Can't Buy Me Love 1987   PG-13, 94 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Steve Rash
Cast: Patrick Dempsey, Amanda Peterson, Courtney Gains, Tina Caspary, Seth Green, Sharon Farrell, Darcy DeMoss, Dennis Dugan, Max Perlich, Steve Franken
A nerd is transformed into a popular "stud" and learns that he prefers his life as a "nerd". Not many laughs in this very forgettable movie.
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Dish Dogs 1998 R, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Robert Kubilos
Cast: Sean Astin, Matthew Lillard, Brian Dennehy, Maitland Ward, Shannon Elizabeth, Richard Moll, David Harris, Steven Martini, E.J. Callahan, Steve Franken
Two college grads hit the road–washing dishes to make enough money to keep going. Their quest: no responsibility, but philosophers of life. Then, at a wedding of a friend, each must contemplate his own way of life. No one really cares in this non-starter.
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Follow Me, Boys! 1966  N/R, 131 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Norman Tokar
Cast: Fred MacMurray, Vera Miles, Lillian Gish, Charles Ruggles, Elliott Reid, Kurt Russell, Luana Patten, Sean McClory, Steve Franken, Parley Baer
Musician Lemuel Siddons (Fred MacMurray) decides to stop traveling, settle down in a small town, and dedicate himself to a troop of young Boy Scouts. Disney.
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Freeway 1988  R, 91 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Francis Delia
Cast: Darlanne Fluegel, James Russo, Billy Drago, Richard Belzer, Michael Callan, Joe Palese, Kenneth Tobey, Steve Franken, Brian Kaiser, Julianne Dallara
Los Angeles freeway shootings in the 1980s provided the storyline for this low budget film. Psychotic sniper Edward Heller (Billy Drago) randomly shoots motorists on the freeway and then provides clues to radio psychiatrist Sunny Harper (Darlanne Fluegel) to show up the authorities who are trying to solve the case.
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It Happened at Lakewood Manor 1977 TV, 100 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: Ants!
Panic at Lakewood Manor
Director: Robert Scheerer
Cast: Suzanne Somers, Robert Foxworth, Myrna Loy, Lynda Day George, Gerald Gordon, Brian Dennehy, Stacy Keach Sr., Bernie Casey, Karen Lamm, Anita Gillette, Barry Van Dyke, Moosie Drier, Steve Franken, Bruce French
In this made-for-TV story, a lakeside hotel is attacked by an organized ant colony that appears determined to dine on the celebrity guests staying at the hotel.
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The Missouri Breaks 1976   PG, 126 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Arthur Penn
Cast: Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Lloyd, Randy Quaid, Frederic Forrest, Harry Dean Stanton, John McLiam, John P. Ryan, Sam Gilman, Steve Franken, Richard Bradford, Luana Anders
Rancher David Braxton (John McLiam) hires Lee Clayton (Marlon Brando) to hunt down horse thieves. Using costumes and other ruses, Clayton begins to kill off the rustlers. But, following the hanging of a horse rustler, war breaks out between the ranchers and horse thieves with Tom Logan (Jack Nicholson) leading the remaining horse thieves–and he is not going to give up. 1 User Review
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The Pandora Project 1998 R, 90 min.
Genre: Action / Thriller
Director: John Terlesky, Jim Wynorski
Cast: Daniel Baldwin, Erika Eleniak, Richard Tyson, Tony Todd, Jeff Yagher, Bo Jackson, Robert Hegyes, Steve Franken, Richard Tanner, Mark Adair-Rios, Rolando Molina, Mimi Cozzens
CIA agent Captain John Lacy (Daniel Baldwin) is scheduled to be married to Wendy (Erika Eleniak) in a week and hopes to finish his new assignment before then. Now, he has only a few days to find and retrieve a deadly radioactive weapon that his former associate has stolen.
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Panic in the City 1967 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Eddie Davis
Cast: Howard Duff, Stephen McNally, Dennis Hopper, Linda Cristal, Nehemiah Persoff, Anne Jeffreys, Steve Franken, James Seay, Eddie Firestone, Stanley Clements
This so-so drama stars Howard Duff as a government agent who stops the detonation of a bomb in LA that could start World War III.
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The Reincarnaton of Peter Proud 1975 R, 104 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Cast: Michael Sarrazin, Jennifer O'Neill, Margot Kidder, Cornelia Sharpe, Paul Hecht, Tony Stephano, Anne Ives, Norman Burton, Fred Stuthman, Steve Franken
Professor Peter Proud (Michael Sarrazin) senses that he met a violent end in a previous life. Now, flashbacks draw him to a suburban town in Massachusetts where terror awaits.
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Restraining Order 1999 95 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
Director: Lee H. Katzin
Cast: Eric Roberts, Hannes Jaenicke, Dean Stockwell, Tatjana Patitz, Kevin Dobson, Steve Franken, Franc Luz, Rif Hutton, Sondra Spriggs, Kenny Blank, Natalia Nogulich, James Antonio
Criminal attorney Robert Woodfield (Eric Roberts) successfully defends Martin Ritter (Hannes Jaenicke), and he is set free. But later, while dining with his friend Jerry (Steve Franken), Robert witnesses masked men entering the room and killing Jerry. One killer takes off his mask, and it is Martin Ritter. Robert decides to perform his own investigation, and it doesn't take long before Robert and his wife Leigh (Tatjana Patitz) find themselves caught in the middle of a world filled with blackmail, lies, and corruption.
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Westworld 1973  PG, 90 min.
Genre: Action / Sci-Fi / Western
Director: Michael Crichton
Cast: Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin, James Brolin, Victoria Shaw, Norman Bartold, Alan Oppenheimer, Dick Van Patten, Steve Franken, Linda Gaye Scott, Terry Wilson, Majel Barrett, Ann Bellamy, Wade Crosby, Chris Holter, Jared Martin
Gunslinger (Yul Brynner) works at a fantasy resort filled with robots, Westworld, where dreams can come true. Enter two 21st-century men–Martin and Blane (Richard Benjamin and James Brolin)–who dream of living back in the Wild West. Their fantasies reach the realm of reality when the robot Gunslinger stalks them.
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| 1. Avalanche (1978)
2. Can't Buy Me Love (1987)
3. Dish Dogs (1998)
4. The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980)
5. Follow Me, Boys! (1966)
6. Freeway (1988)
7. Hardly Working (1981)
8. It Happened at Lakewood Manor (1977)
aka: Ants!
aka: Panic at Lakewood Manor
9. The Missouri Breaks (1976)
10. The Pandora Project (1998)
11. Panic in the City (1967)
12. The Party (1968)
13. The Reincarnaton of Peter Proud (1975)
14. Restraining Order (1999)
15. Westworld (1973)
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