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Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas
: :Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 11/04/2008 Run time: 100 minutes Rating: Nr
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Foul Play
: :beware of the dwarf whispers the hitchhiker to the beautiful librarian as he dies midway through a moive. Suddenly she is propelled into a world of wild chases bizarre attempts on her life & deadly encounters with an assortment of weird underworld characters. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 08/23/2005 Starring: Goldie Hawn Burgess Meredith Run time: 116 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Colin Higgins :Not short on murder, mayhem, or any other screwball '70s conventions, Foul Play is a wonderful vehicle for Goldie Hawn. She plays Gloria, a librarian 'ready to take ...
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The Goodbye Girl
: :A divorced woman and her daughter come home to find that her boyfriend has left for an out of town job with no warning. This has happened before. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 09/19/2000 Starring: Marsha Mason Paul Benedict Run time: 110 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Herbert Ross :The Goodbye Girl is a bittersweet comedy about relationships and taking chances. Though it deals with the human condition, what most quickly comes to mind are those wickedly comedic scenes featuring Richard Dreyfuss in an Oscar-winning role. He plays a struggling actor with ...
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The Basketball Diaries
: :Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll's epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction. As a member of a seemingly unbeatable high school basketball squad, Jim's life centers around the basketball court and the court becomes a metaphor for the world in his mind. A best friend who is dying of leukemia, a coach ('Swifty') who takes unacceptable liberties with the boys on his team, teenage sexual angst, and an unhealthy appetite for heroin -- all of these begin to encroach on young Jim's dream of ...
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Village People - Can't Stop the Music
: :Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll's epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction. As a member of a seemingly unbeatable high school basketball squad, Jim's life centers around the basketball court and the court becomes a metaphor for the world in his mind. A best friend who is dying of leukemia, a coach ('Swifty') who takes unacceptable liberties with the boys on his team, teenage sexual angst, and an unhealthy appetite for heroin -- all of these begin to encroach on young Jim's dream of ...
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Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas
: :Originally a special for HBO, this Jim Henson production (he also directed) was one of the first real forays into the more realistic, less vaudevillian direction for the Muppets. It also included Frank Oz (Muppeteer), Paul Williams (songs), and Jerry Juhl (script), some of the Muppet Show's usual suspects. Emmet Otter and his jug band are trying out in the local talent show, but they face fierce competition from a gang of toughs, the Riverbottom Gang and their rock band. Perhaps the most notable thing is the creation of a sense of poverty ...
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Family Business
:Description:An ageing career criminal and his son, who is currently on the straight and narrow, approach the grandson, who is bright, good-looking, and without a criminal past about a burglary scheme. The grandson is shocked, but not necessarily disinterested. Stars Academy Award(r) winner Sean Connery, Academy Award(r) winner Dustin Hoffman and Matthew Broderick. :This 1989 film, directed by Sidney Lumet (Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon) brings together three notable actors in a story of generational and familial loyalty and crime. While ultimately a somewhat thin story, the film succeeds in great measure because of ...
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The Basketball Diaries
: :The pre-Titanic Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Jim Carroll, the poet and musician who spent much of his adolescence addicted to heroin and shooting hoops with fellow Catholic high school kids. As a biography, the film doesn't amount to more than the sum of its gritty scenes of smack use, violence, perversions (poor Bruno Kirby plays a lecherous coach who comes on to young Jim), and the usual scream-and-puke dramas that go along with a cold-turkey session. Director Scott Kalvert doesn't seem to realize that most people don't know who Carroll is and therefore ...
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The Basketball Diaries
: :The pre-Titanic Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Jim Carroll, the poet and musician who spent much of his adolescence addicted to heroin and shooting hoops with fellow Catholic high school kids. As a biography, the film doesn't amount to more than the sum of its gritty scenes of smack use, violence, perversions (poor Bruno Kirby plays a lecherous coach who comes on to young Jim), and the usual scream-and-puke dramas that go along with a cold-turkey session. Director Scott Kalvert doesn't seem to realize that most people don't know who Carroll is and therefore ...
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Something Short of Paradise
:Description:In the tradition of Annie Hall comes this charmingly offbeat romantic comedy about love, sex and relationships on the island of Manhattan, starring OscarÂ(r) winner Susan Sarandon* (Stepmom, Thelma & Louise) and David Steinberg (My Giant). When a neurotic movie-theater manager (Steinberg) meets a beautiful aspiring journalist (Sarandon), it's hardly love at first sight. She thinks he's too clingy, he thinks she's too uptight, and they have nothing in common. But soon enough, they fall for each other's quirky charms in a roller-coaster romance that takes them on a hilarious and picturesque journey ...
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