Bang the Drum Slowly 1973  PG, 96 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John D. Hancock
Cast: Robert De Niro, Michael Moriarty, Vincent Gardenia, Phil Foster, Ann Wedgeworth, Patrick McVey, Danny Aiello, Barbara Babcock, Barton Heyman, Heather MacRae, Danny Burks, Selma Diamond, Maurice Rosenfield, Tom Signorelli, Marshall Efron
"Just one more season," is what Bruce Pearson (Robert De Niro) wants. He is a baseball catcher who knows that he has a fatal disease.
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Far North 1988  PG-13, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Sam Shepard
Cast: Jessica Lange, Charles Durning, Tess Harper, Donald Moffat, Ann Wedgeworth, Patricia Arquette, Nina Draxten
A Minnesota farming family deals with adversity, showing how each member has different values, especially when Bertrum (Durning) is nearly killed by a runaway horse. Good cast, bad movie.
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 Hard Promises 1991  PG, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Martin Davidson
Cast: Sissy Spacek, William Petersen, Brian Kerwin, Mare Winningham, Jeff Perry, Olivia Burnette, Peter MacNicol, Ann Wedgeworth, Amy Wright, Lois Smith, Ed Geldart, Jerry Haynes
After Joey (William Petersen) receives an invitation–sent by daughter Beth (Olivia Burnette)–to ex-wife Chris' (Sissy Spacek) wedding, he rushes home to Texas with plans of stopping the upcoming marriage.
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The Hunter's Moon 1999 PG-13, 104 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Weinman
Cast: Burt Reynolds, Hayley DuMond, Keith Carradine, Wild Bill Mock, Pat Hingle, Charles Napier, Ann Wedgeworth
A bootlegger, Clayton Samuels (Burt Reynolds), is a violent tyrant determined to keep his daughter, Flo (Hayley DuMond) away from her suitor, Turner (Keith Carradine)–all the while keeping one step ahead of the federal agents. This is NOT one of Reynolds' best films.
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Law and Disorder 1974  R, 99 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Ivan Passer
Cast: Carroll O'Connor, Ernest Borgnine, Ann Wedgeworth, Anita Dangler, Karen Black, Jack Kehoe, David Spielberg, Pat Corley, Leslie Ackerman, Joe Ragno
Two New Yorkers (Carroll O'Connor and Ernest Borgnine) are fed up with the city's crime rate and become auxiliary policemen to help curb the problem.
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Love and a .45 1994  R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy / Thriller
Director: C.M. Talkington
Cast: Gil Bellows, Renee Zellweger, Rory Cochrane, Jeffrey Combs, Jace Alexander, Ann Wedgeworth, Peter Fonda, Tammy Le Blanc, Wiley Wiggins, Jack Nance, Charlotte Ross, Scott Roland, Michael Bowen, Todd Conner, Richard Rothenberg
A white-trash couple, Watty (Gil Bellows) and Starlene (Rene Zellweger), are on the lam after Watty's partner Billy Mack (Rory Cochrane) kills a clerk during a robbery. The couple rob banks and have even become cop killers during their flight as the law and two loan sharks follow in pursuit. TV coverage makes the couple popular in this violent, but somewhat fun, film.
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Made in Heaven 1987 PG, 102 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alan Rudolph
Cast: Timothy Hutton, Kelly McGillis, Debra Winger, Maureen Stapleton, Mare Winningham, Ann Wedgeworth, Don Murray, Amanda Plummer, Marj Dusay, Tim Daly
A young hero (Timothy Hutton) dies and goes to Heaven where he falls in love. As fate would have it, his lover (Kelly McGillis) is chosen to go to Earth to inhabit the body of a newborn infant.
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Miss Firecracker 1989 PG, 102 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Thomas Schlamme
Cast: Holly Hunter, Mary Steenburgen, Tim Robbins, Alfre Woodard, Scott Glenn, Ann Wedgeworth, Amy Wright, Christine Lahti, Trey Wilson, Bert Remsen
Based on Beth Henley's play, this is the story of Carnelle Scott (Holly Hunter) who is bored with her life in Yazoo City, Mississippi, so she enters a beauty contest and sets in motion a series of events that affect her cousin Elaine (Mary Steenburgen) and Elaine's brother Delmount (Tim Robbins).
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My Science Project 1985  PG, 94 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Jonathan Betuel
Cast: John Stockwell, Danielle von Zerneck, Fisher Stevens, Raphael Sbarge, Dennis Hopper, Barry Corbin, Ann Wedgeworth, Richard Masur, Candace Silvers, Beau Dremann
The fourth dimension, time, is involved in this story about a group of friends who discover that an alien object throws them into the past with dinosaurs and into the future with an army equipped with weapons unknown to them. Bad, but Dennis Hopper keeps it from being a bomb. 1 User Review
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| | 07/17/2009 | | Has a few dull patches but when the alien object is finally activated its one hell of a fun filled 1980's effects laden roller coaster. Cool little yarn too. The web master's review waaay to harsh on this one! |
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No Small Affair 1984 R, 102 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jerry Schatzberg
Cast: Jon Cryer, Demi Moore, George Wendt, Peter Frechette, Elizabeth Daily, Ann Wedgeworth, Jeffrey Tambor, Tim Robbins, Jennifer Tilly, Hamilton Camp
Awkward teen Charles Cummings (Jon Cryer) has a crush on an "older woman," Laura Victor (Demi Moore), and sets out to promote her rock-singing career as his way to impress her.
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Scarecrow 1973 R, 112 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jerry Schatzberg
Cast: Gene Hackman, Dorothy Tristan, Al Pacino, Ann Wedgeworth, Eileen Brennan, Richard Lynch, Rutanya Alda, Penelope Allen, Richard Hackman, Al Cingolani
Two losers, Max (Gene Hackman) and Lion (Al Pacino), try to improve their lots in life; one is a paroled ex-con and the other is a very weak person.
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Soggy Bottom, USA 1981 PG, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Theodore J. Flicker
Cast: Ben Johnson, Ann Wedgeworth, Lois Nettleton, Dub Taylor, Anthony Zerbe, Jack Elam, P.J. Soles, Cloris Leachman, Lane Smith, Don Johnson, Earl Boen, Hank Worden
Set in a Southern town during Prohibition, a sheriff tries to keep law and order with virtually no support from the townsfolk. The fine cast makes this otherwise weak film watchable.
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 Steel Magnolias 1989  PG, 118 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy / Romance
Director: Herbert Ross
Cast: Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Daryl Hannah, Olympia Dukakis, Julia Roberts, Tom Skerritt, Dylan McDermott, Kevin J. O'Connor, Sam Shepard, Bill McCutcheon, Ann Wedgeworth, Jonathan Ward, Bibi Besch, Janine Turner
Strong women take care of their weak men in this film about the Southern way of life. Taken from Robert Harling's play, this is a warm-hearted, humorous, and sympathetic look at high and low points of women who see each other regularly at Truvy Jones' (Dolly Parton) beauty salon in a Louisiana town. The story involves M'Lynn (Sally Field), how she deals with her daughter Shelby's (Julia Roberts) failing health, and the relationships among the women–among them are nasty gossip Ouiser (Shirley MacLaine) and recently widowed Clairee (Olympia Dukakis)–she sees regularly at the beauty shop. Julia Roberts received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
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Sweet Dreams 1985 PG-13, 115 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Karel Reisz
Cast: Jessica Lange, Ed Harris, Ann Wedgeworth, David Clennon, James Staley, Gary Basaraba, John Goodman, P.J. Soles, Bruce Kirby, Terry Gardner
Who else could this movie be about but country singer Patsy Cline? Jessica Lange does a remarkable job portraying the singer who lived life on the edge by hard drinking and fast living. Lange received an Oscar nomination for her performance.
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A Tiger's Tale 1988 R, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Peter Douglas
Cast: Anne-Margret, C. Thomas Howell, Charles Durning, Kelly Preston, Ann Wedgeworth, William Zabka, Tim Thomerson, Steven Kampmann, Traci Lind, Angel Tomkins, James Noble, David Denney, Sean Patrick Flanery
High-school senior Bubber (C. Thomas Howell) falls in love with his girlfriend Shirley's (Kelly Preston) mother Rose (Anne-Margret). The older woman/younger man scenario takes on new meaning when they enter into an affair, and Rose learns that she is pregnant.
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 The Whole Wide World 1996 PG, 105 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Dan Ireland
Cast: Vincent D'Onofrio, Renee Zellweger, Ann Wedgeworth, Benjamin Mouton, Chris Shearer, Harve Presnell, Michael Corbett, Helen Cates, Marion Eaton, Leslie Berger, Libby Villari, Dell Aldrich, Elzabeth D'Onofrio, Antonia Bogdanovich, Sandy Walper
This film–based on retired schoolteacher Novalyne Price Ellis' memoirs, "One Who Walked Alone"–tells the story of her youthful 1930s' romance with pulp writer Robert E. Howard. Seen through Novalyne's (Renee Zellweger) eyes, this is a sympathetic story of Howard (Vincent D'Onofrio) who comes equipped with too much emotional baggage to carry on a love affair. What Novalyne and Robert DO have is a common love of writing, but that alone cannot keep them together.
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| 1. Bang the Drum Slowly (1973)
2. Birch Interval (1977)
3. Dragonfly (1976)
aka: One Summer Love
4. Far North (1988)
5. Hard Promises (1991)
6. The Hunter's Moon (1999)
7. Law and Disorder (1974)
8. Love and a .45 (1994)
9. Made in Heaven (1987)
10. Miss Firecracker (1989)
11. My Science Project (1985)
12. No Small Affair (1984)
13. Scarecrow (1973)
14. Soggy Bottom, USA (1981)
15. Steel Magnolias (1989)
16. Sweet Dreams (1985)
17. A Tiger's Tale (1988)
18. The Whole Wide World (1996)
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