Andromedia 2000  N/R, 109 min.
Genre: Foreign / Sci-Fi / Drama / Romance
Director: Takashi Miike
Cast: Hiroko Shimabukuro, Eriko Imai, Takako Uehara, Hitoe Arakaki, Kenji Harada, Tsunehiko Watase, Ryo Karato, Christopher Doyle, Tomorowo Taguchi, Issa Hentona, Shinobu Miyara, Yukinari Tamaki, Ken Okumoto, Kensuke Toida, Masataka Haji
As Mai (Hiroko Shimabukuro) grows into adulthood, her lifelong friends take second place behind boys. She feels guilty about this, but she is killed in an auto accident before she can make amends. Her father, Toshihiko Hitomi (Tsunehiko Watase), has been conducting research on recording a person's memory and personality on a computer chip. He brings Mai back to life as a virtual person. When bad people–who want the technology–come after him, he "hides" Mai on her boyfriend's computer. Now, the boyfriend and her childhood friends are on the run to keep Mai safe.
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Another Day in Paradise 1998  R, 99 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Larry Clark
Cast: James Woods, Melanie Griffith, Vincent Kartheiser, Natasha Gregson Wagner, James Otis, Paul Hipp, Brent Briscoe, Peter Sarsgaard, Kim Flowers, Branden Williams, John Gatins, Ryan Donahue, Dick Hancock, Pamela Gordon, Christopher Doyle
Based on ex-con Eddie Little's novel, this is a story about people who depend on sex and drugs to get them through the day. The plot revolves around two couples–Mel (James Woods) & Sid (Melanie Griffith) and Bobbie (Vincent Kartheiser) & Rosie (Natasha Wagner)–who, after Bobbie is physically beaten, form a dysfunctional family of unredemmable souls.
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Another Stakeout 1993 PG-13, 109 min.
Genre: Comedy / Action / Drama / Thriller
Director: John Badham
Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Emilio Estevez, Rosie O'Donnell, Dennis Farina, Marcia Strassman, Cathy Moriarty, John Rubinstein, Miguel Ferrer, Madeleine Stowe, Sharon Maughan, Christopher Doyle, Sharon Schaffer, Rick Seaman, Jan Speck, Gene Ellison-Jones
This time around, those wacky police detectives Chris Lecce and Bill Reimers (Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez) are joined by one very large dog and Assistant District Attorney Gina Garrett(Rosie O'Donnell) as they search for a witness needed for a trial in the near future.
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Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death 1989  PG-13, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy / Action
aka: Piranha Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death
Director: J.F. Lawton
Cast: Shannon Tweed, Bill Maher, Karen M. Mistal, Adrienne Barbeau, Brett Stimely, Barry Primus, Jim McKrell, Paul Ross, Vicky Verner, Alan David Gelman, Pat Crawford Brown, Christopher Doyle, Lloyd Gordon, James Trenton, Bushito
An avocado shortage has hit the country, and the government asks Professor Margo Hunt (Shannon Tweed), the head of Feminist Studies at a Southern California university, to help. A vicious tribe of Piranha Women, who kill and eat males, inhabits the California Avocado Jungle. Margo's job is to negotiate with the tribe. Her guide is Jim (Bill Maher), and on the way they meet various challenges such as mean hippos and barracudas and also run across a tribe of wimpy men called Donnahews. Naturally, there are lots of scantily-clad women.
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 Shadow Hours 2000 R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Isaac H. Eaton
Cast: Balthazar Getty, Peter Weller, Rebecca Gayheart, Peter Greene, Michael Dorn, Brad Dourif, Richard Moll, Johnny Whitworth, Corin Nemec, Frederic Forrest, Tane McClure, Christopher Doyle, Downtown Julie Brown, Clayton Landey, Arroyn Lloyd
The Devil, Stuart Chappell (Peter Weller), heads for L.A. on a mission to obtain the soul of Michael Holloway (Balthazar Getty), a young man who is confused and seduced by the glitz surrounding his life and is ready to descend into Hell.
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 The Toolbox Murders 2004 R, 95 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Tobe Hooper
Cast: Angela Bettis, Brent Roam, Juliet Landau, Rance Howard, Marco Rodriguez, Sara Downing, Greg Travis, Adam Gierasch, Christopher Doyle, Adam Weisman, Alan Polonsky, Christina Venuti, Jamison Reeves, Stephanie Silverman, Charlie Paulson
In this loose remake of the 1978 film with the same name, Nell and Steven (Angela Bettis and Brent Roam) move into a cheap apartment complex that is sorely in need of repair, and most of the inhabitants appear to be strange. When a series of gruesome murders–accomplished by the use of toolbox hardware (hammers, saws, etc.)– begins, Nell tries to find out what is going on.
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| 1. Andromedia (2000)
2. Another Day in Paradise (1998)
3. Another Stakeout (1993)
4. Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death (1989)
aka: Piranha Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death
5. Shadow Hours (2000)
6. The Toolbox Murders (2004)
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