Advice from a Caterpillar 1999  N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Don Scardino
Cast: Cynthia Nixon, Andy Dick, Timothy Olyphant, Jon Tenney, Ally Sheedy, Robert Joy, Sarah Hyland, Patrick Breen, William Duell, Oni Faida Lampley, Alice Drummond, Albert Macklin, Deborah Rush, Dina Waters
When best friends Spaz (Andy Dick) and Missy (Cynthia Nixon) are both attracted to Brat (Timothy Olyphant) at the same time, the result is chaos when jealousy threatens to destroy their friendship.
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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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AVPR: Aliens vs. Predator-Requiem 2007  R, 85 min.
Genre: Action / Sci-Fi / Horror
aka: Aliens vs. Predator 2
Director: Colin Strause, Greg Strause
Cast: Steven Pasquale, Reiko Aylesworth, John Ortiz, Johnny Lewis, Ariel Gade, Kristen Hager, Sam Trammell, Robert Joy, David Paetkau, Tom Woodruff Jr., Ian Whyte, Chelah Horsdal
After their space ship crashes in Colorado, a Predator/Alien and his small army begin wreaking havoc on the citizens. Meanwhile, a Predator has been sent to Earth to wipe out the aliens, and war rages in a small Colorado town.
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The Dark Half 1993  R, 124 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: George A. Romero
Cast: Timothy Hutton, Amy Madigan, Michael Rooker, Julie Harris, Robert Joy, Rutanya Alda, Chelsea Field, Kent Broadhurst, Royal Dano, Beth Grant
Stephen King's novel is brought to life in this film about author Thad Beaumont (Timothy Hutton), who uses the pseudonym "George Stark" when he writes horror stories. Beaumont learns that "Stark" does not want to be put away between stories.
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Desperately Seeking Susan 1985 PG-13, 104 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Director: Susan Seidelman
Cast: Madonna, Rosanna Arquette, Aidan Quinn, Mark Blum, Robert Joy, Laurie Metcalf, John Turturro, Anna Levine, Will Patton, Giancarlo Esposito, Peter Maloney, Anne Carlisle, Steven Wright, Jose Angel Santana, Richard Hell
Those three words of the title are from a classified ad that fascinates bored housewife Roberta Glass (Rosanna Arquette) who is overwhelmed by curiosity about Susan (Madonna). She goes to the rendezvous, sees Susan, and becomes so involved with her that she actually takes on the identity of Susan, a punk drifter. A screwball comedy with great characters.
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 Fallen 1998 R, 120 min.
Genre: Drama / Horror / Fantasy / Thriller
Director: Gregory Hoblit
Cast: Denzel Washington, Donald Sutherland, John Goodman, Embeth Davidtz, Elias Koteas, James Gandolfini, Robert Joy, Aida Turturro, Allelon Ruggiero, Gabriel Casseus, Michael J. Pagan, Frank Medrano, Ray Xifo, Tara Carnes, Tony Michael Donnelly
The demon spirit–Azazel–of an executed killer is the focus of Detective John Hobbes (Denzel Washington) after he had captured and prosecuted the killer. Hobbes and his partner Jonesy (John Goodman) believe that Azazel possesses one person after another, and after Hobbes kills a man possessed by Azazel, he becomes suspect. He gets advice from theology professor Gretta Milano (Embeth Davidtz) whose father had been killed by Azazel and gets drawn into the occult as he continues his search for the truth to save his family and others from the demon spirit.
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Harriet the Spy 1996 PG, 102 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy / Drama
Director: Bronwen Hughes
Cast: Michelle Trachtenberg, Rosie O'Donnell, Vanessa Lee Chester, J. Smith-Cameron, Robert Joy, Eartha Kitt, Charlotte Sullivan, Gregory Smith, Teisha Kim, Cecilley Carroll, Nina Shock, Conor Devitt, Alisha Morrison, Nancy Beatty, Sally Cahill
Based on Louise Fitzhugh's children's book, this is the story of Harriet (Michelle Trachtenberg), a 13-year-old girl who prowls her neighborhood spying on its happenings and making entries in her notebook. When her notebook is discovered, Harriet must pay the consequences.
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Helter Skelter 2004 TV, 140 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Gray
Cast: Jeremy Davies, Clea DuVall, Bruno Kirby, Allison Smith, Marguerite Morgan, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Eric Dane, Hal Ozsan, Rick Gomez, Michael Weston, Robert Joy, Robert Costanzo
In this second made-for-TV movie about the Manson "family" murders, Jeremy Davies stars as convicted killer Charles Manson who led his followers in a pair of gruesome murders. Scenes were cut to tone down the violence for the TV audience.
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 The Hills Have Eyes 2006 R, 105 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Alexandre Aja
Cast: Ted Levine, Aaron Stanford, Kathleen Quinlan, Vinessa Shaw, Emilie de Ravin, Dan Byrd, Robert Joy, Tom Bower, Billy Drago, Desmond Askew, Ezra Buzzington, Michael Bailey Smith, Laura Ortiz
In a remake of the 1977 film, Wes Craven produced this version of the Carter family's trip through the American Southwest. While on a road trip in their vintage Airstream trailer, the Carters find themselves stranded miles from nowhere. They soon realize that they are the prey of blood-thirsty, desert-dwelling atomic mutants that live in an abandoned nuclear testing site, and their days are numbered.
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I'll Do Anything 1994  PG-13, 115 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: James L. Brooks
Cast: Nick Nolte, Whittni Wright, Albert Brooks, Julie Kavner, Tracey Ullman, Joely Richardson, Ian McKellen, Woody Harrelson, Robert Joy, Rosie O'Donnell
A not-so-very successful actor (Nick Nolte) suddenly is given custody of his daughter (Whittni Wright), a six-year-old who has never known her father. He gets a job as a chauffeur for a movie studio exec and finds time to fall in love with his daughter.
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 Joe Somebody 2001 PG, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: John Pasquin
Cast: Tim Allen, Julie Bowen, Kelly Lynch, Hayden Panettiere, Greg Germann, Robert Joy, James Belushi, Patrick Warburton, Ken Marino, James Cada, Wolfgang Bodison, Cristi Conaway, Tina Lifford
On "Bring Your Daughter to Work Day," and in front of his young daughter (Hayden Panettiere), Joe (Tim Allen) gets kicked around by a co-worker (Patrick Warburton) in the office parking lot. Joe decides to fight back and gets karate training from a washed-up, action film star (James Belushi).
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Land of the Dead 2005 R, 93 min.
Genre: Action / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
aka: George A. Romero's Land of the Dead
Director: George A. Romero
Cast: Simon Baker, John Leguizamo, Dennis Hopper, Asia Argento, Robert Joy, Eugene Clark, Joanne Boland, Tony Nappo, Jennifer Baxter, Boyd Banks, Maxwell McCabe-Lokos, Shawn Roberts, Jasmin Geljo, Tony Munch, Pedro Miguel Arce
When only an electrified chain-link fence separates the zombies from the city's residents, can Riley (Simon Baker), Slack (Asia Argento), and Charlie (Robert Joy) stop the zombies from eating hearts and other "treats" torn from the bodies of their terrified victims?
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Millennium 1989  PG-13, 110 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Michael Anderson
Cast: Kris Kristofferson, Cheryl Ladd, Daniel J. Travanti, Robert Joy, Brent Carver, Maury Chaykin, Al Waxman, Lloyd Bochner, David McIlwraith, Lawrence Dane
A woman from another age (Cheryl Ladd) is trying to help her world by transporting people from this era to hers. She does this by taking passengers off of doomed airplanes. Kris Kristofferson plays an airline employee who investigates air crashes.
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Pharaoh's Army 1995 PG-13, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robby Henson
Cast: Chris Cooper, Patricia Clarkson, Kris Kristofferson, Robert Joy, Richard Tyson, Frank Clem, Huckleberry Fox, Will Lucas, Mac Miles, Robert E. Simpson
A Union Army officer, Captain John Hull Abston (Chris Cooper), leads four of his men in an attempt to steal livestock from a Kentucky farm. Sarah Anders (Patricia Clarkson) is in charge of the farm, which she tends while her husband is off fighting for the CSA. When one of the soldiers injures himself on the farm, the other Union soldiers decide to wait for him to heal. Not a good idea, as conflicts ensue.
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Ragtime 1981 PG, 156 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Milos Forman
Cast: James Cagney, Brad Dourif, Moses Gunn, Elizabeth McGovern, Howard E. Rollins Jr., Debbie Allen, Kenneth McMillan, Pat O'Brien, Donald O'Connor, Mandy Patinkin, James Olson, Mary Steenburgen, Jeffrey DeMunn, Robert Joy, Norman Mailer
This story about New York, circa 1900, provides historical insights into four families of that era. In one story, millionaire Harry Kendall Thaw (Robert Joy) murders architect Stanford White (Norman Mailer) who is having an affair with Thaw's wife, showgirl Evelyn (Elizabeth McGovern). Another plot involves immigrant artist Tateh (Mandy Patinkin) who becomes a successful, Hollywood director. Howard E. Rollins Jr. stars in another subplot as a Black man, Coalhouse Walker Jr., who is romancing a White, pregnant woman (Debbie Allen) living in the home of a mother and father (Mary Steenburgen and James Olson). Walker turns to rage when a racist fire chief (Kenneth McMillan) destroys his car. And, of course, there is James Cagney, returning to films after a retirement of 20 years in the role of Police Commissioner Waldo. The film received eight Oscar nominations, including Best Supporting Actor (Howard E. Rollins, Jr.) and Supporting Actress (Elizabeth McGovern).
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Resurrection 1999 R, 108 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Russell Mulcahy
Cast: Christopher Lambert, Leland Orser, Robert Joy, Barbara Tyson, David Cronenberg, Rick Fox, Philip Williams, James Kidnie
Two cops–John Prudhomme (Christopher Lambert) and Andrew Hollingworth (Leland Orser)–find their efforts frustrated as they search for the key that will help them nail a serial killer, Demus (Robert Joy), who leaves mutilated bodies in his wake. The Bible provides the key as the cops begin to realize that Demus is collecting body pieces to reassemble Christ in time for Easter.
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The Shipping News 2001 R, 111 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Lasse Hallstrom
Cast: Kevin Spacey, Julianne Moore, Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, Pete Postlethwaite, Scott Glenn, Rhys Ifans, Gordon Pinsent, Jason Behr, John Dunsworth, Larry Pine, Marc Lawrence, Jeanetta Arnette, Robert Joy, Alyssa/Kaitlyn/Lauren Gainer
Down-on-his-luck Quoyle (Kevin Spacey), with young daughter Bunny (Alyssa, Kaitlyn, and Lauren Gainer) in tow, follows the advice of his Aunt Agnis (Judi Dench) to join her in the ancestral home in Newfoundland. He gets a job writing a shipping news column for the local newspaper and, with the help of widow Wavey (Julianne Moore), finds that new, better life.
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Superhero Movie 2008 PG-13, 85 min.
Genre: Comedy / Action
Director: Craig Mazin
Cast: Drake Bell, Sara Paxton, Christopher McDonald, Leslie Nielsen, Kevin Hart, Marion Ross, Ryan Hansen, Keith David, Brent Spiner, Robert Joy, Jeffrey Tambor, Robert Hays, Nicole Sullivan, Tracy Morgan, Regina Hall
Following his parents' murder, teenager Rick Riker (Drake Bell) lives with his Aunt Lucille (Marion Ross) and Uncle Albert (Leslie Nielsen). Rick's father's dying wish was that Rick would become a hero. But, Rick does not appear to be fulfilling his father's wish. He can't even get up enough nerve to tell Jill Johnson (Sara Paxton) how much he cares for her. One day, Rick's class takes a field trip to Amalgamated Pharmaceuticals where Rick is bitten by a dragonfly. Rick recovers from the bite and finds that he has gained super powers with skin as strong as steel, and he decides to use his powers to promote goodness. He dons a costume and becomes The Dragonfly. But, as always happens, there is a nemesis–this time, in the person of Lou Landers (Christopher McDonald) who is the CEO of Amalgamated Pharmaceuticals and has become a super-villain in the form of The Hourglass. Will The Dragonfly find the means to stop The Hourglass from leeching the life force from all he encounters in order to achieve immortality?
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 Sweet November 2001 PG-13, 117 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Pat O'Connor
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Charlize Theron, Jason Isaacs, Greg Germann, Liam Aiken, Lauren Graham, Michael Rosenbaum, Frank Langella, Tom Bullock, Robert Joy, Jason Kravits, Adele Proom, L. Peter Callender, June Carryl, Ray Baker
In this remake of the 1968 "Sweet November," Keanu Reeves takes on the role of the workaholic businessman, Nelson, who moves in with the free-spirited Sarah (Charlize Theron) as her "man of the month." 1 User Review
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| | it is a ROMANTIC-DRAMA not a comedy! | ima 08/30/2009 | | the movie does not end well, and the female main character is suffering the last part of the movie...I for sure did not laugh at this movie, it was a sweet and romantic as well as sad, with lessons to learn in the end....it is NOT a comedy! |
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Sword of Gideon 1986 TV, 148 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Michael Anderson
Cast: Steven Bauer, Michael York, Rod Steiger, Colleen Dewhurst, Robert Joy, Lino Ventura, Leslie Hope, Laurent Malet, Peter Dvorsky, John Hirsch
An anti-terrorist team is set up after the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Olympic games in Munich. Steven Bauer plays the commando leader. Pretty good TV movie.
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Threshold 1981 PG, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Pearce
Cast: Donald Sutherland, Jeff Goldblum, Allan F. Nicholls, Mare Winningham, John Marley, Michael Lerner, Robert Joy, Paul Hecht, Sharon Acker, Jessica Steen, Deborah Turnbull
Utilizing the documentary approach, director Richard Pearce depicts the first artificial heart transplant–performed against the advice of the Ethics Committee chairman.
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Ticket to Heaven 1981 PG, 107 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ralph Thomas
Cast: Nick Mancuso, Saul Rubinek, Meg Foster, Kim Cattrall, R.H. Thomson, Jennifer Dale, Guy Boyd, Paul Soles, Robert Joy, Michael Wincott
This docudrama about religious cults features Nick Mancuso as a Toronto schoolteacher who naively joins a California cult and goes through the rituals of brain washing. Fortunately, a friend rescues him from his robotic existence and gets him into a deprogramming session.
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Waterworld 1995  PG-13, 136 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi / Action / Adventure / Thriller
Director: Kevin Reynolds
Cast: Kevin Costner, Dennis Hopper, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Tina Majorino, Michael Jeter, Gerard Murphy, R.D. Call, Zakes Mokae, Robert Joy, Leonardo Cimino, Chaim Girafi, Rick Aviles, Zitto Kazann, Luke Ka'ili Jr., Jack Kehler
Mariner (Kevin Costner) sails his trimaran over a land that has been drowned by the melting of polar ice. While Mariner searches for Paradise (a never-seen place called Dryland), arch-villain Deacon (Dennis Hopper) heads up the Smokers who live on an old oil tanker and attack from jet skis and motorized surfboards. Special effects are great. 1 User Review
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| | RascalBrat 02/25/2007 | | EXCELLENT! |
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| 1. Advice from a Caterpillar (1999)
2. Amityville 3-D (1983)
aka: Amityville III: The Demon
3. Atlantic City (1980)
4. AVPR: Aliens vs. Predator-Requiem (2007)
aka: Aliens vs. Predator 2
5. The Dark Half (1993)
6. Death Wish V: The Face of Death (1994)
7. Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
8. Fallen (1998)
9. Harriet the Spy (1996)
10. Helter Skelter (2004)
11. The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
12. I'll Do Anything (1994)
13. Joe Somebody (2001)
14. Joshua Then and Now (1985)
15. Land of the Dead (2005)
aka: George A. Romero's Land of the Dead
16. Millennium (1989)
17. Pharaoh's Army (1995)
18. Ragtime (1981)
19. Resurrection (1999)
20. The Shipping News (2001)
21. Superhero Movie (2008)
22. Sweet November (2001)
23. Sword of Gideon (1986)
24. Threshold (1981)
25. Ticket to Heaven (1981)
26. Waterworld (1995)
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