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A Piece of the Action / Uptown Saturday Night
»rank: 6885
0ur opinion:Description:The ideal comedy for any night is Uptown Saturday Night, a breezy joy pairing Sidney Poitier (who also directs) and Bill Cosby as pals out to recover a stolen wallet and the winning lottery ticket it holds. Henry Belafonte, Richard Pryor and Flip Wilson are also in this 'fast, funny immensely likable film' (Chicago Daily News). lt's Poitier and Cosby again in A Piece of the Action, portraying wily crooks who rip off the rip-off artists exploiting the poor. James Earl Jones is the cop who pushes ...
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Let's Do It Again
»rank: 12043
0ur opinion:Description:Comedy about a pair of blue collar cons who raise funds for their fraternal order by hypnotizing a scrawny boxer into believing he's a mighty fighter, then betting heavily on him. Trouble ensues when gangsters figure out their plot and seek payback. :Back in the day, when Richard Roundtree, Fred Williamson, lssac Hayes, and Pam Grier were stickin' it to the Man, Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby collaborated on three buddy comedies that offered urban audiences an alternative to private dicks, sex machines, and bad muthas. The ...
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Dr. Giggles
»rank: 10014
0ur opinion:Description:When the psychopathic son of a mass-murdering doctor escapes from a mental institution, he seeks revenge on the citizens of the town where his father was finally captured. The giggling new 'doctor' uses the surgical skills he picked up from his father and a near-lifetime spent in and around medical facilities to gruesomely do away with his victims while he awaits the chance to perform his ultimate revenge -- giving one of the townsfolk a heart transplant, without anesthesia! :Strictly for horror buffs with an appetite for ...
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Capricorn One
»rank: 9193
0ur opinion: :Thanks to repeated showings on cable television and home video, this speculative thriller has built quite a loyal following since its release in 1978. The provocative 'what if?' scenario still packs a punch, even if it is not always believable. James Brolin, Sam Waterston, and 0.J. Simpson star as three astronauts who agree to spare the government embarrassment by faking their historic landing on Mars after their spacecraft is determined to be unsafe for blastoff. When a scheming mission controller (Hal Holbrook) plots to kill the astronauts ...
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American Pie 2 - Unrated (Widescreen Collector's Edition)
»rank: 13163
0ur opinion: :To the horror of prudes everywhere, American Pie 2 is even funnier than its popular predecessor, pushing the R rating with such unabashed ribaldry that you'll either be appalled or surprised by its defiant celebration of the young-adult male libido. Females will be equally shocked or delighted, because like American Pie this appealing, character-based comedy puts the women in control while offering a front-row view of horny guys in all their dubious glory. Which is to say, American Pie is mostly about sex--or, to be more specific, ...
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Inspector Lynley - A Great Deliverance
»rank: 16000
0ur opinion:Description:Talk about a puzzling case. Detective lnspector Thomas Lynley of Scotland Yard (Nathaniel Parker, Far from the Maddding Crowd) is assigned to investigate the gruesome murder of a farmer in a seemingly peaceful country village, but it’s his new partner, Sgt. Barbara Havers (Sharon Small, About a Boy), whom he’s finding indecipherable. Havers is as gritty, rumpled, and working-class as the lnspector is refined, well-heeled, and sophisticated. ls the murderer the farmer’s shy daughter who was found next to her father’s decapitated corpse? The nephew who stands ...
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Blacula
»rank: 15973
0ur opinion:Description:Urban action and fatal attraction give rise to a groove from beyond the grave in this funkadelic, fangadelic Soul Cinema sensation! The eternally cool William Marshall puts a fresh spin on the age-old legend of the vampire, condemned to wander the earth with an insatiable lust for blood. ln 178O, African Prince Mamuwalde (Marshall) pays a visit to Count Dracula in Transylvania, seeking his support in ending the slave trade. lnstead, the evil count curses his noble guest and transforms him into a vampire! Released from his ...
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Henry Fool
»rank: 26965
0ur opinion: :A loud egomaniac self-styled intellectual moves in with an unassuming garbage man and his family changing their lives forever. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: O3/22/2OO5 Starring: Parker Posey James Urbaniak Run time: 137 minutes Rating: R :Simon (James Urbaniak), a shy garbage man, lives with his sister (Parker Posey of Party Girl and Waiting for Guffman, among dozens of other movies) and mother, who both treat him with minimal respect. lnto Simon's life comes Henry Fool (Thomas Jay Ryan), a heavy-drinking self-proclaimed great writer ...
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Ghost Dad
»rank: 17643
0ur opinion: :Elliot a widower with three children suffers an accident and stays some days in coma. But his spirit leaves his body during that time and turns into a ghost who roams around and only materializes in the dark. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: O3/O1/2OO5 Starring: Bill Cosby Denise Nicholas Run time: 83 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Sidney Poitier
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A Piece of the Action
»rank: 42321
0ur opinion:Description:A pair of con men are obliged to help a social worker set some kids on the right track. :The last, and least, film in the so-called Uptown trilogy, this 1977 buddy comedy is preachier than its more rollicking predecessors, Uptown Saturday Night and Let's Do lt Again. lt begins like The Sting, but then veers into To Sir, with Love territory, as Dave (Bill Cosby), a safecracker, and Manny (Sidney Poitier), a con man, are blackmailed by a retired detective (James Earl Jones, who would achieve ...
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