100 Kilos 2001  R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Rod S. Scott
Cast: Glenn Plummer, Dwayne Adway, Suzanne Mari, John Toles-Bey, Ski Carr, Sydney "Big Dawg" Colston, Larry B. Scott, Crystal Scales, Carlos Carrasco
The scandal of selling drugs to finance a CIA war in Nicaragua is told in this low-budget, weak film. Ricky Ross (Glenn Plummer) wants to work his way out of the Los Angeles slums, and selling drugs is a good way to make money. He forms the "Freeway Boyz" and sets up the drug operation–not knowing that his suppliers are affiliated with the CIA.
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 Colors 1988  R, 127 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Dennis Hopper
Cast: Sean Penn, Robert Duvall, Maria Conchita Alonso, Randy Brooks, Don Cheadle, Grand L. Bush, Gerardo Mejia, Glenn Plummer, Sy Richardson, Damon Wayans
This controversial film about L.A. street gangs caused violence among moviegoers. A veteran cop and a brash young rookie must deal with a gang involved in selling drugs. An honest, in depth look at how gangs provide a sense of family for people living in the poor inner city areas and how hard it is for law enforcement to stop the violence.
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El Cortez 2006  N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Stephen Purvis
Cast: Lou Diamond Phillips, Bruce Weitz, Glenn Plummer, Tracy Middendorf, James McDaniel, Peter Onorati, Shelley Malil, David Johann, Robin Adair, Kathleen LaGue, Joseph Griffin, Deborah Cresswell, Edoardo Ballerini, Pat Crawford Brown
Manny DeSilva (Lou Diamond Phillips) is an autistic ex-con who, after being released from five years in prison, tries to start a new life as a night clerk at the Reno hotel, El Cortez. Manny makes friends with wheelchair-bound gold prospector Popcorn (Bruce Weitz), and all goes well–until the detective (James McDaniel) who first arrested him arrives on the scene and tells Manny to keep an eye on the comings and goings of drug dealer Jack Clay (Glenn Plummer). When Clay's girlfriend Theda (Tracy Middendorf) gets involved, secrets rise to the fore, and the result is a deadly game of murder.
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Frankie and Johnny 1991  R, 118 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Garry Marshall
Cast: Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Hector Elizondo, Nathan Lane, Kate Nelligan, Jane Morris, Greg Lewis, Glenn Plummer, Harvey Miller, K Callan, Al Fann, Ele Keates
Based on Terrence McNally's great play, this movie adaptation is about the romance of cynical waitress Frankie (Michelle Pfeiffer) and just-released-from-prison short-order cook Johnny (Al Pacino). 1 User Review
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| | More than the sum of its parts | 1fatts 10/28/2007 | There are reasons this film should not work. It does not transfer well from its theatrical origins: there are "speeches" that are too clearly "speeches"; too many characters are stereotypical "New York menagerie of mankind." The ending is cornball by anyone's standards.
And yet the film DOES work, by and large. Credit to a really good cast and a more quiet control of tone and pacing than one generally expects from Garry Marshall. True, Michelle Pfeiffer is too pretty for the part, but she projects a quiet, sad emptiness which is convincing, even moving, and forms the center of the piece. And, true, Al Pacino can't quite pull off an optimistic innocent, but he is genuinely likable, and you pull for him.
We are ready to extend our suspension of disbelief a little farther than we might usually do because these are characters we care for, people who have not had an easy time of it and could use a break; and we are willing to gloss over the sit-com slickness of some of it to allow them the break. We would really like them to have a shot at doing better.
. . . and it helps if you like Clair de lune. |
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Interceptors 1999  R, 100 min.
Genre: Action / Sci-Fi
aka: Interceptor Force
The Last Line of Defence
Director: Phillip J. Roth
Cast: Olivier Gruner, Glenn Plummer, Ernie Hudson, William Zabka, Brad Dourif, Angel Boris, Mark Adair-Rios, Stefan Lysenko, Perry D'Marco, Holly Fields, Ruben Moreno, Marcus Aurelius
Specially-trained alien fighters, "Interceptor Force" (Olivier Gruner, Glenn Plummer, and William Zabka), are sent to investigate a suspicious landing of an object. They find that aliens have arrived and can assume the form of humans at will. The team has 24 hours to deal with the situation or the area will be nuked.
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The Longshots 2008 PG, 94 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Fred Durst
Cast: Ice Cube, Keke Palmer, Tasha Smith, Jill Marie Jones, Dash Mihok, Matt Craven, Glenn Plummer, Garrett Morris, Miles Chandler, Malcolm Goodwin, Michael Colyar, Dean Delray, Hugo Perez, Sheran Keyton, Earthquake
Former high-school football star Curtis Plummer (Ice Cube) is down on his luck, and his sister-in-law Claire (Tasha Smith) asks him to help take care of her 11-year-daughter Jasmine ("Akeela and the Bees" Keke Palmer) while she works extra hours as a waitress. Curtis encourages Jasmine to throw his football and, after finding that she has a real talent for the sport, talks to the local Pop Warner team's Coach Fisher (Matt Craven) and he agrees to let Jasmine try out for the team. She makes the team, and soon the whole town of Minden, Illinois, is behind the team hoping that Jasmine will turn the team's spirit around and make them winners. Based on a true story.
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MacArthur Park 2001  R, 86 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Billy Wirth
Cast: Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Brandon Quintin Adams, B-Real, Bad Azz, Miguel A. Nunez Jr., Balthazar Getty, Sticky Fingaz, Rachel Hunter, Lori Petty, Julie Delpy, Ellen Cleghorne, Glenn Plummer
This film provides a portrait of crack cocaine addiction in the Los Angeles MacArthur Park area. Cody (Thomas Jefferson Byrd), once a jazz musician, abandoned his family and now is a long-time resident of the area. Cody's son (Brandon Quintin Adams) tracks him down and confronts him, and another ex-addict, Karen (Rachel Hunter), also tells him there is a way out. Will he be strong enough to make a life for himself?
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 Menace II Society 1993 R, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes
Cast: Tyrin Turner, Larenz Tate, Samuel L. Jackson, Glenn Plummer, Khandi Alexander, Jada Pinkett Smith, Bill Duke, Charles S. Dutton, Arnold Johnson, Vonte Sweet, Anthony Johnson, Brandon Hammond, Reginald Ballard, Jullian Roy Doster, Marilyn Coleman
Inner city violence is the theme of this story about 18-year-old drug-dealer Caine Lawson (Tyrin Turner) trying to find an escape from the street culture in the projects of Watts. Caine's father (Samuel L. Jackson) was a drug dealer, but he and Caine's drug addicted mother have now both died, and his grandparents have kicked him out of their house. Caine's one hope to break out of his lifestyle is Ronnie (Jada Pinkett Smith) who is a single mother trying to find her way out of Watts. A love affair between Caine and Ronnie leads to the decision to move south to Atlanta. But, tragedy lies ahead as they prepare to leave.
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 One Night Stand 1997 R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mike Figgis
Cast: Wesley Snipes, Nastassja Kinski, Ming-Na, Robert Downey Jr., Kyle MacLachlan, Glenn Plummer, Xander Berkeley, Marcus T. Paulk, Thomas Haden Church, John Ratzenberger
Last year, a definitely married man, Max Carlyle (Wesley Snipes), and Karen (Nastassja Kinski) enjoyed a brief affair. Now, when Max visits a friend, Charlie (Robert Downey Jr.), Max and Karen must figure out if and where they are going from here.
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Pastime 1991 PG, 94 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: One Cup of Coffee
Director: Robin B. Armstrong
Cast: William Russ, Scott Plank, Reed Rudy, Glenn Plummer, Ricky Paull Goldin, Peter Murnik, Deirdre O'Connell, Patrick O'Bryan, Noble Willingham, Charles Tyner, Jeffrey Tambor, Troy Evans
The love of baseball and the "simplicity" of the 1950s when the game meant more than the money–that's the theme of this film that follows aging pitcher Roy Dean Bream (William Russ) as his career nears an end with a losing minor league team. The manager is under pressure to let Roy go to make room for a new player, Tyrone (Glenn Plummer), the team's first black player. A friendship grows between the two, and Roy shows Tyrone his "special" pitch that once gave him a short stay in the major leagues. But, Roy's days are numbered on the team.
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Pronto 1997  R, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jim McBride
Cast: Peter Falk, Glenne Headly, James LeGros, Sergio Castellitto, Walter Olkewicz, Luis Guzman, Bradford Tatum, Laird Stuart, Glenn Plummer, Therese Kablan
This story begins in Miami's South Beach and ends up on the Italian Riviera as a bookie, Harry Arno (Peter Falk), and his ex-stripper girlfriend, Doris Patton (Glenne Headly), strive to keep one step ahead of the Mafia AND U.S. government agents.
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Ruby's Bucket of Blood 2001 PG-13, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Peter Werner
Cast: Angela Bassett, Kevin Anderson, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Jurnee Smollett, Glenn Plummer, Angelica Torn, Arnold Pinnock, Martin Villafana, Cabral Richards, David Ferry
Ruby's (Angela Bassett) Louisiana nightclub is a popular joint in the early 1960s, and Ruby herself leads a hectic life. Then Billy Dupre (Kevin Anderson), a singer who is booked for the club, arrives on the scene, and Ruby's life gets more complicated when an affair with Billy begins. Made for cable TV.
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The Salton Sea 2002 R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: D.J. Caruso
Cast: Val Kilmer, Vincent D'Onofrio, Adam Goldberg, Luis Guzman, Doug Hutchison, Anthony LaPaglia, Glenn Plummer, Meat Loaf, Peter Sarsgaard, Deborah Kara Unger
California's Salton Sea is the metaphor for drug addiction in this story about Danny Parker (Val Kilmer) who, after his wife's murder, infiltrates the drug world as a dealer where he seeks to avenge her death.
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 Saw II 2005 R, 93 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Darren Lynn Bousman
Cast: Donnie Wahlberg, Shawnee Smith, Tobin Bell, Franky G, Glenn Plummer, Dina Meyer, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Beverley Mitchell, Erik Knudsen, Tim Burd, Noam Jenkins, Tony Nappo, Lyriq Bent, Noam Jenkins, Kelly Jones
Serial killer Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) has cancer and is eager to be put in jail thinking that his imprisonment will throw police off his trail. Once again, Jigsaw is punishing people who he believes have morally misbehaved. Detective Eric Matthews (Donnie Wahlberg) investigates and learns that Jigsaw has trapped Matthews' son Daniel (Erik Knudsen) and seven others in a house of horrors from which his unlucky captives must escape before the house fills with nerve gas. Every minute counts if they are to live through the horror.
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Showgirls 1995 NC-17, 130 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Cast: Elizabeth Berkley, William Shockley, Alan Rachins, Glenn Plummer, Kyle MacLachlan, Gina Gershon, Robert Davi, Al Ruscio, Gina Ravera, Lin Tucci
This was the first film in years to be given an "adults only" rating, and if there was ever a film exploiting women, this is it. The plot revolves around the so-called glamour of Las Vegas where beautiful women come in search of fame and end up stripping and whoring.
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South Central 1992 R, 99 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Steve Anderson
Cast: Glenn Plummer, Byron Minns, Lexie Bigham, Vincent Craig Dupree, Larita Shelby, Kevin Best, Big Daddy Wayne, Baldwin C. Sykes, Diane Manzo, Sal Landi
While serving time in prison, a gang member decides to come clean and, upon release, tries to convince his own son not to fall into the desperate life of gangs in his inner-city Los Angeles.
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 Speed 1994  R, 117 min.
Genre: Action / Thriller
Director: Jan de Bont
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock, Jeff Daniels, Joe Morton, Alan Ruck, Glenn Plummer, Richard Lineback, Beth Grant, Beau Starr, Hawthorne James, Carlos Carrasco, David Kriegel, Natsuko Ohama, Daniel Villareal
Mad bomber Howard Payne (Dennis Hopper) attempts and fails to extort money from the city by holding elevator passengers hostage, but L.A. cop Jack Traven (Keanu Reeves) and his partner Harry Temple (Jeff Daniels) come to the rescue. Now, Howard seeks vengeance by planting a bomb on a city bus that will explode when the bus goes less than 50 mph if Howard does not receive $3.7 million. In an effort to save the passengers, Jack boards the bus and tries to save all–especially the beautiful driver (Sandra Bullock). Oscars were won for Best Sound and Sound Effects.
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Strange Days 1995 R, 145 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Michael Wincott, Vincent D'Onofrio, Richard Edson, Glenn Plummer, Josef Sommer, Todd Graff
Set at the end of 1999, this is the story of an ex-cop (Ralph Fiennes) who has sunk to selling virtual-reality clips of other peoples' sex and violence to those who trade real life experiences for voyeurism.
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The Substitute 1996 R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Mandel
Cast: Tom Berenger, Ernie Hudson, Diane Venora, Glenn Plummer, Marc Anthony, Raymond Cruz, William Forsythe, Luis Guzman, Richard(2) Brooks, Sharron Corley
Shale (Tom Berenger) is a mercenary soldier who returns to the United States and visits Jane (Diane Venora), a high-school teacher he befriended in Latin America. When he finds her school is dominated by thugs, Shale comes to her aid and goes undercover as a teacher to break up a cocaine ring operating out of the school.
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Trespass 1992 R, 101 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Walter Hill
Cast: Bill Paxton, Ice-T, William Sadler, Ice Cube, Art Evans, Bruce A. Young, Glenn Plummer, De'voreaux White, Stoney Jackson, T.E. Russell
Two Arkansas firemen's (Bill Paxton and William Sadler) search for a treasure in gold ends up in an East St. Louis warehouse. While retrieving the gold, they witness a gang killing and are trapped. The gang leader (Ice-T) will stop at nothing in his attempt to get them.
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Up Close and Personal 1996  PG-13, 124 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jon Avnet
Cast: Robert Redford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Stockard Channing, Kate Nelligan, Glenn Plummer, Joe Mantegna, James Rebhorn, Noble Willingham, Dedee Pfeiffer, Miguel Sandoval
Tally (Michelle Pfeiffer) is an ambitious TV anchorwoman guided to success by the veteran Warren Justice (Robert Redford), with whom she becomes romantically involved in this story about the backstage world of TV news. 1 User Review
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| | Jonnne 08/28/2009 | | AWSOME MOVIE AWSOME ACTORS REDORD IS SOOOOOOO CUTE AND ROMANTIC AND JUST PERFECT IN THIS MOVIE AND MICHELLE PFIFFER JUST KEPT IT REAL |
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Wedlock 1991 R, 100 min.
Genre: Action
aka: Deadlock
Director: Lewis Teague
Cast: Rutger Hauer, Mimi Rogers, Joan Chen, James Remar, Stephen Tobolowsky, Basil Wallace, Grand L. Bush, Denis Forest, Glenn Plummer, Belle Avery
Set in the near future, Frank (Rutger Hauer) is in prison for stealing millions in diamonds, which have not been recovered. He is in a unisex prison where each convict is linked to an unknown partner, and if they are separated by more than 100 yards, explosive collars on each will detonate. Frank finds out that his partner is Tracy (Mimi Rogers), and the two plan an escape. The escape is successful, and they head for the diamonds. But members of his gang, including his fiancee, are on their trail.
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| 1. 100 Kilos (2001)
2. Colors (1988)
3. El Cortez (2006)
4. Frankie and Johnny (1991)
5. Interceptors (1999)
aka: Interceptor Force
aka: The Last Line of Defence
6. The Longshots (2008)
7. MacArthur Park (2001)
8. Menace II Society (1993)
9. One Night Stand (1997)
10. Pastime (1991)
aka: One Cup of Coffee
11. Pronto (1997)
12. Ruby's Bucket of Blood (2001)
13. The Salton Sea (2002)
14. Saw II (2005)
15. Showgirls (1995)
16. South Central (1992)
17. Speed (1994)
18. Strange Days (1995)
19. The Substitute (1996)
20. Trespass (1992)
21. Up Close and Personal (1996)
22. Wedlock (1991)
aka: Deadlock
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