The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle 2000  PG, 90 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Comedy / Adventure / Fantasy
Director: Des McAnuff
Cast: Rene Russo, Jason Alexander, Piper Perabo, Randy Quaid, Robert De Niro, June Foray, Keith Scott, Janeane Garofalo, Carl Reiner, Jonathan Winters, John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Kel Mitchell, James Rebhorn, Kenan Thompson
This film version of the TV show (canceled in 1964) mixes animation and live action. Rocky and Bullwinkle remain cartoon characters rescuing Earthlings from Natasha (Rene Russo) and Boris (Jason Alexander) who cross over into the human world where they join Fearless Leader (Robert De Niro) in an evil plot to take over the world. It seems like a good idea, but it goes nowhere.
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Eight on the Lam 1967  N/R, 107 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: George Marshall
Cast: Bob Hope, Phyllis Diller, Jonathan Winters, Shirley Eaton, Jill St. John, Stacey Maxwell, Kevin Brody, Debi Storm, Peter Leeds
Even the zany talent of Jonathan Winters could not save this film about the father of seven, Henry Dimsdale (Bob Hope), and his problems when he is charged with embezzlement and fights to save his good name.
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The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh 1979  PG, 102 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Gilbert Moses
Cast: Julius Erving, Stockard Channing, Jonathan Winters, Margaret Avery, Jack Kehoe, Meadowlark Lemon, Flip Wilson, M. Emmet Walsh, Nicholas Pryor, Michael V. Gazzo
Astrology is used to turn a hapless Pittsburgh basketball team into championship material. Only those born under the sign of Pisces will be allowed on the team.
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The Flintstones 1994 PG, 92 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy / Fantasy
Director: Brian Levant
Cast: John Goodman, Rick Moranis, Elizabeth Perkins, Rosie O'Donnell, Kyle MacLachlan, Halle Berry, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Moll, Jonathan Winters, Sheryl Lee Ralph
The Flintstones leap from pages of animation into the human world as they portray America's favorite prehistoric family. Fans of the Flintstones will thoroughly enjoy this clever presentation with John Goodman as the family patriarch, Fred.
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 It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World 1963  N/R, 188 min.
Genre: Comedy / Adventure / Drama
Director: Stanley Kramer
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Mickey Rooney, Ethel Merman, Phil Silvers, Jim Backus, Carl Reiner, Jerry Lewis, Dick Shawn, Terry-Thomas, Jonathan Winters, Edie Adams, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson
Buried treasure is the goal of a large group of people who madly race around chasing each other in pursuit of the $350,000 prize. An all-star cast of comedians participates in the chase.
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The Loved One 1965  N/R, 116 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Tony Richardson
Cast: Robert Morse, Jonathan Winters, Anjanette Comer, Rod Steiger, Dana Andrews, Milton Berle, John Gielgud, Robert Morley, Lionel Stander, James Coburn
This very funny satire on life and death in Southern California features Robert Morse as English poet Dennis Barlow who is employed by an L.A. pet cemetery, "Happy Hunting Grounds." Barlow watches the strange world of Aimee Thanatogenos (Anjanette Comer) who is the cosmetologist at Whispering Glades Memorial Park. Aimee eventually commits suicide by embalming herself (Rod Steiger plays the chief embalmer) and then being launched into space.
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Moon Over Parador 1988  PG-13, 96 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Paul Mazursky
Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Raul Julia, Sonia Braga, Jonathan Winters, Fernando Rey, Sammy Davis Jr., Michael Greene, Polly Holliday, Charo, Milton Goncalves, Marianne Sagebrecht, Reinhard Kolldehoff
A Caribbean dictator dies and, in the interest of stability, the police chief asks a visiting actor (Richard Dreyfuss) to impersonate the dictator.
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The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! 1966 N/R, 126 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Norman Jewison
Cast: Alan Arkin, Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, John Phillip Law, Paul Ford, Tessie O'Shea, Brian Keith, Theodore Bikel, Ben Blue, Jonathan Winters
This story reveals the atmosphere of the Cold War in the 1960s. The plot involves the forced landing of Russian submariners off Nantucket and, in an alien land, the sailors find a mixed greeting from the Americans. Although a good farce, this film gives the viewer insight into a world gone slightly mad during the arms race. An Academy Award nomination was received for Best Picture, and Alan Arkin was nominated for Actor.
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The Shadow 1994 PG-13, 105 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Russell Mulcahy
Cast: Alec Baldwin, Penelope Ann Miller, John Lone, Jonathan Winters, Ian McKellen, Peter Boyle, Tim Curry, James Hong, John Kapelos, Andre Gregory
Lamont Cranston (Alec Baldwin) is the rich playboy "who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men" and becomes the Shadow to weed out undesirable elements from society. To effect his change into the Shadow, Cranston "clouds men's minds" to make himself invisible (except for his shadow). In this film, Shiwan Khan (John Lone) has a bomb with which he threatens all of civilization, and the Shadow must come to the rescue.
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Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation 1992  N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Adventure / Comedy
Director: Various Directors
Cast: Jonathan Winters, Edie McClurg, Frank Welker, Charles Adler, Don Messick, Joe Alaskey, Tress MacNeille, Cree Summer, Sorrell Booke, Rob Paulsen, Maurice LaMarche, Kath Soucie
School vacation is beginning, and Plucky Duck, Hampton Pig, Babs and Buster Bunny, and Elmira go on their respective holidays in this animated made-for-video feature.
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| 1. The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (2000)
2. Eight on the Lam (1967)
3. The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1979)
4. The Flintstones (1994)
5. It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)
6. The Loved One (1965)
7. Moon Over Parador (1988)
8. The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! (1966)
9. The Shadow (1994)
10. Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation (1992)
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