Captain Jack 1999  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Robert(2) Young
Cast: Bob Hoskins, Peter McDonald, Gemma Jones, Maureen Lipman, Sadie Frost, Anna Massey, David Troughton, Michele Dotrice, Patrick Malahide, Kathryn Pogson
Sea Captain Jack Armistead (Bob Hoskins) doesn't think that his hero, Captain Scoresby, has been adequately honored for his trip from northern England to the Arctic waters in 1791. So he decides to retrace the route in his un-seaworthy (and condemned) ship. He gathers a motley crew consisting of two elderly sisters and an Australian hitchhiker–as well as a stowaway–and sets out on the voyage. Meanwhile, authorities and journalists are hot on his tail.
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 Fierce Creatures 1997  PG-13, 93 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Fred Schepisi, Robert(2) Young
Cast: John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin, Robert Lindsay, Ronnie Corbett, Carey Lowell, Bille Brown, Derek Griffiths, Cynthia Cleese
Tycoon Rod McCain (Kevin Kline) runs a very tight ship and demands profits from all of his enterprises. When he acquires a zoo, he places Rollo Lee (John Cleese) in charge. Lee decides to feature only dangerous animals and orders the shooting of all other animals. Enter McCain's son Vince (also played by Kline) and Willa Weston (Jamie Lee Curtis) who have their own ideas about Lee's goals.
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The Worst Witch 1986  G, 70 min.
Genre: Family / Fantasy
Director: Robert(2) Young
Cast: Diana Rigg, Charlotte Rae, Tim Curry, Fairuza Balk, Sabina Franklyn, Su Elliot, Danielle Batchelor, Amy Shindler, Anna Kipling, Kate Buckley
Mildred (Fairuza Balk) is failing as a student at the Witch Academy–until she finds a way to prevent the twin sister of the school's headmistress, Miss Cackle (Charlotte Rae), from ruining the school's Halloween celebration.
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| 1. Captain Jack (1999)
2. Fierce Creatures (1997)
3. The Worst Witch (1986)
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