Born Innocent 1974  TV, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Donald Wrye
Cast: Linda Blair, Joanna Miles, Kim Hunter, Richard Jaeckel, Allyn Ann McLerie, Mary Murphy, Janit Baldwin, Nora Heflin, Tina Andrews, Mitch Vogel
Fourteen-year-old Chris Parker (Linda Blair), a habitual runaway, is committed to a reform school. Rather than being helped, the conditions of the school only add to the abuse from her family.
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Bug 1975  PG, 99 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi / Mystery / Horror / Thriller
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Cast: Bradford Dillman, Joanna Miles, Richard Gilliland, Jamie Smith-Jackson, Alan Fudge, Jesse Vint, Patty McCormack, Brendan Dillon, Frederic Downs, James Greene, Sam Jarvis, Jim Poyner, Bard Stevens, Karoly Fogassy, William Castle
An earthquake releases mutant cockroaches that have the unique ability to start fires and thus wreak havoc on a nearby town. Professor James Parmiter (Bradford Dillman) takes an interest in the creatures after his wife is killed by them, begins to cross-breed them, and finds that they have intelligence. Sounds like a problem is developing.
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Cross Creek 1983  PG, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Martin Ritt
Cast: Mary Steenburgen, Peter Coyote, Dana Hill, Rip Torn, Alfre Woodard, Joanna Miles, Ike Eisenmann, Jay O. Sanders, Malcolm McDowell, Cary Guffey, Toni Hudson, Bo Rucker, John Hammond, Tommy Alford, C.T. Wakefield
The Florida backwoods home of "The Yearling" author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Mary Steenburgen) and her life prior to publishing her first novel are the basis for this story. Rawlings leaves her husband and moves to a Florida orange grove where she begins life anew hoping to find needed peace to write her story. Among her new-found friends are her servant Geechee (Alfre Woodard), her lover Norton (Peter Coyote), and father and daughter Marsh and Ellie Turner (Rip Torn and Dana Hill)–all of whom give her the inspiration to write her novel. The film received four Academy Award nominations including Torn for Best Supporting Actor and Woodard for Best Supporting Actress.
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Judge Dredd 1995 R, 101 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Danny Cannon
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Diane Lane, Rob Schneider, Armand Assante, Joan Chen, Jurgen Prochnow, Max von Sydow, James Earl Jones, Joanna Miles, Mitch Ryan
The popular British comic strip comes to life with Sylvester Stallone in the title role. Spectacular sets contribute to the glitz as Judge Dredd fights his evil brother, Rico (Armand Assante). In this futuristic fantasy, Earth's populations in Mega City I and Mega City II fight denizens of "Cursed Earth" in a desperate attempt at survival of civilization.
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Monte Walsh 2003 TV, 150 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Simon Wincer
Cast: Tom Selleck, Isabella Rossellini, Keith Carradine, George Eads, Wallace Shawn, Barry Corbin, James Gammon, Lori Hallier, Rex Linn, Robert Carradine, Marshall R. Teague, William Sanderson, Rick Ravanello, Joanna Miles, John Michael Higgins
This made-for-cable TV Western is the second film based on a novel by Jack Schaefer. Monte (Tom Selleck) and pal Chet (Keith Carradine) are cowhands and bronco busters, a dying breed in Wyoming near the end of the 19th century. Monte's girlfriend "Countess" Martine (Isabella Rossellini) tries to convince him to take a regular job, but Monte still yearns for the scant wide-open space that remains. When a cowboy is laid off, Monte deals with one last confrontation.
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead 1990  PG, 118 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Tom Stoppard
Cast: Gary Oldman, Richard Dreyfuss, Tim Roth, Iain Glen, Joanna Miles, Ian Richardson, Joanna Roth, Donald Sumpter, Ljubo Zecevic, Sven Medvesck
This story was written by Tom Stoppard as a play in 1966, and now he adapts it to film in his directorial debut. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are two minor players in "Hamlet" who wittily chat back and forth waiting for their moments to act. Although there are some good exchanges, this thing drags on–and on–and on.
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The Ultimate Warrior 1975 R, 95 min.
Genre: Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Director: Robert Clouse
Cast: Yul Brynner, Max von Sydow, Joanna Miles, William Smith, Stephen McHattie, Lane Bradbury, Henry Kingi, Darrell Zwerling, Mel Novak, Richard Kelton, Nate Esformes, Mickey Caruso, Gary Johnson, Susan Keener, Fred Slyter
The year is 2012 AD, and a biological plague has wiped out most of Earth's population. Baron (Max Von Sydow) and his pregnant daughter Melinda (Joanna Miles) are among the survivors in a barricaded neighborhood that is threatened by thugs, led by Carrot (William Smith). After Baron hires super-Samurai Carson (Yul Brynner) to come to their aid, Carson single-handedly fights the gangs and even delivers Melinda's baby.
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| 1. Born Innocent (1974)
2. Bug (1975)
3. Cross Creek (1983)
4. The Glass Menagerie (1973)
5. Judge Dredd (1995)
6. Monte Walsh (2003)
7. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1990)
8. The Ultimate Warrior (1975)
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