The Adventures of Bob & Doug McKenzie: Strange Brew 1983  PG, 91 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Strange Brew
Director: Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas
Cast: Dave Thomas, Rick Moranis, Max von Sydow, Paul Dooley, Lynne Griffin, Angus MacInnes, Tom Harvey, Mel Blanc, Douglas Campbell, Brian McConnachie, Angus MacInnes, Len Doncheff, Jill Frappier, David Beard
How would you control patients in a mental hospital? Bob McKenzie (Rick Moranis) thinks he has found the solution; provide them beer tainted with a drug to control the mind. Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis leave TV to team up in this funny, but simple-minded, movie.
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Beethoven's 5th 2003  G, 91 min.
Genre: Family / Family / Adventure
Director: Mark Griffiths
Cast: Dave Thomas, Faith Ford, Daveigh Chase, Tom Poston, John Larroquette, Katherine Helmond, Sammy Kahn, Richard Riehle, Clint Howard, Kathy Griffin, Rodman Flender, Tina Ullman, Tom Musgrave, Elizabeth Warner, Joel Hurt Jones
Beethoven is back with yet another set of characters as 12-year-old Sara (Daveigh Chase) and Beethoven grab a bus and head west to Quicksilver for the summer. Awaiting her is Uncle Freddy (Dave Thomas) who is not the only kook in town; it appears that exposure to mercury from an old mine has caused most of the townsfolk to be odd. Beethoven stirs things up when he starts digging.
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 Brother Bear 2003 G, 85 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Adventure / Comedy / Drama
Director: Aaron Blaise, Robert(3) Walker
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Jeremy Suarez, Jason Raize, Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas, D.B. Sweeney, Joan Copeland, Michael Clarke Duncan, Harold Gould, Paul Christie, Daniel Mastrogiorgio, Estelle Harris
In this animated film, a Native American bear hunter, Kenai (Joaquin Phoenix), kills a bear and, magically, is turned into a bear himself. His brother (Jason Raize), thinking the bear has killed Kenai, hunts the bear that is really Kenai. Kenai's only hope lies in befriending a bear cub, Koda (Jeremy Suarez), and in the process learns the lesson of being kind not only to your brother but to animals as well. The film received an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature Film.
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 Coneheads 1993  PG, 86 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Steve Barron
Cast: Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, Michelle Burke, Michael McKean, Laraine Newman, Chris Farley, Jason Alexander, Lisa Jane Persky, Sinbad, Dave Thomas
The Coneheads, who originated on "Saturday Night Live," are back in a feature length film. In this story, the family goes through its usual paces while biding time waiting for their rescue space ship to take them back to their planet.
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The Experts 1989 PG-13, 94 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Dave Thomas
Cast: John Travolta, Arye Gross, Kelly Preston, Charles Martin Smith, Deborah Foreman, James Keach, Jan Rubes, Rick Ducommun, Brian Doyle-Murray
A KGB agent kidnaps two New York City men-about-town and takes them to Russia where they find a secret progressive town. Then, the fun begins in this so-so farce.
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Fancy Dancing 2002  N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy / Musical
Director: Brock Simpson
Cast: Jason Priestley, Tanya Allen, Connor Price, Ewen Bremner, Dave Thomas, Dave Foley, Deborah Odell, Jake Simons, Christian Lloyd, Dan Chameroy
Deadbeat Asa (Jason Priestley) lives off a trust fund, writing music by day and partying at night. He does have one responsibility: his son (Connor Price) who lives with Asa's ex-wife Charity (Deborah Odell). When Charity finds out that Asa takes her son to his night spots, Asa must clean up his act or lose his son.
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Moving 1988 R, 89 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Alan Metter
Cast: Richard Pryor, Beverly Todd, Dave Thomas, Dana Carvey, Randy Quaid, Rodney Dangerfield, Stacey Dash, Gordon Jump, Morris Day, Raphael Harris
A family's move from New Jersey to Boise, Idaho is fraught with difficulties in this film featuring Richard Pryor as the hapless dad.
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Pippi Longstocking 1997 G, 78 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Comedy / Musical
Director: Michael Schaack, Clive A. Smith, Bill Giggie
Cast: Melissa Altro, Catherine O'Hara, Carole Pope, Dave Thomas, Gordon Pinsent, Wayne Robson, Olivia Garrett, Noah Reid, Richard Binsley, Rick Jones, Peter Karlsson, Gunilla Roor
Based on Astrid Lindgren's children's stories, this a a good animated adaptation that follows the upbeat, smart, and mischievous nine-year-old Pippi Longstocking. When Pippi's father, a sea captain, washes overboard during a storm, he tells her to go to their country home and await his return. There she finds new friends (and enemies) and moves from one adventure to another.
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Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird 1985 G, 88 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy / Adventure / Musical
Director: Ken Kwapis
Cast: Carroll Spinney, Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Paul Bartel, Sandra Bernhard, John Candy, Chevy Chase, Sally Kellerman, Dave Thomas, Joe Flaherty, Richar Hunt, Kathryn Mullen, Jerry Nelson, Laraine Newman, Brian Hohlfeld
Thinking that he would be happier living in a foster home, Miss Finch (Sally Kellerman) takes Big Bird (Carroll Spinney) from his home on Sesame Street to live with the Dodo birds in Oceanview, Illinois. But, now Big Bird wants to return to his nest, and, because he is flightless, he takes a hitchhiking trip filled with adventure back to Sesame Street. This movie for kids features good music throughout.
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 Stripes 1981  R, 106 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Ivan Reitman
Cast: Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, John Candy, Warren Oates, P.J. Soles, Sean Young, John Larroquette, Judge Reinhold, John Diehl, Dave Thomas
Down-and-out John (Bill Murray) enlists in the Army after viewing a very slick TV advertisement. In addition, he manages to convince his best friend (Harold Ramis) to sign up with him. Once there, they find that the Army is not what they thought it would be. John Candy adds to the fun of this movie.
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| 1. The Adventures of Bob & Doug McKenzie: Strange Brew (1983)
aka: Strange Brew
2. Beethoven's 5th (2003)
3. Brother Bear (2003)
4. Coneheads (1993)
5. The Experts (1989)
6. Fancy Dancing (2002)
7. Moving (1988)
8. Pippi Longstocking (1997)
9. Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird (1985)
10. Stripes (1981)
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