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383,803 | 449,021 | 71,408 | 6 | No one deserves to be lonely . | This is one of the most accurate movies inspired by the cannibalistic activities of a deranged farmer named Ed Gein . Ezra Cobb ( Roberts Blossom ) becomes a grave robber after the death of his domineering mother ( Cosette Lee ) . He had lived just for her and after a year in the grave , Ezra dug up his mother and brou... |
382,637 | 449,021 | 465,502 | 6 | Pull the switch , Igor ! | Director Tony Leondis comes forth with an animated feature that resembles something from Tim Burton's file 13 . King Malbert ( Jay Leno ) governs a world of evil scientists and perpetual cloudy skies . The kingdom of Maleria knows nothing else . If you are born with a hunchback like Igor ( John Cusack ) you know your l... |
382,377 | 449,021 | 443,489 | 6 | Over-hyped musical . Not as great as touted . | A Tony Award Broadway musical comes to life in Bill Condon's movie . I just didn't find this film the hottest thing since The Supremes . Interesting enough to watch though . Curtis Taylor , Jr . ( Jamie Foxx ) is a car salesman that needs to find the right product to sell in order to make his mark in the music world . ... |
382,821 | 449,021 | 29,217 | 6 | Bogart and Davis . Very good gangster flick . | Hard working prosecutor ( Humphrey Bogart ) needs the help of a night club hostess ( Bette Davis ) to convict a gangland boss ( Eduardo Ciannelli ) that takes over ownership of a not too successful night spot . Bogart is terrific as a good guy . Miss Davis is her typical superb self , brass balls and all . Ciannelli se... |
383,821 | 449,021 | 35,899 | 6 | This is a howl and a hoot ! ! | The Wolf Man ( Lon Chaney Jr . ) is awakened by grave robbers . After a four years peaceful sleep , he is once again haunted by his curse . He seeks the help of the old gypsy woman , Maleva ( Maria Ouspenskaya ) , who leads him to the ruins of the Frankenstein castle . The Frankenstein monster ( Bela Lugosi ) is freed ... |
383,559 | 449,021 | 479,201 | 6 | Some secrets need to stay buried . | A derelict Army base is scheduled for demolition ; buried beneath is a terrifying secret . Enclosed in a subterranean vault is what is left of a top-secret Cold War biological experiment . A mild mannered biology teacher Frank Sears ( Jonathan Schaech ) drives 36 hours to warn the Army that destroying the base may awak... |
382,638 | 449,021 | 425,601 | 6 | Good old boys and petty crimes . | Canadian comedy based on a popular TV series . Julian ( John Paul Tremblay ) and Ricky ( Robb Wells ) are released from incarceration a few days early and are anxious about returning to the Sunnyvale trailer park . Counting the days is running buddy Bubbles ( Mike Smith ) , who lives in a little shack with his cats . R... |
384,500 | 449,021 | 51,429 | 6 | Flirty young girl has a moody vacation on the French Riviera . | BONJOUR TRISTESSE , translated into English , HELLO , SADNESS . this movie caused two immediate sensations . The novel was written by eighteen year old Francoise Sagan . And twenty year old Jean Seberg , in only her second movie , had men of all ages panting . Otto Preminger directs this enjoyable film . Seventeen-year... |
383,195 | 449,021 | 51,433 | 6 | No one man is judge and jury . | Henry King directs this intense western drama that proves to be entertaining as it is provocative . Gregory Peck is a rancher that seeks revenge pursuing the four men that raped and murdered his wife . At times the stoic Peck even appears compassionate . Great scenery and well paced script . The story line has small fl... |
382,881 | 449,021 | 417,001 | 6 | Where have all the " good " men gone ? | A real nice romantic comedy . Your family always seems to know the best for you . When it comes to love , its a crap shoot . Sarah ( Diane Lane ) is a pretty divorced pre-school teacher that is dateless and all but given up on love . . . until her sister ( Elizabeth Perkins ) posts a personal ad on a website declaring ... |
382,237 | 449,021 | 120,873 | 6 | A good cop doesn't quit . Even an innocent man will run . | Tommy Lee Jones repeats his role as now Chief Deputy Marshal Sam Gerard in this sequel . And again he is on the trail of another wrongly accused man ( Wesley Snipes ) , who won't give up to prove his innocence . Good story line . Some real good action scenes . Not only are Jones and Snipes excellent . Very good perform... |
382,764 | 449,021 | 95,178 | 6 | A touching and somber look at romance . | Andrew McCarthy plays a college student that falls in love with a less educated and less cultured young girl ( Molly Ringwald ) . Two immediate problems are : McCarthy needs to break off an engagement to his well to do girlfriend ; only to find out that Ringwald is younger than he thinks and needs an annulment from an ... |
384,445 | 449,021 | 323,754 | 6 | A legacy continues . | A whole lot better than most made-for-TV projects . This bio-pic focuses on the life of Robert Kennedy as Senator and Presidential candidate . The story line covers a time span from the 1963 assassination of brother President John F . Kennedy to RFK's own assassination by a mad gunman on the 1968 Presidential campaign ... |
382,220 | 449,021 | 110,516 | 6 | Cute , funny and romantic . | Michael Patrick Carter plays Frank , a pre-teen living with his widowed father ( Ed Harris ) . Frank and his little buddies save up their milk money and allowances to see what a naked lady looks like . They decide to go into the city and rent a hooker . The trip for the boys turns into a mess . A sympathetic call girl ... |
382,995 | 449,021 | 90,863 | 6 | A young buck out hustles the hustler . | Talk about a rush and new found vitality . It has been awhile since Fast Eddie Felson seriously picked up a pool cue . The clever hustler takes a young , flashy shooter under his wing . The not well hidden agenda is to get back into the action on the coattails of his young protege . Great sequel . Martin Scorsese's cam... |
383,853 | 449,021 | 285,531 | 6 | A hunting cabin is the haven of an alien life form . | I did not expect to be let down like this . The thrilling Stephen King novel shows up on the screen a bit haphazard . When the story line strays from the novel , so does the interest in the movie . The special effects are very good and overall photography excellent with awesome scenery . Four telepathic buddies make th... |
383,229 | 449,021 | 114,345 | 6 | Love hurts ; aggression with passion . | Based very loosely on the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne . Forbidden love , patience and stout convictions . I really enjoyed this despite the bad reviews . In 1666 Massachusetts a married woman ( Demi Moore ) falls in love with the young reverend ( Gary Oldman ) of the colony . Her husband ( Robert Duvall ) is believed t... |
382,832 | 449,021 | 55,871 | 6 | How cold can one war be ? Can you spare a friend ? | Authentic backgrounds and based on a true story . William Holden plays a very influential Swedish oil executive blackmailed into becoming a double agent running info between the Allies and Nazi headquarters . Holden falls in love with one of his contacts Lilli Palmer in between dangerous missions . Holden in one of his... |
383,129 | 449,021 | 455,915 | 6 | A family tears itself apart . | An Irish family in Boston is far from tight . Cole McKay ( Michael Angarano ) is a young Catholic mid-teen who has ambitions of being a pro baseball player . His father ( Brendan Gleeson ) has trouble keeping a job and putting food on the table . Mrs . McKay ( Melissa Leo ) is deep in her faith and depends on it to tak... |
384,178 | 449,021 | 36,824 | 6 | If it is worth fighting for . . . fight . | John Wayne is the boss of a civilian construction company building for the Navy in WW2 . While working on a remote Pacific island the attacking Japanese forces interrupt construction and Wayne must convince the Government to let his men help the Navy fight back ; thus the world renowned ' fighting Seabees ' . This is a... |
382,657 | 449,021 | 335,245 | 6 | A mastermind and a plan . The plan comes undone . | Those wild men Joel and Ethen Coen remake a 1955 classic ( The LadyKillers ) starring Alec Guiness and Peter Sellers . If this was candy it would be double dark chocolate with nuts . This is a slow starting dark comedy that turns into a knee slapper . Tom Hanks plays Professor G . H . Dorr who's criminal mind develops ... |
382,906 | 449,021 | 120,855 | 6 | Disney animates the boy raised in the jungle . | Disney's Buena Vista Pictures presents a genuine animated classic tale of the orphaned infant raised by a family of gorillas . Unconditionaly accepted as one of their own , the young boy called Tarzan garners the instincts of a jungle animal and physically grows into a young man with skills more than the ordinary jungl... |
382,610 | 449,021 | 95,119 | 6 | You have to fall down in order to get back up . | A very watchable impression of Frank DeFord's novel . The bigger they come the harder they fall . This story follows most of the life of Louisiana football legend Gavin Grey ( Dennis Quaid ) . The " Grey Ghost " lived big with a life sustained by adoring football fans for his exploits on and off the football field . He... |
382,994 | 449,021 | 55,884 | 6 | Great battles at sea . | When I first saw this film , I was still a school boy and the title was DAMN the DEFIANT ! Of course I didn't realize how close the action fit to actual history . The battleships were beautiful and the battles they fought were loud and exciting . I now realize and understand the dislike shared between Captain Crawford ... |
383,369 | 449,021 | 79,714 | 6 | Energetic horror fantasy . | Directed masterfully by Don Coscarelli , who also wrote and produced this off-the-wall nightmare . Two parentless brothers discover strange goings on at the Morningside Cemetery and with the help of a group of friends go about investigating . An undertaker with superhuman strength is witnessed robbing a grave . The cre... |
383,567 | 449,021 | 55,922 | 6 | The twistin ' is fine , but the movie comes up a little lame . | You can tell right away that this is a quickie to join the parade of " twist " theme movies . A TV executive ( Lang Jeffries ) is trying to put together a TV special a couple weeks ahead of a competing station . He just happens to call on Chubby Checker to come to his rescue . Chubby wrangles Gene Chandler , Vic Dana ,... |
382,425 | 449,021 | 40,626 | 6 | Can a writer change his playboy ways ? | Charles Martin directs this charming and entertaining , but trivial comedy . The all-star cast is the redemption of MY DEAR SECRETARY . Best-selling novelist Owen Waterbury ( Kirk Douglas ) proves himself to be a die-hard skirt-chaser . When an aspiring novelist Stephanie Gaylord ( Laraine Day ) becomes his secretary ,... |
382,911 | 449,021 | 413,300 | 6 | Spider-Man is back and this time just a little different . | Peter Parker ( Toby McGuire ) has the girl of his dreams , Mary Jane Watson ( Kirsten Dunst ) , and he is balancing his love life , Puritan as it is , with his duties as a superhero . . . NYC is in the middle of Spider-mania . Things get real interesting when a strange alien entity suddenly changes Spider-Man's suit je... |
383,793 | 449,021 | 120,915 | 6 | Where does one begin . . . at the beginning . | George Lucas may or may not have exploited his own fame and the STAR WARS fantasy . Definitely not sluggish and sometimes taxing the viewers intelligence . Some scenes seem like Lucas himself ran out of imagination . All this said . . . this prequel of the original STAR WARS trilogy does have enough merit to stand on i... |
382,927 | 449,021 | 444,182 | 6 | A chronicle of sacrifice and courage . | This critically acclaimed war epic is subtitled , but don't let that scare you away . This movie does start dragging its feet midway , but I found the last have better than the first . Four friends from North Africa enlist in the French Army along with 130 , 000 other " indigenous " soldiers . Said , Messoud , Yassir a... |
383,975 | 449,021 | 40,543 | 6 | Gene Autry rescues a young man from trouble . | This is an action-packed Autry movie that lets Gene ride , rescue , sing and romance . Gene is more than ready to clear a young hothead , Larry Evans ( Russell Arms ) , of charges of murder and find the real killer . Of course there is time romance Larry's pretty sister , Mary ( Barbara Britton ) . Gene helps the young... |
382,335 | 449,021 | 281,322 | 6 | When does a champ become the challenger ? | Outstanding movie with prison combined with boxing . A heavyweight title holder ( Ving Rhames ) is sent to Sweetwater Prison on a rape charge . It doesn't take long for the movers and shakers to set up a match with the champ and the prison champ ( Wesley Snipes ) . A battle of undisputed undefeated . Very good fight sc... |
382,931 | 449,021 | 425,430 | 6 | Delivers the scares . | If you are looking for something to scare the " bejeebers " and " pee-wadden " out of you . . . THE MESSENGERS delivers . Hard times in Chicago forces a family to move into a run-down two story home on a sunflower farm in North Dakota . Roy ( Dylan McDermott ) and his wife ( Penelope Ann Miller ) just want a fresh star... |
382,553 | 449,021 | 156,729 | 6 | If it is the last thing you ever do . | Don McKellar writes , directs and stars in this dry humored drama dealing with the end of the world . Citizens of Toronto deal with the world's coming to an end at the stroke of midnight and new millennium . Some celebrate with violence , some vandalism ; Patrick Wheeler ( McKellar ) suffers through a faux Christmas re... |
382,271 | 449,021 | 195,714 | 6 | You gotta go sometime . | After embarking on a class trip to Paris , one student ( Devon Sawa ) has a premonition of the plane crashing . He and a few other students and a teacher end up not taking the flight , but watch Flight 180 explode into a catastrophic fireball . After feeling that death has been cheated the survivors start meeting the g... |
383,092 | 449,021 | 455,782 | 6 | A working vacation in Bosnia . Journalists in danger . | Suspense . Action . Violence . Even some thrills . Richard Gere plays a one-time top news reporter that has suffered a meltdown . . . the bad thing is it happened live on the air . His cameraman Terrence Howard in turn gets a promotion and samples the high life of the news biz . While in Serbia , the two meet up and de... |
384,480 | 449,021 | 79,788 | 6 | Depravity on a Pacific island . | Cult following fare from director Marino Girolami that begins with strange body parts missing from corpses in a teaching hospital in New York City . This activity is believed to be tied to a cannibal cult that is faithful to Kito , a god of cannibalism . This all leads to an expedition of doctors , students and reporte... |
384,441 | 449,021 | 75,406 | 6 | A ship load of political pawns . | Based on a true story . In 1939 , 1937 German-Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany are bound for Cuba and asylum . Before reaching Cuba the ship is refused permission to dock and all visas revoked . After being told they could not dock anywhere else , the S . S . St . Louis must turn around and head back to Germany and... |
384,006 | 449,021 | 421,054 | 6 | Famous actor's daughter becomes a bounty hunter . | Tony Scott is director and producer of this rapid paced and frantic dramatic action flick . This is a selective biopic of Domino Harvey ( Keira Knightly ) , the daughter of actor Laurence Harvey . Domino spit out the proverbial silver spoon and after following in her mother's footsteps in the world of modeling , turned... |
383,143 | 449,021 | 48,248 | 6 | A strong frontiersman bucks the odds . | Burt Lancaster directs and stars in this action packed western . Its the 1820's and rugged frontiersman Big Eli Wakefield ( Lancaster ) finds his old Kentucky stomping grounds are becoming too tame ; so he heads to wide open Texas with his young son Little Eli ( Donald MacDonald ) . A new beginning and new lifestyle do... |
382,441 | 449,021 | 59,800 | 6 | Ian Fleming's 007 with NATO watching goes up against SPECTRE again . | Can a Bond flick be typical ? James Bond ( Sean Connery ) finds himself in the beautiful Bahamas to squelch SPECTRE's threat to detonate two stolen atom bombs part of a major extortion scheme . Oscar winning special effects . Plenty of explosions , chases , bikinis ; even a furniture fight and Miss Moneypenny ( Lois Ma... |
381,970 | 449,021 | 48,215 | 6 | Mysterious creature lurks beneath the sea . | Super 50s style Sci-Fi directed by Robert Gordon . A nuclear submarine comes under attack with radiation levels extremely high . The sub pulls in at Pear Harbor for needed repairs and an investigation into a rubbery material thought to be related to the mystery attacker . Submarine commander Pete Mathews ( Kenneth Tobe... |
384,110 | 449,021 | 63,634 | 6 | Stock car driver almost outruns the IRS ! | Elvis Presley plays a race car driver that gives away money as quick as he wins it . His manager played by Bill Bixby loses race winnings by making bad bets on the ponies . Elvis now owes back taxes to the IRS and agent Nancy Sinatra is sent to collect or make arrangement for payment . The Charlotte 500 speed race is t... |
382,827 | 449,021 | 79,844 | 6 | Early Stephen King success . Reason to believe in haunted houses . | Above average vampire tale based on Stephen King's novel of the same name . David Soul plays a novelist that returns to his small hillside home town to gather more info for his next project . The writer still holds curiosity about the old haunted house that caused fear in his childhood . A mysterious antique dealer ( J... |
382,798 | 449,021 | 385,880 | 6 | What neighborhood doesn't have a . . . Monster House ! ? | Adventurous animated feature ; CGI enhanced and at times constructed with visual brilliance . " Shrek " , " Nemo " and even " Cars " fear not ; MONSTER HOUSE is just not THAT good ; but nonetheless a hoot to watch . The photography is better than a lot out there . Some of the humor may actually go over the heads of the... |
382,053 | 449,021 | 244,244 | 6 | Just break the code : there is government money to be had . | Action . . . explosive action . Clever script . Eye popping special effects . A strong cast , but too much confusion in following the story line . A highly successful computer hacker ( Hugh Jackman ) is coerced to help a ruthless spy ( John Travolta ) steal billions of unused government monies obtained in an old DEA dr... |
382,171 | 449,021 | 905,345 | 6 | Jesse Stone delves into trouble in Paradise . | This is the fourth movie based on Robert B . Parker's best selling series of Jesse Stone books . Tom Selleck is once again Stone , the over qualified police chief of the tiny community of Paradise , Massachuesetts . Jesse , with his past and present demons . . . thoughts of his ex-wife and a bottle of Scotch needing to... |
382,397 | 449,021 | 36,602 | 6 | Andy Hardy is his father's son . | Girls . . . trouble . . . Andy Hardy . . . duh ! After a man-to-man talk , Judge Hardy ( Lewis Stone ) sends young Andrew off to the Judge's alma mater , Wainwright College . Andy wants to stand on his own two feet , but its a little hard to get started . On the train he meets and is infatuated with a pretty young woma... |
382,715 | 449,021 | 202,595 | 7 | A slave boy grows up to be Bishop of Ireland . | A young boy is kidnapped and forced into slavery , guarding sheep in Ireland . With his faith in God , he returns home only to decide to study to become a priest and introduce Christianity to the poor and enslaved people of Ireland . His deeds led him to becoming the second Bishop of Ireland . Very informative look at ... |
382,936 | 449,021 | 56,406 | 7 | A heavyweight . . . tired , tried and true . | Written by Rod ( Twilight Zone ) Serling and directed by Ralph Nelson . REQUIEM FOR A HEAVYWEIGHT is a genuine classic . Mountain Rivera ( Anthony Quinn ) is a tired and worn out heavyweight that was once ranked Number 5 . He's come to the end of his career after being knocked out by Cassius Clay . His manager Maish Re... |
382,340 | 449,021 | 277,434 | 7 | Fighting men fall from the sky . | Director Randall Wallace gives us the riveting story of courage and sacrifice as Mel Gibson leads the 7th Cavalry into the first major battle of the Viet Nam War in November 1965 . A harrowing event in the Valley of Death , where 400 American troops face 2 , 000 North Vietnamese soldiers . The fighting is relentless as... |
383,500 | 449,021 | 26,266 | 7 | A true classic . Appealing Dickens tale . | This is possibly the keenest adaptation of a Dickens classic . Young David Copperfield ( Freddie Bartholomew ) survives a difficult childhood and we share his trials and tribulations on the way to manhood . Actually a coming-of-age tale that tugs at the heartstrings . Excellently photographed and an all-star cast that ... |
383,329 | 449,021 | 382,625 | 7 | Is there a code that will change the face of religion ? | This Ron Howard does not live up to all the hype ; but do not get me wrong . This a very good film . . . a thinking man's film . Well-known symbologist Robert Langdon ( Tom Hanks ) , upon arriving at the Louvre museum , finds the curator murdered : and left behind are clues and a mysterious set of symbols and clues . J... |
382,149 | 449,021 | 112,857 | 7 | Heavy heat in the night . | Murder , politics , sex and scandal ; and it is all about a girl in a blue dress . An out of work WWII vet ( Denzel Washington ) is trapped in a web of lies , backstabbing and flying lead when he agrees to look for a politician's girlfriend ( Jennifer Beals ) . Some real good movie music by the likes of Memphis Slim , ... |
383,107 | 449,021 | 316,654 | 7 | Who really wants to be a hero ? | Director Sam Raimi brings back the Marvel comic book hero , your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man . Peter Parker ( Tobey Maguire ) is still coming to terms with his dual identity . He's now going to college , delivering pizza and taking photos of . . . Spider-Man in order to pay his bills . His world is tumbling down a... |
382,734 | 449,021 | 281,686 | 7 | What a dynamic duo . . . Elvis and JFK ! | A couple of things may happen . You could be a closed-minded Elvis fan and royally get pid off or just sit back and enjoy the weirdness while splitting your ribs . Funny in a sick way . . but this is hilarious . Elvis ( Bruce Campbell ) switches places with an Elvis impersonator and while on tour breaks a hip . With th... |
384,091 | 449,021 | 462,538 | 7 | # @ " ! Homer you idiot ! Very funny . | Have no fear . Yellow power is here . The Simpson family makes good on their venture to the big screen . Outragiously funny ! Guaranteed irreverent and hilarious enough to make you slap your granny . Lisa Simpson ( Yeardly Smith ) takes her concern door to door trying to bring more awareness in protecting the environme... |
382,618 | 449,021 | 118,564 | 7 | Deep rooted anger causes a man to unravel . | Nick Nolte plays a small town peace officer in a snow bound New England town . A town so small , corruption is no secret . Underhanded people are allowed to rule . Nolte's character starts to mentally breakdown when trying to get custody of his estranged daughter and being forced to not investigate too deeply a hunting... |
382,939 | 449,021 | 118,571 | 7 | Need be . . . Mr . President can get tough . | Wolfgang Peterson directs highly talented Harrison Ford as the President of the United States . Pres . James Marshall continues America's stance to not negotiate or honor any terrorists demands . The President with the First Lady and their daughter are aboard Air Force One when it is high-jacked by Russian operatives .... |
384,101 | 449,021 | 65,125 | 7 | A traveling tent show causes excitement in a college town . | Walter Hale ( Elvis Presley ) is the manager of a traveling show , a Chautauqua , in the 1920's . Amongst the entertainment , trouble starts to develop . Hale is troubled by a Worker's Union rep , played by the gorgeous Marlyn Mason . A college girl played by Nicole Jaffe , wants to go on the road with the show . And a... |
382,253 | 449,021 | 321,416 | 7 | Desperate times call for desperate deeds . | This is an outstanding A & E production with kudos for director Mikael Salomon . A very well written drama chronicling the fall of the infamous Benedict Arnold ( Aidan Quinn ) from distinguished Revolutionary War general and respected advisor to General George Washington ( Kelsey Grammer ) to reluctant traitor . Action... |
381,967 | 449,021 | 70,518 | 7 | Being friends is sometimes dangerous . | Not only is being former friends dangerous , but also pretty damn deadly . The legendary Sam Peckinpah directs this story of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid . You can taste the dust ; feel the spurious flying bullets and smell the free flowing essence of non-prejudiced manhood . Garrett ( James Coburn ) is hired by a gro... |
384,337 | 449,021 | 56,331 | 7 | The end has come . Or has it ? | Ray Milland directs and stars in this over looked Sci-Fi flick . What will normal people do in desperation ? What will people do when they fear the end of civilization ? Harry Baldwin ( Milland ) and his family have left Los Angeles on a fishing trip moments before nuclear bombs land on several cities , including L . A... |
384,280 | 449,021 | 43,887 | 7 | Gung Ho submarine commander takes on the Japanese Navy . | A very good WW2 movie . John Wayne is ' Duke ' Gifford , an ultra devoted commander that leads his submarine crew up against the best the Japanese can put in the water or in the air . Ward Bond plays ' Pop ' Perry , Gifford's mentor and growing naval legend . A young Patricia Neal portrays the love interest . Fleshing ... |
382,663 | 449,021 | 112,740 | 7 | Count down three minutes till Doomsday . | Excellent military drama with more intrigue and thrills than action . There is a clash of wills between the Captain ( Gene Hackman ) and his Lt . Commander ( Denzel Washington ) aboard the nuclear submarine USS Alabama . The mission is to avert an impending nuclear conflict with Russia . Hackman and Washington are tens... |
382,014 | 449,021 | 175,880 | 7 | The past doesn't forgive or forget . The future is a small world . | A study of guilt , anxiety , failure , anger and pain . Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson gives us a three hour look at several unique individuals and how their lives unwind , but weave back into the same small world . This may have been an hour too long . Stellar performances by Julianne Moore , William Macy , Jaso... |
384,226 | 449,021 | 316,465 | 7 | A young man wins the hearts of a small town . | The township of Anderson , South Carolina lives and breaths with their Hanna High School football team . Coach Harold Jones ( Ed Harris ) may just be the most respected man in town ; his only fault is putting the pigskin players and team ahead of his wife ( Debra Winger ) and teenage daughter . Coach Jones finds compas... |
382,084 | 449,021 | 47,686 | 7 | Star-studded B western . | Feels just like Saturday afternoon at the movies . The ever popular Rory Calhoun plays Adam Reed , a Wyoming Indian scout , who has a strong bond with Fireknife ( Lee Van Cleef ) , a Cheyenne warrior . Against a treaty with the Indians , the army decides to build a fort on their land . Reed is caught between both sides... |
383,292 | 449,021 | 369,059 | 7 | The strength of honor is put to the test . | A very good TNT original movie made for TV . A former Army Lieutenant ( Don Johnson ) sees his world falling apart when allegations that his platoon slaughtered innocent civilians thirty years ago in a hospital massacre . Jeanne Tripplehorn plays the Army Major prosecutor . The defending attorney is played flawlessly b... |
383,661 | 449,021 | 26,138 | 7 | The monster lives ! And he wants a companion . | Universal strikes gain . Dr . Frankenstein and his monster survive their presumed demise . The doctor is urged to provide his lonely monster with a mate . Cast members : Boris Karloff , Colin Clive , Ernest Thesiger , Valerie Hobson and Una O'Connor are joined by Elsa Lancaster , the unforgettable bride of the monster ... |
384,206 | 449,021 | 286,106 | 7 | Next time will not just be a short visit . | Excellent in respect to keeping me attentive . M . Night Shyamalan's clever Sci-Fi thriller falls short in regards to the promos giving you some false hopes of a really scary story . There are a couple of scenes that come close to making you # ^ S your pants . Mel Gibson plays a widowed farmer and former man of the clo... |
383,456 | 449,021 | 780,622 | 7 | Shocking and memorable . A very special girl . | If you want something out of the ordinary . Something down right scary even to think about ; and you're not exactly straddling that high moral ground . . . this movie just might be for you . Genital gore . High school student Dawn O'Keefe ( Jess Weixler ) is typical in concerns of suppressing her awakening sexuality . ... |
382,721 | 449,021 | 112,722 | 7 | Chilling , thriller diller about a serial killer ! | Sigourney Weaver plays Dr . Helen Hudson , a retired psychiatrist that specializes in serial killers . Hudson is agoraphobic and suffers with different degrees of stress and depression . Holly Hunter and Dermot Mulroney are detectives trying to catch a serial killer . Harry Connick , Jr . plays a serial killer behind b... |
383,484 | 449,021 | 21,814 | 7 | Genuine horror classic . | This movie has thrilled and chilled viewers for generations and also serves as a standard for vampire flicks . This is the role that Bela Lugosi was born to play , Count Dracula . His mannerisms and looks make the character masterful and commanding . Based on Bram Stoker's novel , a vampire terrorizes the English count... |
383,261 | 449,021 | 83,511 | 7 | An unlikely duo that packs a punch for the bad guy ; and each other . | Laugh out loud funny . A rough around the edges cop ( Nick Nolte ) arranges a temporary parole for a cocky convict ( Eddie Murphy ) in order to help in tracking down a couple of killers . Whiskey throated Nolte is perfect as the laid back , hard hitting cop . Murphy's big screen debut is a delight . The Nolte / Murphy ... |
382,682 | 449,021 | 338,013 | 7 | Can't a guy just change his mind ? | Quirky describes both Jim Carey and ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND . Michael Gondry directs this exercise in futile love and heartbreak . Joel ( Carey ) and Clementine ( Kate Winslet ) are a couple who's relationship has ran its course . Experimental technology allows Clementine to have any and all memories of J... |
382,496 | 449,021 | 47,673 | 7 | An innocent yule tide talent tale . | Legendary Michael Curtiz directs this showcase of talent in an attempt to capitalize on the song " White Christmas " that first appeared in the 1942 classic HOLIDAY INN . Quite innocent and evocative of the early 50's mindset . One of those let's save the day by putting on a show . A song and dance team will help keep ... |
383,020 | 449,021 | 416,185 | 7 | A drama that packs a punch . | Erik Kernan ( Josh Hartnett ) living in his father's shadow is rough . He is separated from his successful wife ( Kathryn Morris ) and his job is on the ropes . Erik is a sportswriter assigned to boxing events and his editor ( Alan Alda ) thinks his work is forgettable . By chance Erik comes to the rescue of a homeless... |
383,263 | 449,021 | 26,205 | 7 | On the high seas ; big ships come . . . big ships go . | Not just a routine trip from Hong Kong to Singapore for Captain Alan Gaskell ( Clark Gable ) . There is a treasure trove of gold hidden on board . Among the passengers are two women of the captain's past : Dolly ( Jean Harlow ) , the brash blonde bombshell and Lady Sybil ( Rosalind Russell ) , the prim and proper socia... |
382,853 | 449,021 | 264,648 | 7 | Tragedy aboard the USS Iowa . Someone must defend the truth . | This is a morality tale of investigating a military cover up . An explosion aboard an aging battleship is covered up to save face for the Navy . Captain Fred Moosally ( James Caan ) agrees with his superiors that the fatal explosion that killed 47 is to be blamed on a homosexual rift between two sailors . LTJG Dan Meye... |
383,677 | 449,021 | 420,609 | 7 | Don't underestimate Capote . Superb drama . | Not to take anything away from Philip Seymour Hoffman's Capote , INFAMOUS is a little rawer ; less candy-coated . The life of many a party ; the openly gay writer Truman Capote ( Toby Jones ) , has a life enhancing journey far from his champagne sipping friends in New York . It is high brow meets middle-class , when th... |
383,300 | 449,021 | 307,987 | 7 | Are you really Santa ? | Absolutely dark . Side splitting funny in a twisted way . Two criminals join up for the holidays and disguise themselves as Santa ( Billy Bob Thornton ) and his elf ( Tony Cox ) , traveling across the country to major malls and robbing the stores blind . This year the foul mouthed Santa takes advantage of the passive h... |
383,703 | 449,021 | 34,946 | 7 | Soap opera deluxe . | This Sam Wood drama ages well . An ensemble of stars and a story line meant for gossips from every social class . Probably most remembered for Ronald Reagan's " Where is the rest of me ? " Small town murder , insanity , sadism , selfishness and greed are a few of the things whispered about . Relationships are hard to c... |
384,106 | 449,021 | 52,303 | 7 | Beware of a determined submarine commander . | A fair war movie , but better than average submarine flick . Lt . Commander Barney Doyle ( Glenn Ford ) is forced to conduct war with a Japanese prison ship carrying his family . The ship is used as a blind for a notorious battleship that the whole U . S . Navy is searching for . Others in this fine cast : Ernest Borgn... |
384,406 | 449,021 | 39,302 | 7 | How many wrongs make a right ? | Intense , crime thriller in glorious black & white . Top notch Film-Noir and " Bogie " . Convicted of murdering his wife , Humphrey Bogart escapes prison and endures plastic surgery to obtain proof of his innocence . Lauren Bacall harbors the man with the plan while his face heals . Desperation and romance filters thro... |
383,008 | 449,021 | 240,772 | 7 | For the thrill . For the ' pay off ' . For the Hell of it ! | Expertly directed by one of the masters , Steven Soderbergh . Less a remake than an energetic adaptation of the 1960 Rat Pack story . A ' who's who ' ensemble cast takes a clever story and turns it into real entertainment . Thrills , spills and witty humor paced with the trappings of Vegas . Fresh out of prison , Danny... |
383,499 | 449,021 | 338,348 | 7 | Something as exciting as Santa . . . the Polar Expess ! | THE POLAR EXPRESS is a delightful holiday film that is a sight to behold . Robert Zemeckis directs and Tom Hanks stars in this sure-to-be-classic filmed in a technique called performance-capture animation based on real actors . A young boy finds it hard to sleep on Christmas Eve for he doesn't want to miss hearing the ... |
383,131 | 449,021 | 39,317 | 7 | This hitch-hiker is bad news . | Not the best film noir , but the story does have a grip that lasts to the fadeout . Bad boy Lawrence Tierney plays Steve Morgan , a charming criminal who has just robbed and killed a cashier at a movie theater . Jimmy Ferguson ( Ted North ) is a little tipsy returning home from a convention and picks up a hitch-hiker .... |
382,935 | 449,021 | 285,823 | 7 | Out of isolation comes El Mariachi . | A playfully dangerous and psychotic CIA agent Sands ( Johnny Depp ) is involved in international espionage and recruits a mythical guitar-swinging hit-man El Mariachi ( Antonio Banderas ) to foil an assassination . The dashing hit-man is to stop a drug cartel from killing Mexico's El Presidente . The reluctant hero is ... |
383,813 | 449,021 | 308,055 | 7 | Riveting fictitious focus on the killing of Bobby Kennedy . | Written and directed by Emilio Estevez , BOBBY is a fictionalized look at 22 individuals whose lives intersect in the hours leading up to the assassination of Robert F . Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles . These various people have different reasons for being at the hotel , but do share the anticipation of... |
382,125 | 449,021 | 268,466 | 7 | Entertaining expose on a successful TV institution . | To expound or pontificate without just and moral actuality sustained with guarded malice and remorse would be an injustice , disservice and undeniable shame . This is a very good TNT production that is not afraid to show the back stabbing , bitching , pompous ego clashing and ' money talking ' maneuvers that made Monda... |
383,449 | 449,021 | 35,034 | 7 | Powerful cast . Powerful action . Powerful story . | A very interesting movie directed by Raoul Walsh . Filmed in black and white is a plus especially for the scenes in the rain . Stormy atmosphere sets the mood for this story of competition , lust and love . Edward G . Robinson and George Raft work on a road crew for the power company . When they aren't trying to repair... |
382,113 | 449,021 | 30,418 | 7 | With wealth comes opulence and hatred . | M-G-M's overstuffed costume drama traces Marie Antoinette's ( Norma Shearer ) life from Austrian princess , marriage , motherhood , Queen of France and her beheading . The arranged marriage to Louis XVI ( Robert Morley ) , the Dauphin of France , brought about estrangement and hatred from the French populace and eventu... |
382,955 | 449,021 | 171,410 | 7 | Justice does not come easy . | I haven't been impressed with a western in along time as I have with JACK BULL . Terrific acting , great script and tremendous cinematography . The setting is 19th-century , wide open pre-statehood Wyoming . A powerful tale of a horse trader ( John Cusack ) seeking justice for a rival rancher ( L . Q . Jones ) abusing ... |
384,082 | 449,021 | 264,616 | 7 | Not your typical God fearing man . | A very promising directorial debut for Bill Paxton . A very dark thriller / who-really-done-it recommended by Stephen King . This is a strong , well-conceived horror tale about a devout , but demented man in Thurman , Texas that goes on a murdering spree after getting orders from God to eliminate demons trying to contr... |
383,577 | 449,021 | 245,238 | 7 | Love wounds ; and love scars . | Dramatic , intense and even forbidden . Mary Bedford ( Mischa Barton ) enrolls at Perkins Girls College and immediately has to come to grips with witnessing her roommate's lesbian relationship unravel . ' Paulie ' ( Piper Perabo ) and ' Tori ' ( Jessica Pare ) are forced to end their torrid affair and realize what it r... |
383,343 | 449,021 | 52,283 | 7 | A gentleman in a world that no longer needs gentlemen . | Gary Cooper plays Joe Chapin , a very successful man turning fifty years old , prodded into state politics by his nagging wife , played by Geraldine Fitzgerald . Chapin shuns the political scene when he finds it going against the standards and principles he lives by . His wife soon makes him feel a loser and he finds s... |
383,462 | 449,021 | 43,660 | 7 | A change of identity leads to mystery and intrigue . | At the end of WWII , Victoria Kowelska ( Valentina Cortese ) survives a Nazi death camp and assumes the identity of her friend Karin , who died with her papers and picture of her young son clutched in her hand . Victoria's new identity will have her going to a family estate in San Francisco to be with her ' new ' son C... |
384,259 | 449,021 | 415,965 | 7 | You are who you are ; you are what you are . | This is a feel good movie starring John Cusack as David , a recently widowed science-fiction / fantasy novelist . David feels he needs to to do more with his life and decides to adopt a child . After a lot of thought and some manipulation , he talks a six year old boy named Dennis ( Bobby Coleman ) to come live with hi... |
383,583 | 449,021 | 66,473 | 7 | Powerful ! Dynamic ! Realism ! Tora ! Tora ! Tora ! | It takes three directors and almost two and a half hours to present one of if not the best film concerning the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor thus causing the U . S . to enter WWII . Taut , tense and unbelievable depiction of the dramatic attack on that fateful December morning in 1941 . This movie leaves a lot to be ... |
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