Released Date:
1984-06-21
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
101 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (748 Reviews)
Director:
Robert Ellis MillerPeter De Vries (novel)
Herman Shumlin (play)
Julius J. Epstein (screenplay)
Gowan McGland is a half-Irish/half-Welsh Scottish poet with some renown. He is also a total s*** - a boozer, a womanizer (his conquests more frequently married than not), lazy, and a leech, with a deteriorating body and bad teeth, losing which he equates with death. He also has his charms, which, in combination with his renown, leads to him usually being able to get what he wants. His wife, Edith McGland, also a writer, is well aware of who he is, their marriage which is in name only, although they are still good friends. It is because of her profession and her connection that she has been commissioned to write his biography. Because he is lazy, he has not written anything in five years. He is on a speaking tour to earn what little money he has, currently on an extended stop in Woodsmoke, Connecticut. His reputation in almost every sense precedes him in Woodsmoke - including his womanizing where probably only the husbands of his conquests are unaware of what's going on, and his excessive drinking. He is able to sponge off the generosity of the people who hear him speak, but worse he steals the tips they leave when they take him out for meals. His life may change when he meets college student Geneva Spofford, with who he falls in love. She, in return, is not immune to his charms. The question is whether there is a future for Gowan and Geneva, or if his life will catch up with him. Reuben, the sheepdog belonging to Geneva's grandfather and Gowan's friend Frank Spofford, may have some say in what happens.
Released Date:
1985-02-08
Languages:
English, German
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
112 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.5 (61806 Reviews)
Director:
Peter WeirWilliam Kelley (story)
Pamela Wallace (story)
Earl W. Wallace (story)
Earl W. Wallace (screenplay)
William Kelley (screenplay)
Samuel Lap is a young Amish boy who witnesses a murder in Philadelphia while traveling with his mother Rachel. A good cop named John Book must go with them into hiding when the killers come after them. All three retreat to Amish country and Book has to adjust to the new life style, and his feelings for the boy's mother. Of course the killers are still on their trail.
Released Date:
1986-05-16
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
110 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (201161 Reviews)
Director:
Tony ScottJim Cash
Jack Epps Jr.
Ehud Yonay (magazine article "Top Guns")
Lieutenant Pete "Maverick" Mitchell is an expert United States Naval Aviator. When he encounters a pair of MiGs over the Persian Gulf, his wingman is clearly outflown and freaks. On almost no fuel, Maverick is able to talk him back down to the carrier. When his wingman turns in his wings, Maverick is moved up in the standings and sent to the Top Gun Naval Flying School. There he fights the attitudes of the other pilots and an old story of his father's death in combat that killed others due to his father's error. Maverick struggles to be the best pilot, stepping on the toes of his other students and in another way to Charlie Blackwood, a civilian instructor to whom he is strongly attracted.
Released Date:
1987-11-06
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
103 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (2477 Reviews)
Director:
Alan RudolphBruce A. Evans
Raynold Gideon
In 1952 while driving to California to start his life anew, twenty-something Mike Shea accidentally dies while doing a heroic act. Despite floundering in his life - he was having troubles holding a steady job and his supposed girlfriend was about to marry someone else - he was not ready to leave the living. In heaven, he learns that despite it being a fantastical other world existence, he still has human emotions, such as romantic love, which he feels for a "new" soul he meets named Annie Packert (i.e. she has never been among the living on Earth), who in turn loves him. He also learns that one's next life is somewhat predetermined by their stay in heaven. So when Annie is sent to Earth for her first go around as a human, Mike pleads with the man in charge at heaven, Emmett Humbird, to locate him in his next human life at least in the same country so that he can find Annie. Emmett reluctantly agrees, but only gives Mike thirty years in his next life to find her. Those next lives of Annie and Mike are as Allison Chandler and Elmo Barnett respectively. Each carries a bit of their experience with each other in heaven to their new subconscious human being, Ally's manifesting itself in an imaginary childhood friend named Mike, whereas Elmo grows up to be a drifter but one not sure for what he is looking. With Elmo receiving a little help from both Emmett and some people from his past life, will the match made in heaven find its way to Earth before the thirty year deadline?
Released Date:
1988-10-14
Languages:
English
Countries:
Canada, USA
Runtime:
111 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (22443 Reviews)
Director:
Jonathan KaplanSarah Tobias goes to her local bar and is gang-raped by three men. The district attorney on the case is Katheryn Murphy who wants to prove that although Sarah had taken drugs that night and was acting provocatively while in the bar, this is no reason for her to be so brutally attacked and the men responsible should be brought to justice.
Released Date:
1988-03-04
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
101 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
6.2 (1669 Reviews)
Director:
Peter YatesEmily Crane is fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee, and takes a part-time job as companion to an old lady. One day her attention is drawn to a noisy argument being conducted largely in German in a neighbouring house, the more so since one of those involved is her main senator prosecutor. Starting to look into things, she gradually enlists the help of FBI officer Cochran who was initially detailed to check her out. Just as well when things turn nasty.
Released Date:
1989-10-20
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
90 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.4 (840 Reviews)
Director:
Abel FerraraElmore Leonard (novel)
James Borrelli (screenplay)
Elmore Leonard (screenplay)
An American veteran (Weller) of the Dominican Republic intervention (LBJ era) is running a hotel in Miami, and is trying to put the memories of the intervention behind him. He gets involved with a former Dominican Republic general's wife (McGillis). He then gets duped through a series of intricate plot twists into helping a group of people trying to rip the general off. Based on the novel by Elmore Leonard.
Released Date:
1991-11-15
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
94 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
5.2 (146 Reviews)
Director:
Mary LambertGenres:
DramaKate Chopin (novel)
Hesper Anderson (screenplay)
A married woman in 1890s Louisiana meets a handsome Creole, reawakening her sexual desires, and is tempted into an affair with the man.
Released Date:
1992-04-17
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
115 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
5.8 (7189 Reviews)
Director:
Arthur HillerTraces the career of Babe Ruth from his days as a youngster in an orphanage to his last days as a manager. Includes such moments as the famous predicted home run and the promise to little Johnny.
Released Date:
2013-09-06
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
87 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (57 Reviews)
Director:
Fro RojasIt was a bachelor's life for hard-working and fun-loving Ray Ray Domingguez who dreams of leaving the barrio for a more carefree existence in Miami. That's until one day when everything changed - and he became a reluctant "Tio Papi" to his sister's six children ages 6 to 16. Now in charge of raising this energetic (and expensive)clan, Ray Ray must make important decisions on what life is really all about. Combining heart-warming drama with light hearted comedy, "Tio Papi", directed by Fro Rojas from the original screenplay by Joey Dedio and Brian Herskowitz, is an upbeat story of life's unexpected surprises and ultimately what matters the most -- the love of family.
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