Explorers 1985  PG, 109 min.
Genre: Family / Sci-Fi / Adventure / Fantasy
Director: Joe Dante
Cast: Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix, Jason Presson, Amanda Peterson, Dick Miller, James Cromwell, Dana Ivey, Bobby Fite, Meshach Taylor, Danny Nucci, Bradley Gregg, Georg Olden, Chance Schwass, Taliesin Jaffe, Brooke Bundy
In this sci-fi family-oriented tale about aliens in outer space, Ben Crandall (Ethan Hawke), Wolfgang Muller (River Phoenix), and Darren Woods (Jason Presson) are given the chance of a lifetime: young boys blasting off on their own starship to encounter unknown beings.
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Gremlins 1984 PG, 111 min.
Genre: Fantasy / Comedy / Horror / Thriller
Director: Joe Dante
Cast: Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton, Scott Brady, Polly Holliday, Glynn Turman, Harry Carey Jr., Keye Luke, Dick Miller, Corey Feldman, John Louie, Don Steele, Judge Reinhold, Arnie Moore, Donald Elson
Billy Peltzer's (Zach Galligan) father Randall (Hoyt Axton) brings home a strange, but lovable, gremlin from a shop in Chinatown. However, Billy is told to never feed it after midnight, never expose it to bright light, and never let it get wet. After an accident occurs, the gremlin is exposed to light and food after midnight. This results in the whole town being threatened by evil offspring of the lovable creature.
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Gremlins 2: The New Batch 1990 PG-13, 106 min.
Genre: Fantasy / Comedy / Horror / Sci-Fi
Director: Joe Dante
Cast: Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, John Glover, Robert Prosky, Robert Picardo, Tony Randall, Christopher Lee, Dick Miller, Keye Luke, Kathleen Freeman, Haviland Morris, Jackie Joseph, Gedde Watanabe, Shawn Nelson, Howie Mandel
The Gremlins are back, and this time they invade the Clamp Center office building in New York that is owned by billionaire Daniel Clamp (John Glover). Billy (Zach Galligan) and Kate (Phoebe Cates) are also back, and now they work for Clamp. One day, they find a Gremlin in the building. But, it is too late, the Gremlin reproduces a new generation of Gremlins, and their leader Brain Gremlin (voice of Tony Randall) is plotting an escape after dark so that they can wreak havoc on New York. Lots of funny stuff with the gore.
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 The Howling 1981  R, 90 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Joe Dante
Cast: Dee Wallace, Christopher Stone, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan, Roger Corman, Kevin McCarthy, John Carradine, Slim Pickens, Kenneth Tobey, Dick Miller
This spooky movie became the forerunner for no less than six sequels. This, the first, should not be watched alone on a stormy night! TV anchorwoman Karen White (Dee Wallace) investigates a California cult that turns out to be made up of werewolves. Great special effects. 1 User Review
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| | scared 02/13/2007 | | This movie will scare your pants off!!!! |
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Innerspace 1987 PG, 120 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Joe Dante
Cast: Martin Short, Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan, Kevin McCarthy, Fiona Lewis, Vernon Wells, Robert Picardo, Henry Gibson, Kenneth Tobey, Kathleen Freeman, Dick Miller
An experiment in which a shrunken man piloting a ship is to be injected into a rabbit is altered. Instead, the tiny man-in-ship is injected into a grocery clerk (Martin Short). This sets the stage for Short to display his comedic abilities.
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Looney Tunes: Back in Action 2003 PG, 90 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Joe Dante
Cast: Brendan Fraser, Jenna Elfman, Steve Martin, Timothy Dalton, Joe Alaskey, Heather Locklear, Joan Cusack, Bill Goldberg, Dick Miller, Roger Corman, Kevin McCarthy, Mary Woronov
After firing Daffy Duck from Warner Bros., studio exec. Kate Houghton (Jenna Elfman) takes the heat and tries to hunt him down to make amends. But Daffy has taken off on a new adventure with stuntman DJ Drake (Brendan Fraser) involving the mythical Blue Diamond and DJ's kidnapped father, Damien Drake (Timothy Dalton). With help from Bugs Bunny, Kate sets off on her mission to find them.
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Matinee 1993 PG, 99 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Joe Dante
Cast: John Goodman, Cathy Moriarty, Simon Fenton, Omri Katz, Kellie Martin, Lucinda Jenney, Jesse White, Dick Miller, John Sayles, David Clennon
Lawrence Woolsey (John Goodman) brings his horror film to the Key West area just as the Cuban Missile crisis is in full swing. The combination of real and pretend horror sets off a chain of events that affects some teenage lives.
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Piranha 1978 R, 92 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Joe Dante
Cast: Bradford Dillman, Heather Menzies, Kevin McCarthy, Keenan Wynn, Dick Miller, Barbara Steele, Barry Brown, Paul Bartel, Richard Deacon, Belinda Balaski
This spoof of "Jaws" is the subject for Joe Dante's directorial debut. The story is about the accidental release of piranhas into a river that flows by a summer resort. There is a sequel.
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The Second Civil War 1997  TV, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Joe Dante
Cast: Beau Bridges, Joanna Cassidy, Phil Hartman, James Earl Jones, Dan Hedaya, James Coburn, Elizabeth Pena, Denis Leary, Ron Perlman, Brian Keith
When the Governor of Idaho (Beau Bridges) refuses to allow Pakistani orphans to relocate in his state, the President of United States (Phil Hartman) does not agree with the decision and sends in federal troops.
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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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Twilight Zone: The Movie 1983 PG, 102 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Steven Spielberg, John Landis, George Miller, Joe Dante
Cast: Vic Morrow, Kathleen Quinlan, Kevin McCarthy, John Lithgow, John Larroquette, Scatman Crothers, Selma Diamond, Abbe Lane, Burgess Meredith, Dan Aykroyd, Albert Brooks, Bill Quinn, Murray Matheson
This is Vic Morrow's last film as he and two Asian children were killed in a tragic helicopter accident while filming this movie. It is actually a remake of the TV show, and the last segment with George Miller directing is the best story with John Lithgow portraying a terrified passenger on an airplane. Each of the four Directors headed one segment.
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The 'burbs 1989 PG, 101 min.
Genre: Comedy / Action / Horror
Director: Joe Dante
Cast: Tom Hanks, Rick Ducommun, Carrie Fisher, Bruce Dern, Corey Feldman, Wendy Schaal, Henry Gibson, Gale Gordon, Dick Miller, Brother Theodore, Courtney Gains, Robert Picardo, Rance Howard, Franklyn Ajaye, Cory Danziger
Ray and Carol Peterson (Tom Hanks and Carrie Fisher) spend what they had hoped would be a quiet week in their suburban home when Ray notices that new neighbors, the Klopeks (Henry Gibson, Brother Theodore, and Courtney Gains), are behaving strangely. Ray and his best friend Art (Rick Ducommun), along with other neighbors, pry into the Klopeks' activities and suspect that gruesome activities are being carried out by the Klopeks.
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| 1. Explorers (1985)
2. Gremlins (1984)
3. Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
4. Hollywood Boulevard (1976)
5. The Howling (1981)
6. Innerspace (1987)
7. Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)
8. Matinee (1993)
9. Piranha (1978)
10. The Second Civil War (1997)
11. Small Soldiers (1998)
12. Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
13. The 'burbs (1989)
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