The Best of the Best 1989 PG-13, 95 min. Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
Director: Robert Radler Cast: James Earl Jones, Eric Roberts, Sally Kirkland, Phillip Rhee, John P. Ryan, John Dye, David Agresta, Tom Everett, Louise Fletcher, Chris Penn, Edan Gross, Simon Rhee, Kane Hodder
U.S. martial arts team members must face an extremely good Korean team. Coach Couzo (James Earl Jones), and trainer Wade (Sally Kirkland) teach them that "winning is always." The climax comes when they meet the Koreans for the match of their lifetimes.
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Making the Grade 1984 R, 105 min. Genre: Comedy aka: Preppies
Director: Dorian Walker Cast: Judd Nelson, Jonna Lee, Gordon Jump, Walter Olkewicz, Ronald Lacey, Dana Olsen, Carey Scott, Scott McGinnis, Andrew Dice Clay, John Dye
Wealthy Palmer Woodrow (Dana Olsen) hires a poor kid, Eddie Keaton (Judd Nelson), to attend the elite Hoover Academy in his place while Palmer heads off for a good time in Europe. But it doesn't take Eddie long to gain notoriety and for events to surge beyond control.
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Sioux City 1994 PG-13, 100 min. Genre: Mystery / Thriller aka: Ultimate Revenge
Director: Lou Diamond Phillips Cast: Lou Diamond Phillips, Ralph Waite, Salli Richardson, Melinda Dillon, Lise Cutter, Bill Allen, Tantoo Cardinal, Gary Farmer, Apesanahkwat, John Dye, Michael Corbett, Adam Roarke
As an infant, Dr. Jesse Rainfeather Goldman (Lou Diamond Phillips) was given up for adoption. One of the few memories he has of his birth mother involve beatings by an unidentified man. When he goes back to Nebraska to find his mother, he learns that she had died in a fire just a few days before. After discussing the fire with police, his opinion that she was murdered is not popular, and he is beaten later by police officers. His next step is to study his tribe's customs, which leads to performing a ritual in which he contacts his mother's soul hoping for answers to the puzzle.
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| 1. The Best of the Best (1989)
2. Campus Man (1987)
3. Making the Grade (1984) aka: Preppies
4. Sioux City (1994) aka: Ultimate Revenge
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