Copycat 1995  R, 123 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama / Horror / Thriller
Director: Jon Amiel
Cast: Holly Hunter, Sigourney Weaver, Dermot Mulroney, William McNamara, Harry Connick Jr., Will Patton, John Rothman, J.E. Freeman, Shannon O'Hurley, Bob Greene, Tony Haney, Danny Kovacs, Tahmus Rounds, David Michael Silverman, Scott DeVenney
Police inspector Ruben Goetz (Dermot Mulroney) and his partner, M.J. Monahan (Holly Hunter), are working on a case involving a serial killer. They get help from forensic psychiatrist Dr. Helen Hudson (Sigourney Weaver) who is an agoraphobic and never leaves her apartment. But, Helen does uncover the killer's modus operandi, which imitates the infamous Jeffrey Dahmer. Working together, they manage to solve the case.
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 The Core 2003  PG-13, 133 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Director: Jon Amiel
Cast: Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Delroy Lindo, Stanley Tucci, DJ Qualls, Tcheky Karyo, Richard Jenkins, Alfre Woodard, Bruce Greenwood, Dion Johnstone, Nicole Leroux, Christopher Shyer, Ray Galletti, Eileen Pedde, Glenn Morshower
Geophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes (Aaron Eckhart) discovers that the electromagnetic forces within the Earth's core are collapsing. In an attempt to solve the problem, the Department of Defense sends Keyes and his team of gifted scientists aboard a subterranean craft piloted by "terranauts" Commander Robert Iverson (Bruce Greenwood) and Major Rebecca Childs (Hilary Swank). Their mission is to burrow beneath the Earth's surface to set off a nuclear device that will jump-start the core.
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Entrapment 1999  PG-13, 112 min.
Genre: Action / Thriller
Director: Jon Amiel
Cast: Sean Connery, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Ving Rhames, Will Patton, Maury Chaykin, Kevin McNally, Terry O'Neill, Madhav Sharma, David Yip, Tim Potter
Insurance investigator Gin Baker (Catherine Zeta-Jones) tracks down "the world's greatest art thief," Robert MacDougal (Sean Connery), along a trail leading through New York, Scotland, and Malaysia in this cat-burglary thriller.
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The Man Who Knew Too Little 1997  PG-13, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jon Amiel
Cast: Bill Murray, Joanne Whalley, Peter Gallagher, Alfred Molina, Richard Wilson, Geraldine James, John Standing, Anna Chancellor, Nicholas Woodeson, Simon Chandler
Wallace Ritchie (Bill Murray) travels to London to visit his brother James (Peter Gallagher) and is given a ticket to an audience participation game, "Theater of Life." He is then mistaken for someone else and ends up at the center of an espionage plot.
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 The Singing Detective 1986  TV, 415 min.
Genre: Drama / Fantasy
Director: Jon Amiel
Cast: Michael Gambon, Patrick Malahide, Joanne Whalley, Janet Suzman, Alison Steadman, Bill Paterson, Jim Carter, David Ryall, Gerard Horan, Leslie French, Lyndon Davies, Ron Cook, Imelda Staunton, George Rossi, Janet Henfrey
This near-classic tale by Dennis Potter combines music, film noir, mystery, fantasy, and autobiographical material in a successful British TV miniseries, originally airing in six episodes. Detective novelist Philip E. Marlow (Michael Gambon) suffers from a crippling skin/nerve disease (psoriatic arthropathy–a disease that Potter died of). In his hospital bed, he relives his latest novel, "The Singing Detective," with himself in the title role, often drifting into a surrealistic fantasy world as he relives his life.
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Sommersby 1993 PG-13, 113 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jon Amiel
Cast: Richard Gere, Jodie Foster, Bill Pullman, James Earl Jones, R. Lee Ermey, Lanny Flaherty, William Windom, Wendell Wellman, Frankie Faison, Richard Hamilton
Is he or isn't he? That is what his wife (Jodie Foster) wonders when Jack Sommersby (Richard Gere) returns home after seven years. There are doubts that this man is really her long-lost husband. Although this story takes place around the Civil War, the original story comes from actual court records in the 1400s and is also the subject of another, and better, movie "The Return of Martin Guerre."
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Tune in Tomorrow... 1990 PG-13, 107 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
Director: Jon Amiel
Cast: Barbara Hershey, Keanu Reeves, Peter Falk, Bill McCutcheon, Patricia Clarkson, Jerome Dempsey, Dan Hedaya, Buck Henry, Hope Lange, Richard Portnow
Martin (Keanu Reeves) is a young scriptwriter at a radio station in the early 1950s. To improve ratings, a well-known writer, Pedro (Peter Falk), is hired and takes Martin under his wing. Meanwhile, Julia (Barbara Hershey)–Martin's aunt (by marriage)–returns home in search of a new husband. With prompting from Pedro, Julia and Martin begin an affair, which becomes the storyline of Pedro's radio script. Falk is great!
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| 1. Copycat (1995)
2. The Core (2003)
3. Entrapment (1999)
4. The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997)
5. The Singing Detective (1986)
6. Sommersby (1993)
7. Tune in Tomorrow... (1990)
aka: Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
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