F/X 1986  R, 110 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Robert Mandel
Cast: Bryan Brown, Brian Dennehy, Diane Venora, Cliff De Young, Mason Adams, Jerry Orbach, Joe Grifasi, Trey Wilson, Tom Noonan, Martha Gehman
A member of the mob wants to go underground and the Justice Department arranges a fake assassination so he can enter the Witness Relocation Program. Rollie Tyler (Bryan Brown) is hired to do the dastardly deed, but he is double-crossed and now must run for his life.
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 Independence Day 1983  R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Follow Your Dreams
Director: Robert Mandel
Cast: Kathleen Quinlan, David Keith, Frances Sternhagen, Cliff De Young, Dianne Wiest, Josef Sommer, Bert Remsen, Richard Farnsworth, Noble Willingham, Brooke Alderson
Young photographer Mary Ann Taylor (Kathleen Quinlan) dreams of making it big but must decide between her career and her love for Jack Parker (David Keith), an auto mechanic with different dreams.
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Perfect Witness 1989  R, 104 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Mandel
Cast: Brian Dennehy, Aidan Quinn, Stockard Channing, Laura Harrington, Joe Grifasi, Delroy Lindo, Ken Pogue, Markus Flanagan, David Margulies, Colm Meaney
An honest family man (Aidan Quinn) witnesses an execution by the mob. Doing the right thing, he reports what he saw to the authorities. After receiving frightening threats, he decides not to testify and is put in jail for perjury. Made for HBO.
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School Ties 1992 PG-13, 107 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Mandel
Cast: Brendan Fraser, Matt Damon, Chris O'Donnell, Randall Batinkoff, Ben Affleck, Anthony Rapp, Amy Locane, Peter Donat, Kevin Tighe, Zeljko Ivanek, Andrew Lowery, Cole Hauser, Ed Lauter, Michael Higgins, Peter McRobbie
David Greene (Brendan Fraser) is a 1950s' high-school student who wants to attend an Ivy League university. After he wins a football scholarship to a snooty New England prep school that will ensure his entrance into an Ivy League school, David keeps the fact that he is Jewish a secret in an effort to fit in with his schoolmates and avoid anti-Semitism. David does become a star player, but when classmate Charlie Dillon (Matt Damon)–who has lost both his football position and girlfriend Sally (Amy Locane) to David–learns David's secret, he tells others. Now David must deal with the religious intolerance at his WASP prep school if he wants to keep his dream alive.
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The Substitute 1996  R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Mandel
Cast: Tom Berenger, Ernie Hudson, Diane Venora, Glenn Plummer, Marc Anthony, Raymond Cruz, William Forsythe, Luis Guzman, Richard(2) Brooks, Sharron Corley
Shale (Tom Berenger) is a mercenary soldier who returns to the United States and visits Jane (Diane Venora), a high-school teacher he befriended in Latin America. When he finds her school is dominated by thugs, Shale comes to her aid and goes undercover as a teacher to break up a cocaine ring operating out of the school.
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Touch and Go 1986 R, 101 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Robert Mandel
Cast: Michael Keaton, Maria Conchita Alonso, Ajay Naidu, Maria Tucci, Max Wright, Lara Jill Miller, Ian Hendry, Michael Zelniker, Jere Burns, D.V. DeVincentis
Michael Keaton plays a hockey star who is stopped one night by a group of muggers. The "front" for the muggers happens to be an 11-year-old boy (Ajay Naidu). After fending off the attackers, Keaton takes the 11 year-old home to his mother (Maria Conchita Alonso) and romance blossoms with the mother.
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| 1. F/X (1986)
2. Independence Day (1983)
aka: Follow Your Dreams
3. Perfect Witness (1989)
4. School Ties (1992)
5. The Substitute (1996)
6. Touch and Go (1986)
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