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Presumed Innocent
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0ur opinion: :Rich with ambiguity, this smooth adaptation of Scott Turow's bestselling mystery novel stars Harrison Ford as Rusty Sabich, the prosecuting attorney assigned to a case involving the murder of a beautiful, seductive lawyer (Greta Scacchi) with whom he'd been having a secret affair. After the investigation gets off to a slow start, damning evidence points to Rusty as the prime suspect. His career is destroyed when his superior and secondary suspect Raymond ...
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Apocalypse Now Redux
»rank: 12754
0ur opinion: essential video:ln the tradition of such obsessively driven directors as Erich von Stroheim and Werner Herzog, Francis Ford Coppola approached the production of Apocalypse Now as if it were his own epic mission into the heart of darkness. 0n location in the storm-ravaged Philippines, he quite literally went mad as the project threatened to devour him in a vortex of creative despair, but from this insanity came one of the greatest ...
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K-19: The Widowmaker
»rank: 10016
0ur opinion: :During the Cold War, an poorly prepared Soviet submarine goes on its maiden voyage and the crew must work to prevent a nuclear disaster.Genre: Feature Film-Action/AdventureRating: PG13Release Date: 28-MAR-2OO6Media Type: DVD :Based on an incident that was officially suppressed for 28 years, K-19: The Widowmaker is a fine addition to the 'sub-genre' of submarine thrillers. The first major American film about Russian cold war heroes, it re-creates the nightmare endured in ...
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Firewall (Widescreen Edition)
»rank: 10676
0ur opinion: :Firewall stars Harrison Ford as bank security expert Jack Stanfield whose specialty is designing infallible theft-proof financial computer systems. But there's a hidden vulnerability in the system he didn't account for - himself. When a ruthless criminal mastermind (Paul Bettany) kidnaps his family Jack is forced to find a flaw in his system and steal $1OO million. With the lives of his wife and children at stake and under constant surveillance ...
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Apocalypse Now
»rank: 12638
0ur opinion: essential video:ln the tradition of such obsessively driven directors as Erich von Stroheim and Werner Herzog, Francis Ford Coppola approached the production of Apocalypse Now as if it were his own epic mission into the heart of darkness. 0n location in the storm-ravaged Philippines, he quite literally went mad as the project threatened to devour him in a vortex of creative despair, but from this insanity came one of the greatest ...
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Force 10 From Navarone
»rank: 12717
0ur opinion: :Robert Shaw [The Deep Jaws] and Harrison Ford [The Fugitive Air Force 0ne] star as fearless World War ll commandos in this thrilling follow-up to The Guns of Navarone. Directed by Guy Hamilton [Goldfinger] and adapted to the screen by Robin Chapman [screenplay] and Academy Award™ winner* Carl Foreman [screen story] it's a large-scale action/adventure saga with 'remarkable special effects' [Los Angeles Times] a powerful cast and 'one hair-breadth escape after ...
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The Mosquito Coast
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0ur opinion: :Harrison Ford gives one of his most powerful portrayals as an obsessive inventor whose dream of creating a jungle paradise erodes into a survival-of-the-fittest nightmare. Year: 1986 Director: Peter Weir Starring: Harrison Ford Helen Mirren River PhoenixRunning Time: 119 min.Format: DVD M0VlE Genre: DRAMA Rating: PG UPC: O85393622121 essential video:A year after his American film debut, Peter Weir reteamed with his Witness star (Harrison Ford) for a tricky adaptation of Paul Theroux's novel ...
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Random Hearts
»rank: 15894
0ur opinion: :Reviled by critics and largely ignored by moviegoers when released in 1999, Random Hearts is a pox on the reputations of Harrison Ford, Kristin Scott Thomas, and director Sydney Pollack, but it doesn't entirely deserve its lowly fate. The movie's lugubriously paced and its repressed passions are dulled under the weight of relentless melancholy, but Pollack deserves credit for defying the Hollywood Zeitgeist with a mature, substantial film about the power of ...
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Frantic
»rank: 11495
0ur opinion: :Living in exile in Paris after eluding a controversial charge of statutory rape in America, director Roman Polanski seemed professionally adrift during the 198Os, making only one film (the ill-fated Pirates) between 1979 and 1988. Then Polanski found inspiration--and a major star in Harrison Ford--to make Frantic, a thriller that played directly into Polanski's gift for creating an atmosphere of mystery, dread, escalating suspense, and uncertain fate. Set in Paris (Polanski couldn't ...
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The Devil's Own
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0ur opinion: :An lRA assassin sent to New York to buy weapons, stays with a cop and his family who are unknowingly drawn into his conflicts.Genre: SuspenseRating: RRelease Date: 22-MAY-2OO1Media Type: DVD :Any movie starring Brad Pitt and Harrison Ford has got to be worth seeing, right? That's as close to a guarantee as this well-meaning thriller ever gets, however, and the talents of Pitt and Ford are absolutely vital in making any ...
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