 Almost Famous 2000  R, 124 min.
Genre: Drama / Musical
Director: Cameron Crowe
Cast: Billy Crudup, Frances McDormand, Kate Hudson, Jason Lee, Patrick Fugit, Anna Paquin, Fairuza Balk, Noah Taylor, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Zooey Deschanel, Michael Angarano, John Fedevich, Liz Stauber, Jimmy Fallon, Mark Kozelek
In the early 1970s, aspiring journalist, San Diego high school student William Miller (Patrick Fugit) is given the choice assignment of writing a "Rolling Stone" article about the rising rock band Stillwater. William joins the band's "Almost Famous" tour, befriends guitarist Russell Hammond (Billy Crudup) and lead singer Jeff Bebe (Jason Lee), falls in love with "band aid" Elaine (Kate Hudson), and sees the real world. But throughout his assignment, William's mother (Frances McDormand) calls him often and warns him to stay away from drugs. The film won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay; both Kate Hudson and Frances McDormand were nominated for Best Supporting Actress.
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 American History X 1998   R, 118 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Tony Kaye
Cast: Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Beverly D'Angelo, Avery Brooks, Stacy Keach, Fairuza Balk, Jennifer Lien, Elliott Gould, Ethan Suplee, Guy Torry, William Russ, Alex Sol, Josepoh Cortese, Jason Bose Smith, Antonio David Lyons
While in prison, skinhead Derek Vinyard (Edward Norton) forms an uneasy friendship with Black inmate Lamont (Guy Torry). When Derek is released, he seems eager to put racial hatred behind him but finds that convincing his younger brother, Danny (Edward Furlong), is not going to be easy. Norton was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar.
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The Craft 1996  R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Thriller
Director: Andrew Fleming
Cast: Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell, Rachel True, Robin Tunney, Skeet Ulrich, Cliff De Young, Helen Shaver, Christine Taylor, Breckin Meyer, Nathaniel Marston, Assumpta Serna, Jeanine Jackson, Brenda Strong
Four teenage girls (Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell, Rachel True, and Robin Tunney) form a coven of witches. Alienated from classmates, the misfits take blood oaths and inflict voodoo revenge on the intended victims at their Catholic high school.
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 Deuces Wild 2002  R, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Scott Kalvert
Cast: Stephen Dorff, Brad Renfro, Fairuza Balk, Norman Reedus, Frankie Muniz, Max Perlich, Drea de Matteo, Balthazar Getty, Nancy Cassaro, Vincent Pastore
After their brother's death from a drug overdose, Leon (Stephen Dorff) and Bobby (Brad Renfro) fight to keep drugs out of their Brooklyn neighborhood.
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Don't Come Knocking 2005 R, 125 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Wim Wenders
Cast: Sam Shepard, Jessica Lange, Tim Roth, Gabriel Mann, Sarah Polley, Fairuza Balk, Eva Marie Saint, Mike Butters, Julia Sweeney, Marley Shelton, Raymond O'Connor, Kurt Fuller
His days are long passed as a Western movie star when 60-year-old Howard Spence (Sam Shepard) sees the folly of his drug and alcohol lifestyle and sets out on a journey to reconnect with his past. To his surprise, he discovers that he fathered both a son, Earl (Gabriel Mann), and a daughter, Sky (Sarah Polley), during his early days of filmmaking in Montana.
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Gas Food Lodging 1992 R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Allison Anders
Cast: Brooke Adams, Ione Skye, Fairuza Balk, James Brolin, Robert Knepper, David Lansbury, Jacob Vargas, Donovan Leitch, Chris Mulkey, Laurie O'Brien, Julie Condra, Adam Biesk
Single mother Nora (Brooke Adams), a truck-stop waitress, lives with her two daughters in a small, New Mexico, desert town. The daughters are near-opposites: Trudi (Ione Skye) is fast becoming a rebellious town tramp while Shade (Fairuza Balk) lives in a fantasy world watching Mexican movies and wishing she had a father. Against this bleak backdrop, Director Allison Anders deftly brings out the lives and conflicts of the three women.
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 The Island of Dr. Moreau 1996  PG-13, 95 min.
Genre: Horror / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Director: John Frankenheimer
Cast: Marlon Brando, Val Kilmer, David Thewlis, Fairuza Balk, Ron Perlman, Marco Hofschneider, Temuera Morrison, Peter Elliott, William Hootkins, Daniel Rigney, Mark Dacascos, Nelson de la Rosa, Neil Young, Miguel Lopez, David Hudson
Based on H.G. Wells' story, this is the tale of Edward Douglas' (David Thewlis) rescue at sea that brings him to Doctor Moreau's (Marlon Brando) island where the evil doctor and his assistant, Montgomery (Val Kilmer), perform grotesque genetic experiments involving the crossbreeding of animals with humans.
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Personal Velocity 2002 R, 88 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Rebecca Miller
Cast: Kyra Sedgwick, Parker Posey, Fairuza Balk, David Warshofsky, Leo Fitzpatrick, Tim Guinee, Wallace Shawn, Lou Taylor Pucci, Mara Hobel, John Ventimiglia
This powerful drama, composed of three stories, reveals how three women–Delia (Kyra Sedgwick), Greta (Parker Posey), and Paula (Fairuza Balk)–escape from their individual emotional prisons.
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Red Letters 2000 R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Bradley Battersby
Cast: Peter Coyote, Nastassja Kinski, Fairuza Balk, Jeremy Piven, Ernie Hudson, Paul Gleason, Heather Ehlers, Steve Monroe, Udo Kier, Layla Roberts, Owen Bush, Kenneth Ryan, Brian Leckner, Susan Morgenstern, Antoinette Valente
Oversexed Professor Dennis Burke (Peter Coyote) wrote a popular novel 20 years ago and has been living off that ego trip ever since. He teaches Hawthorne's works at a small university after having been fired from a prestigious university when charged with harassment of students. Burke starts reading letters addressed to the former tenant of his apartment that are from a prisoner (Nastassja Kinski), strikes up a friendship with her, and then tries to prove that she is innocent. But is she?
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 Return to Oz 1985 PG, 110 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure / Fantasy
Director: Walter Murch
Cast: Fairuza Balk, Nicol Williamson, Jean Marsh, Piper Laurie, Matt Clark, Michel Sundin, Tim Rose, Sean Barrett, Mak Wilson, Denise Bryer, Brian Henson, Stephen Norrington
Based on two of Frank Baum's later volumes from the "Oz" series, in this story Dorothy (Fairuza Balk) is back in Kansas, and Aunt Em (Piper Laurie) sends her to therapy to rid her of her memories of Oz. Dorothy takes her medicine but awakens in Oz where everything has changed. Now her task is fixing the problems, which are caused by the evil Gnome King (Nicol Williamson).
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Shadow of a Doubt 1995 TV, 92 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Brian Dennehy
Cast: Brian Dennehy, Bonnie Bedelia, Fairuza Balk, Mike Nussbaum, Joe Grifasi, Michael MacRae, Kevin Dunn, Ken Pogue, Brent Jennings, Bruce McGill, Donnelly Rhodes, Fulvio Cecere, Don MacKay
Over-the-hill, alcoholic attorney Charlie Sloan (Brian Dennehy) has a chance to get back in the courtroom when an old flame, Robin (Bonnie Bedelia), asks him to defend her daughter, Angel (Fairuza Balk), who has been charged with murder. The prosecution not only takes on the defendant but also takes on Charlie in the courtroom. Can Charlie come through? Made for TV.
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Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead 1995   R, 117 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Gary Fleder
Cast: Andy Garcia, Christopher Lloyd, William Forsythe, Bill Nunn, Treat Williams, Jack Warden, Gabrielle Anwar, Christopher Walken, James Caan, Fairuza Balk
A gang of inept criminals wind up with contracts on their own lives, and the gang breaks up as its members are bumped off–one by one–by their own cohorts. 1 User Review
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| | A psychological thriller where buckwheats arent pancakes! | Chick 'O Flix 03/22/2009 | | Christopher Walken, James Caan, Treat Williams and Andy Garcia lead a cast complete with 5 star headliners and a dark script into one of the great bargaining, murder for hire screw ups that is truly of the suspense genre. Wait and listen for the word "buckwheats" in almost every scene, but make sure you know what it means. It is a very dark tour of Denver, wether you're dead or alive.Enjoy. |
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Valmont 1989 R, 137 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Milos Forman
Cast: Colin Firth, Annette Bening, Meg Tilly, Fairuza Balk, Sian Phillips, Jeffrey Jones, Henry Thomas, Fabia Drake, T.P. McKenna, Ian McNeice, Isla Blair, Aleta Mitchell
Chodleros de Laclos' classic, "Les Liaisons Dangereuses," is again brought to the screen following Stephen Frears' popular version a year earlier and Roger Vadim's 1959 film. Set in 18th-century France, it is the story of corrupt lovers (Colin Firth and Annette Bening) who make bets about being able to have sex with others just for the fun of it.
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 The Waterboy 1998 PG-13, 86 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Frank Coraci
Cast: Adam Sandler, Fairuza Balk, Kathy Bates, Henry Winkler, Jerry Reed, Blake Clark, Larry Gilliard Jr., Allen Covert, Clint Howard, Rob Schneider, Peter Dante, Jonathan Loughran, Al Whiting, Todd Holland, Robert Kokol
Bobby Boucher (Adam Sandler) has enjoyed his job as the waterboy for a college football team, but they fire him. Despite his overprotective mother's (Kathy Bates) wishes, Bobby joins another team, the Mud Dogs, who are coached by neurotic Coach Klein (Henry Winkler). He also finds a girlfriend, Vickie (Fairuza Balk), who has much to teach Bobby about the birds and the bees. Bobby becomes a star player on the Mud Dogs. They win their games and now are scheduled to face Bobby's former team in the Bourbon Bowl.
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The Worst Witch 1986 G, 70 min.
Genre: Family / Fantasy
Director: Robert(2) Young
Cast: Diana Rigg, Charlotte Rae, Tim Curry, Fairuza Balk, Sabina Franklyn, Su Elliot, Danielle Batchelor, Amy Shindler, Anna Kipling, Kate Buckley
Mildred (Fairuza Balk) is failing as a student at the Witch Academy–until she finds a way to prevent the twin sister of the school's headmistress, Miss Cackle (Charlotte Rae), from ruining the school's Halloween celebration.
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| 1. Almost Famous (2000)
2. American History X (1998)
3. The Craft (1996)
4. Deuces Wild (2002)
5. Don't Come Knocking (2005)
6. Gas Food Lodging (1992)
7. Imaginary Crimes (1994)
8. The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)
9. Personal Velocity (2002)
10. Red Letters (2000)
11. Return to Oz (1985)
12. Shadow of a Doubt (1995)
13. Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995)
14. Valmont (1989)
15. The Waterboy (1998)
16. The Worst Witch (1986)
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