Back Roads 1981  R, 94 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Martin Ritt
Cast: Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones, David Keith, Miriam Colon, M. Emmet Walsh, Michael V. Gazzo, Dan Shor, Nell Carter, Barbara Babcock, Alex Colon, Lee de Broux, Ralph Seymour, Royce D. Applegate, Bruce M. Fischer, John Dennis Johnston
Amy Post (Sally Field) is a prostitute who teams up with unemployed boxer Elmore Pratt (Tommy Lee Jones). The two become traveling companions and leave their dead-end lives in Alabama. They hitchhike to California where they hope to better their lives–and along the trek, they find themselves attracted to each other.
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Fletch 1985  PG, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Mystery
Director: Michael Ritchie
Cast: Chevy Chase, Tim Matheson, Joe Don Baker, M. Emmet Walsh, Richard Libertini, George Wendt, Kenneth Mars, Geena Davis, Bill Henderson, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, William Traylor, George Wyner, Tony Longo, Ralph Seymour, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I.M. "Fletch" Fletcher (Chevy Chase) is a big city newspaperman who goes undercover and poses as a bum. He stumbles onto a story when Santa Monica aviation executive Alan Stanwyk (Tim Matheson), who has bone cancer, offers him $50,000 to murder him so that his family can collect on his life insurance. Fletch believes that there is more to the story and, before long, uncovers a drug dealing connection between Stanwyk and police Chief Karlin (Joe Don Baker).
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Just Before Dawn 1981  R, 90 min.
Genre: Adventure / Horror / Thriller
Director: Jeff Lieberman
Cast: George Kennedy, Mike Kellin, Chris Lemmon, Gregg Henry, Deborah Benson, Ralph Seymour, Katie Powell, John Hunsaker, Charles Bartlett, Jamie Rose, Hap Oslund, Barbara Spencer
Forest Ranger McLean (George Kennedy) warns the camping party who arrive that a crazed man, with machete in hand, has been terrorizing the mountains. After the warning, campers start disappearing, one-by-one.
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 Rain Man 1988  R, 134 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Barry Levinson
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino, Gerald R. Molen, Lucinda Jenney, Bonnie Hunt, Beth Grant, Michael D. Roberts, Jack Murdock, Ralph Seymour, Kim Robillard, Ray Baker, Barry Levinson, Loretta Wendt Jolivette, Elizabeth Lower
This film won the Academy Award for Best Picture in its depiction of autistic savant Raymond Babbitt (Dustin Hoffman) whose brother Charlie (Tom Cruise) wants part of a huge inheritance from which he has been omitted. To this end, Charlie takes his brother on a trip while he threatens the guardian with a court fight for half of the inheritance. Barry Levinson also won an Oscar for Best Director, as did Hoffman for Best Actor.
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Sinatra 1992  TV, 250 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Steven Sadwith
Cast: Philip Casnoff, Olympia Dukakis, Joe Santos, Gina Gershon, Rod Steiger, Bob Gunton, Jeff Corey, Nina Siemaszko, Marcia Gay Harden, Jay Robinson, Joe Grifasi, Ralph Seymour, David Raynr, Vincent Guastaferro
Produced by his daughter Nancy Sinatra, this is an accurate rendition of larger-than-life Frank Sinatra's (played by Philip Casnoff) ups and downs in his personal as well as professional life.
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| 1. Back Roads (1981)
2. Fletch (1985)
3. Just Before Dawn (1981)
4. Rain Man (1988)
5. Sinatra (1992)
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