Chains of Gold 1991   R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Rod Holcomb
Cast: John Travolta, Marilu Henner, Joey Lawrence, Bernie Casey, Hector Elizondo, Benjamin Bratt, Ramon Franco, Conchata Ferrell, Raphael Rey Gomez, Tammy Lauren
Although originally made for theatrical release, this film did not see the light of day for two years–on TV. Social worker Scott (John Travolta)–a recovering alcoholic and responsible for his son's death in a car accident–has a chance to atone for his mistake when he sets out to rescue a teen from a drug ring. Another weak Travolta entry. 1 User Review
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| | Anonymous 03/06/2007 | | You would have to live a movie like this to appreciate this movie. I felt it touched the core of life, and could not believe it was so lowly rated. These people do live everyday, and although they do not have the greatness, they are enjoined in a struggle of life, and there greatest gift is laughter and love. Can you see it? Most people are blind to this reality thinking they are superior, not knowing that being superior, is realitive. Isn't superior the ability to love? True food for thought. |
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Crime and Punishment in Suburbia 2000  R, 98 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Rob Schmidt
Cast: Monica Keena, Ellen Barkin, Michael Ironside, Vincent Kartheiser, James DeBello, Jeffrey Wright, Blake Shields, Conchata Ferrell, Marshall R. Teague, Lucinda Jenney
Based very loosely on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel, this story is about a popular high-school cheerleader, Roseanne (Monica Keena), who decides she has suffered enough abuse from her stepfather and sets out to avenge herself. Roseanne's method of revenge: kill him.
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Deadly Hero 1976 R, 102 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Ivan Nagy
Cast: Don Murray, Diahn Williams, James Earl Jones, Lilia Skala, George S. Irving, Treat Williams, Charles Siebert, Josh Mostel, Conchata Ferrell, Hank Garrett, Dick Anthony Williams, Mel Berger, Ron Weyand
After Sally (Diahn Williams) is saved during an assault, she accuses her rescuer, Lacey (Don Murray), of terrorizing her.
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 Edward Scissorhands 1990   PG-13, 98 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy / Fantasy / Romance
Director: Tim Burton
Cast: Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest, Vincent Price, Alan Arkin, Anthony Michael Hall, Kathy Baker, Robert Oliveri, Conchata Ferrell, Caroline Aaron, O-Lan Jones, Susan Blommaert, Linda Perri, John Davidson, Biff Yeager
Edward (Johnny Depp) is a young man living alone whose scissor hands are the result of a weird scientific experiment during which the inventor (Vincent Price) has died before completing his work. An Avon lady, Peg (Dianne Wiest), finds Edward, pities him, and invites him into her home where Edward becomes somewhat of a community celebrity because of his specialized talents, which include hair styling and hedge trimming. Edward is attracted to Peg's daughter Kim (Winona Ryder) whose boyfriend Jim (Anthony Michael Hall) is a bully. But, Edward's happiness proves short-lived when he is accused of a crime, and only Peg and Kim rise to his defense. 1 User Review
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| | Anonymous 01/20/2007 | | This movie was so sweet and heartwarming. You may never know it from the cover, but this is one of the nicest movies ever created. Johnny Depp strays from his usual cute look into kind of a grunge look, but you still feel for his character. |
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 Erin Brockovich 2000 R, 130 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, Aaron Eckhart, Marg Helgenberger, Cherry Jones, Peter Coyote, Veanne Cox, Conchata Ferrell, Tracey Walter, Jamie Harrold, David Brisbin, Dawn Didawick, Valente Rodriguez, George Rocky Sullivan, Pat Skipper
Twice-divorced and mother of three, Erin Brockovich (Julia Roberts) talks her way into a job at a law office and is given a job by Ed Masry (Albert Finney). While filing records, she notes a case that interests her and initiates her own investigation. The result is a conviction of Pacific Gas and Electric for pollution that caused widespread sickness. Based on a true story, there are good performances by all. Julia Roberts won an Oscar for Best Actress; nominations included Best Picture, Director Steven Soderbergh (who received an Oscar that year for "Traffic"), and Supporting Actor (Albert Finney, with his fifth nomination).
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For Keeps 1988  PG-13, 98 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John G. Avildsen
Cast: Molly Ringwald, Randall Batinkoff, Kenneth Mars, Miriam Flynn, Conchata Ferrell, Sharon Brown, Jack Ong, Sean Frye, Renee Estevez, J. Trevor Edmond
This film could have taken the subject of birth control and teen pregnancy and really made a statement. It did not, and is an insult to today's problems.
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Heaven & Earth 1993  R, 140 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Oliver Stone
Cast: Hiep Thi Le, Joan Chen, Tommy Lee Jones, Haing S. Ngor, Debbie Reynolds, Robert John Burke, Tim Guinee, Timothy Carhart, Dale Dye, Conchata Ferrell
Here we go again! Oliver Stone presents the third of his Vietnam stories following "Platoon" and "Born on the Fourth of July." This time the story is about an Asian woman who falls in love with an American and tries to adjust to life in America.
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 K-PAX 2001 PG-13, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Iain Softley
Cast: Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges, Mary McCormack, Alfre Woodard, Ajay Naidu, David Patrick Kelly, Saul Williams, Kimberly Scott, Peter Gerety, Celia Weston, Tracy Vilar, Melanee Murray, John Toles-Bey, Conchata Ferrell, Vincent Laresca
Prot (Kevin Spacey) is arrested at New York City's Grand Central Station after claiming to be an alien. He is sent to a mental hospital where his psychiatrist, Dr. Mark Powell (Jeff Bridges), does not believe him when he tells about coming from the planet K-PAX. Powell becomes obsessed with Prot, but time is running out because Prot tells Powell that he must leave Earth in a few days. Now, Powell is determined to get the truth from him–but can he?
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Kabluey 2008 PG-13, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Scott Prendergast
Cast: Lisa Kudrow, Scott Prendergast, Teri Garr, Christine Taylor, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Chris Parnell, Conchata Ferrell, Angela Sarafyan, Patricia Buckley, Landon Henninger, Cameron Wofford, D'Anthony Palms
While Salman's (Scott Prendergast) brother is fighting in the Iraq War, he moves in with his brother's wife Leslie (Lisa Kudrow) to help care for his bratty young nephews Lincoln (Landon Henninger) and Cameron (Cameron Wofford). The boys cannot stand Salman and want him out of their lives. Salman gets a job handing out fliers and must wear a costume representing the company's mascot, Kabluey. He now enters a whole new world of off-beat street characters as Kabluey hands out his pamphlets. The costume is a huge blue clown outfit, and, after seeing Salman dressed in it, Lincoln and Cameron begin to show Salman some respect.
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Mr. Deeds 2002 PG-13, 93 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Steven Brill
Cast: Adam Sandler, Winona Ryder, John Turturro, Steve Buscemi, Jared Harris, Peter Gallagher, Allen Covert, Roark Critchlow, Peter Dante, Conchata Ferrell, Gideon Jacobs, Erick Avari, Harve Presnell, Blake Clark, J.B. Smoove
After small-town pizza shop owner Longfellow Deeds (Adam Sandler) inherits a $40 billion media conglomerate, he heads for New York to do business. Once there, he finds himself the object of prey by greedy stockholders and becomes the subject for tabloid journalists–especially Babe Bennett (Winona Ryder) who poses as a school nurse to obtain information that will give her the scoop on Deeds. But, in the process, Babe ends up falling in love with Deeds who is equally smitten with her. This is an updated version of Frank Capra's award-winning 1936 classic, "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town."
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 Mystic Pizza 1988 R, 101 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Donald Petrie
Cast: Annabeth Gish, Julia Roberts, Lili Taylor, Vincent D'Onofrio, William R. Moses, Adam Storke, Conchata Ferrell, Joanna Merlin, Matt Damon, Porscha Radcliffe, Arthur Walsh, John Fiore, Gene Amoroso, Sheila Ferrini, John Cunningham
This little movie about three girls–sisters Kat Arujo and Daisy Arujo (Annabeth Gish and Julia Roberts) and new girl in town Jojo (Lili Taylor)–who become best friends turned out to be a hit. It is about their summer jobs at a Mystic, Connecticut, pizza parlor, their loves, and disappointments–all a part of growing up.
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Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story 1986 TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard T. Heffron
Cast: Martin Sheen, Cicely Tyson, Roxanne Hart, Joe Seneca, Stan Shaw, James Avery, Conchata Ferrell, Guy Boyd, Janet Carroll, Jordan Charney
Vietnam vet Mitch Snyder (Martin Sheen) engaged in a political crusade for the homeless and staged hunger strikes in the White House neighborhood–until his tragic death.
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Stranger Inside 2001 TV, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Cheryl Dunye
Cast: Yolonda Ross, Davenia McFadden, LaTonya "T" Hagans, Mary Mara, Rain Phoenix, Marc Vann, Medusa, Ella Joyce, Conchata Ferrell, Emily Kuroda
Treasure (Yolonda Ross), who grew up motherless, has been in trouble with the law most of her life. She finds out that her birth mother, a hardened criminal who was thought to be dead, is a lifer in the state prison. Treasure, about to turn 21, purposely gets caught in a crime in order to go to the prison. She finds her mother, but it's not the reunion she hoped for. Made for HBO.
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Touch 1997 R, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Paul Schrader
Cast: Christopher Walken, Skeet Ulrich, Bridget Fonda, Tom Arnold, Gina Gershon, Janeane Garofalo, Lolita Davidovich, Paul Mazursky, John Doe, Conchata Ferrell, LL Cool J, Maria Celedonio, Anthony Zerbe, Breckin Meyer
Juvenal (Skeet Ulrich) is a healer who can perform miracles through his touch. He is a confused young man who Bill Hill (Christopher Walken) hopes to exploit–with help from Lynn (Bridget Fonda)–as a member of his evangelism business.
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| 1. Chains of Gold (1991)
2. Crime and Punishment in Suburbia (2000)
3. Deadly Hero (1976)
4. Edward Scissorhands (1990)
5. Erin Brockovich (2000)
6. For Keeps (1988)
7. Heartland (1979)
8. Heaven & Earth (1993)
9. K-PAX (2001)
10. Kabluey (2008)
11. Mr. Deeds (2002)
12. Mystic Pizza (1988)
13. Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story (1986)
14. Stranger Inside (2001)
15. Touch (1997)
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