 Beauty and the Beast 1991  G, 85 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Fantasy / Musical
Director: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
Cast: Paige O'Hara, Robby Benson, Jerry Orbach, Angela Lansbury, David Ogden Stiers, Rex Everhart, Richard White, Jesse Corti, Jo Anne Worley, Mary Kay Bergman, Bradley Pierce, Hal Smith, Tony Jay
The animation of this popular fairy tale is a highlight of this Disney film. It is the story of beautiful young Belle (voice of Paige (O'Hara) who is forced to live with a Beast (voice of Robby Benson). She learns to look beneath the surface of another and discovers a gentle kindness hidden behind the beast's gruff exterior. The song "Beauty and the Beast" won an Academy Award as did the musical score. The film was also nominated for Best Picture.
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Family Business 1989  R, 115 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy
Director: Sidney Lumet
Cast: Sean Connery, Matthew Broderick, Dustin Hoffman, Rosanna DeSoto, Janet Carroll, Victoria Jackson, Bill McCutcheon, Luis Guzman, B.D. Wong, Deborah Rush, Marilyn Cooper, Salem Ludwig, Rex Everhart, James Tolkan, Tony DiBenedetto
After young Adam McMillen (Matthew Broderick) approaches his father Vito (Dustin Hoffman) and grandfather Jessie (Sean Connery) with a scheme to gain millions of dollars worth of test-tube specimens, they attempt the heist and fail. As a result, three generations of the McMillen family are forced into accepting guilt for their lives of crime.
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Friday the 13th 1980 R, 91 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller / Mystery
Director: Sean S. Cunningham
Cast: Betsy Palmer, Harry Crosby, Adrienne King, Kevin Bacon, Laurie Bartram, Mark Nelson, Jeannine Taylor, Peter Brouwer, Ari Lehman, Robbi Morgan, Rex Everhart, Ronn Carroll, Ron Millkie, Walt Gorney, Willie Adams
New Jersey's Crystal Lake summer camp is not quite as peaceful as the brochures indicated when, one-by-one, the counselors who re-opened it under the leadership of Steve Christy (Peter Brouwer) are hacked to death by the masked killer Jason (Ari Lehman). The camp had been reopened after 20 years following its closure because of mysterious murders at the camp. Fun for fans of horror shows.
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The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg 1980  TV, 40 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Ralph Rosenblum
Cast: Robert Preston, Tom Aldredge, Fred Gwynne, Frances Sternhagen, Seth Allen, Kent Broadhurst, Brandon Maggart, Ken Costigan, Rex Everhart, Henry Fonda
This short TV film is based on a Mark Twain story A mysterious stranger (Robert Preston) who was insulted by the townsfolk of Hadleyburg, Vermont, returns to teach them a lesson. While the townsfolk pride themselves on their integrity, it soon becomes clear that its most revered citizens are willing to lie when the stranger offers gold to the person who helped him years before.
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The Seven-Ups 1973  PG, 103 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Philip D'Antoni
Cast: Roy Scheider, Victor Arnold, Jerry Leon, Tony Lo Bianco, Larry Haines, Ken Kercheval, Richard Lynch, Bill Hickman, Lou Polan, Joe Spinell, Robert Burr, Rex Everhart
After one of their comrades is killed, New York City police members of an elite group–the Seven-Ups (minimum time to be sentenced in prison)–must find the murderers before their own reputations are ruined.
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| 1. Beauty and the Beast (1991)
2. Family Business (1989)
3. Friday the 13th (1980)
4. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (1980)
5. The Seven-Ups (1973)
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