - - but what happens to her character is a writer'... |
550,637 | 989,035 | 96,200 | 5 | Tolerable , but woefully slight comedy-drama | Episodes in the lives of two East Coast couples who are friends : Jeff Daniels and Elizabeth Perkins are the sweethearts just getting their romance started , and Don Johnson and Susan Sarandon are married ( and bickering ) with kids . Slight material separated into different chapters for no other reason than to cover t... |
551,738 | 989,035 | 35,829 | 5 | Despite stunning Lucy , a dire comedy . . . | Red Skelton plays a smitten working-stiff who finally makes out financially ; he proposes marriage to the fortune-hunting singer whom he loves , who then becomes Madame Du Barry in his dreams . A chance - - though not a very good one - - for Lucille Ball to show off her comedic chops , however Skelton isn't given anyth... |
553,296 | 989,035 | 260,670 | 5 | Well-meant , and Drew is good | Before this afternoon special aired on television , much of the publicity made it seem like the mini-movie would be a highly-charged , no-holds-barred drug-drama in the vein of " Scared Straight ! " It's not . It's a too-tidy examination of troubled teens in rehab , getting counseling for their problems and learning fr... |
551,317 | 989,035 | 53,001 | 5 | A-fussin ' , a-fightin ' , a-gesturin ' ' n gesticulatin ' . . . | Al Capp's yokel comic strip comes to the big screen via the Broadway musical hit , keeping most of the stage talent intact , and with Dee Dee Wood " adapting " Michael Kidd's original choreography ( one of the strangest credits I've seen ! ) . The hill-folk who live in Dogpatch , apparently the most useless city in the... |
551,611 | 989,035 | 113,321 | 5 | Should've been great . . . | Jodie Foster's second film as director shows her faltering a bit from her debut with the moving , funny " Little Man Tate " . Working with an uneven script that is better in its straight dramatic moments than as a comedy , Foster can't get a realistic rhythm going between the disgruntled family members at this Thanksgi... |
550,476 | 989,035 | 140,379 | 5 | Plastic-coated Shakespeare . . . | Self-enchanted rendering of the Bard ! Shakespeare's play is transported to a 19th Century Italian village , where uptight lovers learn to loosen up with assistance from the King and Queen of the Fairies . Subplot about a village play comes off much better than the wafty fantasy elements , and only Kevin Kline and Stan... |
550,665 | 989,035 | 217,355 | 5 | Represents a movie first : introspective sleaze ! | Daryl Hannah is so adept at playing spacy little cupcakes that it's hard to discern at first whether she's doing anything new or challenging in " Dancing at the Blue Iguana " . Her character , Angel - - as with ALL the characters in the film - - is half-realized and indifferently treated by the director , yet Hannah pu... |
550,821 | 989,035 | 60,827 | 5 | Nothing if not bizarre | Appropriately ( and predictably ) moody Swedish drama from Ingmar Bergman examines intricate relationship between mute woman and her bright , sensitive nurse from a psychological stand-point . The plot takes some fascinating turns , but Bergman is hardly a compassionate man . A character's plight or a tender look is al... |
550,876 | 989,035 | 70,068 | 5 | Plush , but pallid romantic drama . . . | As a 40-ish divorcée courting a 22-year-old man , Liv Ullmann ( beautiful Swedish actress in only her second American film ) looks like a deer caught in the headlights . She's much too shaky and insecure to warm up to , and her scenes with Edward Albert have no romantic lift ( this isn't all Liv's fault , Albert pushes... |
552,183 | 989,035 | 60,818 | 5 | Plush budget but a thin plot . . . | Natalie Wood finally gets a comedy vehicle all to herself , but the results are half-cocked . Crafty woman conspires to rob her husband's bank - - perhaps because she needs love or attention - - and that's the entire plot in a nutshell . It's dragged out for 97 minutes . Natalie and the supporting cast ( colorful playe... |
552,837 | 989,035 | 104,461 | 5 | Appropriately shallow documentary | James Coburn narrates this brief , extremely superficial documentary by Robert Heath on the life of Playboy Magazine founder Hugh Hefner . The roots of Hefner's past begin with some miserable childhood years , eventually leading to his rise up the ladder to decadent high society via an initially low-budget girlie mag .... |
553,042 | 989,035 | 87,363 | 5 | Energetic to a fault , but an iffy black comedy | A cooing , cute mystical creature spawns terrifying little demons from his body once he gets wet . An energetic film , well-produced and yet with that unshakable ' 80's plastic sheen . Certainly the work from hundreds of special-effects wizards results in some terrific sequences , but did we really need break-dancing g... |
552,583 | 989,035 | 104,452 | 5 | Screwball outing from Frank Oz could use some extra screws . . . | An architect has a fling with a sexy waitress who turns out to be a con-artist ; she insinuates herself into his life and home and passes herself off as his wife to visitors . Relatively painless , genial comedy from director Frank Oz is sort of the comedic flip-side to " Fatal Attraction " - - though the way Goldie Ha... |
550,762 | 989,035 | 70,022 | 5 | Uneasy and uneven | A stylish direction by James William Guercio - - his only film ! - - and classy Conrad Hall cinematography cannot quite redeem wayward story about a motorcycle cop in Arizona , tired of busting hippies on the highway , chancing upon a corpse and seeing it as his ticket into the Homicide Division . About 45 minutes into... |
553,089 | 989,035 | 96,061 | 5 | Bill Murray gets ' scrooged ' by over-production . . . | Woefully heavy , noisy , over-produced holiday comedy rethinks " A Christmas Carol " for the modern ( i . e . , " cynical " ) new generation . In this scenario , wisecracking , rapid-fire Bill Murray is a good fit as a rotten TV network executive . He's initially a hoot , but the visiting ghosts and the constant stream... |
553,190 | 989,035 | 70,033 | 5 | A well-acted failure . . . | Graham Greene's novel becomes somewhat undernourished wartime melodrama , without the scope , vision or substantial budget to credibly expound on its themes . Michael York plays a young ne'er-do-well who comes to stay with his sister and her wealthy fiancé / benefactor in 1930s Germany , just before the rise of the Naz... |
551,279 | 989,035 | 420,087 | 5 | That show's been on since Jesus was in the third grade . . . | Director Robert Altman's cinema swan-song is a multi-character , country-and-western flavored look behind the scenes at a fictional radio-variety show during its very last broadcast . The screenplay ( by Garrison Keillor , who also co-stars as " G . K . " ) never bothers itself with a linear plot ; instead , Keillor an... |
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