Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind 1991  TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery
Director: Bill Bixby
Cast: Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Rip Torn, Joan Severance, Danny Kamin, Ken Farmer, Sammy Allred, Bill Ballis, Bernard Engel, Harvey Christiansen, Justin Goldberg, Michael Griffith, Gabriel Folse, Charles Gunning, James N. Harrell
Once again, Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson team up as the Texas Ranger Rip Metcalf and crook Billy Roy Rodriguez. In this film, they try to find evidence that will free their friend Captain Jack Parsons (Rip Torn) from a prison sentence.
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 The Haunting 1999   PG-13, 113 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller / Mystery
Director: Jan de Bont
Cast: Liam Neeson, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Lili Taylor, Owen Wilson, Marian Seldes, Bruce Dern, Virginia Madsen, Alix Koromzay, Todd Field, Michael Cavanaugh, Tom Irwin, M.C. Gainey, Charles Gunning, Hadley Eure, Saul Priever
This film is a remake of Shirley Jackson's novel, "The Haunting of Hill House"–about spinster Nell (Lili Taylor), the brazen Theo (Catherine Zeta-Jones), and manipulative Luke (Owen Wilson) who enter a haunted house at the suggestion of a psychology professor, Dr. Jeffrey Marrow (Liam Neeson). They get much more than they bargain for when they attempt to investigate mysteries within the confines of this eerie house.
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The Newton Boys 1998 PG-13, 122 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Western
Director: Richard Linklater
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Skeet Ulrich, Ethan Hawke, Gail Cronauer, Vincent D'Onofrio, Julianna Margulies, Jena Karam, Dwight Yoakam, Casey McAuliffe, Charles Gunning
The Newton brothers–Willis, Joe, Jess, and Dock (Matthew McConaughey, Skeet Ulrich, Ethan Hawke, and Vincent D'Onofrio)–were bank robbers in the 1920s. This is the story of their "achievement" in executing the greatest train robbery in American history.
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Waking Life 2001  R, 99 min.
Genre: Animation / Drama / Fantasy / Mystery
Director: Richard Linklater
Cast: Wiley Wiggins, Trevor Jack Brooks, Robert C. Solomon, Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Charles Gunning, David Sosa, Alex Jones, Nicky Katt, Carol Dawson, Bill Wise, Caveh Zahedi
Superb computer-animation (filmed as live action then digitally transferred to computers) is used to project philosophical musings of the film's young hero (Wiley Wiggins) who can't seem to figure out if he is awake, dreaming, or even dead. Fascinating.
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| 1. Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind (1991)
2. The Haunting (1999)
3. The Newton Boys (1998)
4. Waking Life (2001)
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