 Auto Focus 2002  R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Paul Schrader
Cast: Greg Kinnear, Willem Dafoe, Maria Bello, Rita Wilson, Ron Leibman, Bruce Solomon, Michael E. Rodgers, Kurt Fuller, Christopher Neiman, Lyle Kanouse, Ed Begley Jr., Michael McKean
This story involves the rise and fall of radio/TV star Bob Crane (Greg Kinnear) who gained fame only to take a down-hill journey, which began when he met sleazy, video technician John Carpenter (Willem Dafoe), continues through an addiction to sex, and ends, eventually, with Crane's murder. Carpenter was tried, and acquitted, for the still-unsolved murder.
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 Dummy 2003  R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Greg Pritikin
Cast: Adrien Brody, Milla Jovovich, Illeana Douglas, Vera Farmiga, Jessica Walter, Ron Leibman, Jared Harris, Mirabella Pisani, Helen Hanft, Richmond Hoxie, Adam LeFevre, Poppi Kramer, Joanne Bayes, John Elsen, Tom Plotkin
Although it has been 10 years since his high-school graduation, Steven (Adrien Brody) still lives at his dysfunctional family's home. Jobless, he spends time as a ventriloquist talking to his dummy. His only friend, Fangora (Milla Jovovich), wants to be a punk rocker. But, together they join in self-discoveries about their roles in life and attain more than once was thought possible.
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 Garden State 2004 R, 109 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Zach Braff
Cast: Zach Braff, Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Ian Holm, Ron Leibman, Jean Smart, Armando Riesco, Method Man, Denis O'Hare, Jackie Hoffman, Ann Dowd, Debbon Ayer, Alex Burns, George C. Wolfe, Michael Weston
Long estranged from his family, Andrew (Zach Braff) returns home for his mother's funeral where he must deal with relatives and friends he knew in high school. Ever since he caused the accident that paralyzed his mother (Andrew was nine years old at the time), Andrew has been taking anti-depressants, prescribed by his psychiatrist father (Ian Holm). While home for the funeral, Andrew gets rid of his meds and falls in love with Sam (Natalie Portman).
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The Hot Rock 1972 PG, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Peter Yates
Cast: Robert Redford, George Segal, Ron Leibman, Paul Sand, Zero Mostel, William Redford, Moses Gunn, Charlotte Rae, Graham Jarvis, Harry Bellaver
John Dortmunder (Robert Redford) and Kelp (George Segal) plan a jewelry heist that does NOT go off as planned in this entertaining comedy/suspense film.
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Just the Ticket 1999  R, 115 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Richard Wenk
Cast: Andy Garcia, Andie MacDowell, Richard Bradford, Andre B. Blake, Elizabeth Ashley, Patrick Breen, Fred Asparagus, Laura Harris, Ron Leibman, Chris Lemmon
Gary Starke (Andy Garcia) is part of the unglamorous world of scalpers always on the lookout for a big deal. He thinks he has found the chance of a lifetime: scalping tickets for the Pope's visit. Unfortunately, too many sub-plots bog down the storyline in this not-very-entertaining offering.
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Night Falls on Manhattan 1997  R, 114 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Sidney Lumet
Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Andy Garcia, Lena Olin, Ian Holm, Ron Leibman, James Gandolfini, Colm Feore, Shiek Mahmud-Bey, Dominic Chianese, Paul(2) Guilfoyle, Richard Bright
This film adaptation of former N.Y.C. police commissioner Robert Daley's novel, "Tainted Evidence," involves police corruption that implicates the district attorney's father.
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Norma Rae 1979 PG, 113 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Martin Ritt
Cast: Sally Field, Ron Leibman, Beau Bridges, Pat Hingle, Barbara Baxley, Gail Strickland, Morgan Paull, Noble Willingham, Lonny Chapman, John Calvin, Robert Broyles, Booth Colman, Lee de Broux, James Luisi, Vernon Weddle
With encouragement from New York union organizer Ruben (Ron Leibman), Southern textile worker Norma Rae (Sally Field) tries to unionize her work place. Problems arise at home because Norma Rae's husband, Sonny (Beau Bridges), becomes jealous and suspects a romance is taking place between Norma Rae and Ruben. Based on a true story. Sally Field won the Oscar for Best Actress, and an Oscar was also won for Best Song ("It Goes Like It Goes"). The film was nominated for Best Picture.
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 Phar Lap 1983  PG, 108 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Simon Wincer
Cast: Tom Burlinson, Martin Vaughan, Judy Morris, Ron Leibman, Vincent Ball, Celia de Burgh, Richard Morgan
Phar Lap was a magnificent Australian racehorse, a leader in thoroughbred racing in the 1920s. This is the story of the triumphs and tragedies on the racing circuit. 2 User Reviews
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| | built from a slow film into afst and very exciting film | charlie 07/08/2007 | | iand my whole family werein floods of tears during this very mooving fiklm right to the end |
| | avery slow film to start but what a finish | charlkie 07/08/2007 | | credits go thefine actors and actresess and horses in this fantasticly made movies especselly from the scottish peoplev who watched this superb film superbe ****** |
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Rhinestone 1984  PG, 111 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Bob Clark
Cast: Dolly Parton, Sylvester Stallone, Richard Farnsworth, Ron Leibman, Tim Thomerson, Stephen Apostle Pec, Penny Santon, Russell Buchanan, Ritch Brinkley, Jerry Potter
Dolly Parton plays a singer who bets she can take anyone and turn him or her into a country singing star in two weeks. She runs into a New York cab driver (Sylvester Stallone), and he turns out to be more than a handful of trouble for her goal. Good duo, terrible movie.
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Romantic Comedy 1983 PG, 102 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Arthur Hiller
Cast: Dudley Moore, Mary Steenburgen, Frances Sternhagen, Janet Eilber, Robyn Douglass, Ron Leibman, Rozlika Halmos, Alexander Lockwood, Erica Hiller, Sean Patrick Guerin
Will they, or won't they? Playwrights Jason (Dudley Moore) and Phoebe (Mary Steenburgen) work well together professionally, but their personal feelings for each other cannot seem to grow beyond the platonic stage. Speaking of not getting it together, this film...
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Seven Hours to Judgment 1988  R, 90 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Beau Bridges
Cast: Beau Bridges, Ron Leibman, Julianne Phillips, Tiny Ron, Al Freeman Jr., Reggie Johnson, Glenn-Michael Jones, Shawn Miller, Chris Garcia, Tony Lee Troy
David Reardon's (Ron Leibman) wife is robbed, and left for dead on the street. Judge John Eden (Beau Bridges) is assigned to the hearing of a street gang that is accused of the crime and rejects a plea from David for a delay. Finding a lack of evidence, the judge sets the gang members free. When David's wife later dies, he kidnaps the judge's wife, rigs a warehouse with booby traps and surveillance cameras to watch her, and tells the judge that he has seven hours to find the evidence to convict the gang members. Thus, the judge must hit the dangerous streets to obtain the evidence. Good grief!
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Slaughterhouse-Five 1972 R, 104 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: George Roy Hill
Cast: Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Eugene Roche, Sharon Gans, Valerie Perrine, Perry King, Kevin Conway, John Dehner, Roberts Blossom, Sorrell Booke
Kurt Vonnegut's antiwar novel is brought to the screen in this futuristic story of Billy Pilgrim (Michael Sacks) who survives Dresden's World War II fire bombings and now simultaneously lives in the past, present, and future.
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The Super Cops 1974  R, 95 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Gordon Parks
Cast: Ron Leibman, David Selby, Sheila Frazier, Pat Hingle, Dan Frazer, Joseph Sirola, Amy Freeman, Bernard Kates, Alex Colon, Charles Turner, Ralph Wilcox, Al Fann
This action film is based on the true story of two NYC policemen (Ron Leibman and David Selby)–known as "Batman & Robin"–who patrolled the streets of Bedford-Stuyvesant on the trail of dope dealers.
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Up the Academy 1980 R, 88 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Robert Downey Sr.
Cast: Ron Leibman, Wendell Brown, Ralph Macchio, Tommy Citera, Tom Poston, Robert Downey Jr., Ian Wolfe, Barbara Bach, Stacy Nelkin, Leonard Frey
Students at the Sheldon R. Weinberg Military Academy rebel against the discipline meted out by the school's Major Vaughn Leisman (Ron Leibman).
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Where's Poppa? 1970 R, 82 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Going Ape
Director: Carl Reiner
Cast: George Segal, Ruth Gordon, Ron Leibman, Trish Van Devere, Barnard Hughes, Vincent Gardenia, Paul Sorvino, Rob Reiner, Rae Allen, Joe Keyes
This cult film involves Gordon Hocheiser's (George Segal) attempts to induce a heart attack in his nagging, senile mother (Ruth Gordon). Sick, but fun if you like that kind of humor.
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| 1. Auto Focus (2002)
2. Dummy (2003)
3. Garden State (2004)
4. The Hot Rock (1972)
5. Just the Ticket (1999)
6. Night Falls on Manhattan (1997)
7. Norma Rae (1979)
8. Phar Lap (1983)
9. Rhinestone (1984)
10. Romantic Comedy (1983)
11. Seven Hours to Judgment (1988)
12. Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)
13. The Super Cops (1974)
14. Up the Academy (1980)
15. Where's Poppa? (1970)
aka: Going Ape
16. Zorro, the Gay Blade (1981)
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