Breakdown 1997  R, 96 min.
Genre: Action / Thriller / Drama
Director: Jonathan Mostow
Cast: Kurt Russell, J.T. Walsh, Kathleen Quinlan, M.C. Gainey, Jack Noseworthy, Rex Linn, Ritch Brinkley, Moira Harris, Kim Robillard, Thomas Kopache, Vincent Berry, Helen Duffy, Jack McGee, Ancel Cook, Gene Hartline
Jeff and Amy Taylor (Kurt Russell and Kathleen Quinlan) leave Massachusetts to embark on a cross-country trip. Their new Jeep breaks down in a Southwest desert, and Amy accepts a ride from truck driver Red Barr (J.T. Walsh) who offers to take her to a diner where she can call for help. Jeff manages to fix the Jeep, but Amy has not returned. After driving to the diner, Jeff meets Red who claims that he never saw Amy. Jeff files a missing person's report and learns that there are others who have disappeared while traveling that stretch of desert. Now, the question is: Who can Jeff trust?
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 Leaving Las Vegas 1995  R, 112 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Mike Figgis
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue, Julian Sands, Richard Lewis, Steven Weber, Kim Adams, Laurie Metcalf, R. Lee Ermey, Valeria Golino, Xander Berkeley, Emily Procter, Stuart Regen, Graham Beckel, Carey Lowell, Thomas Kopache
This is a haunting love story about alcoholic Ben Sanderson (Nicolas Cage) who is bent on drinking himself to death in Las Vegas when he meets Sera (Elisabeth Shue), a troubled prostitute. Clinging to each other in their platonic relationship, they both move beyond their desperate selves into a somewhat better place. An American tragedy. Nicolas Cage won an Academy Award for Best Actor, and three other nominations were received, including Best Director and Actress (Shue).
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Liebestraum 1991  R, 109 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Mike Figgis
Cast: Kevin Anderson, Pamela Gidley, Bill Pullman, Kim Novak, Graham Beckel, Zach Grenier, Thomas Kopache, Taina Elg, Max Perlich, Catherine Hicks
Nick (Kevin Anderson) is called back to his hometown by his dying mother (Kim Novak). Thus begins the story of an old scandal, his own affair with his boyhood friend's wife, and other brooding moments. While director Figgis does his usual great job of presenting his story beautifully, the story itself is not all that good in this instance.
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Star Trek: Generations 1994 PG, 110 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi / Action / Mystery / Thriller
Director: David Carson
Cast: Patrick Stewart, William Shatner, Malcolm McDowell, Whoopi Goldberg, Brent Spiner, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, Alan Ruck, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Jenette Goldstein, Thomas Kopache
Retired officers James T. Kirk (William Shatner), "Scotty" Scott (James Doohan), and Pavel Chekov (Walter Koenig) are guests on the maiden voyage of Enterprise-B when disaster strikes. Kirk is presumed dead, but he is really trapped in the Nexus purgatory. Now, 78-years later, Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and the crew of Enterprise-D rescue Dr. Soran (Malcolm McDowell) who, unknown to Picard, is plotting to destroy the world. When Picard realizes that Soran presents a real danger, he convinces Kirk to leave his comfort zone in purgatory and come to his aid. This is a milestone film in that two generations of starship officers, Kirk and Picard, work together to stop an alien from destroying the universe.
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Stigmata 1999   R, 102 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Rupert Wainwright
Cast: Patricia Arquette, Gabriel Byrne, Jonathan Pryce, Nia Long, Thomas Kopache, Rade Serbedzija, Enrico Colantoni, Dick Latessa, Portia de Rossi, Ann Cusack
Frankie Paige's (Patricia Arquette) grandmother sent her a rosary from Brazil, and soon after Frankie suffers from puncture wounds in both wrists. Then other wounds appear, and word spreads to Rome. The Vatican sends an investigator of miracles, Father Andrew Kiernan (Gabriel Byrne) to look into the matter, and as more evidence comes to light, he begins to suspect a diabolical phenomenon is taking place. 1 User Review
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| | A truly regrettable film. | 1fatts 04/09/2007 | This is a film that pretty much wastes everyone who is associated with it.
The plot has holes you could drive a truck through if you were interested enough to waste the gas. I'm not a Christian, but I know enough about basic doctrine to know that they have the religious perspectives on this pretty much wrong in almost every way. The actors say and do silly things as well as they can, but they are still silly things.
It's one of those films where you kind of wonder what get into all these people to get involved with such a thing in the first place. |
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| 1. Breakdown (1997)
2. Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
3. Liebestraum (1991)
4. Star Trek: Generations (1994)
5. Stigmata (1999)
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