 Angel Heart 1987  R, 113 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Alan Parker
Cast: Mickey Rourke, Lisa Bonet, Robert De Niro, Charlotte Rampling, Stocker Fountelieu, Brownie McGhee, Michael Higgins, Kathleen Wilhoite, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Elizabeth Whitcraft, Elliott Keener, Charles Gordone, Dann Florek, George Buck, Judith Drake
Private investigator Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke) is sent to Harlem to meet Louis Cyphre (Robert De Niro) who hires him to locate aging 1940s' singer Johnny Favorite who, long ago, reneged on a debt to Cyphre. The trail leads Angel into the backwoods of Louisiana where he meets Epiphany Proudfoot (Lisa Bonet), the daughter of a voodoo priestess. Epiphany and Angel engage in wild sex amidst voodoo rituals and dead bodies as Angel pursues in his quest for the missing Johnny Favorite.
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 Birdy 1984 R, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alan Parker
Cast: Matthew Modine, Nicolas Cage, John Harkins, Sandy Baron, Karen Young, Bruno Kirby, Nancy Fish, George Buck, Delores Sage, Marshall Bell
Two young blue-collar friends undergo a major test of their relationship when Birdy (Matthew Modine) ends up in a mental ward unable to deal with his Vietnam War memories. His friend Al (Nicolas Cage) sticks by Birdy and helps him out of his living Hell.
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 Bull Durham 1988  R, 108 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Ron Shelton
Cast: Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Trey Wilson, Robert Wuhl, William O'Leary, Jenny Robertson, Max Patkin, David Neidorf, Danny Gans, Tom Silardi, Lloyd T. Williams, Rick Marzan, George Buck, Garland Bunting
When a minor league baseball team, North Carolina's Durham Bulls, hires veteran catcher Crash Davis (Kevin Costner) to coach a dumb, however talented, young pitcher Nuke LaLoosh (Tim Robbins), he clashes with free-spirited groupie Annie (Susan Sarandon) who has chosen Nuke as her lover of the season. Super performances by all (especially Sarandon and Costner) in a well-written and fun movie.
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| 1. Angel Heart (1987)
2. Birdy (1984)
3. Bull Durham (1988)
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