 American Pie 1999  R, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Paul Weitz
Cast: Jason Biggs, Jennifer Coolidge, Shannon Elizabeth, Alyson Hannigan, Chris Klein, Tara Reid, Eugene Levy, Natasha Lyonne, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Seann William Scott, Mena Suvari, Chris Owen, Molly Cheek, Lawrence Pressman
Jim (Jason Biggs), Oz (Chris Klein), Kevin (Thomas Ian Nicholas), and Finch (Eddie Kaye Thomas) are high-school seniors determined to lose their virginity before heading off to college. The senior prom looms as the defining time and place.
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American Wedding 2003 R, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
aka: American Pie 3
Director: Jesse Dylan
Cast: Jason Biggs, Seann William Scott, Alyson Hannigan, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Thomas Ian Nicholas, January Jones, Eugene Levy, Molly Cheek, Deborah Rush, Fred Willard, Angela Paton, Lawrence Pressman, Eric Allan Kramer, Amanda Swisten, Nikki Schieler Ziering
This film is the conclusion (or so we thought) to the "American Pie" trilogy and serves as a reunion of friends and family for the wedding of Jim (Jason Biggs) and Michelle (Alyson Hannigan). Complications ensue as they always do for this group of friends from Michigan.
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The Enemy Within 1994  TV, 86 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Jonathan Darby
Cast: Forest Whitaker, Sam Waterston, Dana Delany, Jason Robards, Josef Sommer, Lisa Summerour, Ray J, George Dzundza, Isabel Glasser, Dakin Matthews, William O'Leary, Rory J. Aylward, Lawrence Pressman
While serving with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Colonel MacKenzie "Mac" Casey (Forest Whitaker) suspects that his senior officer, General R. Pendleton Lloyd (Jason Robards), is backed by millionaire businessmen in a plot to use the military to remove President William Foster (Sam Waterston) from office. There is not much time, but Casey uses all of his resources to stop the coup.
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The Hellstrom Chronicle 1971 G, 90 min.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Walon Green
Cast: Lawrence Pressman
Winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary, this film is an examination of man versus insects as both struggle to survive on the planet.
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The Man in the Glass Booth 1975  PG, 117 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Arthur Hiller
Cast: Maximilian Schell, Lois Nettleton, Luther Adler, Lawrence Pressman, Henry Brown, Richard Rasof, David Nash, Martin Berman, Sy Kramer, Lloyd Bochner, Robert H. Harris, Norbert Schiller, Berry Kroeger, Leonardo Cimino, Connie Sawyer
In 1965, Arthur Goldman (Maximilian Schell) is a wealthy Jewish industrialist enjoying life in a luxury apartment in Manhattan when Israeli agents break into his home and arrest him for being the Nazi war criminal "Dorff" who ran a Nazi death camp. Goldman is drugged and sent to Israel where he is tried while in a protective glass booth. Now the question is, "Is he, or is he not, really Dorff?" This screen adaptation of Robert Shaw's play is so far removed from Shaw's interpretation that Shaw removed his name from the credits.
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 Mighty Joe Young 1998 PG, 114 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Ron Underwood
Cast: Charlize Theron, Bill Paxton, Rade Serbedzija, Peter Firth, David Paymer, Regina King, Linda Purl, Naveen Andrews, Lawrence Pressman, Mika Boorem
Mighty Joe Young, that mutant gorilla, is brought to the United States to protect him from vicious poachers. But the poachers follow, the gorilla escapes, and a rampage through Hollywood ensues.
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Nine to Five 1980 PG, 110 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: 9 to 5
Director: Colin Higgins
Cast: Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, Dabney Coleman, Sterling Hayden, Henry Jones, Lawrence Pressman, Elizabeth Wilson, Edward Marshall, Marian Mercer, Ren Woods, Norma Donaldson, Roxanna Bonilla-Giannini, Peggy Pope, Richard Stahl
The popular title song is not the only good thing about this movie. Comedy reigns in this story about the lack of fairness in the workplace when secretaries–Judy Bernly (Jane Fonda), Violet Newstead (Lily Tomlin), and Doralee Rhodes (Dolly Parton)–kidnap their lecherous boss Franklin Hart, Jr. (Dabney Coleman). They keep Franklin prisoner in his own home, run the department without him, and make changes that lead to greater production. But, how long can they keep Hart captive?
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Rehearsal for Murder 1982 TV, 96 min.
Genre: Mystery / Thriller
Director: David Greene
Cast: Robert Preston, Lynn Redgrave, Patrick Macnee, Lawrence Pressman, Jeff Goldblum, William Russ, Madolyn Smith Osborne, William Daniels, Nicholas Mele, Charles Robinson
This made-for-TV film involves Broadway playwright Alex Dennison (Robert Preston) who had been engaged to famous TV star Monica Welles (Lynn Redgrave). On the night Monica made her Broadway debut, she supposedly committed suicide. Alex believes the apparent suicide was, in fact, murder, and he sets out to find the murderer within a group of people who are reading through his latest play. The play is a play-within-a-play to find the real killer from the group who had dealt with Monica before she died.
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 Shaft 1971 R, 100 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
Director: Gordon Parks
Cast: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi, Christopher St. John, Gwenn Mitchell, Lawrence Pressman, Antonio Fargas, Arnold Johnson, Shimen Ruskin, Joseph Leon, Victor Arnold, Sherri Brewer, Rex Robbins, Camille Yarbrough, Margaret Warncke
After the teenage daughter of Black, Harlem gangster Bumpy Jonas (Moses Gunn) is kidnapped by the White Mafia, private investigator John Shaft (Richard Roundtree) sets out to track her down. There has been no demand for ransom, and Shaft has no clues as to who actually did the kidnapping when he enters his action-packed investigation through New York City. Isaac Hayes' theme song for this film won the Academy Award for Best Song.
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The Sunchaser 1996   R, 118 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Cimino
Cast: Woody Harrelson, Jon Seda, Anne Bancroft, Talisa Soto, Harry Carey Jr., Lawrence Pressman, Matt Mulhern, Alexandra Tydings, Richard Bauer, Victor Aaron, Michael O'Neill, Carmen Dell'Orefice, Brooke Ashley, Andrea Roth, Bob Minor
Seventeen-year-old Blue (Jon Seda) is in prison when he learns that he has a rare tumor. Desperate, Blue takes Dr. Michael Reynolds (Woody Harrelson) hostage and forces him to head for the healing waters of a lake he heard of through a Navaho medicine man. 1 User Review
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| | starchild 01/29/2007 | | it was great. a must see. |
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| 1. American Pie (1999)
2. American Wedding (2003)
aka: American Pie 3
3. Angus (1995)
4. The Enemy Within (1994)
5. For Love or Money (1984)
6. The Hanoi Hilton (1987)
7. The Hellstrom Chronicle (1971)
8. The Man in the Glass Booth (1975)
9. Mighty Joe Young (1998)
10. Nine to Five (1980)
aka: 9 to 5
11. Rehearsal for Murder (1982)
12. Shaft (1971)
13. The Sunchaser (1996)
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