Fantasia/2000 1999  G, 75 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Musical
Director: Various Directors
Cast: Steve Martin, Bette Midler, James Levine, Itzhak Perlman, James Earl Jones, Angela Lansbury, Quincy Jones, Penn Jillette, Teller, Russi Taylor, Leopold Stokowski, Ralph Grierson, Kathleen Battle
This IMAX-formatted musical adventure updates the original 1940 version in its use of 21st-century technology. "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" is still there, but many new sequences have replaced the old in this ambitious Disney Studios undertaking.
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 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 1998  R, 128 min.
Genre: Comedy / Adventure / Drama
Director: Terry Gilliam
Cast: Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro, Ellen Barkin, Gary Busey, Tobey Maguire, Cameron Diaz, Christina Ricci, Katherine Helmond, Harry Dean Stanton, Mark Harmon, Michael Jeter, Penn Jillette, Craig Bierko, Lyle Lovett, Flea
This film is an adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's book about a 1971 drug-and-alcohol crazed trip to Las Vegas. Raoul Duke (Johnny Depp) and his Samoan attorney Dr. Gonzo (Benicio Del Toro) set off across the desert to cover a race and then a convention of district attorneys. Duke interviews his subjects and writes stories from his addict mind-set.
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Fear of Fiction 2000  N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Charlie Ahearn
Cast: Melissa Leo, Sam Trammell, David Wheir, Stephen Pearlman, Penn Jillette, Jay Devlin, Irma St. Paule, Linda Larkin, Anney Giobbe, Clark Johnson, Talmadge Lowe, Lee Bryant, Augusta Dabney, Reno, Patrick Brinker
Sigrid (Melissa Leo), who is trying to be a writer, links up with Red (Sam Trammell) to share a ride on a trip across Canada. Both, it turns out, have twin siblings, though Sigrid's sister had been killed in an accident. As the trip proceeds, the twin theme continues to come up as they visit Sigrid's old family cottage and run across Red's brother more than once.
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Half Japanese: The Band That Would Be King 1993 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Jeff Feuerzeig
Cast: Jad Fair, David Fair, Penn Jillette, Maureen Tucker
Interviews, testimonials, and the music of the rock band, Half Japanese, are featured in this documentary tracing the evolution of Jad and David Fairs' music from 1977, when they first formed their alternative band.
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My Chauffeur 1986  R, 94 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: David Beaird
Cast: Deborah Foreman, Sam J. Jones, E.G. Marshall, Sean McClory, Howard Hesseman, Penn Jillette, Teller, John O'Leary, Julius Harris, Laurie Main, Elaine Wilkes, Stanley Brock, Jack Stryker, Ben Slack, Vance Colvig Jr.
When Casey Meadows (Deborah Foreman) begins work as a limousine driver, she is not greeted warmly by the all-male staff. As a matter of course, Casey is given the worst jobs, but romance blooms when she gets to know one of her fares, Battle (Sam J. Jones).
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Tough Guys Don't Dance 1987 R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Norman Mailer
Cast: Ryan O'Neal, Isabella Rossellini, Debra Sandlund, Wings Hauser, John Bedford Lloyd, Clarence Williams III, Lawrence Tierney, Frances Fisher, Penn Jillette, R. Patrick Sullivan
This movie takes place in a small coastal Massachusetts town where an ex-con wants to be a writer, but too many tough guys get in the way. Among the "toughies" are a porno star, a chief of police, and a neurotic Southern belle.
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 Toy Story 1995  G, 81 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy
Director: John Lasseter
Cast: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Jim Varney, Wallace Shawn, John Ratzenberger, Annie Potts, R. Lee Ermey, Laurie Metcalf, Erik von Detten, John Morris, Penn Jillette, Jack Angel, Sarah Freeman, Debi Derryberry
This animated film makes you forget that the toys living in Andy's room are not really alive. In this play-world society, everyone has a rank and station. Problems begin when toy cowboy Woody (voice of Tom Hanks) is threatened by Andy's (voice of John Morris) birthday gift: a futuristic plastic spaceman, Buzz Lightyear (voice of Tim Allen). Woody is determined to do away with his nemesis.
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| 1. Fantasia/2000 (1999)
2. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
3. Fear of Fiction (2000)
4. Half Japanese: The Band That Would Be King (1993)
5. My Chauffeur (1986)
6. Tough Guys Don't Dance (1987)
7. Toy Story (1995)
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