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553,087 | 989,035 | 390,538 | 6 | Everyone has a story to tell . . . | Super-8 auteur Jonathan Caouette , a young gay man with an extremely turbulent life , reveals his troubled childhood through home-movies and stills . The worshipful son of a beautiful ex-child model / single mother / electro-shock recipient , Caouette manages , in surprisingly linear fashion considering the circumstanc... |
551,004 | 989,035 | 405,422 | 6 | Sex + love = real happiness | Barbed , ribald , occasionally tasteless comedy does have a definite plus : it has an unashamed big heart ( and a surprisingly old-fashioned undermining ) . Steve Carell plays a middle-aged kid , a tech-store stock manager into monster toys and video games , who confesses to his buddies at work that he is still , in fa... |
552,297 | 989,035 | 43,643 | 6 | Not up to Bogie & Bacall standards , but not too bad . . . | Robert Mitchum is the fall guy for a deported gangster attempting to reenter the States with a new identity ; Jane Russell is the sultry singer who gets involved in the dirty doings and with Mitchum . Chemistry between the sexy leads is the film's main draw , although Vincent Price just about steals the picture as an e... |
551,283 | 989,035 | 61,107 | 6 | Despite incredible moments , a disappointment from the Master of Suspense | American nuclear scientist Paul Newman defects in East Germany , but is he serious or just setting the Germans up as pawns ? Espionage drama from director Alfred Hitchcock , with Julie Andrews a curious choice as the proverbial girlfriend ( she was forced upon Hitch by the head of Universal ) . The production is extrem... |
553,631 | 989,035 | 52,427 | 6 | Grimm's fairy tale becomes cheerful , noodle-headed musical . . . | George Pal directed this colorful production based on the tale by the Brothers Grimm involving a woodcutter and his wife who are granted a succession of wishes - - though their request for a little boy goes somewhat awry when a thumb-sized young man shows up on their doorstep ! Very silly story tends to test the bounda... |
552,656 | 989,035 | 390,521 | 6 | Morgan Spurlock charts a fast-food course for his own demise . . . | Healthy documentarian in New York City , spurred on by a lawsuit against the fast-food chain McDonald's by two overweight teen girls , decides to go on a junk food eating binge - - having breakfast , lunch and dinner at Mickey D's for 30 straight days - - to prove not only how unhealthy the food is , but unhealthy our ... |
552,597 | 989,035 | 52,472 | 6 | OK . . . but what happened to Hawaii ? | After the hip , breezy opening credits sequence ( with most of the cast riding surfboards on the foamy waves ) , " Hawaiian Eye " becomes a set-bound detective show that drags its feet in the sand . I recently paid thru the nose for several episodes ( and the show was recently seen , briefly , on the American Life netw... |
550,428 | 989,035 | 365,485 | 6 | Buddy comedy with irreverent and self-serious trimmings . . . | Burnt-out professional hit-man Pierce Brosnan travels around the globe snuffing out his targets , but he may be feeling at the end of his rope ; in Mexico City , Brosnan strikes up a friendship ( his only one ) with struggling American businessman Greg Kinnear and involves the mild-mannered man in his life . " The Mata... |
552,419 | 989,035 | 34,928 | 6 | Korda's film has flashes of beauty , but this adaptation is a bit over-stretched . . . | Rudyard Kipling's classic story of an infant boy in India stolen from his mother and later raised by wolves in the jungle is given colorfully cinematic treatment from the Korda Brothers , who skimp quite a bit on Baloo the Bear but give us lots of other fanciful things : talking snakes , a cursed fortune of gold , a fo... |
552,573 | 989,035 | 61,122 | 6 | Hayley Mills : too old to be the conniving prankster . . . | After her contract with the Disney Co . ran out , Hayley Mills became an independent commodity , choosing this medium-budget family film from Columbia as her first feature completely free from the Mouse . Rosalind Russell is well-cast as the Reverand Mother of a Catholic girls boarding school - - who stiffens up and gr... |
550,933 | 989,035 | 87,525 | 6 | Smart , sensitive romantic comedy gives way to directionless second-act . . . | Kristy McNichol gives a good if uneven performance as a crippled flautist - - working her way through a series of romantic losers here at home - - who travels to a French ski-resort and gets a bright idea : she replaces her cumbersome leg-brace with a cast and finds guys wanting her sexually for the first time . Bumpy ... |
552,429 | 989,035 | 217,498 | 6 | Weeper-of-the-week highlighted by strong star performance . . . | Mia Farrow plays a married fifty-something working in legal administration who is diagnosed with early on-set Alzheimer's ; she at first tries to ignore or hide her symptoms out of shame , but eventually finds her husband and , to some degree , her children are supportive . Some interesting directorial touches , and Fa... |
553,098 | 989,035 | 60,748 | 6 | Another big hit for Steve McQueen | Henry Hathaway directs this successful , but lumpy , wayward western-drama scripted by John Michael Hayes , featuring a title character originally introduced in Harold Robbins ' book " The Carpetbaggers " ( making this film a prequel of sorts ) . Steve McQueen is the young half-breed avenging the deaths of his parents ... |
552,570 | 989,035 | 69,995 | 6 | Death , grief , sex , confusion , murder . . . | Nicolas Roeg drama , patchily intense without being really absorbing , has married couple Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie grieving the death of their daughter ; when a strange psychic tells them the deceased child is trying to contact them from beyond , Sutherland becomes obsessed with finding the truth . After a ... |
550,552 | 989,035 | 104,694 | 6 | Plastic nostalgia . . . but Geena Davis and Lori Petty are perfectly cast | A modern-day reunion of WWII-era women's league baseball players brings back fond memories for one such lady , who recalls the journey she and her kid sister made to brief but tangible stardom in America's Golden Era . Director Penny Marshall's nostalgic valentine to war-time tomboys puts the squeeze on us right from t... |
552,689 | 989,035 | 78,616 | 6 | Unusual ( if not bizarre ) casting in sexed-up remake of the 1953 classic . . . | James Jones ' novel of overheated lives on a Hawaiian Army Base - - just prior to the Japanese bombing on Pearl Harbor in 1941 - - filtered through the 1953 screenplay by Daniel Taradash before being reworked by new writers Harold Gast and Don McGuire , ostensibly to give the old chestnut some bolder action and sex app... |
552,385 | 989,035 | 183,149 | 6 | Granny with a whip | Made-for-cable movie is appropriately quirky and darkly comic . Clues regarding a small-town sex murder leads a wise female police detective and her rookie partner ( Marg Helgenberger and Henry Thomas , both excellent ) to a twisted grandma who keeps changing her story . Off-putting details and a few nasty sequences ma... |
552,003 | 989,035 | 60,782 | 6 | She'll never live it down . . . | Raquel Welch's later , more solid acting performances will never erase our memories of this dinosaur-epic wherein she runs around in full cavegirl regalia . Then again , she may not want them to . Time has been surprisingly kind to this reworking of 1940's " One Million B . C . " The special effects are very good , the... |
553,211 | 989,035 | 87,401 | 6 | Written in connect-the-dots fashion - - but saved by the performances . . . | Based on Joseph P . Lash's book " Helen & Teacher " , this television-made movie chronicles the continued struggles of a young adult Helen Keller , falling in love for the first time and persuaded to talk in public , ostensibly to spread her message of good will but also to help pay the household bills ! Living with he... |
552,901 | 989,035 | 78,788 | 6 | A snail on the edge of a straight razor . . . | Francis Ford Coppola's vision of Vietnam , seeing the eccentricities inherent in the horrors of war and also the indescribable visual beauty running rampant through all the ugliness . Martin Sheen plays an Army Captain whose been traumatized by his first duty in Saigon ; but , left without a family and haunted by memor... |
551,824 | 989,035 | 70,079 | 6 | Decent family film with a suicidal title | Adaptation of E . L . Konigsberg's novel about bookish femme teenager and her younger brother running away from home to live in New York City's Metropolitan Museum . Unusual , wordy , but just slightly artificial adventure , featuring juvenile actors who aren't fully alert and a large majority of adult characters who a... |
551,829 | 989,035 | 96,044 | 6 | Misleading ads , but a strong , sincere TV-flick | The TV promos for this movie lead viewers to think they were going to see Raquel Welch in something sexy with plenty of action ( they touted her character as ' the town tease ' and showed the sequence where she holds off an unruly mob on her porch with a gun ) , but the plot touches on much , much more . Welch is indee... |
551,036 | 989,035 | 70,016 | 6 | Moving tale hard to damage . . . | Just-OK animated musical adapted from the beloved children's book by E . B . White . Barnyard pig is saved from slaughter by a quick-thinking spider . The kids of the piece no longer look rural as they did in the book's illustrations ( they're pinkish-white , chubby-cheeked and city-fied ) and the animals are thickly-d... |
553,469 | 989,035 | 104,454 | 6 | Predictably ornate and poised , less predictably lively and passionate . . . | Merchant-Ivory film-adaptation of E . M . Forster's novel involves two turn-of-the-century English families crossing paths throughout many years . Emma Thompson and Helena Bonham Carter are superb as excitable sisters who somehow allow an imposing , sinister widower ( Anthony Hopkins ) to come between them . Costume dr... |
553,112 | 989,035 | 78,841 | 6 | Terrific acting , infuriating plot | It takes a huge leap of faith to buy the pesky little plot device rattling around in " Being There " . Peter Sellers plays a grown man with the intelligence of a six or seven-year-old . He has worked all his life for a recluse who apparently took him in , but now he finds himself on his own and is soon befriended by an... |
550,959 | 989,035 | 96,073 | 6 | Both tasteless and intriguing . . . | Pregnant woman in the present day comes to believe the fate of the world may actually hinge on her unborn baby . Religious propaganda with suspense-thriller aspirations is mostly overwrought , but has enough chutzpah and magnetic performances to nearly make it worthwhile . Demi Moore is very good in a leading role that... |
552,162 | 989,035 | 155,711 | 6 | Built from perceptions minted in 1950 . . . | Philip Seymour Hoffman is good - - if one-note - - as a drag queen in New York who makes nice with the neighbor he hates , security officer and now stroke-victim Robert De Niro . The antagonistic relationship between the two might've used a bit more smoothing over ( occasionally it feels like they're winging it , and D... |
551,336 | 989,035 | 53,131 | 6 | A beautiful presentation , yet somehow hollow at its core | Audrey Hepburn is predictably luminous as a young novice going through the rigors of religious life , giving up vanity , pleasurable vices and her own stubborn pride for a life of strict obedience . Playing a doctor's daughter whose strength lies in her study of tropical medicine , Hepburn's Sister Luke hopes to travel... |
551,435 | 989,035 | 60,908 | 6 | Satirical whimsy plays like romantic Kubrick ( with a touch of Fellini ) | Villagers in a small town North of France in 1918 believe their homes will be blown up by the Germans and quickly evacuate ; Scottish soldier Alan Bates is " volunteered " to infiltrate , and inadvertently lets loose the patients in a lunatic asylum who got left behind . French-Italian co-production is a handsome littl... |
552,112 | 989,035 | 43,319 | 6 | Palm trees , red sunsets , gator wrasslin ' , and Terry Moore covered in mud . . . | Theodore Pratt's book becomes somewhat uncertain comedy-drama-adventure taking place in 1890 Miami , with land owner / confidence man Robert Cummings spreading word amongst the residents that a railroad will soon be running through South Florida . Jerome Courtland is the mail courier for the U . S . government who does... |
553,019 | 989,035 | 60,438 | 6 | It's a " Beach Party " opus in togas . . . | In ancient Rome , a sloppy , lazy slave must unite his young master with a virginal courtesan just imported from Greece , but she has already been bought by a virile Captain . Richard Lester's New York / Jewish burlesque revue , a ' throw everything at the screen and see if it sticks ' slapstick comedy based on the hit... |
551,438 | 989,035 | 113,627 | 6 | It takes awhile to get its bearings , becomes a moving human tragedy . . . | Well-produced , well-acted drama about a miserable alcoholic hoping to drink himself to death and the Las Vegas prostitute who tries to be his guardian angel . Opening moments with Nicolas Cage losing his job and Elisabeth Shue running afoul of her pimp are painfully under-directed . When he has no one to ground him , ... |
552,751 | 989,035 | 69,676 | 6 | Suicidal title , but not a bad flick . . . | Cliff Robertson as a wily barnstormer in the 1920s who makes his airplane his occupation . With a story by a young Steven Spielberg , " Ace Eli " is predictably nostalgic but not uninteresting . It has some sentiment , which is quickly evened out with grit , and a good performance by child actor Eric Shea ( aside from ... |
553,031 | 989,035 | 910,936 | 6 | A platonic love affair amongst potheads . . . | Seth Rogen is so affable and ingratiating on-screen that , even when he's trying to come off as tough or mean-spirited , you can sense the Jewish teddy bear underneath ( he could be the young , screw-up son of Albert Brooks , though neurotic in a more easy-going way ) . Rogen plays a pot-smoking process server who witn... |
551,620 | 989,035 | 43,153 | 6 | A musician's love and obsession for his music . . . filtered through the standard bio-pic clichés | Thinly-disguised movie biography of trumpet-player Bix Beiderbecke , with the standard rags-to-riches and romance clichés intact . Kirk Douglas is well-cast in the starring role , falling for society shark Lauren Bacall , who quickly drains him of his focus and inspiration until he realizes a need to return to his root... |
550,898 | 989,035 | 78,339 | 6 | You've never seen ' Casablanca ' , we have nothing in common . . . | Producer Ross Hunter turns to television with this sudsy , but rich and rewarding dramatic vehicle for " Laverne & Shirley " star Cindy Williams . Williams plays put-upon Regina Malloy , whose best friend is her radio at night , growing up and finally finding independence and love with a wealthy lawyer , despite the fa... |
553,138 | 989,035 | 60,484 | 6 | Lovely passages ( and lovely Mills and McShane ) give it some emotional weight . . . | Sometimes lilting , sometimes puttering British film set in a small , rural village has a precocious lass in her late teens attracting the not-unwanted attentions of a swarthy lad from a nearby gypsy camp ; when the girl is reminded of a childhood trauma she had blocked out , she runs off in a panic until the outsiders... |
551,306 | 989,035 | 60,491 | 6 | Epic-scale adventure drama or history lesson ? | Bumpy , overlong drama does have magnetic sequences that stay with you . New England reverend ( Max von Sydow , who never elicits our interest or compassion ) sails to the Hawaiian islands with his wife in 1820 to introduce the natives to Christianity . Soapy plot taken from James A . Michener's book tries to cram too ... |
550,978 | 989,035 | 35,567 | 6 | Affable teaming of two high-powered stars , though better things were in store . . . | First screen-teaming of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn peaks too early , and unconscionably trades in its salty wit for silly screwball laughs in the final reel , but fans of both stars should have a good time . A gruff columnist and a political writer meet and soon marry , but her hectic schedule puts an immediat... |
553,206 | 989,035 | 78,346 | 6 | Tongue-in-cheek adventures , appealing to the kid in all of us . . . | In its day , " Superman " was a big commercial package headlined with name players and state-of-the-art special effects which promised to be amazing - - the picture really couldn't miss . Even the lengthy opening-credits sequence is designed to bowl viewers over ( although it is exhausting , with a faint overlay of " S... |
552,722 | 989,035 | 52,738 | 6 | Theatrical treatment of gripping well-known material | Harrowing , unforgettable true story of a 13-year-old Jewish girl in WWII Amsterdam who writes of her experience hiding from the Nazis along with her family and friends in an employer's attic . Adaptation of Anne Frank's memoirs by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett , filtered through the theatrics of their Broadway s... |
551,787 | 989,035 | 95,977 | 6 | Seasoned pros compensate for silly script . . . | Chicago cop Burt Reynolds is suspended after a sting operation goes terribly wrong ; he turns in his badge but finds work playing bodyguard to hooker Liza Minnelli , who was a witness to the massacre that got Reynolds in hot water . Burt seems to be suffering from Chronic Fatigue - - he's barely present - - however viv... |
552,771 | 989,035 | 69,808 | 6 | Scruffy , frequently engaging oddity . . . | George Segal ( on a roll at this period in his career ) gives his usual solid , likable performance as a Beverly Hills divorce lawyer who soon finds himself divorced as well - - from working-girl Susan Anspach ; he quickly tries winning her back , despite the fact she has taken up with a hippie musician ( Kris Kristoff... |
552,622 | 989,035 | 25,878 | 6 | Former detective is working on a case . . . of scotch ! | Comically-sparring married couple Nick and Nora Charles manage to solve a murder mystery while retaining their upper-crust charm and sophisticated etiquette . Hugely popular bit of screwball hasn't dated too badly , with stars William Powell and Myrna Loy very loose and charismatic . Followed by five sequels , this mix... |
552,288 | 989,035 | 104,756 | 6 | As an acting exercise , not bad - - as an entertainment , a hard sell . . . | Based on the true story of a married couple at their wits ' end trying to find a cure for their young son's degenerative disease , " Lorenzo's Oil " chronicles the efforts and challenges of two people who eventually strike out on their own when the established medical profession proves to be a group of naysayers . Geor... |
551,964 | 989,035 | 95,801 | 6 | Very strange . . . and yet very lovely | Surreal , mercurial drama from West Germany has troubled-yet-complacent Marianne Sägebrecht leaving a bad marriage and coming across an eccentric café in the California desert . Oddball picture gets off on the wrong foot , with too much shouting and general hysteria , but those who stick with it will be rewarded by wha... |
551,665 | 989,035 | 43,132 | 6 | Taut criminal exploits and hasty judgments amongst the 16th Precinct . . . | Ben Hecht adapted William L . Stuart's book about a troubled New York police detective - - recently called on the carpet by his superior for roughing up too many suspects - - interrogating a shady character in the man's apartment , getting into a physical altercation and accidentally killing him . In the lead , drip-dr... |
553,658 | 989,035 | 397,101 | 6 | Hoodoo in the Bayou . . . | Pretty nurse down in Louisiana's Bayou Country ( via Hoboken ! ) accepts job as caregiver to an elderly stroke victim ; the patient lives in a spooky Gothic manor with his lifetime beloved , a nervous woman who has very strange beliefs regarding the history of the house and the brother and sister who used to occupy it ... |
553,470 | 989,035 | 52,918 | 6 | Liberally splashed with lavish trimmings . . . some may fall for it | Second version of the Fannie Hurst book ( previously filmed in 1934 ) is a gloss-heavy production which takes actress Lana Turner from penniless single mom to lavishly-coiffed and gowned movie star ; Sandra Dee plays her bitter , neglected daughter and John Gavin is Lana's eternal best friend . Sub-plot with maid Juani... |
552,378 | 989,035 | 52,896 | 6 | Anyone knows an ant can't move a rubber tree plant ! | Adaptation of Arnold Schulman's play about feckless Miami Beach widower with a young son who needs a fast loan to save his ramshackle hotel , considering the idea of marrying into money with a shy ( but beautiful ) young widow . Slick , but not very moving comedy-drama won an Oscar for the memorable tune " High Hopes "... |
552,406 | 989,035 | 43,012 | 6 | Features famous " Get Happy " number . . . and lots of padding | Theater people invade Judy Garland's farm ; they want to put on a show in her barn , but will she let her guard down long enough to join them on stage ? Since the picture opens with Garland in a musical sequence ( performing " If You Feel Like Singing " , this film's title overseas ) and the information is dropped earl... |
553,054 | 989,035 | 35,423 | 6 | Charming leads in frantic , noisy romantic fantasy | Hugh Jackman , the Duke of Albany in 1876 , arrives in modern day New York City through a portal in time ( via the East River ! ) ; he meets working girl Meg Ryan , who doesn't buy his amazing story ( she doesn't even take the time to listen to him ) . For the first full hour , " Kate & Leopold " is nothing but a witle... |
552,504 | 989,035 | 35,415 | 6 | Fortunes are gained and reversed with help from a ' cursed ' man's top-coat . . . | In New York , a man's dress coat , supposedly cursed by a disgruntled tailor , changes the lives of those who come in contact with it . They are : Charles Boyer as a suave actor wooing married Rita Hayworth , Henry Fonda as a nerd who stops Ginger Rogers from marrying skirt-chaser Cesar Romero , Charles Laughton as an ... |
553,373 | 989,035 | 43,041 | 6 | Familiar , but not bad | Agnes Newton Keith's memoir about prisoners-of-war during WWII becomes emotional , if somewhat overly-familiar saga starring Claudette Colbert as a female writer who , along with her young son , is taken from Borneo into a prison camp run by the Japanese in 1942 . Director Jean Negulesco always worked exceptionally wel... |
550,525 | 989,035 | 60,646 | 6 | Chic , but stone-cold Ann-Margret romp | An American fashion-buyer is sent to Paris on assignment and immediately gets on the wrong side of a major French designer . Soon though , she almost inadvertently manages to charm him , as well as two other men . What is Ann-Margret doing to drive all these eligible bachelors crazy ? As far as we in the audience can s... |
550,582 | 989,035 | 71,514 | 6 | Smart satire eventually gives way to galumphing slapstick . . . | The first 30 minutes or so of " For Pete's Sake " are amusingly on-target : Brooklyn housewife Barbra Streisand drops her husband off at work on their motorcycle and then pops a wheelie ; she proceeds to forge a battle of the bills with the grocery store cashier , the insurance company , the banker , and the telephone ... |
552,165 | 989,035 | 94,715 | 6 | Artificial sentiment and brash , theatrical humor | Despite lots of pep from Bette Midler , " Beaches " is a wan variation on those female-buddy pictures from the 1940s ( " Dark Victory " in particular ) . It strives to create a tearjerking scenario , yet the earnest last act is hard to take seriously since the film hasn't an honest bone in its body . The infrequent son... |
552,192 | 989,035 | 94,663 | 6 | Brief Woody Allen treatise about choices , chances , regret and hope . . . | Sedate and as fleeting as a paperback novel ( despite its penchant for high-toned literacy ) , Woody Allen's " Another Woman " is a seemingly deeply-felt sonata about a 50-ish female writer in New York City who comes to the realization her current state of upscaled well-being is a sham . Allen excels in sequences of ch... |
551,876 | 989,035 | 113,808 | 6 | Likable , if derivative comedy | Thin , but enjoyable romp involving a young , unmarried Jewish woman and her married family and friends - - all of whom seem to be miserable and cheating on each other . Ersatz Woody Allen , as it aspires to be , but not quite on the level of , say , " Hannah and Her Sisters " . Odd to see Mia Farrow here ( playing Sar... |
552,469 | 989,035 | 36,342 | 6 | Self-consciously bemused and droll Alfred Hitchcock . . . | Alfred Hitchcock and writer Thornton Wilder attempt to expose the underside of Americana ( a favorite Hitchcock theme ) , but " Shadow of a Doubt " is self-consciously dry and droll . Joseph Cotten is very good as malevolent relative to middle-class California family who pays them a surprise visit and brings mystery in... |
553,629 | 989,035 | 412,798 | 6 | Smoothly efficient but otherwise routine ghost story . . . | Successful American novelist ( Demi Moore ) living in England is recuperating slowly from the drowning death of her beloved little boy ; she moves to a seaside village to work but is continually surrounded by apparitions and dreams of her child . European theatrical release only made it to DVD in the States , perhaps b... |
550,990 | 989,035 | 51,534 | 6 | Sophia Loren comes to Hollywood . . . results are mixed | After a couple of studio films shot on location , Italian actress and sex symbol Sophia Loren finally made it onto Hollywood soil for this uneven , uncertain melodrama adapted from Eugene O'Neill's controversial play . A tyrannical New England farmer ( Burl Ives ) , who apparently worked his past two wives to death , b... |
553,552 | 989,035 | 36,230 | 6 | Friendships and self-sacrifice . . . | Chatty , entertaining and well-acted drama with comedic trimmings has lifelong friends Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins both becoming writers : Davis , the literary authoress who charms the critics but can't score a bestseller ; Hopkins , the fluttery , popular novelist of romantic fiction . Director Vincent Sherman does... |
550,936 | 989,035 | 51,525 | 6 | Hollywood grit . . . but on that level , well-done | Both Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier are very good as escaped racist convicts - - chained together by one wrist - - attempting to allude Southern police and their bloodhounds not far behind . Still , director Stanley Kramer's hot-blooded , hot-headed film stirs controversy with an awfully heavy hand . Kramer isn't inter... |
550,822 | 989,035 | 71,455 | 6 | A gaudy rumble in the concrete jungle | Bummer disaster epic with truly stupefying casting : Lorne Greene plays Ava Gardner's father ( what was he ? A horny nine year old ? ) and Marjoe Gortner is Victoria Principal's stalker ( he's a grocery store clerk who's into guns and . . . oh , never mind ) . " Earthquake " does what it promises ( destroys Los Angeles... |
550,930 | 989,035 | 36,244 | 6 | Solemn picture lays the speechifying on rather heavily . . . | William A . Wellman's earnest film from Walter Van Tilburg Clark's book is more somber than moving , though it does have a good central performance by Henry Fonda , here playing a righteous man attempting to stop a small town lynch mob from acting as judge and jury with the lives of three men fingered for a murder . Th... |
552,770 | 989,035 | 60,176 | 6 | Demanding , intriguing enigma doesn't meet you halfway . . . | David Hemmings plays a tireless , exacting fashion photographer in London who accidentally takes pictures of a murder ; he fleetingly gets to know a woman involved in the killing but can't break through her alienation ( or , indeed , anyone else's ) . Dazzling piece of colorful eye-candy has a careful , studied pace an... |
551,023 | 989,035 | 45,012 | 6 | After fresh opening , it becomes yet another struggle-of-the-sexes comedy-lite | Sports manager Spencer Tracy sees a rough jewel in female athlete Katharine Hepburn - - but her golf and tennis games get thrown off whenever her overpowering beau comes around . Begins very smartly , with Hepburn feisty , funny and very convincing on the golf course and the tennis court . Unfortunately , the script ch... |
552,572 | 989,035 | 94,608 | 6 | Its moral high-ground is somewhat askew . . . | Jodie Foster sears the screen as a gang-rape victim , but no director has yet figured out how to film a rape sequence without it coming across as sensational or titillating to some pervy audiences . This assault in a bar , complimented with flashing pinball machine lights and a hunky attacker's thrusting rear-end , is ... |
550,879 | 989,035 | 60,397 | 6 | Blue Screen effects , straight ahead ! | Every time " Fantastic Voyage " comes on TV , I turn it on expecting it to be better . Better than what ? The standard sci-fi's of the day , the Irwin Allen TV shows . It's about on that par . There's the usual grueling technical preliminaries , the discussion over whether or not to take A GIRL along ( never mind that ... |
553,124 | 989,035 | 51,605 | 6 | Attempts to turn its jingoistic scenario into a suspense drama . . . and nearly succeeds ! | Dana Andrews is quite congenial playing a former Army Captain , returning to Washington , D . C . after being held two years in a Chinese prison camp , discovering that the public relations firm he and his business partner founded has been sold to a reprehensible lout who peddles in prejudice and poison . Plainly-drawn... |
552,152 | 989,035 | 79,261 | 6 | Tooby ooby wala / nooby aba naba / early morning singing song . . . | Michael Butler's Broadway musical " Hair " from 1967 was an unqualified success which spawned pop-oriented hit singles from its score . Milos Forman's movie version was critically-acclaimed ( Roger Ebert named it the best film of the year ) , but it looked out of place in 1979 . With disco fading and punk rock and New ... |
551,883 | 989,035 | 86,879 | 6 | Handsome , carefully crafted with standout performances . . . | Well-made and mounted chronicle of the relationship between opera composers Mozart and Salieri , the latter a court-appointed Vienna composer who simply could not keep up with the effortless showmanship of his prime competition . Peter Shaffer adapted his own celebrated play and Milos Forman helmed the smooth direction... |
553,503 | 989,035 | 373,926 | 6 | World atrocities used as a backdrop for slick suspense | Veteran director Sydney Pollack proves he's still up to par with this efficient melodrama , even though the political issues the film raises are too grandiose for an automated star vehicle-cum-thriller such as this . Nicole Kidman , heavily accented , plays an in-demand linguist raised in Johannesburg and now employed ... |
552,403 | 989,035 | 44,888 | 6 | Reasonably sophisticated , well-acted serious-comedy | George Cukor-directed comedy-drama , written by the estimable team of Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin , features Judy Holliday and Aldo Ray as a married couple on the rocks , explaining to a divorce court judge when , how , and why they fell out of love . Initially , the pairing of the leads ( Ray in his debut ) doesn't q... |
551,255 | 989,035 | 51,226 | 6 | B-grade monster fun | Zombies are guarding a sunken ship full of treasures in a lagoon on the outskirts of a sleepy , nearly-deserted Southern town . Cardboard screamer shenanigans ; sure , some of it is fun , and the sequence where the zombies walk out of the water is skillfully done , but Allison Hayes ( as the sexy bad girl ) still can't... |
553,233 | 989,035 | 25,586 | 6 | Davis gives a no-holds-barred performance in flawed first rendition of Maugham's book . . . | W . Somerset Maugham's novel , about a guttersnipe waitress in London who becomes the object of a smitten doctor's obsession , becomes intriguing film giving Bette Davis one of the first startling , showy roles of her early career . This melodrama , later remade in 1946 and 1964 , has a tendency to plod along , with di... |
552,080 | 989,035 | 78,902 | 6 | Lots of talent underscoring false realism . . . | Four young men in Bloomington , Indiana have yet to find their niche after graduating high school . The central kid ( Dennis Christopher ) is an unemployed ne'er-do-well obsessed with Italian culture and bicycle racing ; he argues with his father over the direction of his life while training for the next bike race and ... |
550,748 | 989,035 | 51,214 | 6 | Modest melodrama , but better than the generation-gap youth flicks turned out a few years later | Clean-cut but wisecracking teenage boy in Beverly Hills causes a minor stir in a movie theater , scuffles with a too-strict staff and ends up punching the manager in the face ! Somewhat mechanical yet heartfelt melodrama , a thinly-disguised plea for the misunderstood teen , does manage to touch on some interesting chi... |
550,945 | 989,035 | 71,286 | 6 | Uncompromising TV film | Brave television movie which makes today's Lifetime Network / exposé-styled films look positively harlequin . Elizabeth Montgomery is raped and dragged through legal mud before being attacked again ( by the same creep ) . It's gut-wrenching and holds back nothing . I wasn't allowed to watch this as a little kid , but f... |
552,457 | 989,035 | 114,069 | 6 | Scary subject matter parlayed into popcorn thriller | As a medical scientist doing research on Ebola-like virus isolated in an African village , Dustin Hoffman is miscast but still personable and ingratiating ; after Hoffman's Col . Daniels is taken off the assignment and the virus invades the United States , he learns some hard truths about how our government is run . Se... |
550,452 | 989,035 | 114,168 | 6 | Frustratingly follows an acute by-the-numbers fashion | There so many good things in this film , so many elements that come together ( emotional , visceral and otherwise ) , that it's an outright shame " Powder " isn't a better picture . An albino youngster - - psychic , telekinetic , and more brilliant than anyone on Earth - - is found orphaned in a rural home and is broug... |
552,518 | 989,035 | 320,244 | 6 | Artifically superficial . . . | Macaulay Culkin gives an uneven performance as a fey young man from Nowhere who comes to New York City and attaches himself to glitzy , garish club-goer Seth Green , learning what makes a ' nobody ' fabulous and successful ; he turns a flagging nightclub around and gains the respect of its owner , later his financial b... |
550,500 | 989,035 | 71,230 | 6 | Sniggering , poorly-made and edited , but often deliriously naughty fun . . . | Cleavon Little plays the black sheriff in a tumbleweed town who is having trouble with the sex-crazed locals , and must eventually lead the residents into battle with the bad guys . Prurient , anything-for-a-laugh western slapstick from Mel Brooks , who also appears as a bosom-mad governor and an Indian chief . It look... |
551,021 | 989,035 | 71,206 | 6 | Blockbuster hit for the under-12 crowd | Joe Camp probably had no idea this family film about an independent mutt turning neighborhood hero was going to touch off such a reaction at the box-office . " Benji " doesn't have the earmarks of an ambitious movie , nor did its initial publicity suggest it was going to be anything more than a matinée flash-in-the-pan... |
551,376 | 989,035 | 25,461 | 6 | Colorful , amusing nonsense | A charming cad in Rangoon bargains with his nemesis using his devoted lady-friend as a pawn ; she loses , ending up in the prostitution racket before seeking out her revenge . Outrageous pre-Code melodrama from director Michael Curtiz really turns up the heat . Sultry Kay Francis mixes quite well with the tropical scen... |
552,024 | 989,035 | 113,957 | 6 | Flimsy , far-fetched , but spunky and attractive | Sandra Bullock is very appealing as an unloved independent systems analyst who unknowingly gets ahold of a disk that could bring worldwide chaos ; pretty soon , she's dodging bad guys , running from the cops and putting her allies in danger ( Dennis Miller , who is surprisingly good ) . Despite a penchant for filming m... |
551,120 | 989,035 | 60,112 | 6 | Fizzy romantic comedy occasionally fizzles out . . . | Broadway hit about a married millionaire's mistress befriended by his unsuspecting wife and cooed over by a loyal associate . Lots of slamming doors , comical deception , hissy fits and balloons - - okay ingredients for a frothy fracas , and the cast is good . Jane Fonda overacts all over the place , but she's deliciou... |
551,182 | 989,035 | 79,005 | 6 | Straightforward examination of the harried housewife . . . | Natalie Wood in an unsung tour-de-force , playing relatively ordinary housewife and mother who has a mental collapse . Adaptation of Joyce Burditt's popular book , this TV-movie attempts to deal with touchy subject matter in a straightforward , mature , non-exploitive manner , and for the most part is quite successful ... |
553,572 | 989,035 | 86,571 | 6 | There's a plant in the window . . . plants have to be watered ! | Robert Carradine is a hack L . A . musician who lives near an abandoned Air Force Base , Cherie Currie is his semi-psychic girlfriend who hears a strange , high-pitched sound coming from within . That's the set-up for a slow yet engrossing science-fiction story which is by turns credible and yet too mechanical . The mi... |
552,891 | 989,035 | 51,411 | 6 | Devoted friends and dedicated enemies . . . | Gregory Peck is ideally cast as a peaceable sea captain from the East who comes to Texas in 1886 to claim as his bride the somewhat-spoiled daughter of a rancher ; Peck is almost immediately labeled a greenhorn and coward after failing to stand up to a scurrilous brood involved with his prospective in-laws in a fight o... |
551,673 | 989,035 | 79,100 | 6 | So low-keyed it nearly evaporates | Everyone involved in " The Electric Horseman " is taking it easy . The film is just a lark for some very talented people , and while it does have its amusements it doesn't add up to much . Robert Redford plays a rodeo-star who steals his celebrated horse , planning to ride it up to hill country to release it in the wil... |
553,595 | 989,035 | 51,406 | 6 | A rather staid and stuffy situation-comedy | Kim Novak , the " Lavender Lady " , trades in her purple chiffon for witchy black in this glossy , but not very crafty , witchcraft comedy . James Stewart is Novak's new neighbor and , unaware of her powers , gets lured into her trap . . . but can he teach her what true love is really about ? Jack Lemmon has the bright... |
553,047 | 989,035 | 71,334 | 6 | Groovy urban fairy tale is emotional , not logical | After playing a smartly-dressed working mom on television for years , Diahann Carroll finally gets back to her dramatic roots and triumphs here as " Claudine " , a single welfare mother in a houseful of unruly kids who begins seeing a well-meaning garbage collector ( nicely played by a low-keyed James Earl Jones ) . Da... |
553,020 | 989,035 | 51,429 | 6 | A curiously passive , unmoving experience . . . | Wealthy playboy father and his precocious seventeen-year old daughter share a sassy , flirty relationship with one another while teasing and leading-on potential romantic partners for both . But the fun and games are called to a halt once dad is reunited with an old friend of the family , a chic fashion designer who wo... |
553,442 | 989,035 | 86,637 | 6 | Moments of mad-genius inspiration | Woody Allen's " Zelig " appears to be a wispy-thin string of sketches about a chameleon man who can radically alter his appearance to fit into any given situation , and theatergoers in 1983 may have found the release an Allen-underachiever . It has no higher aspirations than getting quick , momentary laughs from its fl... |
551,815 | 989,035 | 265,591 | 6 | Amusingly schizophrenic | Surprisingly sweet dark comedy is really too sentimental at heart to be the edgy piece it was promoted as , and the curious final results show definite signs of indecisive filmmakers ( two directors ! ) at the helm . A sorority princess living in a privileged bubble has her existence turned upside-down after forging a ... |
553,118 | 989,035 | 120,879 | 6 | Do you wanna touch me . . . oh yeah ! | Todd Haynes ' fantasy rethinking of an era in rock history , as a David Bowie-like singer in the early ' 70s burns out and disappears , and one of his most ardent young fans - - now a music journalist - - interviews friends and colleagues hoping to get at the truth . Past-and-present collage isn't given a very pointed ... |
551,510 | 989,035 | 139,362 | 6 | A hothouse flower of a movie ; it finally gives Ally Sheedy a three-dimensional role . . . | Hard , tough , occasionally dream-like drama involving a drug-abusing lesbian photographer who's currently on " hiatus " ; lured back into the professional world by a pretty art-magazine gopher , she finds herself in the middle of an affair . Emotionally intense movie is sharp and focused , though hurt by a puzzling fi... |
551,018 | 989,035 | 482,571 | 6 | How many times can you double-cross your audience ? | In 1890s London , two magicians - - once protégés of the same aging illusionist - - consistently undercut each other on and off the stage , reveling in the revenge and one-upsmanship ; Hugh Jackman is the one with the show business flair , while rough-hewn toughie Christian Bale is more intent on conquering the intrica... |
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