Heartbreak Ridge 1986  R, 126 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Comedy
Director: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Marsha Mason, Everett McGill, Bo Svenson, Mario Van Peebles, Moses Gunn, Eileen Heckart, Arlen Dean Snyder, Boyd Gaines, Rodney Hill, Vincent Inzarry, Ramon Franco, Peter Koch, Tom Villard, Mike Gomez
Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Highway (Clint Eastwood) lacks respect for his seniors and is ending his career in the Marine Corps. He is transferred back to his old unit, and, under his teachings, turns his young unit into "a few good Men." Meanwhile, Highway works to win back the love of his ex-wife Aggie (Marsha Mason) from whom he has spent many years away from while serving in the Marine Corps.
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My Girl 1991 PG, 102 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Howard Zieff
Cast: Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Macaulay Culkin, Anna Chlumsky, Richard Masur, Griffin Dunne, Ann Nelson, Peter Michael Goetz, Jane Hallaren, Anthony R. Jones, Tom Villard, Lara Steinick, Kristian Truelsen, David Caprita, Jody Wilson
Eleven-year-old Vada (Anna Chlumsky) worries about her own responsibility for her mother's death during childbirth and reaches out for attention from her estranged father Harry (Dan Aykroyd) who runs a funeral parlor. When Harry starts dating Shelly (Jamie Lee Curtis), a cosmetologist who works in the funeral parlor, Vada tries to stop the romance. Meanwhile, her only friend Thomas (Macaulay Culkin) gives her comfort, but that ends when frail Thomas suffers a fatal injury after being attacked by bees. Now, Vada's preoccupation with death is accelerated. A sequel follows.
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One Crazy Summer 1986 PG, 94 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Savage Steve Holland
Cast: John Cusack, Demi Moore, Bob Goldthwait, Curtis Armstrong, Joel Murray, Tom Villard, William Hickey, Joe Flaherty, Linda Warren, Grenville Cuyler, Kristen Goelz, Taylor Negron, Laura Waterbury, Jeremy Piven, John Matuszak
After graduating from high school, aspiring cartoonist Hoops McCann (John Cusack) spends the summer before college vacationing with his friend George (Joel Murray) on Nantucket where he plans to write a cartoon love story. While traveling to Nantucket, they pick up Cassandra (Demi Moore) who is on her way to her grandfather's funeral. When Cassandra learns that her grandfather's home is going to be turned into a lobster restaurant, Hoops and George, along with their friends Ack Ack (Curtis Armstrong) and the Stork twins (Bob Goldthwait and Tom Villard), come up with a plan to save the home. As the story progresses, occasional cartoon sequences fill the screen illustrating what is going on. Sequel to "Better Off Dead."
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Parasite 1982  R, 95 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Charles Band
Cast: Robert Glaudini, Demi Moore, Luca Bercovici, James Davidson, Al Fann, Tom Villard, Scott Thomson, Cherie Currie, Vivian Blaine, James Cavan
Originally shown in 3-D, this rip-off of "Alien" and others is set in the near future, and the U.S. is now a grim military state. Scientist Paul Dean (Robert Glaudini) has created a parasite, which grows in one's body until it is big enough to get out and find another donor. Dean's research has caused him to have one in his own body that he is able to get out, but it gets loose and raises havoc throughout the countryside. As gory as it is bad. Demi Moore plays his friend in her second film.
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| 1. Heartbreak Ridge (1986)
2. My Girl (1991)
3. One Crazy Summer (1986)
4. Parasite (1982)
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