Dirty Rotten Scoundrels 1988  PG, 110 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Frank Oz
Cast: Steve Martin, Michael Caine, Glenne Headly, Frances Conroy, Anton Rodgers, Barbara Harris, Ian McDiarmid, Dana Ivey, Louis Zorich, Meagen Fay, Nicole Calfan, Aina Walle, Cheryl Pay, Nathalie Auffret, Lolly Susi
This is the remake of "Bedtime Story" about a slick Riviera con man Lawrence Jamieson (Michael Caine) and a scruffy American scam artist Freddy Benson (Steve Martin) who meet on a train. Caine realizes that Martin is planning on infiltrating his territory, theorizing that bad crooks give the sophisticated ones a bad name. The entire tale is a series of sequences in which one con man tries to outwit the other. Fun.
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Family Plot 1976 PG, 120 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris, William Devane, Cathleen Nesbitt, Katherine Helmond, Ed Lauter, John Lehne, Warren J. Kemmerling, Edith Atwater
In Alfred Hitchcock's last film, the plot involves the search for a lost heir by a phony medium (Barbara Harris) and her cab driver boyfriend (Bruce Dern). Meanwhile, a jeweler and his girl friend (William Devane and Karen Black) are planning a kidnapping in which they will be paid in diamonds. When the couples cross paths, chaos ensues.
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 Freaky Friday 1976 G, 97 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Gary Nelson
Cast: Jodie Foster, Barbara Harris, John Astin, Patsy Kelly, Ruth Buzzi, Vicki Schreck, Dick Van Patten, Sorrell Booke, Kaye Ballard, Marie Windsor
Mother and daughter change roles in this delightful Disney film.
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Katherine 1975  TV, 98 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jeremy Kagan
Cast: Sissy Spacek, Art Carney, Henry Winkler, Julie Kavner, Jane Wyatt, Joe De Santis, Hector Elias, Jenny Sullivan, Rene Enriquez, Mary Murphy, Jorge Cervera Jr., Barbara Harris
Katherine Alman (Sissy Spacek) rebels against injustices of the American way in the 1960s and early 1970s and opts to change things through political terrorism.
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 Nashville 1975  R, 159 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Altman
Cast: Ronee Blakely, Lily Tomlin, Ned Beatty, Karen Black, Keith Carradine, Geraldine Chaplin, Michael Murphy, Henry Gibson, Shelley Duvall, Barbara Harris, Scott Glenn, Keenan Wynn, Robert DoQui, Jeff Goldblum, Barbara Baxley
On the surface, this film is about the country music business; however, the characters in this story weave together people from all walks of life who represent something much deeper than just the music industry of Nashville. Keith Carradine wrote the Oscar-winning song, "I'm Easy." The film was also nominated for Best Picture, Supporting Actress (both Ronee Blakley and Lily Tomlin), and Director.
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The North Avenue Irregulars 1979  G, 99 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Bruce Bilson
Cast: Edward Herrmann, Barbara Harris, Susan Clark, Karen Valentine, Cloris Leachman, Patsy Kelly, Douglas Fowley, Alan Hale Jr., Ruth Buzzi, Michael Constantine
A minister and his group of church ladies clean up their town after racketeers set up their illegal business. Disney.
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Peggy Sue Got Married 1986  PG-13, 104 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Cast: Kathleen Turner, Nicolas Cage, Barry Miller, Catherine Hicks, Joan Allen, Kevin J. O'Connor, Barbara Harris, John Carradine, Maureen O'Sullivan, Leon Ames
Peggy (Kathleen Turner) is a 43-year-old housewife and mother having serious difficulties with her husband (Nicholas Cage) because of his infidelity. She attends her 25th high-school reunion, faints, and wakes up in the past when she was a teenager. With the wisdom of 43 years, she experiences again her trials as a teenager. Kathleen was nominated for an Oscar.
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Second-Hand Hearts 1981  PG, 102 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: The Hamster of Happiness
Director: Hal Ashby
Cast: Robert Blake, Barbara Harris, Collin Boone, Amber Rose Gold, Bert Remsen, Shirley Stoler, Sondra Blake, Gwen van Dam, David Welch, Louis Williams
Traveling in an old station wagon, Loyal Mike (Robert Blake) and Dinette Dusty (Barbara Harris) make their way to their California destination–amidst wrong turns and mechanical breakdowns. Bad!
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The Seduction of Joe Tynan 1979  R, 107 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jerry Schatzberg
Cast: Alan Alda, Barbara Harris, Meryl Streep, Rip Torn, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Kimbrough, Carrie Nye, Michael Higgins, Blanche Baker, Dan Hedaya
Senator Joe Tynan (Alan Alda) fights for moral issues in the U.S. Congress. However, his moral actions do not extend to his personal life when he has an affair with Karen Traynor (Meryl Streep)–a certain threat his marriage. 1 User Review
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| | happy 05/26/2009 | love the fresh ideas of yesterday in this raw world of today
it was refreshinng and yet the message of love romance and guilt was stil there and the funny expirerinces was reallly a tickler
most movie critics are to harsh ,Most movies for a step back from reality and not always have to a express realism and movie ingeneral are us just to clear minds to get back of today's rat race. |
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The War Between Men and Women 1972 PG, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Melville Shavelson
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Barbara Harris, Jason Robards, Herb Edelman, Lisa Gerritsen, Severn Darden, Lisa Eilbacher, Moosie Drier, Ruth McDevitt, Joey Faye
Based on James Thurber's stories, this is the story of Peter Wilson (Jack Lemmon) and his new wife, Terry (Barbara Harris), who find rough going along the marital road.
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| 1. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
2. Family Plot (1976)
3. Freaky Friday (1976)
4. Katherine (1975)
5. Nashville (1975)
6. The North Avenue Irregulars (1979)
7. Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
8. Plaza Suite (1971)
9. Second-Hand Hearts (1981)
aka: The Hamster of Happiness
10. The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979)
11. A Thousand Clowns (1965)
12. The War Between Men and Women (1972)
13. Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those (1971)
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