The Center of the World 2001  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Wayne Wang
Cast: Peter Sarsgaard, Molly Parker, Carla Gugino, Mel Gorham, Balthazar Getty, Pat Morita, Shane Edelman, Shirley Knight
Richard, a partner in a successful Internet company, pays $10,000 for three days in Las Vegas with a stripper (Molly Parker). She sets strict ground rules, but neither has taken into account the factor of emotions.
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December 1991  PG, 92 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Gabe Torres
Cast: Balthazar Getty, Jason London, Brian Krause, Wil Wheaton, Chris Young, Robert Miller, Ann Hartfield, Soren Bailey
On the evening of December 7, 1941, five students at the Green Mountain Academy debate what their options are following the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor.
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 Deuces Wild 2002  R, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Scott Kalvert
Cast: Stephen Dorff, Brad Renfro, Fairuza Balk, Norman Reedus, Frankie Muniz, Max Perlich, Drea de Matteo, Balthazar Getty, Nancy Cassaro, Vincent Pastore
After their brother's death from a drug overdose, Leon (Stephen Dorff) and Bobby (Brad Renfro) fight to keep drugs out of their Brooklyn neighborhood.
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Four Dogs Playing Poker 1999 R, 98 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
aka: 4 Dogs Playing Poker
Director: Paul Rachman
Cast: Stacy Edwards, Balthazar Getty, Daniel London, Olivia Williams, Tim Curry, Forest Whitaker, Steve Jones, John Taylor, George Lazenby, Arly Jover
Four friends head to Buenos Aires to steal a valuable piece of art for a ruthless black market dealer. They get the statuette, screw up the delivery, and it is lost. Now, with the dealer demanding either the art or one million dollars, the group needs a way out. The solution: insure each of them, then conduct a lottery to see who is the victim and who is the killer. OK entertainment.
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 Ladder 49 2004 PG-13, 115 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Jay Russell
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, John Travolta, Jacinda Barrett, Robert Patrick, Morris Chestnut, Billy Burke, Balthazar Getty, Tim Guinee, Kevin Chapman, Jay Hernandez
Baltimore probationary firefighter Jack Morrison (Joaquin Phoenix) is trapped inside a burning building, and his mentor, Captain Mike Kennedy (John Travolta), is trying to save him. Fearing death, Jack reminisces about his life, career, and marriage to Linda (Jacinda Barrett).
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Lord of the Flies 1990 R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama / Adventure / Thriller
Director: Harry Hook
Cast: Balthazar Getty, Chris Furrh, Danuel Pipoly, James Badge Dale, Andrew Taft, Edward Taft, Gary Rule, Terry Wells, Braden MacDonald, Angus Burgin, Martin Zentz, Brian Jacobs, David Weinstein, Vincent Amabile, Chuck Bell
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.
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 Lost Highway 1997  R, 135 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery / Horror / Thriller
Director: David Lynch
Cast: Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty, Robert Blake, Richard Pryor, Gary Busey, Robert Loggia, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Lucy Butler, Michael Massee, Jack Nance, Jack Kehler, Henry Rollins, Giovanni Ribisi
This David Lynch film puts the viewer into a dream where characters are replaced by others in a "never-never" existence. Jazz saxophonist Fred (Bill Pullman) is wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife. Then, one day he is no longer in jail but is converted into another person (Balthazar Getty). Very weird, as we follow Fred into his new adventures with a gangster's moll (Patricia Arquette).
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MacArthur Park 2001 R, 86 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Billy Wirth
Cast: Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Brandon Quintin Adams, B-Real, Bad Azz, Miguel A. Nunez Jr., Balthazar Getty, Sticky Fingaz, Rachel Hunter, Lori Petty, Julie Delpy, Ellen Cleghorne, Glenn Plummer
This film provides a portrait of crack cocaine addiction in the Los Angeles MacArthur Park area. Cody (Thomas Jefferson Byrd), once a jazz musician, abandoned his family and now is a long-time resident of the area. Cody's son (Brandon Quintin Adams) tracks him down and confronts him, and another ex-addict, Karen (Rachel Hunter), also tells him there is a way out. Will he be strong enough to make a life for himself?
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My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys 1991 PG, 106 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Cast: Scott Glenn, Kate Capshaw, Ben Johnson, Tess Harper, Balthazar Getty, Mickey Rooney, Gary Busey, Clarence Williams III, Dub Taylor, Clu Gulager
This is a contemporary Western in which an aging rodeo bull rider goes home to recover from a serious rodeo injury. In the process, he saves his father from a nursing home, falls in love, and decides to try one last ride on the bull that almost killed him.
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 Natural Born Killers 1994 R, 120 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Romance / Thriller
Director: Oliver Stone
Cast: Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey Jr., Tommy Lee Jones, Rodney Dangerfield, Tom Sizemore, Edie McClurg, Balthazar Getty, Joe Grifasi, Russell Means, Everett Quinton, Jared Harris, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Lanny Flaherty, O-Lan Jones
Mickey Knox (Woody Harrelson) and his girlfriend Mallory Wilson (Juliette Lewis) embark on a killing spree. Abused as children, they begin the killings with the murder of Mallory's parents (Rodney Dangerfield and Edie McClurg) and continue as they travel across Route 666 just for the fun of it. Media reporter Wayne Gale (Robert Downey Jr.) covers their story, and they make sure they are credited for their long list of victims. When Mickey and Mallory are finally arrested, they have become folk heroes in this story satirizing television's tabloid journalism.
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Run for the Money 2002 R, 95 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
aka: Hard Cash
Director: Predrag Antonijevic
Cast: Christian Slater, Daryl Hannah, Val Kilmer, Balthazar Getty, Holliston Coleman, Sara Downing, Bokeem Woodbine, Vincent Laresca, Verne Troyer, Peter Woodward, Rodney Rowland, Michael Anthony Rosas, William Forsythe, Milos Milicevic, Peter Jason
Super-thief Thomas Taylor (Christian Slater) is out of jail and back in business with a fresh group of henchmen. His gang includes Eddie (Balthazar Getty), Virginia (Daryl Hannah), and Rock (Bokeem Woodbine). They pull off a heist that could give them $1,000,000 in cash. But, there is a problem: the cash has been marked, and now corrupt FBI agent Cornell (Val Kilmer) decides to use Taylor's gang for his own profit and gets them involved in robbing a riverboat casino. Direct to video.
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 Shadow Hours 2000  R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Isaac H. Eaton
Cast: Balthazar Getty, Peter Weller, Rebecca Gayheart, Peter Greene, Michael Dorn, Brad Dourif, Richard Moll, Johnny Whitworth, Corin Nemec, Frederic Forrest, Johnny Whitworth, Richard Moll
The Devil, Stuart Chappell (Peter Weller), heads for L.A. on a mission to obtain the soul of Michael Holloway (Balthazar Getty), a young man who is confused and seduced by the glitz surrounding his life and is ready to descend into Hell.
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Terrified 1996 R, 95 min.
Genre: Thriller
Director: James Merendino
Cast: Heather Graham, Lisa Zane, Paul Herman, Rustam Branaman, Kane Picoy, Jason Cairns, Max Perlich, Balthazar Getty, Don Calfa, Richard Lynch, Tom Bresnahan, Sal Landi
Olive (Heather Graham) has had a bad day. First, her husband killed her lover, then he killed himself in front of her. So, she hangs around bars and picks up men for casual sex. Her life changes when she becomes the victim of a stalker who repeatedly breaks into her apartment, attacks her, then leaves–and the police don't believe her story.
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The Tripper 2007 R, 96 min.
Genre: Horror
Director: David Arquette
Cast: Lukas Haas, Balthazar Getty, Jaime King, Courteney Cox, Paul Reubens, David Arquette, Thomas Jane, Jason Mewes, Rick Overton, Richmond Arquette, Brad Hunt, Paz de la Huerta, Marsha Thomason
This attack on the morally righteous right-wing political establishment involves a group of hippie friends attending an annual music festival in the woods. This time, the festival turns into a scene of terror when a psycho killer–who, as a boy, was traumatized by hippies in the same woods being used for the festival. The killer wears a Ronald Reagan mask, brandishes an ax, and chops up the hippies, which, needless to say, accounts for plenty of blood and gore in this film.
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Where the Day Takes You 1992 R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Marc Rocco
Cast: Dermot Mulroney, Lara Flynn Boyle, Balthazar Getty, Sean Astin, James LeGros, Ricki Lake, Will Smith, Peter Dobson, Stephen Tobolowsky, Robert Knepper, Adam Baldwin, Laura San Giacomo, Kyle MacLachlan, Nancy McKeon, Rachel Ticotin
Los Angeles street hustler King (Dermot Mulroney) acts as a father figure for a group of runaways–including gay prostitute Little J (Balthazar Getty), Heather (Lara Flynn Boyle), and drug addict Greg (Sean Astin). But, even though King tries to come to their aid, violence through drugs and prostitution is the norm for these teens, and tragic consequences ensue.
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 Young Guns II 1990 R, 104 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Geoff Murphy
Cast: Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christian Slater, William Petersen, Alan Ruck, R.D. Call, James Coburn, Balthazar Getty, Jack Kehoe, Robert Knepper, Viggo Mortensen, Tom Kurlander, Leon Rippy, Tracey Walter
Young teen idols make up much of the cast of this oft-told tale of Billy the Kid (Emilio Estevez). This time, the gang is heading toward Mexico after springing two of them. Hot on the trail is Pat Garrett (William Petersen) and his deputies. Lots of shooting. Good photography and musical score add to the movie.
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| 1. The Center of the World (2001)
2. December (1991)
3. Deuces Wild (2002)
4. Four Dogs Playing Poker (1999)
aka: 4 Dogs Playing Poker
5. Ladder 49 (2004)
6. Lord of the Flies (1990)
7. Lost Highway (1997)
8. MacArthur Park (2001)
9. My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys (1991)
10. Natural Born Killers (1994)
11. Run for the Money (2002)
aka: Hard Cash
12. Shadow Hours (2000)
13. Terrified (1996)
14. The Tripper (2007)
15. Voodoo Dawn (1998)
16. Where the Day Takes You (1992)
17. Young Guns II (1990)
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