Biloxi Blues 1988  PG-13, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Mike Nichols
Cast: Matthew Broderick, Christopher Walken, Matt Mulhern, Corey Parker, Casey Siemaszko, Penelope Ann Miller, Park Overall, Markus Flanagan, Michael Dolan, Alan Pottinger, Mark Evan Jacobs, David Kienzle, Matthew Kimbrough, Kirby Mitchell, Allen Turner
This is Neil Simon's screen version of his Broadway play and a sequel to "Brighton Beach Memoirs". The talented young actor Matthew Broderick plays a recruit sent to Biloxi, Mississippi, for basic training where he finds a worrisome sergeant, a prostitute, and belligerent fellow soldiers.
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A Christmas Carol 1951  N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Fantasy / Drama
aka: Scrooge
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst
Cast: Alastair Sim, Mervyn Johns, Hermione Baddeley, Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Patrick Macnee, Peter Bull, Michael Hordern, Miles Malleson, Ernest Thesiger, George Cole, Francis De Wolff, Michael Dolan, C. Konarski, Glyn Dearman
This popular version of Charles Dickens' classic story "A Christmas Carol" stars Alastair Sim as the miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, whose life is turned around one Christmas Eve when he is visited by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future (Michael Dolan, Francis De Wolff, and C. Konarski). After their visit, Scrooge reassesses his treatment of Tiny Tim (Glyn Dearman) and his family. Sim is great and makes this film a must for everyone.
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Hamburger Hill 1987 R, 112 min.
Genre: Action / Drama
Director: John Irvin
Cast: Michael Dolan, Daniel O'Shea, Anthony Barrile, Michael Boatman, Don Cheadle, Courtney B. Vance, Dylan McDermott, Tim Quill, Steven Weber, Don James, Michael A. Nickles, Harry O'Reilly, Tommy Swerdlow, Tegan West, Kieu Chinh
In 1969, between May 11th and May 20th, the 101st Airborne Division fought the Vietcong in one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War. The battle was later dubbed Hamburger Hill because of the heavy artillery fire that turned the troops into hamburger meat. This film documents the 11 assaults it took to gain the hill amidst the stark reality of the horrors of war.
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| 1. Biloxi Blues (1988)
2. A Christmas Carol (1951)
aka: Scrooge
3. Hamburger Hill (1987)
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