24 Nights 1999  N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Kieran Turner
Cast: Kevin Isola, Aida Turturro, Stephen Mailer, David Burtka, Rob Bogue, Mary Louise Wilson, Mark Bateman, Sybyl Walker, John Rothman, Johann Carlo
Twenty-four-year-old Jonathan (Kevin Isola), a gay, pot-smoking loser, is a lifelong believer in Santa Claus and is still looking for "Mr. Right." After writing to Santa expressing his need, along comes Toby (David Burtka). Is he the one Santa has sent?
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Adventures of Huck Finn 1993  PG, 108 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure / Drama
Director: Stephen Sommers
Cast: Elijah Wood, Courtney B. Vance, Robbie Coltrane, Jason Robards, Ron Perlman, Dana Ivey, Anne Heche, Curtis Armstrong, Frances Conroy, James Gammon, Paxton Whitehead, Tom Eldredge, Laura Bell Bundy, Mary Louise Wilson, Danny Tamberelli
This production stays close to the first half of Mark Twain's novel. The con-men, "the King" (Jason Robards) and "the Duke" (Robbie Coltrane), are played well with hints of humor as they impersonate royalty and try to swindle two sisters (Anne Heche and Laura Bell Bundy) out of their fortune. Meanwhile, the innocent boy, Huck (Elijah Wood), has escaped from his brutal father, Pap (Ron Perlman), and has joined escaped slave Jim (Courtney B. Vance) on a rafting trip down the Mississippi River. Huck and Jim develop an understanding of each other and then run into "the King" and "the Duke" along the way. It doesn't take long for Huck and Jim to be drawn reluctantly into the schemes of "the King" and "the Duke."
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Everybody Wins 1990  R, 97 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Karel Reisz
Cast: Debra Winger, Nick Nolte, Will Patton, Judith Ivey, Jack Warden, Kathleen Wilhoite, Frank Converse, Frank Military, Mary Louise Wilson, Peter Appel
This screenplay by Arthur Miller is about a prostitute (Debra Winger) who talks a private detective (Nick Nolte) into investigating the murder of a prominent doctor in a small Connecticut town.
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Green Card 1990 PG-13, 108 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Peter Weir
Cast: Gerard Depardieu, Andie MacDowell, Bebe Neuwirth, Gregg Edelman, Robert Prosky, Jessie Keosian, Ethan Phillips, Mary Louise Wilson, Lois Smith, Conrad McLaren
When Georges (Gerard Depardieu, in his U.S. film debut) wants to start a new life in the U.S., he needs a Green Card to work. Bronte (Andie MacDowell), an avid horticulturalist, wants to move into an apartment with a greenhouse, but she must be married to do so. Both people can be satisfied by a marriage of convenience. When the authorities question Georges' marriage, the two must actually move in together. Love blooms.
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Pet Sematary 1989 R, 102 min.
Genre: Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Thriller
Director: Mary Lambert
Cast: Dale Midkiff, Fred Gwynne, Denise Crosby, Blaze Berdahl, Miko Hughes, Brad Greenquist, Michael Lombard, Susan Blommaert, Stephen King, Mara Clark, Kavi Raz, Mary Louise Wilson, Andrew Hubatsek, Liz Davies, Kara Dalke
Doctor Louis Creed (Dale Midkiff) and his wife Rachel (Denise Crosby) move to the countryside in Maine with their young children Gage and Ellie (Miko Hughes and Blaze Berdahl). Then Gage is killed and is buried in an Indian burial ground that brings the dead back to life–BUT horribly transformed. Stephen King wrote the screenplay from his novel. You've got to hold on to your seat tightly for this one.
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Searching for Paradise 2002 R, 88 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Myra Paci
Cast: Susan May Pratt, Chris Noth, Jeremy Davies, John Pierson, Michele Placido, Laila Robins, Josef Sommer, Mary Louise Wilson, Jonathan Lisecki
Recent college grad Gilda (Susan May Pratt) is infatuated with actor Michael De Santis (Chris Noth). She continuously watches a tape of him, and, after her father dies, she uses an excuse of visiting her grandfather to meet Michael. After getting an audience with him by posing as a reporter, she (as well as he) gets something other than what was expected.
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She-Devil 1989 PG-13, 99 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Susan Seidelman
Cast: Meryl Streep, Roseanne, Ed Begley Jr., Linda Hunt, Sylvia Miles, A Martinez, Bryan Larkin, Mary Louise Wilson, Maria Pitillo, Jack Gilpin
Taken from Fay Weldon's novel, "The Life and Loves of a She-Devil," this movie is about a frumpy housewife (Roseanne) who plots to upset her husband's (Ed Begley Jr.) affair with a self-centered romance novelist (Meryl Streep).
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Stepmom 1998 PG-13, 124 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Chris Columbus
Cast: Julia Roberts, Susan Sarandon, Ed Harris, Jena Malone, Liam Aiken, Lynn Whitfield, Darrell Larson, Mary Louise Wilson, Andre B. Blake, Russel Harper
Fashion photographer Isabel (Julia Roberts) is dating Luke (Ed Harris), and now she wants to take care of Luke's kids, Anna (Jena Malone) and Ben (Liam Aiken), for the weekend. But these kids have been trained by their mother, Jackie (Susan Sarandon), to resist any new woman in their father's life. Isabel, however, persists in trying to tear down the walls of distrust between them.
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Tiger Town 1983  TV, 96 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Alan Shapiro
Cast: Roy Scheider, Justin Henry, Ron McLarty, Bethany Carpenter, Lindsay Barr, Dave Bokas, Chris Bremer, Mary Louise Wilson, Jack Fish, Noah Moazezi
Over-the-hill Detroit Tiger player Billy Young (Roy Scheider) is in a batting slump, and it appears that he may finish his career without being in a World Series. But along comes 12-year-old Alex (Justin Henry) who attends the games and "wills" Billy to get a hit. It works, but will Alex be on hand for the pennant-deciding game? Disney.
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Zelig 1983 PG, 84 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Mary Louise Wilson, Sal Lomita, Michael Jeter, John Rothman, Marvin Chatinover
Leonard Zelig (Woody Allen) is a man who, like a chameleon, assumes personality traits of those he encounters. Dr. Eudora Fletcher (Mia Farrow) tries to help him. Clever, as is often the case with Allen, as he uses pseudo-newsreels from the 1920s to help tell the story.
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| 1. 24 Nights (1999)
2. Adventures of Huck Finn (1993)
3. Everybody Wins (1990)
4. Green Card (1990)
5. Pet Sematary (1989)
6. Searching for Paradise (2002)
7. She-Devil (1989)
8. Stepmom (1998)
9. Tiger Town (1983)
10. Zelig (1983)
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