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553,718 | 989,035 | 78,723 | 5 | Slapstick static . . . | Director Steven Spielberg's first theatrical misfire has bombastic humor and amped-up energy to spare - - all it needs is a sharp , merciless editor to eliminate its excesses . Made up of equal parts " I Wanna Hold Your Hold " and " Animal House " , the film opens with a spoof of " Jaws " that is funny and well done . ... |
551,881 | 989,035 | 52,847 | 5 | Girl + midget = Gidget | Squealing Sandra Dee is an underdeveloped sixteen-year-old in Southern California who is prodded by her friends into finding a man ; she ingratiates herself to a bunch of good-hearted surfing boys , but only because she's genuinely interested in learning to surf ( they soon realize she's different , but that doesn't st... |
552,075 | 989,035 | 35,502 | 5 | More peculiar than entertaining . . . | Curious head-scratcher of a western directed by George Marshall features James Craig as a drifter in 1868 Tucson who disrupts the wedding of feisty barmaid Lucille Ball , later stopping a war between the white man and an Apache Indian tribe ! Lucy-completists will want to take a look , but this may be one example of wh... |
551,713 | 989,035 | 78,449 | 5 | Glossy H-wood garbage . . . a gossip-column turned teleplay ! | Jaclyn Smith is a decent actress ; with no real acting experience at the time Aaron Spelling put her in " Charlie's Angels " , she never embarrassed herself on that show ( especially the early episodes where she actually showed some spunk ) . Unfortunately , no one has been able to tap that sassy side of her since . Sh... |
551,892 | 989,035 | 87,233 | 5 | A puff pastry . . . | Brief Encounter redux has Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep , both involved in satisfying marriages , crossing paths several times before meeting each other and developing their attraction . This platonic affair isn't shown to be therapeutic for the two - - in fact , it's just the opposite ( Streep never looks like she... |
552,736 | 989,035 | 880,578 | 5 | Another would-be " Silence of the Lambs " : psychopath goes cyber-tech ! | A night-worker for the internet-criminals branch of the F . B . I . is the first to discover a gruesome , impenetrable website in which a psychopath ( and apparent computer genius ! ) kidnaps selected victims and streams their slow , agonizing deaths live on-line ( the proviso being : the more people who log on to watc... |
551,952 | 989,035 | 60,457 | 5 | Goblins ! Ghouls ! Girls ! . . . Geronimo ! | Representing the ( somewhat fatigued ) tail-end of the " Beach Party " saga , minus Frankie and Annette , this haunted house comedy has some style in the live-action cartoon vein , but is hurt overall by an unenthusiastic cast and too much chatter . Sleepy Tommy Kirk and distracted Deborah Walley are involved in the re... |
551,565 | 989,035 | 69,736 | 5 | Gossamer plastic surgery fantasy . . . | Ash Wednesday opens with a series of sepia-toned , fabricated photographs putting a young , glamorous Elizabeth Taylor together with a lean , dark-haired Henry Fonda ; it's a great credits-sequence , well pulled off , until we find out that all this fancy living has taken its toll on poor Liz , portraying a lawyer's ... |
552,471 | 989,035 | 104,765 | 5 | Too fluff-headed to be very memorable . . . | In 1963 Dallas , a Jackie Kennedy-obsessed beautician hopes to travel by bus to JFK's funeral , but gets involved instead with a troubled black man and his estranged little girl . Handsome production , nice details , but a curiously minor film that never quite kicks into gear . Occasionally , the way the racial prejudi... |
552,425 | 989,035 | 43,090 | 5 | Prolonged , textbook kidnap-plot with interesting milieu . . . | Director Rudolph Maté's " Union Station " , from Thomas Walsh's novel , pairs William Holden again with Nancy Olson just after their triumphs in " Sunset Blvd . " While both stars are solid here , the step-down to genre shtick ( particularly for Holden ) is disheartening . After seeing what Holden was truly capable of ... |
551,075 | 989,035 | 25,862 | 5 | Tarzan returns , Jane skinny-dips , Cheetah plays third banana . . . | Second " Tarzan " entry to star Johnny Weissmuller ( following 1932's " Tarzan the Ape Man " ) , based on the original creation by writer Edgar Rice Burroughs ( who may have blushed at seeing his wonder of the jungle shacking up happily with Jane Parker ! ) . The plot concerns two ivory poachers who attempt to woo Jane... |
551,962 | 989,035 | 95,800 | 5 | A few lovely sequences do not make it a classic . . . | Well-received French film from James Oliver Curwood's book harks back to the wildlife documentaries from 1950s Disney in both style and sentiment , as an orphaned bear cub trails a Kodiak bear around a mountain terrain for companionship . Soon , they're both being followed by an eager pack of hunters . " The Bear " fea... |
552,503 | 989,035 | 43,116 | 5 | Smart , funny dialogue and songs . . . but the casting works against the plot | Remake of 1943's " Coney Island " ( both starring Betty Grable ! ) has Victor Mature ( in suits and straw hats ) playing a hustler-showman conning old acquaintance Phil Harris into going in business together in 1890s Chicago . Seems nightclub owner Harris has scuffled with a rowdy drunk and believes he's killed him ; M... |
553,532 | 989,035 | 155,975 | 5 | Not good , not bad | A mama's boy motel owner may be a killer . Jazzed-up remake of Alfred Hitchcock's signature thriller " Psycho " arrives with early strikes against it . Face it , the original " Psycho " was not the greatest movie ever made , it had a very thin plot and a tame final reel . This version ( by Gus Van Sant ? ! ) accentuate... |
550,546 | 989,035 | 52,933 | 5 | What happened to Jane ? ( not much ) | One of Doris Day's few disappointments . The perky freckle-face is effervescent as usual playing small-town widow with two kids and a lobster business who is wooed by both long-time friend and lawyer Jack Lemmon and handsome but stolid reporter Steve Forrest . A bald Ernie Kovacs has the film's most colorful role as sl... |
552,042 | 989,035 | 95,776 | 5 | Friendly enough , but a long way from Disney & Co . at their peak . . . | Animated take on " Oliver Twist " from the Disney Studios , marked by an impressive list of star-voices in the cast but hurt overall by fairly colorless songs and unmemorable characters . These adventures of an orphaned kitten and a streetwise dog are not particularly witty - - and the cuteness quickly becomes wearing ... |
552,323 | 989,035 | 60,581 | 5 | Flashy , unmemorable star-vehicle . . . | Warren Beatty struggled through a few duds in-between his star-making role in " Splendor In The Grass " and his re-emergence as a superstar in " Bonnie & Clyde " . This film , though Warren is good in it , is incredibly slim . The production looks great , there's livelier-than-usual pacing from director Jack Smight , b... |
552,937 | 989,035 | 87,100 | 5 | Has the crummy , dim-bulb ambiance of a porny picture . . . | Kathleen Turner is admirable playing a prim businesswoman by day and a kinky hooker named China Blue by night . This determinedly-weird sex-odyssey from outré filmmaker Ken Russell does indeed have the force behind its salacious convictions - - it is almost embarrassingly sordid and one genuinely feels for the performe... |
551,278 | 989,035 | 69,883 | 5 | You just can't keep those sailor-loving , pool-playing broads out of the bars ! | Cinderella Liberty was obviously written and directed by men ( in this case , the screenplay by Darryl Ponicsan from his novel and the direction by Mark Rydell ) . It features the kind of movie-hooker culled straight from the 1950s , one with a big heart , a fun-loving laugh , and a dedication to her sailors - - she ... |
552,300 | 989,035 | 43,030 | 5 | Musical Warner Bros . sugarcake , sweet but not very satisfying . . . | In her fifth movie , Doris Day finally achieved top-billing , yet she shares the screen equally with a talented ensemble cast , with everyone working hard to inject some sparkle into a wafer-thin concoction . Inspired by the 1920s stage hit " No , No , Nanette " ( itself filmed in 1940 ) , this plays out as sort of the... |
552,790 | 989,035 | 113,464 | 5 | It has some insightful things to say , but it's too silly . . . | Almost a breakthrough for queer cinema : a homosexual cater-waiter in New York City swears off sex in the AIDS-era but soon finds himself falling for a hunk who is HIV positive . Paul Rudnick adapted his own play for the screen , allowing his gay characters to act upon their desires and not just whine about them ( whic... |
551,909 | 989,035 | 60,661 | 5 | The Flintstones hit the big-screen | I always thought the scripts for " The Flintstones " TV show were a cut above your usual cartoon . They were ripe with satirical humor and cutting jabs that made my parents laugh as often as us kids . Too bad then that Fred's big-screen spy-adventure is loud instead of funny , hectic instead of witty , and LONG . Like ... |
552,675 | 989,035 | 113,451 | 5 | Basic Instinct replay ; almost a guilty pleasure | Assistant District Attorney in San Francisco investigates when a shady art dealer is murdered . Director William Friedkin is on auto-pilot with this silly retread of " Basic Instinct " , however the dynamics of the plot tend to draw you in against your better judgment . The car stunts are fabulous , most of the actors ... |
553,571 | 989,035 | 52,864 | 5 | Beautiful production , incredibly weak story , miscast Audrey . . . | I'm one of the few Audrey Hepburn fans who didn't love " The Nun's Story " ( too slow , with a preconceived second-half ) or " Love In The Afternoon " ( a lead balloon ) , but " Green Mansions " is hokey and occasionally laughable , and Audrey looks positively lost as Rima the Bird Girl . Anthony Perkins plays a soldie... |
553,261 | 989,035 | 265,349 | 5 | Not a bad supernatural story , but the overheated writing and directing nearly sinks it | An ancient prophet of doom lures a writer for the Washington Post to a small town in West Virginia ( named Point Pleasant ! ) where a tragedy is soon to befall the community . Handsomely-produced spook-story runs rampant with nonsense , much of it laughable : red herrings , ringing phones , hallucinations that serve no... |
551,940 | 989,035 | 60,232 | 5 | Southern-fried " Peyton Place " | When a Texas prisoner escapes from his work farm and is reported to be heading home , the patrons of his rural community react in various , hot-blooded ways . Malarkey of the first order , nearly saved by Marlon Brando's tightly-controlled performance as the town's fair sheriff ; Angie Dickinson's work as his wife is a... |
552,189 | 989,035 | 71,521 | 5 | Fashionably ragged ( for its time ) but brought down by sordidness . . . | Richard Rush directed this purposefully uneven blending of comic-macho clumsiness and violent action in the " Dirty Harry " vein . Plot concerns two cops in San Francisco who bust chops and wreck lots of cars in an attempt to nab a numbers-racketeer . Rush is attracted to a messy visual style : cajoling comedy combined... |
551,236 | 989,035 | 86,969 | 5 | Insufferable . . . | Two young men ( Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage ) in pre-Vietnam , small town America become friends despite one boy who seemingly lives in a dream world : he's obsessed with birds , and fantasizes about flying . Alan Parker directed in a keen , outré manner , but also with a very heavy hand ; several sequences which m... |
552,760 | 989,035 | 36,341 | 5 | Urban creepiness courtesy Val Lewton . . . | Odd film from producer Val Lewton , here shaking off his usual island-voodoo gimmickry for a story about sinister doings in New York City . Kim Hunter is sufficient as a young woman searching the city for her missing sister , eventually discovering her sibling was involved with a devil-worshiping cult . Mark Robson dir... |
552,816 | 989,035 | 71,442 | 5 | Fascinatingly terrible . . . | It would be tempting to write " The Driver's Seat " off as one of the worst movies ever , but it's rather seductive on a slim budget . . . fascinating in its wrong-headedness . The film has such a loopy , surreal quality , and star Elizabeth Taylor is actually attempting something ( rather than just posing ) , that the... |
550,988 | 989,035 | 60,165 | 5 | Middle-of-the-road western with a light touch . . . | Annual high stakes poker tournament in 1880s Laredo , Texas attracts a hen-pecked husband whose wife has to take his place at the card-table after tragedy strikes . Set-bound western with the emphasis placed more on the personalities of its characters rather than the action . It certainly isn't bad , though the pacing ... |
553,333 | 989,035 | 60,414 | 5 | It's a little heavy on kookiness . . . | As a poet who is institutionalized , Sean Connery distances himself quite grandly from screen alter-ego James Bond . Connery is unexpectedly gregarious as the avant-garde writer , Joanne Woodard is suitably shrill as his spouse , the supporting cast ( including Jean Seberg and the wonderful Zohra Lampert ) is terrific ... |
553,044 | 989,035 | 79,239 | 5 | Story-wise , it's a mess . . . | Muddled adaptation of Pat Conroy's book ( briefly retitled " The Ace " at one point ) features Robert Duvall as strict Marine Bull Meechum , raising his kids with an iron fist in 1962 . Duvall is well cast but one-note in the lead ; didn't this guy have another side they could've explored ? Was he only about outbursts ... |
552,476 | 989,035 | 113,691 | 5 | Good cast and director , but straightforward script and presentation are dull . . . | Seth Margolis ' novel becomes middle-of-the-road drama about a white woman and her husband fighting a black woman in court over the custody of the black woman's baby son , whom she left in a dumpster two years prior to cleaning up her life as a homeless crack-addict . Uninventive presentation plays like a dulled-out TV... |
553,375 | 989,035 | 71,553 | 5 | Romantic comedy with a feminist slant . . . | Aaron Spelling-Leonard Goldberg TV-movie from ABC in 1974 follows a pretty predictable formula : swinging bachelor meets his match , learns a lesson in love , discovers growing up isn't a bad as he thought it would be . Richard Long is a magazine publisher celebrating the big 4-0 who doesn't think his " present " from ... |
553,344 | 989,035 | 51,658 | 5 | Ornate though overrated . . . | Yes , " Gigi " was the winner of nine Academy Awards , and is often referred to as the jewel in director Vincente Minnelli's crown , yet the picture is more pomp and circumstance than delicious musical entertainment . This was actually the second filming of the novel by Colette , one more in keeping with the Broadway s... |
551,337 | 989,035 | 51,667 | 5 | The great . . . ultimate ache . . . of desolation | Paddy Chayefsky's monologue-heavy lambasting of the Sex Symbol mythology , with Kim Stanley as a troubled young woman from Maryland who comes to Los Angeles in the 1940s to work as an actress and becomes a star . Queasy , peculiar melodrama seems to blame show-business for the girl's plight , but we can clearly see fro... |
551,284 | 989,035 | 44,919 | 5 | It's Belle S . vs . those dirty Daltons ! | Here's an odd one : sexy Jane Russell as western sharp-shooter Belle Starr , here competing with rivals The Dalton Gang . Movie opens with fruity bravado , but don't expect a camp-fest . Things gets surprisingly serious in the film's second-half , leading to a curiously downbeat conclusion . Very strange , and not part... |
552,514 | 989,035 | 51,213 | 5 | Very minor vehicle for Sal Mineo . . . | At an orphanage for boys and young men down in rural Georgia , a tough-yet-sensitive teen befriends a convict at a nearby work farm ; when the prisoner eventually makes a break for it , causing all hell to break loose in the small community , the kid has to decide whether to talk his friend into giving up or aid in his... |
553,608 | 989,035 | 106,466 | 5 | Surprisingly . . . not terrible | Remake of the 1950 Judy Holliday / William Holden / Broderick Crawford hit farce , adapted from Garson Kanin's popular play , about millionaire businessman hiring a tutor for his dizzy girlfriend , which backfires when she becomes wise enough to know she's being played for a dupe . In the leads , Melanie Griffith , the... |
553,366 | 989,035 | 335,563 | 5 | Ripped from the headlines . . . | Porn actor John Holmes ( Val Kilmer , in a brave performance ) , down on his luck in Los Angeles 1981 , sets up his own drug-connection , powerful club owner Eddie Nash , for a raid on his drugs , gems and guns by his Hollywood ' friends ' , a violent group of crack-heads living on the edge , leading to a bloody massac... |
553,207 | 989,035 | 44,762 | 5 | Bud and Lou are Off to See the Giant . . . | The often-told fable gets amusingly tweaked with Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the leads , singing , dancing , and messing with a really nasty ogre . Opening in sepia tone , Bud and Lou somehow walk into a job as babysitters for a problem child ; Lou wants a bedtime story read to him , quickly falling asleep and dream... |
551,678 | 989,035 | 44,760 | 5 | Costumed claptrap | Overrated adaptation of Sir Walter Scott's book hasn't held up well , and is now best remembered for Elizabeth Taylor's appearance as Rebecca , looking gorgeous in her period costumes yet giving another of her whispery , listless ' grown up ' performances . Story of 12th century England and the knights in battle was ri... |
553,707 | 989,035 | 71,222 | 5 | Disturbing , uncompromising thriller | I haven't seen this in about 10 years , but it really chilled me then and I've not forgotten it . A killer is hiding up in the attic of a sorority house . Who is it ? Who will be next to die ? Some of the violence is on the gruesome side , but the film's priority is a chilly , scary atmosphere , and this it accomplishe... |
553,476 | 989,035 | 114,131 | 5 | Unreleased theatrical feature is quirky but has no punch | Josh Charles is wonderful as a young man obsessed with . . . traffic ? He longs to be a traffic reporter in the sky , but first finds on-again / off-again love with a perplexing Anne Heche ( she's so flaky he can't get a grip on her , and neither can we ) . John Goodman has a funny supporting role , and the production ... |
550,445 | 989,035 | 236,493 | 5 | I can't imagine anything worse than the final 20 minutes of " The Mexican " | After an atrocious opening - - Julia Roberts squabbling with boyfriend Brad Pitt over a balcony in a parking lot - - " The Mexican " improves , even comes up with some clever and funny bits of throwaway comedy . Although her performance is uneven , Roberts really shines in her scenes with gay hit-man James Gandolfini -... |
552,950 | 989,035 | 236,348 | 5 | Bubblegum for brains . . . | Based on comic-book characters first introduced in the " Archies " series , Josie , Val and Melody are three rockin ' small town girls who want to taste big-time success on the pop charts ; enter nefarious - - and overly ridiculous - - talent scout Alan Cumming ( in a poor performance ) and soon the Pussycats are on th... |
552,203 | 989,035 | 94,317 | 5 | A spotty script , but with haunting moments | Michael Radford directed and co-wrote this adaptation of James Fox's book taking place in Kenya during World War II . High society Brits evade the swarming Nazis by hiding out in Africa while money-hungry Greta Scacchi gets caught up in heated love-triangle . Languid , slowly-paced British-made drama without enough inn... |
553,064 | 989,035 | 86,576 | 5 | A friendly , often frisky TV-movie with some smart ideas . . . | Not-bad comedy-drama from a book by Susan Trott ( and co-produced for television by Ron Howard and Henry Winkler ) has recently-dumped Valerie Perrine trying to get on with her life , becoming involved with both a policeman ( Ed O'Neill ) and a kinky young lothario ( Merritt Butrick , who gets himself warmed up by snea... |
552,291 | 989,035 | 60,121 | 5 | Charade rehash : droll , dull and inert . . . | This film has a most unpleasant opening sequence : a man walks into an optometrist's office expecting an eye exam , but the doctor is a fraud and - - after an excruciating build-up - - - puts poison in the man's eyes , all just to get a coded piece of paper hidden in the victim's glasses ! Gregory Peck tries loosening ... |
551,346 | 989,035 | 71,399 | 5 | Cheesy ABC TV-movie | Seems to me there have been more than enough movies ( or episodes on TV shows ) wherein a mystery killer picks off a group of people one by one , and then crosses their faces with a big ' X ' on a group-photo where everyone is smiling and happy . The theatrical film " The Last of Sheila " used a group-photo as a red he... |
550,499 | 989,035 | 86,567 | 5 | Frisky performances help disguise the fact it is already clunky and outmoded . . . | Movies made for the here-and-now ( instead of for all-time ) date far worse than the average film , and movies dealing with modern-day technology are apt to look junk heap-worthy in just a few short years . The Tracy & Hepburn comedy " Desk Set " is one such example ( where a know-it-all computer was brought in to an i... |
552,909 | 989,035 | 71,402 | 5 | Undeniably potent , but vicious , ugly , lacerating | Mild-mannered architect Charles Bronson becomes a street vigilante in New York City after his wife and daughter are attacked in their apartment . The fact that Bronson's Paul Kersey never catches up with the thugs who attacked his family can be construed as either clever or misbegotten by the filmmakers ( clever becaus... |
551,281 | 989,035 | 44,557 | 5 | You'll have nice things , Nell , you're a handsome woman ! | Unintentionally funny B-movie from Fox was Marilyn Monroe's first starring role ( a year before " Niagra " ) ; she plays a delusional , pathetic young woman just out of a mental institution who ends up babysitting for a wealthy couple's child one night in a posh New York hotel . Richard Widmark takes a shine to her , u... |
551,389 | 989,035 | 51,418 | 5 | Dismissed by film connoisseurs . . . but acted with youthful conviction by McQueen | A meteor crashes to Earth in a small American town and its inner mass of a sticky , protozoa-like substance begins a slow but steady killing spree . Nothing really substantial here , but not a disgrace : " The Blob " is a fun , fast-paced B-flick made for teenagers circa 1958 . It features beautifully saturated colors ... |
552,159 | 989,035 | 86,593 | 5 | Slow-going human drama looks like a well-produced episode from a TV serial . . . | Kate Nelligan , always a forthright and gripping actress , gets to show many different sides as a single mother in New York City whose little boy disappears one day while walking a short distance to school ; she clashes with authorities and friends , but is convinced her child has been kidnapped and is still alive . Th... |
553,204 | 989,035 | 35,885 | 5 | Hollywood magic : both intriguing and overbaked | A trio of mystical stories told in that entertainingly glossy , old Hollywood type of way , boasting showmanship over any sort of logic . The plots involve a woman who learns about inner-beauty , a man's dramatic experience with a fortune teller , and a circus performer who is hounded by an admirer . Superficial nonsen... |
552,283 | 989,035 | 105,706 | 5 | Moonstruck wanna-be | Curiously cast , indifferently-made character-comedy never quite gets off the ground . There are some colorful and funny moments in " Used People " , but it doesn't sparkle , it doesn't have any magic , it's just ordinary - - and that's a shame . Shirley MacLaine is a widowed Jewish matriarch who falls in love again , ... |
553,415 | 989,035 | 95,174 | 5 | Hampered by uneven direction , but featuring two fine performances . . . | After his wife is kidnapped from their Paris hotel room , a confused and distraught American doctor is plunged into European espionage . Rather mild suspense-thriller from director / co-writer Roman Polanski , who sets up the pieces to this chess match quite awkwardly . The opening moments with Harrison Ford and spouse... |
553,155 | 989,035 | 95,169 | 5 | There's no conviction in the set-up , and nothing very amusing about the follow-through . . . | A high school ace with everything going for her goofs up and gets pregnant ; her mother is devastated , and her boyfriend's parents object , but the teens get married and hope for the best . Molly Ringwald's appealing personality manages to shine through the plastic coating and convictionless screenplay by Denise DeClu... |
550,676 | 989,035 | 52,027 | 5 | Remarkable work from Tracy , but hardly grand entertainment . . . | John Sturges directed this reportedly-troubled production , a handsome adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's story about an old salt who wants one last chance to catch a prized fish before he dies . This scenario puts extraordinary demands on lead actor Spencer Tracy , who is forced to hold the screen nearly alone for ninet... |
550,573 | 989,035 | 114,323 | 5 | Intriguing , but ultimately self-important . . . | Wife and mother Julianne Moore , living in affluent area of California's San Fernando Valley , starts ailing one day and can't seem to improve . Patchy , anemic picture is initially intriguing , targeting the toxins in our environment , but soon gets caught up in preachiness and melodrama . Some see the film as a dark ... |
552,481 | 989,035 | 114,345 | 5 | Roland Joffé turns Nathaniel Hawthorne into a heavy-breather ! | Prurient , ludicrous , but undeniably entertaining drama with some camp appeal could politely be called a revisionist variation on Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic book about a New England woman in the 17th century whose illicit , secret affair with a minister results in her scandalous pregnancy . If you throw out the sou... |
553,683 | 989,035 | 120,857 | 5 | It seldom finds the appropriate flavor . . . | Young boy from a broken home is ' adopted ' by a group of elderly British women in pre-WWII Florence , Italy . Director Franco Zeffirelli's rather self-conscious valentine to his own childhood is slushed with poetic sentimentality , most of which feels distinctly artificial . The young lad at the heart of the piece isn... |
551,647 | 989,035 | 59,661 | 5 | Cheeky western romp . . . | Burt Kennedy adapted Max Evans ' book and directed this utterly unassuming , pleasant time-filler which keeps tongue-in-cheek and deep thoughts in neutral . Glenn Ford and Henry Fonda play two horse-tamers in Arizona who bond with a bucking roan horse ; Sue Ane Langdon and Hope Holiday are two tootsies they tangle with... |
551,552 | 989,035 | 44,486 | 5 | Collaboration for some wonderful talents is surprisingly mild . . . | Jennifer Jones is rather tepid playing Carrie Meeber , a small town girl who becomes involved in her first romance with a classy restaurateur from the big city . Laurence Olivier's performance as Carrie's lover is sly and seductive , but there isn't any real chemistry between he and Jones , and Olivier could just as we... |
552,961 | 989,035 | 44,509 | 5 | Far too sober a translation . . . | Celebrated William Inge play , in which Shirley Booth won a Best Actress Tony for her work on Broadway , comes to the screen rather muted of its power . Booth returns to her role as a frumpy housewife desperately trying to keep her moody husband happy ; he's an alcoholic chiropractor struggling to stay off the bottle ,... |
553,116 | 989,035 | 59,678 | 5 | You're psychotic , but don't be stupid ! | Several flasks containing a deadly toxin , prepared by the U . S . government for germ warfare , are stolen from a government lab in the California desert by a traitor and his henchmen ; an investigator on the case locates the group and is taken hostage . Mechanical thriller stretches out its exposition to a yawn-induc... |
552,821 | 989,035 | 59,674 | 5 | Trash of the glossiest kind can be fun . . . | Empty-headed romance starring Elizabeth Taylor as a beatnik artist in Northern California and Richard Burton as the married priest whom she seduces . Eva Marie Saint is Burton's sniffling wife ( the type of hankie-carrying movie good girl who tend to drive men right over the mountain into Sin City ) . The music is pret... |
553,316 | 989,035 | 59,711 | 5 | Balky and top-heavy with tragedy . . . | Rather lumpy Civil War story has a Virginia farmer ( James Stewart ) and his family sticking to their business and hoping to ignore the battles going on around them , but when the farmer's sixteen-year-old son is mistaken for a soldier ( or is he ? ) and is taken prisoner , Stewart declares this is now his war , too . ... |
551,610 | 989,035 | 86,491 | 5 | Cinematic expansion of the cult TV series flatlines . . . | Over-produced , witless affair with one amazing performance : John Lithgow , freaking out on a crowded airplane in the movie's fourth and closing chapter ( a remake of a TV episode starring William Shatner ) . These stories of the macabre , each helmed by a different filmmaker , vary in degrees of style and irony , alt... |
552,161 | 989,035 | 86,494 | 5 | A comic-book romance | Two Of A Kind originally opened citywide at Christmas-time 1983 without any pre-release screenings for the critics ( and you know what they say . . . they must have something to hide ! ) . True , the wheezing , inane plot and phony contrivances of " Two of a Kind " are tough to wade through , yet the film has a carto... |
552,785 | 989,035 | 24,763 | 5 | Early Myrna Loy . . . | 1933 comedy isn't too creaky , despite its age . Droll adaptation ( the first of two ) of Rachel Crothers ' play about a female writer who has penned a fictional account of an affair she had with a married man , later unknowingly befriending the jilted wife at a dinner party . Some very tart lines and smart performance... |
553,385 | 989,035 | 71,110 | 5 | It cries out to be satirized . . . | The first sequel to 1970's popular " Airport " is saddled with a fifth-rate script and a third-class production , yet somehow the thing is entertaining on a very low level . Karen Black is an odd choice to play a stewardess ( she's much too intense an actress to be convincing waiting on travelers ) ; when her 747 is cr... |
551,748 | 989,035 | 114,214 | 5 | Intentionally over-the-top , but flimsy instead of full-bodied . . . | Flashy but flimsy western tries for fantasy-mythic feel but never quite achieves its ambitions . Sharon Stone plays mysterious lady gunslinger who signs up for dueling contest in a tumbleweed town once she discovers her mortal nemesis is involved , the mangy varmint who was instrumental in killing her sheriff father . ... |
552,763 | 989,035 | 52,104 | 5 | Enjoyable camp | Colorful sci-fi has Zsa Zsa Gabor and numerous other beautiful females trapped on the planet Venus , which is under the ruling of a man-hating feminist . When an all-male space exploration team crash lands on the premises , the gals scheme to break free from the tyrant . Though shot in beautiful color ( and in CinemaSc... |
552,684 | 989,035 | 24,684 | 5 | Barrymore is charismatic . . . the script is not | Film-version of Marcel Pagnol's play about a naive professor , teaching at an academy for boys , getting the ax from the administration and becoming a chemist for a beverage company headed up by a businessman who turns out to be dishonest . Tale of morals and mores is sluggishly-paced and could use a little extra comed... |
552,053 | 989,035 | 95,088 | 5 | TV sitcom masquerading as a feature film | Elvira ( Cassandra Peterson ) is a very chipper presence on the screen , but her dry comments and costumed-Valley Girl disposition can't carry a movie very far . The plot - - something to do with an inheritance , a book of spells , and Edie McClurg as a Mrs . Kravitz-type townsperson - - isn't painful or slack , but it... |
551,482 | 989,035 | 105,508 | 5 | Stylish but aloof and dramatically flat . . . | Puzzling revisionist return to 1920's Chicago , wherein a couple of vicarious thrill-seekers and gay lovers graduate from breaking storefront windows to masterminding the murder of a young boy ( within the pretense of a kidnapping-for-ransom job ) . True story of convicted murderers Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold , Jr... |
553,248 | 989,035 | 71,080 | 5 | Anything for love ! | Charles Grodin is dryly disengaged throughout this sleepy comic caper , which he co-adapted from the book by Gerald A . Browne . An American thief hopes to rob Great Britain's clearing house of its diamonds , but both Grodin and accomplice / girlfriend Candice Bergin are so lethargic they fade into the woodwork . A wil... |
550,728 | 989,035 | 44,370 | 5 | Unhappy stars struggle through lumpy romantic musical . . . | Exceedingly thin Warner Bros . musical , blanketed in tacky lustre and stock footage , involves an inept assistant's assistant in Washington , D . C . who is in charge of sending out the invites to attend a Theatre Arts Festival in Paris , France ; somehow , an invitation meant for Ethel Barrymore is sent instead to a ... |
551,261 | 989,035 | 86,399 | 5 | He stuck his fingers in my mouth and called me a pig . . . | George L . Du Maurier's novel " Trilby " , first filmed as " Svengali " in 1931 with John Barrymore and Marian Marsh , gets an embarrassing ' 80s make-over here , with New York bar-band singer Jodie Foster discovered and sent to vocal extraordinaire Peter O'Toole for refinement . They share a begrudging relationship at... |
552,236 | 989,035 | 359,423 | 5 | The kind of sentimentality that grates . . . | I'm a sucker for romantic movies , with meant-to-be relationships that last a lifetime , but " A Home at the End of the World " is a mishmash of romantic ideas , most of them cobbled from other movies ( say , " Jules and Jim " ) , and yet it never gets its central relationships right . Colin Farrell plays a young man s... |
551,681 | 989,035 | 24,633 | 5 | Interesting early talkie | Quite good film about a shop-owner who lives to see his little business flourish into a major department store ; unfortunately , his angry , ungrateful children want no part of the business once dad passes over . Melodrama loses focus in the last half , but until then is excellently acted , surprisingly interesting . B... |
551,473 | 989,035 | 51,758 | 5 | Hayward gets gassed for overacting . . . | Once-celebrated soap opera regarding hustler and maybe-murderess Barbara Graham , who got the gas chamber . Susan Hayward won the Best Actress Oscar , but for what ? Spitting out lines like " It's nothing PERSONAL ! " , " I'm not your MAID ! " or " Take it , it's all I've GOT ! " ( always with the inflection on the las... |
552,464 | 989,035 | 114,614 | 5 | Brash energy and enthusiasm , but it's a near-miss . . . | From the cult comic-strip by Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett about a post-apocalyptic smart-ass ( Lori Petty ) who is in a battle against the bad guys at the Department of Water and Power in the year 2033 . Structured and designed just like a comic book , with jagged editing techniques , animated fragments , lots of rock... |
552,971 | 989,035 | 44,199 | 5 | Fine cast , familiar story . . . | Often-told tale of a single father meeting and falling in love with a single mother , planning to wed despite the fact their mutual children do not get along . Van Heflin and Patricia Neal are certainly well-matched in the leads , and Heflin in particular gives a sharply-observed performance , but contrivances take ove... |
552,359 | 989,035 | 374,536 | 5 | Fully fabricated magic . . . | From Nicole Kidman's unnaturally sweet and sing-songy vocal inflections to the heavy-handed pop and rock music selections on the soundtrack , director and co-writer Nora Ephron's high-concept rendering of the 1960s TV show " Bewitched " sparkles like store-bought glitter . Will Ferrell ( overacting without a grounded c... |
551,486 | 989,035 | 59,410 | 5 | Bizarre , outlandish , well-cast and performed . . . but it runs out of gas too soon | Colorful cast ends up flailing about in this pushy mishmash of darkly comic ideas , written by Christopher Isherwood and Terry Southern from Evelyn Waugh's novel . Slim plot concerns young Robert Morse , newly arrived in Los Angeles to live with his uncle , suddenly faced with burying the man after his uncle unexpected... |
550,443 | 989,035 | 70,698 | 5 | Lots of low-budget style , but it doesn't add up | Hitchcock-buff Brian De Palma gets an intriguing , just-this-side-of-campy scenario going in " Sisters " : twin siblings are involved in a murder , and quickly attempt to cover it up from a nosey female sleuth who witnessed a bloody " something " from her window . Too bad the flick falls apart after this promising firs... |
552,206 | 989,035 | 86,250 | 5 | Violence for the purpose of shocking . . . | Exceptionally bloody and profane drug-mob melodrama updates the 1930's Scarface / Al Capone legend and transplants it to 1980's Florida . Political Cuban refugee ( Al Pacino ) , liberated from his homeland by Castro in 1980 along with some 125 , 000 other refugees , becomes major drug-lord in Miami . Elaborately made a... |
552,239 | 989,035 | 350,258 | 5 | Is it a great performance or a great impersonation ? | Director Taylor Hackford doesn't have to work hard to get Ray Charles on our side : the opening scene , with Ray outsmarting a bigoted redneck , gets you smiling and immediately we're off on Ray's adventure . It seems like a good start , but despite the fact that Ray is a sympathetic , interesting character on-screen ,... |
551,050 | 989,035 | 51,818 | 5 | Michael Curtiz directed , but it's no " Casablanca " for Elvis . . . | Disappointing Presley-fest has Elvis cast as a young delinquent who becomes involved with gangsters who hang out at a popular nightclub . Adapted from the Harold Robbins book " A Stone for Danny Fisher " , the movie transplants the action from Chicago to New Orleans and is now structured as an acting / singing vehicle ... |
552,437 | 989,035 | 51,816 | 5 | Unusual war story with a romantic slant , Sophia Loren as ' unglamorous ' woman of convenience . . . | Jan de Hartog's novel " Stella " becomes interesting , erratic , uneven WWII battle story mixed with romantic melodrama . William Holden , an American sergeant with the Canadian Army ( ! ) , is transferred to England to captain a rescue-tugboat in U-boat-infested Atlantic waters ; the job inadvertently comes with a fla... |
551,570 | 989,035 | 59,447 | 5 | Mickey One . . . Audience Zero | At its core , this heavily symbolic and somewhat hypothetical drama from Arthur Penn concerns a nightclub entertainer escaping his own existence after its been implied his gambling debts have put him in hot water with crime bosses ; believing himself to be " guilty of not being innocent " , he changes his identity to M... |
550,642 | 989,035 | 59,431 | 5 | Ring-a-ding-dud | It's a marriage merry-go-round when Deborah Kerr rather inadvertently divorces workaholic hubby Frank Sinatra while on vacation in Mexico ; when he fails to make things right , she ( once again ) inadvertently winds up hitched to boozy best friend Dean Martin . Made during the time when films had become second priority... |
553,213 | 989,035 | 79,489 | 5 | The Count flips the Bird . . . | Rude , snorting satirical updating of Bram Stoker's legendary vampire . George Hamilton is perfect as Count Vladimir Dracula , here being forced out of his castle in Transylvania , pulling up stakes with bug-eating companion Renfield and moving to New York City in search of a model he's developed a yen for . Despite a ... |
551,795 | 989,035 | 79,501 | 5 | Action in a junkyard | George Miller co-wrote and directed this low-rent Australian variance of " Death Wish " set in the near future , with cop Mel Gibson seeking vengeance for the gang-related deaths of his wife and child . A mercilessly cruel , exploitive thriller overflowing with car crashes . The film certainly doesn't make Australia lo... |
551,390 | 989,035 | 44,081 | 5 | Missing some of the electricity and unpredictability of a live performance . . . | A deluded Southern belle goes to stay with her pregnant sister and her swaggering brute of a brother-in-law in their tacky New Orleans flat , but his pent-up passion and the belle's fluttery innocence / insanity clash in dramatic and sexual ways . Vivien Leigh is exceptional as quixotic , somewhat irritating Blanche Du... |
552,238 | 989,035 | 51,864 | 5 | Needed more humor and heart - - and less of Fess Parker | James MacArthur in an early role as a young white man in the 1760s who was raised by Indians before being traded back to his people , whose customs now have left him alienated and sullen . MacArthur has a great masculine stance and a firm jaw - - and he's unhurt by his Mohawk haircut - - but he's perhaps too rigid . Th... |
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