 8 Seconds 1994  PG-13, 104 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Eight Seconds to Glory
Director: John G. Avildsen
Cast: Luke Perry, Stephen Baldwin, Red Mitchell, Cynthia Geary, James Rebhorn, Carrie Snodgress, Ronnie Claire Edwards, Linden Ashby, Cameron Finley, Dustin Mayfield
Lane Frost was a champion bull rider who won a rodeo world championship in 1987 at the tender age of 21. This is Frost's (Luke Perry) story, which includes his marriage to Kellie (Cynthia Geary) and his determination to make ends meet without using the money from his wife's family. He died in a rodeo accident in 1989. Not much here except for Luke Perry fans.
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Across the Tracks 1991  R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Sandy Tung
Cast: Rick Schroder, Brad Pitt, Carrie Snodgress, David Anthony Marshall, Thomas Mikal Ford, John Linton, Cyril O'Reilly, Jack McGee, Annie Dylan, Bebe Drake, Kent Lipham, Jaime Gomez
Fresh out of reform school, Billy Maloney (Rick Schroder) starts life anew at a different high school. But he is still influenced by his drug dealing friends from the past–until his brother, Joe (Brad Pitt), convinces him to join the track team. It doesn't take Billy long before he proves superior to Joe in the track world, and jealousies rise to the fore. Now it is Joe who needs saving, and "black sheep" Billy steps in to save the day.
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The Attic 1979 PG, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George Edwards
Cast: Carrie Snodgress, Ray Milland, Ruth Cox, Rosemary Murphy, Frances Bay, Marjorie Eaton, Michael Ray Rhodes, Patrick Brennan, Mark Andrews, Dick Welsbacher
A young woman (Carrie Snodgress) has dedicated her life to caring for her invalid, domineering father (Ray Milland), even to the point of not seeing men at his insistence. But, she finally reaches the breaking point in this psychological thriller that is boring up to the final, predictable ending.
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The Ballad of Little Jo 1994  R, 120 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Maggie Greenwald
Cast: Suzy Amis, Bo Hopkins, Ian McKellen, David Chung, Carrie Snodgress, Rene Auberjonois, Heather Graham, Sam Robards, Anthony Heald, Melissa Leo, Olinda Turturro, Ruth Maleczech, Jeffrey Andrews, Cathy Haase, Peadair S. Addie Sr.
Josephine (Suzy Amis) arrives in the West to escape the prejudices of the East (she had an illegitimate baby), and finds more problems in her new life. To escape the stigma of being a woman, Josephine disguises herself as a male and becomes "Little Jo." As such, she experiences life on the frontier as a male, which poses fewer problems.
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Bartleby 2002 PG-13, 82 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jonathan Parker
Cast: Crispin Glover, David Paymer, Glenne Headly, Maury Chaykin, Joe Piscopo, Seymour Cassell, Carrie Snodgress, Dick Martin, Greta Danielle Newgren, Stoney Burke
Herman Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener" is updated and the scene changed from a law office to the Office of City Records where Bartleby (Crispin Glover) is the new hire whose refusal to work throws the office into turmoil.
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Blue Sky 1994  PG-13, 101 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Tony Richardson
Cast: Jessica Lange, Tommy Lee Jones, Powers Boothe, Carrie Snodgress, Amy Locane, Chris O'Donnell, Mitch Ryan, Dale Dye, Timothy Scott, Annie Ross
During the 1960s, Major Hank Marshall (Tommy Lee Jones) has more than he can deal with: he has a ditzy wife (Jessica Lange), and he is a scientist in the middle of the Army's testing of nuclear weapons. Jessica Lange won the Best Actress Oscar.
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The Forsaken 2001 R, 95 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: J.S. Cardone
Cast: Kerr Smith, Brendan Fehr, Izabella Miko, Phina Oruche, Simon Rex, Carrie Snodgress, Johnathon Schaech, Alexis Thorpe, A.J. Buckley, F.J. Flynn
On the way to his sister's wedding, Sean (Kerr Smith) picks up a vampire hunter (Brendan Fehr), and it isn't long before they give a lift to Megan (Izabella Miko) who, as luck would have it, has been bitten by a vampire. By no odd coincidence, Sean has been infected also. Now they race against time to kill the vampire leader: the source of the plague.
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The Fury 1978  R, 117 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Brian De Palma
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Carrie Snodgress, Amy Irving, John Cassavetes, Andrew Stevens, Fiona Lewis, Charles Durning, Carol Rossen, Joyce Easton, Daryl Hannah
When a teenager with psychic powers is kidnapped by a government that wants to make use of those powers, his father (Kirk Douglas) will go to any extreme to retrieve his son from its clutches. He is helped by a girl (Amy Irving) who has similar powers. A good, but violent, film that is typica of Directorl De Palma. Daryl Hannah's first film.
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Homework 1982  R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: James Beshears
Cast: Joan Collins, Michael Morgan, Shell Kepler, Lee Purcell, Carrie Snodgress, Wings Hauser, Mel Welles, Beverly Todd, Betty Thomas, Lanny Horn, Erin Donovan
Tommy (Michael Morgan) is a young teenager who experiences his sexual awakening thanks to the services of Diana (Joan Collins), a woman old enough to be his mother.
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Iron Jawed Angels 2004  TV, 123 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Katja von Garnier
Cast: Hilary Swank, Frances O'Connor, Anjelica Huston, Margo Martindale, Molly Parker, Lois Smith, Patrick Dempsey, Laura Fraser, Vera Farmiga, Brooke Smith, Adilah Barnes, Bob Gunton, Julia Ormond, Carrie Snodgress
Women's suffrage is the theme of this story set in the early part of the 20th century when American feminist Alice Paul (Hilary Swank) and social reformer Lucy Burns (Frances O'Connor) left the mainstream effort and formed a more radical wing fighting for women's right to vote. The title comes from Alice's fight against being force fed while on a hunger strike after being jailed with her suffragettes when they picketed the White House. While she showed courage, the real courage was that of the suffragettes as a whole whose efforts resulted in the ratification of the 19th Constitutional Amendment on July 26, 1920, giving women the right to vote.
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Murphy's Law 1986 R, 97 min.
Genre: Action
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Cast: Charles Bronson, Carrie Snodgress, Kathleen Wilhoite, Robert F. Lyons, Richard Romanus, Angel Tompkins, Bill Henderson, Janet MacLachlan, Lawrence Tierney, James Luisi
A Los Angeles cop (Charles Bronson) finds that "anything that can go wrong–will" when he is arrested for his ex-wife's murder. Things continue to go awry when he escapes and tries to elude police.
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A Night in Heaven 1983  R, 83 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John G. Avildsen
Cast: Christopher Atkins, Lesley Ann Warren, Robert Logan, Deborah Rush, Deney Terrio, Sandra Beall, Alix Elias, Carrie Snodgress, Amy Lyndon, Fred Buch
College professor Faye Hanlon (Lesley Ann Warren) accompanies her friends to a strip joint where she discovers one of her students, Rick (Christopher Atkins), performing a striptease, and a heated affair between the two ensues.
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 Pale Rider 1985 R, 113 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Chris Penn, Carrie Snodgress, Michael Moriarty, Richard Dysart, Sydney Penny, Richard Kiel, Doug McGrath, John Russell, Charles Hallahan
Gold prospectors are in trouble–until drifter "Preacher" (Clint Eastwood) arrives, organizes the miners, and leads them in a fight against the large mining company that is out for profit only.
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Rabbit, Run 1970 R, 94 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jack Smight
Cast: James Caan, Anjanette Comer, Jack Albertson, Carrie Snodgress, Melodie Johnson, Henry Jones, Arthur Hill, Josephine Hutchinson, Nydia Westman, Carmen Mathews
Based on John Updike's novel, this is the tragic story of aging athlete Rabbit (James Caan) who just cannot get right in his life after sports.
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Stranger in the Kingdom 1998 R, 112 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jay Craven
Cast: David Lansbury, Ernie Hudson, Martin Sheen, Bill Raymond, Sean Nelson, Rusty DeWees, Henry Gibson, Larry Pine, Tom Aldredge, Carrie Snodgress
A Vermont congregation hires a new minister, and when he shows up they are shocked to discover that he is Black. Matters slide steadily downhill for the Rev. Walter Andrews (Ernie Hudson) and for his teenage son, Nat (Sean Nelson), as well.
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White Man's Burden 1995 R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Desmond Nakano
Cast: John Travolta, Harry Belafonte, Kelly Lynch, Tom Bower, Margaret Avery, Carrie Snodgress, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Lawrence Bender, Tom Wright
Racial roles in America are reversed when Louis Pinnock (John Travolta) inadvertently glimpses the naked wife of his boss, Thaddeus Thomas (Harry Belafonte). Pinnock is fired, cannot find a new job, and faces eviction. Next, his wife and kids go home to her mother. Things cannot get much worse than this. BUT, wait, they do!
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 Wild Things 1998 R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Director: John McNaughton
Cast: Kevin Bacon, Matt Dillon, Neve Campbell, Theresa Russell, Denise Richards, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Robert Wagner, Bill Murray, Jeff Perry, Carrie Snodgress, Marc Macaulay, Cory Pendergast, Eduardo Yanez, Toi Svane Stepp, Dennis Neal
High-school guidance counselor Sam Lombardo (Matt Dillon) was named "educator of the year" and prided himself on his accomplishments UNTIL students Suzy (Neve Campbell) and Kelly (Denise Richards) testify that he raped them. Detectives Ray Duquette (Kevin Bacon) and Gloria Perez (Daphne Rubin-Vega)–despite disapproval of the department–begin their investigation into the campaign to destroy Lombardo.
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| 1. 8 Seconds (1994)
aka: Eight Seconds to Glory
2. Across the Tracks (1991)
3. The Attic (1979)
4. The Ballad of Little Jo (1994)
5. Bartleby (2002)
6. Blue Sky (1994)
7. Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970)
8. The Forsaken (2001)
9. The Fury (1978)
10. Homework (1982)
11. Iron Jawed Angels (2004)
12. Murphy's Law (1986)
13. A Night in Heaven (1983)
14. Pale Rider (1985)
15. Rabbit, Run (1970)
16. Stranger in the Kingdom (1998)
17. White Man's Burden (1995)
18. Wild Things (1998)
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