 Avalon 1990  PG, 126 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Barry Levinson
Cast: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Leo Fuchs, Eve Gordon, Elizabeth Perkins, Lou Jacobi, Joan Plowright, Aidan Quinn, Kevin Pollak, Elijah Wood
When the patriarch of a Jewish family arrives in America following World War II, he tries to bridge the gap between the modern era and the past by telling his grandchildren stories about their long-lost relatives.
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Bandits 2001  PG-13, 123 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Barry Levinson
Cast: Bruce Willis, Cate Blanchett, Billy Bob Thornton, Troy Garity, Stacey Travis, Brian F. O'Byrne, Bobby Slayton, January Jones, Azura Skye, Peggy Miley, William Converse-Roberts, Richard Riehle, Micole Mercurio, Anthony Burch, Scott Burkholder
Prison friends–Joe (Bruce Willis) and Terry (Billy Bob Thornton)–hijack a cement truck, break out of prison, and begin a series of bank heists that turns them into folk heroes. Plans go well, until a neurotic housewife (Cate Blanchett) is taken hostage only to become their lover. She just cannot decide between them so opts for both. A fun comedy caper.
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 Bee Movie 2007 PG, 90 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Comedy
Director: Steve Hickner, Simon J. Smith
Cast: Jerry Seinfeld, Renee Zellweger, Matthew Broderick, Patrick Warburton, John Goodman, Chris Rock, Kathy Bates, Barry Levinson, Larry King, Ray Liotta, Sting, Oprah Winfrey, Rip Torn, Larry Miller, Megan Mullally
Bee-college graduate Barry B. Benson (voice of Jerry Seinfeld) questions whether making honey in the hive is all there is in a bee's life. He ventures into New York City and makes friends with a human, friendly florist Vanessa Bloome (Renee Zellweger). Barry is shocked to learn that humans steal and eat the bee's honey and decides to team up with Vanessa and sue the honey manufacturers for stealing the honey.
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Bugsy 1991  R, 135 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Barry Levinson
Cast: Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Harvey Keitel, Ben Kingsley, Elliott Gould, Joe Mantegna, Richard C. Sarafian, Bebe Neuwirth, Wendy Phillips, Andy Romano
This 1920s gangster-era story revolves around notorious New York gangster Ben "Bugsy" Siegel (Warren Beatty) who on a trip to Los Angeles visits Las Vegas and decides to get involved in the gambling world. This much-publicized film won Oscars for Best Art Direction and Set Decoration. It also received eight nominations, including Best Picture, Actor (Warren Beatty), Director, and two for Supporting Actor (Harvey Keitel and Ben Kingsley).
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Diner 1982 R, 110 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Barry Levinson
Cast: Steve Guttenberg, Daniel Stern, Mickey Rourke, Kevin Bacon, Tim Daly, Ellen Barkin, Paul Reiser, Kathryn Dowling, Michael Tucker, Mark Margolis
This episodic film is about young men in Baltimore during the late 1950s who find women as a puzzling phenomenon and meet at a diner to male bond over greasy cheeseburgers, fries, and chocolate malts. Contains Elvis songs.
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Disclosure 1994  R, 127 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Barry Levinson
Cast: Michael Douglas, Demi Moore, Donald Sutherland, Roma Maffia, Caroline Goodall, Dennis Miller, Dylan Baker, Allan Rich, Rosemary Forsyth, Suzie Plakson, Nicholas Sadler, Jacqueline Kim, Joe Urla, Michael Chieffo, Joseph Attanasio
Tom Sanders (Michael Douglas) and Meredith Johnson (Demi Moore) are both upper-management stars at DigiCom, a hi-tech computer company involved in a merger. On the eve of the merger, Johnson invites Sanders to her office, offers him a drink, and makes sexual advances. Roles become confused when Johnson accuses Sanders, and then Sanders accuses Johnson of sexual harassment.
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Envy 2004  PG-13, 99 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Barry Levinson
Cast: Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Rachel Weisz, Amy Poehler, Christopher Walken, Ariel Gade, Sam Lerner, Lily Jackson, Connor Matheus, Hector Elias, Angee Hughes, Manny Kleinmuntz, Blue Deckert, John Gavigan, Terry Bozeman
When Nick (Jack Black) gets rich marketing Vapoorize (a spray that evaporates dog droppings), his friend, Tim (Ben Stiller), grows increasingly jealous. Along comes a drifter, J-Man (Christopher Walken), with ideas for how Tim can vent his frustrations, and, of course, nothing works as planned.
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An Everlasting Piece 2000 R, 109 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Barry Levinson
Cast: Barry McEvoy, Brian F. O'Byrne, Anna Friel, Pauline McLynn, Ruth McCabe, Laurence Kinlan, Billy Connolly, Des McAleer, Colum Convey, Ian Cregg
Ireland's ongoing religious problems are at the core of this story about the business venture of two barbers: Catholic Colm (Barry McEvoy) and Protestant George (Brian F. O'Byrne). They form a company, the Piece People, and try to take over Belfast's men's wig distributorship. Major problems ensue when police find one of their Piece People wigs at the scene of an IRA crime. It appears that the IRA also likes the wigs–as disguises.
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 Good Morning, Vietnam 1987 R, 121 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Barry Levinson
Cast: Robin Williams, Forest Whitaker, Bruno Kirby, Tung Thanh Tran, Chintara Sukapatana, Robert Wuhl, J.T. Walsh, Noble Willingham, Richard Edson, Richard Portnow, Juney Smith, Floyd Vivino, Cu Ba Nguyen
The new disc jockey Adrian Cronauer (Robin Williams) for Armed Forces Radio in Vietnam livens things up when he hits the airwaves. Robin Williams is wild in this role where he mimics, upsets the Brass, and relates to the soldiers in the field.
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High Anxiety 1977 PG, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Mel Brooks
Cast: Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Harvey Korman, Dick Van Patten, Ron Carey, Howard Morris, Barry Levinson, Jack Riley, Charlie Callas
This satirical look at Alfred Hitchcock films takes place in a San Francisco sanitarium: Psycho-neurotic Institute for the Very, Very Nervous. A new director, Richard Thorndyke (Mel Brooks), arrives on the scene and tries to help Victoria Brisbane (Madeline Kahn) whose father is being detained at the mental hospital.
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Jimmy Hollywood 1994 R, 109 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Barry Levinson
Cast: Joe Pesci, Christian Slater, Victoria Abril, Jason Beghe, Harrison Ford, Robert LaSardo, Barry Levinson, Earl Billings, Helen Brown, Lou Cutell
Want to become a Hollywood star? This story offers a new twist on the drugstore discoveries. Jimmy Alto (Joe Pesci) and his friend (Christian Slater) break into the business big time by capturing crooks and delivering their videotaped crimes to the police. Lots of laughs.
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Liberty Heights 1999 R, 128 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Barry Levinson
Cast: Adrien Brody, Ben Foster, Orlando Jones, Bebe Neuwirth, Joe Mantegna, Rebekah Johnson, David Krumholtz, Richard Kline, Vincent Guastaferro, Justin Chambers
Set in a Jewish neighborhood in Baltimore during 1954–at a time when integration had just been legally enforced–this is the story of the Kurtzmans: Van (Adrien Brody), Ben (Ben Foster), Ada (Bebe Neuwirth), and Nate (Joe Mantegna). The characters are believable, funny, and sad as they uniquely deal with the changing world around them.
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 Man of the Year 2006  PG-13, 115 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Barry Levinson
Cast: Robin Williams, Christopher Walken, Laura Linney, Lewis Black, Jeff Goldblum, David Alpay, Faith Daniels, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Doug Murray, Chris Matthews, James Carville, Rick Roberts, Linda Kash
In this satirical comedy, Robin Williams plays comedian Tom Dobbs who hosts a late-night talk show. One night, Dobbs jokes about how he would make a better President than the man now serving. His fans listen to him, stage a grass-roots campaign, and Dobbs wins the election for President of the United States. But, problems arise when electronic voting system technician Eleanor Green (Laura Linney) tries to expose the glitch in her company's machine that falsely totaled the election results.
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 The Natural 1984 PG, 134 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Barry Levinson
Cast: Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, Kim Basinger, Wilford Brimley, Barbara Hershey, Robert Prosky, Richard Farnsworth, Joe Don Baker, Darren McGavin, John Finnegan, Alan Judge, Paul Sullivan Jr., Robert Rich III, Michael Madsen
Nineteen-year-old farm boy Roy Hobbs (Paul Sullivan Jr.) arrives on the baseball scene with his homemade bat "Wonderboy." He is ready to try out for the Chicago Cubs when his dreams hit a snag. A mysterious woman, Harriet Bird (Barbara Hershey), shoots him with a silver bullet forcing Roy to drop out of baseball. Now, 15 years later, Roy (Robert Redford) is back in baseball as a 35-year-old rookie with the New York Knights where he becomes the star player attracting fans AND women, including sultry siren Memo Paris (Kim Basinger) and his high-school girlfriend Iris Gaines (Glenn Close). It is an old-fashioned story of good triumphing over evil. The climax of Roy's home-run hit is a classic. The film received four Oscar nominations, including Glenn Close for Best Supporting Actress.
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Quiz Show 1994  PG-13, 133 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Redford
Cast: John Turturro, Rob Morrow, Ralph Fiennes, Paul Scofield, David Paymer, Hank Azaria, Christopher McDonald, Paul(2) Guilfoyle, Mira Sorvino, Johann Carlo, Elizabeth Wilson, Allan Rich, Martin Scorsese, Barry Levinson
Now this is a movie! Robert Redford directed this film based on the television quiz show scandals of the 1950s. This movie really captures the more naive era when people still believed what they saw on their television sets. Academy Award nominations were received for Best Picture, Supporting Actor (Paul Scofield), Director, and Writing.
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 Rain Man 1988 R, 134 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Barry Levinson
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino, Gerald R. Molen, Lucinda Jenney, Bonnie Hunt, Beth Grant, Michael D. Roberts, Jack Murdock, Ralph Seymour, Kim Robillard, Ray Baker, Barry Levinson, Loretta Wendt Jolivette, Elizabeth Lower
This film won the Academy Award for Best Picture in its depiction of autistic savant Raymond Babbitt (Dustin Hoffman) whose brother Charlie (Tom Cruise) wants part of a huge inheritance from which he has been omitted. To this end, Charlie takes his brother on a trip while he threatens the guardian with a court fight for half of the inheritance. Barry Levinson also won an Oscar for Best Director, as did Hoffman for Best Actor.
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Sleepers 1996  R, 149 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Barry Levinson
Cast: Kevin Bacon, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Patric, Brad Pitt, Minnie Driver, Vittorio Gassman, Billy Crudup, Ron Eldard, Terry Kinney, Jonathan Tucker, Geoffrey Wigdor, Brad Renfro, Joseph Perrino
Four boys–Tommy (Jonathan Tucker), John (Geoffrey Wigdor), Michael (Brad Renfro), and Shakes (Joseph Perrino)–from New York's Hell's Kitchen spend time in reform school where they are sexually assaulted by prison guard Nokes (Kevin Bacon). The boys grow up, and Tommy (now played by Billy Crudup) and John (now played by Ron Eldard) kill Nokes in an act of revenge. The other two, newspaperman Shakes (now played by Jason Patric) and Assistant District Attorney Michael (now played by Brad Pitt), come to their aid along with Father Bobby (Robert De Niro). 1 User Review
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| | Truly a 'Sleeper' | rnjen63 09/14/2009 | | Cannot say enough about this film. Well acted, and truly could not have been cast better. Right and wrong; the age old battle,comes to age in this wonderfully plotted movie. Must see if you like layered stories. Resonated with struggles of a sense of justice achieved. Watch this!!! |
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Sphere 1998 PG-13, 133 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Barry Levinson
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, Samuel L. Jackson, Peter Coyote, Liev Schreiber, Queen Latifah, Marga Gomez, Huey Lewis, Barnard Hocke, James Pickens Jr.
A 400-year-old spaceship is discovered on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, but when a team of scientists investigates, it finds a computer keyboard reading "Made in USA 2048." What is going on?
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Tin Men 1987 R, 112 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Barry Levinson
Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Danny DeVito, Barbara Hershey, John Mahoney, Seymour Cassel, Bruno Kirby, J.T. Walsh, Richard Portnow, Matt Craven, Jackie Gayle
Two aluminum siding salesmen (Richard Dreyfuss and Danny DeVito) go to any extreme in an effort to best each other.
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 Toys 1992 PG-13, 122 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Barry Levinson
Cast: Robin Williams, Michael Gambon, Joan Cusack, Robin Wright Penn, LL Cool J, Donald O'Connor, Arthur Malet, Jack Warden, Debi Mazar, Jamie Foxx
When his father dies, Leslie Zevo (Robin Williams) fights his uncle (Michael Gambon) who wants to turn the family toy company into a munitions factory. This film has the right elements in Robin Williams and Barry Levinson, but it just does not make the grade.
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Wag the Dog 1997 R, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Barry Levinson
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Anne Heche, Woody Harrelson, Denis Leary, Willie Nelson, William H. Macy, James Belushi, Craig T. Nelson, Kirsten Dunst, Michael Belson, Andrea Martin, John Michael Higgins, Suzie Plakson, David Koechner
The American public's gullibility is exploited when the President's (Michael Belson) spin-doctors (Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro) prescribe a make-believe war with Albania as a ruse to divert attention from the President's sexual exploits. Hoffman received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor.
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What Just Happened? 2008 R, 113 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Barry Levinson
Cast: Robert De Niro, Catherine Keener, Sean Penn, Stanley Tucci, Kristen Stewart, Michael Wincott, Bruce Willis, John Turturro, Robin Wright Penn, Lindy Booth, Marin Hinkle, William Ragsdale, Peter Jacobson, Mark Ivanir, Lily Rabe
Film producer Ben (Robert De Niro) contends with stresses involved in trying to put together a major movie, "Fiercely," starring Sean Penn (Himself). In the process, Ben must deal with drug-addicted director Jeremy (Michael Wincott) and no-nonsense studio boss Lou (Catherine Keener) and then persuade superstar Bruce Willis (Himself) to shave his beard. At the same time, Ben's ex-wife Kelly (Robin Wright Penn) is sleeping with his friend Scott (Stanley Tucci), and those are just a few of the problems Ben must deal with in this satire on the Hollywood film industry.
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Young Sherlock Holmes 1985 PG-13, 109 min.
Genre: Adventure / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Director: Barry Levinson
Cast: Nicholas Rowe, Alan Cox, Sophie Ward, Anthony Higgins, Freddie Jones, Nigel Stock, Michael Hordern, Susan Fleetwood, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Earl Rhodes, Brian Oulton, Patrick Newell, Donald Eccles, Walter Sparrow, Vivienne Chandler
This film uses the premise that Sherlock Holmes (Nicholas Rowe) and Dr. John Watson (Alan Cox) met for the first time when they were young college students. Then the film explores what might have happened when those two characters first got together, updated with 1980s special effects and action, though different from the "old" Sherlock.
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1. Avalon (1990)
2. Bandits (2001)
3. Bee Movie (2007)
4. Bugsy (1991)
5. Diner (1982)
6. Disclosure (1994)
7. Envy (2004)
8. An Everlasting Piece (2000)
9. Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
10. High Anxiety (1977)
11. Jimmy Hollywood (1994)
12. Liberty Heights (1999)
13. Man of the Year (2006)
14. The Natural (1984)
15. Quiz Show (1994)
16. Rain Man (1988)
17. Sleepers (1996)
18. Sphere (1998)
19. Tin Men (1987)
20. Toys (1992)
21. Wag the Dog (1997)
22. What Just Happened? (2008)
23. Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)
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