Above the Law 1988  PG-13, 99 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
Director: Andrew Davis
Cast: Steven Seagal, Pam Grier, Sharon Stone, Daniel Faraldo, Henry Silva, Joe Greco, Jack Wallace, Ron Dean, Thalmus Rasulala, Miguel Nino, Nicholas Kusenko, Chelcie Ross, Metta Davis, Joseph F. Kosala, Ronnie Barron
This film marks hunky, martial arts expert-turned-actor Steven Seagal's debut as a police detective on the scent of one of the biggest drug kingpins in Chicago. When the Feds tell him to leave the guy alone, surprise! The plot becomes as complicated as Seagal's magnetic detective. Good action includes a hero up there in the category of "Dirty Harry."
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 Death Wish 1974  R, 93 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Michael Winner
Cast: Charles Bronson, Hope Lange, Vincent Gardenia, Jeff Goldblum, Steven Keats, William Redfield, Stuart Margolin, Stephen Elliott, Olympia Dukakis, Christopher Guest, Kathleen Tolan, Jack Wallace
When a liberal architect's (Charles Bronson) wife (Hope Lange) is murdered and his daughter (Kathleen Tolan) is terrorized into a comatose state by muggers, he takes the law into his own hands and becomes an urban vigilante. A fascinating, almost terrifying, statement about gun control laws.
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Edmond 2006 R, 82 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Stuart Gordon
Cast: William H. Macy, Julia Stiles, Joe Mantegna, Bai Ling, Jeffrey Combs, Denise Richards, Mena Suvari, Dylan Walsh, Russell Hornsby, Debi Mazar, Rebecca Pidgeon, Lionel Mark Smith, Marcus Thomas, Jack Wallace
Bored and discontented, middle-class businessman Edmund Burke (William H. Macy) stops by a tarot reader storefront on his way home from work. The message he receives, "You are not where you belong." encourages him to leave his wife (Rebecca Pidgeon). That act begins his downhill spiral into the city's violent underworld where Edmund responds in kind.
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House of Games 1987  R, 102 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: David Mamet
Cast: Lindsay Crouse, Joe Mantegna, Mike Nussbaum, Lilia Skala, J.T. Walsh, Willo Housman, William H. Macy, Meshach Taylor, Karen Kohlhaas, Steven Goldstein, Jack Wallace, Ricky Jay, G. Roy Levin
When a psychiatrist (Lindsay Crouse) tries to help her patient (Steven Goldstein) by pleading with the person (Joe Mantegna) to whom he owes a gambling debt, she becomes hopelessly involved in his mysterious world.
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Lakeboat 2001 R, 98 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joe Mantegna
Cast: Charles Durning, Peter Falk, Denis Leary, Robert Forster, J.J. Johnston, Tony Mamet, Jack Wallace, George Wendt, Andy Garcia, Roberta Angelica
Graduate student Dale Katzman (Tony Mamet) signs on for a summer job on a Great Lakes freighter where he listens to the tales of hardened, veteran sailors and learns there is more to them than first meets the eye.
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Things Change 1988 PG, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: David Mamet
Cast: Don Ameche, Joe Mantegna, Robert Prosky, J.J. Johnston, Ricky Jay, Mike Nussbaum, William H. Macy, J.T. Walsh, Jack Wallace, Dan Conway
An elderly man (Don Ameche) resembles a Mafia boss who wants him to confess to a gangster's murder. While being coached for the confession, he is mistaken for the real Don and the mistaken identity leads to very funny events.
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| 1. Above the Law (1988)
2. The Bear (1988)
3. Death Wish (1974)
4. Edmond (2006)
5. Homicide (1991)
6. House of Games (1987)
7. Lakeboat (2001)
8. Things Change (1988)
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