Arachnophobia 1990 PG-13, 109 min. Genre: Sci-Fi / Comedy / Horror / Thriller
Director: Frank Marshall Cast: Jeff Daniels, Harley Jane Kozak, John Goodman, Julian Sands, Stuart Pankin, Brian McNamara, Henry Jones, Peter Jason, Mark L. Taylor, James Handy, Roy Brocksmith, Kathy Kinney, Marlene Katz, Mary Carver, Garette Ratliff Henson
A small town in California is being invaded by deadly Venezuelan spiders. The last this town needs is Dr. Ross Jennings (Jeff Daniels) who is an arachnophobiac (afraid of spiders). Nevertheless, it is the doctor who must become involved if the problem is to be remedied.
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Dempsey 1983 TV, 105 min. Genre: Drama
Director: Gus Trikonis Cast: Treat Williams, Sam Waterston, Victoria Tennant, Sally Kellerman, Peter Mark Richman, Jesse Vint, Robert Harper, John McLiam, Bonnie Bartlett, John Lehne, Michael McManus, Mark L. Taylor
This made-for-TV biography of boxing great Jack Dempsey–the "Manassa Mauler"–stars Treat Williams as Dempsey. The story covers his life from the early teens, through his reign as heavyweight champion, and the trials of his private life as he went through five wives.
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Eight Days a Week 1997 R, 92 min. Genre: Comedy
Director: Michael Davis Cast: Keri Russell, Josh Schaefer, R.D. Robb, Mark L. Taylor, Marcia Shapiro, Johnny Green, Buck Kartalian, Catherine Hicks, Darleen Carr, Biff Manard
Young Peter (Joshua Schaefer) is obsessed with his neighbor, Erica (Keri Russell), and goes to extremes to win her heart in this coming-of-age comedy.
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Honey, I Shrunk the Kids 1989 PG, 86 min. Genre: Comedy
Director: Joe Johnston Cast: Rick Moranis, Matt Frewer, Marcia Strassman, Kristine Sutherland, Thomas Wilson Brown, Jared Rushton, Amy O'Neill, Lou Cutell, Robert Oliveri, Mark L. Taylor
While inventor Wayne Szalinski (Rick Moranis) is lecturing on his latest invention, neighborhood kids get caught by his molecule reducing machine and end up being only 1/4th inch tall.
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Malice in Wonderland 1985 TV, 100 min. Genre: Drama / Comedy aka: The Rumor Mill
Director: Gus Trikonis Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Alexander, Richard Dysart, Joyce Van Patten, Jon Cypher, Leslie Ackerman, Bonnie Bartlett, Joel Colodner, Rick Lenz, Mary McCusker, John Pleshette, Tim Robbins, Thomas Byrd, Eric Purcell, Mark L. Taylor
Bitter rivals in Hollywood's gossip world, Louella Parsons (Elizabeth Taylor) and Hedda Hopper (Jane Alexander), feud and claw their way to reach the status of Top Gossip Queen. Parsons stops at nothing to publish scandals, and Hopper is determined to replace her as the top gossip columnist in Hollywood. And the battle rages.
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Meet Wally Sparks 1997 R, 105 min. Genre: Comedy
Director: Peter Baldwin Cast: Rodney Dangerfield, Burt Reynolds, David Ogden Stiers, Cindy Williams, Debi Mazar, Mark L. Taylor, Tim Allen, Lesley-Anne Down, Jay Leno, Alan Rachins
Wally Sparks is a TV talk show host who is about to lose his advertisers because he is so raunchy. So, to change his image, he crashes the staid governor's mansion for an interview. Then he gets injured so must do the show from there. So then....and then... Well, actually, it's one raunchy joke after another, with Rodney, as Wally, doing his stand-up routines as if there weren't a plot. Some are very good and funny, some are tasteless trash. So, too, the movie.
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Murder 101 1991 PG-13, 95 min. Genre: Mystery
Director: Bill Condon Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Dey Young, Raphael Sbarge, Kim Thomson, Mark L. Taylor, Antoni Corone, J. Kenneth Campbell, Todd Merrill, Yorgo Constantine, Yavone Evans
Charles Lattimore (Pierce Brosnan) teaches a class in mystery writing. After he gives an assignment to the class to develop a plot for the perfect murder, one of the students turns up dead. Now the mystery begins as to whodunit. Interesting made-for-cable-TV fare.
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| 1. Arachnophobia (1990)
2. Dempsey (1983)
3. Eight Days a Week (1997)
4. Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989)
5. Malice in Wonderland (1985) aka: The Rumor Mill
6. Meet Wally Sparks (1997)
7. Murder 101 (1991)
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