The Cooler 2003  R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Wayne Kramer
Cast: William H. Macy, Alec Baldwin, Maria Bello, Shawn Hatosy, Estella Warren, Ron Livingston, Paul Sorvino, Arthur J. Nascarella, Joey Fatone, M.C. Gainey, Ellen Greene, Don Scribner
Down-but-not-quite-out loser Bernie Lootz (William H. Macy) works as a "cooler" (his bad luck rubs off on would-be winners) for manager Shelly Kaplow's (Alec Baldwin) Las Vegas casino. The ploy works–until Bernie falls in love with a cocktail waitress (Maria Bello), and his run of bad luck changes into good. The ensuing turn of events does not bode well with Shelly. Alec Baldwin was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar.
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 Dinner at Eight 1989  TV, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Ron Lagomarsino
Cast: Lauren Bacall, Marsha Mason, Charles Durning, Ellen Greene, Harry Hamlin, John Mahoney, Joel Brooks, Tim Kazurinsky, Stacy Edwards, Lenore Kasdorf, Kelly Connell, Jane Alden, Julia Sweeney
This made-for-TV update of the 1933 version, which is based on the George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber play, is adequately done, but the first version certainly is better. It tells the story of a social-climber (Marsha Mason) getting ready to throw an extravagant dinner party for the elite. Lauren Bacall is great as a "trash" novelist.
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I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can 1982 R, 107 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jack Hofsiss
Cast: Jill Clayburgh, Nicol Williamson, Dianne Wiest, Joe Pesci, Geraldine Page, James Sutorius, Ellen Greene, Richard Masur, Dan Hedaya, John Lithgow
Based on Barbara Gordon's autobiography of her successful career as a TV journalist and her fight to overcome a Valium addiction, this film features Jill Clayburgh as Gordon.
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Leon 1994  R, 110 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
aka: The Professional
Director: Luc Besson
Cast: Gary Oldman, Jean Reno, Danny Aiello, Natalie Portman, Peter Appel, Michael Badalucco, Ellen Greene, Frank Senger, Geoffrey Bateman, Tommy Hollis, Elizabeth Regan, Carl J. Matusovich, Lucius Wyatt Cherokee, Luc Bernard, Kent Broadhurst
Twelve-year old Mathilda (Natalie Portman) lives with her family in a slum, and her father (Michael Badalucco) works for drug agents. One day, Mathilda returns home to find that most of her family has been killed in a botched drug deal. Corrupt Drug Enforcement Administration boss, Stansfield (Gary Oldman), ordered her family's murder. Mathilda takes refuge in the apartment of hit man Leon (Jean Reno) from whom she hopes to learn how to exact revenge on the killers. Leon becomes transfixed by Mathilda, and his life appears to be changing. Mathilda's intended victim is Stansfield, but her plans to avenge the murder of her family fail, and Mathilda is captured. Now, Leon must rescue Mathilda.
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 Little Shop of Horrors 1986 PG-13, 88 min.
Genre: Comedy / Horror / Sci-Fi / Musical
Director: Frank Oz
Cast: Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Vincent Gardenia, Steve Martin, James Belushi, John Candy, Bill Murray, Christopher Guest, Tichina Arnold, Tisha Campbell-Martin, Michelle Weeks, Levi Stubbs, Stan Jones, Bertice Reading, Ed Wiley
An orphan, Seymour Krelborn (Rick Moranis), is working in Mr. Mushnik's (Vincent Gardenia) flower shop when he finds a mysterious plant that he names Audrey II–after Audrey (Ellen Greene) on whom he has a crush. The plant sings for its supper. The problem is that Audrey II requires human flesh to live. Seymour uses Audrey's boyfriend Dr. Orin Scrivello (Steve Martin) as the source of food for Audrey II. After Orin dies, Seymour realizes the dangers wrought by Audrey II, and he and Audrey try to defeat Audrey II before it takes over the world. This film has good music, enough humor to please almost anyone, and is a good remake of the 1960 classic.
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Love Object 2004  R, 88 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Robert Parigi
Cast: Desmond Harrington, Melissa Sagemiller, Rip Torn, Robert Bagnell, Michael Pena, Brad William Henke, Udo Kier, John Cassini, Ellen Greene, Bryan Crump, Lyle Kanouse
Technical writer Kenneth (Desmond Harrington) has no romantic skills–until he becomes obsessively involved with an anatomically correct sex doll he orders over the Internet. Now sexually adept, Ted attracts the attention of co-worker Lisa (Melissa Sagemiller), and his sex doll becomes jealous and coerces Kenneth into acts of violence.
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Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult 1994 PG-13, 82 min.
Genre: Comedy / Action / Drama
Director: Peter Segal
Cast: Leslie Nielsen, George Kennedy, Priscilla Presley, O.J. Simpson, Fred Ward, Kathleen Freeman, Anna Nicole Smith, Ellen Greene, Randall "Tex" Cobb, Joe Grifasi, Pia Zadora, Julie Strain, Bill Zuckert, Raquel Welch, Olympia Dukakis
Imperturbable Lieutenant Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) is back. Never mind that he is now retired from the police force and married to Jane (Priscilla Presley), he is needed to fight off terrorists and is happy to comply. Drebin goes undercover in a state prison in order to obtain information from the terrorists, led by Rocco (Fred Ward), who are planning to set off a bomb at the Oscars. Nielsen fans will enjoy this one. Several cameo appearances.
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Next Stop, Greenwich Village 1976 R, 110 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Paul Mazursky
Cast: Lenny Baker, Shelley Winters, Ellen Greene, Lois Smith, Christopher Walken, Lou Jacobi, Jeff Goldblum, Antonio Fargas, Don Brenner, Mike Kellin
Written and directed by Paul Mazursky, this is a semi-autobiography about life among actors living in Greenwich Village in the 1950s.
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An Occasional Hell 1996  R, 96 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Salome Breziner
Cast: Tom Berenger, Valeria Golino, Kari Wuhrer, Robert Davi, Richard Edson, Stephen Lang, Danny Comden, Ellen Greene, Geoffrey Lewis, Trent McDevitt
When Elizabeth's (Valeria Golino) husband is shot with a Civil War-vintage musket while making love to Jeri (Kari Wuhrer), Elizabeth becomes the prime suspect. She talks handicapped ex-cop Ernie (Tom Berenger) into seeking the truth. As Ernie tries to get to the answers, he must deal with his own demons, including visions of his affairs with the missing Jeri. Plenty of violence, sex, and foul language.
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 One Fine Day 1996 PG, 108 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy / Romance
Director: Michael Hoffman
Cast: Michelle Pfeiffer, George Clooney, Mae Whitman, Alex D. Linz, Charles Durning, Jon Robin Baitz, Ellen Greene, Joe Grifasi, Anna Maria Horsford, Sheila Kelley, Pete Hamill, Gregory Jbara, Robert Klein, George Martin
This enjoyable, romantic comedy features Michelle Pfeiffer as single-mom Melanie Parker and George Clooney as single-dad Jack Taylor. When their tots miss the ferry for their school field trip, Melanie and Jack are forced into helping each other. They spend the day swapping kids to allow attendance at scheduled meetings in this satire of today's hectic schedules of working parents who try to meet responsibilities of both the workplace and the home.
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Rock-A-Doodle 1991 G, 75 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Fantasy / Musical
Director: Don Bluth, Dan Kuenster
Cast: Glen Campbell, Eddie Deezen, Sandy Duncan, Charles Nelson Reilly, Ellen Greene, Phil Harris, Christopher Plummer, Toby Scott Ganger, Kathryn Holcomb, Jason Marin, Stan Ivar, Christian Hoff, Will Ryan, Sorrell Booke
In this animated adventure, rain and flood waters threaten the farm, so young farm boy Edmond (voice of Toby Scott Ganger)–who by now has been turned into a cat–gathers together a mouse Snipes (voice of Eddie Deezen), a magpie Peepers (voice of Sandy Duncan), and a dog Patou (voice of Phil Harris) for a trip to the city to bring back their rooster, Chanticleer (voice of Glen Campbell). They believe that Chanticleer's crowing will chase away the clouds and bring back the sun. When they do arrive in the city, the group discovers that because Chanticleer has become a rock star, it is almost impossible to get near him. Never fear, by story's end, Chanticleer is back on the farm, and happiness reigns.
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Stepping Out 1991 PG, 113 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Cast: Liza Minnelli, Shelley Winters, Bill Irwin, Ellen Greene, Julie Walters, Robyn Stevan, Jane Krakowski, Andrea Martin, Sheila McCarthy, Nora Dunn
Mavis Turner (Liza Minnelli) is a former dancer who agrees to teach a class of clumsy students to tap dance for a performance in a charity show.
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Talk Radio 1988 R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Oliver Stone
Cast: Eric Bogosian, Ellen Greene, Alec Baldwin, Leslie Hope, John C. McGinley, John Pankow, Michael Wincott, Zach Grenier, Anna Levine, Robert Trebor
Eric Bogosian takes on the role of a Dallas radio talk-show host. His flippant and belittling chatter with the misfits of society who call in to his show leads to events over which he no longer has control.
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Wagons East 1994  PG, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Peter Markle
Cast: John Candy, Richard Lewis, John C. McGinley, Ellen Greene, Robert Picardo, Ed Lauter, William Sanderson, Rodney A. Grant, Russell Means, Charles Rocket
Not all settlers in the latter half of the 1800s could handle the challenges of the frontier. One such group hires drunken wagon master James Harlow (John Candy) to lead them East to St. Louis. The adventures of the oddball group are chronicled in this terrible, terrible film. John Candy died during the shooting of the film.
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| 1. The Cooler (2003)
2. Dinner at Eight (1989)
3. I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can (1982)
4. Killer: A Journal of Murder (1995)
5. Leon (1994)
aka: The Professional
6. Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
7. Love Object (2004)
8. Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994)
9. Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976)
10. An Occasional Hell (1996)
11. One Fine Day (1996)
12. Rock-A-Doodle (1991)
13. Stepping Out (1991)
14. Talk Radio (1988)
15. Wagons East (1994)
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