 Air Bud 1997  PG, 98 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy / Drama
Director: Charles Martin Smith
Cast: Michael Jeter, Kevin Zegers, Wendy Makkena, Bill Cobbs, Eric Christmas, Brendan Fletcher, Norman Browning, Jay Brazeau, Shayn Solberg, Nicola Cavendish, Stephen E. Miller, Frank C. Turner
Josh (Kevin Zegers) is suffering emotionally after his father's death and has now been placed in a new school. One day, he finds an abandoned Golden Retriever, Buddy. It turns out that Buddy can shoot hoops, and since Josh wants to try out for the school basketball team, Buddy can help him practice. Josh makes the team, and he and Buddy perform at half-time. Buddy is a hit with the media, which is good IF the notoriety does not cause his previous owner Norm Snively (Michael Jeter) to reclaim him and cash in on his celebrity status.
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Dead and Alive: The Race for Gus Farace 1991  R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Mob Justice
Director: Peter Markle
Cast: Tony Danza, Ted Levine, Dan Lauria, Frank Vincent, Joe Lisi, James Rebhorn, Nicholas Turturro, Samuel L. Jackson, Caroline Aaron, Leonardo Cimino, Wendy Makkena, Kevin Corrigan
Gus Farace (Tony Danza) is a small-time gangster by night and a trusted member of a mob family by day. After he kills a cop (Samuel L. Jackson), both the police and, at police request, the mob are after Gus. But Gus still has friends in the mob that may help. As expected, the film heads to the inevitable showdown. Originally made for TV.
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Finding North 1998 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Tanya Wexler
Cast: Wendy Makkena, John Benjamin Hickey, Jonathan Walker, Anne Bobby, Rebecca Creskoff, Angela Pietropinto, Freddie Roman, Molly McClure, Jay Michaelson, Yusef Bulos
Looking for love in all the wrong places, two down-and-out companions–Rhonda Portelli (Wendy Makkena) and Travis Furlong (John Benjamin Hickey)–travel to Texas where Travis' late lover, Bobby (Voice of Jonathan Walker) was raised. Rhonda slowly realizes that Travis is not going to be her "Knight in Shining Armor."
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Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Sto 1995 TV, 91 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Korty
Cast: Glenn Close, Judy Davis, Jan Rubes, Wendy Makkena, Susan Barnes, William Converse-Roberts, William Allen Young, Kevin McNulty, Vic Polizos, Molly Parker
Glen Close takes on the role of Margarethe Cammermeyer in this true story of Cammermeyer's legal fight to prevent the U.S. Army from discharging her when her status as a homosexual was revealed. Close won an Emmy for her role in this film, and costar Judy Davis also was awarded the Emmy for her depiction of Cammermeyer's lover, Diane.
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Sister Act 1992  PG, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Emile Ardolino
Cast: Whoopi Goldberg, Maggie Smith, Kathy Najimy, Wendy Makkena, Mary Wickes, Harvey Keitel, Bill Nunn, Richard Portnow, Joseph Maher, Robert Miranda, David M. Parker
When placed in the Witness Protection Program, Delores (Whoopi Goldberg) is shocked to learn that she will be hiding in a convent. Although she has problems with the Mother Superior (Maggie Smith), Delores forms a great relationship with the students and nuns around her.
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 Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit 1993 PG, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Bill Duke
Cast: Whoopi Goldberg, Kathy Najimy, Barnard Hughes, Mary Wickes, James Coburn, Michael Jeter, Wendy Makkena, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Maggie Smith, Brad Sullivan
"Sister Mary Clarence" (Whoopi Goldberg) returns to the San Francisco convent when her friends, the convent sisters, need help with the high-school choir.
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| 1. Air Bud (1997)
2. Dead and Alive: The Race for Gus Farace (1991)
aka: Mob Justice
3. Finding North (1998)
4. Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Sto (1995)
5. Sister Act (1992)
6. Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993)
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