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1992
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Swedish director Lasse Hallstrom made his American movie debut with this romantic comedy, starring Holly Hunter as Renata...
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1991
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Set in a grim post-WW III America, this sci-fi fantasy tells the story of a woman attempting to sell black-market computer...
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1990
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1990
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Shock to the System is a black comedy about a middle-aged advertising executive (Michael Caine) who loses his long-awaited...
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1990
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The 1987 portmanteau comedy feature Amazon Women on the Moon lampoons several film genres in general and the 1954 sci-fi...
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1987
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A teenage girl learns about love, adult responsibility, and how to do The Dirty Boogie in this romantic drama. In 1963,...
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1987
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With a cast starring such comic veterans as Harvey Korman, Anne Meara, Jack Weston and Tim Conway (who also wrote the...
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1986
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Adam Swit (Raphael Sbarge) is hounded by his consumer parents in their plush L.A. home, beset by his sexually deprived...
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1986
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In this made-for-TV movie, a young Los Angeles man is killed by a drunken driver and his brother attempts to avenge his...
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1986
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1985
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Best remembered for containing the film debut of phenomenally popular comedian of the early '90s, Jim Carrey, Once Bitten is...
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1985
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In this rather blatant "all-white" derivation of the Gene Wilder-Richard Pryor starrer Stir Crazy, Christopher Lemmon and...
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1984
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In Hard to Hold, pop singer Rick Springfield is cast as an immensely successful recording artist named James Roberts. As a...
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1984
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A cross between a skin flick and a futuristic fantasy, this unfunny parody is set on a remote Pacific Island where the...
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1984
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A botched attempt to remake Jean-Luc Godard's classic nouvelle vague entry, Á Bout de souffle, Breathless follows Jesse...
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1983
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Off the Wall is a moderately funny comedy about two young men who end up in a Tennessee jail and then find romance and/or...
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1982
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Eating Raoul was celebrated at the time of its release as the perfect marriage between mainstream moviemaking and the...
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1982
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In the first episode of a two-part story, Laverne (Penny Marshall) befriends a girl named Sheba (Laraine Newman), unaware...
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1982
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Preview trailers for movies not coming to a theater near you are collected in this satiric comedy. Loose Shoes is a sketch...
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1980
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John Ritter plays an unsuccessful actor who takes a job posing as comic-book hero Captain Avenger at comics stores and...
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1980
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As in several other films with this same theme, six young men and women head out for a hike in the woods, unaware that a...
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1980
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1980
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1979
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1978
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Carmine (Eddie Mekka) has his heart set on purchasing the Marjorie Ward Dance Studio and making it his own. All he needs is...
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1978
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This lively musical comedy pays tribute to the birth of rock & roll in the late 1950s and the instrumental role played by...
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1978
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1978
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Ever in search of a surefire publicity stunt, Herb (Frank Bonner) arranges a remote WKRP broadcast from Del's Stereo and...
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1978
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Based on the story by Richard Wright, Almos' a Man stars LeVar Burton as a black teenager in the South of the 1930s. Working...
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1977
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Voter apathy in the United States is at an all-time high, and the general consensus of the American attitude is that there...
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1975
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After a series of murders in San Francisco, a homicide detective investigates to figure out only who is responsible for the...
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1974
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In this counter-culture caper comedy, directed by Alan Myerson (whose work with The Committee and Second City gives the film...
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Duval
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1973
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In Slither, James Caan plays Dick Kanipsia, a recently paroled car thief whose plans to go straight are interrupted when his...
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1973
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Dreams die hard in wintry Atlantic City in Bob Rafelson's downbeat character drama. Depressive deejay David Staebler...
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1972
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Director Jim McBride took his first step from the avant garde underground to Hollywood with this beautifully photographed bit...
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1971
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As he lies dying in Vietnam, a young soldier (Michael Douglas) recalls the events leading up to this moment. He remembers his...
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1971
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In the two-hour pilot film for the subsequent TV "occult" anthology, series creator Rod Serling hosts three macabre short...
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1969
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The San Francisco theater group The Committee satirize topics like race relations, politics, sex and the media in this comedy...
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1969
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"Consider the possibilities," read the ads for Paul Mazursky's 1969 satirical comedy about what happens when the sexual...
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1969
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Improvisational acting guru Del Close makes a featured appearance in this film about a cop and a politician who plot to...
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1968
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This independent New York film takes place in the bohemian coffeehouse hangout in Greenwich Village. A trio of robbers knock...
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1963
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Experimental director Shirley Clarke's first feature film is a no-compromise look at the dead-end world of drug addiction in...
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Ernie
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1961
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