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"Has charm...humor, high adventure...Jewel of the Nile is big...colorful, fast, funny." - Los Angeles Times. A far bigger production than Romancing The Stone, this vast operation organized by producer/co-star Michael Douglas put together an impressive team of filmmakers representing 16 different nationalities. Even the scope of locations was extraordinary - shooting took place across three continents - North America, Africa and Europe. In the blockbuster Romancing The Stone, novelist Joan Wilder (Kathleen Turner) and wanderer Jack Colton (Michael Douglas) went sailing off into the sunset together. In this thrill-packed sequel, Ralph (Danny DeVito) is back on their trail and they're back in the fast lane on a perilous trek through the fierce North African Desert. Not even treacherous tribes, deadly dungeons and seemingly endless villains can stop this trio from finding, once and for all, that mysterious "jewel."
Rated PG.
Play the funniest game since plaid pants were invented! The Bushwood Country Club snobs are at it again. And this time the slobs are really out to shake 'em up. Tony and Grammy Award winner Jackie Mason smacks some fresh divots out of sham and pretension in this loopy, fun-packed sequel to Caddyshack. About his blue-collar millionaire character of Jack Hartouian, Mason says: "What I like is that he's more concerned with the way people treat each other than whether they use the right words in polite society or raise the proper finger to drink a glass of beer." And what we like about Hartounian is the way he treats us to a golfbag of rip-roaring one-liners. Linking up with Mason are parfect co-stars Chevy Chase as bumbling playboy Ty Webb and Dan Aykroyd as a crack-brained surveillance expert. Robert Stack, Randy Quaid, Dyan Cannon, Jonathan Silverman, one pesky gopher and others join in for more golfing goofiness that suits comedy fans to a tee!
Rated PG.
Four years have passed since Lt. Andrews transformed Molly Stewart (Betsy Russell) from the teenage hooker, "Angel," into an aspiring and ambitious law student. But Molly's new world is suddenly shattered when Andrews os ruthlessly gunned down by professional gangland hit-men. To avenge her guardian's murder, Molly returns to the neon glow and deserted back alleys of Hollywood as "Angel" - but this time she's packing a temper as short as her skirts and a .357 magnum as cold and black as her leathers. Angel quickly enlists the aid of former friends Solly Mosler (Susan Tyrrell) and Kit Carson (Rory Calhoun), the eccentric street cowboy. Together, they play a deadly game of cat and mouse with the mob - dodging ambushes, eluding capture, and finally coming face to face with Andrew's killer. In a dark and deserted shell of a building he will find out that this "Angel" has been pushed too far...this "Angel" has shed her wings and halo...this "Angel" is a vengeful Devil in Disguise! Released theatrically in 1985.
Rated R.
"Pure charm...always fun." - New York Times. "Working Girl is funny, sassy, sexy and romantic!" - Gene Shalit, Today Show, NBC - TV. To prepare for their roles, Melanie Griffith and Sigourney Weaver spent weeks doing firsthand research in New York brokerage houses. They sat in on meetings, followed executives on their daily schedules and socialized with women brokers to get their perspective on the industry. Nominated for 6 Academy Awards, director Mike Nichols' witty, romantic look at life in the corporate jungle stars Melanie Griffith as Tess McGill, and ambitious secretary with a unique approach for climbing the ladder of success. When her classy, but villainess boss (Sigourney Weaver) breaks a leg skiing, Tess simply takes over her office, her apartment, even her wardrobe. She then creates a deal with a handsome investment banker (Harrison Ford) that will either take her straight to the top - or finish her off for good.
Rated R.
"A film not to be missed!" - The Washington Post. Some films transcend conventional greatness. The Miracle Worker, William Gibson's adaptation of his own award-winning play, belongs to this most distinguished category. Patty Duke (in her first screen appearance) and Anne Bancroft both won Oscars in 1962 for their portrayals of a little girl struggling to communicate, and the young teacher who relies on her guts and sheer instinct to bring light into the young girl's dark world. Blind and deaf since infancy, Helen (Duke) is a constant ordeal for her parents, who cannot bring themselves to teach or discipling her. They finally turn to Boston's Perkins School, who send the formerly blind Annie Sullivan (Bancroft) to help. Annie tries to treat Helen as normally as possible, but soonn finds herself battling the girl's cleverness, her violent, stubborn nature, and her parents' overcompensating attentions. Superlatives were lavished upon this film, but perhaps The Washington Post put it most succinctly: "Inspiring films are rare, and The Miracle Worker is precisely that."
Not Rated.
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon I
The Bad News: an entire city cowers in dread as its mean streets are stalked
by a pair of hyper-violent, trigger-happy, heavily-armed neurotics.<br>
The Good News: they're cops. Join 'em for the preposterously wack-o-buddy-action-comedy-horror-thriller
that spoofs every blockbuster hit film from Lethal Weapon to Silence of the
Lambs, Basic Instinct, Wayne's World and more! Emelio Estevez (The Mighty
Ducks, Young Guns I & II, Stakeout) and Samuel L. Jackson (Jurassic Park,
Amos & Andrew) are Colt and Lugar, two dangerously over-the-edge detectives
who uncover a despicable plot to simultaneously rot America's brains and teeth
with drug-laced Wilderness Girl cookies. Aided by a likeable slime ball (Jon
Lovitz, A League of Their Own), a leather-loving beauty (Kathy Ireland, Necessary
Roughness), they battle arch bad-dudes (William Shatner, Star Trek and Tim
Curry, Home Alone 2) in a riotous, crime-busting comedy romp featuring cameos
from more superstars than you shake a .357 magnum at. In the tradition of
Hot Shots! and The Naked Gun, it's outlandishly off-beat, and outrageously
out-of-control as macho crime-action flicks take it in the shorts in...National
Lampoon's Loaded Weapon.
Rated PG-13.
Harry Lucas (Jim Hutton) is in real trouble. He's a money checker at the U.S. Mint, and he has inadvertantly lost $50,000! Unfortunately, he can't prove his innocence. So, he decides to secretly print up that amount of money in the Mint before anyone discovers the loss. But he needs help, and that's when the fun and the laughs begin. He first collects a printer (Walter Brennan) and a safecracker (Jack Gilford), and before long, Lucas ends up with a pawnbroker (Milton Berle), a sewer-worker (Joey Bishop), and ex-skipper (Victor Buono), and an ice-cream vendor (Bob Denver). By the time the hilarious antics are over, our motley crew of amateur crooks have gone way beyond $50,000 - they've printed up more than $7,000,000 worth of the glorious green stuff!
Not Rated.
They're back! The giant underground creatures that terrorized a desert town in Tremors are now plowing their way through Mexican oil fields, gobbling up everything and everyone around - and only one man can stop them! In the style of its predecessor, this comedy sci-fi creature feature reunites Fred Ward as down on his luck Earl Basset and Michael Gross as gung-ho survivalist Burt Gummer, two desert desperados who take on the task of destroying the monsters. Partnered with them is Christopher Gartin, a young scientist who's seen it all...until now. Together they form an ingenious plan for tracking and killing the creatures that is filled with high-speed action and plenty of laughs - until the predators wise-up. It's a tongue-in-cheek thriller from that creative team that brought you the original Tremors, with new, outrageous creature effects from Jurassic Park's Phil Tippett and Jumanji's Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff, Jr.
Rated PG-13.
A first-rate comedy about a second-story woman. Ex-con Bernice Rhodenbarr is tough, smart, funny - and in one helluva mess. A double-dealing cop's got the goods on her for a long-ago theft and wants 20,000 cool ones to keep from squesling. Of course, there's only one way Bernice can come up with dough like that: turn Burglar for one last heist. Bernie's suspected when that heist goes murderously wrong. But for fun fans, the manic comedy-mystery just keeps going deliriously right. Because Whoopi Goldberg, the hip, happenin' actress, comedienne and star of Jumpin' Jack Flash and The Color Purple, is more than a Burglar; she's a laugh-stealer. Says Gannett News Service's William Wolf, "Whoopi makes off with your funnybone." Burglar moves with the feverish intensity of 48 HRS. and Beverly Hills Cop as Bernice turns San Francisco inside out to find the real murderer...before the city's finest finds her. Helping out is her poodle-grooming pal Carl, played by another bona fide funnybone stealer: Bob ("Bobcat") Goldthwait. Famed for his One Crazy Summer and Police Academy series roles and his cable-TV specials, Bobcat roars again with manical comic intensity. Goldberg. Goldthwait. They're good-as-gold for laughs. And for giving you a great crime at the movies!
Rated R.
Number Five, a.k.a. Johnny Five, that incredible, lovable robot from the smash hit "Short Circuit," is back and taking the big city by storm in this action-packed comedy adventure. Upbeat Johnny's out for some "urban input," but some street hoods, a greedy banker and a gang of crooks see his naivete as their high-tech ticket to easy street. Will Johnny survive the big, bad city and its big, bad city slickers? Keep your wires crossed when you switch on this high-voltage film that "Siskel & Ebert" gave "Two Thumbs Up!...Even better than the original."
Rated PG.
National Lampoon's European Vacation
"A silly, funny sequel." - Richard Freedman, Newhouse Newspapers. The first time the Griswalds took a trip - in National Lampoon's Vacation - moviegoers everywhere went along for the ride...and went bonkers! Now they're back for the even crazier National Lampoon's European Vacation, directed by Amy Heckerling (Clueless, Fast Times at Ridgemont High). Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo return as Clark and Ellen, winners of a deluxe European tour on which teenage offspring Rusty (Jason Lively) and Audrey (Dana Hill) will join them. The deluxe accomodations aren't. Clark tries left-sided English driving...and leaves Stonehenge unhinged. In Bavaria a slap-dancing polka turns into a slaphappy free-for-all. Clark's home videos of a playful towel-clad Ellen fall into the sleazy hands of a porno filmmaker. In other words, it's typical holiday road havoc for the Griswalds. And for you, it's the high road to hilarity!
Rated PG-13.
Sean Penn (Fast Times At Ridgemont High, Taps), as Mick O'Brien, is a mean teen hood roaming the streets of Chicago. Mick and his friend master mind a plan to rip-off a rival gang headed by Paco Moreno. The plan tragically backfires, and Mick's friend is murdered. While fleeing this violent outbreak, Mick O'Brien accidentally kills Paco Moreno's kid brother. Mick is caught and committed to the Rainford Juvenile Correctional Facility. Dorm C - an ugly world of critical offenders. Meanwhile, Paco Moreno is being devoured by his obsession to avenge his brother's death. He retaliates by brutally raping O'Brien's 16 year old girlfriend. Paco is caught and sent to Rainford and Dorm C. The two mortal enemies must now confront both each other and their own violence. Backed into a corner by their mutual hatred and the escalating peer pressure of Dorm C, Mick and Paco are inexorably pushed over the brink into a final and shattering fight to-the-death. 123 minutes.
Not Rated.
Once in a great while a movie comes along that truly grips and uplifts its audiences. Such a movie is "An Officer and A Gentleman," a timeless tale of romance, friendship, and growth. Loner Zack Mayo (Richard Gere) enters Officer Candidate School to become a Navy pilot and in thirteen torturous weeks he learns the importance of discipline, love and friendship. Louis Gossett, Jr. brilliantly plays the tough drill instructor who teaches Zack that no man can make it alone. Despite Gossett's warnings about the local girls who get pregnant to catch themselves pilot husbands, Zack eventually learns to love one (Debra Winger). David Keith is memorable as one of Zack's fellow candidates. "An Officer and A Gentleman" is a rich and satisfying film that gets richer with repeated viewings.
Rated R.
Patrick Swayze brings country-style justice to the Windy City. He made hearts swoon in Dirty Dancing and busted heads in Road House. In Next of Kin, Patrick Swayze gives further evidence why he's one of Hollywood's most exciting stars, delivering downhome charm and big-city heroics as a cop transplanted from the backwoods of Appalachia to the mean streets of Chicago. Next of Kin's action blasts through the Windy City right from the get-go. The mob wants to muscle in on a local business but they make two mistakes. First, they kill a youth whose brother is a cop. Second, that cop happens to be Truman Gates (Swayze). John Irvin (Raw Deal, Hamburger Hill) directs this deadly clash that traps Truman between the mountain code of retribution and the badge he wears. Adam Baldwin (Full Metal Jacket, My Bodyguard) is the mobman who finds it easier to crack a smile after he's cracked a few skulls. And Liam Neeson (Suspect, The Dead Pool, The Good Mother) is Truman's fire-and-vinegar older brother, whose volatility ignites uptown Chicago into a backwoods blood feud. This is war. An eye for an eye. A life for a life. And when the country boys of Next of Kin head for the city, someone better head for the hill!
Rated R.
Jeff Goldblum plays the bumbling, skeptical schoolteacher Ichabod Crane in this faithful adaptation of Washington Irving's most popular (and most frightening) tale. When Crane arrives in the quaint town of Sleepy Hollow, he discovers his predecessor was driven mad by evil spirits. Not one to believe in ghosts, Ichabod takes a personal interest in the "Headless Horseman" who terrorizes the townspeople with his midnight runs. In one hair-raising encounter after another, Ichabod meets the demon head-on (so to speak) and discovers the truth behind the legend. The timid teacher is soon transformed from laughing-stock to town hero in this gothic tale of early America. Running time: 98 minutes.
Not Rated.
"...A lethal Lolita" - Lawrence Francella, US Magazine. Ivy, (Drew Barrymore, ET) the sexy, streetwise new girl in a posh private school, will do anything to fit in. Cooper (Sara Gilbert, "Roseanne") - rich, smart, but misunderstood - needs a friend. When Ivy is invited into Cooper's privileged world, she is instantly intrigued. Cooper's father, (Tom Skerritt, Steel Magnolias) is a handsome TV newscaster; her mother, (Cheryl Ladd, Millennium) is a beautiful Beverly Hills wife. Yet tensions in the home run deep - providing a license for malice that Ivy is quick to seize. With one slick seduction, Ivy sets off a chain reaction that makes Poison Ivy one of the most provocative and erotic thrillers ever filmed.
Rated R.
Bill Murray has joined the Army, and the Army will never be the same! When John Winger (Murray) loses his job, his car, his apartment and his girlfriend - all in one day - he decides he only has one option: Volunteer for Uncle Sam. He talks his friend Russell (Harold Ramis) into enlisting with him. Where else, they figure, can they help save the world for democracy...and meet girls! John and Russell find basic training a snap: they are arrested twice, have endless run-ins with their drill sergeant (Warren Oates) and gets into a big mess at a female mud wrestling match. They even steal a top secret government vehicle to take some gorgeous female MPs on a date, and wind up behind the iron curtain. Stripes is outrageous fun! And that's the fact..Jack!
Rated R.
Hailed by critics as a masterpiece, Casualties of War is based on the true story of a squad of soldiers caught in the moral quagmire of wartime Vietnam. Witness to a vile crime, Private Ericksson (Michael J. Fox, Back To The Future) is forced to stand alone against his fellow soldiers and commanding officer Sergeant Meserve (Sean Penn, We're No Angels, Colors), a powerful and charismatic man pushed over the edge of barbarism by the terror and brutality of combat. With DePalma (The Untouchables) creates a devastating and unforgettable tale of one man's quest for sanity and justice amidst the chaos of war.
Rated R.
Francis Ford Coppola's stunning vision of man's heart of darkness revealed through the madness of the Vietnam War. Lieutenant Willard (Martin Sheen) receives orders to seek out a renegade military outpost led by the mysterious Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), and to "terminate his command with extreme prejudice." One of the most powerful films of all time, the picture was nominated for eight Academy Awards and won two, Best Sound and Best Cinematography.
Rated R.
A true story that happened in Texas in 1969, this marked twenty-six-year-old Steven Spielberg's feature-film debut after such memorable TV movies as Night Gallery and Duel. Lou Jean Poplin (Goldie Hawn) and her escaped convict husband (William Atherton) kidnap a Texas State Trooper (Michael Sacks) and lead the police on a wild chase across the state in an effort to save their son from adoption. This complex role lured superstar Hawn to the screen, back from a one-year hiatus after her Oscar-winning performance in Cactus Flower. Praised by the Time Out Film Guide as "a beautifully put together, assured film," it features Ben Johnson (The Wild Bunch) and music by John Williams, who also wrote the unforgettable score for Spielberg's next film, the blockbuster Jaws.
Rated PG.
Gene Hackman portrays Colonel Jason Rhodes, a man obsessed, in this powerful, action-packed adventure. For over ten years, Rhodes has been living a nightmare searching for his son who is listed as "missing in action" in Vietnam. After useless appeals to the government for information, Rhodes takes matters into his own hands. With the financial backing of a Texas oil tycoon (Robert Stack) and the help of his son's five Marine buddies, Rhodes prepares to carry out a daring mission. After weeks of grueling training, the courageous veterans leave for Laos. The final battle of the Vietnam conflict is about to begin.
Rated R.
Tom Cruise and Craig T. Nelson discover winning is the only way out. The only way football star Stefan Djordjevic (Tom Cruise) will avoid a life in the blast furnaces of his bleak Pennsylvania hometown is by winning a college scholarship. Even his coach (Craig T. Nelson) dreams of parlaying a winning team into a college job far away from this graveyard of the American Dream. But it's not long before the two virtually ruin each other's chances for escape and their door to the future starts to close. Lea Thompson and Christopher Penn co-star.
Rated R.
A battle of gigantic proportions is looming in the neon underground of New York City. The armies of the night number 10,000; they outnumber the police 5:1; and tonight they're after the Warriors - a street gang blamed unfairly for a rival gang leader's death. This contemporary action-adventure story takes place at night, underground, in the sub-culture of gang warfare that rages from Coney Island to Manhattan to the Bronx. Members of the Warriors fight for their lives, seek to survive in the urban jungle and learn the meaning of loyalty. This intense and stylized film is a dazzling achievement fro cinematographer Andrew Laszlo.
Rated R.
Whether he's pitching himself, or his high-priced luxury cars at Turgeon Auto Sales, Joey O'Brien (Robin Williams) never lets a day go by without "doing" someone good. But Joey's schmoozed through life on cruise control...and now he's riding in the hot seat. An impatient Mafioso wants his hide. He's rendezvousing with an obnoxious married woman. His space cadet girlfriend needs more money. His ex-wife wants her alimony and his delinquent daughter is nowhere to be found. To top it all off, Turgeon Auto is relocating and inventory is priced to go - unfortunately, so is Joey unless his sales pick up. He's got just one last big day to do or die. Just when he thought it could get no worse...it does. With the showroom abuzz on D-day, enter Larry (Tim Robbins). A lunkheaded terminator with an inferiority complwx and an axe to grind, Larry's not exactly looking for a new set of whitewalls. He's loaded down with explosives and looking for the man who's been "doing" his wife. Now in a life or death situation, Joey O'Brien is forced to do what he does best...lie.
Rated R.
Tim Devon didn't find out until he was 18 that he was illegitimate. In a rage, using his high school graduation money, Tim leaves his L.A. home in search of his father, with only a name and the Cit of Amsterdam as clues. Like so many young people who land in a foreign city with meager funds for support, he is reduced to thieving on the streets, finally becoming a pusher for a drug dealer...becoming hooked on drugs himself. He is encountered by a single caring person. They are strangers from different worlds...but a friendship forged out of danger and desperation links them together forever. 1 hour 55 minutes.
Rated PG - 13.
Louis Gossett, Jr. stars as one cop hunting a killer who's public hero #1. Chicago police detective James Dela (Louis Gossett, Jr.) tracks a killer who's hitting major mob bosses one by one in stunning close-range assassinations. This crime spree is special - the killer doesn't seem to fear mob reprisal, and the public is on the killer's side. Crusading reporter Frank Nordhall (Peter Coyote) glorifies the "Gangster Killer" in his daily column for protecting the public when police can't. Dela knows that it's only a matter of time before psychotic gunman Vince Benedetto (Anthony LaPaglia) betrays his public "trust" by choosing a victim outside the mob. Fighting opposition from the press, the public and "a maniac with a shotgun, "Dela is the Keeper of the City, a taut action drama that explodes in a shattering climax. Approx. 96 minutes.
Not Rated.
"An absolutely riveting, thoroughly scary experience...a triumph...directed smashingly well." - Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times. While "The Omen" was still playing in theaters, plans were announced to shoot all three sequels to the extraordinary hit. After only one week in release, the film was translated into a paperback novel and became a runaway bestseller. The first film in a classic, four-part legacy of terror stars Gregory Peck as an ambassador who is talked into switching his wife's (Lee Remick) stillborn baby with an orphaned infant. When young Damien is five, the horror begins with his nanny's dramatic suicide. As the death toll escalates, Damien's father, realizing his son is the antichrist, decides that he must kill the boy and rid the world of the evil.
Rated R.