Bad News Bears 1976  PG, 102 min.
Genre: Comedy / Family / Drama
Director: Michael Ritchie
Cast: Walter Matthau, Tatum O'Neal, Vic Morrow, Joyce Van Patten, Ben Piazza, Jackie Earle Haley, Alfred Lutter III, Brandon Cruz, Shari Summers, Joe(2) Brooks, Chris Barnes, Erin Blunt, Gary Lee Cavagnaro, Jaime Escobedo, Scott Firestone
Little League baseball coach Morris Buttermaker (Walter Matthau) is determined to train a bunch of unruly kids into a winning unit. This movie is very funny as the ludicrous, beer-guzzling Buttermaker employs a special tactic–Amanda (Tatum O'Neal)–as the catalyst to make winners out of his foul-mouthed players. Followed by two sequels and remade in 2005.
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 Clean and Sober 1988  R, 124 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Glenn Gordon Caron
Cast: Michael Keaton, Kathy Baker, Morgan Freeman, M. Emmet Walsh, Brian Benben, Luca Bercovici, Tate Donovan, Dakin Matthews, Claudia Christian, Ben Piazza
A real estate agent, Daryl (Michael Keaton), keeps his "edge" by use of drugs and alcohol. He takes money from his company and then, upon awakening one morning, finds his date of the night before has ODed on drugs. He checks into a rehab center–not because of his need, but to hide from the police. His life is changed by the new circumstances.
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Guilty by Suspicion 1991 PG-13, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Irwin Winkler
Cast: Robert De Niro, Annette Bening, George Wendt, Patricia Wettig, Sam Wanamaker, Martin Scorsese, Brad Sullivan, Gailard Sartain, Stuart Margolin, Chris Cooper, Luke Edwards, Ben Piazza, Tom Sizemore, Roxann Dawson, Robin Gammell
America's 1950s witch-hunt for Communists is the focus of this movie about the House Un-American Activities Committee's investigation of creative forces in Hollywood's film industry.
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The Hanging Tree 1959 N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Delmer Daves
Cast: Gary Cooper, Maria Schell, Karl Malden, Ben Piazza, George C. Scott, Karl Swenson, Virginia Gregg, John Dierkes, King Donovan, Bud Osborne
Doc Joe Frail (Gary Cooper) treats Elizabeth (Maria Schell), a young woman blinded by the sun. Later, when a prospector (Karl Malden) tries to rape Elizabeth, Doc Frail kills him and is doomed to be hanged–until Elizabeth saves him from his fate.
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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden 1977 R, 96 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Anthony Page
Cast: Bibi Andersson, Kathleen Quinlan, Ben Piazza, Susan Tyrrell, Signe Hasso, Sylvia Sidney, Dennis Quaid, Diane Varsi, Lorraine Gary, Reni Santoni
Set in a mental hospital, this is the story of a young woman's (Kathleen Quinlan) fight to regain her sanity through the compassionate aid of her psychiatrist (Bibi Andersson).
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Judgment: The Court Martial of Lt. William Calley 1975 TV, 101 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Stanley Kramer
Cast: Tony Musante, Bo Hopkins, G.D. Spradlin, Linda Haynes, William Lucking, Harrison Ford, Richard Basehart, Ben Piazza, Leon Russom, Olive Clark
This made-for-TV drama follows the court martial of U.S. Army Lt. William Calley (Tony Musante) who was held responsible for the My Lai massacre that took the lives of many innocent civilians during the Vietnam War.
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 Mask 1985  PG-13, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Cast: Eric Stoltz, Cher, Sam Elliott, Estelle Getty, Richard Dysart, Laura Dern, Micole Mercurio, Harry Carey Jr., Dennis Burkley, Ben Piazza, Wayne Grace, Lawrence Monoson, L. Craig King, Alexandra Powers, Kelly Jo Minter
Based on a true story, this heartwarming tale relates the ordeals of teenager Rocky Dennis (Eric Stoltz) who has the disfiguring disease, craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, that has doubled his head size. Rocky keeps a good attitude, and his mother Rusty (Cher) fights for Rocky's rights, but she turns to drugs to ease the pressures she endures when dealing with Rocky's problems. Undaunted, Rocky gets his own life in order and then works to keep Rusty away from her drugs.
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Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon 1970 PG, 112 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Otto Preminger
Cast: Liza Minnelli, Ken Howard, Robert Moore, James Coco, Kay Thompson, Fred Williamson, Anne Revere, Ben Piazza, Leonard Frey, Julie Bovasso
Three handicapped people–Junie Moon (Liza Minnelli), Arthur (Ken Howard), and Warren (Robert Moore)–band together and support each other in an attempt to live normal lives.
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| 1. Bad News Bears (1976)
2. Clean and Sober (1988)
3. Consenting Adults (1985)
4. Guilty by Suspicion (1991)
5. The Hanging Tree (1959)
6. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977)
7. Judgment: The Court Martial of Lt. William Calley (1975)
8. Mask (1985)
9. Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon (1970)
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