Archive for January, 1993
Groundhog Day
A weather man is reluctantly sent to cover a story about a weather forecasting “rat” (as he calls it). This is his fourth year on the story, and he makes no effort to hide his frustration. On awaking the ‘following’ day he discovers that it’s Groundhog Day again, and again, and again. First he uses this to his advantage, then comes the realisation that he is doomed to spend the rest of eternity in the same place, seeing the same people do the same thing EVERY day.
Groundhog Day DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 8.00 out of 10 (70644 votes)
Director: Harold Ramis
Actors: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott, Stephen Tobolowsky, Brian Doyle-Murray, Marita Geraghty, Angela Paton, Rick Ducommun, Rick Overton, Robin Duke, Carol Bivins, Willie Garson, Ken Hudson Campbell, Les Podewell, Rod Sell,
Tags: Fantasy, Romance, Comedy, alarm-clock, alternative-reality, animal-driving-car, auto-theft, bank-robbery, bar, battle-of-the-sexes, bed, bed-and-breakfast, blizzard, blue-screen, buddhist, cage, cameraman, car-accident, car-chase, car-falling-off-cliff, ceremony, christ-allegory, chroma-key, clock, clock-radio, compassion, conscience, costume, crime, dancing, date-auction, deadpan, decency, deja-vu, diner, director, drunk-scene, dying-repeatedly, electrocution, existentialism, explosion, face-slap, fall-from-height, fantastic, festival, fire, fish-out-of-water, friendship, gluttony, good-deed, groundhog, groundhog-day, heimlich-maneuver, hero, heroine, hit-by-truck, hit-with-shovel, holiday, homelessness, hope, hospital, humanity, humor, ice-sculpture, idealism, immortality, insurance-agent, irreverent, jail, kidnapping, kindness, lessons, life-insurance, love, lying, maid-costume, mayor, morgue, multiple-outcomes, opposites-attract, pennsylvania, piano, piano-lesson, pickup-truck, pittsburgh-pennsylvania, police, police-car, police-chase, premarital-sex, psychotherapy, puddle, redemption, repeated-event, restaurant, scream, self-discovery, shovel, shower, singing, siren, small-town, small-town-life, snow, snowball-fight, snowman, snowstorm, song, suicide, suicide-attempt, sunglasses, supernatural-powers, surreal, television, television-news, time-loop, time-travel, title-spoken-by-character, trapped, travel, true-love, weather-forecaster, weather-forecasting, weather-map, weather-report, weatherman, yelling
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Sniper
A Panamanian rebel leader is meeting with his financer-druglord. The U.S. government seeks to “disrupt” the meeting by eliminating them both. Thomas Beckett, an ace sniper stationed in the area, is sent to perform the mission. Since his spotter was killed by a mysterious mercenary sniper, he must be accompanied by Richard Miller, a SWAT-Team sniper who has never had a kill. The two must best the jungle and complete the mission, hindered by numerous enemy patrols, “El-Cirujano”, a renegade American working for the enemy, the mysterious sniper, and the rough living in a dangerous jungle.
Sniper DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 5.60 out of 10 (2819 votes)
Director: Luis Llosa
Actors: Richard Lineback, Dale Dye, Tom Berenger, Billy Zane, J. T. Walsh, Aden Young, Ken Radley, Reynaldo Arenas, Gary Swanson, Hank Garrett, Frederick Miragliotta, Vanessa Steele, Carlos Álvarez, Tyler Coppin, Teo Gebert, Edward Wiley, William Curtin,
Tags: Drama, Action, assassin, death, drug-lord, helicopter, jungle, obscene-finger-gesture, sniper, sniper-rifle
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Last Action Hero
Danny Madigan knows all the first 3 Jack Slater movies in and out. The 4th one is just about to be released too, and with a magical ticket Danny really gets to know that movie in and out too, literaly speaking. During one of the action climaxes Danny is transported into the movie, into a world following other rules than the real one. Benedict, one of the evil guys, gets hold of the ticket and escapes out to the real world, a world where evil guys can actually win. Danny and Jack follows him back to the real world to get back the ticket and stop Benedict from killing the actor playing Jack.
Last Action Hero DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 5.50 out of 10 (17875 votes)
Director: John McTiernan
Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austin O’Brien, F. Murray Abraham, Art Carney, Charles Dance, Frank McRae, Tom Noonan, Robert Prosky, Anthony Quinn, Mercedes Ruehl, Ian McKellen, Professor Toru Tanaka, Joan Plowright, Jason Kelly, Noah Emmerich,
Tags: Fantasy, Comedy, Adventure, Action, 555-phone-number, axe, cameo-appearance, chase, corpse, corrupt-cop, crane, death-of-child, desert-eagle, dynamite, exploding-house, father-daughter-relationship, father-figure, film-in-film, film-premiere, gangster, gatling-gun, grim-reaper, hero, hollywood-sign, knife-in-thigh, lasersight, los-angeles-california, los-angeles-storm-drain, mother-son-relationship, movie-reality-crossover, movie-theater, mushroom-cloud, new-york, police, projectionist, pun, self-referential, spoof, stunt, surreal, switchblade, tar, truck, video-store, violence, weapon
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Demolition Man
John Spartan and his nemisis Simon Phoenix are imprisoned in cryogenic stasis. While in deep freeze John’s brain is filled with a love of knitting while Simon gains knowledge in computers, weapons and fighting techniques. The police force of the future is uncapable of apprehending Simon after he escapes and the department is forced to wake John. He must cut his way through the totally different world he has awoken in while at the same time trying to find and capture Simon once and for all.
Demolition Man DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.10 out of 10 (17530 votes)
Director: Marco Brambilla
Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Sandra Bullock, Nigel Hawthorne, Benjamin Bratt, Bob Gunton, Glenn Shadix, Denis Leary, Grand L. Bush, Pat Skipper, Steve Kahan, Paul Bollen, Mark Colson, Andre Gregory, John Enos III,
Tags: Sci-Fi, Crime, Comedy, Action, 2030s, arms, automation, automobile, beneath-the-city, body-landing-on-car, bungee-jump, chase, computer-cracker, credits-as-currency, cryogenics, cryonics, death, decapitation, desert-eagle, electrocution, exploding-head, explosion, eye, eye-gouging, eyeball, frozen-body, frozen-head, future-shock, futuristic, helicopter, hollywood-sign, kicked-in-the-face, knife, knitting, los-angeles-california, male-nudity, martial-arts, mirror, museum, neck-breaking-scene, police, product-placement, rehabilitation, retina-scan-faked, reverse-footage, satire, seashell, see-you-in-hell, shot-in-the-chest, shot-to-death, social-control, underground, utopia, video, violence, virtual-sex, vulgarity, weapon
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Real McCoy, The
A woman is released from prison, an expert bank robber who wants to settle down and go straight, but her parole officer and her former employer try to get her to pull one more heist.
Real McCoy, The DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 5.30 out of 10 (1705 votes)
Director: Russell Mulcahy
Actors: Kim Basinger, Val Kilmer, Terence Stamp, Gailard Sartain, Zach English, Raynor Scheine, Deborah Hobart, Pamela Stubbart, Andy Stahl, Dean Rader-Duval, Norman Maxwell, Marc Macaulay, Peter Turner,
Tags: Drama, Crime, Thriller, Action, bank-robbery, based-on-novel, burglary, ex-convict, hostage, kidnapping, knee-in-groin
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Man Without a Face, The
The story of a relationship between a teacher and his troubled pupil. Justin McLeod is a former teacher who lives as a recluse on the edge of town. His face is disfigured from an automobile accident and fire ten years before in which a boy was incinerated and for which he was convicted of involuntary manslaughter. He is also suspected of being a pedophile. He is befriended by Chuck, causing the town’s suspicion and hostility to be ignited. McLeod inculcates in his protege a love of justice and freedom from prejudice which sustains him beyond the end of the film.
Man Without a Face, The DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.40 out of 10 (5847 votes)
Director: Mel Gibson
Actors: Mel Gibson, Nick Stahl, Margaret Whitton, Fay Masterson, Gaby Hoffmann, Geoffrey Lewis, Richard Masur, Michael DeLuise, Ethan Phillips, Jean De Baer, Jack De Mave, Viva, Justin Kanew, Sean Kellman, Chris Lineburg,
Tags: Drama, based-on-book, based-on-novel, boarding-school, boy, brother-sister-relationship, by-the-sea, child-driving-car, coming-of-age, disfigurement, divorce, flashback-sequence, friendship, gay-interest, injustice, intergenerational-friendship, learning, love, mean-sister, mentor, mother-son-relationship, narrative, pariah, shovel, sibling-rivalry, suspicion, teacher-student-relationship, teaching, troubled-family, trust, witch-hunt
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For the Moment
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For the Moment DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.50 out of 10 (288 votes)
Director: Katelynd Johnston
Actors: Russell Crowe, Christianne Hirt, Wanda Cannon, Scott Kraft, Peter Outerbridge, Sara McMillan, Bruce Boa, Tyler Woods, John Bekavac, Robert G. Slade, Kelly Proctor, Roxanne Boulianne, David Warburton, Ari Cohen,
Tags: War, Romance, Drama, independent-film
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Philadelphia
Andrew Beckett, a gay lawyer infected with AIDS, is fired from his conservative law firm in fear that they might contract AIDS from him. After Andrew is fired, in a last attempt for peace, he sues his former law firm with the help of a homophobic lawyer, Joe Miller. During the court battle, Miller sees that Beckett is no different than anyone else on the gritty streets of the city of brotherly love, sheds his homophobia and helps Beckett with his case before AIDS overcomes him.
Philadelphia DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 7.50 out of 10 (21015 votes)
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Actors: Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Roberta Maxwell, Buzz Kilman, Karen Finley, Daniel Chapman, Mark Sorensen Jr., Jeffrey Williamson, Charles Glenn, Ron Vawter, Anna Deavere Smith, Stephanie Roth Haberle, Lisa Talerico, Joanne Woodward, Jason Robards,
Tags: Drama, aids, bigotry, blockbuster, costume-party, disease, gay-interest, gay-rights, gay-slur, homophobia, homosexual, hospital, lawyer, library, medical, mother-son-relationship, pennsylvania, philadelphia-pennsylvania, political, prejudice, sexuality, terminal-illness, trial
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