Baby It's You 1983  R, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: John Sayles
Cast: Rosanna Arquette, Vincent Spano, Joanna Merlin, Jack Davidson, Frank Vincent, Fisher Stevens, Robert Downey Jr., Matthew Modine, Nick Ferrari, Leora Dana, Bill Raymond, Sam McMurray, Dolores Messina, Liane Alexandra Curtis, Marta Kober
The rich-girl-in-love-with-boy-from-the-other-side-of-the-tracks classic storyline is again used; this time however, it's the 1960s and Jill Rosen (Rosanna Arquette) is an intelligent, college bound Jewish girl, and Albert 'Sheik' Capadilupo (Vincent Spano) is an Italian waiter with aspirations to become a singer. Good performances and script.
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The Brother from Another Planet 1984 N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: John Sayles
Cast: Joe Morton, Daryl Edwards, Steve(2) James, Leonard Jackson, Bill Cobbs, Maggie Renzi, Tom Wright, Ren Woods, Reggie Rock Bythewood, David Strathairn
Joe Morton plays a mute, alien slave who escapes his planet and crashes on Earth–in Harlem. Most who meet him are impressed: he fixes things AND he lets others do all the talking!
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Casa de los Babys 2003 R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Sayles
Cast: Daryl Hannah, Marcia Gay Harden, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Mary Steenburgen, Lili Taylor, Rita Moreno, Susan Lynch, Pedro Armendariz Jr., Bruno Bichir, Angelina Pelaez, Vanessa Martinez, Juan Carlos Vives
After six women arrive in South America with intentions of adopting babies, they find they must deal with a bureaucracy that mandates a lengthy residency requirement before adoption can take place. The women stay at a cheap hotel, Casa de Los Babys, where they must deal not only with each other but with the local population as well. Subplots abound in this memorable story.
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 Eight Men Out 1988  PG, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Sayles
Cast: D.B. Sweeney, David Strathairn, Charlie Sheen, John Cusack, John Sayles, Perry Lang, Michael Rooker, John Mahoney, Michael Lerner, Christopher Lloyd, Clifton James, Don Harvey, Jace Alexander, James Read, Gordon Clapp
In 1919, members of the Chicago White Sox conspired to lose the World Series for personal gain. Known as the "Black Sox" scandal, this is the story of how eight team members deliberately lost the World Series because of a labor dispute with the White Sox owner, Charles Comiskey (Clifton James). Third baseman Buck Weaver (John Cusack) spent years trying to prove his innocence after the eight players were suspended for life.
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Girlfight 2000 R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Karyn Kusama
Cast: Michelle Rodriguez, Jaime Tirelli, Paul Calderon, Santiago Douglas, Ray Santiago, Elisa Bocanegra, Shannon Walker Williams, Iris Little Thomas, John Sayles, Louis Guss
So far, nothing has gone right in Diana's (Michelle Rodriguez) life, and the chip on her shoulder has grown to mammoth proportions. Then one day she goes to the local gym and falls in love with the world of boxing. She convinces a coach (Jaime Tirelli) to give her boxing lessons, and it isn't long before her hostile attitude is reversed.
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Gridlock'd 1997 R, 91 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Vondie Curtis-Hall
Cast: Tupac Shakur, Tim Roth, Thandie Newton, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Charles Fleischer, Howard Hesseman, Lucy Liu, James Pickens Jr., John Sayles, Tom Towles
After admitting Spoon's (Tupac Shakur) girlfriend, Cookie (Thandie Newton), to the hospital following her drug overdose, musicians Spoon and his friend Stretch (Tim Roth) search for a rehab center for themselves and encounter a myriad of absurd bureaucratic barriers standing in the way of help for their problem.
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Hard Choices 1985 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Rick King
Cast: Margaret Klenck, Gary McCleery, John Seitz, John Sayles, John Snyder, Martin Donovan, Larry Golden, Judson Camp, J.T. Walsh, Liane Alexandra
Fifteen-year-old Bobby (Gary McCleery) is in deep trouble after he unknowingly participated in a robbery and subsequent police shooting. Social worker Laura (Margaret Klenck) gets involved with his case when it looks as if he will be tried as an adult with life imprisonment a probability. When it becomes clear that Laura will not be able to get him out, she takes matters into her own hands, springs Bobby out of jail, and they take off. Now the problems really begin.
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Honeydripper 2007 PG-13, 122 min.
Genre: Drama / Musical
Director: John Sayles
Cast: Danny Glover, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Yaya DaCosta, Charles S. Dutton, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Gary Clark Jr., Mabel John, Stacy Keach, Nagee Clay, Absalom Adams, Arthur Lee Williams, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Davenia McFadden, Daryl Edwards, Sean Patrick Thomas
This story takes place in Harmony, Alabama, during 1950 and revolves around the efforts of Tyrone "Pine Top" Purvis (Danny Glover) to avoid bankruptcy. Pine Top's bar and blues club, the Honeydipper Lounge, is failing, and he hires popular "Guitar Sam" to perform a one-night-only show as a way to draw in customers who, in turn, will bring in enough money to save the club. But, "Guitar Sam" fails to appear, and now Pine Top has to find someone to impersonate "Guitar Sam" in order to save the club. The answer to his dilemma is itinerant guitarist Sonny Blake (Gary Clark Jr.) who will impersonate "Guitar Sam." But, will the ruse work, and will Pine Top be able to save his club?
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Lianna 1983  R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Sayles
Cast: Linda Griffiths, Jane Hallaren, Jon DeVries, Jo Henderson, Jessica MacDonald, Jesse Solomon, John Sayles, Chris Elliott, Maggie Renzi, Rochelle Oliver
Lianna (Linda Griffiths) is in the throes of an unhappy marriage when she falls in love with a woman and now must deal with her awakening as a lesbian.
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Limbo 1999 R, 126 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Sayles
Cast: Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, David Strathairn, Vanessa Martinez, Kris Kristofferson, Casey Siemaszko, Kathryn Grody, Rita Taggart, Leo Burmester, Michael Laskin, Herminio Ramos, Dawn McInturff, Tom Biss, Jimmy MacDonell, Monica Brandner, Merit Carlson-van Dort
Set in the harsh reality of Alaska, this tale is told through a frontier diary and involves three floundering characters: Joe Gastineau (David Strathairn) who long ago was traumatized by an accident while fishing, lounge singer Donna De Angelo (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Donna's angry teenage daughter Noelle (Vanessa Martinez). They are drawn together by circumstances and then are suddenly stranded at the center of a wilderness while Joe tries to hide from a group that wants to kill him.
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Lone Star 1996  R, 136 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: John Sayles
Cast: Kris Kristofferson, Chris Cooper, Matthew McConaughey, Joe Morton, Elizabeth Pena, Clifton James, Tony Plana, Frances McDormand, Gordon Tootoosis, Stephen Lang
Forty years ago Sheriff Charley Wade (Kris Kristofferson) controlled the Mexican/American border, and now his skeletal remains are found out in the arid Texas desert. The current sheriff, Sam Deeds (Chris Cooper), wants to solve the apparent murder. In the process, he examines the past and falls in love with the girl (Elizabeth Pena) he adored years before. This film is filled with clever plot twists that will keep the viewer's interest.
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Matewan 1987 PG-13, 130 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Sayles
Cast: Chris Cooper, Mary McDonnell, James Earl Jones, Will Oldham, Jace Alexander, Ken Jenkins, Joe Grifasi, David Strathairn, Bob Gunton, Kevin Tighe, Gordon Clapp, John Sayles, Josh Mostel, Nancy Mette
This is the story of the massacre of striking West Virginia coal miners in 1920 and the animosities between White American miners and Italian and Black migrant workers who were hired as scabs. Union activist Joe Kenehan (Chris Cooper) is sent in by the United Mine Workers to organize the union, and, over time, the fighting groups begin to work together. "Matewan" is a good depiction of how immigrants and minorities were treated in the early 20th century.
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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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Men with Guns 1997 R, 126 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: John Sayles
Cast: Federico Luppi, Damian Delgado, Dan Rivera Gonzalez, Tania Cruz, Damian Alcazar, Mandy Patinkin, Kathryn Grody, Iguandili Lopez, Nandi Luna Ramirez, Rafael de Quevedo
After his wife's death, wealthy Dr. Fuentes (Frederico Luppi) naively takes a trip through Central America to visit former students and, in the process, awakens to the political violence taking place in his country.
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Passion Fish 1992 R, 138 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Sayles
Cast: Mary McDonnell, Alfre Woodard, David Strathairn, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Angela Bassett, Lenore Banks, Maggie Renzi, Sheila Kelley, Tom Wright
May-Alice (Mary McDonnell) had been a television star before she was hit and paralyzed by a New York cab. Depressed and drowning her sorrows in alcohol, she returns home to Louisiana where the friendship with her nurse Chantelle (Alfre Woodard) changes both women's lives. McDonnell was nominated for an Oscar.
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Return of the Secaucus 7 1980 R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Sayles
Cast: Bruce MacDonald, Maggie Renzi, Adam LeFevre, Maggie Cousineau, Gordon Clapp, Jean Passanante, Karen Trott, Mark Arnott, David Strathairn, John Sayles
The budget was low for this film, but the impact and performances are top notch. College grads return for a reunion, having gone in different directions from their radical beginnings in the 1960s. It is more than the story of this group–it is the story of a generation. "The Big Chill," made three years later, has the same theme.
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The Secret of Roan Inish 1994 PG, 103 min.
Genre: Family / Fantasy
Director: John Sayles
Cast: Jeni Courtney, Richard Sheridan, Cillian Byrne, Mick Lally, Eileen Colgan, John Lynch, Pat Slowey, Dave Duffy, Declan Hannigan, Micheal MacCarthaigh, Fergal McElherron, Brendon Conroy
Based on Rosalie Fry's novel centered on 10-year-old orphan Fiona (Jeni Courtney), the story is about how she lives with her grandparents (Mick Lally and Eileen Colgan) on the northwest coast of Ireland. In a tragic accident, her baby brother was swept out to sea and drowned–or did he?
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Silver City 2004  R, 129 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Sayles
Cast: Chris Cooper, Michael Murphy, Richard Dreyfuss, Danny Huston, Miguel Ferrer, Ralph Waite, Daryl Hannah, Tim Roth, Billy Zane, Kris Kristofferson, Maria Bello, Thora Birch
In a not very subtle imitation of George W. Bush, Colorado gubernatorial candidate Dickie Pilager (Chris Cooper) reels in a corpse from the lake during the taping of a political ad to roll back pollution controls. His manager, Chuck Raven (Richard Dreyfuss), promptly hires investigator Danny O'Brien (Kris Kristofferson) to look for links between the corpse and political enemies, which results in the discovery of corruption emanating from the Pilager family. 2 User Reviews
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| | Joanna 10/18/2009 | | Wonderfully droll look at a clueless or is it a ruthless political family. Chris Cooper is a delight to watch. Great fun! |
| | fair | suzette 02/21/2007 | | fair show better if billy zane got girl |
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Something Wild 1986 R, 116 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jonathan Demme
Cast: Jeff Daniels, Melanie Griffith, Ray Liotta, Margaret Colin, Jack Gilpin, Robert Ridgely, Tracey Walter, Adelle Lutz, Charles Napier, John Sayles
Charlie (Jeff Daniels) is a conservative businessman who hooks up with wild Lulu (Melanie Griffith). Soon, the couple is on the run, and when they meet up with Lulu's ex-con husband (Ray Liotta), the plot shifts to the relationship between Charlie and the husband.
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Straight Talk 1992  PG, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Barnet Kellman
Cast: Dolly Parton, James Woods, Griffin Dunne, Michael Madsen, Deirdre O'Connell, John Sayles, Teri Hatcher, Spalding Gray, Jerry Orbach, Philip Bosco, Amy Morton, Jay Thomas
Shirlee (Dolly Parton), fired from her job and tired of her boyfriend, heads to the big city, Chicago. She takes a job as a receptionist at a radio station and is mistaken for a guest psychiatrist who is to host a talk show. She becomes a hit with her home-spun talk and advice, but reporter Jack Russell (James Woods) suspects her credentials.
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Sunshine State 2002 PG-13, 141 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Sayles
Cast: Edie Falco, Angela Bassett, Jane Alexander, Timothy Hutton, Mary Steenburgen, Richard Edson, Miguel Ferrer, Mary Alice, Ralph Waite, James McDaniel, Bill Cobbs
Plantation Island off Florida's coast is the location developers have chosen on which to build expensive condos, hotels, and golf courses. But, first, the developers must talk property owners into selling. The owners consist of two side-by-side, but very different, beach communities: Lincoln Beach's African-American community and the tourist town of Delrona Beach.
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| 1. Baby It's You (1983)
2. The Brother from Another Planet (1984)
3. Casa de los Babys (2003)
4. Eight Men Out (1988)
5. Girlfight (2000)
6. Gridlock'd (1997)
7. Hard Choices (1985)
8. Honeydripper (2007)
9. Lianna (1983)
10. Limbo (1999)
11. Lone Star (1996)
12. Matewan (1987)
13. Matinee (1993)
14. Men with Guns (1997)
15. Passion Fish (1992)
16. Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980)
17. The Secret of Roan Inish (1994)
18. Silver City (2004)
19. Something Wild (1986)
20. Straight Talk (1992)
21. Sunshine State (2002)
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