Agency 1980  R, 94 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George Kaczender
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Lee Majors, Valerie Perrine, Saul Rubinek, Alexandra Stewart, Antony Parr, George Touliatos, Michael Kirby, Gary Reineke, Hugh Webster, Franz Russell, Jonathan Welsh, Hayward Morse
Political campaign manager Ted Quinn (Robert Mitchum) plots to use subliminal television messages to brainwash potential voters in his candidate's favor. First, Quinn buys an ad agency and then plants the messages in the ads. After the suspicious suicide of one of the agency's employees, the Creative Director of the agency, Phillip (Lee Majors), uncovers the plot and finds his own life in danger.
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 Bugsy Malone 1976   G, 93 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy / Drama / Musical
Director: Alan Parker
Cast: Scott Baio, Florrie Dugger, Jodie Foster, John Cassisi, Paul Murphy, Michael Jackson, Michael Kirby, Martin Lev, Dexter Fletcher, John Rafter Lee, Sheridan Earl Russell, Albin "Humpty" Jenkins, Paul Chirelstein, Andrew Paul
The Gangster era of the 1920s is depicted by children, dressed in pinstriped suits and flapper dresses, who use "splat guns" that spurt cream in preparation for a "cream massacre." Bugsy Malone (Scott Baio) learns that another gang is using a gun that shoots sweets, and he sets out to get his hands on the weapon as he gains power over rivals "Fat Sam" (John Cassisi) and "Dandy Dan" (Martin Lev). 1 User Review
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| | renoils@sbcglobal.net 02/01/2007 | | I first saw this movie when it came out in 1976....I was friends with Alan Parkers' daughter at the time...I learned every song by heart and pretended thta I was Tahlulah....great musical for kids |
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Death Weekend 1976  R, 90 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: The House by the Lake
Director: William Fruet
Cast: Brenda Vaccaro, Don Stroud, Chuck Shamata, Richard Ayres, Kyle Edwards, Don Granberry, Ed McNamara, Michael Kirby, Richard Donat
Four sadistic young men arrive at the remote home–in the countryside of Ontario, Canada–of a playboy dentist. They kill the dentist and then plot horrendous acts against his girlfriend.
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The Keeper 1995  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joe Brewster
Cast: Giancarlo Esposito, Regina Taylor, Isaach De Bankole, Ron Brice, O.L. Duke, Arthur French, Shiek Mahmud-Bey, Sam E. Wright, Alvaleta Guess, Victor Colicchio, Corey Glover, Sixto Ramos, Lawrence Mason, Dan Moran, Michael Kirby
A law student, Paul Lamont (Giancarlo Esposito), is also a humanitarian corrections officer who bails out one of his charges, Jean Baptiste (Isaach De Bankole), and brings him home to await trial. In the interim, Paul begins to question his own beliefs in this brooding story filled with psychological underpinnings.
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The Silent Partner 1978 R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Daryl Duke
Cast: Elliott Gould, Christopher Plummer, Susannah York, Celine Lomez, Michael Kirby, Ken Pogue, John Candy, Gail Dahms, Michael Donaghue, Jack(2) Duffy, Sean Sullivan, Charlotte Blunt, Guy Sanvido, Nancy Simmonds, Nuala Fitzgerald
When bank robber Harry Reikle (Christopher Plummer) robs the bank where Miles Cullen (Elliott Gould) is the teller, Cullen diverts $50,000 into his own safety deposit box. The newspapers report the bank's losses, and only then does Reikle realize that he does not have all the money. Now, Reikle and Cullen match wits when Reikle pressures Cullen to hand over the missing money.
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Where the Heart Is 1990  R, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: John Boorman
Cast: Dabney Coleman, Uma Thurman, Joanna Cassidy, Crispin Glover, Suzy Amis, Christopher Plummer, David Hewlett, Maury Chaykin, Sheila Kelley, Dylan Walsh, Ken Pogue, Michael Kirby
Successful New Yorker Stewart (Dabney Coleman) makes a good living by blowing up old buildings and developing new communities. But when the neighbors near his newest venture make a dilapidated old building a historical landmark, he comes across poorly on TV. His three lazy children, in their twenties but living off Stewart's success, also ridicule him. So, he gives them each $750 and sends them to the old building to make it on their own. The young ones seem to achieve success by bringing in boarders, but, meanwhile, Stewart's business heads downhill.
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| 1. Agency (1980)
2. Bugsy Malone (1976)
3. Death Weekend (1976)
aka: The House by the Lake
4. The Keeper (1995)
5. The Silent Partner (1978)
6. Where the Heart Is (1990)
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