 Beverly Hills Ninja 1997  PG-13, 88 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Dennis Dugan
Cast: Chris Farley, Nicollette Sheridan, Robin Shou, Nathaniel Parker, Chris Rock, Soon-Tek Oh, Keith Cooke, Francois Chau, Dale Ishimoto, Daming Chen
The funny, bumbling Chris Farley is an overweight, sub-standard Ninja who takes a job to spy on Nicollette Sheridan's boyfriend in Beverly Hills. This one's okay for Farley fans, but many others will find it stupid.
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Code Name: The Cleaner 2007  PG-13, 91 min.
Genre: Action / Comedy / Drama
Director: Les Mayfield
Cast: Cedric the Entertainer, Lucy Liu, Nicollette Sheridan, Mark Dacascos, Callum Keith Rennie, Niecy Nash, DeRay Davis, Will Patton, Kevin McNulty, BJ Davis, Bart Anderson, Tom Butler
After being hit in the head and having his wallet stolen, Jake (Cedric the Entertainer) wakes up in a hotel room with a dead FBI agent lying next to him. While Jake tries to regain his memory, he finds himself at the center of a government conspiracy–and to add to Jake's confusion, Diane (Nicollette Sheridan) claims to be his wife, while waitress Gina (Lucy Liu) tells him she is his girlfriend. Jake, himself, begins to suspect that he is a spy.
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Dead Husbands 1998 PG-13, 120 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Paul Shapiro
Cast: John Ritter, Nicollette Sheridan, Sonja Smits, Amy Yasbeck, Sherry Miller, Bill MacDonald, Kenneth Welsh, Michelle Duquet, Huey Lewis, Sheila McCarthy
A chain letter circulated by dissatisfied wives gets the attention of one recipient (Nicolette Sheridan). Her husband is a best-selling, advice-to-reignite-your-marriage author who has no clue that he is now on the hit list recommended by the chain letter.
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Dead Man's Folly 1986  TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery
Director: Clive Donner
Cast: Peter Ustinov, Jean Stapleton, Constance Cummings, Ralph Arliss, Tim Pigott-Smith, Jonathan Cecil, Kenneth Cranham, Susan Wooldridge, Christopher Guard, Jeff Yagher, Nicollette Sheridan, Caroline Langrishe, Margorie Yates, Leslie Schofield, Jack Ellis
A detective novelist, Ariadne Oliver (Jean Stapleton), has been asked to create a "Murder Hunt" game with a pretend murder for a fair at Nass House. She calls in friend Hercule Poirot (Peter Ustinov) when she suspects problems. It's a good thing she called him because people are found dead during the hunt. Now, Poirot and his assistant, Captain Hastings (Jonathan Cecil), set out to solve the real murders.
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Fly Me to the Moon 2008  G, 85 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Adventure
aka: Fly Me to the Moon 3D
Director: Ben Stassen
Cast: Kelly Ripa, Nicollette Sheridan, Christopher Lloyd, Ed Begley Jr., Tim Curry, Trevor Gagnon, Philip Bolden, David Gore, Adrienne Barbeau, Robert Patrick, Buzz Aldrin, Doug Stone, Cam Clarke, Steve Kramer, Scott Menville
This 3-D film is about three young houseflies–Nat (voice of Trevor Gagnon), Scooter (voice of David Gore), and I.Q. (voice of Philip Bolden)–who are stowaways on Apollo 11's first manned space mission to the Moon. They got the idea from their Grandpa (voice of Christopher Lloyd) who had told them stories about when he stowed away on Amelia Earhart's Trans-Atlantic flight. As they board the spaceship, Nat, Scooter, and I.Q. encounter problems when they are discovered and placed in a test tube where they remain until an electrical short interferes with the ship's engine. They escape the tube and repair the faulty wire. All goes well for awhile–until the Russians send fly-spy Yegor (voice of Tim Curry) to sabotage the flight in an effort to prevent the Americans from returning to Earth. Will Yegor succeed, or will Nat, Scooter, and I.Q. come to the rescue?
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Noises Off 1992  PG-13, 102 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Cast: Carol Burnett, Michael Caine, Denholm Elliott, Julie Hagerty, Marilu Henner, Christopher Reeve, John Ritter, Mark Linn-Baker, Nicollette Sheridan
Based on Michael Frayn's play, this is the story of how eccentric theatrical actors and stagehands manage to get off the ground and onto Broadway. 1 User Review
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| | Imperfect for sure, but a classroom in comic timing | 1fatts 03/14/2007 | The third act is unnecessary and unbelievable. The finale is so artificial that it passeth all justification.
But Bogdanovich is a master of comic timing. (Watch the opening scenes of "What's Up Doc?" sometime.) And this movie is worth the price of admission just to watch the timing in the first two acts. The actors are one-dimensional, but it is a farce, and they are meant to be one-dimensional. We expected this level of work from Carol Burnett -- frankly, we saw it every week on TV for years -- bit John Ritter is a revelation as a physical comic and Christopher Reeve is really quite good as an understated comic foil.
Watch the first half anyway. If fact, watch it twice. |
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Raw Nerve 1999 R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Avi Nesher
Cast: Mario Van Peebles, Nicollette Sheridan, Zach Galligan, Monica Trombetta, Cheryl "Salt" James, Scott Getlin, John Griesemer, Cari Stahler, Steven Randazzo
A dishonest cop, Detective Blair Valdez (Mario Van Peebles), involves his girlfriend Izabel (Nicolette Sheridan) in his sleazy deeds and uses her as a cover-up. Bad guy, bad film.
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Spy Hard 1996 PG-13, 81 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Rick Friedberg
Cast: Leslie Nielsen, Nicollette Sheridan, Charles Durning, Marcia Gay Harden, Barry Bostwick, Andy Griffith, John Ales, Elya Baskin, Clyde Kusatsu, Downtown Julie Brown
Dick Steele (Leslie Nielsen) returns to the Agency to track down General Rancor (Andy Griffith) who has kidnapped (despite the fact that he has no arms!) the beautiful daughter of Steele's past love and is using her to achieve world domination. Typical Nielsen, stupid but funny.
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The Sure Thing 1985 PG-13, 94 min.
Genre: Adventure / Comedy / Romance
Director: Rob Reiner
Cast: John Cusack, Daphne Zuniga, Viveca Lindfors, Anthony Edwards, Boyd Gaines, Lisa Jane Persky, Tim Robbins, Nicollette Sheridan, George Memmoli, Garry Goodrow, Marcia Christie, Robert Anthony Marcucci, Sarah Buxton, John Putch, Frantz Turner
An unlikely couple–Walter and Alison (John Cusack and Daphne Zuniga)–is forced to get acquainted when they share a ride on their way to California. He is on his way to meet his "sure thing" and she to meet her boyfriend. Cusack and Zuniga bring a lot to their characters and allow this movie to be a winner.
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Tarzan & Jane 2002 G, 70 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Adventure
Director: Victor Cook, Steve Loter, Don MacKinnon
Cast: Michael T. Weiss, Olivia d'Abo, Tara Strong, Nicollette Sheridan, Jeff Bennett, Jim Cummings, Kevin Michael Richardson, John O'Hurley, April Winchell, Grey DeLisle, Rene Auberjonois, Alexis Denisof, Phil Proctor
In this Disney direct-to-video/DVD sequel to 1999's "Tarzan," Tarzan (voice of Michael T. Weiss) and Jane (voice of Olivia d'Abo) are about to celebrate their first wedding anniversary. They recount the adventures of the past year, and each searches for the perfect gift for the other in the jungle, with obstacles to overcome in their quests. Not much here–except the closing song–in this 70 minute Saturday morning cartoon.
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| 1. Beverly Hills Ninja (1997)
2. Code Name: The Cleaner (2007)
3. Dead Husbands (1998)
4. Dead Man's Folly (1986)
5. Fly Me to the Moon (2008)
aka: Fly Me to the Moon 3D
6. Noises Off (1992)
7. Raw Nerve (1999)
8. Spy Hard (1996)
9. The Sure Thing (1985)
10. Tarzan & Jane (2002)
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