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Sesame Street Presents Follow that Bird
:Description:A meddling social worker sends poor Big Bird off to Ocean View, Illinios, for the comforts of family life with his 'own kind,' the Dodos. But Big Bird is a disaster as a Dodo and, lonely and homesick, he soon sets off on foot for Sesame Street. Can his old friends find him before he runs 'afowl' of trouble en route? :Follow That Bird is as much a journey through time as it is a romp past the Sesame Street stop sign. Curiously, the cast members--live ones like Gordon and Maria, not just ...
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Used Cars
: essential video:This 1980 film by director Robert Zemeckis gives no indication of things to come in his career (Contact, Forrest Gump), but it is representative of a certain cynical humor he shared early on with writer-partner Bob Gale. Kurt Russell and Jack Warden star in a sketchy comedy about competing used-car salesmen who resort to outrageous tactics to lure customers away from each other. The jokes, like the characters, are intentionally recycled, self-conscious comic fodder from a baby-boomer's lifetime (such as Gale's or Zemeckis's) of immersion in pop culture. That makes Used ...
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Heavy Metal (Thx)
: :As long as there is a need for adolescent male sexual fantasy, there will be an audience for Heavy Metal. Released in 1981 and based on stories from the graphic magazine of the same name (possibly the greatest publication to simultaneously provoke imagination and masturbation), the film has since become the most popular single title in Columbia/TriStar's entire film library. That's an amazing fact considering just how silly and senseless the movie really is--an aimless, juvenile amalgam of disjointed stories and clashing visual styles, employing hundreds of animators from around the world with ...
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Home on the Range
: :A spiky animation style and cowboy yodelling give Home on the Range some charisma. A trio of cows--Maggie (voiced by Roseanne, She-Devil), Mrs. Calloway (Judi Dench, Iris), and Grace (Jennifer Tilly, Bound)--hit the high prairie to track down a cattle rustler named Alameda Slim (Randy Quaid, Kingpin) in hopes that the reward money will save their farm. With the aid of Buck, a horse with heroic ambitions (Cuba Gooding Jr., Jerry Maguire), the bovine avengers track the villain to his lair and save the day, to the accompaniment of tunes warbled by k.d. ...
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Looking For Miracles
: :A spiky animation style and cowboy yodelling give Home on the Range some charisma. A trio of cows--Maggie (voiced by Roseanne, She-Devil), Mrs. Calloway (Judi Dench, Iris), and Grace (Jennifer Tilly, Bound)--hit the high prairie to track down a cattle rustler named Alameda Slim (Randy Quaid, Kingpin) in hopes that the reward money will save their farm. With the aid of Buck, a horse with heroic ambitions (Cuba Gooding Jr., Jerry Maguire), the bovine avengers track the villain to his lair and save the day, to the accompaniment of tunes warbled by k.d. ...
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Tunnelvision : Stars From Saturday Night Live & Second City
: :An extremely talented 'before-they-were-stars' cast headlines this bawdy spoof of television with a simple premise: a Moral Majority-type committee investigates the world's first uncensored television network. What they uncover is some of the raunchiest and funniest television programming known to man, allowing for plenty of rapid-fire parodies and social satire. Cast members include several of Saturday Night Live's 'Not-Ready-For-Prime-Time Players' and the Second City comedy troupe, including John Candy, Larraine Newman, Chevy Chase, Howard Hesseman, Joe Flaherty, Al Franken, and Tom Davis.
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Who's Harry Crumb
: :An extremely talented 'before-they-were-stars' cast headlines this bawdy spoof of television with a simple premise: a Moral Majority-type committee investigates the world's first uncensored television network. What they uncover is some of the raunchiest and funniest television programming known to man, allowing for plenty of rapid-fire parodies and social satire. Cast members include several of Saturday Night Live's 'Not-Ready-For-Prime-Time Players' and the Second City comedy troupe, including John Candy, Larraine Newman, Chevy Chase, Howard Hesseman, Joe Flaherty, Al Franken, and Tom Davis.
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Going Berserk
: :An extremely talented 'before-they-were-stars' cast headlines this bawdy spoof of television with a simple premise: a Moral Majority-type committee investigates the world's first uncensored television network. What they uncover is some of the raunchiest and funniest television programming known to man, allowing for plenty of rapid-fire parodies and social satire. Cast members include several of Saturday Night Live's 'Not-Ready-For-Prime-Time Players' and the Second City comedy troupe, including John Candy, Larraine Newman, Chevy Chase, Howard Hesseman, Joe Flaherty, Al Franken, and Tom Davis.
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Really Weird Tales
: :An extremely talented 'before-they-were-stars' cast headlines this bawdy spoof of television with a simple premise: a Moral Majority-type committee investigates the world's first uncensored television network. What they uncover is some of the raunchiest and funniest television programming known to man, allowing for plenty of rapid-fire parodies and social satire. Cast members include several of Saturday Night Live's 'Not-Ready-For-Prime-Time Players' and the Second City comedy troupe, including John Candy, Larraine Newman, Chevy Chase, Howard Hesseman, Joe Flaherty, Al Franken, and Tom Davis.
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