Blind Date 1987  PG-13, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Blake Edwards
Cast: Bruce Willis, Kim Basinger, John Larroquette, Mark Blum, William Daniels, Graham Stark, Joyce Van Patten, George Coe, Phil Hartman
Bruce Willis is an upwardly mobile professional. Just when his blind date with a beautiful blonde (Kim Basinger) looks like it might be the start of something great, she has a drink and turns the night into a living hell. Not only does she almost destroy a restaurant, she has a jealous ex-boyfriend (John Larroquette). A real Bomb!
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 Crocodile Dundee 1986  PG-13, 98 min.
Genre: Action / Comedy
Director: Peter Faiman
Cast: Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, Mark Blum, John Meillon, Michael Lombard, David Gulpilil, Irving Metzman
Paul Hogan stars as Michael J. Dundee, "Crocodile," a legendary wilderness guide from Australia who is hired by a chic New York reporter to take her on a tour of the outback. In turn, she invites him to see the U.S., and Dundee becomes the toast of New York City. Good entertainment and Paul Hogan is great in his role.
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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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Getting to Know You 1999 N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Lisanne Skyler
Cast: Heather Matarazzo, Zach Braff, Michael Weston, Bebe Neuwirth, Mark Blum, Bo Hopkins, Chris Noth, Tristen Skyler, Sonja Sohn, Mary McCormack, Richard Bright
Combining several of Joyce Carol Oates' short stories results in a powerful film about a dysfunctional family. This time around, it's the parents–Trix (Bebe Neuwirth) and Darrell (Mark Blum)–who cause problems. The children–Judith (Heather Matarazzo) and Wesley (Zach Braff)–serve to link the stories together as they tell two tales, which mesh into the original story of their unusual lives.
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Just Between Friends 1986  PG-13, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Allan Burns
Cast: Mary Tyler Moore, Christine Lahti, Ted Danson, Sam Waterston, Salome Jens, Susan Rinell, Julie Payne, Read Morgan, Jane Greer, Beverly Sanders, Mark Blum, Timothy Gibbs, Diane Stilwell, Castulo Guerra
Holly Davis (Mary Tyler Moore) is a happily married housewife, with no apparent problems, who runs into a big one when she discovers that her new friend Sandy Dunlap (Christine Lahti) and she are in love with the same man: Holly's husband Chip (Ted Danson). Chip dies suddenly, and, in the midst of the tragedy, Holly discovers that Sandy is pregnant and has been trying to keep it a secret. Problems rise to the fore, but Chip's friend Harry Crandall (Sam Waterston) steps in to help.
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The Low Life 1995 R, 98 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George Hickenlooper
Cast: Rory Cochrane, Sean Astin, Kyra Sedgwick, Ron Livingston, Christian J. Meoli, Sara Melson, James LeGros, J.T. Walsh, Shawnee Smith, Antoni Corone, Angel Aviles, Mark Blum
Director George Hickenlooper uses this story–about self-centered Yale graduates living in L.A., working at mundane jobs, and drifting aimlessly–to make a point about the inability of some Ivy League graduates with everything going for them to make it in the real world.
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Miami Rhapsody 1995 PG-13, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: David Frankel
Cast: Sarah Jessica Parker, Antonio Banderas, Gil Bellows, Mia Farrow, Carla Gugino, Paul Mazursky, Kevin Pollak, Jeremy Piven, Mark Blum, Ben Stein
Gwyn (Sarah Jessica Parker) contemplates the virtues of marriage. To her dismay, she finds that not only her parents, but all of her married siblings are having extra-marital affairs, and she wonders if she should tell her fiance "No!"
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The Presidio 1988 R, 97 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller / Mystery
Director: Peter Hyams
Cast: Sean Connery, Mark Harmon, Meg Ryan, Jack Warden, Mark Blum, Dana Gladstone, Jenette Goldstein, Marvin J. McIntyre, Don Calfa, Robert Lesser, John DiSanti, James Hooks Reynolds, Curtis W. Sims, Rick Zumwalt, Rosalyn Marshall
While stationed at the Presidio, Army M.P. Lt. Col. Alan Caldwell (Sean Connery) has run-ins with San Francisco cop Jay Austin (Mark Harmon) over jurisdictional matters. Things really heat up when Harmon becomes interested in Caldwell's pretty daughter Donna (Meg Ryan).
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 Shattered Glass 2003 PG-13, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Billy Ray
Cast: Hayden Christensen, Peter Sarsgaard, Chloe Sevigny, Melanie Lynskey, Steve Zahn, Rosario Dawson, Hank Azaria, Luke Kirby, Jamie Elman, Mark Blum, Chad Donella, Russell Yuen
Based on the true story of the 1990s' Washington, D.C. journalist, Stephen Glass (Hayden Christensen), this drama tells of his career's meteoric rise and then steep fall when Glass was caught fabricating stories, sources, and quotes for his magazine, "The New Republic."
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Stag 1997  R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Gavin Wilding
Cast: Mario Van Peebles, Andrew McCarthy, Kevin Dillon, Taylor Dayne, John Stockwell, John Henson, William McNamara, Jerry Stiller, Ben Gazzara, Jenny McShane, Mark Blum, William Prael
Victor Mallick's (John Stockwell) bachelor party is in full swing, until an accident results in the death of a stripper performing for the young, successful men attending the party. Now, each of the party-goers reacts in his own way of facing, or not facing, the consequences.
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Worth Winning 1989  PG-13, 102 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Will Mackenzie
Cast: Mark Harmon, Madeleine Stowe, Lesley Ann Warren, Maria Holvoe, Mark Blum, Andrea Martin, Tony Longo, Alan Blumenfeld, Devin Ratray, Jon Korkes, Brad Hall, David Brenner
Local TV weatherman Taylor Worth (Mark Harmon) bets his friends that, within three months, he can get three women to accept his proposals of marriage. All goes well for Taylor–until the ladies find out what is happening and seek revenge.
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| 1. Blind Date (1987)
2. Crocodile Dundee (1986)
3. Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
4. Getting to Know You (1999)
5. Indictment: The McMartin Trial (1995)
6. Just Between Friends (1986)
7. The Low Life (1995)
8. Miami Rhapsody (1995)
9. The Presidio (1988)
10. Shattered Glass (2003)
11. Stag (1997)
12. Worth Winning (1989)
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