 As Good as It Gets 1997   PG-13, 138 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: James L. Brooks
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear, Cuba Gooding Jr., Skeet Ulrich, Shirley Knight, Yeardley Smith, Lupe Ontiveros, Harold Ramis, Lupe Ontiveros, Bibi Osterwald, Ross Bleckner, Bernadette Balagtas, Jaffe Cohen, Missi Pyle
Melvin Udall (Jack Nicholson) suffers from an obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, which is severely tested when his gay neighbor Simon (Greg Kinnear) leaves his dog in Melvin's care. Melvin is a writer, but he treats humanity with contempt–except for single-mom waitress Carol (Helen Hunt) whose son suffers from asthma attacks. First, Melvin takes care of the dog and then helps with Carol's son. Will Carol be next? Both Nicholson and Hunt received Oscars. Five other nominations were received, including Best Picture and Supporting Actor (Greg Kinnear).
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Bank Shot 1974 PG, 83 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Gower Champion
Cast: George C. Scott, Joanna Cassidy, Sorrell Booke, Clifton James, Bob Balaban, Frank McRae, Harvey Adams, G. Wood, Don Calfa, Jack Riley, Bibi Osterwald, Harvey Evans, Hank Stohl, Pat Zurica, Harvey J. Goldenberg
Irving (Harvey Adams) plots a bank robbery with a twist–he plans to rob the entire mobile home in which the bank funds are temporarily housed. This is one nutty comedy.
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The Great Bank Hoax 1978  PG, 89 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: The Great Georgia Bank Hoax
Shenanigans
Director: Joseph Jacoby
Cast: Burgess Meredith, Richard Basehart, Ned Beatty, Charlene Dallas, Paul Sand, Michael Murphy, Arthur Godfrey, Connie Forslund, Sara Newman, John C. Becher, Guy Le Bow, Roy Tatum, John Lefkowitz, Alek Primrose, Bibi Osterwald
The bank examiner is scheduled to arrive at the Pewter Bank when the bank comptroller Julius Taggart (Ned Beatty) informs bank officers Jack Stutz and Manny Benchley (Burgess Meredith and Richard Basehart) that someone has embezzled $100,000. The embezzler turns out to be the chief clerk Richard Smedley (Paul Sand), and he claims that he did it to point out a flaw in the bank's bookkeeping. When the bank officials come up with a scheme to rob the bank in order to cover up the embezzlement, more than a few complications ensue involving not only the bank officers but pillars of the community as well.
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Parrish 1961  N/R, 138 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Delmer Daves
Cast: Troy Donahue, Claudette Colbert, Karl Malden, Dean Jagger, Connie Stevens, Diane McBain, Sharon Hugueny, Dub Taylor, Hampton Fancher, Sylvia Miles, David Knapp, Saundra Edwards, Bibi Osterwald, Hayden Rorke, Madeleine Sherwood
In this soap opera of a story set in the Connecticut River Valley, Parrish McLean (Troy Donahue) lives with his mother, Ellen (Claudette Colbert), and enjoys the reputation of "Ladies' Man." But, when Ellen marries tobacco czar Judd Raike (Karl Malden), Judd determines to turn Parrish into a businessman and teach him the tobacco business from the ground up.
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| 1. As Good as It Gets (1997)
2. Bank Shot (1974)
3. The Great Bank Hoax (1978)
aka: The Great Georgia Bank Hoax
aka: Shenanigans
4. Parrish (1961)
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