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The End (1978)
: :Burt Reynolds directed and stars in this dark comedy, which suffers from diminishing returns the longer it goes on. He plays a fellow who discovers that he has a terminal illness and wants to spare himself and everyone he knows the seemingly unavoidable end of a painful malady. So he decides to kill himself. But he proves surprisingly inept at it and after several tries winds up in a mental hospital, where he meets a cheerfully homicidal inmate (Dom DeLuise). The suicide stuff was handled more imaginatively and with greater flair ...
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Smokey & The Bandit
: :It's easy to assume this is just another dumb redneck comedy from Burt Reynolds's years of underachievement. But it's not bad as a dumb redneck comedy at all. Directed by career stuntman Hal Needham, Smokey and the Bandit is just a goofy chase starring a bunch of Reynolds's Hollywood cronies. New to the job as film boss, Needham brings a silly but energized sensibility to the production and an action man's need to see things moving. But he also has a distinctive feeling for relationships, and he's good with a joke. ...
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Bright Eyes
: essential video:Shirley Temple, the original dancing baby, sings her signature song, 'On the Good Ship Lollipop,' in this heart-rending drama, one of eight films she made in 1934 (!) at the ripe age of 6, and for which she was honored with a special pint-sized Academy Award. Temple stars as Shirley, the curly-headed 'gosh, oh gee'-adorable mascot to a group of aviators since her pilot father 'cracked up and went to heaven.' Get out your handkerchiefs when Shirley's mother is also killed, setting up a custody battle between the nasty, ...
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Michener's Texas
: essential video:Shirley Temple, the original dancing baby, sings her signature song, 'On the Good Ship Lollipop,' in this heart-rending drama, one of eight films she made in 1934 (!) at the ripe age of 6, and for which she was honored with a special pint-sized Academy Award. Temple stars as Shirley, the curly-headed 'gosh, oh gee'-adorable mascot to a group of aviators since her pilot father 'cracked up and went to heaven.' Get out your handkerchiefs when Shirley's mother is also killed, setting up a custody battle between the nasty, ...
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Peyton Place (1957)
: :Nominated for nine Academy Awards in 1957, Peyton Place has become synonymous with torrid soap opera. Though the novel by Grace Metalious is even more sensational, the movie provides plenty of tantalizing story turns--secrets, adultery, rape, bitter parents, frustrated teenagers, suicide, and murder. Multiple storylines deftly interweave: Allison MacKenzie (Diane Varsi), an ambitious young girl struggling with the neurotic fears of her mother (Lana Turner, in a career-reviving performance) and the neurotic fears of the boy she loves (Russ Tamblyn), while her best friend Selena Cross (Hope Lange) fights off the ...
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Smokey & The Bandit II
: :Nominated for nine Academy Awards in 1957, Peyton Place has become synonymous with torrid soap opera. Though the novel by Grace Metalious is even more sensational, the movie provides plenty of tantalizing story turns--secrets, adultery, rape, bitter parents, frustrated teenagers, suicide, and murder. Multiple storylines deftly interweave: Allison MacKenzie (Diane Varsi), an ambitious young girl struggling with the neurotic fears of her mother (Lana Turner, in a career-reviving performance) and the neurotic fears of the boy she loves (Russ Tamblyn), while her best friend Selena Cross (Hope Lange) fights off the ...
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Putney Swope
: :If you're looking for a movie that shocked the filmgoing public with its outspoken take on race relations in corporate America circa 1969, look no further than this Robert Downey debut effort. Made on a shoestring in black and white, this film begins with a wonderful moment of racial discomfort. The board of directors at a Madison Avenue ad agency must elect a new chairman, and, in the maneuvering to make sure that enemies don't get votes, all the board members accidentally cast their ballot for the board's token black man, ...
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Seedpeople
: :If you're looking for a movie that shocked the filmgoing public with its outspoken take on race relations in corporate America circa 1969, look no further than this Robert Downey debut effort. Made on a shoestring in black and white, this film begins with a wonderful moment of racial discomfort. The board of directors at a Madison Avenue ad agency must elect a new chairman, and, in the maneuvering to make sure that enemies don't get votes, all the board members accidentally cast their ballot for the board's token black man, ...
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House Party 4: Down to the Last Minute
:Description:When Jon-Jon?s rich uncle goes out of town for the weekend, he and his two best friends plan a house party that no one will ever forget. but will they be able to get the house back together before the man of the house gets home. Starring hip-hop's IMx.
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Farmer & Chase
:Description:When Jon-Jon?s rich uncle goes out of town for the weekend, he and his two best friends plan a house party that no one will ever forget. but will they be able to get the house back together before the man of the house gets home. Starring hip-hop's IMx.
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