At Sachem Farm 1998  PG, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Uncorked
Director: John Huddles
Cast: Rufus Sewell, Nigel Hawthorne, Minnie Driver, Amelia Heinle, Michael E. Rodgers, Keone Young, Gregory Sporleder, Chalvay Srichoom, Jim Beaver
A somewhat dysfunctional family of transplanted Brits lives in the wine country of California. Ross (Rufus Sewell) is bankrupt and decides to sell the family's wine collection to finance yet another venture, but eccentric Uncle Cullen (Nigel Hawthorne) has plans of his own. An entertaining film.
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 The Big Bounce 2004  PG-13, 88 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy / Thriller
Director: George Armitage
Cast: Owen Wilson, Sara Foster, Morgan Freeman, Charlie Sheen, Gary Sinise, Bebe Neuwirth, Vinnie Jones, Gregory Sporleder, Anahit Minasyan, Willie Nelson, Harry Dean Stanton, Andrew Wilson, Tony Dorsett, Brian L. Keaulana, Brian Costa
After getting in trouble with the law, drifter/con man Jack Ryan (Owen Wilson) is saved when Judge Karen H. Wyatt (Morgan Freeman) offers him a job as a handyman. All should go well, and it does–until Jack meets Nancy (Sara Foster) who wants his help in stealing $2,000,000. The plot thickens.
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Clay Pigeons 1998 R, 104 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: David Dobkin
Cast: Vince Vaughn, Janeane Garofalo, Joaquin Phoenix, Georgina Cates, Phil Morris, Scott Wilson, Gregory Sporleder, Vince Vieluf, Monica Moench, Joseph D. Reitman
People are dropping like flies in a small Montana town, and FBI agent Dale Shelby (Janeane Garofalo) thinks the evidence points to Clay Bidwell (Joaquin Phoenix), a local gas station attendant.
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Men with Guns 1997 R, 89 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Kari Skogland
Cast: Donal Logue, Gregory Sporleder, Callum Keith Rennie, Max Perlich, Paul Sorvino, Joseph Griffin, William MacDonald, Derek Ritschel, Maureen Cryan, Jack(2) Duffy
Eddie and Lucas (Donal Logue and Gregory Sporleder) are small-time Toronto hoods who try to go big-time after being humiliated while trying to collect on a debt. They obtain guns, blow away the guys who humiliated them, and get away with a drug king's stash of cocaine. That was a mistake, since they are still small-time operators.
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 The Rock 1996 R, 129 min.
Genre: Action / Thriller
Director: Michael Bay
Cast: Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris, David Morse, William Forsythe, Michael Biehn, John Spencer, John C. McGinley, Bokeem Woodbine, Tony Todd, Vanessa Marcil, Gregory Sporleder, Brendan Kelly, Greg Collins
Self-proclaimed patriots, led by Brigadier General Frank Hummel (Ed Harris), hold 81 tourists hostage on Alcatraz and aim deadly nerve gas at San Francisco in an attempt to get funds to support families of those Americans who died performing covert government missions. Navy SEALs–assisted by the only man who ever escaped from Alcatraz, John Patrick Mason (Sean Connery)–are sent in to rescue the hostages. Also helping lead the mission is FBI chemical weapons expert Stanley Goodspeed (Nicolas Cage). The SEALs head out on their mission to break into Alcatraz, but they are ambushed. Now it is up to Mason and Goodspeed to complete the mission.
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Skin and Bone 1996  N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Everett Lewis
Cast: B. Wyatt, Alan Boyce, Nicole Dillenberg, Garrett Scullin, Chad Kula, Susannah Melvoin, Clark Brolly, Gregory Sporleder, Richard Mitrani, Chris Wetzel
Harry (B. Wyatt), Dean (Alan Boyce), and Billy (Garrett Scullin) work for their agent, Ghislaine (Nicole Dillenberg), who contracts with rich women to fulfill their sexual fantasies.
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Trouble Bound 1992  R, 90 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Jeffrey Reiner
Cast: Michael Madsen, Patricia Arquette, Sal Jenco, Darren Epton, Florence Stanley, Seymour Cassel, Billy Bob Thornton, Paul Ben-Victor, Vincent Guastaferro, Gregory Sporleder, Rustam Branaman
Fresh out of jail, Harry (Michael Madsen) wins money and a car in a poker game. What he doesn't know is that the game was fixed, and the car's trunk contains a body. So it's on the road for our hero in search of other card games. He picks up a hitchhiker, Kit (Patricia Arquette), who is searching for her father's killer. When Harry's "friends" find out that the body in the trunk contains keys to a cash box, they hit the road in pursuit. Meanwhile, Kit's grandmother (Florence Stanley), a crime boss who wants to merge with the gang responsible for Kit's father's death, has her thugs chasing Kit. Boy, don't Harry and Kit have BIG problems?
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 Twister 1996  PG-13, 113 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama / Thriller
Director: Jan de Bont
Cast: Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Cary Elwes, Jami Gertz, Lois Smith, Alan Ruck, Zach Grenier, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Scott Thomson, Todd Field, Sean Whalen, Gregory Sporleder, Joey Slotnick, Wendle Josepher
An unfunded team of university researchers–including Bill Harding (Bill Paxton), his soon-to-be ex-wife Jo (Helen Hunt), and Bill's new fiancee Melissa (Jami Gertz)–chase tornadoes to obtain scientific data useful for prediction and control of the deadly twisters. While the love triangle lacks substance, the special effects of tornadoes are excellent and make this a movie worth watching. Academy Award nominations were received for Best Special Effects and Sound.
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| 1. At Sachem Farm (1998)
aka: Uncorked
2. The Big Bounce (2004)
3. Clay Pigeons (1998)
4. Men with Guns (1997)
5. The Rock (1996)
6. Skin and Bone (1996)
7. Trouble Bound (1992)
8. Twister (1996)
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