Ararat 2002  R, 116 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Atom Egoyan
Cast: David Alpay, Arsinee Khanjian, Christopher Plummer, Charles Aznavour, Marie-Josee Croze, Eric Bogosian, Brent Carver, Bruce Greenwood, Elias Koteas, Simon Abkarian
This movie within a movie–about filming the story of the Armenian holocaust, 1915-1918–features David Alpay as young Raffi. While carrying back sealed cans of movie film for the production company, a suspicious customs official (Christopher Plummer) begins questioning Raffi who reveals aspects of his own life as well as that of the Armenian people–including his own father who was an Armenian freedom fighter.
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Deeply 2000  N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Sheri Elwood
Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Lynn Redgrave, Julia Brendler, Trent Ford, Brent Carver, Alberta Watson, Peter Donaldson, Tara Rosling, Anthony Higgins, Jessica Turner
Young Claire (Julia Brendler) travels to a remote island to recover from the untimely death of her lover and is taken under the wing of Celia (Lynn Redgrave), an eccentric writer. Celia shares her manuscript with Claire, which tells the story of another young woman, Silly (Kirsten Dunst), who lived there 50 years earlier and dealt with the curse that has haunted the island for hundreds of years. Average fare, with a fine performance by Redgrave.
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The Event 2003  R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Thom Fitzgerald
Cast: Parker Posey, Don McKellar, Olympia Dukakis, Sarah Polley, Jane Leeves, Brent Carver, Joanna Adler, Rejean Cournoyer, Christina Zorich, Dick Latessa, Cynthia Preston, Gianna Marciante
AIDS patient Matt (Don McKellar) is found dead in his Chelsea apartment, and assistant D.A. Nicole "Nick" De Vivo (Parker Posey) is called on to investigate what looks like a suicide. Could it be that Matt participated in an Event: a farewell party that culminates in assisted suicide?
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Millennium 1989  PG-13, 110 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Michael Anderson
Cast: Kris Kristofferson, Cheryl Ladd, Daniel J. Travanti, Robert Joy, Brent Carver, Maury Chaykin, Al Waxman, Lloyd Bochner, David McIlwraith, Lawrence Dane
A woman from another age (Cheryl Ladd) is trying to help her world by transporting people from this era to hers. She does this by taking passengers off of doomed airplanes. Kris Kristofferson plays an airline employee who investigates air crashes.
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Spies, Lies & Naked Thighs 1988  TV, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy / Mystery
Director: James Frawley
Cast: Harry Anderson, Ed Begley Jr., Linda Purl, Wendy Crewson, Rachel Ticotin, Brent Carver, Maria Mayenzet, Anthony Sherwood, Raymond Singer, Hrant Alianak, Christopher Britton, Henry Chao, Louis Di Bianco, Paul Coeur, Sam Malkin
Harry Anderson is at his crazy best in this comedy/mystery film. He plays CIA Agent Freddie Fallon who, as a houseguest of Alan and Beverly Rossmore (Ed Begley Jr. and Linda Purl), imposes on his hosts to help solve a mystery. They live at the International Arms apartment building in New York, and Fallon has tracked down a hit man to their building. The hit man, who uses household appliances to kill, is plotting to assassinate the President–and the killer might be next door! (The killer did WHAT with the cookie cutter?)
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| 1. Ararat (2002)
2. Deeply (2000)
3. The Event (2003)
4. Lilies (1996)
5. Millennium (1989)
6. Spies, Lies & Naked Thighs (1988)
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