 Airplane! 1980   PG, 88 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
Cast: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, Leslie Nielsen, Peter Graves, Robert Stack, Barbara Billingsley, Kenneth Tobey, Ethel Merman, James Hong, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Lorna Patterson, Stephen Stucker, Jim Abrahams, Craig Berenson
Leslie Nielsen found his niche as a character actor in this parody of the "Airport" disaster movies. When the passengers and its crew get sick from the food, the fate of the plane depends on a combat fatigued pilot (Robert Hays) and his long-lost love (Julie Hagerty) who also happens to be a stewardess on the flight. Great cliches, gags, and sly humor. 1 User Review
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| | Anonymous 01/23/2007 | | Funny, funny, funny from beginning to end! You have to watch it several times to catch all the great gags and one-liners!!! |
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Fletch 1985 PG, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Mystery
Director: Michael Ritchie
Cast: Chevy Chase, Tim Matheson, Joe Don Baker, M. Emmet Walsh, Richard Libertini, George Wendt, Kenneth Mars, Geena Davis, Bill Henderson, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, William Traylor, George Wyner, Tony Longo, Ralph Seymour, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I.M. "Fletch" Fletcher (Chevy Chase) is a big city newspaperman who goes undercover and poses as a bum. He stumbles onto a story when Santa Monica aviation executive Alan Stanwyk (Tim Matheson), who has bone cancer, offers him $50,000 to murder him so that his family can collect on his life insurance. Fletch believes that there is more to the story and, before long, uncovers a drug dealing connection between Stanwyk and police Chief Karlin (Joe Don Baker).
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 Game of Death 1978  R, 102 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
aka: Bruce Lee's Game of Death
Director: Robert Clouse
Cast: Bruce Lee, Gig Young, Dean Jagger, Hugh O'Brian, Colleen Camp, Chuck Norris, Robert Wall, Mel Novak, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Hwang Jang Lee, James Tien, Russell Cawthorne
Bruce Lee takes on the role of tracking down the mobsters in this film. (Lee died during filming in 1973, and the film was completed five years later.) Highlight: last half hour, which contains great fight scenes as Lee fights the bad guys–one by one.
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Rebound: The Legend of Earl "The Goat" Manigault 1996  R, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Eriq La Salle
Cast: Don Cheadle, James Earl Jones, Michael Beach, Ronny Cox, Loretta Devine, Glynn Turman, Monica Calhoun, Colin Cheadle, Michael Ralph, Daryl Mitchell, Nicole Ari Parker, Tamara Tunie, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Chick Hearn, Cress Williams
Earl "The Goat" Manigault (Don Cheadle) never made it to the NBA; although talented, he was adicted to drugs, and chose them over NBA stardom. Finally, Manigault cleaned up his act and became a legend by teaching basketball to children of Harlem.
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Slam Dunk Ernest 1995  PG, 93 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: John R. Cherry III
Cast: Jim Varney, Cylk Cozart, Aaron Joseph, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Miguel A. Nunez Jr., Lester Barrie, Colin Lawrence, Richard Leacock, Jay Brazeau, Louise Vallance
Ernest wants to be on the basketball team, but he is terrible–until an angel (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) provides him a pair of magical shoes. For Ernest fans ONLY.
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| 1. Airplane! (1980)
2. Fletch (1985)
3. Game of Death (1978)
aka: Bruce Lee's Game of Death
4. Rebound: The Legend of Earl "The Goat" Manigault (1996)
5. Slam Dunk Ernest (1995)
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