 All the King's Men 2006  PG-13, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Steven Zaillian
Cast: Sean Penn, Jude Law, Anthony Hopkins, Kate Winslet, Mark Ruffalo, Patricia Clarkson, James Gandolfini, Jackie Earle Haley, Kathy Baker, Talia Balsam, Frederic Forrest, Kevin Dunn, Thomas McCarthy
This film is based on Robert Penn Warren's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, which was a thinly veiled depiction of Louisiana Governor Huey Long's rise and fall in politics. This "governor of the people" is Willie Stark (Sean Penn) who begins his career as an idealist but uses corruption to obtain his goals. Stark's methods lead to his eventual downfall.
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Camp Stories 1997 PG, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Herbert Beigel
Cast: Elliott Gould, Jerry Stiller, Paul Sand, Zachary Taylor, Ted Marcoux, Talia Balsam, Susan Vanech, Chris Park, Brett Barsky, Jason Biggs, Andrew Barlow, Ben Shenkman
Against his wishes, David Katz (Zachary Taylor) is sent to summer camp where he rebels in the midst of a power struggle between two counselors, Moishe (Phil Sand) and Chaim (Ted Marcoux). Some funny moments.
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Crawlspace 1986  R, 82 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: David Schmoeller
Cast: Klaus Kinski, Talia Balsam, Barbara Whinney, Sally Brown, Carol Ann Francis, Tane McClure, Jack Heller, David Abbott, Kenneth Robert Shippy, David Schmoeller
Dr. Karl Gunther (Klaus Kinski), the son of a Nazi war criminal, runs a boarding house for young women. He is also into torture and murder, and his house is filled with secret crawlspaces that allow him to spy on his boarders before murdering them. To show how bad off he is, he plays a game of Russian Roulette after each killing to reinforce in his mind that he is doing right. Things heat up when a Nazi hunter enters the picture. Creepy.
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In the Mood 1987 PG-13, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Phil Alden Robinson
Cast: Patrick Dempsey, Beverly D'Angelo, Talia Balsam, Michael Constantine, Betty Jinette, Kathleen Freeman, Peter Hobbs, Tony Longo, Brian McNamara
The premise for this movie was good, the movie wasn't. It is about a teenager who marries older women and becomes a media star.
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Mass Appeal 1984  PG, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Glenn Jordan
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Zeljko Ivanek, Charles Durning, Louise Latham, Talia Balsam, James Ray, Alice Hirson, Helene Heigh, Jerry Hardin, Gloria Stuart
An idealistic seminarian, Mark Dolson (Zeljko Ivanek), does not listen to the advice of Father Farley (Jack Lemmon) and delivers a sermon that is spurned by the parishioners. This brings on concern by church officials that Dolson will not make it as a good priest, but Father Farley comes to his aid. From a Broadway play.
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Wackness 2008  R
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Jonathan Levine
Cast: Ben Kingsley, Famke Janssen, Josh Peck, Olivia Thirlby, Mary-Kate Olsen, Jane Adams, Method Man, Aaron Yoo, Talia Balsam, David Wohl, Bob Dishy, Joanna Merlin, Shannon Briggs
It is the summer of 1994 on Manhattan's Upper East Side, and Luke (Josh Peck) has just graduated from high school but is continuing his drug dealing activities before heading off to college. He is seeing a psychiatrist, Dr. Squires (Ben Kingsley)–a pot smoker–who trades therapy sessions with Luke for bags of weeds. When Luke tells Dr. Squires that he is depressed, Dr. Squires tells him to go out with a girl, get high, and have sex. What Dr. Squires does not know is that Luke has a crush on Stephanie (Olivia Thirlby) who just happens to be Dr. Squires' daughter.
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| 1. All the King's Men (2006)
2. Camp Stories (1997)
3. Consenting Adults (1985)
4. Crawlspace (1986)
5. In the Mood (1987)
6. The Kindred (1987)
7. Mass Appeal (1984)
8. OHMS (1980)
9. Wackness (2008)
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