The Hitcher 1986  R, 97 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Mystery / Horror / Thriller
Director: Robert Harmon
Cast: Rutger Hauer, C. Thomas Howell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jeffrey DeMunn, John M. Jackson, Billy Green Bush, Jack Thibeau, Gene Davis, Henry Darrow, Colin(3) Campbell, Armin Shimerman, Jon Van Ness, Tony Epper, Tom Spratley
On a car trip to California, Jim (C. Thomas Howell) picks up psychotic hitchhiker John Ryder (Rutger Hauer), and, from that point on, his excursion turns into a nightmare. John points a switchblade at Jim's crotch, but when Jim escapes, a game of cat-and-mouse begins. John is a serial killer, and he leaves corpses of victims in their cars for Jim to discover, and Jim is framed as the chief suspect in the killings. When Jim meets truck-stop waitress Nash (Jennifer Jason Leigh), the two of them set out, evading the police, to stop John's murder spree and clear Jim's name.
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Kiss Toledo Goodbye 1999  R, 96 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Lyndon Chubbuck
Cast: Michael Rapaport, Christopher Walken, Robert Forster, Christine Taylor, Jamie Anderson, Nancy Allen, Paul Ben-Victor, Robert Alan Beuth, Colin(3) Campbell, Bill Capizzi
Kevin (Michael Rapaport) enjoys a good life and is engaged to be married. Then he finds out that his biological father is a crime boss, and when the father is killed, Kevin is expected to take over. A weak comedy/crime flick with lots of yawns and bullets.
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My Beautiful Laundrette 1985  R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Stephen Frears
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Gordon Warnecke, Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth, Shirley Anne Field, Rita Wolf, Richard Graham, Colin(3) Campbell, Derrick Branche, Souad Faress, Winston Graham, Charu Bala Chokshi
Omar (Gordon Warnecke), a young Pakistani, is given a run-down launderette in London. With help from his White friend Johnny (Daniel Day-Lewis), the launderette is turned into a very successful establishment. As luck would have it, a racist gang decides to ruin their playhouse and shut them down.
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| 1. The Hitcher (1986)
2. Kiss Toledo Goodbye (1999)
3. My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
4. Nuns on the Run (1990)
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