D.O.A. 1988  R, 90 min.
Genre: Mystery / Thriller
Director: Rocky Morton, Annabel Jankel
Cast: Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan, Charlotte Rampling, Daniel Stern, Jane Kaczmarek, Christopher Neame, Robin Johnson, Jay Patterson, Robert Knepper, Brion James, Jack Kehoe, Lee Gideon, Elizabeth Arlen, Karen Radcliffe, William Forward
English Professor Dexter Cornell (Dennis Quaid) agrees to read student Nick Lang's (Robert Knepper) novel, and then Nick dies in a fall. Police suspect that Dexter is involved in Nick's death because Nick has been having an affair with Dexter's wife Gail (Jane Kaczmarek). Dexter goes on a drinking spree, is poisoned, and learns that he has only 24 hours left to live. He teams up with sweet student Sydney Fuller (Meg Ryan) who has a crush on him, and, together, they follow a twisted trail to the murderer.
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The Day the Earth Stood Still 2008   PG-13, 110 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi / Drama / Thriller
Director: Scott Derrickson
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy Bates, Jon Hamm, Jaden Smith, John Cleese, Kyle Chandler, Robert Knepper, James Hong, John Rothman, Sunita Prasad, Juan Riedinger, Sam Gilroy, Tanya Champoux, Rukiya Bernard
Helen Bronson (Jennifer Connelly) is a young widow who has been caring for her eight-year-old stepson Jacob (Jaden Smith) since her husband died a year ago. To support herself, Helen works as a research scientist in astrobiology. When an alien orb appears in Manhattan, Helen steps in to offer the U.S. government advice on how to deal with its inhabitant, eco-friendly Klaatu (Keanu Reeves). Secretary of State Regina Jackson (Kathy Bates) is very suspicious of eco-friendly Klaatu, but Helen helps Klaatu escape, and she and Jacob take off with Klaatu and try to convince him to spare humans on the planet Earth from destruction.
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Gas Food Lodging 1992  R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Allison Anders
Cast: Brooke Adams, Ione Skye, Fairuza Balk, James Brolin, Robert Knepper, David Lansbury, Jacob Vargas, Donovan Leitch, Chris Mulkey, Laurie O'Brien, Julie Condra, Adam Biesk
Single mother Nora (Brooke Adams), a truck-stop waitress, lives with her two daughters in a small, New Mexico, desert town. The daughters are near-opposites: Trudi (Ione Skye) is fast becoming a rebellious town tramp while Shade (Fairuza Balk) lives in a fantasy world watching Mexican movies and wishing she had a father. Against this bleak backdrop, Director Allison Anders deftly brings out the lives and conflicts of the three women.
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Hitman 2007  R, 100 min.
Genre: Action / Thriller
Director: Xavier Gens
Cast: Timothy Olyphant, Dougray Scott, Olga Kurylenko, Robert Knepper, Ulrich Thomsen, Henry Ian Cusick, Michael Offei, Christian Erickson, Eriq Ebouaney, Joe Sheridan, James Faulkner, Jean-Mark Bellu, Nicky Naude
"Hitman" is based on the video-game series and features Timothy Olyphant as the professional assassin, Agent 47. After carrying out his assignment to assassinate Russian President Mikhail Belicoff (Ulrich Thomsen), later that day Belicoff appears on television with only a small bandage on his cheek. Agent 47 realizes that he has been set up and begins an escape while being pursued from St. Petersburg across Eastern Europe by Interpol and the Russian military. 1 User Review
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| | A hitman is targeted by his employer, and erase his identity | Anonymous 12/06/2007 | | Awesome action scenes. Story was a bit weak but the visuals was spectacular |
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 Hostage 2005  R, 112 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Florent Emilio Siri
Cast: Bruce Willis, Kevin Pollak, Jimmy Bennett, Michelle Horn, Ben Foster, Jonathan Tucker, Marshall Allman, Serena Scott Thomas, Rumer Willis, Kim Coates, Robert Knepper, Tina Lifford
Former LAPD hostage negotiator Jeff Talley (Bruce Willis) left the force after failing to save a mother and her child during a hostage situation. Jeff and his family now live in the suburbs where he serves as police chief. One night, gunmen take a suburban family hostage–an act that escalates into Jeff's wife and daughter being kidnapped also and held for ransom. Now, Jeff is forced to face the personal demons from his past.
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Jackie, Ethel, Joan: The Women of Camelot 2001 TV, 170 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Jackie, Ethel, Joan: The Kennedy Women
Director: Larry Shaw
Cast: Jill Hennessy, Lauren Holly, Leslie Stefanson, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Robert Knepper, Matt Letscher, Harve Presnell, Charmion King, Joy Tanner, Karl Pruner, David Eisner, Thom Christopher
In this TV miniseries, the story begins in the 1950s and follows events in the lives of the Kennedy women–Jackie (Jill Hennessy), Ethel (Lauren Holly), and Joan (Leslie Stefanson)–through marriages, politics, and widowhood and divorce.
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 Love & Sex 2000 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Valerie Breiman
Cast: Famke Janssen, Jon Favreau, Noah Emmerich, Cheri Otori, Ann Magnuson, Josh Hopkins, Robert Knepper, Vincent Ventresca, Kristen Zang, David Steinberg
Flashbacks predominate as Monique magazine journalist Kate Welles (Famke Janssen) tackles an assignment on sex, love, and the modern woman. She is expected to draw on her own life experiences, but the problem is that Kate has few equals in her inability to form relationships with her loser boyfriends. Then Adam (Jon Favreau) enters the picture; they fall in love; Adam gets bored; he leaves. Now, too late, he realizes he has made a mistake.
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Renegades 1989 R, 105 min.
Genre: Action / Drama
Director: Jack Sholder
Cast: Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Jami Gertz, Robert Knepper, Bill Smitrovich, Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman, Clark Johnson, Peter MacNeill, Joseph Griffin, John Di Benedetto, Kyra Harper, Joseph Hieu, Tom Butler, Jack Blum, Paul Butler
After Marino's (Robert Knepper) gang steals a valuable Native American spear during a diamond heist, undercover cop Buster McHenry (Kiefer Sutherland) and Lakota Indian Hank Storm (Lou Diamond Phillips) join forces and learn to work together to put an end to Marino's gang. In the process of breaking up the city's huge crime ring, they uncover police corruption. Filled with adventure and violence.
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Search and Destroy 1995 R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: David Salle
Cast: Griffin Dunne, Illeana Douglas, Dennis Hopper, Christopher Walken, John Turturro, Robert Knepper, Martin Scorsese, Rosanna Arquette, Tahnee Welch, Ethan Hawke
An enterprising (albeit inept) businessman (Griffin Dunne) plans to make money by turning an evangelist's (Dennis Hopper) book into a movie, but nothing seems to go right.
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Species III 2004  R, 110 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Brad Turner
Cast: Robin Dunne, Robert Knepper, Sunny Mabrey, Amelia Cooke, John Paul Pitoc, Michael Warren, Christopher Neame, Patricia Bethune, Joel Stoffer, Natasha Henstridge
This third episode of the series, a direct-to-video/DVD, picks up where "Species II" left off. Presumably dead Eve (Natasha Henstridge) gives birth to a baby, Sara (Sunny Mabrey), who is a genetically perfect specimen. Scientist Dean (Robert Dunne) has his own agenda: he kidnaps the girl. But there are many out there who want her. And the mediocrity continues.
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That's Life! 1986 PG-13, 102 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Blake Edwards
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Julie Andrews, Sally Kellerman, Robert Loggia, Jennifer Edwards, Robert Knepper, Chris Lemmon, Felicia Farr, Nicky Blair, Biff Elliot
In just one weekend, a married couple (Jack Lemmon and Julie Andrews) face a 60th birthday, sexual impotency, a cancer biopsy, and becoming grandparents. There is humor in the pathos, and Lemmon puts on another good performance.
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Transporter 3 2008 PG-13, 103 min.
Genre: Action / Thriller
Director: Olivier Megaton
Cast: Jason Statham, Natalya Rudakova, Francois Berleand, Jeroen Krabbe, Robert Knepper, Alex Kobold, David Atrakchi, Yann Sundberg, Eriq Ebouaney, David Kammenos, Silvio Simac, Oscar Relier, Timo Dierkes, Paul Barrett, Igor Koumpan
Transporter-for-hire Frank (Jason Stratham) is back, and this time he has been pressured to keep Valentina (Natalya Rudakova) safe. She has been kidnapped, and Frank travels across Europe escaping a number of life-threatening situations with Valentina in tow while awaiting the delivery of the ransom.
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When the Bough Breaks 1993 R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Michael Cohn
Cast: Ally Walker, Martin Sheen, Ron Perlman, Tara Subkoff, Robert Knepper, Scott Lawrence, John P. Connolly, Dick Welsbacher, James Medina, Julianna McCarthy
Police forensic expert Audrey Macleah (Ally Walker) investigates the serial killing of children, which included severed hands. The trail leads to an institutionalized teen, Jordan (Tara Subkoff), a selective mute who had been abandoned as a child. Through Jordan, the terrible truth emerges.
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Where the Day Takes You 1992 R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Marc Rocco
Cast: Dermot Mulroney, Lara Flynn Boyle, Balthazar Getty, Sean Astin, James LeGros, Ricki Lake, Will Smith, Peter Dobson, Stephen Tobolowsky, Robert Knepper, Adam Baldwin, Laura San Giacomo, Kyle MacLachlan, Nancy McKeon, Rachel Ticotin
Los Angeles street hustler King (Dermot Mulroney) acts as a father figure for a group of runaways–including gay prostitute Little J (Balthazar Getty), Heather (Lara Flynn Boyle), and drug addict Greg (Sean Astin). But, even though King tries to come to their aid, violence through drugs and prostitution is the norm for these teens, and tragic consequences ensue.
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 Young Guns II 1990 R, 104 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Geoff Murphy
Cast: Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christian Slater, William Petersen, Alan Ruck, R.D. Call, James Coburn, Balthazar Getty, Jack Kehoe, Robert Knepper, Viggo Mortensen, Tom Kurlander, Leon Rippy, Tracey Walter
Young teen idols make up much of the cast of this oft-told tale of Billy the Kid (Emilio Estevez). This time, the gang is heading toward Mexico after springing two of them. Hot on the trail is Pat Garrett (William Petersen) and his deputies. Lots of shooting. Good photography and musical score add to the movie.
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| 1. Absence of the Good (1999)
2. D.O.A. (1988)
3. The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
4. Gas Food Lodging (1992)
5. Hitman (2007)
6. Hostage (2005)
7. Jackie, Ethel, Joan: The Women of Camelot (2001)
aka: Jackie, Ethel, Joan: The Kennedy Women
8. Love & Sex (2000)
9. Renegades (1989)
10. Search and Destroy (1995)
11. Species III (2004)
12. That's Life! (1986)
13. Transporter 3 (2008)
14. When the Bough Breaks (1993)
15. Where the Day Takes You (1992)
16. Wild Thing (1987)
17. Young Guns II (1990)
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