 Air Bud 1997  PG, 98 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy / Drama
Director: Charles Martin Smith
Cast: Michael Jeter, Kevin Zegers, Wendy Makkena, Bill Cobbs, Eric Christmas, Brendan Fletcher, Norman Browning, Jay Brazeau, Shayn Solberg, Nicola Cavendish, Stephen E. Miller, Frank C. Turner
Josh (Kevin Zegers) is suffering emotionally after his father's death and has now been placed in a new school. One day, he finds an abandoned Golden Retriever, Buddy. It turns out that Buddy can shoot hoops, and since Josh wants to try out for the school basketball team, Buddy can help him practice. Josh makes the team, and he and Buddy perform at half-time. Buddy is a hit with the media, which is good IF the notoriety does not cause his previous owner Norm Snively (Michael Jeter) to reclaim him and cash in on his celebrity status.
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Always Outnumbered 1998 R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Apted
Cast: Laurence Fishburne, Bill Cobbs, Natalie Cole, Bill Duke, Laurie Metcalf, Cicely Tyson, Daniel Williams, Alan Wilder, Bill Nunn, Isaiah Washington, Bridgid Coulter, Kevin Carroll, John Toles-Bey, Jamaal Carter
Laurence Fishburne stars as violent ex-con Socrates Fortlow returning to his Watts neighborhood looking for work. Despite his bitterness, he befriends and counsels young Darryl (Daniel Williams) and gets involved in the marriage of his friend, Right Burke (Bill Cobbs). Made for HBO.
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Bird 1988  R, 161 min.
Genre: Drama / Musical
Director: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Forest Whitaker, Diane Venora, Michael Zelniker, Samuel E. Wright, Keith David, Michael McGuire, James Handy, Sam Robards, Bill Cobbs, Arlen Dean Snyder, Damon Whitaker, Morgan Nagler, Penelope Windust, Glenn Wright, George Orrison
Clint Eastwood directed this classy, but bittersweet, musical about jazz saxophone superman Charlie "Bird" Parker's (Forest Whitaker) troubled personal and professional life, which ended in his untimely death from the chronic effects of drug abuse. The film won an Oscar for Best Sound Recording.
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 The Bodyguard 1992   R, 130 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller / Romance / Musical
Director: Mick Jackson
Cast: Kevin Costner, Whitney Houston, Gary Kemp, Bill Cobbs, Ralph Waite, Robert Wuhl, Debbie Reynolds, Tomas Arana, Mike Starr, Richard Schiff, Michele Lamar Richards, Christopher Birt, DeVaughn Nixon, Gerry Bamman, Charles Keating
Popular singing star Rachel Marron (Whitney Houston) has been threatened by an obsessed fan. Enter Frank Farmer (Kevin Costner) who has been hired to protect her. Complications arise when Frank begins to fall for Rachel and fears that her life is truly in danger. 1 User Review
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| | gg 10/18/2009 | | excellent i would have kept kevin in real life over bobby brown!!!!!!! |
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The Brother from Another Planet 1984 N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: John Sayles
Cast: Joe Morton, Daryl Edwards, Steve(2) James, Leonard Jackson, Bill Cobbs, Maggie Renzi, Tom Wright, Ren Woods, Reggie Rock Bythewood, David Strathairn
Joe Morton plays a mute, alien slave who escapes his planet and crashes on Earth–in Harlem. Most who meet him are impressed: he fixes things AND he lets others do all the talking!
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Carolina Skeletons 1991 R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Erman
Cast: Louis Gossett Jr., Bruce Dern, Melissa Leo, Paul Roebling, Bill Cobbs, Henderson Forsythe, Clifton James, Richard Jenkins, G.D. Spradlin, Rosanna Carter, Trazana Beverley, Marc Macaulay
After a career in the Army, James Bragg (Louis Gossett Jr.) returns home in the early 1960s. He is haunted by the thought of his brother's execution 30 years previously for the rape and murder of two girls. Thus, he begins a search for the real killers, and he soon recognizes that there are those who do not want their secrets uncovered. Made for cable TV.
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 The Color of Money 1986 R, 119 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Paul Newman, Tom Cruise, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Helen Shaver, John Turturro, Bill Cobbs, Keith McCready, Bruce A. Young, Ron Dean, Randall Arney, Lisa Dodson, Forest Whitaker, Vito D'Ambrosio, Robert Agins, Alvin Anastasia
This film is a sequel to "The Hustler." The aging pool champion Fast Eddie Felson (Paul Newman) has a protege, Vincent Lauria (Tom Cruise), to join him in profits available through pool games. But, Vincent's manipulative girlfriend Carmen (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) wants in on the action, and a power struggle ensues leading to a match between Fast Eddie and Vincent in Atlantic City. The dirty, snow-covered city and smoky pool halls reflect the lives of the characters. Paul Newman won an Academy Award for Best Actor.
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 Demolition Man 1993 R, 114 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi / Action / Comedy
Director: Marco Brambilla
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Sandra Bullock, Wesley Snipes, Nigel Hawthorne, Benjamin Bratt, Bob Gunton, Glenn Shadix, Denis Leary, Andre Gregory, Bill Cobbs, Grand L. Bush, Pat Skipper, Steve Kahan
In the year 2031, two men who had been cryogenically frozen are thawed out, and their chase continues when policeman John Spartan (Sylvester Stallone) is thawed to continue his efforts of decades ago when he tried to capture psychopath Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes). Now, Phoenix has escaped his frozen state, and it is necessary to free Spartan to ensure capture. A funny romp.
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The Derby Stallion 2005  N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Family / Drama / Adventure
Director: Craig Clyde
Cast: Bill Cobbs, Zac Efron, William R. Moses, Tonja Walker, Michael Nardelli, Crystal Hunt, Colton James, Rob Pinkston, Billy Preston, Isabella Davidson, Abrianna Davidson, Preston Brant
Fifteen-year-old Patrick McCardle (Zac Efron) is the son of former professional football player Jim (William R. Moses) who is pressuring Patrick to be active in football. But Patrick has met and befriended elderly blues musician Houston Jones (Bill Cobbs) who was once a jockey and horse trainer and now dreams of entering a horse in the State Cup Steeplechase Race. Patrick becomes Houston's right-hand man and convinces his parents to let him compete as a jockey in the Steeplechase and reach for his own dream.
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Dominick and Eugene 1988 PG-13, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert M. Young
Cast: Ray Liotta, Tom Hulce, Jamie Lee Curtis, Robert Levine, Todd Graff, Bill Cobbs, David Strathairn, Tom Signorelli
This film explores family relationships in which one son, Eugene (Ray Liotta), is a bright medical student, while twin Dominick (Tom Hulce) is mentally retarded and works as a trash collector.
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Ed 1996  PG, 94 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy / Drama
Director: Bill Couturie
Cast: Matt LeBlanc, Bill Cobbs, Jayne Brook, Patrick Kerr, Charlie Schlatter, James Caviezel, Gene Ross, Sage Allen, Stan Ivar, Paul Hewitt, Jim O'Heir, Rick Johnson, Valente Rodriguez, Jack Worden, Troy Evans
Ed is a chimpanzee that teaches farm-boy Jack Cooper (Matt LeBlanc) a thing or two about the game of baseball. Jack gets nervous when pitching for his class A minor league team, the Santa Rosa Rockets, and Ed, who is the team mascot, is moved up to the position of third baseman in an effort to inspire Jack and his teammates.
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 Enough 2002 PG-13, 114 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Apted
Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Bill Campbell, Juliette Lewis, Dan Futterman, Fred Ward, Tessa Allen, Noah Wyle, Christopher Maher, Ruben Madera, Bill Cobbs
Battered wife Slim (Jennifer Lopez) and her daughter try in vain to escape the clutches of Mitch (Bill Campbell) until Slim decides the only way to get rid of her husband is to kill him.
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Fluke 1995 PG, 96 min.
Genre: Family / Drama / Fantasy
Director: Carlo Carlei
Cast: Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz, Nancy Travis, Max Pomeranc, Ron Perlman, Jon Polito, Bill Cobbs, Samuel L. Jackson, Collin Wilcox Paxton, Federico Pacifici, Clarinda Ross, Adrian Roberts, Deborah Hobart, Bart Hansard, Libby Whittemore
In this "talking dog" film, a Chocolate Labrador (voice of Matthew Modine) discovers that he was once a man, Thomas P. Johnson (also played by Modine) who was killed in an accident, and now he is back on Earth as a dog named Fluke. He returns to his wife and son–Carol and Brian (Nancy Travis and Max Pomeranc)–in time to save them from an evil acquaintance, Jeff Newman (Eric Stoltz).
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A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich 1978 PG, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ralph Nelson
Cast: Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Larry B. Scott, Helen Martin, Glynn Turman, David Groh, Kevin Hooks, Harold Sylvester, Bill Cobbs, Kenneth Green, Erin Blunt, Claire Brenner, Arthur French, Sheila Wills, Arnold Johnson
The focus of this film is Benjie (Larry B. Scott), a 16-year-old boy who becomes addicted to drugs. After Benjie's ghetto parents, Butler and Sweets (Paul Winfield and Cicely Tyson), and his grandmother (Helen Martin) become alienated from him, Benjie relies on a social worker (Claire Brenner) for help in dealing with his addiction.
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Hope Floats 1998 PG-13, 113 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Forest Whitaker
Cast: Sandra Bullock, Harry Connick Jr., Gena Rowlands, Mae Whitman, Michael Pare, Cameron Finley, Kathy Najimy, Bill Cobbs, Connie Ray, Mona Lee Fultz, Alissa Alban, Sydney Berry, Rachel Snow, Christina Stojanovich, Dee Hennigan
Birdee Pruitt (Sandra Bullock) heads home to Smithville, Texas, after a messy divorce. With daughter Bernice (Mae Whitman) in tow, she moves in with her slightly offbeat mother, Ramona (Gena Rowlands). Then one day she runs into an old boyfriend, Justin Matisse (Harry Connick Jr.), who always seems to appear when needed and helps Birdee put her life back together. 1 User Review
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 I Still Know What You Did Last Summer 1998 R, 96 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller / Mystery
Director: Danny Cannon
Cast: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Brandy Norwood, Freddie Prinze Jr., Mekhi Phifer, Muse Watson, Bill Cobbs, Matthew Settle, Jennifer Esposito, Red West, Jeffrey Combs, John Hawkes, Ellerine Harding, Benjamin Brown, Michael P. Byrne, Michael Bryan French
This is the sequel to "I Know What You Did Last Summer." It stars Jennifer Love Hewitt as Julie James, a survivor of the original film, who heads for a Bahamas vacation with her friends, Karla (Brandy), Tyrell (Mekhi Phifer), and Will (Matthew Settle). Once there, they run head on into a stalker–with a hook for a hand that he uses to send his message.
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 The January Man 1989 R, 97 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Pat O'Connor
Cast: Kevin Kline, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Susan Sarandon, Rod Steiger, Harvey Keitel, Danny Aiello, Alan Rickman, Faye Grant, Tandy Cronyn, Kenneth Welsh, Brian Tarantina, Bill Cobbs, Bruce MacVittie, Jayne Haynes, Greg Walker
There is a serial killer on the loose in New York, and Nick Starkey (Kevin Kline) is called back into service by the NYPD to track the killer down. A poor mystery/drama/comedy.
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Man with a Gun 1995 R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: David Wyles
Cast: Michael Madsen, Jennifer Tilly, Gary Busey, Robert Loggia, Ian Tracey, Bill Cobbs, Bill Dow, Jason Schombing, Garvin Cross, Andrew Guy
Loan shark Jack Rushton's (Gary Busey) ex-wife, Rena (Jennifer Tilly), steals an incriminating CD-ROM that could be used as evidence in court. Jack cannot risk the police getting their hands on it and hires assassin John Wilbur Hardin (Michael Madsen) to kill Rena. But, Jack is not aware that John and Rena are lovers. Rena concocts a scheme to kill her identical twin sister, Kathy, instead. Good plan–until John falls in love with Kathy.
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 New Jack City 1991  R, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mario Van Peebles
Cast: Wesley Snipes, Ice-T, Allen Payne, Chris Rock, Mario Van Peebles, Michael Michele, Bill Nunn, Russell Wong, Bill Cobbs, Judd Nelson, Vanessa Williams, Anthony DeSando
The leader of NYC drug gang "Cash Money Brothers," gangster Nino Brown (Wesley Snipes), fights to retain power in his million-dollars-a-week crack cocaine business. 1 User Review
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| | tempt93 06/06/2009 | | This movie is a classic. It is also an accurate depiction of the horror that crack cocaine represents. |
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 Night at the Museum 2006  PG, 110 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy / Adventure / Fantasy
Director: Shawn Levy
Cast: Ben Stiller, Carla Gugino, Dick Van Dyke, Mickey Rooney, Bill Cobbs, Jake Cherry, Ricky Gervais, Robin Williams, Kim Raver, Patrick Gallagher, Rami Malek, Pierfrancesco Favino, Charles Q. Murphy, Steve Coogan, Brad Garrett
The Natural History Museum is firing aging guards Cecil (Dick Van Dyke), Gus (Mickey Rooney), and Reginald (Bill Cobbs) and has hired Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) to tend to its graveyard-shift security. On Larry's first night at the museum, he falls asleep and awakens to a museum filled with animated dinosaurs, dioramas, and wax figures that have come to life. Larry learns that this has been happening since the 1950s after the arrival of an Egyptian Tablet, and he now understands that his job is to make sure the museum is back in order by the time it opens each morning. Larry seeks help and is aided by one of the wax figures, President Teddy Roosevelt (Robin Williams), who steps in and helps Larry maintain order and save the day. 1 User Review
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| | Exciting and enjoyable | Lil Pearl 02/23/2007 | | I was not expecting too much from what I assumed to be a children's movie but I enjoyed it as much as my young nieces. It's funny and clever without being insulting. |
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Paulie 1998 PG, 91 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure / Comedy / Drama
Director: John Roberts
Cast: Gena Rowlands, Tony Shalhoub, Cheech Marin, Bruce Davison, Jay Mohr, Trini Alvarado, Buddy Hackett, Hallie Kate Eisenberg, Matt Craven, Bill Cobbs, Tia Texada, Laura Harrington
Paulie (voice of Jay Mohr) is a parrot that can do more than speak–it can also reason mentally. Paulie helps Marie (Hallie Kate Eisenberg), a young girl who stutters. But when the two are separated, Paulie spends years searching for Marie. Despite adversities, Paulie flies the skies searching for Marie who has moved across country.
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The People Under the Stairs 1991 R, 102 min.
Genre: Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Director: Wes Craven
Cast: Brandon Quintin Adams, Everett McGill, Wendy Robie, A.J. Langer, Ving Rhames, Sean Whalen, Bill Cobbs, Kelly Jo Minter, Jeremy Roberts, Conni Marie Brazelton, Joshua Cox, John Hostetter, John Mahon, George R. Parker, Teresa Velarde
Young Fool (Brandon Quintin Adams) and his family are evicted from their sleazy ghetto apartment by greedy landlords who intend to build profitable apartments on the site. Fool's sister's boyfriend (Ving Rhames) talks the boy into helping him rob the landlords' upscale home, which is rumored to contain valuable coins. But when they get in the house, they are confronted with the horrors of the place: children that have been deformed by the owners are being kept in the basement. Can Fool survive and save the creatures?
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 Random Hearts 1999 R, 131 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery / Romance
Director: Sydney Pollack
Cast: Harrison Ford, Kristin Scott Thomas, Charles S. Dutton, Bonnie Hunt, Dennis Haysbert, Sydney Pollack, Richard Jenkins, Paul(2) Guilfoyle, Susanna Thompson, Peter Coyote, Dylan Baker, Lynne Thigpen, Bill Cobbs, Kate Mara, Susan Floyd
Washington, D.C., Internal Affairs Sergeant Dutch Van Den Broeck (Harrison Ford) learns that his wife has just been killed in a plane crash, and, to make matters worse, she was flying to Miami with her lover. Dutch tracks down the lover's widow, Kay Chandler (Kristin Scott Thomas), who turns out to be running for reelection in New Hampshire. Kay does not want news of the affair to reach the press or her daughter. But Dutch is obsessed with finding out all the details of the adulterous affair.
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Sunshine State 2002 PG-13, 141 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Sayles
Cast: Edie Falco, Angela Bassett, Jane Alexander, Timothy Hutton, Mary Steenburgen, Richard Edson, Miguel Ferrer, Mary Alice, Ralph Waite, James McDaniel, Bill Cobbs
Plantation Island off Florida's coast is the location developers have chosen on which to build expensive condos, hotels, and golf courses. But, first, the developers must talk property owners into selling. The owners consist of two side-by-side, but very different, beach communities: Lincoln Beach's African-American community and the tourist town of Delrona Beach.
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Suspect 1987 R, 118 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Peter Yates
Cast: Cher, Dennis Quaid, Liam Neeson, John Mahoney, Joe Mantegna, Philip Bosco, E. Katherine Kerr, Fred Melamed, Bill Cobbs, Michael Beach, Richard Gant
A deaf and mute street person (Liam Neeson) is accused of murder. A Washington, DC public defender (Cher) is given his case. One of the jurors is played by Dennis Quaid and that is where the real action in this film begins–with Cher and Quaid interacting, as the juror investigates and provides input to the defender.
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 That Thing You Do! 1996 PG, 110 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy / Drama
Director: Tom Hanks
Cast: Tom Hanks, Tom Everett Scott, Johnathon Schaech, Liv Tyler, Steve Zahn, Ethan Embry, Charlize Theron, Obba Babatunde, Giovanni Ribisi, Chris Ellis, Alex Rocco, Bill Cobbs, Rita Wilson, Peter Scolari, Chris Isaak
In 1964, a young rock group, The Wonders (Tom Everett Scott, Johnathon Schaech, Steve Zahn, and Ethan Embry), is signed by agent/manager Mr. White (Tom Hanks) and instant stardom results. This story is about one summer of joy for the group's members and their gradual realization that they are only one facet of the huge industrial complex dominating the music world.
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 Trading Places 1983 R, 106 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: John Landis
Cast: Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, Don Ameche, Ralph Bellamy, Denholm Elliott, Paul Gleason, Jamie Lee Curtis, James Belushi, Al Franken, Frank Oz, Robert Curtis Brown, Giancarlo Esposito, Bill Cobbs, Bo Diddley, Philip Bosco
Just like in "The Prince and the Pauper," this movie goes with the premise of a rich man, Louis Winthorpe III (Dan Aykroyd)–this time, a Philadelphia commodity broker–changing places with a poor man, Billy Ray Valentine (Eddie Murphy), who is a con-artist. The Duke brothers–Randolph and Mortimer (Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche) make a bet on whether or not Louis will resort to crime when he loses his position in life. Throw in lots of good comedy, and you have a film worth watching.
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The Ultimate Gift 2007 PG, 114 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael O. Sajbel
Cast: Drew Fuller, Bill Cobbs, Abigail Breslin, James Garner, Ali Hillis, Mircea Monroe, Brett Rice, Lee Meriwether, Brian Dennehy, Donna Cherry, D. David Morin, Mark Joy, Tim Parati
The late billionaire Red Sevens (James Garner) leaves his grandson Jason (Drew Fuller) an inheritance. But, instead of cash, Jason receives a list of 12 tasks described by Red as "Gifts." Through completion of these tasks, Jason's life will be changed forever in this story that shows how money is far different from happiness. 1 User Review
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| | Awesome Movie | susan 02/27/2009 | | A true picture of Money Brats that finally have to face the fact that they have no REAL friends. They have a false sence of who and what they are, until faced with reality. It is a real picture of how a family can be torn apart when the will isn't what they thought and they don't get want THEY want. Faced with the task of finding a TRUE friend the young money brat discovers he has a deep compasion for a single mother struggling to deal with her daughters cancer. A new friendship developes into a sincere reality of giving back. It is a very moving film and diffently begins to engage a sence of wanting to help our community. |
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| 1. Air Bud (1997)
2. Always Outnumbered (1998)
3. Bird (1988)
4. The Bodyguard (1992)
5. The Brother from Another Planet (1984)
6. Carolina Skeletons (1991)
7. The Color of Money (1986)
8. Demolition Man (1993)
9. The Derby Stallion (2005)
10. Dominick and Eugene (1988)
11. Ed (1996)
12. Enough (2002)
13. Fluke (1995)
14. A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich (1978)
15. Hope Floats (1998)
16. I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998)
17. The January Man (1989)
18. Man with a Gun (1995)
19. New Jack City (1991)
20. Night at the Museum (2006)
21. Paulie (1998)
22. The People Under the Stairs (1991)
23. Random Hearts (1999)
24. Sunshine State (2002)
25. Suspect (1987)
26. That Thing You Do! (1996)
27. Trading Places (1983)
28. The Ultimate Gift (2007)
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