 Angel Heart 1987  R, 113 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Alan Parker
Cast: Mickey Rourke, Lisa Bonet, Robert De Niro, Charlotte Rampling, Stocker Fountelieu, Brownie McGhee, Michael Higgins, Kathleen Wilhoite, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Elizabeth Whitcraft, Elliott Keener, Charles Gordone, Dann Florek, George Buck, Judith Drake
Private investigator Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke) is sent to Harlem to meet Louis Cyphre (Robert De Niro) who hires him to locate aging 1940s' singer Johnny Favorite who, long ago, reneged on a debt to Cyphre. The trail leads Angel into the backwoods of Louisiana where he meets Epiphany Proudfoot (Lisa Bonet), the daughter of a voodoo priestess. Epiphany and Angel engage in wild sex amidst voodoo rituals and dead bodies as Angel pursues in his quest for the missing Johnny Favorite.
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 Baby Geniuses 1999  PG, 94 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy / Drama / Sci-Fi
Director: Bob Clark
Cast: Kathleen Turner, Christopher Lloyd, Kim Cattrall, Peter MacNicol, Dom DeLuise, Ruby Dee, Kyle Howard, Kaye Ballard, Judith Drake, Randy Travis, Bill Wiley, Dan Monahan, Robin Klein
Elena Kinder (Kathleen Turner) and Heep (Christopher Lloyd) work for a successful company that makes baby products. Sounds fine, but there is a problem involving these two trying to crack the code on baby talk by testing real babies in their lab. One day, a baby escapes and tries to round up other babies to free those entrapped in the lab.
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Intolerable Cruelty 2003  PG-13, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance / Drama
Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Cast: George Clooney, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Geoffrey Rush, Cedric the Entertainer, Edward Herrmann, Richard Jenkins, Billy Bob Thornton, Julia Duffy, Jonathan Hadary, Paul Adelstein, Tom Aldredge, Stacey Travis, Jack Kyle, Judith Drake, Irwin Keyes
When top-notch divorce lawyer Miles Massey (George Clooney) represented Marilyn Rexroth's (Catherine Zeta-Jones) philandering husband, Rex (Edward Herrmann), in their divorce, Rex came out the winner. Now, looking to recoup her losses, gold-digger Marilyn approaches Miles and asks him for a prenuptial agreement before her next marriage to wealthy, Texas oil man Howard D. Doyle (Billy Bob Thornton). Marilyn has plans to invalidate the prenuptial agreement and grab off Howard's assets. When Miles realizes what she has planned, he is mesmerized by her predatory powers and is drawn into his own, off-beat romance with her.
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Tales of Ordinary Madness 1981  N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Marco Ferreri
Cast: Ben Gazzara, Ornella Muti, Susan Tyrrell, Tanya Lopert, Roy Brocksmith, Katya Berger, Hope Cameron, Judith Drake, Patrick Hughes, Wendy Welles, Stratton Leopold, Anthony Pitillo, Jay Julien, Peter Jarvis
Aging and down-on-his-luck poet Charles Serking (Ben Gazzara) lives in Los Angeles–he calls the city "Lost Angels"–and spends most of his time participating in drunken affairs with low-life women living on the fringe, which is a world that seems to fit Serking to a tee. While sitting in a bar, Charles meets self-mutilating prostitute Cass (Ornella Muti) and believes that he has finally found the love of his life. But has he?
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| 1. Angel Heart (1987)
2. Baby Geniuses (1999)
3. Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
4. Tales of Ordinary Madness (1981)
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