 Alpha Dog 2007   R, 117 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Cast: Emile Hirsch, Justin Timberlake, Ben Foster, Shawn Hatosy, Sharon Stone, Bruce Willis, Anton Yelchin, Dominique Swain, Lukas Haas, Matthew Barry, Vincent Kartheiser, Alex Solowitz, Frank Cassavetes, Alan Thicke, David Thornton
Drug dealer Johnny Truelove (Emile Hirsch) parties and looks for thrills with friends around San Gabriel Valley. When Jake Mazursky (Ben Foster) refuses to pay off a debt, Johnny kidnaps Jake's younger brother, Zack (Anton Yelchin). Although Zack has a great time partying with his kidnappers and being away from parents (David Thornton and Sharon Stone), Johnny begins to realize the seriousness of kidnapping charges. Now, he must find a way out of the bad situation. 1 User Review
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| | A family must see movie | maria 06/15/2007 | The story is cruel but is the reflect of our society. As parents we don't know how to keep our children out of drugs, gangs and danger.
Emile Hirchs is really good. |
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The Astronaut's Wife 1999  R, 105 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Rand Ravich
Cast: Johnny Depp, Charlize Theron, Joe Morton, Nick Cassavetes, Donna Murphy, Blair Brown, Tom Noonan, Samantha Eggar, Gary Grubbs, Clea DuVall
Astronaut Spencer Armacost (Johnny Depp) is lost in space for only two minutes but returns to Earth a changed man. Just how changed he is emerges one night when he forcefully seduces his wife, Jillian (Charlize Theron). Pregnancy results, but the question of what is growing inside her womb gives Jillian–and the audience as well–more than a few tense moments.
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Black Moon Rising 1986 R, 100 min.
Genre: Action / Thriller / Sci-Fi
Director: Harley Cokliss
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Hamilton, Robert Vaughn, Richard Jaeckel, Bubba Smith, Lee Ving, William Sanderson, Keenan Wynn, Dan Shor, Nick Cassavetes, Don Keith Opper, Richard Angarola, William Marquez, Stanley DeSantis
After being hired by the FBI to steal computer tapes from a large corporation, Quint (Tommy Lee Jones) uses his "Black Moon" high-speed car and hides the evidence in it. Now the car is missing! It was stolen by Nina (Linda Hamilton) and delivered to her car-thief boyfriend Ryland (Robert Vaughn). Now, Quint has no choice but to get the car back, and maybe Nina holds the key to his success.
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Black Rose of Harlem 1996 R, 87 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Fred Gallo
Cast: Marcus Aurelius, Richard(2) Brooks, Tony Burton, Nick Cassavetes, Paul Eckstein, Maria Ford, Cynda Williams, Rodger Halston, Eb Lottimer, Richard T. Jones
Set in Chicago during the "Roaring Twenties," this is a violent story of mob interference in the love affair of a gorgeous black singer, Georgia (Cynda Williams), and mobster Johnny Varona (Nick Cassavetes).
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Blind Fury 1990 R, 86 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Phillip Noyce
Cast: Rutger Hauer, Brandon Call, Terry O'Quinn, Lisa Blount, Randall "Tex" Cobb, Noble Willingham, Meg Foster, Nick Cassavetes, Rick Overton, Sho Kosugi
Blindness is the gimmick employed when a sightless swordsman uses his martial-arts skills in a quest against evil. The swordsman is based on a blind Samurai, Zatoichi, who made Japanese movies in the 1960s.
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Class of 1999 II: The Substitute 1994  R, 90 min.
Genre: Action / Horror
Director: Spiro Razatos
Cast: Sasha Mitchell, Caitlin Dulany, Nick Cassavetes, Gregory West, Rick Hill, Jack Knight, Diego Serrano, Bernie Pock, Pete Antico
This sequel to "Class of 1984" and "Class of 1999" starts out with the premise that all of the robot teachers have been destroyed, BUT John Bolen (Sasha Mitchell) survives, and he must be rooted out.
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 Face/Off 1997  R, 138 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Director: John Woo
Cast: John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen, Alessandro Nivola, Gina Gershon, Dominique Swain, Nick Cassavetes, Harve Presnell, CCH Pounder, Colm Feore, John Carroll Lynch, Robert Wisdom, Matt Ross, Margaret Cho, James Denton
As the means of getting information about a time bomb that terrorist Castor Troy (Nicholas Cage) has planted to destroy Los Angeles, FBI agent Sean Archer (John Travolta) undergoes surgery to take on the appearance of Castor who is presumed dead. He believes this will give him the means of getting information from Troy's brother Pollux (Alessandro Nivola) about the time bomb. However, it turns out that Troy is merely in a coma, and when he recovers he turns the tables and assumes the identity of Archer–now, the fight to the finish is on.
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Husbands 1970  PG, 138 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Cassavetes
Cast: Ben Gazzara, Peter Falk, John Cassavetes, Jenny Runacre, Jenny Lee Wright, Noelle Kao, John Kullers, Nick Cassavetes, Leola Harlow, Dolores Delmar, Meta Shaw Stevens, Eleanor Zee, Claire Malis, Peggy Lashbrook, Sarah Felcher
After their friend dies of a heart attack, three men–Harry (Ben Gazzara), Archie (Peter Falk), and Gus (John Cassavetes)–take off from their families to reflect on their lives while bar-hopping, playing cards and basketball, and other activities. When Harry returns home, his wife tells him she wants a divorce. Harry then talks the other two into a London trip to help him sort out his life. By design, the actors improvise, which often detracts but usually enhances the story.
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The Independent 2000 R, 85 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Stephen Kessler
Cast: Jerry Stiller, Janeane Garofalo, Max Perlich, Anne Meara, Ben Stiller, Roger Corman, Ron Howard, Karen Black, Peter Bogdanovich, Ted Demme, Fred Williamson, Nick Cassavetes, Paul Logan, Julie Strain, Andy Dick
This mockumentary centers on filmmaker Morty Fineman (Jerry Stiller) whose work has involved low-budget exploitation films. Now, on the verge of bankruptcy, Fineman coerces daughter Paloma (Janeane Garofalo) into helping gain recognition by filming the story of a convicted murderer.
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John Q. 2002 PG-13, 115 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Cast: Denzel Washington, Robert Duvall, James Woods, Kimberly Elise, Anne Heche, Eddie Griffin, Shawn Hatosy, Ray Liotta, Daniel E. Smith, Keram Malicki-Sanchez, Obba Babatunde, Ron Annabelle, Ethan Suplee, Jay Leno, Larry King
John Quincy Archibald's (Denzel Washington) medical insurance will not cover a heart transplant. He seeks revenge and takes over the emergency room of a hospital that has refused a heart transplant for his 14-year-old son Mike (Daniel E. Smith). Hostage negotiators call on Frank Grimes (Robert Duvall) to diffuse the situation.
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 Life 1999 R, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Ted Demme
Cast: Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence, Obba Babatunde, Ned Beatty, Bernie Mac, Miguel A. Nunez Jr., Nick Cassavetes, Clarence Williams III, Bokeem Woodbine, Brent Jennings
Two Mississippi convicts, Rayford Gibson (Eddie Murphy) and Claude Banks (Martin Lawrence), discover life during their seven-decade relationship that began after each had been wrongfully sentenced to life in prison.
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My Sister's Keeper 2009 PG-13, 109 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Cast: Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin, Alec Baldwin, Jason Patric, Sofia Vassilieva, Joan Cusack, Heather Wahlquist, Thomas Dekker, Evan Ellingson, David Thornton, Nicole Marie Lenz, Brennan Bailey, Jeffrey Markle, Emily Deschanel, Matthew Barry
When Sara and Brian Fitzgerald (Cameron Diaz and Jason Patric) are informed that their young daughter, Kate (Sofia Vassilieva), has leukemia, they decide to use an unorthodox method to keep her alive. They conceive a baby hoping that it will provide a donor for Kate. Anna is born and is a perfect match. For years, bone marrow is taken from Anna to keep Kate alive, and now her kidney is needed as a transplant for Kate. Eleven-year-old Anna has endured a myriad of physical procedures during her young life, and she finally says, "No." Now, Anna hires a lawyer, Campbell Alexander (Alec Baldwin), to fight for her "medical emancipation."
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 The Notebook 2004  PG-13, 123 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Cast: Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, James Garner, Gena Rowlands, James Marsden, Sam Shepard, David Thornton, Joan Allen, Kevin Connolly, Starletta DuPois, Ed Grady, Heather Wahlquist
As the film opens, elderly and senile Allie (Gena Rowlands) is visited daily in her hospital room by a fellow resident known as Duke (James Garner) who tries to get her to remember the past by reading to her from her notebook. The notebook reveals a 1940s' romance between Allie (Rachel McAdams) and Noah (Ryan Gosling) that was broken off because of a disparity in social class. Could Duke be the young Noah? What do you think? 4 User Reviews
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| | Sooo romantic | Anita 10/26/2009 | | Absolutely loved it...watched it many times over!! |
| | Anonymous 12/22/2007 | | Loved it! |
| | Anonymous 03/19/2007 | | I was completely caught up in this romance novel, such, that I had to look for it online. I never got to see the beginning and definitely loved how you go back and forth from the 1940s to the present. |
| | Anonymous 01/14/2007 | | The Best love story I have ever seen |
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She's So Lovely 1997  R, 112 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Cast: Sean Penn, Robin Wright Penn, John Travolta, Harry Dean Stanton, Debi Mazar, James Gandolfini, Gena Rowlands, Susan Traylor, John Marshall Jones, Chloe Webb
When Maureen (Robin Wright Penn) is raped, her husband Eddie (Sean Penn) freaks out, kills a cop, and is sent to a mental hospital. While her husband is away, Maureen becomes involved with the gentle Joey (John Travolta); they marry, have three children, and then Eddie is released and returns–still retaining his passion for Maureen. Penn won the Cannes Film Festival award for "Best Actor" for his role in this film.
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 Unhook the Stars 1996  R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Cast: Gena Rowlands, Marisa Tomei, Gerard Depardieu, Moira Kelly, Jake Lloyd, David Thornton, David Sherrill, Tom Proctor
Nick Cassavetes directs his own mother, Gina Rowlands, in the role of a mother approaching a turning point in her life. When her son asks her to move to San Francisco, she is not sure she wants the change of lifestyle. 1 User Review
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| | highly recommended except for language | jibboscarol@webtv.net 05/02/2007 | | I wanted very badly to have my granddaughters see this movie. I couldn't allow it because of the atrocious language of Marisa Tomei in the Thanksgiving scene which was unfortunate. I happen to think good movies are not improved by constant use of the F word. I'm trying to be less biased but this scene definitely went too far. |
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The Wraith 1986 R, 93 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Mike Marvin
Cast: Charlie Sheen, Nick Cassavetes, Clint Howard, Randy Quaid, Griffin O'Neal, Sherilyn Fenn, David Sherrill, Matthew Barry, Chris Nash, Steven Eckholdt
If you are into car wrecks and blood and guts, you will find this film is the one for which you have been waiting. Be sure to check out the Wraith Mobile that attempts to avenge a gang of road pirates.
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| 1. Alpha Dog (2007)
2. The Astronaut's Wife (1999)
3. Black Moon Rising (1986)
4. Black Rose of Harlem (1996)
5. Blind Fury (1990)
6. Class of 1999 II: The Substitute (1994)
7. Face/Off (1997)
8. Husbands (1970)
9. The Independent (2000)
10. John Q. (2002)
11. Life (1999)
12. My Sister's Keeper (2009)
13. The Notebook (2004)
14. She's So Lovely (1997)
15. Unhook the Stars (1996)
16. The Wraith (1986)
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