Bandits 2001  PG-13, 123 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Barry Levinson
Cast: Bruce Willis, Cate Blanchett, Billy Bob Thornton, Troy Garity, Stacey Travis, Brian F. O'Byrne, Bobby Slayton, January Jones, Azura Skye, Peggy Miley, William Converse-Roberts, Richard Riehle, Micole Mercurio, Anthony Burch, Scott Burkholder
Prison friends–Joe (Bruce Willis) and Terry (Billy Bob Thornton)–hijack a cement truck, break out of prison, and begin a series of bank heists that turns them into folk heroes. Plans go well, until a neurotic housewife (Cate Blanchett) is taken hostage only to become their lover. She just cannot decide between them so opts for both. A fun comedy caper.
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Daddy 1987 TV, 98 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Herzfeld
Cast: Dermot Mulroney, Patricia Arquette, John Karlen, Tess Harper, Trey Ames, Danny Aiello, J.J. Cohen, Darren Dalton, Stuart Fratkin, Micole Mercurio, Edan Gross, Noelle Parker
High-schooler Bobby's (Dermot Mulroney) girlfriend Stacy (Patricia Arquette) is pregnant, and neither is ready for parenthood as their naivete becomes prominent in this made-for-TV drama.
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 Flashdance 1983  R, 95 min.
Genre: Musical / Drama / Romance
Director: Adrian Lyne
Cast: Jennifer Beals, Michael Nouri, Lilia Skala, Belinda Bauer, Sunny Johnson, Kyle T. Heffner, Lee Ving, Cynthia Rhodes, Ron Karabatsos, Malcolm Danare, Philip Bruns, Micole Mercurio, Lucy Lee Flippin, Don Brockett, Durga McBroom
A Pittsburgh steel worker by day, Alex Owens (Jennifer Beals) is a bar room dancer by night. Her dream is to study dance and, as she dances at the bar room, she dreams of being selected to study at the local ballet company. Her boyfriend is her wealthy boss Nick (Michael Nouri), and he gives Alex financial help toward her goal. Alex does come to terms with her dreams and finds the inner strength to turn them into reality. The music makes the movie, and "Flashdance...What a Feeling" won the Academy Award for Best Song.
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 Mask 1985  PG-13, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Cast: Eric Stoltz, Cher, Sam Elliott, Estelle Getty, Richard Dysart, Laura Dern, Micole Mercurio, Harry Carey Jr., Dennis Burkley, Ben Piazza, Wayne Grace, Lawrence Monoson, L. Craig King, Alexandra Powers, Kelly Jo Minter
Based on a true story, this heartwarming tale relates the ordeals of teenager Rocky Dennis (Eric Stoltz) who has the disfiguring disease, craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, that has doubled his head size. Rocky keeps a good attitude, and his mother Rusty (Cher) fights for Rocky's rights, but she turns to drugs to ease the pressures she endures when dealing with Rocky's problems. Undaunted, Rocky gets his own life in order and then works to keep Rusty away from her drugs.
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Twice in a Lifetime 1985  R, 117 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Bud Yorkin
Cast: Gene Hackman, Ellen Burstyn, Ann - Margret, Ally Sheedy, Amy Madigan, Brian Dennehy, Stephen Lang, Darrell Larson, Micole Mercurio
Blue-collar worker (Gene Hackman) lives in Washington State and decides that his marriage has lost its vitality. He has discovered a younger, glamorous woman (Ann-Margret) who has added excitement into his middle-aged existence–much to the dismay of his daughter (Amy Madigan, who received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress).
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Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael 1990  PG-13, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Jim Abrahams
Cast: Winona Ryder, Jeff Daniels, Laila Robins, Thomas Wilson Brown, Frances Fisher, Graham Beckel, Dinah Manoff, Ava Fabian, Joan McMurtrey, Robby Kiger, Sachi Parker, Stephen Tobolowsky, Micole Mercurio, John Short, Robin Thomas
Roxy Carmichael (Ava Fabian) is famous and has lived a luxurious life in Hollywood for the past 15 years. Now Roxy is returning to her small town of Clyde, Ohio, and excitement is in the air. It impacts the lives of many–including Roxy's ex-husband Denton Webb (Jeff Daniels). But perhaps the most affected is high-school outcast Dinky Bossetti (Winona Ryder) who has been adopted and is convinced that Roxy is her birth mother.
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 While You Were Sleeping 1995 PG, 112 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jon Turteltaub
Cast: Sandra Bullock, Bill Pullman, Peter Gallagher, Jack Warden, Peter Boyle, Glynis Johns, Micole Mercurio, Jason Bernard, Monica Keena, Ally Walker
Lucy (Sandra Bullock) is a shy Chicago Transit Authority token booth clerk who saves her idol Peter (Peter Gallagher) after he is mugged at her station. At the hospital, she is mistaken for his fiancee and decides to go along with the ruse. Problems develop when she becomes involved with the comatose Peter's brother, Jack.
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Wrestling Ernest Hemingway 1993 PG-13, 122 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Randa Haines
Cast: Robert Duvall, Richard Harris, Shirley MacLaine, Sandra Bullock, Piper Laurie, Micole Mercurio, Marty Belafsky, Harold Bergman, Ed Amatrudo, Jag Davies
Robert Duvall and Richard Harris star as an aging Cuban Barber and a retired Irish sea captain who face their advanced years together as friends in a small Florida town.
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| 1. Bandits (2001)
2. Daddy (1987)
3. Flashdance (1983)
4. Mask (1985)
5. Norma Jean and Marilyn (1996)
6. Twice in a Lifetime (1985)
7. Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael (1990)
8. While You Were Sleeping (1995)
9. Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (1993)
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