Always Outnumbered 1998  R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Apted
Cast: Laurence Fishburne, Bill Cobbs, Natalie Cole, Bill Duke, Laurie Metcalf, Cicely Tyson, Daniel Williams, Alan Wilder, Bill Nunn, Isaiah Washington, Bridgid Coulter, Kevin Carroll, John Toles-Bey, Jamaal Carter
Laurence Fishburne stars as violent ex-con Socrates Fortlow returning to his Watts neighborhood looking for work. Despite his bitterness, he befriends and counsels young Darryl (Daniel Williams) and gets involved in the marriage of his friend, Right Burke (Bill Cobbs). Made for HBO.
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Balloon Farm 1999  N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Family
Director: William Dear
Cast: Rip Torn, Mara Wilson, Roberts Blossom, Fredric Lehne, Richard Riehle, Laurie Metcalf, Neal McDonough, Lee Garlington, Ernie Lively, Arnetia Walker, Guy Boyd, Adam Wylie
Harvey H. Potter (Rip Torn) arrives in the drought-stricken farming town of Waterston and begins raising a new crop: magical, colorful balloons that bring new hope to the town. Disney fare.
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Beer League 2006  R, 86 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Artie Lange's Beer League
Director: Frank Sebastiano
Cast: Artie Lange, Ralph Macchio, Anthony DeSando, Cara Buono, Jimmy Palumbo, Jerry Minor, Laurie Metcalf, Seymour Cassel, Michael Deeg, Elizabeth Regen, Maddie Corman, Joe Lo Truglio
Artie DeVanzo (Artie Lange) is an unemployed 35-year-old loser who lives with his mother (Laurie Metcalf). Artie's slow-pitch softball team–sponsored by Ed's Bar & Swill–regularly loses to the team of Artie's nemesis, Dennis Manganelli (Anthony DeSando), from high school days. Enough fights between the teams have broken out that Artie's team is in jeopardy of being forced out of the league–unless they can pull their act together and end the team's perennial losing streak.
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Blink 1994  R, 106 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Michael Apted
Cast: Madeleine Stowe, Aidan Quinn, James Remar, Peter Friedman, Bruce A. Young, Laurie Metcalf, Matt Roth, Paul Dillon, Michael P. Byrne, Marilyn Dodds Frank
A woman (Madeleine Stowe), who was blinded 20 years ago by her mother during an alcoholic attack, regains her sight following surgery. Although her vision is blurry, she does witness a murderer leaving the scene of his crime. Enter the cop (Aidan Quinn), and the psychological drama begins.
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Bulworth 1998 R, 108 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Warren Beatty
Cast: Warren Beatty, Halle Berry, Jack Warden, Oliver Platt, Don Cheadle, Paul Sorvino, Christine Baranski, Sean Astin, Laurie Metcalf, Isaiah Washington
A bigoted senator, Jay Bulworth (Warren Beatty), runs for reelection. But, this time around (knowing he is dying) he decides to tell the truth to his constituents and, in the process, offends the power brokers.
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Chicago Cab 1998 R, 96 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy
aka: Hellcab
Director: Mary Cybulski, John Tintori
Cast: Paul Dillon, Gillian Anderson, John Cusack, Moira Harris, Julianne Moore, Michael Ironside, Laurie Metcalf, Kevin J. O'Connor, Tim Reinhard, Tim Gamble, Harry Lennix, Rana Khan, Darryl Theirse, Shanesia Davis-Williams, Phillip Edward Van Lear
Part of the job of a cab driver is to listen to the problems of his fares; this theme pervades throughout the story, which takes place one Christmas Eve in the life of a Chicago hack, Johnny (Paul Dillon). During his 14-hour shift in frigid weather, Johnny transports a scary man (John Cusack), a geek (Tim Reinhard), a rape victim (Julianne Moore), and others who he observes through his rear-view mirror and listens to their stories along the way.
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A Dangerous Woman 1993 R, 101 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Stephen Gyllenhaal
Cast: Debra Winger, Barbara Hershey, Gabriel Byrne, David Strathairn, Chloe Webb, John Terry, Paul Dooley, Laurie Metcalf, Jan Hooks, Heather Locklear
Two women vie for the attention of an itinerant worker who spends some time fixing up their house. The results of their attentions lead to unexpected results.
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Dear God 1996 PG, 112 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Garry Marshall
Cast: Greg Kinnear, Laurie Metcalf, Tim Conway, Hector Elizondo, Rue McClanahan, Maria Pitillo, Jon Seda, Roscoe Lee Browne, Anna Maria Horsford, Kathleen Marshall, Donal Logue, Felix Pire, Isadora O'Boto, Sam McMurray, Nancy Marchand
When it is discovered that postal employee Tom (Greg Kinnear) has taken it upon himself to answer letters written to God, Santa Claus, and the Easter Bunny, he gets fame and notoriety from the press but is charged by authorities with mail fraud.
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Desperately Seeking Susan 1985 PG-13, 104 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Director: Susan Seidelman
Cast: Madonna, Rosanna Arquette, Aidan Quinn, Mark Blum, Robert Joy, Laurie Metcalf, John Turturro, Anna Levine, Will Patton, Giancarlo Esposito, Peter Maloney, Anne Carlisle, Steven Wright, Jose Angel Santana, Richard Hell
Those three words of the title are from a classified ad that fascinates bored housewife Roberta Glass (Rosanna Arquette) who is overwhelmed by curiosity about Susan (Madonna). She goes to the rendezvous, sees Susan, and becomes so involved with her that she actually takes on the identity of Susan, a punk drifter. A screwball comedy with great characters.
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 Georgia Rule 2007 R, 113 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy / Romance
Director: Garry Marshall
Cast: Jane Fonda, Lindsay Lohan, Felicity Huffman, Dermot Mulroney, Garrett Hedlund, Cary Elwes, Hector Elizondo, Dylan MacLaughlin, Zachary Gordon, Laurie Metcalf, Tereza Stanislav, Fred Applegate, Rance Howard
Seventeen-year-old Rachel (Lindsay Lohan) has rebelled one too many times, and now her alcoholic mother, Lilly (Felicity Huffman), leaves San Francisco and takes her spoiled daughter to grandmother Georgia's (Jane Fonda) home in the Mormon town of Hull, Idaho, to spend the summer. Although Georgia lays down her "Georgia Rules" to enforce good behavior, Rachel still manages to shake up the townsfolk but, in the process, learns compassion and understanding for her mother and grandmother.
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Internal Affairs 1990 R, 116 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Mike Figgis
Cast: Richard Gere, Andy Garcia, Nancy Travis, Laurie Metcalf, William Baldwin, Richard Bradford, Michael Beach, Annabella Sciorra, Katherine Borowitz, Faye Grant, John Kapelos, Xander Berkeley, John Capodice, Victoria Dillard, Pamella D'Pella
Sergeant Raymond Avila (Andy Garcia) is an investigator for the Internal Affairs Department of the LAPD who is obsessed with getting the goods on another cop, Dennis Peck (Richard Gere). Peck has criminals at his disposal and divides the bribery money collected among his four ex-wives and eight children with whom he is obsessed. When Avila finds officers willing to testify against Peck, they end up dead, and the investigation is filled with other problems–including resistance from Avila's superiors who consider Peck an asset to the force. Finally, Avila investigates Peck's partner, Stretch (William Baldwin), and Peck, who believes that Avila is investigating him only to seek a promotion, begins stalking Avila and even turns Avila against his wife, Kathleen (Nancy Travis).
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 JFK 1991 R, 189 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery
Director: Oliver Stone
Cast: Kevin Costner, Sissy Spacek, Joe Pesci, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Oldman, Jay O. Sanders, Michael Rooker, Laurie Metcalf, Kevin Bacon, Jack Lemmon, John Candy, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Walter Matthau, Sally Kirkland, Edward Asner
Oliver Stone received Oscar nominations for Best Picture and Director in presenting questions about the Warren Commission and its investigation of the murder of John F. Kennedy. The questions arise when New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner) has doubts about the FBI's official story concerning the murder and begins his own investigation. The movie achieved its aim of making citizens more politically aware. Two Academy Awards (Best Cinematography and Film Editing) and four other nominations were received.
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 Leaving Las Vegas 1995  R, 112 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Mike Figgis
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue, Julian Sands, Richard Lewis, Steven Weber, Kim Adams, Laurie Metcalf, R. Lee Ermey, Valeria Golino, Xander Berkeley, Emily Procter, Stuart Regen, Graham Beckel, Carey Lowell, Thomas Kopache
This is a haunting love story about alcoholic Ben Sanderson (Nicolas Cage) who is bent on drinking himself to death in Las Vegas when he meets Sera (Elisabeth Shue), a troubled prostitute. Clinging to each other in their platonic relationship, they both move beyond their desperate selves into a somewhat better place. An American tragedy. Nicolas Cage won an Academy Award for Best Actor, and three other nominations were received, including Best Director and Actress (Shue).
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Making Mr. Right 1987 PG-13, 101 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Susan Seidelman
Cast: John Malkovich, Ann Magnuson, Glenne Headly, Ben Masters, Laurie Metcalf, Polly Bergen, Hart Bochner, Polly Draper, Harsh Nayyar, Susan Berman
A woman is promoting an android when she becomes romantically interested in him. Although the plot is rather weak, the acting makes up for the lack of depth.
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 Meet the Robinsons 2007  G, 93 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Adventure / Comedy / Sci-Fi
Director: Stephen J. Anderson
Cast: Angela Bassett, Daniel Hansen, Jordan Fry, Matthew Josten, Wesley Singerman, John H.H. Ford, Dara McGarry, Tom Kenny, Laurie Metcalf, Stephen J. Anderson, Tom Selleck, Harland Williams, Adam West, Don Hall, Paul Butcher
Orphaned, 12-year-old Lewis (voices of Daniel Hansen and Jordan Fry) has invented a Memory Scanner so that he can find his birth mother by remembering the day she left him at the orphanage. Lewis enters his invention in his school's science fair, and all goes well–until the Bowler Hat Guy (voice of Stephen J. Anderson) steals the scanner. But, a stranger, Wilbur Robinson (voice of Wesley Singerman), comes to Lewis' rescue. The two boys time-travel to track down the Bowler Hat Guy and, in the process, meet Lewis' very eccentric extended family. 1 User Review
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Miles from Home 1988 R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Gary Sinise
Cast: Richard Gere, Kevin Anderson, John Malkovich, Brian Dennehy, Penelope Ann Miller, Helen Hunt, Judith Ivey, Laurie Metcalf, Terry Kinney, Randall Arney
When two brothers (Richard Gere and Kevin Anderson) lose their farm because it is not productive, they take the unusual tack of burning the farm and setting off on a series of questionable adventures. Some may like, mainly because of cast.
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Mistress 1992 R, 108 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Barry Primus
Cast: Robert Wuhl, Martin Landau, Robert De Niro, Danny Aiello, Eli Wallach, Jace Alexander, Laurie Metcalf, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Jean Smart, Ernest Borgnine
While Jack Roth (Martin Landau) attempts to produce a screenplay for Marvin Landisman (Robert Wuhl), three wealthy backers of the project (Eli Wallach, Danny Aiello, and Robert De Niro) work to get their mistresses roles in the film. This drama/comedy is not at all great, but not bad for a winter night when you don't want to think too hard.
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Pacific Heights 1990 R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Schlesinger
Cast: Melanie Griffith, Michael Keaton, Matthew Modine, Mako, Nobu McCarthy, Laurie Metcalf, Dorian Harewood, Luca Bercovici, Tippi Hedren, Dan Hedaya
In order to aid financing the restoration of their San Francisco home, a couple (Melanie Griffith and Matthew Modine) rents space in their home as apartments. They get more than they bargained for when their socio-path tenant (Michael Keaton) creates major problems.
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Scream 2 1997 R, 120 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Wes Craven
Cast: David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jamie Kennedy, Laurie Metcalf, David Warner, Jerry O'Connell, Jada Pinkett Smith, Liev Schreiber, Elise Neal, Timothy Olyphant, Lewis Arquette, Duane Martin, Rebecca Gayheart
Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell), after surviving her ordeal of mass killings in "Scream" (1996), is now a college co-ed living in Cincinnati. Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox) has written a best-selling book based on the killings, and the book is made into a movie, "Stab." While watching "Stab" at the local theater, two college students are killed. Sidney suspects that she has not escaped from her life of terror. Gale and Deputy Dewey (David Arquette) investigate and discover that a copy-cat killer is, indeed, recreating the earlier massacres that involve carving up the victims.
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Stars and Bars 1988 R, 99 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Pat O'Connor
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Harry Dean Stanton, Kent Broadhurst, Joan Cusack, Martha Plimpton, Maury Chaykin, Deirdre O'Connell, Will Patton, Laurie Metcalf, Keith David
When a very proper British connoisseur of the arts goes to Georgia in search of an expensive painting, he runs into all kinds of people from the seedier side of life. Very weak.
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 Toy Story 1995 G, 81 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy
Director: John Lasseter
Cast: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Jim Varney, Wallace Shawn, John Ratzenberger, Annie Potts, R. Lee Ermey, Laurie Metcalf, Erik von Detten, John Morris, Penn Jillette, Jack Angel, Sarah Freeman, Debi Derryberry
This animated film makes you forget that the toys living in Andy's room are not really alive. In this play-world society, everyone has a rank and station. Problems begin when toy cowboy Woody (voice of Tom Hanks) is threatened by Andy's (voice of John Morris) birthday gift: a futuristic plastic spaceman, Buzz Lightyear (voice of Tim Allen). Woody is determined to do away with his nemesis.
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 Toy Story 2 1999  G, 85 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy
Director: John Lasseter, Ash Brannon, Lee Unkrich
Cast: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Jim Varney, Wallace Shawn, John Ratzenberger, Annie Potts, Kelsey Grammer, John Morris, Wayne Knight, Joan Cusack, Laurie Metcalf, Estelle Harris, Jodi Benson, R. Lee Ermey
While Andy (voice of John Morris) is off at summer camp, a greedy toy collector (voice of Wayne Knight), with plans to make big money, kidnaps Woody (voice of Tom Hanks) to complete his set of puppets from "Woody's Roundup." But all is not lost; Buzz Lightyear (voice of Tim Allen), Mr. Potato Head (voice of Don Rickles), Slinky Dog (voice of Jim Varney), Rex (voice of Wallace Shawn), and Hamm (voice of John Ratzenberger) spring to the rescue on a mission to retrieve Woody before Andy returns home.
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 Treasure Planet 2002 PG, 95 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Adventure / Sci-Fi
Director: Ron Clements, John Musker
Cast: Brian Murray, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emma Thompson, David Hyde Pierce, Martin Short, Patrick McGoohan, Roscoe Lee Browne, Laurie Metcalf, Michael Wincott, Dane A. Davis, Corey Burton, Tony Jay, Michael McShane, Jack Angel
Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" has been reset to Treasure Planet in this Disney animated sci-fi film that takes place in outer space. Young Jim Hawkins (voice of Joseph Gordon-Levitt) travels across the universe as part of the crew of the spaceship R.L.S. Legacy, which is captained by Amelia (voice of Emma Thompson). A pirate, Billy Bones (voice of Patrick McGoohan), has given Jim a treasure map showing how to reach Treasure Planet, and Jim's purpose in signing on to the ship is to search for the treasures hidden there. Jim becomes friends with crew member John Silver (voice of Brian Murray) and learns that he is part cyborg and plans a mutiny. When Jim opts out of the mutiny, he finds an ally in marooned robot B.E.N. (voice of Martin Short) and tries to defend law and order. The film received a Best Animated Feature Academy Award nomination.
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Uncle Buck 1989 PG, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: John Hughes
Cast: John Candy, Jean Louisa Kelly, Gaby Hoffmann, Macaulay Culkin, Amy Madigan, Elaine Bromka, Garrett M. Brown, Laurie Metcalf, Jay Underwood, Brian Tarantina, Mike Starr, Suzanne Shepherd, William Windom
While his brother (Garrett M. Brown) and sister-in-law (Elaine Bromka) are out of town, Uncle Buck (John Candy) steps in and takes care of their children: six-year-old Maizy (Gaby Hoffman), eight-year-old Miles (Macaulay Culkin), and teenager Tia (Jean Louisa Kelly). Although there are problems at first, the inept Uncle Buck manages to overcome his own faults and wins the respect of the children.
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| 1. Always Outnumbered (1998)
2. Balloon Farm (1999)
3. Beer League (2006)
aka: Artie Lange's Beer League
4. Blink (1994)
5. Bulworth (1998)
6. Chicago Cab (1998)
aka: Hellcab
7. A Dangerous Woman (1993)
8. Dear God (1996)
9. Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
10. Georgia Rule (2007)
11. Internal Affairs (1990)
12. JFK (1991)
13. Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
14. Making Mr. Right (1987)
15. Meet the Robinsons (2007)
16. Miles from Home (1988)
17. Mistress (1992)
18. Pacific Heights (1990)
19. Scream 2 (1997)
20. Stars and Bars (1988)
21. Toy Story (1995)
22. Toy Story 2 (1999)
23. Treasure Planet (2002)
24. Uncle Buck (1989)
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