Apology 1986  TV, 98 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Robert Bierman
Cast: Lesley Ann Warren, Peter Weller, George Loros, John Glover, Chris Noth, Jimmie Ray Weeks, Harvey Fierstein
In this made-for-cable TV movie, an artist, as inspiration for a recent project, sets up a phone service into which people call to confess their sins. Trouble begins, however, when one caller goes on a killing spree as a means of having something to add to the phone service.
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Celluloid Closet 1996  R, 102 min.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Robert Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Cast: Stewart Stern, Tony Curtis, Whoopi Goldberg, Harvey Fierstein, Gore Vidal, Paul Rudnick, Shirley MacLaine, Quentin Crisp, Tom Hanks
This excellent documentary shows how images of homosexuality have appeared in the medium of film–in spite of cultural disapproval. Many guest stars.
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 Death to Smoochy 2002 R, 108 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Danny DeVito
Cast: Robin Williams, Edward Norton, Danny DeVito, Jon Stewart, Catherine Keener, Harvey Fierstein, Pam Ferris, Michael Rispoli, Vincent Schiavelli, Salma Hayek
Fired from his job as host of a children's TV show, bribe-taking, foul-mouthed "Rainbow"/Randolph Smiley (Robin Williams) plots against his too-good-to-be-true replacement–a purple rhino, "Smoochy"/Sheldon Mopes (Edward Norton).
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Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde 1995  PG, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: David Price
Cast: Sean Young, Tim Daly, Lysette Anthony, Stephen Tobolowsky, Harvey Fierstein, Thea Vidale, Jeremy Piven, Polly Bergen, Stephen Shellen, Sheena Larkin, John Franklyn-Robbins, Aron Tager, Kim Morgan Greene, Jane Connell, Julie Cobb
A frustrated chemist, Dr. Richard Jacks (Tim Daly), creates perfumes in NYC. One day, Jack reads the notebooks filled with experiments of his great-grandfather, Dr. Henry Jekyll. Jack decides to try his own experiment; however, the results are different from those of his ancestor. Instead of creating a beast, Jack creates a beautiful woman, Helen Hyde (Sean Young). But wait, Helen's nymphomaniac personality may just be Jack's ticket to the top of the perfume industry.
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 Duplex 2003  PG-13, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Danny DeVito
Cast: Ben Stiller, Drew Barrymore, Eileen Essell, Harvey Fierstein, Justin Theroux, James Remar, Robert Wisdom, Swoosie Kurtz, Wallace Shawn, Maya Rudolph, Amber Valletta, Cheryl Klein
Alex and Nancy (Ben Stiller and Drew Barrymore) move into the "perfect" duplex in the "perfect" neighborhood. But, they have one problem: Mrs. Connelly (Eileen Essel), a rent-controlled tenant who lives upstairs and carries her own set of problems. Troubles abound, and even more enter the picture when Alex and Nancy try to get rid of Mrs. Connelly.
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Farce of the Penguins 2007  N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Bob Saget
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Bob Saget, Christina Applegate, Lewis Black, Mo'Nique, Tracy Morgan, Jason Biggs, Dane Cook, Jamie Kennedy, Norm MacDonald, Jason Alexander, James Belushi, Whoopi Goldberg, Jon Lovitz, Harvey Fierstein
In this mockumentary, writer-director Bob Saget teams with an all-star cast providing voices of raunchy penguins as they cross icy Antarctica.
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Garbo Talks 1984 PG-13, 103 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Sidney Lumet
Cast: Anne Bancroft, Ron Silver, Carrie Fisher, Catherine Hicks, Steven Hill, Howard Da Silva, Dorothy Loudon, Hermione Gingold, Harvey Fierstein, Richard B. Shull
Estelle Rolphe (Anne Bancroft) is dying, and her last wish is to meet Greta Garbo. Her son Gilbert (Ron Silver) is determined to grant his mother's request.
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 Independence Day 1996   PG-13, 145 min.
Genre: Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Director: Roland Emmerich
Cast: Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsch, Harry Connick Jr., Robert Loggia, Randy Quaid, Harvey Fierstein, Vivica A. Fox, James Rebhorn, Adam Baldwin, Brent Spiner, Margaret Colin
Gigantic spacecrafts enter the Earth's atmosphere with the mission of destroying the planet. The American President Thomas J. Whitmore (Bill Pullman) rallies the countries of the world to participate in a joint venture against the threatening aliens. Now the Capitol and White House have been destroyed by the aliens, fighter pilot Captain Steven Hiller (Will Smith) and his squadron attack the aliens, and the adventures begin. 2 User Reviews
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| | Grandma 2003 03/15/2009 | | Even though it's Not believable, it's still a good movie! My favorite part was when Cpt. Hiller, played by Will Smith, punched the alien in the face and welcomed him to Earth! Then, there was the part when David finally figured out that the best way to get rid of them was to give them a "cold"! A virus, of all things!!!! Great stuff! |
| | Hee Hee | 1fatts 10/12/2007 | So there are levels of suspending disbelief.
Those aren't real people living through that stuff on the screen. They're actors. We know that. But we suspend disbelief and play along with Clark Gable dissing Vivian Leigh because otherwise we wouldn't enjoy the movie.
But, as I say, there are levels.
Road Runner can't really run into the picture of the train tracks that Wiley Coyote has painted on the rock, and Wiley Coyote can't get run over by the train. We know that too, but we are ready to go further in suspending disbelief to enjoy the cartoon.
Levels.
There ain't much that's even vaguely plausible in Independence Day. The scriptwriters couldn't have taken anything they wrote seriously. Certainly not the dialogue. Certainly not the plot. There really are critics out there who wanted to talk about the Jew and the Black Man saving the planet as some symbolic turn in the demographic history of the United States. Really. They really wrote that.
This is a silly movie. It has really nice special effects. Things blow up good! People say silly things and defeat bad aliens from somewhere bad. And Data has funny hair and glasses.
You go "Wow!" at the special effects and "Hee Hee" at the silly plot and the silly dialogue and eat popcorn and drink $6.00 cups of over-sweet coca cola.
That's what this movie is for, and it does that job just fine. If you want plot, dialogue, character development . . . stay home.
Wiley Coyote draws the train tracks on the rock and Road Runner runs into the picture, down the tracks and into the tunnel.
Hee hee. |
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Kull the Conqueror 1997 PG-13, 106 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: John Nicolella
Cast: Kevin Sorbo, Tia Carrere, Thomas Ian Griffith, Litefoot, Roy Brocksmith, Harvey Fierstein, Karina Lombard, Sven-Ole Thorsen, Edward Tudor-Pole, Douglas Henshall
Barbarian Kull (Kevin Sorbo) kills King Borna (Sven-Ole Thorsen) and takes over the mythical land of Valusia, but Kull is soon threatened by others who have their own barbaric dreams of attaining the throne.
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 Mrs. Doubtfire 1993 PG-13, 119 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Chris Columbus
Cast: Robin Williams, Sally Field, Pierce Brosnan, Harvey Fierstein, Polly Holliday, Mara Wilson, Robert Prosky, Martin Mull, Paul(2) Guilfoyle, Rick Overton, Lisa Jakub, Matthew Lawrence, Anne Haney, Sydney Walker
Miranda (Sally Field) received custody of the children when she divorced Daniel (Robin Williams). Daniel misses his family and disguises himself as a British housekeeper to get back inside the family circle. And the fun begins.
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 Mulan 1998 G, 88 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Adventure / Comedy / Musical
Director: Tony Bancroft, Barry Cook
Cast: Ming-Na, Lea Salonga, Eddie Murphy, B.D. Wong, Donny Osmond, Harvey Fierstein, James Hong, Gedde Watanabe, Miguel Ferrer, Soon-Tek Oh, June Foray, Miriam Margolyes, Pat Morita, James Shigeta, George Takei
Disney presents this classic story, which is set in ancient China. Mulan (voice of Ming-Na, singing voice of Lea Salonga) is a Chinese maiden who dresses as a male and joins the army to fend off the invading Mongols. She prays for help from her ancestors, and they send the 18-inches tall dragon Mushu (voice of Eddie Murphy) to protect Mulan. Mulan hides Mushu from others but takes Mushu with her when she joins the command of Captain Shang (B.D. Wong, singing voice of Donny Osmond), and risks everything to gain victory over the Huns.
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Mulan II 2004 G, 79 min.
Genre: Family / Animation / Adventure / Comedy / Musical
Director: Darrell Rooney, Lynne Southerland
Cast: Ming-Na, Lea Salonga, B.D. Wong, Mark Moseley, Lucy Liu, Harvey Fierstein, Sandra Oh, Gedde Watanabe, Lauren Tom, Jerry Tondo, Pat Morita, George Takei, June Forey, Soon-Tek Oh, Frank Welker
Mulan (voice of Ming-Na/singing voice of Lea Salonga) is engaged to marry General Shang (voice of B.D. Wong) when the Emperor (voice of Pat Morita) calls on them to serve as bodyguards for his daughters Mei, Su, and Ting (voices of Lucy Liu, Lauren Tom, and Sandra Oh) when they travel to a foreign land for arranged marriages that will help gain peace between nations. The trek proves difficult, and Mulan's dragon sidekick Mushu (voice of Mark Moseley) contributes to problems because he knows that his job will end if Mulan and Shang marry. Along the way, Mulan realizes that the princesses are being forced into loveless marriages and decides to help them escape their fate.
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Safe Men 1998 R, 89 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: John Hamburg
Cast: Sam Rockwell, Steve Zahn, Paul Giamatti, Michael Lerner, Mark Ruffalo, Harvey Fierstein, Michael Schmidt, Christina Kirk, Peter Dinklage, Josh Pais, Michael Showalter, John Hamburg, Raymond Serra, Ray Iannicelli, Jacob Reynolds
Set in Providence, Rhode Island, this comedy involves the humorous result of mistaken identities. An untalented singing duo, Sam (Sam Rockwell) and Eddie (Steve Zahn), are mistaken for a pair of ace safecrackers–Mitchell (Josh Pais) and Frank (Mark Ruffalo)–by Jewish Mafia bigwigs Big Fat Bernie Gayle (Michael Lerner) and Veal Chop (Paul Giamatti). The fun begins as Sam and Eddie are forced into the business, and their work conflicts with the real safecrackers.
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The Times of Harvey Milk 1984  N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Robert Epstein
Cast: Harvey Fierstein
On 22 November 1978, a gay member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Harvey Milk, and Mayor George Moscone were assassinated. This Academy Award-winning documentary focuses on the life of Harvey Milk and provides an insightful perspective of the event as well as San Francisco culture.
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Torch Song Trilogy 1988 R, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Paul Bogart
Cast: Harvey Fierstein, Anne Bancroft, Matthew Broderick, Brian Kerwin, Karen Young, Ken Page, Bob Minor, Eddy Castrodad, Charles Pierce, Axel Vera
Female impersonator Arnold Beckoff (Harvey Fierstein) is lonely and looking for love. He falls in love with a man he meets in a gay bar (Brian Kerwin) and is heart-broken when he later finds him in the arms of a woman. From Fierstein's popular Broadway play.
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The Year Without a Santa Claus 2006  TV, 95 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy / Fantasy
Director: Ron Underwood
Cast: John Goodman, Chris Kattan, Ethan Suplee, Eddie Griffin, Delta Burke, Harvey Fierstein, Michael McKean, Carol Kane, Carson Kressley, Dylan Minnette, Lara Grice, Tracey Walter, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, Jack LaLanne, Andrea Powell
The worst has happened: children have forgotten the true meaning of Christmas–or so Santa (John Goodman) believes. He decides to take the year off, and he will not deliver any gifts. This doesn't sit well with his most loyal elves, Jingle and Jangle (Ethan Suplee and Eddie Griffin), who try to prove to Santa that he is wrong. Unfortunately for them, Sparky (Chris Kattan) is making their job an awful lot harder. This story delivers loads of Christmas spirit. (Review by LW)
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| 1. Apology (1986)
2. Celluloid Closet (1996)
3. Death to Smoochy (2002)
4. Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde (1995)
5. Duplex (2003)
6. Farce of the Penguins (2007)
7. Garbo Talks (1984)
8. Independence Day (1996)
9. Kull the Conqueror (1997)
10. Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
11. Mulan (1998)
12. Mulan II (2004)
13. Safe Men (1998)
14. The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)
15. Torch Song Trilogy (1988)
16. The Year Without a Santa Claus (2006)
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