Atlantic City 1980  R, 104 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Louis Malle
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Kate Reid, Michel Piccoli, Hollis McLaren, Robert Joy, Al Waxman, Robert Goulet, Wallace Shawn, Angus MacInnes, Moses Znaimer, Sean Sullivan, Harvey Atkin, Norma Dell'Agnese, Louis Del Grande
Struggling, Atlantic City casino worker Sally (Susan Sarandon) becomes a partner with aging gangster Lou (Burt Lancaster) in a plot to make some easy money through the selling of drugs. Big problems arise when her estranged husband (Robert Joy) is killed, and the Mafia targets Sally. Lou steps in and saves Sally and, at the same time, proves to himself that he still has gangster skills. The film was nominated for several Oscars including Best Picture, Actor (Lancaster), Actress (Sarandon), and Director.
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 Beetle Juice 1988 PG, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy / Fantasy / Musical
aka: Beetlejuice
Director: Tim Burton
Cast: Michael Keaton, Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Winona Ryder, Catherine O'Hara, Glenn Shadix, Jeffrey Jones, Sylvia Sidney, Robert Goulet, Annie McEnroe, Maurice Page, Hugo Stanger, Rachel Mittelman, Patrice Martinez, Cindy Daly
This is Tim Burton's wacky film about a dead couple (Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis) haunting their own house and trying to rid it of the new owners and their tasteless post-modern renovations. After their own attempts fail, they hire Beetlejuice (Michael Keaton), a deranged lunatic of a ghost with an overactive libido. Lots of good special effects and some hilarious scenes.
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G-Men from Hell 2001  PG-13, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy / Action
Director: Christopher Coppola
Cast: William Forsythe, Tate Donovan, Bob Goldthwait, Barry Newman, Zach Galligan, Vanessa Angel, Paul Rodriguez, David Huddleston, Kari Wuhrer, Robert Goulet, Gary Busey
G-Men Dean and Mike (William Forsythe and Tate Donovan) are not the most honest agents around, so when they are killed in a booby-trapped car, they descend into Hell. They escape from the Devil (Robert Goulet (!)) and find their way back home. Now they must perform good deeds in order not to return to Hell. Pretty good comedy/action film.
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 Gay Purr-ee 1962 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Musical
Director: Abe Levitow
Cast: Judy Garland, Robert Goulet, Red Buttons, Paul Frees, Hermione Gingold, Morey Amsterdam, Mel Blanc, Julie Bennett, Joan Gardner
Country cat Mewsette (voice of Judy Garland) longs for the excitement of Paris, so she packs up and heads there. She is catnabbed by the dastardly Meowrice (voice of Paul Frees), who intends to marry her off to a rich American cat. But Juane-Tom (voice of Robert Goulet) and his sidekick Robspierre (voice of Red Buttons) come to her rescue in this animated film with lots of songs by Judy.
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I Deal in Danger 1966  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Action / Drama
Director: Walter Grauman
Cast: Robert Goulet, Christine Carere, Donald Harron, Horst Frank, Werner Peters, Eva Pflug, Christiane Schmidtmer, John Van Dreelen, Hans Reiser, Margit Saad, Peter Capell, Osman Ragheb, John Alderson, Dieter Eppler, Manfred Andrae
Three episodes from the TV show "Blue Light" make up this film in which Robert Goulet stars as American secret agent David March who convinces the Nazis that he is a traitor in order to get access to an underground weapons factory and blow it up. In the midst of his spy work, David still has time for romance with a German scientist (Eva Pflug) and a French singer (Christine Carere).
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The Last Producer 2000  R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: The Final Hit
Director: Burt Reynolds
Cast: Burt Reynolds, Ann - Margret, Benjamin Bratt, Lauren Holly, Charles Durning, Rod Steiger, Greg Germann, Sean Astin, Robert Goulet, Robert Costanzo, Erin Gray
It's tough growing old, especially when the younger people take over where you once reigned supreme. That's what has happened to Sonny Wexler (Burt Reynolds), a legendary moviemaker, who strives for one last comeback. He intends to purchase the rights to the hottest property in Hollywood but finds it hard to raise the money from so-called friends, while others wanting the script will stop at nothing. Good cast, so-so results.
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Mr. Wrong 1996  PG-13, 96 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Nick Castle
Cast: Ellen DeGeneres, Bill Pullman, Joan Cusack, Joan Plowright, Dean Stockwell, John Livingston, Robert Goulet, Peter White, Hope Davis, Polly Holliday
Martha is a TV producer who, at 31 years of age, is under pressure from her family and friends to get married. The problem is finding the RIGHT man, not the WRONG one.
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The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear 1991 PG-13, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy / Action / Drama
Director: David Zucker
Cast: Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, Robert Goulet, George Kennedy, O.J. Simpson, Richard Griffiths, Jacqueline Brookes, Anthony James, Lloyd Bochner, Tim O'Connor, Peter Mark Richman, Ed Williams, John Roarke, Margery Ross, Peter Van Norden
Lieutenant Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) is still on the police force, and now he is involved in keeping ecology safe by stopping the power brokers from talking the country into passing a new energy policy. Drebin investigates when energy czar Dr. Albert S. Meinheimer (Richard Griffiths) is kidnapped by the energy industries–with help from villain Quentin Hapsburg (Robert Goulet)–so that they can substitute a conspirator in his place who will then enact an energy policy more favorable to those who supply the energy. Once again, Jane (Priscilla Presley) is there to help Drebin. Still lots of funny things going on.
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Recess: School's Out 2001 G, 84 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Chuck Sheetz
Cast: Ricky D'Shon Collins, Jason Davis, Ashley Johnson, Andrew Lawrence, Courtland Mead, Pamela Adlon, Dabney Coleman, Robert Goulet, Melissa Joan Hart, Peter MacNicol
Ten-year-old students spend summer vacation saving their school from a threatened banning of recess in this spin-off of the Disney Channel cartoon series. A likeable family film.
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| 1. Atlantic City (1980)
2. Beetle Juice (1988)
aka: Beetlejuice
3. G-Men from Hell (2001)
4. Gay Purr-ee (1962)
5. I Deal in Danger (1966)
6. The Last Producer (2000)
aka: The Final Hit
7. Mr. Wrong (1996)
8. The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (1991)
9. Recess: School's Out (2001)
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