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Director: Mike Figgis    More Info
Starring: Richard Gere, Andy Garcia, Nancy Travis, Laurie Metcalf, William Baldwin, Richard Bradford, Michael Beach, Annabella Sciorra, Katherine Borowitz, Faye Grant

 Sergeant Raymond Avila (Andy Garcia) is an investigator for the Internal Affairs Department of the LAPD who is obsessed with getting the goods on another cop, Dennis Peck (Richard Gere). Peck has criminals at his disposal and divides the bribery money collected among his four ex-wives and eight children with whom he is obsessed. When Avila finds officers willing to testify against Peck, they end up dead, and the investigation is filled with other problems–including resistance from Avila's superiors who consider Peck an asset to the force. Finally, Avila investigates Peck's partner, Stretch (William Baldwin), and Peck, who believes that Avila is investigating him only to seek a promotion, begins stalking Avila and even turns Avila against his wife, Kathleen (Nancy Travis).

Director: Tommy Lee Wallace    More Info
Starring: Harry Anderson, Dennis Christopher, Richard Masur, Annette O'Toole, Tim Reid, John Ritter, Richard Thomas, Tim Curry, Jonathan Brandis, Brandon Crane

 Based on Stephen King's bestseller, this is good viewing for horror fans. An evil force in the form of a clown lures seven children known as "The Loser Club" to their deaths. A TV miniseries.

Director: Joseph Sargent    More Info
Starring: John Lithgow, Isabella Rossellini, James Earl Jones, Tony Todd, Olek Krupa, Carolyn Nelson

 A drunken writer, a biologist, and a policeman join to stop the elephant killing by poachers after the ivory. A noble premise, but the execution is weak.

Director: Adrian Lyne    More Info
Starring: Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Pena, Danny Aiello, Matt Craven, Macaulay Culkin, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Jason Alexander, Ving Rhames, Perry Lang, Patricia Kalember

 Years ago, something happened to a battalion in Vietnam when American soldier Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins) went through a traumatic experience that has left him with strange visions. Jacob has divorced his wife Sarah (Patricia Kalember) and feels responsible for a car accident in which his son Gabe (Macaulay Culkin) died. Jacob now has a new girlfriend, his coworker at the Post Office, Jezzie (Elizabeth Pena) but continues to experience the visions along with panic attacks. The truth behind Jacob's problems is searched for as Sarah, Jacob's chiropractor Louis (Danny Aiello), his comrade from Vietnam Paul (Pruitt Taylor Vince), and Michael (Matt Craven) all come to his aid.

Director: Xavier Koller    More Info
Starring: Necmettin Cobanoglu, Nur Surer, Emin Sivas, Yaman Okay, Erdinc Akbas, Mathias Gnadinger

 Based on a true story, this winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film is about a Kurdish family trying to find a better life by leaving Turkey and migrating to Switzerland.

Director: Zhang Yimou    More Info
Starring: Gong Li, Li Baotian, Li Wei, Zhang Yi, Zheng Ji-an, Chong Ma, Zhijun Cong, Fa Wu, Jin Jia, Niu Xingli

 Ju Dou (Gong Li) is a young woman who, when tortured for not bearing a son, has an affair with her infertile husband's (Li Wei) nephew (Li Baotian). She succeeds in conceiving a child–but with tragic results. The film received a Best Foreign Film Academy Award nomination.

Director: Jud Taylor    More Info
Starring: Jaclyn Smith, Perry King, Patricia Kalember, Claudia Christian, Donald Moffat, Terry O'Quinn, Bruce Abbott, Colleen Dewhurst, Kim Thomson, Penny Johnson

 Three sisters–Hilary (Jaclyn Smith), Alexandra (Patricia Kalember), and Meagan (Claudia Christian)–had been placed in foster homes 30 years ago after the death of their parents, and all have done well. Attorney Arthur Patterson (Donald Moffat), who had placed the girls, hires private investigator John Chapman (Perry King) to effect a reunion of the women. And the hunt is on in this made-for-TV film.

Director: Arthur Allan Seidelman    More Info
Starring: Cicely Tyson, Michael Warren, Sammy Davis Jr., Gilbert Lewis, Ken Page, Della Reese, Esther Rolle, Ben Vereen, Vanessa Williams, Trent Cameron

 This touching Christmas story is about young orphan Reggie (Trent Cameron) who finally gets a new father. But, the father is a traveling musician, and the adoption agency decides that he is not the right choice. Reggie is again in a foster home and is determined to join his musician father for the holidays. Looking for an answer to his dream, Reggie goes to the local department store Santa (Jimmy Carville) for help. Will Santa perform the miracle? This film, co-produced by Eddie Murphy, was Sammy Davis Jr.'s last film appearance.

Director: Peter Keglevic    More Info
Starring: Jurgen Prochnow, Patsy Kensit, Elizabeth Hurley, Franz Buchrieser, Grazyna Szapolowska, Mario Stock, Carmel S. Aquilina, Manuel Cauchi, John Suda, Elton Mamo

 It's been months since Skipper's (Jurgen Prochnow) best friend was lost overboard from his boat off Gibraltar, and Skipper's wife left him. So, Skipper visits the local bar nightly, drunkenly telling of his troubles. When two bar employees, Sue and Lou (Patsy Kensit and Elizabeth Hurley), talk him into sailing them to the Caribbean, he accepts. But the trip will be more than he bargained for.

Director: Stephen Gyllenhaal    More Info
Starring: Barbara Hershey, Brian Dennehy, John Terry, Richard Gilliland, Lee Garlington, Hal Holbrook, Matthew Posey, James Monroe Black, Dennis Letts, Marco Perella

 Based on a true story, this made-for-TV film involves a brutal, axe murder committed by mild-mannered Candy (Barbara Hershey) when she murders her lover Stan Blankship's (John Terry) wife, Peggy (Lee Garlington). During the ensuing trial, her lawyer Ed Reivers (Brian Dennehy) leads the defense in the fact that it was Peggy who hit Candy first with the axe, and Candy was acting in self-defense.

Director: Ivan Reitman    More Info
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Penelope Ann Miller, Pamela Reed, Linda Hunt, Richard Tyson, Carroll Baker, Cathy Moriarty, Park Overall, Richard Portnow, Angela Bassett

 L.A. cop John Kimble (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is gathering evidence to convict psychopathic drug lord Cullen Crisp (Richard Tyson) and his cold-blooded mother Eleanor (Carroll Baker). After learning that Crisp is searching for his ex-wife (Penelope Ann Miller) and young son (Joseph and Christian Cousins), Kimble heads to Astoria, Oregon, with his partner Phoebe O'Hara (Pamela Reed) where he believes the son is a kindergarten student. Although mother and son have assumed different identities, Kimble is banking on the fact that getting close to the situation will lead him to Crisp. Phoebe has teaching credentials and plans to teach in the Astoria kindergarten class, but she gets food poisoning, and Kimble ends up going undercover as the kindergarten teacher.

Director: Abel Ferrara    More Info
Starring: Christopher Walken, David Caruso, Laurence Fishburne, Victor Argo, Wesley Snipes, Janet Julian, Joey Chin, Giancarlo Esposito, Paul Calderon, Steve Buscemi

 Drug kingpin Frank White (Christopher Walken) returns to the streets of New York from a long stint in prison and again takes up his old trade. He and his gang have many enemies; both police and rivals don't like his multi-racial gang. This time, Frank has a new goal: he wants to help the poor by building a big hospital in their neighborhood. Extremely violent.

Director: Bruce Seth Green    More Info
Starring: Tina Yothers, Paris Vaughan, Shari Shattuck, Erin Gray, Alexandra Paul, Jean Simmons, Ken Olandt

 This deserves its BOMB rating as the tryouts begin for the Los Angeles Lakers cheerleader positions. It is watchable, but don't think too hard.

Director: Larry Elikann    More Info
Starring: Richard Crenna, James Earl Jones, Eric Bogosian, Haing S. Ngor, Rosalind Chao, Barry Corbin, Lee Garlington, Molly Hagan

 Just before the fall of Saigon, the Americans and Vietnamese residing in the city need to be rescued, so they head for safety.

Director: Paul Mayersberg    More Info
Starring: Lance Henriksen, John Fujioka, Lisa Eilbacher, Arabella Holzbog, James Ryan, John Saxon, Duncan Regehr, Henry Cele

 A freelance, Vietnam veteran pilot, Johnny Congo (Lance Henriksen), is hired by rich businessman Yasujiro Endo (John Fujioka), who is descended from Samurai warriors, to fly him and his party to Africa. When the group is captured, Johnny sets out to rescue them.

Director: Sheldon Lettich    More Info
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Harrison Page, Deborah Rennard, Lisa Pelikan, Ashley Johnson, Lawrence Bender, Brian Thompson, Voyo Goric, Michel Qissi, George McDaniel

 Lyon (Jean-Claude Van Damme) walks out on the French Foreign Legion and heads for Los Angeles where he becomes a street fighter avenging the drug-related killing of his brother.

Director: Donald Shebib    More Info
Starring: Charlton Heston, Bruce Greenwood, Patricia Gage, Leo Wheatley, Charles Miller, Leah Pinsent

 A grandfather (Charlton Heston) must deal with his grandsons after learning they have stolen a baby following his decision to not allow a dog in the family. A fairly good remake of the 1953 British movie.

Director: Richard Pearce    More Info
Starring: Sissy Spacek, Whoopi Goldberg, Dwight Schultz, Ving Rhames, Dylan Baker, Erika Alexander, Lexi Randall, Richard Habersham, Jason Weaver, Mary Steenburgen

 Set in 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, when Dr. Martin Luther King led the boycott of the city's transportation system, the turmoil and racial conflicts are seen through the eyes of two families. Odessa Cotter (Whoopi Goldberg) and her husband Herbert (Ving Rhames) have three children and she is a maid for Miriam and Norman Thompson (Sissy Spacek and Dwight Schultz), a well-to-do couple. Miriam becomes an activist for the cause while Norman goes the other direction. A good depiction of an important time in American history.

Director: Harry Hook    More Info
Starring: Balthazar Getty, Chris Furrh, Danuel Pipoly, James Badge Dale, Andrew Taft, Edward Taft, Gary Rule, Terry Wells, Braden MacDonald, Angus Burgin

 William Golding's novel about a group of boys trapped on an island and their subsequent struggle for survival is updated to the present. British school children are replaced by American military cadets who are aboard a plane that crashes into the sea. After swimming to a nearby island, they find their own methods of survival. Ralph (Balthazar Getty) leads one group and rationalizes a way to escape from the island. Meanwhile, Jack (Chris Furrh) and his followers resort to savage behavior as they hunt for pigs to eat and then turn to killing people. Living together proves impossible, and the boys end up fighting each other for survival.

Director: Philip Saville    More Info
Starring: Treat Williams, Alice Krige, Martin Landau, Jonathan Phillips, Adam Kotz, Jodhi May, Nicholas Woodeson, Lulee Fisher, Ian Bartholomew, Zoltan Gera

 Martin Landau turns in a fine performance as Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal who tells the story (from Wiesenthal's book) of a couple who were separated for 20 years after being in a concentration camp.

Director: Michael Caton-Jones    More Info
Starring: Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz, Tate Donovan, D.B. Sweeney, Billy Zane, Sean Astin, Harry Connick Jr., John Lithgow, David Strathairn, Jane Horrocks

 This story is based on the true experiences of the 10 men who made up the crew of the "Memphis Belle," a giant World War II B-17 bomber. These airmen are participating in their 25th mission and have been promised that they will be sent home following this mission involving the bombing of Bremen, Germany. Their leader is Capt. Dennis Dearborn (Matthew Modine), and their commanding officer Col. Craig Harriman (David Strathairn) and public relations specialist Lt. Col. Bruce Derringer (John Lithgow) nervously wait for their return knowing that if things go wrong many will be killed.

Director: Paul Brickman    More Info
Starring: Jessica Lange, Chris O'Donnell, Charlie Korsmo, Arliss Howard, Tom Mason, Joan Cusack, Kathy Bates, Jim Haynie, Belita Moreno, Kevin Corrigan

 In this remake of "La Vie Continue," Jessica Lange plays the struggling widow, Beth Macauley, who fights to keep her family (Chris O'Donnell and Charlie Korsmo) together after the death of her husband and their father (Tom Mason).

Director: Richard Benjamin    More Info
Starring: Cher, Bob Hoskins, Winona Ryder, Michael Schoeffling, Christina Ricci, Caroline McWilliams, Jan Miner, Betsy Townsend, Richard McElvain, Paula Plum

 Mrs. Flax (Cher) is a vagabond mother of two daughters, 15-year-old Charlotte (Winona Ryder) and nine-year-old Kate (Christina Ricci), who are obsessed with religion and swimming, respectively. When they land in the small town of East Port, Massachusetts, they find a home, and the girls hope that, at last, they will settle down after moving 18 times in Charlotte's lifetime. Kate shines as a swimmer on her school's swim team, while Charlotte plans to become a nun–despite the fact that they are Jewish. Meanwhile, Mrs. Flax begins a romance with Lou (Bob Hoskins). At the same time, Charlotte falls in love, from afar, with Joe (Michael Schoeffling) but finds confusion setting in and prays daily to keep her religious fervor.

Director: George Armitage    More Info
Starring: Alec Baldwin, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Fred Ward, Nora Dunn, Obba Babatunde, Charles Napier, Shirley Stoler, Paul Gleason, Joe Hess, Edward Saxon

 Sociopathic killer Frederick (Alec Baldwin), upon being released from prison, decides to start over in Miami. But it doesn't take long before he begins another crime wave–starting at the airport when he arrives in Miami. Long-time cop Hoke Moseley (Fred Ward) goes to work on the case but immediately has his badge stolen by Frederick. Based on Hoke Moseley crime novels by Charles Willeford.

Director: Joel Coen    More Info
Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Marcia Gay Harden, John Turturro, Jon Polito, J.E. Freeman, Albert Finney, Steve Buscemi, Larry Flaherty, Mike Starr, Olek Krupa

 In this, another great, or at least near great, Coen Brothers film, we find ourselves in the midst of gangster wars, ala the 1930s, with modern tools. Tom (Gabriel Byrne) is an apparently heartless gangster who is loyal to kingpin Leo (Albert Finney) and is now caught up in a gang war. The prize: control of the city. Lots of black humor, extreme violence, and interesting twists.