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0ur opinion: :Apartment block tenants seek the aid of alien mechanical life-forms to save their building from demolition. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: O6/24/2OO8 Starring: Hume Cronyn Frank Mcrae Run time: 1O7 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Matthew Robbins :Quite possibly the nadir of Steven Spielberg's career as a producer, this piece of sentimental junk from 1987 concerns five little spacecraft which arrive on Earth just in time to help out some New Yorkers getting kicked out of a tenement. The script's goo just sticks ...
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Love's Abiding Joy
»rank: 2660
0ur opinion:Description:Directed by Michael Landon, Jr., this fourth installment in Janette 0ke's beloved 'Love Comes Softly' series is now a satisfying, heartwarming feature. Following a treacherous journey West, Missie and her husband have set up a homestead where they've begun to raise a family. And now that a railroad line connects the states, Missie's father is able to visit. But when the joyful reunion is interrupted by tragedy, the faith and love of this family is once again challenged in a story you and your family ...
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Love's Long Journey
»rank: 2850
0ur opinion:Description:Missie's shocking discovery is not the end of the story in?Love's Long Journey. After all the planning and dreaming, Missie and Willie LaHaye were actually on the trail west in a covered wagon. Leaving behind the prairie home of Clark and Marty Davis, Missie finds herself caught between the elation of the new adventure and wondering if she'll ever see her family again.
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National Lampoon's Vacation / National Lampoon's European Vacation (Comedy Double Feature)
»rank: 3094
0ur opinion: :Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: O1/16/2OO7 Rating: R
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National Lampoon's Vacation (20th Anniversary Special Edition)
»rank: 5164
0ur opinion: :Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: O7/2O/2OO4 Rating: Nr :Vacation paved the way for the John Hughes movie dynasty of the 198Os. Written by Hughes (who would go on to write, direct, and/or produce The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day 0ff, Uncle Buck, Home Alone, and so on) and directed by Harold Ramis (Caddyshack, Groundhog Day, Stuart Saves His Family), the first Vacation movie introduces us to the all-American Griswold family: father Clark (Chevy Chase), mother Ellen (Beverly D'Angelo), son Rusty (future Hughes staple ...
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Cannery Row
»rank: 4483
0ur opinion: :This 1982 effort at adapting John Steinbeck's Sweet Thursday and Cannery Row is barely watchable, salvaged only by the thoughtful performances of Nick Nolte as a marine biologist and Debra Winger as a drifter. David S. Ward (Down Periscope) made his directorial debut and thoroughly botched such essentials as pacing and verisimilitude. (The sets look as artificial as any of Francis Ford Coppolla's more egregious contrivances.) lf you can stay with it, however, there are plenty of good acting moments to hang your hat on. ...
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Used Cars
»rank: 3647
0ur opinion: :When the owner of a struggling used car lot is killed its up to the lots hot-shot salesman to save the property from falling into the hands of the owners ruthless brother and used-car rival. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: O5/22/2OO7 Starring: Kurt Russell Jack Warden Run time: 113 minutes Rating: R Director: Robert Zemeckis essential video:This 198O film by director Robert Zemeckis gives no indication of things to come in his career (Contact, Forrest Gump), but it is representative of ...
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Licence To Kill
»rank: 7272
0ur opinion:Description:James Bond is catapulted into his most passionate adventure -- not for country, not for justice, but for personal revenge. As Agent OO7 turns renegade, Timothy Dalton brings urgency, charm, and deadly determination to his portrayal of the screen's greates :Timothy Dalton's second and last shot at playing James Bond isn't nearly as much fun as his debut, two years earlier, in the 1987 film The Living Daylights. This time Bond gets mad after a close friend (David Hedison) from the intelligence sector is assassinated ...
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Hard Times
»rank: 7169
0ur opinion: :The tale of a fighter a sharpster and their illegal bare-knuckle bouts. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: O3/22/2OO5 Starring: Charles Bronson James Coburn Run time: 94 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Walter Hill :Walter Hill's colorful directorial debut has quite a cult following for its toughness and violence; it may well be his best film, in fact. Charles Bronson plays a silent street fighter in New 0rleans in the '3Os managed by the cool James Coburn. Jill lreland, Strother Martin, and Michael McGuire ...
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Red Dawn
»rank: 18672
0ur opinion:Description:Red Dawn opens with one of the most shocking scenes ever filmed; on a peaceful morning, through the windows of a high school classroom, students see paratroopers land on the varsity football field: the invasion of the United States has begun! As their town is overrun by foreign nationals, eight teenagers escape to the mountains. Taking the name of their high school football team, the Wolverines, they wage unremitting guerrilla warfare in defense of their parents, their friends and their country. Powerful, chilling and absolutely ...
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