Baby Mama 2008  PG-13, 96 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Michael McCullers
Cast: Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Greg Kinnear, Dax Shepard, Romany Malco, Sigourney Weaver, Steve Martin, Maura Tierney, Stephen Mailer, Holland Taylor, James Rebhorn, Denis O'Hare, Kevin Collins, Will Forte, Fred Armisen
Kate Holbrook (Tina Fey) is an overachieving vice-president at Round Earth organic markets. But, she has never had a child, and that is something she wants more than anything else. When she learns that her chances of getting pregnant are nil, Kate's solution is to contact a fertility agency run by Chaffee Bicknell (Sigourney Weaver) and decides that Angie (Amy Poehler) will be the surrogate mother. A short time later, when now-pregnant Angie appears at Kate's door with no place to live, Kate invites her to move in. Chaos and comedy reign as the slovenly Angie takes over Kate's well-ordered world.
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Diggers 2007  R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Katherine Dieckmann
Cast: Paul Rudd, Ken Marino, Ron Eldard, Josh Hamilton, Maura Tierney, Sarah Paulson, Lauren Ambrose, Beeson Carroll, Andrew Cherry, Alex Pickett, Jonny Pickett, Richard Council, Alison Folland, Scott Sowers
In 1976, third-generation clam-digging friends Hunt (Paul Rudd), Jack (Ron Eldard), Frankie (Ken Marino), and Cons (Josh Hamilton) live on Long Island and make their living from the sea. But when a large private fishing company sets up its operations in the area, the four friends face changes not only in their professional lives but in their personal lives as well.
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Finding Amanda 2008  R, 96 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Peter Tolan
Cast: Matthew Broderick, Brittany Snow, Maura Tierney, Peter Facinelli, Steve Coogan, Bill Fagerbakke, Daniel Roebuck, Allan Wasserman, Mighty Rasta, Vitta Quinn, Allie McCulloch, J.P. Manoux
Just before Lorraine (Maura Tierney) leaves her husband Taylor Peters (Matthew Broderick) because of his multiple addictions, she sends him to Las Vegas to rescue her 20-year-old niece Amanda (Brittany Snow) who is working as a call girl. Taylor goes on the mission hoping to win back Lorraine. However, once in Vegas, Taylor cannot resist gambling, decides Amanda is happy in her "career," and things do not turn out as he planned.
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Forces of Nature 1999  PG-13, 102 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Bronwen Hughes
Cast: Sandra Bullock, Ben Affleck, Maura Tierney, Steve Zahn, Blythe Danner, Ronny Cox, Bert Remsen, Michael Fairman, Richard Schiff, Meredith Scott Lynn
Ben (Ben Affleck) has boarded his plane and is strapped into his own seat next to Sarah (Sandra Bullock). This flight is supposed to take him to his wedding, but the plane crashes on take-off. Ben then joins forces with Sarah on a crazy trip that involves not only cars but also a train, a bus, and–wouldn't you know it–a motel room. By film's end, the audience has no clue of what these two are doing together, and, probably, it does not matter.
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 Insomnia 2002 R, 117 min.
Genre: Thriller / Drama
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Hilary Swank, Maura Tierney, Martin Donovan, Nicky Katt, Paul Dooley, Jonathan Jackson, Katharine Isabelle, Oliver Zemen
When police detective Will Dormer (Al Pacino) accidentally kills his partner, Hap Eckhart (Martin Donovan), during a murder investigation, he opts for an alibi and does not confess. Unfortunately, there was a witness (Robin Williams) who sets out to blackmail Dormer. Now, Dormer has the murder case to solve and the blackmailer to deal with, while a local detective (Hilary Swank) is doing her own investigation into Eckhart's death.
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Instinct 1999 R, 124 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jon Turteltaub
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Cuba Gooding Jr., Donald Sutherland, Maura Tierney, George Dzundza, John Ashton, John Aylward, Thomas Q. Morris, Doug Spinuzza, Paul Bates
A brilliant anthropology professor, Ethan Powell (Anthony Hopkins), spent two years in the jungles of Rwanda studying, and ultimately befriending, the mountain gorillas. But his odyssey ended when Powell killed several Africans and was sent to prison in the U.S. He now resides in the psycho ward where Theo Caulder (Cuba Gooding Jr.) eagerly takes on Powell's case and in the process of therapy learns more than a few things about himself as well.
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Liar Liar 1997 PG-13, 86 min.
Genre: Comedy / Fantasy
Director: Tom Shadyac
Cast: Jim Carrey, Maura Tierney, Justin Cooper, Cary Elwes, Anne Haney, Jennifer Tilly, Jason Bernard, Swoosie Kurtz, Amanda Donohoe, Mitch Ryan, Marianne Muellerleile, Christopher Mayer, Eric Pierpoint, Randall "Tex" Cobb, Cheri Oteri
A yuppie lawyer, Fletcher Reede (Jim Carrey), has a great career but is newly divorced from his wife, Audrey Reede (Maura Tierney). When their five-year-old son, Max (Justin Cooper), makes a birthday wish that his father will not tell another lie, Fletcher must go 24 hours without telling any falsehoods. Will he survive the ordeal?
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Melvin Goes to Dinner 2003 R, 83 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Bob Odenkirk
Cast: Michael Blieden, Stephanie Courtney, Matt Price, Annabelle Gurwitch, Kathleen Roll, Maura Tierney, James Gunn, David Cross, Jacqueline Heinze, Fred Armisen
Based on Michael Blieden's play "Phyrogiants!" most of this story takes place at a restaurant table where four, funny, 30-something people (Michael Blieden, Stephanie Courtney, Matt Price, and Annabelle Gurwitch) bare their inner feelings on a myriad of subjects. Entertaining.
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Mercy 1996 R, 85 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Richard Shepard
Cast: John Rubinstein, Amber Kain, Sam Rockwell, Jane Lanier, Novella Nelson, Phil Brock, Rhea Silver-Smith, Christopher J. Quinn, Kevin Joseph, Maura Tierney, Robert Shepard, Rick Gomez
The daughter of successful, arrogant lawyer Frank Kramer (John Rubinstein) is kidnapped–not just for the ransom but to take revenge for Frank's treatment of people. As he is sent around NYC, in out-of-the-way places he had never seen, he begins to understand more about the 'little" people who he had stepped on all of his career.
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Oxygen 1999 R, 92 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Shepard
Cast: Maura Tierney, Adrien Brody, Terry Kinney, James Naughton, Laila Robins, Paul Calderon, Dylan Baker, Olek Krupa, Frankie Faison, Slavko Stimac
A psychotic escape artist, "Harry" (Adrien Brody), kidnaps wealthy Frances Hannen (Laila Robins), buries her alive in Manhattan, and sends out the ransom note. Detective Foster (Maura Tierney)–a bit of a psycho herself–is assigned the case, and the cat-and-mouse chase is on.
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Primal Fear 1996  R, 126 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Gregory Hoblit
Cast: Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Edward Norton, John Mahoney, Alfre Woodard, Frances McDormand, Stanley Anderson, Terry O'Quinn, Steven Bauer, Joe Spano, Andre Braugher, Tony Plana, Jon Seda, Maura Tierney, Reg Rogers
An ambitious defense attorney, Martin Vail (Richard Gere), defends teenage, altar boy Aaron Stampler (Edward Norton) who is accused of the gruesome murder of an archbishop (Stanley Anderson). Once into the case, Vail learns that the prosecuting attorney will be his ex-lover, Janet Venable (Laura Linney), and that the archbishop was involved in deviant sexual activities.
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Primary Colors 1998 R, 163 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Mike Nichols
Cast: John Travolta, Emma Thompson, Billy Bob Thornton, Kathy Bates, Adrian Lester, Maura Tierney, Larry Hagman, Diane Ladd, Paul(2) Guilfoyle, Rob Reiner, Rebecca Walker, Caroline Aaron, Tommy Hollis, J.C. Quinn, Ben Jones
Jack Stanton (John Travolta) is running for the office of President of the United States; he is very intelligent but has a weakness: a lust for women. His wife Susan (Emma Thompson), on the other hand, seems to be able to look the other way and stand by her man! This film is a winner–Mike Nichols and Elaine May do it again as they put together an entertaining story that reflects real circumstances. Kathy Bates received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
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Scotland, PA. 2001 R, 104 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Billy Morrissette
Cast: James LeGros, Maura Tierney, Christopher Walken, Kevin Corrigan, James Rebhorn, Tom Guiry, Amy Smart, Timothy "Speed" Levitch, Andy Dick, Geoff Dunsworth
Shakespeare's "Macbeth" is reset in 1970s' Scotland, PA. It's all there: greed, multiple murders, ambitious wife, stubborn spot, and visits from a ghost. In this clever and entertaining riff on a Shakespearean tragedy, the catch is that the intrigue takes place in a diner.
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Semi-Pro 2008  R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Kent Alterman
Cast: Will Ferrell, Woody Harrelson, Andre Benjamin, Maura Tierney, Andrew Daly, Will Arnett, Andy Richter, David Koechner, Rob Corddry, Matt Walsh, Jackie Earle Haley, DeRay Davis
This story is set in 1976, when the American Basketball Association is about to merge with the National Basketball Association. Jackie Moon (Will Farrell) uses the profits from his soul ballad "Love Me Sexy" to purchase the Flint Michigan Tropics–the worst team in basketball. Jackie is already a player and coach on the team, but, now, as the owner as well, his goal is to qualify as one of the teams that will merge into the NBA. To that end, Jackie obtains former Boston Celtics point-guard, mean-tempered Monix (Woody Harrelson) to lead the team on a winning streak–and the craziness begins.
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The Temp 1993 R, 96 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Tom Holland
Cast: Timothy Hutton, Lara Flynn Boyle, Faye Dunaway, Dwight Schultz, Oliver Platt, Steven Weber, Scott Coffey, Dakin Matthews, Colleen Flynn, Maura Tierney, Lin Shaye, Jesse Vint
Kris Bolin (Lara Flynn Boyle) fills in as a temporary office assistant when Peter Dern's (Timothy Hutton) secretary goes on vacation. Murder and mayhem quickly follow her arrival as the corporate office is turned into her own "playhouse."
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 Welcome to Mooseport 2004 PG-13, 110 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Donald Petrie
Cast: Gene Hackman, Ray Romano, Marcia Gay Harden, Maura Tierney, Christine Baranski, Fred Savage, Rip Torn, June Squibb, Wayne Robson, John Rothman, Karl Pruner, David Macniven
After suffering defeat in his bid for re-election, U.S. ex-President Monroe "The Eagle" Cole (Gene Hackman) heads home to Mooseport, Maine, where he enters the race for mayor. Local hardware store owner Handy Harrison (Ray Romano) drops out of the race when he learns of Monroe's intentions to run. But when Monroe pursues Handy's girlfriend, Sally Mannis (Maura Tierney), Handy quickly re-enters the race–both politically and romantically.
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White Sands 1992 R, 101 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Roger Donaldson
Cast: Willem Dafoe, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Mickey Rourke, Samuel L. Jackson, M. Emmet Walsh, Mimi Rogers, James Rebhorn, Maura Tierney, Beth Grant, Miguel Sandoval
A small-town sheriff in the Southwest finds a body in a remote desert area–with half a million dollars among his possessions. It turns out the man was an FBI agent, and the sheriff assumes the identity of the dead man to find out what is going on. The answer is drugs, and our sheriff is now in hot water.
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| 1. Baby Mama (2008)
2. Diggers (2007)
3. Finding Amanda (2008)
4. Forces of Nature (1999)
5. Insomnia (2002)
6. Instinct (1999)
7. Liar Liar (1997)
8. Melvin Goes to Dinner (2003)
9. Mercy (1996)
10. Oxygen (1999)
11. Primal Fear (1996)
12. Primary Colors (1998)
13. Scotland, PA. (2001)
14. Semi-Pro (2008)
15. The Temp (1993)
16. Welcome to Mooseport (2004)
17. White Sands (1992)
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