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Rob Lowe doesn't want to get serious. Demi Moore doesn't want to get used. together, they're an unforgettable couple in the sexy, contemporary comedy, About Last Night. After drinks at a favorite chicago hang-out, Danny Martin (Lowe) and Debbie Sullivan (Moore) head to Danny's place to indulge in the predictable single's quest - the one-night-stand. Their affair is casual, sensual, and supposedly over until something surprising happens. They want to see each other again. It's the start of an intense relationship that irritates Danny's rowdy best friend (James Belushi) and astounds Debbie's synical buddy/roomie (Elizabeth Perkins), who do everything possible to break them up. But, Danny and Debbie wind up living together, and amidst the daily drudge of domestic life, they begin to realize that making love is easy, saying "I love you" more difficult, and being in love the hardest of all. Based on David Mamet's Obie Award winning play, "Sexual Perversity in Chicago, About Last Night" is an insightful, provocative and often funny look at romance in the 80's.
Rated R
What would you do if that special someone dumped you? If you're like Maggie or Sam, the better question is what wouldn't you do? Sleepless in Seattle and When Harry Met Sally ... star Meg Ryan now takes a funny look at the obsessive side of love, joining Matthew Broderick (The Cable Guy, Glory) in the zany comedy Addicted To Love. They play Maggie and Sam, teaming for revenge when their exes (Kelly Preston and Tcheky Karyo) team for romance. At first, Sam simply wants his girlfriend back. Maggie wants to get back at her old flame. So in the parks, lofs and trendy eateries of New York's SoHo, they unleash their diabolical brand of urban espionage. If Maggie and Sam have their way, the two who spurned them will be hapless, hopeless, loveless. And if Cupid has his way, Maggie and Sam just might go from a jilted Who's Through to a romantic Who's Who.
Rated R
A man. A woman. And an attraction that became an obsession. Mickey Rourke (Angel Heart) and Kim Basinger (Fool for Love) take you on an erotic odyssey to the limits of sexual obsession in this steamy story of a love affair that breaks every sexual taboo. Director Adrian Lyne (Flashdance) creates "the most sexualized relationship seen in years" (Vanity Fair) in a lushly photographed rendition of secret fantasies and desires that come vividly to life onscreen. Set gainst the hightech backdrop of Manhattan, 91/2 weeks is the length of the affair between Elizabeth, a beautiful art dealer and John, the man who becomes her lover and who irrevocable changes her life. After a tantalizing initial encounter, John charts the course of their sensual journey together in a deadly serious game of sexual dominance, unlocking the door to hidden dreams, pain and ecstasy. The highly charged scenes evoke "responses toward sex in cinema that have't been touched for years" (Village Voice), underscored by a pulsing soundtrack featuring the Eurythmics, Joe Cocker, Bryan Ferry and many others. 91/2 weeks is a passionate and provactive look at love and obsession that is moving, thrilling and sometimes shocking.
Rated R
"An exhilarating fable." - Time Magazine. Director Ron Howard had planned to use stunt doubles for scenes in which the older actors had to scuba dive and swim with dolphins. Instead, he found his entire cast ready, willing and able to do all but the most difficlt scenes. Don Ameche (1985 Academy Award, Best Supporting Actor), Hume Cronyn, Jack Gilford, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy, Gwen Verdon, Wilford Brimley and Steve Guttenberg star in this charming fantasy adventure. When visitors from a distant galaxy return to Earth on a secret mission, their other worldly powers afford a group of senior citizens who had expected nothing more from life than bingo, shuffleboard, aches and pains, the chance to recapture their youth. Inspiring and insightful, "Cocoon" is magical story of love, friendship and the human spirit.
Rated PG 13
sigourney Waver and Winona ryder star in this terrifying, highly-anticipated sci-action thriller! Ellen ripley (Weaver) died fighting the perfect predator. Two hundred years and eight horrific experiments later, she's back. A group of scientists has cloned her-along with the alien queen inside her-hoping to breed the ultimate weapon. But the resurrected Ripley is full of suprises for her "creators," as are the aliens. an doon, a lot more that "all hell" breaks loose! to combat the creatures, ripley must team up with a band of smugglers, including a mechanic named Call (Ryder), who hold more that a few surprises of her own. alive with spectacular special efects and co-starring Ron Perlman, Dan Hedaya, J.E. Freeman, Brad dourif and Michael wincott, Alien Resurrection is a riveting, pulse-pounding roller coaster ride that's "reorn to be wild" (Entertainment weekly). Come aboard...if you dare, and witness a whole new breed of terror.
Rated R
"Entertaining and Inspiring!"-People. A real woman. A real story. A real triumph. Julia Roberts stars as Erin Brockovich, a feisty young mother who fought for justice any way she knew how. Desperate for a job to support herself and her three children, she convinces attorney Ed Masry (Albert Finney) to hire her, and promptly stumbles upon a monumental law case against a giant corporation. Now, Erin's determined to take on this powerful adversary even though no law firm has dared to do it before. And while Ed doesn't want anything to do with the case, Erin won't take "no" for an answer. So the two begin an incredible and somtimes hilarious fight that will bring a small town to its feet and a huge company to its knees.
Rated R
Klaus Kinski, Stan Ivar, Wendy Schaal, Marie Laurin, Lyman Ward. American space explorers stranded on Saturn's largest moon. A demented German scientist. And an ancient Creature with an unquenchable blood lust collide in this chilling sci-fi thriller. Astronauts exploring the wasteland of Titan accidentally unleash alien life forms 2000 centuries old. When a U.S. spaceship later crash lands, Hofner (Klaus Kinski), the maniacal sole survivor of a rival mission, warns the travelers of the indestructible, brain-sucking monster which consumed his crew. One by one, the humans on Titan are relentlessly stalked-and mutilated-by this horrifying beast. Until the last suriviors risk all to entrap the Creature and end its reign of terror.
Rated R
The hit-making producers of Big Daddy now deliver Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo - a hilarious, must-see smash starring the always outrageous Rob Schneider (Big Daddy, TV's Saturday Night Live) in his funniest role yet! A professional fish tank cleaner, Deuce (Schneider) finds himself in desperate need of cash to quickly repair the damage he's done to a client's luxurious Malibu apartment! Then the fun really takes off when Duece decided the only way out of this jam is to switch to the world'c oldest profession - and offer his services to ladies everywhere as a lover for hire! A wild and raunchy comedy that always aims to please - you won't be able to resist this sidesplitting laugh riot!
Rated R
Jaws is one of the greatest box office attractions in the history of motion pictures. Director Steven Spielberg has brought Peter Benchley's best-selling novel to the screen with stunning power and unbearable suspense. Roy Schneider as Amity's Police Chief Brody, Richard Dreyfuss as a young icthyologist, and Robert Shaw as Quint, the colorful shark fisherman with a touch of the manic, are perfectly cast as the three men who become allied in a life-and-death hunt to destroy a killer embodying nearly three tons of instant white death. Scrrenplay by Peter Benchley and Carl Gottlieb.
Rated PG
"Put your mind on cruise control and fasten your seat belts!" Joel Siegel, Good Morning America. How do you prevent terrorists from unleashing mayhem on the entire world? This is a job for IMF agent Ethan Hunt. The world's greatest spy returns in the movie event of the year, M:I-2. Top action director John Woo brings his own brand of excitement to the mission that finds Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) partnering up with the beautiful Nyah Hall (Thandie Newton) to stop renegade agent Sean Ambrose (Dougray Scott) from releasing a new kind of terror on an unsuspecting world. But before the mission is complete, they'll traverse the globe and have to choose between everything they love and everything they believe in.
Rated PG-13
Now, for the first time ever, it's the year's hottest film in the exclusive-to-video Director's Cut - featuring fifteen minutes of sensational footge not shown in the original theatrical release! Starrin big-screen action favorite Bruce Willis (Pulp Fiction, Die Hard, Die Harder), Color Of Night is the thrill-packed story of a psychologist hauted by the brutal murder of a friend and colleague. While hunting for the killer, he finds himself romantically entangled with a mysterious beauty (sexy Jane March, The Lover) who leads him through a web of passion and intrigue. Color Of Night, in its exclusive Director's Cut, is the steamy, erotic thriler you simply have to see for yourself!
Rated R
One of the top grossing box office comedies of all time! Steven Spielberg presents an irrestible comic fantasy that accelerates beyond the time barrier with wit, imagination and infectious, wide-eyed wonder. Michael J. Fox stars as Marty McFly, a typical American teenager of the Eighties accidentally sent back to 1955 in a plutonium-powered DeLorean "time machine" invented by slightly mad scientist Christopher Lloyd. During his often hysterical, always amazing trip back in time, Marty must make certain his teenage parents-to-be, Crispin Glover and Lea Thompson, meet and fall in love - so he can get back to the future. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, this delightful comedy-adventure will make everyone want to get Back To The Future over and over again. A movie for all ages." - Gene Shalit, The Today show, NBC-TV. "A wonderful fantasy. A delectable comedy." - Kathleen Carroll, New York Daily News.
Rated PG
Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd reprise their roles as Marty McFly and Doc Brown in this dazzling new adventure from director Robert Zemeckis and executive producer Steven Spielberg. An exhilarating visit by Marty and the Doc to the year 2015 seemingly resolves a few problems with the future McFly family. But when the two return home, they soon discover someone has tampered with time to produce a nightmarish Hill Valley, 1985. Their only hope is to once again get back to 1955 and save the future. It's a fast-paced comic fantasy that Time Magazine calls "Terrific! Rich in invention and astonishment."
Rated PG
Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd star with Mary Steenburgen in this rousing conclusion to the popular series from executive producer Steven Spielberg and director Robert Zemeckis. Stranded in 1955 after a freak burst of lightning, Mary must travel to 1885 to rescue Doc Brown from a premature end. Surviving an Indian attack and unfriendly townsfolk, Marty finds Doc Brown the blacksmith. But with the Doc under the spell of the charming Clara Clayton, it's up to Marty to get them out of the wild west and back to the future. It's action laughs and romance in this grand finale to the blockbuster time-travel series.
Rated PG
Determined to avenge his brother's death, Johnny (Robert DeNiro) goes head to head with the mob, vowing to even the score. Realizing how rough the mob can be, DeNiro enlists his closest, and meanest, friends for the savage war he knows will follow. In plots, traps, and blackmail, members of both "families" set out on a destructive killing spree. Non-stop action from start to amazing finish! 'Devastating! A thrill a minute!" - Harvey Levin, N.Y. Tribune.
Rated R
"More chilling than 'The Exorcist" more haunting that "The Sixth Sense!" It will scare the hell out of you!" - Wireless Magazine. All hell breaks loose when Arnold Schwarzenegger battles the ultimate evil in this chilling supernatural action thriller. When a burned-out former New York City cop named Jericho (Schwarzenegger) is assigned to security detail for a mysterious and foreboding stranger (Gabriel Byrne), Jericho thwarts an incredible assassination attempt. During the ensuing investigation, he and his partner (Kevin Pollak) save the life of the beautiful and terrified Christine York (Robin Tunney), whose destiny involves death, the devil and the fate of mankind. Now it's up to Jericho to save the girl, the world and his own soul as he comes face to face with his most powerful enemy ever!
Rated R
Julia Roberts stars in the love story of a lifetime. Hilary O'Neil (Julia Roberts) is an attractive, outgoing young woman whose existence is cramped by few opportunities, little money and a series of failed relationships. She is looking for a different kind of life, a life with purpose and promise. Victor (Campbell Scott) is a wealthy, educated man who is also trapped, by a debilitating illness and a domineering father. He longs to escape from a life that offers only sickness and isolation. When Hilary goes to work as Victor's caretaker, it's clear that they're completely different people from completely different worlds. Except for one thing-each of them is desperately searching for a reason to live. And in each other's arms they find it.
Rated R
"One of the best escape (and escapist) movies of the season." -Vincent Canby, New York Times. It has been over a dozen years since Director John Carpenter's (In The Mouth Of Madness, Hallowen) futuristic action thriller stunned audiences everywhere with its nightmarish vision of New York City at the turn of the century. Now, the action has returned with this digitally remastered Director's Special Edition which features an exclusive interview with John Carpenter, never-before-seen footage and contains the original theatrical trailer. Boasting an acclaimed cast of sperstars including Kurt Russell (Backdraft), Ernest Borgnine (The Wild Bunch), Donald Pleasence (Halloween), Isaac Hayes, Harry Dean Stanton (Alien), Lee Van Cleef (For a Few Dollars More) and Adrienne Barbeau (The Fog), this is the sci-fi thriller that set the tone for action in the 80's. "It's a trip worth taking." - Richard Corliss, Time Magazine.
Rated R
"Combines a Touching Love Story with the excitement of Olympic Competition Skating." -Variety. A three-hankie tearjerker starring teen hearthrob Robby Benson and screen newcomer Lynn-Holly Johnson, Ice Castles is a classic story of love triumphant over tragedy. Alexis "Lexie" Winston (Johnson) is a pretty teenage figure skater and Olympic hopeful who seems destined for greatness. Encouraged by her coach, Beulah (superbly portrayed by Colleen Dewhurst), Lexie strives to be her best. Her father (Tom Skerritt, TV's Picket Fences) has his misgivings, but Lexie skates her way to the finals. Just as Lexie's headed for the top, she suffers a freak accident. With the love and support of her childhood sweetheart Nick Peterson (Benson), Lexie transforms her personal misfortune into a a heartbreaking victory. Powered by a swelling Marvin Hamlisch score and Melissa Manchester's smash hit theme song "Through the Eyes of Love," Ice Castles is an inspirational drama guaranteed to leave a lump in your throat.
Rated PG
"Sensuous, skillfully plotted. Nasty twists and tantalizing clues.' -Stephen Holden, The New York Times. To Manhattan's elite, Wall Street wheeler-dealer Steven Taylor seems like a devoted husband. He isn't. Beautiful, accomplished Emily Bradford Taylor seems like a faithful wife. She isn't. And when Steven hires Emily's lover to kill her, it seems like A Perfect Murder. It isn't. In fact, very little is what it seems in this sleek, sophisticated thriller sizzling with suspense and sharp dialogue. Michael Douglas, Gwyneth Paltrow and Viggo Mortensen star in A Perfect Murder, directed by Andrew Davis (The Fugitive) and inspired by the Frederick Knott play dial M for Murder, filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1954. Fans of that classic will be in for a lot of suprises. So will Steven. At each unexpected twist in his "perfect" plot, he improvises brilliantly. But can he always stay one step ahead of the next jolt? Hold tight for a "hold-your-breath thriller" (Joel Siegel, Good Morning America/ABC-TV).
Rated R
E.B. White's perennial best-selling novel is translated to the screen in animated musical splendor. The classic story, described by author White as a tale of "friendship and salvation, a story of miracles-the miracle of birth, the miracle of friendship, the miracle of death," features the voices of Debbie Reynolds as Charlotte, Paul Lynde as Templeton the Rat, Agnes Moorehead as the Stuttering Goose, and Henry Gibson as Wilbur the Pig.
Rated G
"A hip, comic twist on classic vampire stories." - Caryn James, The New York Times. Sam and his older brother Michael are all-American teens with all-American interests. But after they move with their mother to peaceful Santa Carla, California, things mysteriously begin to change. Michael's not himself lately. And Mom's not going to like what he's turning into. The Lost Boys reshapes vampire tradition, deftly mixing heart-pounding terror, rib-tickling laughs and a body-gyrating rock soundtrack with tunes from INXS and Jimmy Barnes, Lou Gramm, Echo and the Bunnymen and others. Under Joel Schumacher's deft direction, a marvelous cast - Jason Patric, Jami Gertz, Kiefer Sutherland, Corey Feldman, Corey Haim, Barnard Hughes, Dianne Wiest and Edward Herrman - stakes you to a gleefully ghoulish entertainment.
Rated R
"Tip-top-terrific and full-of-fun! A rollicking and endearing delight. It's a winner!" -Gene Shalit, The Today Show. Presented by Steven Spielberg, this delightful animted feature continues the adventures of Fievel, the brave young mouse who captured the hearts and imagination of audiences in An American Tail. The Mousekwitz family discovers the streets of America are not all paved with cheese, and living in a mouse tenement does not offer the life they hoped for. Young Tanya dreams of becoming a famous singer, and Fievel wants to become a tough lawdog like his hero Wylie Burp. Lured out west by the crafty entrepreneur Cat R. Waul, Fievel discovers the evil gentleman's true plans to turn the settlers into mouse-burgers. Enlisting the aid of his cat friend Tiger, the two team up with the legendary Wylie Burp to stop the feline gang's dastardly plot. Thrills and laughs come together in this heartwarming family film featuring the voices of James Stewart, John Cleese, Dom DeLuise, Amy Irving and an engaging original score including the unforgettable "Dreams to Dream" sung by Linda Ronstadt.
Rated G
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