All Dogs Go to Heaven 1989  G, 89 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Drama / Fantasy
Director: Don Bluth, Gary Goldman, Dan Kuenster
Cast: Dom DeLuise, Burt Reynolds, Vic Tayback, Daryl Gilley, Charles Nelson Reilly, Melba Moore, Judith Barsi, Loni Anderson, Candy Devine, Anna Manahan, Nigel Pegram, Ken Page, Godfrey Quigley
Burt Reynolds is the voice of the rogue German Shepherd and Dom DeLuise is "Itchy" in this beautifully animated Don Bluth story set in the low-life area of New Orleans. Charlie B. Barkin (Reynolds) returns to Earth to do a good deed. The characters are interesting, and, the film is fun to watch.
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A Man of No Importance 1994  R, 99 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Suri Krishnamma
Cast: Albert Finney, Brenda Fricker, Michael Gambon, Tara Fitzgerald, Rufus Sewell, Patrick Malahide, David Kelly, Mick Lally, Anna Manahan, Joe Pilkington
Repressed homosexual Alfie Byrne (Albert Finney), a Dublin bus conductor fixates on Oscar Wilde plays, puts on local productions, and is on a collision course with his moment of self-acceptance of what his life is really about.
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A Tale of Two Cities 1980 TV, 156 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jim Goddard
Cast: Chris Sarandon, Peter Cushing, Kenneth More, Barry Morse, Flora Robson, Billie Whitelaw, Alice Krige, Nigel Hawthorne, Norman Jones, George Innes, Bernard Hug, Robert Urquhart, Anna Manahan
Sydney Carton (Chris Sarandon) has fallen love with Lucie (Alice Krige), but she marries the aristocrat Charles Damay (also played by Chris Sarandon), not knowing of Sydney's love for her. Later, the seeds for the French Revolution are sown, and Charles has been arrested and is condemned to die by the guillotine. Sydney hatches a selfless plot to replace Charles and allow him to return to Lucie.
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Ulysses 1967 N/R, 132 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joseph Strick
Cast: Barbara Jefford, Milo O'Shea, Maurice Roeves, T.P. McKenna, Anna Manahan, Maureen Potter, O.Z. Whitehead, Fionnula Flanagan, Martin Dempsey, Sheila O'Sullivan, Graham Lines, Peter Mayock, Maureen Toal, Chris Curran, Eddie Golden
There are some good moments in this adaptation of James Joyce's masterpiece concerning Leopold and Molly Bloom's (Milo O'Shea and Barbara Jefford) streams of consciousness. The story takes place over a 24-hour period when impotent Leopold meets a young poet, Stephen Dedalus (Maurice Roeves). They visit a brothel, and sit up all night talking. After Stephen leaves, Molly, who is unhappy with Leopold, fantasizes about a possible affair with Stephen. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Screenplay.
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| 1. All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989)
2. A Man of No Importance (1994)
3. A Tale of Two Cities (1980)
4. Ulysses (1967)
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