Addicted to His Love 1988 TV, 100 min. Genre: Comedy aka: Sisterhood
Director: Arthur Allan Seidelman Cast: Polly Bergen, Barry Bostwick, Colleen Camp, Hector Elizondo, Rosemary Forsyth, Erin Gray, Linda Purl, Dee Wallace, Rusty Schwimmer, Peggy Lipton
Womanizer Larry Hogan (Barry Bostwick) loves and leaves four women in this film. When the women find out about each other they decide to get even with him.
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Candyman 1992 R, 99 min. Genre: Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Thriller / Mystery
Director: Bernard Rose Cast: Virginia Madsen, Tony Todd, Xander Berkeley, Kasi Lemmons, Vanessa Williams, DeJuan Guy, Marianna Eliott, Ted Raimi, Ria Pavia, Mark Daniels, Stanley DeSantis, Kenneth A. Brown, Michael Culkin, Rusty Schwimmer, Eric Edwards
Graduate student Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen) is researching the legend of a Chicago ghostly killer called "Candyman" (Tony Todd). She goes to the housing project where a woman was killed, presumably by Candyman's evil spirit, and finds more than she bargained for. A well-produced and acted psychological thriller.
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Darkness Before Dawn 1993 TV, 95 min. Genre: Drama
Director: John(2) Patterson Cast: Meredith Baxter, Stephen Lang, Gwynyth Walsh, Chelsea Hertford, Alana Austin, Kirsten Dunst, Rusty Schwimmer, L. Scott Caldewll, Bill Applebaum, Lee Tergesen, Robert Desiderio, Richard Grove
This made-for-TV film follows the trials of a family that becomes addicted to drugs. Based on a true story.
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Highlander II: The Quickening 1991 R, 88 min. Genre: Action / Sci-Fi / Fantasy
Director: Russell Mulcahy Cast: Christopher Lambert, Virginia Madsen, Sean Connery, Michael Ironside, John C. McGinley, Allan Rich, Rusty Schwimmer, Phil Brock, Ed Trucco, Steven Grives, Jimmy Murray, Pete Antico, Peter Bromilow, Jeff Altman, Peter Bucossi
Special effects are very good in this film; however, the plot is weak. Once again, McLeod (Christopher Lambert) and his mentor, Ramirez (Sean Connery), are on Earth evading the evil dictator (Michael Ironside) who is trying to control their destinies.
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The Informant! 2009 R, 109 min. Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Steven Soderbergh Cast: Matt Damon, Lucas McHugh Carroll, Eddie Jemison, Rusty Schwimmer, Scott Bakula, Joel McHale, Tom Papa, Rick Overton, Melanie Lynskey, Thomas F. Wilson, Craig Ricci Shaynak, Scott Adsit, Ann Dowd, Allan Havey, Howie Johnson
In the early 1990s, Mark Whitacre (Matt Damon) is a rising star at the agri-business powerhouse Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) in Decatur, Illinois. After Whitacre exposes his company to a multi-national price-fixing conspiracy, the FBI needs evidence concerning the conspiracy and convinces Whitacre to wear a wire along with a tape recorder in his briefcase while attending meetings around the world. The result is one of the FBI's largest price-fixing cases, but Whitacre's own misdeeds lead to his world crashing around him, and he is convicted of price-fixing, money laundering, wire fraud, and tax fraud and sentenced to a nine-year prison term. Based on a true story.
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Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday 1993 R, 88 min. Genre: Horror / Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller aka: Friday the 13th, Part 9
Director: Adam Marcus Cast: John D. LeMay, Kari Keegan, Kane Hodder, Steven Williams, Erin Gray, Billy Green Bush, Rusty Schwimmer, Steven Culp, Richard Gant, Leslie Jordan, Kipp Marcus, Allison Smith, Andrew Bloch, Adam Cranner, Julie Michaels
After all of the "Friday the 13th" movies, the long series continues. Jason (Kane Hodder) isn't really dead, and he needs a new body, which can only be obtained through a Voorhees family member. So, back we go to the killing grounds of Camp Crystal Lake. Bounty hunter Creighton Duke (Steven Williams) thinks that Jason's next intended victim is his girlfriend Jessica because she is the sole surviving member of the Voorhees family. Creighton believes that he knows how to REALLY get rid of Jason. But does he?
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A Little Princess 1995 G, 97 min. Genre: Family / Drama / Fantasy
Director: Alfonso Cuaron Cast: Liesel Matthews, Eleanor Bron, Liam Cunningham, Rusty Schwimmer, Arthur Malet, Vanessa Lee Chester, Errol Sitahal, Vincent Schiavelli, Heather DeLoach, Taylor Fry, Darcie Bradford, Rachel Bella, Alexandra Rea-Baum, Camilla Belle, Lauren Blumenfeld
Sara Crew (Liesel Matthews) has lived with her loving father (Liam Cunningham), but now World War I interferes with her idyllic lifestyle. When her father leaves to fight in the war, Sara is sent to a New York boarding school where she encounters a mean headmistress (Eleanor Bron). When her father is reported as missing in action and presumed dead, Sarah finds herself in the position of being a servant.
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North Country 2005 R, 126 min. Genre: Drama
Director: Niki Caro Cast: Charlize Theron, Elle Peterson, Thomas Curtis, Frances McDormand, Sean Bean, Woody Harrelson, Jeremy Renner, Richard Jenkins, Sissy Spacek, James Cada, Rusty Schwimmer, Linda Emond
Very loosely based on a 1980s' legal case, this is the story of Josey Ames (Charlize Theron) who had left her husband, moved in with her parents (Richard Jenkins and Sissy Spacek), and found work in the Minnesota Iron Range. But hazing, pornographic violence, and sexual threats appear to be the order of the day for the women who are outnumbered by the men in the mines. Josie endures abuse until she hires a lawyer (Sean Bean) to sue for sexual harassment, which marked the first successful case of its kind in the United States. Charlize Theron received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress, and Frances McDormand was nominated for Best Supporting Actress.
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The Perfect Storm 2000 PG-13, 129 min. Genre: Adventure
Director: Wolfgang Petersen Cast: George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Diane Lane, John C. Reilly, William Fichtner, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Karen Allen, Bob Gunton, John Hawkes, Allen Payne, Christopher McDonald, Josh Hopkins, Dash Mihok, Cherry Jones, Rusty Schwimmer
In October, 1991, a bitter storm hit the Atlantic Ocean. The 70-foot swordfishing boat, "Andrea Gail," vanished with all aboard–including Captain Billy Tyne (George Clooney), Bobby Shatford (Mark Wahlberg), Sully Sullivan (William Fichtner), Murph Murphy (John C. Reilly), Alfred Pierre (Allen Payne), and Bugsy Moran (John Hawkes). This is the story of the "storm of the century," the ship, the crew, and the families that waited in Gloucester, Mass., for news of their men. Overpowering special effects and sound received Academy Award nominations.
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T Bone N Weasel 1992 TV, 100 min. Genre: Comedy
Director: Lewis Teague Cast: Gregory Hines, Christopher Lloyd, Ned Beatty, Larry Hankin, Graham Jarvis, Wayne Knight, Rip Torn, Rusty Schwimmer, Sam Whipple, Denise S. Bass
Ex-cons ineptly try to run a scam on some not-so-dumb local residents in this made-for-TV film based on Jon Klein's play.
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| 1. Addicted to His Love (1988) aka: Sisterhood
2. Candyman (1992)
3. Darkness Before Dawn (1993)
4. Highlander II: The Quickening (1991)
5. The Informant! (2009)
6. Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993) aka: Friday the 13th, Part 9
7. A Little Princess (1995)
8. North Country (2005)
9. The Perfect Storm (2000)
10. T Bone N Weasel (1992)
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