 The Adventures of Pluto Nash 2002  PG-13, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Ron Underwood
Cast: Eddie Murphy, Randy Quaid, Rosario Dawson, Joe Pantoliano, Jay Mohr, Luis Guzman, James Rebhorn, Peter Boyle, Pam Grier, John Cleese, Burt Young, Miguel A. Nunez Jr.
Ex-con Pluto Nash (Eddie Murphy) now runs a popular nightclub on the Moon. With gambling about to be banned on Earth, the crime syndicates set their sights on the Moon for their casino operations. Nash's nightclub would be a good starting place. Lots of well-known names, but it's still a terrible, boring film that sat around for a year or more before release.
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 Are We There Yet? 2005 PG, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Brian Levant
Cast: Ice Cube, Nia Long, Aleisha Allen, Philip Bolden, Jay Mohr, M.C. Gainey, Nichelle Nichols, Henry Simmons, Tracy Morgan, C. Ernst Harth, Viv Leacock, Casey Dubois
In an attempt to please girlfriend Suzanne (Nia Long), Nick (Ice Cube) offers to take her children (Aleisha Allen and Philip Bolden) to Vancouver. The kids stop at nothing to mess up the trip, which, by the time it ends, will utilize cars, an airplane, and a train.
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Cherry Falls 2000  R, 92 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Geoffrey Wright
Cast: Brittany Murphy, Michael Biehn, Jay Mohr, Gabriel Mann, Jesse Bradford, Douglas Spain, Keram Malicki-Sanchez, Natalie Ramsey, Candy Clark, Amanda Anka
This horror/comedy begins with a killer murdering virgins at Cherry Falls High School. As the carnage increases, the remaining virgins arrange a sex party to make themselves ineligible as victims.
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Even Money 2007  R, 108 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mark Rydell
Cast: Kim Basinger, Danny DeVito, Kelsey Grammer, Nick Cannon, Ray Liotta, Forest Whitaker, Carla Gugino, Grant Sullivan, Jay Mohr, Cassandra Hepburn, Tim Roth, Texas Battle, Robert Miano
Struggling novelist Carolyn (Kim Basinger) has gambled away her husband Tom's (Ray Liotta) money at the casino and has befriended its magician Walter (Danny DeVito). Meanwhile, Clyde (Forest Whitaker) owes bookie Victor (Tim Roth) big gambling debts and has been threatened with death if he doesn't get his basketball star brother Godfrey (Nick Cannon) to shave points off a big game. Then there is Detective Bruner (Kelsey Grammer) who is on the trail of that bookie Victor. The lives of these gamblers weave together onto a tragic course as the big college basketball game draws near.
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Go 1999  R, 103 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Thriller
Director: Doug Liman
Cast: Sarah Polley, Katie Holmes, Desmond Askew, Jay Mohr, Scott Wolf, Taye Diggs, William Fichtner, J.E. Freeman, Timothy Olyphant, Nathan Bexton, Suzanne Krull, Robert Peters, Jodi Bianca Wise, Jimmy Shubert, Tony Denman
Three intertwined plots–all taking place during Christmas–begin with Ronna (Sarah Polley) filling in for her friend Simon (Desmond Askew) as a Los Angeles grocery clerk while he heads off on a trip to Las Vegas. When soap stars Adam (Scott Wolf) and Zack (Jay Mohr) approach Ronna for a drug deal, Ronna acts as a go-between for Simon and his drug dealer friend Todd (Timothy Olyphant) but is caught by DEA agent Burke (William Fichtner, and Adam and Zack are busted for possession. Meanwhile, Simon is having more than a few problems in Las Vegas. Now, back at the grocery store, it turns out that Adam and Zach are lovers and find themselves in a sting operation, and their relationship with Burke and his wife Irene (Jane Krakowski) takes a very strange turn. What makes the movie work is the telling of the story from three different points of view.
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The Groomsmen 2006  R, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Edward Burns
Cast: Edward Burns, Donal Logue, Brittany Murphy, Jay Mohr, John Leguizamo, Matthew Lillard, Shari Albert, Spencer Fox, Heather Burns, John Russo, Marion McCorry, Jaime Tirelli
During the week before his wedding to seven-months pregnant fiancee Sue Bennet (Brittany Murphy), Paulie (Edward Burns) and his 30-somethings groomsmen–T.C. (John Leguizamo), Dez (Matthew Lillard), Jimbo (Donal Logue), and Mike (Jay Mohr)–discuss the wedding, aging, and women while on the golf course, at the ballpark, and over drinks. In the process, at long last, they may achieve adulthood.
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Jane Austen's Mafia! 1998 PG-13, 84 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
aka: Mafia!
Director: Jim Abrahams
Cast: Jay Mohr, Lloyd Bridges, Billy Burke, Christina Applegate, Pamela Gidley, Olympia Dukakis, Jason Fuchs, Joe Viterelli, Tony Lo Bianco, Seth Adkins, Blake Hammond, Philip Suriano, Vincent Pastore, Gregory Sierra, Marisol Nichols
Vincenzo Cortino (Lloyd Bridges) rose from a poor Sicilian background to the top of the U.S. Mafia. After an attempt on his life, his son Anthony (Jay Mohr) heads for Las Vegas and runs a casino where things get complicated.
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 Jerry Maguire 1996 R, 138 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Cameron Crowe
Cast: Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr., Renee Zellweger, Kelly Preston, Jerry O'Connell, Jay Mohr, Bonnie Hunt, Regina King, Jonathan Lipnicki, Todd Louiso, Mark Pellington, Jeremy Suarez, Susan Norfleet, Jared Jussim, Benjamin Kimball Smith
Sports agent Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) suddenly loses his job and his friends. The film's plot is about how he stumbles into a new life and finds that there is room for decency in his new lifestyle. Cuba Gooding Jr. won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in his role as the football star, and the film received four nominations, including Best Picture and Actor (Cruise).
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 King's Ransom 2005  PG-13, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Jeff Byrd
Cast: Anthony Anderson, Jay Mohr, Kellita Smith, Nicole Ari Parker, Regina Hall, Loretta Devine, Donald Faison, Leila Arcieri, Charles Q. Murphy, Brooke D'Orsay, Jackie Burroughs, Lisa Marcos
When Renee (Kellita Smith) sues wealthy Malcolm King for divorce, to keep his fortune out of Renee's hands, Malcolm plots his own kidnapping in which the demand will be $10 million. Not only does the inept kidnapper nab the wrong man, but Renee has plans of her own to kidnap Malcolm as do Malcolm's disgruntled business employees.
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Olive, the Other Reindeer 1999 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Comedy
Director: Oscar Moore
Cast: Drew Barrymore, Dan Castellaneta, Joe Pantoliano, Edward Asner, Peter MacNicol, Tim Meadows, Jay Mohr, Kath Soucie, Diedrich Bader, David Herman, Tress MacNeille, Michael Stipe, Billy West, Mitch Rouse
When one of Santa's (voice of Ed Asner) reindeers breaks a leg, Santa announces he will be relying on "all of the other reindeer." But one dog–Olive (voice of Drew Barrymore)–thinks she hears, "Olive, the other reindeer." Believing that Santa has called on her for help with Christmas Eve deliveries, Olive and her penguin friend Martini (voice of Joe Pantoliano) head for the North Pole.
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Paulie 1998 PG, 91 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure / Comedy / Drama
Director: John Roberts
Cast: Gena Rowlands, Tony Shalhoub, Cheech Marin, Bruce Davison, Jay Mohr, Trini Alvarado, Buddy Hackett, Hallie Kate Eisenberg, Matt Craven, Bill Cobbs, Tia Texada, Laura Harrington
Paulie (voice of Jay Mohr) is a parrot that can do more than speak–it can also reason mentally. Paulie helps Marie (Hallie Kate Eisenberg), a young girl who stutters. But when the two are separated, Paulie spends years searching for Marie. Despite adversities, Paulie flies the skies searching for Marie who has moved across country.
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Pay It Forward 2000 PG-13, 122 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Mimi Leder
Cast: Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt, Haley Joel Osment, Angie Dickinson, James Caviezel, Jay Mohr, Jon Bon Jovi, David Ramsey, Gary Werntz, Rusty Meyers, Colleen Flynn, Marc Donato, Kathleen Wilhoite, Alexandra Kotcheff, Hannah Werntz
When Social Studies teacher Eugene Simonet (Kevin Spacey) assigns an extra-credit project, 11-year-old Trevor McKinney (Haley Joel Osment) takes it to heart. The assignment: find a way to make the world a better place. Trevor's solution: a chain letter involving good deeds and asking those on the receiving end to "pay it forward." The acting is very good in this upbeat story.
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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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Playing by Heart 1998 R, 121 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Willard Carroll
Cast: Gillian Anderson, Ellen Burstyn, Sean Connery, Anthony Edwards, Angelina Jolie, Jay Mohr, Gena Rowlands, Dennis Quaid, Nastassja Kinski, Madeleine Stowe
This romantic merry-go-round interweaves the stories of couples at all stages of life and their relationships in an effort to explain love. It fails in that respect, but it succeeds in providing some entertainment.
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Seeing Other People 2004 R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Wallace Wolodarsky
Cast: Jay Mohr, Julianne Nicholson, Lauren Graham, Bryan Cranston, Josh Charles, Andy Richter, Matthew Davis, Jill Ritchie, Helen Slater, Niki J. Crawford, Nicole Marie Lenz, Mike Faiola
With just a couple of months left before their scheduled wedding, Alice (Julianne Nicholson) and Ed (Jay Mohr) agree to allow each other to sow their wild oats. Jealousies erupt, the couple calls off the experiment, and they make the wise choice of settling down to a life of monogamy.
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Simone 2002 PG-13, 117 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Andrew Niccol
Cast: Al Pacino, Catherine Keener, Evan Rachel Wood, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Jason Schwartzman, Elias Koteas, Rachel Roberts, Winona Ryder, Jay Mohr, Daniel von Bargen
When his lead player (Winona Ryder) walks off the set, producer Viktor Taransky (Al Pacino) solves the problem with help from a computer programmer (Elias Koteas) who digitally creates a substitute. The idea works, AND Victor is able to hide the truth about his "star" from the rest of the world.
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Small Soldiers 1998 PG-13, 110 min.
Genre: Animation / Action / Sci-Fi
Director: Joe Dante
Cast: David Cross, Jay Mohr, Denis Leary, Kirsten Dunst, Kevin Dunn, Phil Hartman, Ernest Borgnine, Tommy Lee Jones, George Kennedy, Dick Miller, Alexandra Wilson, Gregory Smith, Jacob Smith, Ann Magnuson
This partially animated film is filled with great special effects. The focus is on a set of children's toy soldiers that battle the Gorgonites, a collection of toy aliens. While this sounds like a cute children's movie, the violence could be too much for little ones.
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Street Kings 2008 R, 107 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: David Ayer
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Forest Whitaker, Hugh Laurie, Chris Evans, Cedric the Entertainer, Jay Mohr, Terry Crews, Naomie Harris, Common, The Game, Amaury Nolasco, Michael Monks, Clifton Powell, Noel Gugliemi
Los Angeles Police Detective Tom Ludlow (Keanu Reeves) is under investigation by Internal Affairs Captain Biggs (Hugh Laurie) for adding corpses to his body count. Meanwhile, his former partner Terry Washington (Terry Crews) is murdered, and Ludlow's supervisor Captain Wander (Forest Whitaker) is trying to tell him to let the matter go and forget about it. Instead, Ludlow teams up with young homicide Detective Paul Diskant (Chris Evans) to track down the killers and bring them to justice in his own unique way.
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 Suicide Kings 1997 R, 106 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Peter O'Fallon
Cast: Christopher Walken, Denis Leary, Henry Thomas, Sean Patrick Flanery, Jay Mohr, Johnny Galecki, Jeremy Sisto, Nina Siemaszko, Jay Fiondella, Cliff De Young
When his sister is kidnapped, Avery (Henry Thomas) and his friends plan to rescue her by kidnapping Carlo Bartolucci (Christopher Walken), a former Mafia kingpin, and get him to influence the original kidnappers to release Avery's sister. A pretty good plot with good acting.
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| 1. The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002)
2. Are We There Yet? (2005)
3. Black River (2001)
aka: Dean Koontz's Black River
4. Cherry Falls (2000)
5. Even Money (2007)
6. Go (1999)
7. The Groomsmen (2006)
8. Jane Austen's Mafia! (1998)
aka: Mafia!
9. Jerry Maguire (1996)
10. King's Ransom (2005)
11. Olive, the Other Reindeer (1999)
12. Paulie (1998)
13. Pay It Forward (2000)
14. Picture Perfect (1997)
15. Playing by Heart (1998)
16. Seeing Other People (2004)
17. Simone (2002)
18. Small Soldiers (1998)
19. Street Kings (2008)
20. Suicide Kings (1997)
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