Alive 1993  R, 123 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Frank Marshall
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Vincent Spano, Josh Hamilton, Bruce Ramsay, John Haymes Newton, David Kriegel, Illeana Douglas, John Malkovich, Kevin Breznahan, Jack Noseworthy
Cannibalism is practiced by the Uruguayan rugby team when they fight for survival in the Andes Mountains following their airplane crash.
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 Bella Mafia 1997  TV, 240 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: David Greene
Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Dennis Farina, Nastassja Kinski, Jennifer Tilly, Illeana Douglas, James Marsden, W. Earl Brown, Richard Portnow, Franco Nero, Peter Bogdanovich
Vanessa Redgrave won a Golden Globe nomination for her role of Graziella Luciano in this TV miniseries. The plot involves Graziella and her daughters-in-law who swear to avenge the Mafia murders of their husbands.
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The Californians 2005  PG, 87 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Jonathan Parker
Cast: Noah Wyle, Illeana Douglas, Kate Mara, Cloris Leachman, Joanne Whalley, Keith Carradine, Valerie Perrine, Jane Lynch, Michael Panes, Charles Martinet, Richard Gross, Erika Luckett
Real-estate developer Gavin Ransom (Noah Wyle) plans yet another gated community in California but runs into trouble when activist folksinger Zoe Tripp (Kate Mara) forms a bond with Gavin's sister, Olive (Illeana Douglas), and sings anthems protesting Gavin's real-estate plans.
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Cape Fear 1991 R, 128 min.
Genre: Drama / Horror / Thriller
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, Juliette Lewis, Joe Don Baker, Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck, Martin Balsam, Illeana Douglas, Fred Dalton Thompson, Antoni Corone, Zully Montero, Joel Kolker, Tamara Jones, Will Knickerbocker
After serving a 14-year prison sentence for sexual assault, psychopath Max Cady (Robert De Niro) is released from prison and sets out to get revenge against the lawyer, Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte), who was responsible for him being found guilty. Cady arrives in town and terrorizes the Bowden family–Sam, his wife Leigh (Jessica Lange), and teenage daughter Danielle (Juliette Lewis). Cady's acts of vengeance, including poisoning the family dog and sexually harassing Danielle, terrorize the family, and force the Bowden family into the inevitable final showdown. De Niro was nominated for Best Actor Oscar and Lewis received a nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
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 Dummy 2003 R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Greg Pritikin
Cast: Adrien Brody, Milla Jovovich, Illeana Douglas, Vera Farmiga, Jessica Walter, Ron Leibman, Jared Harris, Mirabella Pisani, Helen Hanft, Richmond Hoxie, Adam LeFevre, Poppi Kramer, Joanne Bayes, John Elsen, Tom Plotkin
Although it has been 10 years since his high-school graduation, Steven (Adrien Brody) still lives at his dysfunctional family's home. Jobless, he spends time as a ventriloquist talking to his dummy. His only friend, Fangora (Milla Jovovich), wants to be a punk rocker. But, together they join in self-discoveries about their roles in life and attain more than once was thought possible.
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Factory Girl 2006 R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George Hickenlooper
Cast: Sienna Miller, Guy Pearce, Jimmy Fallon, Hayden Christensen, Mena Suvari, Shawn Hatosy, Illeana Douglas, Jack Huston, Armin Amiri, Tara Summers, Beth Grant, James Naughton, Edward Herrmann, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Don Novello
Debutante Edie Sedgwick (Sienna Miller) drops out of college in 1965 and heads to New York hoping to escape a past filled with family tragedies. She meets young Andy Warhol (Guy Pearce) who tells her he will make her a star and features her in a series of art films. Edie gains stardom–only to find problems dealing with success, losing her grip on reality, and spiraling down into the world of drug and alcohol abuse.
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 Ghost World 2001  R, 110 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Terry Zwigoff
Cast: Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson, Steve Buscemi, Brad Renfro, Illeana Douglas, Bob Balaban, Teri Garr, Stacey Travis, Ashley Peldon, Dave Sheridan, Charles C. Stevenson Jr., Tom McGowan
Adapted from a comic book series about high-school friends who try to find their place in the lonely, fake world of suburbia, this film is both funny and insightful. Extroverted Enid (Thora Birch) and her direct opposite, Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson), plan to share an apartment but find their lives diverging as their interests change.
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Grace of My Heart 1996 R, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Allison Anders
Cast: Illeana Douglas, John Turturro, Eric Stoltz, Matt Dillon, Patsy Kensit, Bruce Davison, Jennifer Leigh Warren, Bridget Fonda, Peter Fonda, Chris Isaak
This is the story of Edna Buxton (Illeana Douglas) who wants to be a singer but becomes a songwriter instead and changes her name to Denise Waverly in the process. Her move from New York to Malibu and the people in the music business she meets along the way make for an interesting story.
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Hacks 1997 R, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Sink or Swim
Director: Gary Rosen
Cast: Stephen Rea, Illeana Douglas, John Ritter, Dave Foley, Richard Kind, Dusty Kay, Tom Arnold, Robert Patrick, Ryan O'Neal, Ricky Jay
TV script-writer Brian (Stephen Rea) is given the task of coming up with a new TV series–but he's out of ideas. Then, while at his routine poker game with his buds, Brian sees a couple on a balcony and gets an idea for the series. He meets the balcony-girl, offers to buy her life story, and then disappears with her. Well-known cast, but the film didn't hit it big.
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Happy, Texas 1999 PG-13, 104 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Mark Illsley
Cast: Jeremy Northam, Steve Zahn, William H. Macy, Ally Walker, Illeana Douglas, M.C. Gainey, Ron Perlman, Mo Gaffney, Paul Dooley, Tim Bagley
Two escaped cons, Harry Sawyer (Jeremy Northam) and Wayne Wayne Wayne Jr. (Steve Zahn), steal a camper belonging to two gay men who produce beauty pageants. When Sawyer and Wayne arrive in Happy, Texas, they are mistaken for the producers. As two heterosexual men, they quickly enjoy the benefits of their new station in life.
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Lansky 1999 R, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John McNaughton
Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Eric Roberts, Max Perlich, Anthony LaPaglia, Matthew Settle, Beverly D'Angelo, Illeana Douglas, Francis Guinan, Stanley DeSantis, Jeff Perry
This made-for-HBO crime film revolves around the life of the crime lord Meyer Lansky as it reviews his youth, gangster activities at the beginning of the 20th century, and his eventual rise to the top of the criminal world.
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 Message in a Bottle 1999  PG-13, 132 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Luis Mandoki
Cast: Kevin Costner, Robin Wright Penn, Paul Newman, John Savage, Illeana Douglas, Robbie Coltrane, Jesse James, Bethel Leslie, Tom Aldredge, Viveka Davis, Raphael Sbarge, Richard Hamilton, Rosemary Murphy, Steven Eckholdt, Susan Brightbill
Adapted from Nicholas Sparks' best-selling novel, this is a love story of beautiful, divorced mother Theresa Osborne (Robin Wright Penn) and lonely widower Garret Blake (Kevin Costner) who spends his life making sailboats AND sending love letters in bottles to sea as messages to his deceased wife. When Theresa finds one of the bottles and travels to North Carolina to meet this man who could love forever, love blooms anew. 2 User Reviews
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| | cece 08/04/2007 | | I love this movie it is one of my favorites, Kevin Costner always does well in a love story. |
| | RascalBrat 02/25/2007 | | Excellent love story. Beautifully filmed. A wonderful performance from Kevin Costner and Paul Newman. I highly recommend this movie to all audiences. |
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The New Guy 2002  PG-13, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Ed Decter
Cast: DJ Qualls, Lyle Lovett, Eddie Griffin, Eliza Dushku, Zooey Deschanel, Parry Shen, Jerod Mixon, Sunny Mabrey, Ross Patterson, Illeana Douglas
Expelled from high school, Dizzy Harrison (DJ Qualls) enrolls in another school where he adopts a new persona: that of cool, popular Gil. All goes well–for awhile–until the truth comes out.
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 The Next Best Thing 2000 PG-13, 107 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: John Schlesinger
Cast: Madonna, Rupert Everett, Illeana Douglas, Benjamin Bratt, Michael Vartan, Josef Sommer, Lynn Redgrave, Stacy Edwards, Neil Patrick Harris, Suzanne Krull
Gay Robert (Rupert Everett) and his good friend straight Abbie (Madonna) have a drunken rumble between the sheets and a baby results. They decide to live together but still continue their own lifestyles. Then a man comes along, and Abbie wants to take the baby and relocate. Now the humor ends and the seriousness begins.
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 Picture Perfect 1997 PG-13, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Glenn Gordon Caron
Cast: Jennifer Aniston, Jay Mohr, Kevin Bacon, Olympia Dukakis, Illeana Douglas, Kevin Dunn, Anne Twomey, Faith Prince, John Rothman, Margaret Gibson
Kate Mosley (Jennifer Aniston) is an ad copywriter who launches a very successful campaign but loses out on a promotion she deserves. The fun begins when she hires Nick (Jay Mohr) to play her boyfriend, and sparks fly.
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Point of Origin 2002 R, 88 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Newton Thomas Sigel
Cast: Ray Liotta, John Leguizamo, Colm Feore, Cliff Curtis, Bai Ling, Illeana Douglas, Ronny Cox, Trent Gill, Shashawnee Hall, Nora Zehetner, Marshall Manesh
This made-for-HBO film is based on the true story of a serial arsonist in Glendale, CA, and the efforts of a top arson investigator (Ray Liotta) and his group to bring the fire-starter to justice.
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Rough Riders 1997 TV, 240 min.
Genre: Action / Drama
Director: John Milius
Cast: Tom Berenger, Sam Elliott, Gary Busey, Brad Johnson, Illeana Douglas, Chris Noth, Brian Keith, George Hamilton, R. Lee Ermey, Nick Chinlund, Dale Dye, Holt McCallany, Geoffrey Lewis, James Parks, Dakin Matthews
When he was Navy Assistant Secretary, Theodore Roosevelt enlisted his voluntary "Rough Riders" cavalry to join Cuban rebels in the Spanish American War. The focus is on battle scenes and the macho world of men proving their "manhood." Never mind the fact that most of the story was invented by Roosevelt who loved playing a hero.
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Search and Destroy 1995 R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: David Salle
Cast: Griffin Dunne, Illeana Douglas, Dennis Hopper, Christopher Walken, John Turturro, Robert Knepper, Martin Scorsese, Rosanna Arquette, Tahnee Welch, Ethan Hawke
An enterprising (albeit inept) businessman (Griffin Dunne) plans to make money by turning an evangelist's (Dennis Hopper) book into a movie, but nothing seems to go right.
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 Stir of Echoes 1999  R, 110 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: David Koepp
Cast: Kevin Bacon, Kathryn Erbe, Illeana Douglas, Kevin Dunn, Conor O'Farrell, Zachary David Cope, Stephen Eugene Walker, Mary Kay Cook, Liza Weil, Jennifer Morrison
It only took one neighborhood party, during which he was briefly hypnotized, for Tom Witzky (Kevin Bacon) to begin experiencing haunting visions. Even more unsettling is the fact that Tom is not the only one seeing the supernatural; his son Jake (Zachary David Cope) talks to those unseen forces. Before long, Tom and Jake become convinced that their house is haunted, and the whole supernatural thing takes quite a toll on Tom.
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Surviving Eden 2004 N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Greg Pritikin
Cast: Michael Panes, Cheri Oteri, Savannah Haske, Jane Lynch, Sam Robards, Peter Dinklage, John Landis, Conchata Ferrel, Billy Nash, Jackie Katzman, Kentaro Abe, Gary Rosen, Illeana Douglas, Tim Lane
In this satirical look at "15 minutes of fame," overweight loser Dennis Flotchky (Michael Panes) enters a reality show for weight loss, "Surviving Eden," in which the winning contestant will take home one million dollars. Dennis loses 200 lbs., gains his own fan club, and wins the big prize. He has found fame, but it goes to his head. Soon, his money is stolen, he is into drugs, loses his self-respect, and pays the emotional price for his fame.
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To Die For 1995 R, 106 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Gus Van Sant
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Matt Dillon, Joaquin Phoenix, Buck Henry, Casey Affleck, Illeana Douglas, Dan Hedaya, Wayne Knight, Kurtwood Smith, Maria Tucci, Alison Folland, Holland Taylor, Susan Traylor, Tim Hooper, Michael Rispoli
This is a story about ambition gone berserk. Obsessed with gaining fame, TV personality Suzanne Stone (Nicole Kidman) is upset when her husband Larry (Matt Dillon) wants her to give up her TV career and start a family. She prepares a documentary, "Teens Speak Out," through which she works with teenagers Jimmy (Joaquin Phoenix), Russell (Casey Affleck), and Lydia (Alison Folland). Then she hatches a plot: seduce Jimmy and get him to kill Larry–knowing that the tabloids will cover the story and bring her the notoriety she dreams of. But, of course, more than a few problems ensue that end up with her downfall.
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Weapons of Mass Distraction 1997 R, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Stephen Surjik
Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Ben Kingsley, Mimi Rogers, Jeffrey Tambor, Illeana Douglas, Chris Mulkey, Paul Mazursky, Kathy Baker, R. Lee Ermey, Jason Lee
Two media tycoons, Lionel Powers (Gabriel Byrne) and Julian Messenger (Ben Kingsley), vie for ownership of a champion football team, and their efforts lead to the destruction of their families as well as their own reputations.
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Wedding Bell Blues 1996 R, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Dana Lustig
Cast: Illeana Douglas, Paulina Porizkova, Julie Warner, John Corbett, Jonathan Penner, Charles Martin Smith, Richard Edson, Debbie Reynolds, Stephanie Beacham, Leo Rossi
Three unmarried career women head to Las Vegas looking for quick marriages followed by equally quick divorces so they can turn 30-years of age as divorcees instead of old maids.
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| 1. Alive (1993)
2. Bella Mafia (1997)
3. The Californians (2005)
4. Cape Fear (1991)
5. Dummy (2003)
6. Factory Girl (2006)
7. Ghost World (2001)
8. Grace of My Heart (1996)
9. Hacks (1997)
aka: Sink or Swim
10. Happy, Texas (1999)
11. Lansky (1999)
12. Message in a Bottle (1999)
13. The New Guy (2002)
14. The Next Best Thing (2000)
15. Picture Perfect (1997)
16. Point of Origin (2002)
17. Rough Riders (1997)
18. Search and Destroy (1995)
19. Stir of Echoes (1999)
20. Surviving Eden (2004)
21. To Die For (1995)
22. Weapons of Mass Distraction (1997)
23. Wedding Bell Blues (1996)
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