8 Million Ways to Die 1986   R, 115 min.
Genre: Drama / Action / Adventure / Thriller
Director: Hal Ashby
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Rosanna Arquette, Alexandra Paul, Randy Brooks, Andy Garcia, Lisa Sloan, Christa Denton, Vance Valencia, Tommy "Tiny" Lister, Danny De La Paz, Wilfredo Hernandez, Luisa Leschin, Vyto Ruginis, James Avery, Chip Arnold
During a narcotics raid, alcoholic Detective Matt Scudder (Jeff Bridges) shoots and kills a suspect and now must live with the consequences. Trying to clean up his act, Matt attends Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and attends a party where he meets prostitute Sunny (Alexandra Paul) and her pimp Chance (Randy Brooks). Later, when Sunny is killed, Matt enters the world of drug dealer Angel (Andy Garcia) in order to solve the murder and finds his chance for a new life with ex-prostitute Sarah (Rosanna Arquette) with whom he falls in love. 1 User Review
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| | MOVIE HUNTERS 03/25/2009 | | ONE OF ANDY GARCIA'S BEST PERFORMANCE'S, YOU WILL ENJOY ALL THE ACTOR'S IN THEIR YOUNG YEARS AS THE MOVIE YEAR WAS 1986. ENJOY!! |
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 Being There 1979  PG, 130 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Hal Ashby
Cast: Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden, Richard Dysart, Richard Basehart, Ruth Attaway, David Clennon, Richard Venture, Fran Brill, Denise DuBarry, Ernest McClure, Oteil Burbridge, Ravenell Keller III, Donald Jacob
Simple-minded gardener Chance (Peter Sellers) is suddenly placed in the real world instead of the television world through which he has experienced life. When asked for political and financial advice, his naive answers are mistaken for insightful, intelligent answers. Melvyn Douglas won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor in his role as a political kingmaker and Peter Sellers was nominated for Best Actor.
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Bound for Glory 1976  PG, 147 min.
Genre: Drama / Musical
Director: Hal Ashby
Cast: David Carradine, Ronny Cox, Melinda Dillon, Gail Strickland, John Lehne, Ji-Tu Cumbuka, Randy Quaid, M. Emmet Walsh, Evelyn Russell, Elizabeth Macey, Tani Guthrie, James Jeter, Robert Sorrells, Guthrie Thomas, Wendy Schaal
During the Depression, Woody Guthrie (David Carradine), like many others, rode the trains throughout America. Broke and disillusioned, these people hoped for more out of life. One man, Woody Guthrie, survived and lived to write music for the whole world to enjoy. The film received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Writing and won for Cinematography and Musical Score.
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Coming Home 1978 R, 127 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Hal Ashby
Cast: Jon Voight, Jane Fonda, Bruce Dern, Penelope Milford, Robert Carradine, Robert Ginty, Mary Gregory, Kathleen Miller, Beeson Carroll, Charles Cyphers, Willie Tyler, Louis Carello, Olivia Cole, Bruce French, Tresa Hughes
This film does a good, though biased, job of relating people's emotions over the Vietnam War. It tells the story of U.S. Marine Corps Captain Bob Hyde (Bruce Dern) and his wife Sally's (Jane Fonda) affair with paraplegic war veteran Luke Martin (John Voight). Jane Fonda and Jon Voight won Academy Awards for Best Actress and Actor. An Oscar was also awarded for Best Screenplay, and five nominations were received, including Best Picture, Director, Supporting Actor (Dern) and Actress (Penelope Milford as Sally's troubled friend Vi). 1 User Review
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| | K.C. 07/17/2010 | | After seeing this movie, it does bring back so many memories of the 60's & what our military had to go through when they came back from Viet Nam. It was a hellish war. I enjoyed this movie, especially Jon Voight. |
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 Harold and Maude 1971 PG, 91 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Hal Ashby
Cast: Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort, Vivian Pickles, Ellen Geer, Cyril Cusack, Charles Tyner, Eric Christmas, G. Wood, William Lucking, Judy Engles, Shari Summers, Tom Skerritt, Susan Madigan, Ray K. Goman, Hal Ashby
This cult classic is a dark comedy in which 19-year-old Harold (Bud Cort), who is obsessed with death, demonstrates creative ways to fake his own death to scare his dominating mother (Vivian Pickles). His mother wants him to start dating, but Harold is busy attending funerals and has no time for women in his life. While attending a funeral, Harold meets and then falls in love with swinging, life-loving 79-year-old Maude (Ruth Gordon)–much to the disgust of his mother. But, as Harold passes into manhood, Maude teaches him lessons about how best to spend his time on Earth. Good soundtrack by Cat Stevens.
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The Last Detail 1973 R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Hal Ashby
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Otis Young, Randy Quaid, Clifton James, Carol Kane, Michael Moriarty, Luana Anders, Nancy Allen, Gilda Radner, Kathleen Miller
While two sailors in the U.S. Navy are awaiting transfer, they are given the job of escorting another sailor to the brig at Portsmouth Naval Base. Along the way, they decide to let their prisoner have a few good days before reaching the prison. Nicholson and Quaid were both nominated for Oscars.
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Lookin' to Get Out 1982  R, 104 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Hal Ashby
Cast: Jon Voight, Ann - Margret, Burt Young, Bert Remsen, Jude Farese, Allen Keller, Richard Bradford, Stacey Pickren, Marcheline Bertrand, Fox Harris, Samantha Harper, Kenneth L. Cohen, Angelina Jolie, Jack Andreozzi, Siegfried Fischbacher
Two small-time hustlers, Alex Kovac (Jon Voight) and Jerry Feldman (Burt Young), head for Las Vegas and the MGM Grand Hotel with big plans to change their string of bad luck after Alex loses $10,000 in a poker game with mob members. When they arrive in Las Vegas, Alex reunites with his ex-girlfriend former call girl Patti Warner (Ann-Margret), and they set out to make big money at the casino.
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Second-Hand Hearts 1981 PG, 102 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: The Hamster of Happiness
Director: Hal Ashby
Cast: Robert Blake, Barbara Harris, Collin Boone, Amber Rose Gold, Bert Remsen, Shirley Stoler, Sondra Blake, Gwen van Dam, David Welch, Louis Williams, Larry Bettis, Carol Cox, Kenneth Osman, Elisa Martinez, Patricia Wilcox
Traveling in an old station wagon, Loyal Mike (Robert Blake) and his bride, Dinette Dusty (Barbara Harris), with her children in tow, make their way to their California destination–amidst wrong turns and mechanical breakdowns.
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Shampoo 1975  R, 112 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Hal Ashby
Cast: Warren Beatty, Goldie Hawn, Julie Christie, Lee Grant, Jack Warden, Tony Bill, Carrie Fisher, Howard Hesseman, Jay Robinson, George Furth, Ann Weldon, Luana Anders, Randy Scheer, Susanna Moore, Brad Dexter
Beverly Hills hair stylist George Roundy (Warren Beatty) ends up in bed with almost all of his clients. A few days before Election Day, 1968, George is fooling around with his mistress Felicia (Lee Grant) when he gets a phone call from ex-girlfriend Jill (Goldie Hawn) and then spends the night with her. He meets Felicia's husband Lester (Jack Warden) in an attempt to get money to buy his own salon, and Lester asks George to escort another ex-girlfriend Jackie (Julie Christie), who is now Lester's mistress, to a banquet for Nixon supporters. George agrees, but the party proves to be his downfall. Lee Grant received an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, and Jack Warden was nominated for Best Supporting Actor.
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The Slugger's Wife 1985  PG-13, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy / Musical / Romance
aka: Neil Simon's The Slugger's Wife
Director: Hal Ashby
Cast: Michael O'Keefe, Rebecca De Mornay, Martin Ritt, Randy Quaid, Cleavant Derricks, Lisa Langlois, Loudon Wainwright III, Georgann Johnson, Danny Tucker, Lynn Whitfield, Al Garrison, NiCandra Hood, Ginger Taylor, Kay McClelland, Julie Kemp
Atlanta Braves power-hitter Darryl Palmer (Michael O'Keefe) falls in love with and marries rock singer Debby (Rebecca De Mornay). But almost immediately, a clash in their careers looms when Darryl finds that he can't hit when Debby is not present, and she feels trapped with no time for the music business.
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| 1. 8 Million Ways to Die (1986)
2. Being There (1979)
3. Bound for Glory (1976)
4. Coming Home (1978)
5. Harold and Maude (1971)
6. The Last Detail (1973)
7. Lookin' to Get Out (1982)
8. Second-Hand Hearts (1981)
aka: The Hamster of Happiness
9. Shampoo (1975)
10. The Slugger's Wife (1985)
aka: Neil Simon's The Slugger's Wife
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