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550,716 | 989,035 | 59,646 | 5 | Polanski has movie-making passion , but the results are stagnant and alienating | A loosely-hinged story about madness . A benumbed young woman , staying alone in her sister's apartment , is suffering from neuroses which may have to do with her being sexually repressed ; when intruders attempt to get into the flat , the girl unintentionally becomes a murderess . Director Roman Polanski's first Engli... |
551,732 | 989,035 | 59,630 | 5 | Easy virtue = ultimate unhappiness | In a picturesque Pennsylvania town , wealthy co-ed Suzanne Pleshette develops a rage for men after a neighborhood kid forces himself on her ( her lips say " no , no ! " but her eyes say " yes , yes ! " ) . From John O'Hara's novel , predictably playing out like a junior-version of his " BUtterfield 8 " . Pleshette is a... |
550,492 | 989,035 | 94,737 | 5 | Modern-day fantasy that , alas , falls into all the standard conventions . . . | Tom Hanks is young and charming playing a little boy in a grown man's body . A youngster with growing pains makes a wish one night ( via a fortune teller machine ) to be " big " and the following morning wakes up to a new reflection in the mirror : a hairy guy with long legs . Director Penny Marshall works this materia... |
552,613 | 989,035 | 79,576 | 5 | Their futures were foretold at the conclusion of the original . . . | So why did we need " More " ? It must've been a corporate decision - - with financial gain the bottom line . If so , that plan didn't quite work , as " More American Graffiti " failed to catch on with its target audience , mostly due to the fact it reflects not the 1960s but TV sitcoms derived from ' 60s nostalgia . Ro... |
551,399 | 989,035 | 44,121 | 5 | Who Goes There ? | Military workers and scientists near Anchorage discover the wreck of a flying saucer and thaw out its passenger , an alien monster who quickly wreaks havoc . From a short story by John W . Campbell , who originally had the Thing taking on the personalities of its victims ; this film-version , directed by Christian Nyby... |
551,762 | 989,035 | 114,496 | 5 | Underwhelming comedy-drama with A-list talent . . . | Sterling cast featuring not only Julia Roberts and Dennis Quaid , but also Robert Duvall , Gena Rowlands and Kyra Sedgwick , is a handsomely-made but rather ordinary , women's TV-type light drama ( with barbed language added ) . Roberts plays harried working mom down South who discovers husband Quaid has been unfaithfu... |
551,107 | 989,035 | 70,819 | 5 | Jackson excels in lightweight fluff | A love story with a built-in dead end : they're crazy about each other , but he's already married . Attempt to recapture the sophisticated romantic-comedies of yesteryear is put to the test under a heavy-handed direction which doesn't know what it's going for , laughs or pathos ( the former occasionally bumping clumsil... |
553,161 | 989,035 | 44,103 | 5 | Literal art ; rather heavy going , which some fanciful imagination might have helped to relieve . . . | Powell & Pressburger's misfired attempt to co-mingle the balletic magnificence of their success " The Red Shoes " with the Jacques Offenbach light opera about a German student who gains inspiration through romantic heartbreak . The fiery imagination which fuels the Archers team is only in sporadic evidence here ; their... |
551,895 | 989,035 | 70,825 | 5 | How long was this script lying around before somebody got to it ? | Deceit and treachery in the Old West ( via 1973 ) , with everything and nearly everyone involved seeming out of place . " The Train Robbers " looks nothing like what it was trying to capture . . . or was anyone trying at all ? John Wayne does his usual amiable walk-through , but he's so tired that not even this feels h... |
550,851 | 989,035 | 70,788 | 5 | Well crafted and cast , but familiar and obvious . . . | Working-class British lad in 1958 leaves school and hitches a ride into the next town , where he has hopes of becoming a rock star . Extension of the " angry young man " U . K . dramas from the early 1960's , with real-life pop star and Alan Bates-lookalike David Essex in the lead , has some appeal but is full of recyc... |
551,087 | 989,035 | 28,216 | 5 | Sin , corruption , and singing . . . a variable brouhaha | Clark Gable as a Barbary Coast nightclub owner in 1906 San Francisco who is considering going into politics ; he has recently hired former librarian Jeanette MacDonald as a singer ( despite her skinny legs ) and is quickly falling for her , although her operatic trilling has caught the ears of more influential men in t... |
551,295 | 989,035 | 80,365 | 5 | A self-important rumination | Richard Gere is appropriately cocky , assured and well-manicured as Julian , a high-paid Beverly Hills escort for wealthy women , but while on assignment in Palm Springs he becomes associated with a low-life couple which leads to a murder - - with Julian as the fall-guy . Vicious pimps , politician's wives , and lots o... |
552,041 | 989,035 | 89,927 | 5 | Hoist the American flag , here comes Rocky . . . | Sylvester Stallone once again stacks the deck against his most popular character Rocky Balboa , here taking on a freakishly strong Russian boxer in the ring as an act of vengeance for the death of former foe and recent ally Apollo Creed . Once the publicity machine gets cranking , it appears as though Rocky is fighting... |
553,481 | 989,035 | 50,629 | 5 | Three stars hungry for treasure , thirsty for water , and dying for a decent script . . . | Colorless title for a dishwater-dull adventure saga starring John Wayne , Sophia Loren , and Rossano Brazzi , three disparate characters crossing the Sahara desert in the same direction as Brazzi's ill-fated father , who went missing ten years prior after finding a lost city stocked with rubies and emeralds . Wayne , p... |
550,994 | 989,035 | 59,287 | 5 | It's stuck in the sand | Fairly desperate " Beach Party " entry ( the sixth in the series ! ) has Annette Funicello contemplating a new boyfriend while Frankie Avalon is overseas . Enter . . . Dwayne Hickman ? Frankie actually has a rather large cameo role for not receiving a livelier billing , and there's a cute ending , but these kids are st... |
552,513 | 989,035 | 1,059,786 | 5 | Smash ! Crash ! and Shattered Glass . . . | The twin brother of a now-deceased government operative has his mundane life thrown into turmoil after being set up to look like a terrorist by an all-knowing super-computer ( think a sex-reversal of " 2001 " ' s HAL ) ; its agenda is to have the young man flee towards Washington , D . C . to complete an insanely compl... |
551,420 | 989,035 | 59,274 | 5 | Connery gives it star-power | All-male cast trudges through intense , Kubrickesque prison camp melodrama filmed in moody black-and-white . Despite some powerful moments , it's an alternately bizarre and yet too-formulaic account of soldiers in a WWII British military prison in Africa . The thin plot is really nothing more than the standard introduc... |
551,788 | 989,035 | 110,638 | 5 | Foster works admirably hard , but film is unenlightening and not too convincing . . . | Young woman , raised in total isolation in the backwoods of North Carolina by her mother ( who had suffered strokes and inadvertently taught her daughter an idiosyncratic form of English ) is discovered by a well-meaning doctor who hopes to understand her ; unfortunately , other doctors with an eye on their careers get... |
552,788 | 989,035 | 50,567 | 5 | Modest Disney drama for young adults | Low-profile Walt Disney live-action drama / history lesson , based on Esther Forbes ' book , about a young man in 1773 Boston who becomes involved in treacherous wartime activities . Pleasant , if unremarkable , film on a small-scale . Hal Stalmaster is fine ( if uncharismatic ) in the lead , but supporting players Lua... |
551,067 | 989,035 | 110,598 | 5 | Sweet and sour fairy tale | Cinderella-styled Australian comedy-drama has echoes of the British class comedies of the mid-to-late 1960s ( " Georgy Girl " in particular ) . Overweight , unloved young woman strikes out on her own , dreaming about having the proverbial big fancy wedding despite the fact she has no boyfriend . From writer-director P ... |
553,308 | 989,035 | 204,640 | 5 | Ensemble comedy with one terrific performance . . . | Del Shores directed and wrote this adaptation of his own play about how an elderly woman's ( comical ) accidental death causes her family and friends to rue her passing while digging up ancient misgivings . Low-budget film played the Palm Springs movie circuit for months but didn't hit many other towns ; easy to see wh... |
550,921 | 989,035 | 50,556 | 5 | Pure trash , though Elvis is convincing as a bad-tempered " rube " . . . | After attempting to defend the honor of a prostitute in a bar , working-stiff Elvis Presley beats up her pimp , killing him with his bare hands ! He serves time in the jug , where his guitar-pickin ' cellmate teaches the hot-headed punk a few chords . Rags-to-riches tale constantly tidies up its own sordid scenario , r... |
551,099 | 989,035 | 90,080 | 5 | Lucille works admirably hard , but results are still pretty sticky . . . | Post-graduate do-gooder , wanting to help the homeless without having any knowledge of how they survive , befriends a very popular bag-lady . TV-movie with more gloss and Hollywood-ized uplift than actual grit . Still , it's a chance to see Lucille Ball in one of her last acting roles , and Lucy commands attention even... |
553,630 | 989,035 | 41,931 | 5 | Bergman is miscast , yet film is endlessly fascinating . . . | Peculiar , curious enterprise involving spoiled Lithuanian woman in a WWII Italian camp who begrudgingly marries a poor Italian fisherman ; after moving with him to the remote island Stromboli , the woman encounters hostility from the locals , abuse from her spouse , and plots her escape . Melodramatic material served ... |
552,467 | 989,035 | 103,130 | 5 | It's so determined to be odd , eventually indifference sets in . . . | Pregnant , unwed teen ( Adrienne Shelly ) falls unexpectedly into relationship with brilliant-but-stubborn young man ( Martin Donovan ) who's on the fast track to nowhere . You gotta credit director Hal Hartley with fashioning a bizarre , yet puzzlingly amusing scenario cast with unknown actors who tap right into his o... |
553,091 | 989,035 | 59,260 | 5 | Pre-hippie nuttiness . . . | Scattershot satire of spy flicks , screwball comedies and old-fashioned musicals has British rock group the Beatles on the run from villainous types who hope to steal one of the rings owned by drummer Ringo ( ha ha ) . Fine musical sequences bolster weak slapstick outing which has great visual style but no real plot . ... |
551,032 | 989,035 | 97,757 | 5 | It should've stayed ' under the sea ' . . . | A Disney pacifier for children . Perky mermaid Ariel longs for life outside the ocean , acquires legs and ventures forth on land to meet a boy . The swirling colors and Broadway-styled musical numbers are pleasant and upbeat for the first half of the picture , yet even they take on a chintzy / glitzy ambiance that null... |
552,857 | 989,035 | 158,371 | 5 | Great-looking Woody Allen drama misfires without enough heart . . . | Real life jazz guitarist in the 1930s ( Sean Penn ) has alcohol , ego and marriage-related problems that keep him from tasting success . Woody Allen ( who appears as one of the narrators ) wrote and directed this handsome , certainly well-acted but meandering drama which always verges on being great but eventually co... |
551,484 | 989,035 | 120,363 | 5 | Begins with great fanfare , but it can't sustain that level of excitement | Disney / Pixar's sequel to " Toy Story " from 1995 introduces some fun new characters and has colorful celebrity voice-overs and energy to spare , but the plot this time ( taking some of the toys out of the bedroom and into the big cruel world ) doesn't sustain much interest - - especially if you're over 12 . Woody get... |
552,594 | 989,035 | 332,375 | 5 | Some tart religious satire can't overcome cheap gags and the usual boy-girl antics . . . | Jena Malone has a sweet plainness and a natural , unforced charm playing bright senior at " a really good Christian school " who's part of an elite clique until a series of confounding personal events causes her to question her faith - - and reexamine her circle of friends . Director / co-screenwriter Brian Dannelly do... |
551,457 | 989,035 | 97,322 | 5 | Script-writing in short-hand . . . | Two-brother piano act , growing stale through the years , gets big boost after acquiring sultry female singer , the torchy type who is unafraid to hop atop a piano to deliver a flirtatious number , and who eventually - - and inadvertently - - comes between the siblings while seeming to be unaware of her own allure . Al... |
551,339 | 989,035 | 50,371 | 5 | Rabble-rouser leans too heavily on melodrama for its content | Radio-producer Patricia Neal discovers a loudmouth hick from Arkansas who excites the local crowds with his cynical blend of idealism and the truth ; if she can parlay that into a commercially viable package , they might all end up rich . Almost for a full hour , this Elia Kazan drama is a blistering account of celebri... |
550,922 | 989,035 | 50,397 | 5 | Very strange , and certainly not a success , but interesting in many ways . . . | Max Catto's novel turned into a very odd love triangle involving two skippers of a smuggling vessel in the Caribbean with a luckless red-haired beauty , an immigrant from perhaps Lithuania , who needs to get to Cuba . British production is erratic , with location shots and studio close-ups often occupying the same scen... |
551,119 | 989,035 | 59,017 | 5 | Disappointingly fatigued western | A big hit in its day , " Cat Ballou " still looks like someone knocked the wind out of it . It isn't fresh , and the farcial elements seem put over with strain . Jane Fonda displays processed spunk as the title character , a schoolmarm out to avenge the death of her father ; Lee Marvin won an Oscar playing both the man... |
552,690 | 989,035 | 32,828 | 5 | Beelzebub ! I've been hoodwinked ! | Mae West and W . C . Fields working below their abilities . She's a sassy singer run out of her community for consorting with a masked stagecoach bandit ; he's a novelty salesman ( with a satchel of phony money ) who becomes sheriff in a troubled Old West town after falsely boasting of his shooting abilities . Mae " ma... |
551,113 | 989,035 | 50,419 | 5 | Colorful and energetic , but with a hackneyed script . . . | Audrey Hepburn always said she was an introvert forced by her profession into playing extroverts , and usually that strain didn't show . It doesn't show in " Funny Face " either , but her natural gamine appeal does seem to get swallowed up in the fake-happy surroundings . The Oscar-nominated screenplay about a famous p... |
550,633 | 989,035 | 120,823 | 5 | Scrappy , eager-to-please comedy is all over the place . . . | Stanley Tucci wrote , co-produced , directed and stars in this happy , but only moderately successful comedy about two out-of-work actors - - so unemployed they are reduced to staging wild scenes in restaurants just for the food - - who get on the wrong side of a drunken stage-star and end up as stowaways on a cruise s... |
551,350 | 989,035 | 59,112 | 5 | Too much bickering , not enough romantic comedy | Despite a cute - - if not exactly fresh - - opening , " Do Not Disturb " immediately starts to disintegrate . Why ? I think it's all in the script , which is second-rate . The movie pairs Doris Day with handsome , adept Rod Taylor , but gives them no scenes together as man and wife that make you care about their union ... |
551,487 | 989,035 | 41,507 | 5 | Efficient but dull . . . | Musical remake of 1940's " The Shop Around the Corner " concerns a bachelor ( Van Johnson ) in 1930's Chicago who shares an intriguing pen-pal relationship with a single gal ( Judy Garland ) , unaware his mystery lady is actually the brash co-worker whom he hates . MGM product with decidedly less gloss and panache than... |
551,059 | 989,035 | 59,124 | 5 | Shapeless comedy with some laughs | Taking advantage of the current craze over mad scientists , wacky world-domination schemes and kittenish bad girls , A . I . P . studios ( rather smoothly ) segues from the " Beach Party " flicks to this Bondian slapstick outing ( with several " Beach " players in roles and cameos ) . Frankie Avalon mugs like a rubber-... |
552,190 | 989,035 | 103,253 | 5 | A girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do . . . | Ken Russell's " Whore " begins with an amusing shot of cars driving through a tunnel ( R-rated Freudianism ? ) coupled with a Jamaican rap on the soundtrack about doing the " boom boom " with girls . Russell , who directed the film and co-adapted the screenplay from David Hines ' play , is highly adept at quirky bits o... |
553,326 | 989,035 | 89,643 | 5 | Field and Garner are a good match , but this slim plot leads them nowhere . . . | Single mom ( Sally Field ) , still attracted to her ex-spouse , finds love with an older gentleman ( James Garner ) in a rural town . Field radiates so much good will , you like her even before you realize she doesn't have much of a character to play . Veteran filmmaker Martin Ritt has always been exact at finding subt... |
551,580 | 989,035 | 120,737 | 5 | Overkill | The preamble of " The Lord Of the Rings " thankfully isn't so pedantic that we are forced to wade through every cranny of J . R . R . Tolkien's fanciful - but - incredibly - detailed set-up for the story , but neither is it anything more than just a jumble of scenes ( an expansive but darkly-lit battle , close-ups of f... |
553,011 | 989,035 | 72,417 | 5 | Rowlands ' exhaustive neurotic energy is enough for several performances | Love , marriage and madness - - cinema verite style . Harrowing , free-flowing melodrama about a mentally-ill housewife in the modern-day and the effects of her behavior on her husband and children . Filmmaker John Cassavetes was criticized at the time for creating what some saw as a preconceived tour-de-force for actr... |
551,545 | 989,035 | 120,762 | 5 | She's an Oriental Yentl | Good-looking but lumpish and derivative Disney animated musical based on Chinese folklore . Young girl , a failure in Concubine School , decides to join the Chinese Emperor's Army disguised as a boy to save her family's name . Lots of " drag " jokes and vocal hamming from Eddie Murphy ( as a tiny dragon ) may make kids... |
551,655 | 989,035 | 80,025 | 5 | Dandy plot , winning cast , but a convoluted treatment . . . | Malcolm McDowell as H . G . Wells and David Warner as Jack the Ripper make wonderful adversaries in this squashy fantasy-thriller which doesn't have a firm narrative , doesn't know when to quit , but does include marvelous performances and a handsome production . The plot itself is rather ingenious , too : Wells , abou... |
550,838 | 989,035 | 59,095 | 5 | It has a fantastic idea and good leads - - but that's it . . . | In the 21st Century , a game of humans-hunting-humans provides the outlet for bloodlust and vicarious entertainment that our population is craving . Here's a concept that needs a great deal of style and wit to come off successfully , but the dubbed , Italian-made " The 10th Victim " has very little of either . Ursula A... |
553,441 | 989,035 | 32,904 | 5 | Glossy , arch society comedy . . . | Society divorcée , planning her next wedding , becomes involved with her ne'er-do-well ex-husband , who's in cahoots with a magazine writer doing a piece on the rich and pampered . Philip Barry's play comes to the screen starched and pressed . The classy cast is more than adept at this type of smart-talking fluff , yet... |
552,399 | 989,035 | 97,457 | 5 | An unrestrained talent gets the performance it requires . . . | Speaking in hindsight , Dennis Quaid has recently gone on record as saying he should've taken the filmmakers ' advice and brought his portrayal of real-life hell-raising singer / piano player Jerry Lee Lewis down a notch or two . However , it's precisely Quaid's energy ( and the accomplished 1950's period flavor ) that... |
552,890 | 989,035 | 41,671 | 5 | Bubbly fluff . . . | Doris Day's second feature may have been written expressly for the hot new talent , what with a feisty character similar to her own personality involved in familiar circumstances . Radio show producer Jack Carson loses his temperamental star and has to find a new and exciting singer , ' accidentally ' hearing perky Dor... |
550,931 | 989,035 | 120,684 | 5 | Intriguing material rendered a bit flat by uncertain handling . . . | Fictionalized account of the later years of gay film director James Whale , who in the 1930's directed " Frankenstein " and " Bride of Frankenstein " . Here , Whale befriends his hunky , heterosexual groundskeeper ( with the hilariously butch name Clayton Boone ) and hearkens back on his glory years in Hollywood . Art-... |
551,029 | 989,035 | 97,428 | 5 | Whatever charm or vitality it has is due to Bill Murray . . . | Sequel to the overrated 1984 predecessor about three New Yorkers in the extermination business - - busting ghosts instead of bugs - - has the same jovial cast , a handsome production design , and some funny jokes , providing fitful amusement . Here , the leads discover poltergeists living underneath The Big Apple , and... |
553,459 | 989,035 | 120,586 | 5 | Now we can ignore each other in peace . . . | Past and present collage of a youthful neo-Nazi skinhead in Venice Beach , California , his life going into a tailspin after the gang-related murder of his father . After killing some neighborhood thugs , the skinhead serves jail time and is eventually paroled ( and reformed ) , yet he can't seem to straighten out his ... |
553,253 | 989,035 | 120,591 | 5 | Incredible special effects unleash moments of eerie beauty . . . | Well-produced action-thriller about an asteroid the size of Texas about to slam into Earth is unfortunately filled with idiots and dolts . Why do we need Steve Buscemi on board as a loose cannon who manages to sit still for the training but nearly screws everything up in space ( and even worse , appears to be rewarded ... |
550,531 | 989,035 | 58,998 | 5 | Attempts to uncover small town scandals , but film is a mere whimper | Writer William Inge took his name off the credits for this Ann-Margret / Michael Parks dud about serviceman returning home to family and friends , only to find everything has changed while he's been away . The screenplay , now credited to Walter Gage , hints at provocative themes ( an older gentleman whom Parks sees ab... |
551,246 | 989,035 | 120,603 | 5 | Them that die bad don't stay in the ground . . . | Toni Morrison story about a former servant in post-Civil War Ohio , working as a cook and living with her troubled teenage daughter ( in a house touched by a spirit from the past ) , is visited by a man she once knew eighteen years ago as a troubled girl from Kentucky ; they forge a loving friendship built upon their m... |
552,453 | 989,035 | 89,755 | 5 | All the star-power and prestige cannot erase the air of artificiality . . . | Robert Redford is miscast as a British adventurer in Africa wooing married Danish writer Meryl Streep . Busy , overlong romantic opus / travelogue based upon the life of Karen Blixen is really just an excuse to get these two beautiful stars together on-screen , and certainly their combined chemistry makes several scene... |
552,774 | 989,035 | 120,631 | 5 | Cinderella revisited ( and revised ) | The Cinderella tale revised ( and some may say improved upon ) by turning the title character into a 16th Century servant girl with a feisty spirit , an educated mind , and a fearsome right hook ! Drew Barrymore vacillates between victimized puppy , coy young woman and pre-feminist challenger in the lead , convincing t... |
552,781 | 989,035 | 97,493 | 5 | Dead-pan comic cynicism bites off more than it can chew . . . | Heathers delights in shocking viewers with un-PC humor ; that's fine , yet the picture is a mess from a filmmaker's stand-point , and Daniel Waters ' script takes a dive with twenty minutes left to go . This is a movie that never goes in any particular direction , so Waters left himself an ' out ' : he could end it a... |
553,223 | 989,035 | 72,308 | 5 | A lumbering ' Inferno ' . . . | There's much awesome activity in Irwin Allen's disaster follow-up to " The Poseidon Adventure " , and yet not a lot to take in . You could close your eyes through this one and still be able to follow the plot . A San Francisco skyscraper catches fire on its unveiling , and there's plenty of stock characters on hand mor... |
552,818 | 989,035 | 120,632 | 5 | Underwhelming star-vehicle | American reworking of Germany's " Wings of Desire " becomes an old-fashioned weeper . . . and how dispiriting is that ? Meg Ryan isn't quite convincing playing a doctor being romanced by a strange man who is actually a lovestruck angel contemplating becoming human . Nicolas Cage has the showier role , performing it in ... |
550,727 | 989,035 | 98,067 | 5 | Director Howard brings it together for a sweet finish , yet most of " Parenthood " is woefully unsubtle . . . | Intelligently-crafted , though ultimately uneven and shallow mosaic of stories centering on the members of a large , colorful modern family . Director Ron Howard has a tough time getting the picture's rhythm going , and for the first two-thirds of an hour it does nothing but meander and flail away on stale jokes . The ... |
553,329 | 989,035 | 80,854 | 5 | Near-brilliant production design and art direction ; the rest is middling . . . | Fictionalized account of the friendship between writers Nick Cassady and Jack Kerouac , members of the so-called Beat Generation of the late 1950s . Writer-director John Byrum takes a sketchy , connect-the-dots approach to these famous people , and his opaque screenplay , adapted from Carolyn Cassady's memoirs , leaves... |
551,163 | 989,035 | 167,404 | 6 | Polished , efficient , derivative , inert . . . | Bruce Willis looks appropriately grim throughout thriller about a child psychologist who attempts to help a troubled young boy who claims to see ghosts . Surprisingly popular other-worldly yarn ( surprising because the film is so old-fashioned ) , it goes to sometimes hokey means to get a scare out of the audience , bu... |
553,612 | 989,035 | 365,125 | 6 | Discover the oyster ! | Tracey Ullman does some priceless double-takes in this John Waters comedy , playing uptight wife and mother in a Baltimore suburb who gets a rap on the noggin and becomes a sex addict . A shabby-looking enterprise with scrappy editing , this would seem amateurish even for a first-time director , but Waters certainly do... |
552,231 | 989,035 | 61,189 | 6 | A rape of decency ! A parody of pleasure ! | Roger Corman's modestly-budgeted biker flick for American International opens brilliantly , with evocative shots by cinematographer Richard Moore that promise a lot more than what Corman , screenwriter Charles Griffith , or the cast members can eventually deliver . Plot has Southern California biker gang enjoying rumbl... |
552,083 | 989,035 | 70,444 | 6 | Woman-in-distress yarn presents a virtual roll call for thriller clichés . . . but recovers for a nifty finish | Elizabeth Taylor stars in this film-adaption of Lucille Fletcher's play , which had been accused of lifting elements from Patrick Hamilton's play " Gas Light " ; while true , this movie-version looks even more similar to the Doris Day thriller " Midnight Lace " , replacing phone calls with does-she-really-see-them dead... |
551,008 | 989,035 | 382,628 | 6 | Downbeat ghost story , satisfying up to a point . . . | Newly-separated Jennifer Connelly moves herself and her child into an apartment building across the river from Manhattan , and immediately an ominous-looking water stain on the bedroom ceiling spells danger . Director Walter Salles , working from both the novel by Kôji Suzuki and the 2002 Japanese original from Hideo N... |
552,827 | 989,035 | 35,272 | 6 | To all the beautiful women in the world who have shot their husbands full of holes . . . | Comedy fracas from Maurine Watkins ' play " Chicago " ( filmed previously in 1927 , and remade as a musical in 2002 ) has gum-snapping , would-be showgirl Roxie Hart , wife to a real schlub in jazz-era Chicago , talked into putting herself at the center of an apartment shooting - - because , after all , Chicago courts ... |
552,948 | 989,035 | 295,178 | 6 | Star cameos and outrageous toilet humor , some of which is very funny . . . | Third Austin Powers spy-spoof is nearly a winner for Mike Myers , playing the would-be suave International Man of Mystery once again pitted against Dr . Evil , who has hatched a plot to flood the world . Evil is now in cahoots with Goldmember , a power-mad genius from 1975 who sports a golden phallus . Surprise star-ca... |
551,014 | 989,035 | 43,967 | 6 | Wholesome catnip . . . | A mangy yellow cat , formerly a homeless hellion who hung around the golf course , is adopted by a multi-millionaire financier who harbors a distrust of humans ; after the man dies , the cat is named inheritor to the vast fortune - - and also becomes the good luck mascot for the major league ball team the businessman o... |
553,520 | 989,035 | 70,509 | 6 | The craziness of the first-year law student . . . | Timothy Bottoms battles through his first year at Harvard Law School , attempting to stay one step ahead of his no-nonsense professor , but inadvertently falling for the instructor's comely daughter ( Lindsay Wagner , pre - " Bionic Woman " ) . Director / screenwriter James Bridges adapted the script from John Jay Osbo... |
551,012 | 989,035 | 43,924 | 6 | Excruciatingly ironic . . . though Liz and Monty are still swoon-worthy | Theodore Dreiser's novel " An American Tragedy " turned into a glossy , slick , surface-pretty though still effective melodrama about troubled young people . Montgomery Clift is the poor ex-bellhop who gets a job working in his rich uncle's factory ; he has eyes for a smoky society beauty obviously out of his league , ... |
553,450 | 989,035 | 112,744 | 6 | Occasionally powerful melodrama | Sean Penn wrote , co-produced and directed this strong drama about a conflicted Los Angeles businessman intent on nailing the drunk driver who killed his daughter . In the lead , Jack Nicholson is appropriately somber , displaying no over-the-top theatrics as he visits the parolee just sprung from jail , giving him thr... |
551,293 | 989,035 | 52,696 | 6 | Possible germ warfare in Los Angeles . . . and Ben Casey in his undershirt | Pulpy , wildly overwrought , but entertaining co-feature from Columbia has a pre - " Ben Casey " Vince Edwards starring as a convict who breaks out of San Quentin with a container he thinks is " a pound of 100 % snow " , but instead of heroin it's actually radioactive Cobalt 60 and any exposure could decimate Los Angel... |
552,386 | 989,035 | 43,852 | 6 | Just say ' No ' . . . | Nancy Davis ( later Reagan ) gives a surprisingly good , sympathetic performance playing platonic friend to well-respected but troubled teacher Ray Milland . Life's woes have caused Ray to hit the bottle hard , but his loved ones quickly rally and offer their support . Heartfelt drama , written by Karl Tunberg and Leon... |
551,628 | 989,035 | 35,105 | 6 | Several big laughs , and Russell is a real peach . . . | Ruth McKenney's series of autobiographical articles about siblings from Columbus , Ohio relocated to wacky Greenwich Village was initially turned into a play before this movie version ( it later went back to the stage as the musical " Wonderful Town " , winning a Tony award for Rosalind Russell ) , and in 1955 was film... |
553,353 | 989,035 | 87,921 | 6 | Flawed , though exceptionally tender and well-acted | That thudding , metaphorical title not withstanding ( thankfully it isn't literal ) , this is a lovely reminiscence from writer-director Robert Benton , an autobiographical story about a Texas brood during the Depression having to make ends meet after the family patriarch is killed . Sally Field won a well-deserved Osc... |
551,235 | 989,035 | 61,420 | 6 | American International brings psycho-bikers to Big Sur . . . | Tom Laughlin's first film as Billy Jack , ex-Green Beret-turned-rancher living in Northern California who is continually mocked for his Indian blood and gentle manner . Here , Billy Jack gets involved in taking on a hard-partying gang of bikers who have raped a group of girls only after the local police force prove to ... |
552,505 | 989,035 | 61,418 | 6 | Bloodshed in the American Dustbowl . . . | Although numerous chapters in cinema manuals have been dedicated to Arthur Penn's violent , jagged , cynical " Bonnie and Clyde " - - and , indeed , it kick-started a new permissiveness in America movies which then generated many imitations - - the first twenty or so minutes of the picture are really awful . Depression... |
553,596 | 989,035 | 52,631 | 6 | Quinn gives the Italian histrionics some substance . . . | The soon-to-be-married daughter of a handsome widower is furious when her father starts dating the widow of a gangster . Anthony Quinn and Sophia Loren are quite good as the older lovers whose romance hits a family obstacle ( Quinn , in particular , is well-attuned to his role ) , but the stereotypical Italian characte... |
550,594 | 989,035 | 112,651 | 6 | The quest to legitimize homosexuality cinematically still makes Hollywood nervous | The Celluloid Closet doesn't play like a documentary ; instead , it's more like an extended installment of " Entertainment Tonight " , with funny , bitchy commentary and mostly bright , lively film clips ( it doesn't dig too deep ) . Made in 1995 , the most revealing thing about it is how little Hollywood's perceptio... |
553,420 | 989,035 | 61,383 | 6 | Love , lust and money on the links ; golfing soap opera is well up to par . . . | Robert Wagner's expressionless approach to acting is utilized to good effect in this soaper involving a playboy golf-pro from the country club circuit who enters a doubles tournament with prize-booty attached . . . and shady dealings on the side . Universal drama ( still unreleased to any home-viewing market ) looks te... |
551,636 | 989,035 | 112,641 | 6 | Mobsters in Vegas , as filtered through the ice-cold sensibilities of Martin Scorsese . . . | From Nicholas Pileggi's factual book about a mobster's immorality and downfall in Las Vegas , NV from 1973 to 1983 . Despite sweeping cinematography and palpable evil at nearly every plot-turn , " Casino " seems a " Goodfellas " retread . Robert De Niro is predictably good in the lead , but Joe Pesci , as De Niro's sur... |
551,043 | 989,035 | 61,407 | 6 | No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en . . . | Franco Zeffirelli's energetic handling of William Shakespeare's raucous battle of the sexes involving blustery Petruchio , a 16th Century fortune-hunter from Verona , Italy , who is slated to woo Katharina , the wicked wench of Padua , whose hand is surely available ; with her dowry looming large , Petruchio manages to... |
551,200 | 989,035 | 52,662 | 6 | A bit awkward , but generally likable comedy . . . | Clark Gable , in one of his final film roles , plays a theatrical producer fighting off the unwanted affections of his smitten juvenile secretary , later using his predicament as the basis for a new play . Odd to find latter-day Gable in such an outright piece of fluff ; he looks a little unsure of himself initially , ... |
550,416 | 989,035 | 43,792 | 6 | Highly sympathetic comic-turn from Thelma Ritter anchors overstuffed marital mix-up . . . | Thelma Ritter received a worthy Oscar nomination for her earthy performance as the proprietress of a diner who , due to lack of funds , has to leave the business behind and go to live with her son ( miscast John Lund ) ; he has just gotten married to a wealthy beauty with a harpy mother , and when Ritter is mistaken fo... |
551,811 | 989,035 | 34,946 | 6 | Overwrought , somewhat over-played , but still a classy product of its time . . . | Two boyhood pals from the 1890s grow into young adults with tumultuous lives : Robert Cummings is the studious kid who moves away from small town America to study psychiatry in Vienna ( ! ) , while Ronald Reagan loses all his money in a bank swindle and has to find work on the opposite side of the tracks . Intelligent ... |
550,610 | 989,035 | 412,019 | 6 | Completely open to interpretation | Whether it was ( shrewdly ) planned or not , Bill Murray has become one of our greatest cinematic resources , just as comfortable doing dry comedy as he is acting in a mood piece ; his whole melancholy being has become perfect for avant-garde comedy , and this meticulously-mounted and shaded ' dramedy ' is a Bill Murra... |
552,401 | 989,035 | 70,158 | 6 | Very nearly a terrific movie . . . | Original , offbeat comedy-drama written by James David Buchanan and Ron Austin concerns naive young man ( Michael Sarrazin ) who falls in league with a group of professional pickpockets . A smooth direction by Bruce Geller , an occasionally wily script and a fine cast including James Coburn and Walter Pidgeon promises ... |
553,236 | 989,035 | 77,928 | 6 | It's a masochist's dream come true . . . | Bearing little resemblance to the book , or in fact to real life , " Midnight Express " exists in a sadomasochist bubble , completely removed from anything concrete . Even on its own terms , it makes no sense . With heavy homosexual overtones throughout , our hero ( played by Brad Davis ) turns down gay sex as if he's ... |
550,901 | 989,035 | 60,955 | 6 | The Twilight Zone did this type of thing cheaper , faster and about as mean . . . | Seconds plays like an elongated episode of TV's " The Twilight Zone " . While that isn't particularly a bad thing , it does point out the fact the series may have done this story some justice simply by paring down its excesses . Rock Hudson is convincingly benumbed playing a handsome artist in Malibu whose life is a ... |
552,382 | 989,035 | 113,117 | 6 | No other actress should ever have to work so hard . . . | Meg Ryan gives a cracking good comedic performance as a woman jilted by her fiancé , flying from Canada to Paris , France to retrieve him , but finding love instead with a scruffy French thief . However , she's the only good thing in the film , which is an underwhelming , cookie-cutter paste-up job . Lawrence Kasdan di... |
551,619 | 989,035 | 87,800 | 6 | A rough little jewel | It's poorly-acted , sloppily-made and far too bloody , but the very first " Nightmare On Elm Street " spooked me at the time and has an ingenious premise : young teenaged girl finds that her friends are being killed in their dreams by a deceased child-killer seeking revenge ; she plots to trip him up and save the neigh... |
553,058 | 989,035 | 87,781 | 6 | King Arthur on the baseball diamond . . . some pleasures to be had | Robert Redford plays Roy Hobbs , a middle-aged ballplayer in 1939 who is recruited to the New York Knights baseball team based upon his freelance success at the game ; his new coach keeps Hobbs benched out of spite , but when the chips are down , Hobbs shows his miraculous way with a bat and ball for all the world's am... |
550,883 | 989,035 | 43,709 | 6 | Suspenseful , but awfully unpleasant . . . | Anyone who remembers Maurice Evans ' kindly turn as Mia Farrow's friend in " Rosemary's Baby " may be shocked to find him so convincingly evil in this gripping melodrama . Ethel Barrymore plays a sharp , sensible woman who gets taken in by a con-man ; he moves into her house and she quickly becomes his prisoner . The p... |
553,134 | 989,035 | 35,015 | 6 | Blends elements of romance , humor and cynicism | Booth Tarkington's book gets the meticulous Orson Welles treatment here in the story of a wealthy turn-of-the-century family , their relationships and secrets , and how time and progress pass them by . Mounted with great care and style despite studio interference ( Welles had his final edit taken away from him by studi... |
550,784 | 989,035 | 43,686 | 6 | A great deal of heart and dreamy symbolism ; still , a near-miss . . . | French drama from filmmaker René Clément won the Best Foreign Film Oscar , and though it is occasionally affecting and bracing , it's also a bit flat . Absorbing tale from François Boyer's novel " Les Jeux Inconnus " concerns a youngster in WWII who sees her parents killed and is then taken in by a peasant family who a... |
552,602 | 989,035 | 105,417 | 6 | Sweetly out of tune with reality | Watching this again on TV the other night , I couldn't help but noticing how polished and smooth " Sister Act " is - - it looks like the perfect sitcom pilot . As a feature film , it seems a little cornball , with a completely unrealistic convent and nuns with different , colorful personalities . They unknowingly welco... |
550,600 | 989,035 | 35,019 | 6 | High-spirited nonsense . . . | Ginger Rogers usually has sparkle and ladylike gumshun to spare , but in Billy Wilder's " The Major and the Minor " , her dry wit and grounded charm are given a real work-out . A woman in her twenties must disguise herself as a pre-teen in order to pay the child's fare for a train trip ; after she's found out by the tr... |
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