The End of Innocence 1990  R, 102 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Dyan Cannon
Cast: Dyan Cannon, John Heard, George Coe, Lola Mason, Stephen Meadows, Rebecca Schaeffer, Billie Bird, Dennis Burkley, Viveka Davis, Eric Harrison, Stoney Jackson, Paul Lieber
Dyan Cannon directed and stars in this story about Stephanie (young Stephanie is Rebecca Schaeffer) who is torn apart by conflicting forces in her home and, finally, as an adult (Stephanie is Dyan Cannon) arrives at a drug treatment center where a psychiatrist (John Heard) tries to help her deal with the pain.
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Ernest Saves Christmas 1988  PG, 91 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: John R. Cherry III
Cast: Jim Varney, Douglas Seale, Oliver Clark, Noelle Parker, Robert Lesser, Gailard Sartain, Billie Bird, Bill Byrge, Buddy Douglas, Patty Maloney, Tom Nowicki, Daniel Butler
Ernest learns that Santa Claus is in trouble and sets out to find a way to save Christmas.
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Getting Straight 1970  R, 124 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy
Director: Richard Rush
Cast: Elliott Gould, Candice Bergen, Jeff Corey, Max Julien, Cecil Kellaway, Robert F. Lyons, Jeannie Berlin, John Rubinstein, Harrison Ford, Billie Bird, Jon Lormer, Leonard Stone, William Bramley, Richard Anders, Gregory Sierra
The campus riots of the 1960s are the focus for this film featuring Elliott Gould as graduate student Harry Bailey whose girlfriend Jan (Candice Bergen) wants to marry and move out of town. Jan adds to Harry's problems as he has arrived on a campus in the midst of turmoil. Following a violent student riot, Harry acts as the mediator between the students and the faculty.
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The Las Vegas Hillbillys 1966 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Country Music
Director: Arthur C. Pierce
Cast: Ferlin Husky, Jayne Mansfield, Mamie Van Doren, Richard Kiel, Sonny James, Del Reeves, Bill Anderson, Louis Quinn, Don Bowman, Billie Bird
Woody (Ferlin Husky) inherits a casino in Las Vegas, so it's time to leave the Tennessee farm and head west. It turns out that all he gets is a run-down barn, but with a little help from new-found friends, maybe he can make a go of it. Even the music is poor. Believe it or not, there is a sequel: "Hillbillys in a Haunted House."
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Max Dugan Returns 1983 PG, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Herbert Ross
Cast: Marsha Mason, Jason Robards, Donald Sutherland, Matthew Broderick, Dody Goodman, Kiefer Sutherland, David Morse, Mari Gorman, Sal Viscuso, Billie Bird
This Neil Simon comedy does have its good moments, but it is not one of Simon's best. The plot revolves around a financially struggling and widowed schoolteacher Nora McPhee (Marsha Mason) whose ex-cop father, Max Dugan (Jason Robards), arrives at her home with a suitcase full of money with which he begins buying gifts.
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 The Odd Couple 1968  G, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Gene Saks
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Monica Evans, Carole Shelley, John Fiedler, Herb Edelman, David Sheiner, Larry Haines, Iris Adrian, Patricia D. Bohannon, Billie Bird, Ted Beniades, John C. Becher, Al Barlick, Matty Alou
This is one of Neil Simon's best and most popular comedies. Felix Ungar's (Jack Lemmon) wife has thrown him out, and, after contemplating suicide, Felix decides to move into his best friend Oscar Madison's (Walter Matthau) apartment. Oscar's wife is also divorcing him, and the temporary move makes sense. But, Felix is a compulsive organizer, and Oscar is an excessive slob. Will their opposite personalities make or break the possibility of their living in the same apartment?
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Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol 1987  PG, 88 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jim Drake
Cast: Steve Guttenberg, Bob Goldthwait, Bubba Smith, Michael Winslow, David Graf, Sharon Stone, Marion Ramsey, George Gaynes, Tim Kazurinsky, David Spade, Leslie Easterbrook, Lance Kinsey, G.W. Bailey, Derek McGrath, Billie Bird
In this sequel, Police Academy Commandant Lassard (George Gaynes) is determined to recruit civilian volunteers to work with his overworked police force. Carey Mahoney (Steve Guttenberg) is assigned the job of training the new volunteers, but problems lie ahead when Captain Harris (G.W. Bailey) schemes to get Lassard's job and is determined to see the "Citizens on Patrol" program fail.
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 Sixteen Candles 1984  PG, 93 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: John Hughes
Cast: Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Paul Dooley, Michael Schoeffling, John Cusack, Gedde Watanabe, Jami Gertz, Blanche Baker, Edward Andrews, Max Showalter, Justin Henry, Haviland Morris, Carlin Glynn, Billie Bird, Carole Cook
Molly Ringwald steals the show as the teenager, Samantha, whose busy family forgets her all-important 16th birthday because it is the evening before her sister's wedding. To make matters worse, her visiting grandparents have taken over Samantha's bedroom. At school, geek (Anthony Michael Hall) will not leave Samantha alone, and Samantha has her eye on hunk Jake (Michael Schoeffling), but she has to take foreign exchange student Long Duc Dong (Gedde Watanabe) to the school dance. However, all is not lost in Samantha's trip into womanhood because Jake begins to pay attention to her.
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Too Soon to Love 1960  N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Rush
Cast: Jennifer West, Richard Evans, Warren Parker, Ralph Manza, Jack Nicholson, Jacqueline Schwab, Billie Bird, William Keene, Paul Birch, Gary Campbell
A young couple experience pregnancy and resort to abortion in order to escape paternal wrath.
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| 1. The End of Innocence (1990)
2. Ernest Saves Christmas (1988)
3. Getting Straight (1970)
4. The Las Vegas Hillbillys (1966)
aka: Country Music
5. Max Dugan Returns (1983)
6. The Odd Couple (1968)
7. Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol (1987)
8. Sixteen Candles (1984)
9. Too Soon to Love (1960)
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