And Justice for All 1979  R, 117 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Norman Jewison
Cast: Al Pacino, John Forsythe, Jack Warden, Lee Strasberg, Jeffrey Tambor, Christine Lahti, Sam Levene, Craig T. Nelson, Robert Christian, Thomas G. Waites, Larry Bryggman, Dominic Chianese, Victor Arnold, Vincent Beck, Michael Gorrin
Idealistic lawyer Arthur Kirkland (Al Pacino) is a Baltimore defense attorney who is trying to uncover corruption within Maryland's legal system. When Judge Henry T. Fleming (John Forsythe) demands that Kirkland defend him after he is accused of assaulting a woman, Kirkland has no choice but to take the case. Now, honest lawyer Kirkland tries to find justice in the court system while also trying to make the system work. Pacino earned a Best Actor Oscar nomination.
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The Art of Love 1965   N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Norman Jewison
Cast: James Garner, Dick Van Dyke, Elke Sommer, Angie Dickinson, Ethel Merman, Carl Reiner, Jay Novello, Fifi D'Orsay, Pierre Olaf, Miiko Taka, Roger C. Carmel, Irving Jacobson, Naomi Stevens, Renzo Cesana, Leon Belasco
American ex-patriots–aspiring artist Paul Sloan (Dick Van Dyke) and struggling writer Casey Barnett (James Garner)–live together in Paris. Paul's girlfriend Nikki (Angie Dickinson) lives in America but pays their rent so that Paul can work on his paintings in Paris. When Paul is told by his art dealer that his paintings will be more valuable if he is dead, his solution is to fake his suicide, and he and Casey can live off the higher price tags. But, the plan backfires when Casey is suspected of murdering Paul. 1 User Review
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| | Classic 60s Comedy | Anonymous 03/17/2007 | | This is a great film - truly a 60s comedy classic... the bad part is that it is not available as DvD (or even a VHS)... WHY? |
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Bogus 1996  PG, 112 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Norman Jewison
Cast: Whoopi Goldberg, Gerard Depardieu, Haley Joel Osment, Denis Mercier, Nancy Travis, Andrea Martin, Al Waxman, Richard Portnow, Sheryl Lee Ralph
Bogus is a family movie about a little boy, Albert Franklin (Haley Joel Osment), who is orphaned when he loses his Las Vegas showgirl mother. Sent to live in Newark, N.J., with his mother's friend, Harriet Franklin (Whoopi Goldberg), Albert feels resentful and alone. To solve his dilemma, he invents a friend (Bogus is a happy face cartoon Albert draws); however, his invention comes to life in the form of Gerard Depardieu.
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 The Cincinnati Kid 1965 N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Norman Jewison
Cast: Steve McQueen, Edward G. Robinson, Ann - Margret, Karl Malden, Tuesday Weld, Joan Blondell, Rip Torn, Cab Calloway, Jeff Corey, Jack Weston
The Cincinnati Kid (Steve McQueen) is a top-notch poker player who is determined to challenge the titleholder and take over as "King" of Stud Poker.
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Dinner with Friends 2001 R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Norman Jewison
Cast: Dennis Quaid, Andie MacDowell, Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette, Holliston Coleman, Beau Holden, Taylor Emerson, Jake Fritz, Angus T. Jones, Dina Morrone
Food critics Gabe (Dennis Quaid) and Karen (Andie MacDowell) have been happily married for several years. They had introduced best friends Tom (Greg Kinnear) and Beth (Toni Collette) to each other, and they now have been married for a dozen years. It is a big surprise when Beth announces that Tom has left her and their children for another woman, and it causes Gabe and Karen to reevaluate their own seemingly happy life togther. Made for HBO.
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F.I.S.T. 1978 PG, 145 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Norman Jewison
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Rod Steiger, Peter Boyle, Melinda Dillon, David Huffman, Tony Lo Bianco, Kevin Conway, Peter Donat, Henry Wilcoxon, Brian Dennehy
Organized crime in the Teamsters union is the focus of this story with Sylvester Stallone in the role of union leader.
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Fiddler on the Roof 1971 G, 180 min.
Genre: Family / Drama / Musical
Director: Norman Jewison
Cast: Topol, Norma Crane, Molly Picon, Leonard Frey, Paul Mann, Rosalind Harris, Michele Marsh, Neva Small, Paul Michael Glaser, Zvee Scooler, Ray Lovelock, Elaine Edwards, Candy Bonstein, Louis Zorich, Shimen Ruskin
Jewish milkman Tevye (Topol) and his wife Golde (Norma Crane) find their world in Russia changing in 1905. Not only is Russia modernizing, but their daughters Hodel (Michele Marsh), Tzeitel (Rosalind Harris), and Chava (Neva Small) are also going against tradition and choosing their own husbands. Tzeitel is in love with poor tailor Motel Kamzoil (Leonard Frey), but Tevye has arranged for her to marry wealthy Lazar Wolf (Paul Mann). Meanwhile, Chava wants to marry Fyedka (Ray Lovelock) who is a not Jewish. While Tevye disapproves of their choices and has tried to arrange more "proper" marriages, he is forced finally to change his way of thinking when the anti-Semitic Czar forces his family and their Jewish neighbors out of their village. The film won three Academy Awards (Best Cinematography, Music, and Sound) and was nominated for five others–including Best Picture, Actor (Topol), Director, and Supporting Actor (Frey).
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Forty Pounds of Trouble 1963 N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Norman Jewison
Cast: Tony Curtis, Phil Silvers, Suzanne Pleshette, Claire Wilcox, Larry Storch, Howard Morris, Stubby Kaye, Kevin McCarthy, Mary Murphy, Edward Andrews
This is a remake of "Little Miss Marker" in which Tony Curtis plays Steve McCluskey, the manager of a casino, who ends up with a little girl (Claire Wilcox) to care for.
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Gaily, Gaily 1969 PG, 107 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Chicago, Chicago
Director: Norman Jewison
Cast: Beau Bridges, Melina Mercouri, Brian Keith, George Kennedy, Hume Cronyn, Margot Kidder, Wilfrid Hyde-White, John Randolph, Melodie Johnson, Roy Poole, Charles Tyner, Joan Huntington
Based on Chicago journalist Ben Hecht's reminiscences, this story is about Ben Harvey (Beau Bridges) who is a young cub reporter under the wing of an older reporter. The setting is Chicago during the early 1900s.
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 The Hurricane 1999  R, 125 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Norman Jewison
Cast: Denzel Washington, Deborah Kara Unger, Vicellous Reon Shannon, Liev Schreiber, John Hannah, Dan Hedaya, Debbi Morgan, Clancy Brown, David Paymer, Rod Steiger, Harris Yulin, Badja Djola, Vincent Pastore, Al Waxman, David Lansbury
Denzel Washington excels in his portrayal of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter–a boxer sent to prison on trumped-up murder charges in 1966. Carter remained in prison until 1986 when the efforts of a Brooklyn-born teenager, Lesra Martin (Vicellous Reon Shannon), spurred another investigation leading to Carter's release. Washington received an Academy Award nomination.
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In Country 1989 R, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Norman Jewison
Cast: Bruce Willis, Emily Lloyd, Joan Allen, Kevin Anderson, John Terry, Peggy Rea, Judith Ivey, Daniel Jenkins, Stephen Tobolowsky, Jim Beaver, Richard Hamilton, Heidi Swedberg
Samantha (Emily Lloyd) lives with her Uncle Emmett (Bruce Willis) in Kentucky. Her father was killed in Vietnam, and Uncle Emmet also served in that war. When Samantha becomes obsessed with learning more about the father she never knew and to better understand the war, she and Uncle Emmett travel to Washington, D.C. to visit the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and gain some emotional release from the traumas caused by the war.
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 In the Heat of the Night 1967 N/R, 109 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Norman Jewison
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant, Quentin Dean, James Patterson, William Schallert, Scott Wilson, Matt Clark, Anthony James, Larry Gates, Beah Richards
Black Philadelphia homicide detective Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) visits a backwater Mississippi town. While there, he is mistakenly arrested for murder. When the confusion is resolved, bigoted Police Chief Bill Gillespie (Rod Steiger) and Tibbs join forces to investigate a murder. Tibbs teaches Gillespie about crime solving methods and about prejudice. This film won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Actor (Steiger) and was nominated for two others, including Best Director.
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 Moonstruck 1987 PG, 103 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Norman Jewison
Cast: Cher, Nicolas Cage, Olympia Dukakis, Vincent Gardenia, Danny Aiello, John Mahoney, Julie Bovasso, Louis Guss, Joe Grifasi, Anita Gillette, Leonardo Cimino, Feodor Chaliapin Jr., Nada Despotovich, Helen Hanft, Robin Bartlett
Loretta (Cher) is a superstitious woman who feels that bad luck has caused her tragedies in life. She accepts Johnny Commarari's (Danny Aiello) marriage proposal because she wants the security of a husband. After Johnny leaves for a trip to Sicily to visit his dying mother, Loretta meets his brother Ronny (Nicholas Cage), and she finds the great love of her life. Cher and Olympia Dukakis (in the role of Loretta's mother) won Oscars for this film, as did the Writing-Screenplay. Nominations were received for Best Picture, Supporting Actor (Vincent Gardenia as Loretta's father) and Director.
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Only You 1994 PG, 108 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Norman Jewison
Cast: Marisa Tomei, Robert Downey Jr., Bonnie Hunt, Joaquim de Almeida, Fisher Stevens, Billy Zane, Adam LeFevre, Siobhan Fallon, Phyllis Newman, John Benjamin Hickey, Antonia Rey, Denise Du Maurier, Jessica Hertel, Tammy Minoff, Harry Barandes
When she was a child, Pittsburgh schoolteacher Faith Covatch (Marisa Tomei) was shown on a Ouija Board that she would marry a man named DAMON BRADLEY. Now, on the eve of her wedding to another, Faith takes a telephone call from a man named Damon Bradley (Robert Downey Jr.). In two seconds, Faith is off to Italy in search of her destiny, which includes Damon.
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 Rollerball 1975 R, 129 min.
Genre: Action / Sci-Fi
Director: Norman Jewison
Cast: James Caan, John Houseman, Maud Adams, John Beck, Moses Gunn, Pamela Hensley, Ralph Richardson, Shane Rimmer, Burt Kwouk, Angus MacInnes, Barbara Trentham, John Normington, Nancy Bleier, Richard LeParmentier, Robert Ito
The year is 2018, and crime and wars have ended–corporations, not nations, rule the world. Rollerball is supported by those in power as a futuristic sport combining danger and excitement and is allowed because it gives society a release from pent-up hostilities and teaches the power of teamwork. Corporate executives ask champion rollerball player Jonathan E. (James Caan) to retire because they fear that he is so popular with the people that he has power over them. When Jonathan E. refuses to retire, the rules of the game are changed to make rollerball a fight to the death. But even that does not stop Jonathan E. from participating with his teammates in the sport of rollerball.
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The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! 1966 N/R, 126 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Norman Jewison
Cast: Alan Arkin, Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, John Phillip Law, Paul Ford, Tessie O'Shea, Brian Keith, Theodore Bikel, Ben Blue, Jonathan Winters
This story reveals the atmosphere of the Cold War in the 1960s. The plot involves the forced landing of Russian submariners off Nantucket and, in an alien land, the sailors find a mixed greeting from the Americans. Although a good farce, this film gives the viewer insight into a world gone slightly mad during the arms race. An Academy Award nomination was received for Best Picture, and Alan Arkin was nominated for Actor.
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Send Me No Flowers 1964 N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Norman Jewison
Cast: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall, Clint Walker, Paul Lynde, Hal March, Edward Andrews, Patricia Barry, Dave Willock, Herb Vigran
George Kimball (Rock Hudson) is a hypochondriac who has convinced himself that his death is imminent. So, he asks his friend Arnold (Tony Randall) to help find the next mate for his soon-to-be widow, Judy (Doris Day).
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A Soldier's Story 1984 PG, 102 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Norman Jewison
Cast: Howard E. Rollins Jr., Adolph Caesar, Denzel Washington, Art Evans, David Alan Grier, David Harris, Robert Townsend, Wings Hauser, Dennis Lipscomb, Larry Riley
Racial hatred in the military is depicted in this story about a black Army lawyer who is given a murder case. When he arrives at the Fort he discovers that proud black soldiers do not understand sneering white soldiers; both groups are so steeped in their prejudices that it seems there is no hope that they can get together. This film does a good job of focusing on man's inhumanity to man and was nominated for an Oscar; Caesar was nominated for Supporting Actor.
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 The Statement 2003 R, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Norman Jewison
Cast: Michael Caine, Tilda Swinton, Jeremy Northam, Alan Bates, Charlotte Rampling, Ciaran Hinds, John Neville, Matt Craven, Edward Petherbridge, Frank Finlay, David de Keyser, William Hutt
In this less-than-brilliant film based on Brian Moore's 1996 novel, a former Nazi executioner, Pierre Brossard (Michael Caine), has been living out his life in Southern France where he is protected by the Catholic Church. But now he becomes the target of assassins as well as the law and must turn to his wartime cohorts for help in this next challenge of his life as a fugitive.
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 The Thomas Crown Affair 1968 PG, 102 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Norman Jewison
Cast: Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke, Yaphet Kotto, Jack Weston, Biff McGuire, Todd Martin, Gordon Pinsent, Ted Gehring, Judy Pace
This film adaptation of Graham Greene's novel is about a sophisticated investment banker, Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen), who plots a bank heist. Insurance investigator Vickie Anderson (Faye Dunaway) is sent to get to the bottom of the affair and realizes how Crown got the money–but she has already fallen in love with him. "The Windmills of your Mind" won an Academy Award for Best Song.
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The Thrill of It All 1963 N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Norman Jewison
Cast: Doris Day, James Garner, Arlene Francis, Edward Andrews, Reginald Owen, Zasu Pitts, Elliott Reid, Hayden Rorke, Alex Gerry, Paul Hartman
When she becomes a star in TV commercials, Beverly Boyer (Doris Day) runs into marriage problems as her husband, Dr. Gerald Boyer (James Garner), has problems adjusting to his wife's new lifestyle.
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| 1. Agnes of God (1985)
2. And Justice for All (1979)
3. The Art of Love (1965)
4. Best Friends (1982)
5. Bogus (1996)
6. The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
7. Dinner with Friends (2001)
8. F.I.S.T. (1978)
9. Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
10. Forty Pounds of Trouble (1963)
11. Gaily, Gaily (1969)
aka: Chicago, Chicago
12. The Hurricane (1999)
13. In Country (1989)
14. In the Heat of the Night (1967)
15. Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)
16. Moonstruck (1987)
17. Only You (1994)
18. Other People's Money (1991)
19. Rollerball (1975)
20. The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! (1966)
21. Send Me No Flowers (1964)
22. A Soldier's Story (1984)
23. The Statement (2003)
24. The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
25. The Thrill of It All (1963)
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