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Contacts -------- The plot summaries database is maintained by Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk>. All additions to the summaries list should be submitted through the movie database mail-server additions interface (see the section "How to submit your additions" below for details). Summaries sent directly to me receive much lower priority. You have been warned... Questions about the format not covered in the rules below may be sent directly to me <colint@spider.co.uk>, but must have "PLOT QUERY" in the subject line. For more information on the movie database project see Col Needham's FAQ, available by sending e-mail with the subject "HELP FAQ" to <movie@ibmpcug.co.uk> League Table ------------ This section contains the top ten submitters to the plot summaries list. At the moment these are: Number | Name -------|----------------------------------------------------- 346 BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> 301 BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> 183 BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> 155 BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> 68 BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> 61 BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> 50 BY: Sami Al-Taher <smmat@ukc.ac.uk> 42 BY: Todd A. Bobenrieth <TAB146@PSUVM.EDU> 36 BY: Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com> 30 BY: Simon N. McIntosh-Smith <Simon.N.Smith@cm.cf.ac.uk> Facts & Figures --------------- * The plot summaries database is part of the rec.arts.movies movie database * All the interfaces to the movie database support it fully. * The list currently contains more than 1900 plot outlines for over 1700 movies ! * A selection of movies will be posted to rec.arts.movies, with a request for people to send plot summaries for them. NOTE: Due to the volume of submissions, it is now impossible for me to proof read every summary (as I did for the first 1100..) The importance of following these rules has increased because of this, and we are relying on you all to stick to them. Incorrectly formatted data will take significantly longer to make it into the database and may even be rejected outright. Rules ----- 1. Try to avoid any spoilers. Some very small spoilers will be allowed, and are often necessary, but any biggies will annoy other readers when they find out the Butler didn't do it ! 2. Any analysis of the film should be left out of the plot summary. e.g. "This film is one of Hitchcocks finest". It is up to the viewer to decide if he/she likes it. This includes performances by actors and actresses. 3. Where possible, try not to use any actor or actress names in the plot outline. This is already taken care of in the movie database. If possible, use the character names from the movie. 4. All copyrighted material is excluded from the plot outlines database. This includes Movie Guides, Newspapers, and even the blurb on the back of the video case. 5. You must stick to the pre-arranged format given below. The plot summaries will be read in by a program, and will automatically be added to the list. Any non-conformant outlines may be discarded. 6. Try and keep it reasonably short. Less than 10 lines for the description if possible. 7. A list of genre types will be supplied, but if the film you are summarising doesn't fit, just add your own. In the case of multiple-genre movies, e.g. Comedy Thriller, try and stick to 2 or 3 main types, with the most significant genre coming first - i.e. if something is primarily a comedy with a bit of horror, list it as: Comedy Horror. You may add sub-genres after the main genres, e.g. Sci-Fi Romance Underwater Extra-terrestrials. 8. Any queries about plots or the submitting of plots must have "PLOT QUERY" in the subject line. 9. Please try and spell check any summaries you submit. 10.Try and keep you BY: line consistent if you write more than one summary. You will never make it into the top 10 if you have 5 variations of your name/mail address. 11.If you spot an error in a summary, mail me at colint@spider.co.uk, with "PLOT ERROR" as the subject line. Spelling and Grammar errors should be ignored. Format ------ First an example: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Vertigo PL: San Francisco police detective (Scottie Fergusson) develops a fear of PL: heights and is forced to retire when a colleague falls to his death during PL: a chase. An old college friend (Gavin Elster) hires Scottie to watch his PL: wife (Madeleine) who has become obsessed with the past. Scottie follows her PL: around San Francisco and is drawn into a complex plot. GE: Mystery Thriller BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The format is: MV: <title> PL: <text> GE: <genres> BY: <Real Name> followed by mail name, or enter anonymous if you wish where: "MV:" indicates the title of the movie, please follow the form as used on the lists. If you are in doubt check the movie database for a definitive answer. "PL:" upto 76 characters per line of description. The description may span several PL lines. "GE:" genre keywords, separated by spaces with upto 76 characters per line. GE lines may also be repeated, but this is unlikely in reality. "BY:" author of description. Enter your name (or pseudonym) here. You may enter anonymous if you wish. The PL, GE and BY lines are treated as belonging to the last MV line encountered by the software. The processing software ignore blank lines and lines starting with a '-' so you can make the descriptions look tidy if you wish. Genres ------ Listed here are some genres for the more popular types of movies. Drama Comedy War Crime Musical Romance Biography Adventure Horror Thriller Historical Mystery Sci-Fi Fantasy Sports Spy Childrens Political Animated Action Prison Religious Opera Disaster Dance Try and use these, or combinations of them, for the main genre field. The sub-genre can be anything really. Some more examples ------------------ MV: Alien (1979) PL: The crew of the deep space mining ship Nostromo are awoken from hypersleep PL: to investigate a strange signal from a nearby planet. While investigating PL: the signal, they discover it was intended as a warning, and not an SOS. PL: What follows are some grisly and inventive special effects based on the PL: work of H.R.Giger BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Horror Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade PL: Renowned archeologist and expert in the occult, Dr. Indiana Jones, returns PL: for the 3rd and final Indy film. Teaming up with his father, Indiana PL: sets out to try and find the Holy Grail. Once again, the Nazis are after PL: the same prize, and try to foil Indianas plans. BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Adventure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How to submit your additions ---------------------------- For a full guide to submitting additions to the movie database, send an e-mail message with the subject "HELP ADD" to <movie@ibmpcug.co.uk>. To submit new plot summaries follow these guidelines: * place your formatted summaries (see previous section) in a file and before the first summary put the word: PLOTS on a line on it's own (exactly as above in uppercase letters) * after the end of the last summary put the word: END on a line on it's own (exactly as above in uppercase letters) * DO NOT include the lines "-"'s to separate summaries as shown in the examples above. Lines of dashes are assumed to be start of .signature markers in the mail-server and subsequent lines are ignored! * finally, mail the file with the subject: ADD to <movie@ibmpcug.co.uk> and the server will return a receipt once your data has arrived. You must use the subject "ADD" otherwise the server will interpret your message as a request for information and the data will be lost. Your summaries will be placed in a queue and processed when the list is next updated. Other Lists ----------- The rec.arts.movies database consists of the following lists: List | Maintained by | Updated ---------------------|--------------------------------------------|---------- Actors | Col Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> | 09/30/94 Actresses | Col Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> | 09/30/94 Alternative Titles | Michel Hafner <hafner@ifi.unizh.ch> | 09/16/94 Biographies | Mark Harding <ccsmh@ss1.bath.ac.uk> | 09/30/94 Character Names | Steve Hammond <shammond@indirect.com> | 09/16/94 Cinematographers | Michel Hafner <hafner@ifi.unizh.ch> | 09/16/94 Composers | Michel Hafner <hafner@ifi.unizh.ch> | 09/16/94 Costume Designers | Michel Hafner <hafner@ifi.unizh.ch> | 09/16/94 Crazy Credits | Mark Harding <ccsmh@ss1.bath.ac.uk> | 09/23/94 Directors | Col Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> | 09/30/94 Editors | Col Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> | 09/30/94 Goofs | Michael Gaines <starman@intac.com> | 09/02/94 Movies | Michel Hafner <hafner@ifi.unizh.ch> | 09/16/94 Plot Summaries | Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> | 09/30/94 Producers | Andre Bernhardt <ujad@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> | 07/29/94 Production Designers | Michel Hafner <hafner@ifi.unizh.ch> | 09/16/94 Quotes | Lars J Aas <larsa@colargol.edb.tih.no> | 09/16/94 Ratings | Col Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> | 09/30/94 Running Times | Mark Harding <ccsmh@ss1.bath.ac.uk> | 09/30/94 Soundtracks | Ron Higgins <rhiggins@carroll1.cc.edu> | 09/16/94 Trivia | Murray Chapman <muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au> | 09/23/94 Writers | Jon Reeves <reeves@zk3.dec.com> | 08/26/94 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The lists are available via anonymous FTP from: cathouse.org in pub/cathouse/movies/database ftp.funet.fi in pub/culture/tv+film/lists SEARCHING THE DATABASE ====================== The movie database frequently asked questions list contains more information on the whole movie database project. For a copy send an e-mail message with the subject "HELP FAQ" to <movie@ibmpcug.co.uk>. Here is a summary of the ways to access the database: (1) e-mail interface For details send a message with the subject HELP to <movie@ibmpcug.co.uk> (2) WWW interface The database is available via the World Wide Web. Access is via a "browser". The two main WWW browsers are Mosaic and Lynx... Mosaic (X windows, MS-Windows, Mac, Amiga) ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu /Web lynx (vt100) ftp.wustl.edu /packages/www/lynx From your browser, OPEN or GO to the any of the following documents: http://www.cm.cf.ac.uk/Movies/ (European users prefered) http://www.msstate.edu/Movies/ (USA/rest of world prefered) http://ballet.cit.gu.edu.au/Movies/ (Australian users *only*) See the comp.infosystems.www FAQ for more information on the WWW. (3) local installation (Unix/Amiga) The movie database package enables you to install the data locally and provides a variety of search tools. It is available via anonymous FTP: cathouse.org in /pub/cathouse/movies/database/tools/moviedb-3.0.tar.Z ftp.funet.fi in /pub/culture/tv+film/lists/tools/moviedb-3.0.tar.gz see the README file in the same directories for more information. The Amiga version is in the file mdb_Amiga_3.0.lha. (4) local installation (MS-DOS) The CineBASE program provides an MS-DOS interface to the database and is also available via anonymous FTP: cathouse.org in /pub/cathouse/movies/database/tools/cb141.arj ftp.funet.fi in /pub/culture/tv+film/lists/tools/msdos/cb141.arj (note: preloaded database files for CineBASE are available from the ftp.funet.fi site in the same directory as the program archive) (5) telnet access via WWW There are several telnet'able WWW servers. Here are some examples; telnet info.cern.ch then type go http://www.cm.cf.ac.uk/Movies/ telnet www.njit.edu (login: www) then type g http://www.cm.cf.ac.uk/Movies/ telnet ukanaix.cc.ukans.edu (login: www) needs vt100 then look under "by Subject" then "Movies" PLOT SUMMARIES LIST =================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: "Adventures of Brisco County Jr., The" PL: Hired by local robber barons, Harvard Law Graduate Brisco PL: County, Jr. searches for the members of the infamous John Bly PL: gang, the same men who killed his father, a famous marshall and PL: western legend. Accompanied by his friend and fellow bounty PL: hunter Lord Boler, Brisco rides through the west, trying to PL: bring his father's killers to justice. BY: Kevin <Kibble@vm.temple.edu> GE: Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: "Are You Being Served?" PL: At London's Grace Brothers Department Store, Mr. Grainger of Gents' PL: Ready-Made and his sales staff learn that they must share their sales PL: floor with Mrs. Slocombe and Miss Brahms of Ladies' Intimate Apparel. PL: No one is happy with the arrangement at first, but they learn to make PL: the most of it. BY: Kevin Ackley <k.ackley@genie.geis.com> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: "Avengers, The" PL: Patrick Steed works for British Intelligence and always has a female PL: partner. The problems he finds are always a bit odd, just on the PL: edge of science fiction (Cyborg killers, a city built under a disused PL: coal mine, a gang put together for adrenalin junkies, and a killer who PL: uses a concentrated cold virus to kill his victims by having them sneeze PL: to death). Steed is always the ultimate in culture and grace as he saves PL: the world each week. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Action Mystery Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: "Babylon 5" PL: After surviving an interstellar with the Mimbari, a technologically PL: advanced humanoid race, Humanity builds a series of space stations to PL: allow for diplomatic interchange. The first 4 were destroyed. Commander PL: Sinclair is the head man on Babylon 5 which must not only be a kind of PL: interstellar United Nations, but a neutral city and guardian of commerce PL: against spacegoing pirates. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Sci-fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: "Barney Miller" PL: Barney Miller is the kind of cop we'd all like to run into. He is always PL: sensible. He maintains order over a squad room of detectives who gamble PL: for a hobby, get hit on by anything in skirts, go to renaissance PL: philosophy conventions for fun, and would really prefer to be writing. PL: Nearly all of the action takes place in the squad room where the PL: citizens and criminals are brought in to complicate the mix. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Cop ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: "Bewitched" PL: Samantha, a powerful member of the society of witches that has PL: lived apart from (and disdained) humanity for many centuries, PL: falls in love with a mortal, Darrin Stephens. Much to the disgust of PL: most of her family, she vows to give up witchcraft and become an PL: ordinary suburban housewife, raising a family (bearing Tabitha and PL: Adam). Never able to give up her heritage completely, the friction PL: between the matriarchal, moneyless society of her birth and the PL: patriarchal, capitalist society of modern advertising drives the PL: comedy over eight seasons and 256 episodes, from 1964 to 1971. BY: David Carroll <davidc@atom.ansto.gov.au> GE: Comedy Fantasy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: "Blue Light" PL: An american correspondent pretends to go over to the Nazi's in World War II PL: but is instead working for the officially neutral United States against PL: Hitler. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Spy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: "Bodyline" (mini) PL: True story of the England cricket team's tour of Australia in which PL: a new term entered the cricketing vocabulary. Bodyline refers to the PL: unpopular, yet successful tactic of bowling to hit the batsman. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Sports Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: "Brideshead Revisited" (mini) PL: Anthony Andrews and Jeremy Irons play two young men who meet at Oxford. PL: Irons though of no family or money becomes friends with Andrews when PL: Andrews breaks his foot and wants a companion. Irons becomes involved PL: with Andrews family which is landed gentry and Catholic in Protestant PL: England. The story is told in flashback as Irons, now an officer in PL: the British Army is moved with his company to an English country home PL: that he discovers to be Brideshead, Andrews family home where Irons has a PL: series of memories of his youth and young manhood, his loves, life, and PL: a journey of faith and anguish. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: "Captain Nice" PL: Carter Nash is a police scientist working in the police lab. One day he PL: finds a formula that turns him into a superhero. Since he was wearing PL: red long johns and a blue suit when the transformation takes place, the only PL: thing that survives is his belt buckle with his initials, "CN". He is now PL: wearing a red and blue tattered outfit and when pressed says the belt PL: buckle stands for 'Captain Nice.' BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: "Coronet Blue" PL: Mike is running from some men when he falls into the harbour. He climbs PL: out remembering only that he was running and the phrase 'coronet blue'. PL: As the show continues from week to week, Mike tries to piece together clues PL: as to his identity as individuals he refers to as Greybeards seem to be PL: intent on killing him. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Mystery Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: "Danger UXB" PL: Anthony Andrews plays a young Lt. in the early days of World War II who is PL: assigned to a UXB unit. UXB is the signal that an aerial bomb has not PL: exploded. Andrews' job is to deactivate bombs made by german technicians PL: some of which have fuses specifically designed to kill him. The series PL: takes us through his maturation as an officer, a love story with Judy PL: Geeson, and the stresses and strains of wartime on the civilians and PL: military in England. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Drama Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: "Diagnosis Murder" PL: Police detective Steve Sloan believes that top manager Nick Osborn has PL: killed his boss, trust-owner Russell Cord. His father, senior hospital PL: doctor Mark Sloan, is convinced that his long-time patient Osborn is PL: innocent and soon discovers three other top employees of the Cord Group PL: who also had reasons for killing their boss. Pretending to be a medical PL: police consultant, Dr Sloan starts investigating the case himself, PL: supported by a junior doctor and a young female pathologist. Besides, PL: the merry old doctor saves the life of a young street urchin and takes PL: tap-dance lessons from an old patient. BY: Otto Oberhauser <Oberhauser@cc.univie.ac.at> GE: Crime Medical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: "Flickers" PL: In the early days of film Bob Hoskins plays an operator who wants to move PL: up from just showing movies to producing his own. Many of the scenes are PL: set by title cards as we watch the little troup that he collects each show PL: differing motivations and skills in the operation. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Historical Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: "Frasier" PL: Eminent Boston Psychiatrist, Frasier Crane, last seen gracing the bars of PL: Cheers has left his life there to start afresh in Seattle. PL: He now has a spot as a popular radio Psychiatrist, giving him the chance PL: to spread words of wit and wisdom to the masses. He shares his apartment PL: with his retired cop father, Martin, and his father's psychic care PL: assistant, Daphne Moon. PL: Add in brother Niles, Eddie the dog, some bizarre situations and plenty PL: of humour and you've got all the ingredients for an excellent show and PL: worthy successor to Cheers. BY: Mark Harding <ccsmh@midge.bath.ac.uk> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: "Fugitive, The" PL: Dr. Richard Kimble is accused to be the murder of his wife. The PL: night before his execution, he escapes. The only chance PL: to prove his innocence is to find the man who killed Kimbles wife. PL: Kimble, persecuted by the Lt. Gerard, risks his life severel PL: times when he shows his identity to help other people out PL: of trouble. BY: Florian Baumann (baumann@msmhpd.hoechst.hoechst-ag.dbp.de) GE: Crime ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: "General Hospital" PL: Events in this daytime drama are centred in Port Charles, a community PL: on the coast in upper New York. Ongoing plots are centred around PL: the people who work in General Hospital, people who work in the business PL: community (most notably for the Quartermaines' company ELQ), and some PL: sort of international intrigue involving former agents of the WSB PL: (World Security Bureau). Big plots of the past include Luke and Laura's PL: wedding and Nikos Castadine's evil weather machine. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama Soap ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: "Highlander" PL: Taken from the film, Highlander, Duncan McCleod, clansman of Colin in the PL: film also finds he is being stalked by not only other immortals trying to PL: kill him before the time of the gathering, but also a secret society of PL: mortals who call themselves 'The Watchers' and also seem intent on killing PL: him. Duncan and the other immortals can only be killed by decapitation and PL: often live for centuries. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Action Adventure Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: "Lonesome Dove" (mini) PL: Epic story about two former Texas rangers who decide to move cattle PL: from the south to Montana. Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call run into PL: many problems on the way, and the journey doesn't end without numerous PL: casualties. (6 hrs approx) BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Western ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: "Man from U.N.C.L.E., The" PL: Napoleon Solo and Illya Kullyakin are the two agents of the United Network PL: Command for Law Enforcement, who fight evil (primarily an organization of PL: Bad people called, THRUSH) and use charm, wit, and a never ending assortment PL: of gadgets. Ran for 4 years. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Spy Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: "Pallisers, The" (mini) PL: Follows the novels of Anthony Trollope. Beginning with the forced PL: Marriage of Susan Hampshire, the lives of the friends and children of PL: this couple are the subject of study. The backdrop is the House of PL: Commons in Great Britain as we watch the comings and goings and loves PL: and tragedies of the powerful and not so powerful. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: "QB VII" (mini) PL: Adam Kelno has made it to England in the days following World War PL: II. Having escaped from a death camp in Nazi Europe, he finds that PL: his identification with anti-comunists in Poland has made him a target PL: of the Soviet Government, which brings up war crime charges against him PL: in England. When the witness is unable to identify him as one of the PL: doctors who castrated him, he is released. Kelno takes his wife and PL: young son to Arabia where he labors for years upgrading public health PL: standards. Upon his return to England he is Knighted. Twenty years PL: have passed and he has just begun to enjoy his life of renown when a PL: book is published that names him as a willing participant to Nazi PL: medical experiments on Jews in the camps. He sues for defamation and PL: finds that not only can he not escape his past, but that the plaintif PL: a defamation case has his own reputation on trial. QB VII refers to the PL: courtroom in which the trial is held, Queen's Bench, Room 7. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Courtroom Mystery Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: "Quantum Leap" PL: Doctor Sam Beckett led a group of top scientists into the PL: desert to research his theory that a man could time travel PL: within his own lifetime. Unfortunately, in order to save his PL: funding, he was forced to enter the accelerator prematurely PL: and vanished. He then found himself in someone else's body PL: with partial amnesia. His only contact from home is Al, a PL: holographic image only he can see and hear. Setting right PL: things which once went wrong, Sam leaps from life to life, PL: hoping each time that this is the final leap home. BY: Kevin <Kibble@vm.temple.edu> GE: Drama Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: "Run for Your Life" PL: Ben Gazara plays a successful lawyer who is told in the first episode PL: is told by his doctor that he will die in one to two years. He decides PL: to do all of the things he has never had time for. The program becomes PL: a series of plays in which he meets a wide variety of people from bums PL: riding the rails, to gigilos, to orphans and becomes a man who has PL: little fear of death and everything but time. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: "Sandbaggers, The" PL: Neil Burnside is head of the operations division of British intelligence. PL: His big guns are the Sandbaggers, 2-3 agents who handle anything from PL: pickups to assassinations. The plot stresses the cerebral side of PL: operations, and the ambiguity of the cold war. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Spy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: "Smiley's People" (mini) PL: Called out of retirement to settle the affairs of a friend, Smiley finds PL: his old organization, the Circus, so overwhelmed by political considerations PL: that it doesn't want to know what happened. He begins to follow up the PL: clues of his friends past days, discovering that the clues lead to PL: a high person in the Russian Secret service, and a secret important PL: enough to kill for. Smiley continues to put together the pieces a step PL: ahead or a step behind the Russian killers. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Spy Mystery ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: "Star Trek" (1966) PL: It is the 23rd century and together with the crew of the Federation PL: starship Enterprise we travel across the galaxy to meet new and PL: exciting life forms on distant planets. The 80 episode TV series which PL: was produced from 1966 to 1969 has now cult character and has fans PL: all over the world. BY: Harald Mayr <marvin@augusta.de> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" PL: Ben Sisko brings his son to his new command, Deep Space Nine. It is a PL: Cardassian Space Station orbiting Bajor, a conquered world that is being PL: evacuated by the Cardassians as the result of a peace treaty with the PL: Federation. Ben must work with frankly distrustful Bajorans who are not PL: at all sure that the Federation is any better than the Cardassian PL: occupation. His 2nd in command, Major Kira, has spent her whole life PL: fighting the Cardassians and has a very combative attitude. Odo, his PL: chief of security, is not only not humanoid, but is the sole known member PL: of a shape-shifting race. Odo's attitudes toward order and justice are PL: very inflexible. Quark, a Ferengi bar owner, gives us our first PL: consistent view of Ferengi behavior, including the Ferengi, _Rules of PL: Acquistition_. The space station is positioned in orbit over a new PL: discovery, a stable black hole that allows instant travel to a far PL: distant quadrant of space. The Bajorans, a very religious people have PL: a very different view of the phenomenon. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> PL: On the very edge of the Final Frontier and orbiting the planet Bajor PL: lies the space station Deep Space Nine. Following the withdrawal of PL: the Cardassian occupational forces, Starfleet has agreed to install a PL: Federation presence in this system. Commander Benjamin Sisko and his PL: crew must protect the station against evil forces and saving it from PL: destruction. BY: Harald Mayr <marvin@augusta.de> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: "Star Trek: The Next Generation" PL: Settled in the 24th century and 78 years after the adventures of the PL: original crew of the starship Enterprise this new series is the long PL: awaited successor to the original Star Trek series from the 1960's. PL: Under the command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard the all new Enterprise PL: NCC 1701-D travels out to distant planets to seek out new life and to PL: boldly go where no man has gone before. BY: Harald Mayr <marvin@augusta.de> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: "Thicker Than Water" PL: Debbie and Jo are identical twins. After Jo is killed in a car accident. PL: Debbie starts to act increasingly like Jo. Mysterious circumstances lead PL: Sam to suspect that the accident wasn't an accident at all. BY: Timo Lamminjoki <lamminjo@pcu.helsinki.fi> GE: Mystery Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: "Time Trax" PL: Each week Darian Lambert searches out criminals from the future hiding PL: out in our time. He is armed with a credit card that houses a powerful PL: computer which helps holographic image Darian search out threats to the PL: present. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Sci-fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" PL: George Smiley has been retired for about a year when he finds a friend PL: from the circus, his old outfit in British Intelligence sitting in his PL: living room. He is taken to the home of an advisor to the Prime Minister PL: on intelligence matters where he finds evidence that one of the men in PL: the senior ranks of his old agency is a Russian spy. Smiley is asked to PL: find him, without official access to any of the files in the Circus or PL: letting on that anyone is under suspicion. With only a few old friends, PL: his own powers of deduction, and secrecy as weapons, Smiley must unearth PL: the spy who turned him out of the Circus. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Spy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: "Twin Peaks" PL: The body of a young girl (Laura Palmer) is washed up on a beach near PL: the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale PL: Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover PL: a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into the heart PL: of the surrounding woodland and his very own soul. BY: Douglas Baptie GE: Drama Surreal ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: "Untouchables, The" (1959) PL: Chicago, 1930, time of the prohibition. And it is the great time for the PL: organized crime, the so called mafia. One of the big bosses is Al Capone. PL: He is the best know but at least, he was only one in a dirty game of PL: sex, crime and corruption. People are willing to pay any price to drink PL: alcohol, and sometimes it is their life they have to pay with. Special PL: agent Eliot Ness and his team are trying to defeat the alcohol mafia, PL: but in this job, you don't have any friends. BY: Florian Baumann (baumann@msmhpd.hoechst.hoechst-ag.dbp.de) GE: Crime ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: "Wanted: Dead or Alive" PL: A young man with a sawed off rifle as a holstered weapon makes a PL: living BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Western ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: "Who's the Boss?" (1984) PL: A TV show about Tony Micelli, the housekeeper, Angela Bauer, the PL: career-woman, their kids Samantha and Jonathon, and Mona, Angela's PL: man-crazy mother. BY: Liz Jordan <c9310494@alinga.newcastle.edu.au> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: "Wild, Wild West, The" PL: James West and Artemis Gordon are two agents of President Grant who take PL: their splendidly appointed private train through the west to fight evil. PL: Half science fiction and half western, the Artemis designs a series of PL: interesting gadgets for James that would make Inspector Gadget proud. PL: A light hearted adventure series. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Action Western Spy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: 'Crocodile' Dundee PL: New York reporter Sue travels to Australia to meet and interview Michael J PL: Crocodile Dundee, a man who runs a safari business and has just survived PL: an attacked by a crocodile. After spending a few days touring the safari PL: park, Sue invites Mick to come back with her to visit New York. How would PL: the clash of cultures and different life style affect the Aussie bushman? PL: How do things turn out when Sue falls for his charms? BY: Sami Al-Taher <smmat@ukc.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Adventure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: 'Crocodile' Dundee II PL: Mick and Sue continue where they left off in "'Crocodile' Dundee". PL: New York gangsters are pursuing Sue, so for her safety, Mick takes PL: her back to Oz. When the gangsters follow them, Mick demonstrates PL: his outback skills once more. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Adventure Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: 'Round Midnight PL: Aging jazz player Dale Turner (based on Bud Powell and Lester Young) lives PL: in an expatriate community in Paris, 1959. A local impoverished artist PL: is a big fan, and befriends Turner; the friendship inspires Turner to PL: new creativity. BY: Jon Reeves <reeves@zk3.dec.com> GE: Drama Biography ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: 'burbs, the PL: Ray Peterson takes a week off from work just to walk around in pyjamas all PL: day, read the newspaper and lay low. However, Raay Peterson have some very PL: peculiar neighbors. In fact he has no normal neighbors, but one neighbor PL: in particular is especially strange. Therefore Ray Peterson and the other PL: neighbors decide to investigate what's wrong with the Klopeks, and the PL: relaxing week off from work becomes something far from relaxing... BY: Lars J. Aas <larsa@colargol.edb.tih.no> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: *batteries not included PL: A group of tenants in an apartment block are being forced to PL: move out so that it can be demolished. The tenants are reluctant PL: to move, so the developers hire a local gang to 'persuade' them PL: to leave. Fortunately, visiting alien mechanical life-forms come PL: to town. When they befriend the tenants, the aliens use their PL: extraterrestrial abilities to defeat the developers. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> PL: The tenants in the last crumbling building on a Manhattan block try to hold PL: out against a big business property developer. They are on the verge of PL: giving in after a local gang is paid to wreck the building, but then help PL: arrives in the form of two small spaceships... BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Sci-Fi Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: 12 Angry Men PL: The defence and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing PL: into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty PL: or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut PL: case of murder soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the juror's prejudices PL: and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other. PL: Based on the play, all of the action takes place on the stage of the PL: jury room. BY: pjk <PETESID@VNET.IBM.COM> PL: One man in a jury deliberating on the murder trial of a PL: Hispanic boy attempts to convince all eleven others that PL: the boy is innocent in this adaptation of a play taking PL: place over real time. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> PL: Twelve jurors enter the deliberation room to decidean open and shut PL: case of a son's murder of a father. One of them disagrees having PL: seen a picture of the boy and his father smiling, insists they go over PL: the evidence again. As they examine it, flaws emerge. The numbers PL: shift from side to side as the picture of the murder changes as several PL: jurors confront their own backgrounds as they try and understand the PL: boy and his father's relationship. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Courtroom Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: 1492: Conquest of Paradise PL: Big budget account of Christopher Columbus' discovery of the Americas. PL: Released in 1992 to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the discovery. PL: Shows the disastrous affects the Europeans had on the original PL: inhabitants, and Columbus' struggle to civilise the new world. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Historical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: 1900 PL: Set in Italy, the film follows the lives and interactions of two boys/men, PL: one born a bastard of peasant stock (Depardieu), the other born to a land PL: owner (de Niro). The drama spans from 1900 to about 1945, and focuses PL: mainly on the rise of Fascism and the peasants' eventual reaction by PL: supporting Communism, and how these events shape the destinies of the two PL: main characters. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: 1941 PL: Hysteria grips California in the wake of the bombing of Pearl PL: harbour as an assorted group of defenders attempt to make the PL: coast defensible against an imagined Japanese invasion in this PL: big budget, big cast comedy. Members of a Japanese submarine PL: crew scout out the madness. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Comedy War ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: 1969 PL: Two friends, Ralph and Scott live in a small minded town at the offset of PL: the Vietnam war. While Scott's brother enlists, he and Ralph are outspoken PL: in their opposition to the war. Scott's attitude alienates him from his PL: father and he and Ralph leave town to enjoy their 'freedom'. PL: Various events lead them back to town where they learn of the death of the PL: brother. This event proves to be the catalyst needed to bridge the gap PL: between father and son and enlightens them both to the true cost of war. BY: Mark Harding <ccsmh@midge.bath.ac.uk> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: 2,000 Maniacs PL: The citizens of the southern town Pleasant Valley lure six Yankee tourists PL: into town where they are to be the reluctant guests for the centennial PL: celebration of the day a band of renegade Union troops decimated the town. PL: The town then participates in events, a different event for each of the PL: tourists, in which the tourist is dispatched. One couple begins to suspect PL: something and seeks a way to escape. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: 2001: A Space Odyssey PL: Based on a short story by Arthur C. Clarke, 2001 is the kind of film that PL: some people will love, and others will hate. There are many different PL: interpretations of this movie - many of them religious - and Kubrick PL: himself has avoided answering questions just to keep the confusion PL: going. One of the most famous "movie computers", HAL, plays a major PL: role in this film, and his interactions with his creator, Dave Bowman, PL: have been parodied many times. The footage of the moon was created PL: more than a year before Neil Armstrong landed there - and Kubrick had it PL: exactly right. All that is up for debate is what it all means... BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> PL: This movie is concerned with intelligence as the division between PL: animal and human, then asks a question; what is the next division? PL: Technology is treated as irrelevant to the quest - literally serving PL: as mere vehicles for the human crew, and as a shell for the immature PL: HAL entity. PL: Story told as a montage of impressions, music and impressive and PL: careful attention to subliminal detail. A very influential film PL: and still a class act, even after 25 years. BY: Robin Kenny <robink@hparc0.aus.hp.com> GE: Sci-Fi Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: 2010 PL: In this sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey, a joint American- PL: Soviet expedition is sent to Jupiter to discover what went PL: wrong with the U.S.S. Discovery against a backdrop of growing PL: global tensions. Among the mysteries the expedition must PL: explain are the appearance of a huge black monolith in PL: Jupiter's orbit and the fate of H.A.L., the Discovery's PL: sentient computer. Based on a novel written by Arthur C. Clarke. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: 3 Men and a Baby PL: Three bachelor friends - architect Peter, artist Michael, and actor Jack PL: are sharing an apartment in Manhattan. After Jack goes filming in Turkey PL: his two flatmates find his baby daughter - which Jack doesn't know about - PL: left outside their door. The two are left to look after the baby, and PL: realise how difficult this can be. How would this baby change the life PL: style of these confirmed bachelors? BY: Sami Al-Taher <smmat@ukc.ac.uk> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: 3 Nuts in Search of a Bolt PL: An out of work Method actor is hired by a male model, an ecdysiast, and PL: a car salesman who live together to save money. They want the actor to PL: listen to their problems and go see a psychiatrist so they can get PL: counselling for cheap. The psychiatrist is intrigued by the split PL: personalities indicated by the three separate sets of problems presented PL: by the actor, and soon producers are climbing out of the woodwork trying PL: to buy the rights to the film, while the actor is having trouble keeping PL: his act together. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: 39 Steps, The (1935) PL: Richard Hannay is a Canadian visitor to 1930's London. After a disturbance PL: at a music hall, he meets Annabella Smith who is on the run from foreign PL: agents. He takes her back to his apartment, but they are followed and PL: later that night Annabella is murdered. Hannay goes on the run to break the PL: spy ring and thus prove his innocence. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Thriller Spy Road ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: 4 Aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle PL: Reinette and Mirabelle are two young girls. Reinette lives in the PL: countryside, Mirabelle in Paris. They meet during a holiday of PL: Mirabelle in the country, when Reinette helps her to repair the tube PL: of her bicycle and shows her the beauties of nature and in PL: particular the 'blue hour'. PL: They like each other and decide to take a flat together PL: in Paris, where they'll attend at the University. But isn't so easy to live PL: together when the characters are so different: as Reinette is simple and PL: enthusiastic, as Mirabelle is obscure and lazy. BY: Maurizio Semolic <semolic@oat.ts.astro.it> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: 48 HRS. PL: Jack Gates, a San Francisco police officer has to hunt a brutal murderer PL: who has escaped from prison. His only chance to track this guy down PL: is to release a former gang-member (Reggie Hammond) out of prison for 48 PL: hours so that he can help Gates by finding the murderer. BY: Harald Mayr <marvin@augusta.de> PL: Oddball cop and tough guy, Jack Cates is the only survivor of a cop PL: shooting and in hunting down the murderer collects Reggie Hammond PL: from jail for 48 hours. Hammond is oddly motivated to help. The PL: killer is searching for his stash of cash. Cates and Hammond who PL: have the Black-white, cop-crook thing to work out make surprisingly PL: good partners as they navigate through the city looking for their PL: suspect. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Police Action Adventure Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Abominable Dr. Phibes, The PL: Doctors are being murdered in a bizarre manner: bats, bees, killer frog PL: masks, etc., which represent the nine Biblical plagues. The crimes are PL: orchestrated by a demented organ player with the help of his mute PL: assistant. The detective is stumped until he finds that all of the PL: doctors being killed assisted a Dr. Vesalius on an unsuccessful operation PL: involving the wife of Dr. Phibes, but he couldn't be the culprit, could PL: he? He was killed in a car crash upon learning of his wife's death... BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: About Last Night... PL: Danny and Bernie are two single men living their lives on the wild side. PL: But when Danny meets Debbie at a bar and the two start a relationship PL: with a one night stand, Danny's life takes a different turn. How does this PL: passionate night become a full affair and what effect will this PL: relationship have on both people and their friendship with their best PL: mates ? BY: Sami Al-Taher <smmat@ukc.ac.uk> GE: Romance Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Absence of Malice PL: Paul Newman plays the son of a long dead mafia boss who is a simple liquor PL: warehouse owner. Frustrated in their attempt to solve a murder of a union PL: head, a prosecutor leaks a false story that Newman is a target of the PL: investigation, hoping that he will tell them something for protection. As PL: His live begins to unravel, others are hurt by the story. Sally Field, the PL: reporter, is in the clear under the Absence of Malice rule in slander and PL: libel cases. Knowing nothing to trade to the prosecutors, Newman must PL: regain control of his life on different ground. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Drama Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Abyss, The PL: An American nuclear submarine is attacked (during the cold war) and crashes PL: underwater. The navy asks the workers of a nearby underwater oil rig who PL: are joined by a number of navy SEALS to locate and investigate the cause of PL: the crash. As the crew embark on their mission, they encounter a number of PL: difficulties and discover that they may not be alone. There is something PL: else down there. BY: Sami Al-Taher <smmat@ukc.ac.uk> GE: Action Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Accused, The (1988) PL: Sarah Tobias goes to her local bar and is gang-raped by three men. PL: The district attorney on the case is Katheryn Murphy who wants to PL: prove that although Sarah had taken drugs that night and was acting PL: provocatively while in the bar, this is no reason for her to be so PL: brutally attacked and the men responsible should be brought to justice. BY: Sami Al-Taher <smmat@ukc.ac.uk> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective PL: To be a Pet Detective, you have to understand both the criminals and PL: animals. Ace Ventura goes even further... He behaves like a criminal PL: animal. When a soccer team's mascot (a dolphin) is stolen just before PL: the Superbowl, Ace Ventura is put on the case. Now, who would want to PL: steal a dolphin, and why? BY: Lars J. Aas <larsa@colargol.edb.tih.no> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Act of God (TV) PL: Documentary film by Peter Greenaway made for Thames Television, in PL: which people who have survived being struck by lightning relate their PL: experiences against a typically Greenaway backdrop of lists, black PL: humour, 'collated statistics', bizarre camera angles and Michael Nyman PL: music. BY: D.Giddings <sdjg0@uk.ac.rl.ib> GE: Documentary ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Adam's Rib (1949) PL: Married lawyers Adam and Amanda Bonner find themselves on opposite sides PL: of the courtroom in this comedy. Adam is prosecuting a high-profile case PL: in which a woman is accused of trying to murder her philandering husband. PL: Amanda acts as her defense attorney, and the sparring begins. BY: Liza Esser <essereli@student.msu.edu> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Addams Family, The PL: The Addams step out of Charles Addams' cartoons. They live with all of PL: the trappings of the macabre (including a detached hand for a servant) PL: and are quite wealthy. Added to this mix is a crooked accountant and his PL: loan shark and a plot to slip in the shark's son into the family as their PL: long lost Uncle Fester. Can the false Fester find his way into the vault PL: before he is discovered? BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> PL: For 25 years uncle Fester has been missing. An evil doctor finds out PL: and introduces a fake Fester in an attemt to get the Adams Family's PL: money. The youngest daughter has some doubts as to the sincerity of the PL: new uncle Fester. The fake uncle adapts very well to the strange PL: family. Can the doctor carry out her evil plans and take over the Adams PL: Family's fortune? BY: Ivo Kroone <ab2693@triton.heao.hsa.nl> GE: Comedy Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother, The PL: Gene Wilder plays Sherlock Holmes' younger brother who is annoyed that he PL: has had to live in Sherlock's shadow for so long. When Sherlock goes to PL: the continent, he sends a case to his brother who constantly tries with PL: varying success, to imitate Sherlock's deductive and observational tricks. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Mystery ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Adventures in Babysitting PL: Sarah has a big night out planned when her boyfriend cancels on her. She PL: agrees to babysit for a pre-teen girl and a pubescent boy. She's settled PL: in for a dull night when a girlfriend calls her to say she's marooned at PL: a downtown bus station with very seedy characters around. The three plus PL: one of the boy's friends get into the parents station wagon for a trip to PL: the inner city. All is well till the flat tire. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The PL: The fantastic tale of a 17th century aristocrat, his talented PL: henchmen and a little girl in their efforts to save a town from PL: defeat by the Turks. Being swallowed by a giant sea-monster, PL: a trip to the moon, a dance with Venus and an escape from the PL: Grim Reaper are only some of the improbable adventures. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Fantasy Adventure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, The PL: Buckaroo Banzai is a rock-star/brain-surgeon/comic-book-hero/samurai/etc PL: who along with his group, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, must stop evil creatures PL: from the 8th dimension (all named John) who are trying to conquer our PL: dimension. He is helped by Penny Pretty, who is a dead ringer for his PL: ex-wife, and some good extra-dimensional beings who look and talk like PL: they are from Jamaica. BY: Greg Bole <bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> PL: Neurosurgeon/Rock Star/Superhero Buckaroo has perfected the oscillation PL: overthruster, which allows him to travel through solid matter by using the PL: eighth dimension. The Red Lectroids from Planet 10 are after this device PL: for their own evil ends, and it's up to Buckaroo and his band and PL: crime-fighting team The Hong Kong Cavaliers to stop them. BY: Jon Reeves <reeves@zk3.dec.com> GE: Comedy Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Adventures of Ford Fairlane, The PL: Ford "Mr. Rock n' Roll Detective" Fairlane is experiencing problems, and PL: it's not with the opposite sex. One of them is that all the rock stars PL: pay him with drum sticks, koala bears, food processors and bicycle shorts. PL: Another one of them is that all his employers that want him to find a girl PL: named Zuzu Petals get killed. Why didn't he become a fisherman's detective PL: instead? A must-see for Andrew Dice Clay fans. BY: Lars J. Aas <larsa@colargol.edb.tih.no> GE: Comedy Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Adventures of Huck Finn, The PL: Huck is constantly getting into trouble despite the widow Douglas' best PL: efforts to reform him. His drunken father kidnaps Huck with plans to kill PL: him in order to get the money his dead mother left Huck. Huck fakes his PL: death and escapes down the Mississippi river, where he teams up with PL: runaway slave Jim, and they have various adventures together. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama Adventure Family ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, The PL: Two stories. PL: The Wind in the Willows: Concise version of Kenneth Grahame's story PL: of the same name. J. Thaddeus Toad, owner of Toad Hall, is prone to PL: fads, such as the newfangled motor car. This desire for the very PL: latest lands him in much trouble with the wrong crowd, and it is up PL: to his friends, Mole, Rat and Badger to save him from himself. PL: - PL: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: Retelling of Washington Irving's story PL: set in a tiny New England town. Ichabod Crane, the new PL: schoolmaster, falls for the town beauty, Katrina Van Tassel, and PL: the town Bully Brom Bones decides that he is a little too successful PL: and needs "convincing" that Katrina is not for him. BY: Tim Pickett <quetzal@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au> GE: Animated Childrens ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Adventures of Robin Hood, The PL: Sir Robin of Locksley, defender of downtrodden Saxons, runs afoul of PL: Norman authority and is forced to turn outlaw. With his band of Merry PL: Men, he robs from the rich, gives to the poor and still has time to PL: woo the lovely Maid Marian, and foil the cruel Sir Guy of Gisbourne, PL: and keep the nefarious Prince John off the throne. BY: Little Pine Weasel <kristinat@cerritos.edu> PL: Robin of Locksley has gone to a state dinner fresh from killing a King's PL: deer when Prince John tells him he is assuming power. Robin vows to stop PL: him and collects every pheasant he can find to create a resistance movement. PL: Along the way, he meets, woos, and wins the Lady Marrion who slips him PL: information about Prince John's plans. When Marrion is captured, Robin PL: and his men decide to storm Nottingham Castle to rescue her. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Action Adventure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Affair to Remember, An PL: Nicky Ferrante is an international, European playboy setting forth on PL: a cruise ship headed for New York to meet his wealthy fiancee. Terry PL: McKay, a former night-club singer, is sailing to New York to be with her PL: long-time boyfriend, who flew on ahead to close a business deal. Nicky PL: and Terry meet on the long cruise, and romance, replete with PL: complications, ensues. BY: Cheryl Valentine <oopcv@trex.oscs.montana.edu> GE: Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: African Queen, The PL: At the start of World War 1, Charlie Allnut is using his old steamer, PL: The African Queen, to ferry supplies to villages in East Africa. When PL: German troops kill the Rev. Samual Sayer, Charlie agrees to take Sayers' PL: sister, Rose, back to civilization. taking on the Germans at the same PL: time. BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Adventure Romance War ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: After Dark, My Sweet PL: An ex-boxer is drifting around after escaping from the mental hospital. PL: He meets a widow who convinces him to help fix up the neglected estate PL: her ex-husband left. Her Uncle talks them both into helping kidnap a rich PL: boy for ransom money, and the ex-fighter must make decisions about his PL: loyalties and what is right. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama Crime Mystery ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: After the Fox PL: The Fox is a criminal mastermind vacationing in one of Italy's finest PL: prisons sending care packages home with each visitor. When he finds that PL: his little sister has begun to discover boys and that his dim witted men PL: don't think they can handle her, he vows to escape. After he eludes the PL: manhunt, he accepts a job to smuggle gold into the country for which he PL: assembles an entire movie company, including an ageing star (Victor Mature) PL: for cover as he manages to stay several steps ahead of the authorities. PL: Little sister, in her own way manages to keep up with him nicely. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Crime ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Air America PL: Billy is a wacko pilot who loses his last straight job as a helicopter PL: traffic reporter by getting into a screaming match with a driver. He PL: takes a job working for what amounts to a CIA airline in asia. Billy PL: puts it as, "I'm used to being the weirdest person in the room. Here I PL: don't even make the top ten." There is an insurgency shooting at them, PL: government soldiers running drugs, a pilot who is supplying arms to the PL: whole region, and those are the straightforward sub plots. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Airplane II: The Sequel PL: The hero of an unlikely airplane disaster must overcome his PL: own inadequacies, improbable accidents and his former PL: girlfriend in order to save a space shuttle from destruction PL: in this spoof sequel of the disaster parody Airplane! BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Comedy Sci-Fi Disaster ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Airplane! PL: This is a spoof of the airport disaster movies. When the crew of an PL: airplane are struck by some form of virus, the fate of the passengers PL: depends on an ex-war pilot who is the only one able to land the PL: plane safely! The passengers represent a selection of interesting wacky PL: characters who seem to take every word for its literal meaning. BY: Sami Al-Taher <smmat@ukc.ac.uk> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Akira PL: Kaneda is a bike gang leader whose close friend Tetsuo gets involved PL: in a government secret project knowned as Akira. On his way to save Tetsuo, PL: Kaneda runs into a group of anti-government activist, greedy politicians, PL: irresponsible scientists and a powerful military leader. The confrontation PL: sparks off Tetsuo's supernatural power leading to bloody death, a coup PL: attempt and the final battle in Tokyo Olympiad where Akira's secrets PL: were buried 30 years ago. BY: Tzung-I Lin <tzung@hugo.att.com> GE: Japanese-Animation Adventure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Alamo Bay PL: A despondent Vietnam veteran in danger of losing his livelihood PL: is pushed to the edge when he sees Vietnamese immigrants moving PL: into the fishing industry in a Texas bay town. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Alan & Naomi PL: Set in the forties. A young Jewish boy is called on by his parents to PL: help a young girl come out of her shell, imposed after she watched her PL: father die at the hands of the Nazis. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Alexander Nevsky PL: It is the 13th century, and Russia is overrun by foreign invaders. PL: A Russian knyaz', or prince, Alexander Nevsky, rallies the people to PL: form a ragtag army to drive back an invasion by the Teutonic knights. PL: This is a true story based on the actual battle at a lake near Novgorod. BY: Gene Volovich {volovich@netcom.com} GE: Historical War ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Alfie PL: Alfie is the ultimate Ladykiller. He is wonderfully successful with women. PL: He also rarely gets emotionally involved with them. He has a series of PL: reversals in which his health is threatened, he has a child who is adopted PL: by another man, gets a married woman pregnant and must procure an abortion PL: for her, and when he decides to settle down is rejected for a younger man. BY: Anonymous GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Alice (1990) PL: Alice Tate, mother of two, with a marriage of 16 years, finds PL: herself falling for the handsome sax player, Joe. Stricken with PL: a backache, she consults Dr. Yang, an oriental herbalist who realizes PL: that her problems are not related to her back, but in her mind and PL: heart. Dr. Yang's magical herbs give Alice wonderous powers, taking PL: her out of well-established rut. BY: Carl Seiler GE: Romance Fantasy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Alice in Wonderland (1951) PL: Disney version of Lewis Carroll's Children's story. Alice becomes PL: bored and her mind starts to wander. She sees a white rabbit who PL: appears to be in a hurry. She chases it into its burrow and then PL: a most bizarre series of adventures begins. BY: Tim Pickett <quetzal@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au> GE: Animated Childrens Musical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Alice's Restaurant PL: Arlo Guthrie's song is converted into a motion picture. Arlo goes to see PL: Alice for Thanksgivng and as a favor takes her trash to the dump. When PL: the dump is closed, he drops it ontop of another pile of garbage at the PL: bottom of a ravine. When the local sheriff finds out a major manhunt PL: begins. Arlo manages to survive the courtroom experience but it haunts PL: him when he is to be inducted into the army via the draft. The movie PL: follows the song with Arlo's voice over as both music and narration. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Musical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Alien (1979) PL: The crew of the deep space mining ship Nostromo are awoken from hypersleep PL: to investigate a strange signal from a nearby planet. While investigating PL: the signal, they discover it was intended as a warning, and not an SOS. PL: What follows are some grisly and inventive special effects based on the PL: work of H.R.Giger BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Horror Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Alien 3 PL: Despite the efforts of Ripley and the space marines in the film Aliens, PL: an embryonic alien infiltrates the starship. It accidentally triggers the PL: ship's emergency systems, dropping the escape capsule to the surface of a PL: nearby planet. Ripley finds herself in a prison colony peopled by a PL: religious cult composed of former murderers and rapists. Meanwhile, the PL: alien has managed to grow into a new and deadly form, and is picking off PL: the weaponless prisoners. Ripley soon discovers, much to her horror, that PL: the real danger is much more personal... BY: David Thiel <d-thiel@uiuc.edu> PL: The movie starts right at the end of the second film where Ellen Ripley PL: and survivors start to travel back home. But unfortunately they crash PL: land on some prison planet and Ripley discovers that her companions PL: are already dead because of the Alien. Now the nightmare starts again as PL: the Alien is beginning to kill some of the inhabitants of the prison. BY: Harald Mayr <marvin@augusta.de> GE: Sci-Fi Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Alien Dead PL: A meteor strikes a houseboat in the swamps near a southern town PL: populated by Yankees with fake accents. The people on the houseboat PL: become zombies who feed on the alligators in the swamp. Once they PL: run out of alligators, they start going for the citizens. A local PL: scientist tries to figure out what's happening to people once they PL: start disappearing. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Alien Nation PL: A bigoted human policeman in the L.A. of the future and his PL: alien partner learn to live with each other's differences while PL: attempting to solve a drug conspiracy hidden in the subculture PL: of Los Angeles' newest immigrant population: extraterrestrials. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Sci-Fi Crime ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Aliens PL: The sequel to Alien is a non-stop, high-tech, war movie, with Space Marines. PL: Ripley is found in deep space by a salvage ship, 57 years after narrowly PL: escaping with her life - and her cat - at the end of Alien. She then PL: discovers The Company have colonised the planet where the alien was first PL: encountered. When contact with the colony is lost, The Company send a PL: team of Space Marines, with Ripley as an "advisor", to find out what has PL: happened. BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Sci-Fi Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Alive PL: Based on a true story. A Uruguayan rugby team charter a plane PL: to fly across the Andes. When the plane crashes, there are about PL: 20-25 survivors. Spotter planes are sent to locate the plane and PL: look for survivors, but hampered by the fierce weather conditions PL: they soon give up hope of finding anyone alive. After weeks without PL: food, the passengers are faced with a dilemma; eat the dead or join them. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Disaster ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: All About Eve PL: Aspiring actress Eve Harrington maneuvers her way into the lives PL: of Broadway star Margo Channing, playwright Lloyd Richards and PL: director Bill Sampson. This classic story of ambition and PL: betrayal has become part of American folklore. PL: Bette Davis claims to have based her character on the persona PL: of film actress Talullah Bankhead. Davis' line "Hang on, PL: everybody, it's going to be a bumpy night" is legendary, but, PL: in fact, all of the film's dialog sparkles with equal brilliance. BY: Jeanne Baker <jbaker@erim.org> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: All That Jazz PL: Director/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story PL: as he details the sordid life of Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider), PL: a womanizing, drug-using dancer. BY: Ray Hamel <hamel@primate.wisc.edu> GE: Musical Biography Dance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: All the President's Men PL: Enactment of the work of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein who uncovered the PL: dirty tricks campaign and the coverup of the White House's involvement in PL: the Watergate break in. The stories they wrote were very instrumental in PL: the eventual resignation of President Richard Nixon. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Historical Political ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Alligator II: The Mutation PL: A giant alligator runs riot in a small town with a lake connected to a PL: sewer/drainage system. Typical plot; nobody believes the sightings until PL: lots of people have been killed. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Horror Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Alphaville PL: Lemmy Caution, an American private-eye, arrives in Alphaville, a PL: futuristic city on another planet. His very American character is PL: at odds with the city's ruler, an evil scientist named Von Braun, PL: who has outlawed love and self-expression. BY: Gene Volovich {volovich@netcom.com} GE: Sci-Fi Fantasy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Altered States PL: An American researching different states of consciousness with PL: the aid of mind altering drugs and an isolation chamber begins PL: to experience disturbing physical changes in his body that PL: point toward an evolutionary regression. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Amadeus PL: The incredible story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, told in flashback mode PL: by Antonio Salieri - now confined to an insane asylum. BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Biography Musical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Amateur, The (1981) PL: A researcher for the CIA who convinces his superiors to send PL: him to the eastern bloc in order to avenge the murder of his PL: wife by enemy agents discovers a web of deception underneath PL: his wife's death. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Spy Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: America's Deadliest Home Video (V) PL: A man celebrates his second anniversary by making a video of events as PL: they happen. After catching his wife in an affair, he takes his camera PL: on the road through the midwest. He stumbles onto a band of thieves who PL: kidnap him and insist that he continue his documentary. Before long he PL: finds himself more than just a bystander in their heinous activities. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy Crime Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: American Graffiti PL: Two boys are scheduled to leave for college in the morning. Each has his PL: own doubts. They spend a final evening cruising the strip and have every PL: adventure possible before dawn when they will each have to decide what PL: they will do. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: American Werewolf in London, An PL: Two American students are on a walking tour of England and are attacked by PL: a Werewolf. One is killed, the other is mauled. The Werewolf is killed, PL: but reverts to it's human form, and the townspeople are able to deny it's PL: existence. The surviving student begins to have nightmares of hunting PL: on 4 feet at first, but then finds that his friend and other recent PL: victims appear to him, demanding that he find a way to die to release PL: them from their curse, being trapped between worlds because of their PL: unnatural death. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: American in Paris, An PL: Jerry Mulligan, a struggling American painter in Paris, is PL: "discovered" by an influential heiress with an interest in more PL: than Jerry's art. Jerry in turn falls for Lise, a young French PL: girl already engaged to a cabaret singer. Jerry jokes, sings PL: and dances with his best friend, an acerbic would-be concert PL: pianist, while romantic complications abound. BY: Scott Renshaw <as.idc@forsythe.stanford.edu> GE: Musical Dance Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Amos (TV) PL: Amos Lasher loses his wife and home in an accident, finding himself PL: in the care of the state, or specifically speaking, the Sunset Nursing PL: Home. Here he finds the head nurse, Daisy Doors, ruling the cowed PL: patients with an iron hand, but as his determination to get out PL: of Sunset grows, the more sinister his situation becomes. BY: David Carroll <davidc@atom.ansto.gov.au> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Anatomy of a Murder PL: Laura Manion returns home to tell her husband she's been raped. Lt. PL: Manion kills the rapist and then claims crime of passion as a defense. PL: At least that's his story. Paul Biegler agrees to defend him and must PL: unravel a case in which the motivations of the murder, his wife, and the PL: victim are all in question. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Courtroom Mystery ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Anchors Aweigh PL: Two soldiers, one naive, the other experienced in the ways of the PL: world, on liberty in Los Angeles, is the setting for this movie PL: musical. Particularly notable for its Gene Kelly-Jerry Mouse PL: dance number. BY: Stewart M. Clamen <clamen@cs.cmu.edu> GE: Musical Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: And the Band Played On (TV) PL: Story of the discovery of AIDS. From the early days when numerous PL: San Francisco homosexuals began dying from unknown causes, to the PL: identification of the HIV virus. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Andromeda Strain, The PL: A U.S. Army satellite (Scoop VII) falls to earth near Piedmont, PL: New Mexico. The recovery team experiences difficulties as it becomes PL: clear that the satellite has performed its intended function all too PL: well, and has brought back something from space. A team of scientists PL: is assembled in a high-tech, underground facility to identify and PL: defeat the "enemy" before it is too late. BY: Bruce Janson <bruce@cs.su.oz.au> GE: Sci-Fi Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Angel Dust (1994) PL: Simon is a worn out police officer. He drinks too much, his wife PL: Martine has left him for another man. On his search for Martine, PL: he meets Violetta, a mysterious young woman, and gets involved in PL: a series of murders. BY: Clemens Huwig <cx@cs.uni-sb.de> GE: Mystery Thriller Police ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Angel Heart PL: Harry Angel has a new case, to find a man called Johnny Favourite. PL: Except things aren't quite that simple, and Johnny doesn't want to PL: be found. Let's just say that, amongst the period detail and PL: beautiful scenery, it all gets really, really nasty. BY: David Carroll <davidc@atom.ansto.gov.au> PL: Harry Angel is a private investigator. He is hired by a man who calls PL: himself Louis Cyphre to track down a singer called Johnny Favorite. As PL: he begins to investigate, all the persons he asks for Johnny die in PL: mysterious ways. As he finds out more about himself and his client he PL: discovers that he is fighting for his very existence and is forced to PL: deal with the devil himself. BY: Harald Mayr <marvin@augusta.de> GE: Mystery Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Animals Are Beautiful People PL: Hilarious documentary on the wildlife of the Namib Desert. BY: Ivan Weisz <weisz@math.ohio-state.edu> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Annie Hall PL: Romantic adventures of neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer PL: and his equally neurotic girlfriend Annie Hall. The film traces PL: the course of their relationship from their first meeting, and PL: serves as an interesting historical document about love in the PL: 1970s. BY: Scott Renshaw <as.idc@forsythe.stanford.edu> GE: Comedy Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Another 48 HRS. PL: A sloppy white police officer has to team together with his black buddy PL: who has only a few days left until he gets released from prison. PL: Together they have to find an unscrupulous drug dealer who calls PL: himself "The Iceman". Once again they only have 48 hours to fulfill PL: their task. BY: Harald Mayr <marvin@augusta.de> GE: Crime Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Another Stakeout PL: Chris and Bill are called upon for their excellent surveillance record PL: to stakeout a lakeside home where a Mafia trial witness is believed PL: to be heading or already hiding. Unlike their earlier _Stakeout_, this PL: time they are accompanied by Gina Garret from the DA's office and her PL: pet rottweiler 'Archie'; their cover, husband and wife with son Bill. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Cops Mafia Murder ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Another You PL: George has been in a mental hospital for 3 years and is finally ready to go PL: out into the real world again. Eddie Dash, a dedicated con-man, is supposed PL: to keep him out of trouble, but when people begin to recognize George as the PL: missing millionaire Abe, Eddie wants to take advantage of the situation. BY: Lars J. Aas <larsa@colargol.edb.tih.no> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Antarctica PL: Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their PL: sled dogs while on an expedition in Antarctica. Ushioda and Ochi PL: eventually leave Antarctica, only to return to search for the dogs PL: inadvertently marooned there. BY: Petr Meretyk <pechc@cunyvm.cuny.edu> GE: Drama Adventure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Anything to Survive (TV) PL: A father and his children are caught by a storm whilst sailing in Alaska. PL: When they get shipwrecked, things go from bad to worse. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Adventure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Apartment Zero PL: Set in modern day Buenos Aires, the film centers around a relationship PL: between two emotionally crippled roommates. Adrian LeDuc(Colin Firth) is a PL: lonely sociopath who is forced to rent his insane mothers room due to poor PL: ticket sales at his revival movie theater. Jack Carney (Hart Bochner), the PL: new roommate, appears normal enough at first but it soon becomes apparent PL: that he is hiding something. As their friendship develops, Adrian PL: suppresses his suspicions that Jack may be the government mercenary turned PL: serial killer who has been terrorizing the city. The other eccentric PL: residents of the building begin to worry as Adrian shows increasing signs PL: that his mothers insanity may be hereditary. The shocking climax of this PL: twisted tale of deceit, perversion and murder reveals the darker side of PL: the human psyche. BY: Kevin Jundt GE: Mystery Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Apocalypse Now PL: Based on Joseph Conrad's Heart Of Darkness, this is a controversial PL: addition to the multitude of Vietnam war movies in existence. We PL: follow Captain Willard on his mission into Cambodia to assassinate PL: a renegade Green Beret who has set himself up as a God among a local PL: tribe. Notes taken by Coppola's wife have recently been used to PL: create "Hearts Of Darkness" - a fascinating and revealing account of PL: the making of this movie. BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: War ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Arachnophobia PL: A strange spider from the depths of a jungle is accidentally transported PL: back to the good old US of A. Through numerous coincidences and PL: accidents, it finds a home in the Doctor's new home (well in the barn). PL: After mating with a local spider, thousands of little spiders run riot PL: in the small town. This wouldn't be too much of a problem, except that PL: these "aren't ordinary spiders"; they're killers. The local pest PL: exterminator has a go, but.. So it's down to the Doc' to save the town. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> PL: Two interesting things happen, the body of a photographer is sent home PL: with a deadly south american spider hiding in the coffin and a doctor who PL: has a deadly fear of spiders moves into the same small town. The spider PL: begins to breed and the whole community is in danger unless the doctor can PL: find out that the rash of deaths is caused by the young spiders and can PL: convince the authorities in a sleepy little town to act before his own PL: house and family are overrun. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Thriller Sci-fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Aria PL: Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken PL: Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas PL: Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound (Vivaldi, Bach, PL: Wagner), and is an interpretation of the particular aria. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama Comedy Erotica ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Arion PL: Arion begins with his journey to discover a world of poverty and horror PL: where ordinary people are barely surviving through the war. PL: He falls in love with a blind slave girl who is then captured and PL: imprisoned on top of Olympus by Apollo, who dreams to rule the Titans. PL: Now, Arion must lead an army of ordinary people to fight against PL: the three war lords (Zeus, Poseidon and Pluto) with help PL: from a thief, a giant, a wizard, a mysterious lion-masked man and a PL: flying dragon. BY: Tzung-I Lin <tzung@hugo.att.com> GE: Japanese-Animation War Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Armed and Dangerous PL: Dooley, a cop wrongly sacked for corruption, teams up with a useless defence PL: lawyer in their new careers... as security guards. When the two are PL: made fall guys for a robbery at a location they are guarding, the pair PL: begin to investigate corruption within the company and their union. PL: They soon make enemies of everyone, but can the unlikely duo save the day ? BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> PL: Frank Dooley is an ex-cop, thrown out of the force after being PL: framed by corrupt colleagues. Herman Kane is an out of work PL: attorney who quit because he lost his nerve. Both men turn PL: to a private security firm to find employment, but everything PL: goes quickly wrong when the first warehouse they guard gets PL: robbed! Dooley and Kane suspect foul-play, and there's something PL: fishy about the security firm's union too. Our two heroes decide PL: to investigate, and uncover intrigue and conspiracy, with only PL: their ingenuity and resourcefulness keeping them alive! BY: Simon N. McIntosh-Smith <Simon.N.Smith@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Crime ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Army of Darkness PL: This is the sequel to "Evil Dead 2." Ash finds himself stranded in the PL: 13th Century with his car, his shotgun, and his chainsaw. Soon he is PL: discovered and thought to be a spy for a rival kingdom and is taken PL: prisoner. After proving his merit in The Pit, he decides to help the PL: kingdom retrieve the Necronomicon (which will also help him return to PL: his own time), which they need to battle the supernatural forces at PL: play in the land. Ash accidentally releases the Army of Darkness when PL: retrieving the book, and a fight to the finish ensues. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> PL: In this sequel to the Evil Dead films, a discount-store employee ("Name's PL: Ash. Housewares.") is time-warped to a medieval castle beset by monstrous PL: forces. Initially mistaken for an enemy, he is soon revealed as the PL: prophecied savior who can quest for the Necronomicon, a book which can PL: dispel the evil. Unfortunately, he screws up the magic words while PL: collecting the tome, and releases an army of skeletons, led by his own PL: Deadite counterpart. What follows is a thrilling, yet tongue-in-cheek battle PL: between Ash's 20th Century tactics and the minions of darkness. BY: David Thiel <d-thiel@uiuc.edu> GE: Adventure Horror Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Around the World in 80 Days PL: When Phileas Fogg is challenged to prove his contention that a man can go PL: around the world in 80 days, he bets his entire fortune and leaves with a PL: new butler on a world tour. This Victorian adventure has a kicker, the PL: bank of England has been robbed. Is this Fogg's way of avoiding arrest? PL: The detective following him believes so, and his butler is becoming unsure. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Adventure Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) PL: Mortimer Bruster is a newspaperman and author known for his diatribes PL: against marriage. We watch him being married at city hall in the opening PL: scene. Now all that is required is a quick trip home to tell Mortimer's PL: two maiden aunts. While trying to break the news, he finds out his aunts' PL: hobby; killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar. It gets PL: worse. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Mystery Suspense ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Art of Dying, The PL: A cinematographer and his assistant are attracting aspiring young actors PL: and actresses by getting them to try out for their movie. Once filming, PL: the evil cameraman actually kills them. The detective on the case has PL: his hands full trying to help out runaways with stars in their eyes. PL: When some of the people he knows turn up dead, he takes it personally, PL: and as he gets closer to the truth his girlfriend is endangered. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Thriller Crime Erotic ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Arthur PL: Arthur is a happy drunk with no pretensions at any ambition. He is also PL: the heir to a vast fortune which he is told will only be his if he marries PL: Susan. He does not love Susan, but she will make something of him the PL: family expects. Arthur proposes but then meets a girl with no money who he PL: could easily fall in love with. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Romantic Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Ask a Policeman PL: Turnbottom Round prides itself as the village without crime; there has PL: not been an arrest recorded by the local police for years. Unfortunately, PL: this is more to do with the inability of Sgt Dudfoot and his constables PL: Jerry and Harbottle to so much as recognise a crime. With their jobs on PL: the line, the trio attempt to stage a crime of their own, only to PL: inadvertantly uncover a smuggling ring and a headless horseman... BY: D.Giddings <sdjg0@uk.ac.rl.ib> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Assassination Bureau, The PL: The Assassination Bureau has existed for decades (perhaps centuries) until PL: Diana Rigg begins to investigate it. The high moral standing of the PL: Bureau (only killing those who deserve it) is called into question by her. PL: She puts out a contract for the Bureau to assassinate its leader on the PL: eve of World War I. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Action Chase Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Assault on a Queen PL: A group of adventurers refloat a WWII German submarine and prepare to use it PL: to pull a very large heist; The Queen Elizabeth II which they plan to PL: rob on the high seas. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: At Close Range PL: A boy and his friends seek to join a mid-western gang led by PL: the boy's estranged father, unaware that his father's PL: ruthlessness takes no account of family ties. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Crime Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Au Revoir Les Enfants PL: During WWII, in a Catholic boarding school in the French countryside, PL: two boys become friends. One is a French boy, Julien Quintin, and the PL: other is a Jewish boy, Jean Bonnet, who is being hidden from the Nazis PL: by the friars who run the school. Louis Malle directed this film based PL: on what actually happened when he was at a boarding school himself during PL: the war. BY: Gene Volovich {volovich@netcom.com} GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Auntie Mame PL: Mame is an unconventional individualist socialite from the roaring PL: 20's. When her brother dies, she is forced to raise her nephew PL: Patrick. However, Patrick's father has designated an executor to his PL: will to protect the boy from absorbing too much of Mame's rather PL: unconventional perspective. Patrick and Mame become devoted to each PL: other in spite of this restriction, and together journey through PL: Patrick's childhood and the great depression, amidst some rather PL: zaney adventures. BY: Ross Thompson <thompson@adobe.com> GE: Drama Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Awakenings PL: A new doctor finds himself with a ward full of comatose patients. He PL: is disturbed by them and the fact that they have been comatose for decades PL: with no hope of any cure. When he finds a possible chemical cure he gets PL: permission to try it on one of them. When the first patient awakes, he is PL: now an adult having gone into a coma in his early teens. The film then PL: delights in the new awareness of the patients and then on the reactions of PL: of their relatives to the changes in the newly awakened. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Babes in Toyland (1986) (TV) PL: 11-year-old Lisa has no time for toys; she's too busy taking care of PL: her siblings and cooking for her mother. During the Christmas Eve PL: blizzard, Lisa travels to Toyland in Wizard of Oz-like fashion and PL: arrives just in time for a wedding. Young Mary Contrary is about to PL: marry mean, old Barnaby Barnacle, despite the fact that she loves Jack PL: Be Nimble. Lisa tries to stop this terrible wedding and, together PL: with her new friends, discovers that Barnaby wants to take over PL: Toyland. Lisa, Mary, Jack, and Georgie Porgie ask the Toymaster for PL: help, but he can't help them as long as Lisa doesn't truly believe in PL: toys. BY: Christine Sai-Halasz <sai@mit.edu> GE: Childrens ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Baby Doll Murders, The PL: Someone is killing off young women in LA, leaving a baby doll with each PL: of the bodies. Convinced a recently released criminal is responsible, the PL: detective pushes hard on the ex-con, who slaps him with harassment charges. PL: Suspended from the force, he continues investigating, and finds that each PL: of the victims were patients of a Beverly Hills doctor. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Thriller Erotic ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Bachelor Party (1984) PL: Tom Hanks is about to marry Tawny Kitaen. Her parents hate him. Her old PL: boyfriend hates him. They all have money and he gets a cut of the crap PL: games on the catholic school bus he drives. His friends decide to give him PL: the bachelor party of all bachelor parties with an expensive hotel, booze, PL: movies and hookers. As the players catch wind of the elements of the PL: party, each adds a little monkey wrench so that one set of hookers ends up PL: giving demos at the bride's shower, the brides friends end up dressed as PL: hookers in a room with a number of non english speaking Japanese business PL: men, and so on as things get out of hand. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Back to the Beach PL: Frankie and Annette grow up and have kids in the midwest. They return PL: to LA to visit their daughter who is shacked up with her boyfriend and PL: tries to hide the fact. They begin to have marriage problems when Frankie PL: runs into Connie, who has erected a shrine to him in her night club. PL: Their punk son has joined up with the local surf toughs, and things all PL: come to a head when the toughs challenge the good guys to a surfing duel. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy Surfing ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Back to the Future PL: Marty McFly helps out his friend Doc Brown, and ends up being taken PL: back in time by Doc's time-machine. Marty, a boy of the 80's, has PL: to come to grips with being in the 50's and get his parents to fall in PL: love to set straight the damage his presence has done to the events PL: of the past. BY: Greg Bole <bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> PL: The future for teenager Marty McFly is not shaping up well. His family PL: is dysfunctional, his schoolteacher, Mr Strickland, is out to get him, PL: his music is just too loud and the rest of the world doesn't care. PL: Only with his girlfriend, Jennifer Parker and local eccentric PL: scientist, Dr Emmet Brown does he find the encouragement and excitement PL: that he needs. Then, one of Doc Brown's experiments goes slightly PL: wrong and Marty gets caught up in a race to set it and his future right PL: again. "When this baby hits 88 miles per hour you're gonna see some PL: serious shit." BY: Bruce Janson <bruce@cs.su.oz.au> GE: Comedy Fantasy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Back to the Future Part II PL: The second part of the trilogy begins as Doc, Marty and Jennifer take the PL: time-traveling DeLorean into the year 2015 to straighten out the future PL: of the McFly family. But Biff Tannen steals the time machine and gives PL: his younger self a book containing 50 years of sports statistics, which PL: the young Biff uses to amass an enormous gambling fortune and transform PL: idyllic Hill Valley into a living hell. To restore the present, Doc and PL: Marty must return to the events of their previous adventure in 1955 and PL: retrieve the book. BY: David Thiel <d-thiel@uiuc.edu> GE: Sci-Fi Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Back to the Future Part III PL: The conclusion of the trilogy sends Marty McFly on a rescue mission to the PL: year 1885, where he must save Doc Brown from death at the hands of yet PL: another member of the Tannen clan. However, there are a number of PL: complications preventing a quick return to the future: a lack of gasoline PL: for the time-traveling DeLorean, a band of gunslinging outlaws and a PL: schoolmarm with affections for the smitten Doc. BY: David Thiel <d-thiel@uiuc.edu> GE: Sci-Fi Western Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Backbeat PL: A pre-fame Beatles head for the seedy clubs of Hamburg in search of PL: success. The band meet up with a group of trendy German beatniks, one PL: of whom (Astrid Kircherr) bass guitarist Stuart Sutcliffe falls in PL: love with. Whilst best friend John Lennon can only watch, Sutcliffe PL: has to choose between rock 'n roll and a new life in Germany... BY: Douglas Baptie GE: Drama Musical Documentary ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Backdraft PL: A rookie firefighter tries to earn the respect of his older PL: brother and other firefighters while taking part in an PL: investigation of a string of arson/murders. This detailed look PL: into the duties and private lives of firemen naturally features PL: widespread pyrotechnics and special effects. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Drama Mystery ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Backstreet Dreams PL: Backstreet Dreams is the story of a man (Dean Costello), who has a disturbed PL: child (Shane). He and his wife (Lucy) take their son to a clinic, where he PL: is diagnosed by a talented psychologist (Stevie), as being autistic. After PL: catching his unfaithful wife with another man, Dean tells Lucy to leave, and PL: is faced with the task of raising Shane on his own. Stevie believes that she PL: can improve Shane's condition, going back to Dean's apartment and later PL: convincing him that he can provide a better world for his son. Angelo, who PL: lives in the same apartment building and is like a father to Dean, urges on PL: the relationship, sensing that Stevie is luring Dean away from backstreet PL: dealings, and giving him courage to face life in a positive way. Together, PL: they build a foundation for a better life outside of the violence and danger PL: of the backstreets where they live. BY: Anonymous GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Bad Boys PL: A delinquent held in juvenile detention for the murder of a PL: noted youth gang member awaits a showdown with the dead man's PL: vengeful brother in the deadly prison environment. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Prison Crime ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Bad Company (1972) PL: A group of naive boys find that life as desperados in the west PL: is more serious that they understood when they embark on PL: abortive careers in bushwacking. Violence, betrayal, sombre PL: colours and a Beckettsian whimsy mark this ironic western. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Western ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Bad Dreams PL: In the mid-'70s, a cult group called Unity Field commits mass suicide, PL: but a young girl survives. After being in a coma for thirteen years she PL: wakes up in a psyche ward, not remembering the incident. The psychiatrist PL: tries to help her remember, but she begins seeing the leader of the cult PL: talking to her from the grave, and the other members of her therapy group PL: begin to commit suicide around her. Or is it suicide? BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Bad Influence PL: Michael, a wimpy young executive, is about to get pulverized by a jealous PL: boyfriend in a bar when a handsome, mysterious stranger steps in--and then PL: disappears. Later that night, while jogging, Michael runs into the stranger PL: on a pier. He introduces himself as Alex, and the two go out to an under- PL: ground club. Within a matter of days, Alex wheedles his way into Michael's PL: life and turns it upside down, and Michael doesn't realize that Alex is PL: a dangerous sociopath until it's too late. BY: Denise P. Meyer <dpm1@cornell.edu> GE: Thriller Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Bad Lieutenant PL: A police Lieutenant goes about his daily tasks of investigating PL: homicides, but is more interested in pursuing his vices. He has PL: accumulated a massive debt betting on baseball, and he keeps doubling PL: to try to recover. His bookies are beginning to get agitated. The PL: Lieutenant does copious amounts of drugs, cavorts with prostitutes, PL: and uses his status to take advantage of teenage girls. While PL: investigating a nun's rape, he begins to reflect on his lifestyle. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama Crime ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Bad News Bears in Breaking Training, The PL: Sentimental sequel film finds the Bears, somehow, the little league PL: champions of California. As a result, the team is invited to play a PL: between-games exhibition at the Houston Astrodome with the local champs, PL: the Toros. Kelly Leak, the Bears' star player, decides to rejoin the PL: team and go with them to Houston to make amends with his estranged PL: father, Mike. BY: Rick Gregory <rag.apa@email.apa.org> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Barbarian Queen PL: Set during the days of the Roman Empire. A simple village is raided by PL: Roman troops, and most of the people are whisked off to be slaves or PL: killed. Three women survive and set off to liberate their people. When PL: they arrive at the Roman city, they team up with the local underground PL: to seek vengeance and liberation of the slaves. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Adventure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Barbarians at the Gate (TV) PL: F. Ross Johnson, the CEO of RJR Nabisco decides that the time is ripe to PL: take over his own company and enlists American Express. This kicks off PL: a tide of other firms swarming in to tender offers. The outline of the PL: film follows the actual takeover of the RJR Nabisco empire in a tongue PL: in cheek way. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Historical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Barcelona PL: Ted, a stuffy white guy from Illinois working in sales for the PL: Barcelona office of a US corporation, is paid an unexpected PL: visit by his somewhat less stuffy cousin Fred, who is an officer PL: in the US Navy. Over the next few months, both their lives are PL: irrevocably altered by the events which follow Fred's arrival, PL: events which are the trivial stuff of a comedy of manners at first PL: but which gradually grow increasingly dramatic. BY: Tim Horrigan (horrigan@hanover-crrel.army.mil) GE: Comedy Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Barry Lyndon PL: A gentlemanly rogue travels the battlefields and parlours of PL: 18th century Europe determined to make for himself the life PL: of a nobleman through seduction, gambling and dueling in this PL: methodical film showing the rhythm and life of the period. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Drama Historical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Barton Fink PL: In 1941, New York intellectual playwright Barton Fink comes to PL: Hollywood to write a Wallace Beery wrestling picture. Staying PL: in the eerie Hotel Earle, Barton develops severe writer's block. PL: His neighbor, jovial insurance salesman Charlie Meadows, tries PL: to help, but Barton continues to struggle as a bizarre sequence PL: of events distracts him even further from his task. BY: Scott Renshaw <as.idc@forsythe.stanford.edu> PL: Set in 1941, a newly successful New York playwright accepts an offer to PL: write movie scripts in LA, and finds himself with writer's block when PL: required to do a B-movie wrestling script, the only relief coming from PL: a travelling salesman living next door. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama Comedy Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Basic Instinct PL: Former rock star and San Francisco nightclub owner Johnny Boz is found PL: murdered in his bed. Detective Nick Curran is assigned to the case; he has PL: a history of alcoholism and drug abuse although he is clean now. The prime PL: suspect is Catherine Tramell, an attractive and manipulative novelist who PL: had been seeing Boz for a while. Police psychiatrist Beth Gardner (who PL: happens to be Nick's ex-girlfriend) is brought in on the case when it is PL: discovered that Boz's murder was copied directly from one of Catherine's PL: novels. Nick starts to get too involved and everyone seems to be a suspect. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Thriller Mystery ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Batman (1989) PL: Gotham City is a nasty, crime ridden place, desperately in need of a PL: saviour. Vicki Vale, a photographer, is investigating sightings of PL: a "giant bat" who fights criminals ! She meets Bruce Wayne, a quiet PL: millionaire, but little does she know the dark secrets he hides behind PL: his cool facade. This was the most hyped film of the year - possibly PL: of the decade, and marked the start of the huge merchandising market PL: which accompanies most big movies these days. BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Fantasy Crime Comic ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Battle Beyond the Stars PL: In yet another film patterned on _The Seven Samurai_, a band PL: of diverse heroes in outer space are assembled to defend a PL: planet of peaceful colonists from an armada of aggressors. PL: If the special effects look familiar, it is because you've PL: the same space sequences recycled in other low budget SF films. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Battle of Algiers, The PL: A french film commissioned by the Algerian government that shows the PL: Algerian revolution from both sides. The French foreign legion has left PL: Vietnam in defeat and has something to prove. The Algerians are seeking PL: independence. The two clash. The torture used by the French is contrasted PL: with the Algerian's use of bombs in soda shops. A look at war as a nasty PL: thing that harms and sullies everyone who participates in it. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: War ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Battle of Britain PL: Historical reenactment of the air war in the early days of World War Two PL: for control of the skies over Britain as the new Luftwaffa and the Royal PL: Air Force determine whether or not an invasion can take place. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: War ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Beach Babes from Beyond PL: An intergalactic babe borrows her dad's T-bird ship to do a little planet PL: hopping with her two friends, but they run out of fuel unexpectedly, and PL: must land on earth. They land on the California coast and run into some PL: guys, where they have fun and a few close encounters at the beach. One PL: of the guys' Uncle Bud, who just wants to meditate and hang out, is being PL: threatened with condemnation of his beach house unless he puts some money PL: into repairs. The alien babes offer to enter the bikini contest with PL: their way-out designs to try and win the money he needs, but they are PL: hampered by the garment designer who will stop at nothing to win. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy Erotic Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Beach Girls, The PL: School is out, and three girls head to the beach for vacation. Two of the PL: girls are world-wise party-goers who attempt to loosen up their naive, PL: virginal friend, whose uncle has allowed the girls to stay at his beach PL: house. When the near-sighted, drug smuggling Captain Bly dumps his cargo PL: of marijuana, the bales wash up on shore. The two party girls, Ginger and PL: Ducky, quickly stuff the dope into giant bags and spirit it back to the PL: beach house, where it fuels a party with assorted misfits, delivery PL: persons, and passersby. BY: Rick Gregory <rag.apa@email.apa.org> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Beaches PL: When the New York child performer CC Bloom and San Fransisco rich kid PL: Hillary meet in a holiday resort in Atlantic City, it marks the start PL: of a lifetime friendship between them. The two keep in touch through PL: letters for a number of years until Hillary, now a successful lawyer moves PL: to New York to stay with struggling singer CC. The movie shows the various PL: stages of their friendship and their romances including their love for the PL: same man. BY: Sami Al-Taher <smmat@ukc.ac.uk> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Bear, The (1984) PL: Biopic about the great college football coach PL: Paul "Bear" Bryant of the University of Alabama. PL: (Forrest Gump, surprisingly, is never mentioned, PL: even though he played for Bryant at 'Bama.) BY: Tim Horrigan (horrigan@hanover-crrel.army.mil) GE: Biography Sports ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Bear, The (1989) PL: The director of _Quest for Fire_ creates yet another film in PL: nature with almost no human dialogue in this picturesque story PL: of an orphaned bear cub who is adopted by an adult male bear PL: and must avoid hunters. Bart the Bear stars in this PL: anthropomorphic fantasy. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Adventure Fantasy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Beast, The PL: During the war in Afghanistan a Soviet tank crew commanded PL: by a tyrannical officer find themselves lost and in a struggle PL: against a band of Mujahadeen guerrillas in the mountains. A PL: unique look at the Soviet 'Vietnam' experience sympathetically PL: told for both sides. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: War Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Beauty and the Beast (1991) PL: Belle is a girl who is dissatisfied with life in a small provincial PL: French town, constantly trying to fend off the misplaced "affections" PL: of conceited Gaston. The Beast is a prince who was placed under a PL: spell because he could not love. A wrong turn taken by Maurice, PL: Belle's father, causes the two to meet. BY: Tim Pickett <quetzal@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au> GE: Animated Musical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Bedazzled PL: Stanley is a short order cook, infatuated with Margaret, the statuesque PL: waitress who works at Whimpy Burger with him. Despondent, he prepares to PL: end it all when he meets George Spiggott AKA the devil. Selling his soul PL: for 7 wishes, Stanley tries to make Margaret his own first as an PL: intellectual, then as a rock star, then as a wealthy industrialist. As PL: each fails, he becomes more aware of how empty his life had been and PL: how much more he has to live for. He also meets the seven deadly sins PL: who try and advise him. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Fantasy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Bedroom Window, The PL: Terry is having an affair with his boss's wife Sylvia. One night after an PL: office party they are together and Sylvia witnesses an attack on Denise PL: from Terry's bedroom window. She doesn't want to expose their relationship PL: and so is reluctant about talking to the police. Terry, wanting to help, PL: gives the police the description of the attacker. He soon becomes the main PL: suspect in the case. He then sets to find the real rapist/killer with some PL: help from victim Denise. BY: Sami Al-Taher <smmat@ukc.ac.uk> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Beethoven PL: The Newton family live in their comfortable home, but there seems to PL: something missing. This "hole" is filled by a small puppy, who walks PL: into their home and their lives. Beethoven, as he is named, grows into PL: a giant of a dog... a St Bernard. Doctor Varnick, the local vet has a PL: secret and horrible sideline, which requires lots of dogs for experiments. PL: Beethoven is on the bad doctor's list. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Family Children Animals ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Beetlejuice PL: After Barbara and Adam Maitland were killed in a car crash, they find PL: themselves trapped as ghosts in their beautiful New England farmhouse. PL: Their peace is disrupted when a yuppie family, the Deetzs, buy their PL: house. The Maitlands are too nice and harmless as ghosts and all their PL: efforts to scare the Deetzs away were unsuccessful. They eventually turn PL: to another ghost 'Beetlejuice' for help.. BY: Sami Al-Taher <smmat@ukc.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Fantasy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Being There PL: A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in PL: the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, PL: Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world PL: except what he has learned from television. After a run in with PL: a limousine, he ends up a guest of a woman (Eve) and her PL: husband Ben, an influential but sickly businessman. Now called PL: Chauncey Gardner, Chance becomes friend and confidante to Ben, PL: and an unlikely political insider. BY: Scott Renshaw <as.idc@forsythe.stanford.edu> GE: Comedy Political ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Benny & Joon PL: Benny runs a car repair shop, and is having trouble keeping a housekeeper PL: to take care of his mentally disturbed sister June. Without supervision PL: she tends to set things on fire and create public disturbances. One PL: night they lose in a poker game and have to agree to take in a friend's PL: cousin, Sam, who also has some erratic personality traits. When June and PL: Sam begin falling in love, Benny must deal with his feelings about not PL: being needed as much by his sister, and about his plans to put her in a PL: group home. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Best Defense PL: Wylie is a lazy engineer. Landry is a Sergeant specialising in Armour. They PL: have never met but their lives become entangled when Landry must take the PL: tank Wylie designed into combat. Wylie is waiting for his employer to go PL: out of business when he meets another engineer who gives him a disk with PL: the plans for a circuit that will save his employer. The other engineer is PL: dead moments later leaving Wylie with the disk and credit for the design. PL: Suddenly Wylie is no longer a hack, but the saviour of his company and finds PL: his life is no longer the same. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy War ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Best Man, The PL: The other party is in disarray. Five men vie for the party nomination for PL: president. No one has a majority as the first ballot closes and the PL: frontrunners begin to decide how badly they want the job. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Betsy, The PL: The patriarch of a family-owned corporation hires a young race car driver PL: to help him design a fuel efficient car in secrecy. They face resistance PL: from the president of the company (the patriarch's grandson), who wishes PL: to eliminate the motor car division because of bad blood between himself PL: and his grandfather. During flashbacks, a parallel set of problems PL: is revealed in the family's past, problems that persist into the present, PL: and the race car driver gets deeper into the web of deception and PL: corporate intrigue. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Better Off Dead (1985) PL: Lane Myer is obsessed with his girlfriend Beth and is crushed when she PL: falls for the new captain of the ski team, Roy. After several failed PL: suicide attempts, narrow escapes from the relentless paper boy, and nearly PL: unbearable dinners at home with his crazy family, Lane finds a new love in PL: French exchange student Monique Junot. Meanwhile, he must beat Roy on the PL: slopes to regain his honor. BY: Jeremy Rasmussen <jr@intrepid.uunet.uu.net> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Beverly Hills Bodysnatchers PL: A doctor and a mortician have teamed up to do re-animation experiments PL: on corpses using gangster money loaned for "remodelling." When they can't PL: pay it back, the Mafia guy sends his nephews to work at the funeral home PL: to keep a watch on the debtors, but the nephews end up helping in the PL: search for new bodies, and mayhem ensues when some undesirable types are PL: re-animated. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Beverly Hills Cop PL: Axel Foley is a Detroit cop who after the murder of his friend travels PL: to California to investigate and track down the killer, who he believes PL: operate an arts dealership as a cover in Beverly Hills. He teams up with PL: two reluctant detectives from the Beverly Hills police force who were PL: supposed to keep a watch on him, especially after seeing Foley's different PL: approach to tackling the situations which is not acceptable by the chief PL: of the local police. BY: Sami Al-Taher <smmat@ukc.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Big PL: A young boy makes a wish at a fairground machine to be big. He wakes up PL: the following morning to find that his wish has been granted and his body PL: has grown older over night. But he is still the same 12 year old kid on the PL: inside. Now he must learn how to cope with the unfamiliar world of grown PL: ups including getting a job, and having his first romantic encounter with PL: a woman. What will he find out about this strange world? BY: Sami Al-Taher <smmat@ukc.ac.uk> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Big Bad Mama PL: Mama and daughters get forced by circumstances into bootlegging and PL: bank robbing, and travel across the country trailed by the law. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Big Bad Mama II PL: It's 1934, and the evil local land baron forecloses on Angie's place, and PL: she and her two daughters must leave and continue their life of crime. PL: A reporter witnesses their heist of a bank, and helps them become folk PL: legends by writing a story about them. After a time the evil land baron PL: wants to run for governor, and Angie and her daughters kidnap his son and PL: turn him into a gangster in order to discredit his father and his run for PL: governor. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Big Bet, The PL: A teenage boy that had early sexual encounters is having trouble finding PL: them now, and spends a lot of time fantasizing about the women he knows. PL: When a beautiful new girl comes to town, he makes a bet with the other PL: guys that he can get her into bed within 10 days. His chief rival stacks PL: the deck, though, by threatening to expose the new girl's sordid past PL: (she was wrongly accused of being involved in an orgy at her previous PL: school) if she sleeps with our hero. Confused about his situation, the PL: boy seeks counsel from the sexy older woman across the street, and she PL: helps him come to terms with his predicament. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Big Brawl, The PL: A Korean man seeks fame and fortune in 1930s America when he PL: enters an all-comers martial arts competition despite the PL: opposition of the Mob, his father and several imposing PL: opponents. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Big Bus, The PL: The ultimate disaster film parody. A nuclear powered bus is going Non-stop PL: from New York to Denver and is plagued by disasters due to the machinations PL: of a mysterious group allied with the Oil lobby. When the driver is PL: injured a washed up, down on his luck, but used to be great type, who as PL: it happens, used to be engaged to the inventor's daughter is brought in to PL: drive the giant bus which includes a one lane swimming pool and a one lane PL: bowling alley. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Parody Comedy Disaster ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Big Chill, The PL: A seminal Thirty-Something movie in which a group of old college PL: friends who are now all grown up and hardened by the big wide world PL: come together for the funeral of Alex, a barely glimpsed corpse (which PL: if rumours are to be believed is played by Kevin Costner), who was at PL: one time the brightest and the best of them, and yet who never managed PL: to achieve half as much as any of the others. PL: The friends use the occasion to reacquiant themselves with each other PL: and to speculate as to what happened to their idealism which had been PL: abundant when they were younger. BY: Mark Thompson <mrt@oasis.icl.co.uk> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Big Doll House, The PL: A prostitute (Judy Brown) is sent to a corrupt prison camp run by PL: a female transvestite. Her cell mates include an informer (Pam Grier), PL: a revolutionary (Roberta Collins), a drug addict, and a cynic. She PL: eventually convinces them to work together to escape from this hell. BY: Eric Conrad <econrad@magnus.ohio-state.edu> GE: Prison Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Big Easy, The PL: Set in New Orleans. Remy McSwain, lieutenant in Homicide finds that he has PL: two problems, the first of a series of gang killings and Ann Osborne, a PL: beautiful atorney from the D.A.'s police corruption task force in his PL: office. He begins a relationship with her as the killings continue only to PL: have charges filed against him for accepting bribes as he stumbles on a PL: police corruption Sting. While this is happening, the criminals insist that PL: none of the crime gangs are behind the killings. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Mystery Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Big Sleep, The (1946) PL: Summoned by the dying General Sternwood, Phillip Marlow is asked to deal PL: with several problems that are troubling his family. Marlow finds that PL: each problem centers about the disappearance of Sternwood's son-in-law, PL: who has left with a mobster's wife. Each of the problems becomes a cover PL: for something else as Marlow probes. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Mystery ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Big Trouble in Little China PL: Jack Burton, trucker and king of the road meets his friend Eddy as Eddy's PL: fiance is kidnapped as a potential bride for a cursed chinese magician. PL: They also steal Jack's Truck. Martial arts, gunfire, and magic ensue PL: as Jack and Eddy try and rescue her. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Action Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Big Wheel, The PL: Billy Coy comes to Garret. Red, Billy's late father's mechanic, hires PL: Billy as a mechanic. Billy soon gets a job as a driver. Will he get to PL: race the Indianapolis, the track where his father died? BY: Daniel Ljungberg <meen@df.lth.se> GE: Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Bikini Car Wash Company, The PL: A group of young women decide to help out at the local carwash. To attract PL: more customers and increase profits the girls opt for a simple uniform... PL: the bikini. Cars queue up for miles, but the authorities aren't happy with PL: the way women are operating. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Adult-Humour ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey PL: Bill and Ted are killed by their evil robot doubles, sent from the future PL: by the megalomaniacal DiNomolos. In order to save the babes and win the San PL: Dimas Battle of the Bands, they must escape from Hell, challenge the Grim PL: Reaper, meet God, and defeat the evil Bill and Ted. BY: Anonymous PL: The world of our distant future is a veritable utopia, thanks to the lyrics PL: of two simple-minded 20th Century rock and rollers, Bill S. Preston, Esq. PL: and Ted "Theodore" Logan. However, a would-be conquerer threatens to PL: throw history off-track by sending "most non-non-heinous" evil robot Bill PL: and Teds back to kill their good counterparts. Finding themselves dead, the PL: boys must outwit the Grim Reaper and traverse Heaven and Hell to return to PL: the land of the living, rescue their "babes" and have a "most triumphant" PL: concert at the all-important Battle of the Bands. BY: David Thiel <d-thiel@uiuc.edu> GE: Comedy Fantasy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure PL: Ted "Theodore" Logan and Bill S. Preston esquire won't graduate if they PL: don't do well in their history presentation. This would be both bogus PL: and uncool ! A dude called Rufus comes from the future in a telephone PL: box to help them, as their lives are apparently rather important to the PL: future of mankind ! They travel through time doing some interesting PL: research for their history presentation, and generally being PL: excellent to each other ! BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Billion Dollar Brain PL: Harry Palmer has left the British Secret Service and become a PL: private detective. One of his first assignments is to deliver PL: an apparently innocent thermos flask to an old friend in Helsinki, PL: Palmer is suspicious of the flask's contents and begins to doubt PL: the motives of his friend and those of his boss a Texan billionaire. BY: Dave Jenkins <david.jenkins@smallworld.co.uk> GE: Thriller Spy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Billy Liar PL: Billy, a young man with a dreary life, spends most of his time daydreaming PL: about a land where he is a hero. A number of minor indiscretions causes PL: Billy to lie in order to avoid the penalties. As these events start PL: catching up with him, he finds himself telling bigger lies to cover his PL: tracks. Finally, when his life is a total mess, and nobody believes a PL: word he says, an opportunity to just run away and leave it all behind PL: presents itself. Billy has a difficult decision to make... BY: Mark Harding <ccsmh@uk.ac.bath.ac.uk> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Biloxi Blues PL: A group of young recruits go through boot camp during the Second World PL: War in Biloxi Missippi. From the play by Neil Simon. BY: Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Bird on a Wire PL: Rick has been given a new identity by the FBI for helping convict a PL: drug dealing FBI agent. Fifteen years later his former fiance recognises PL: him. Rick's FBI 'minder' has been replaced by a corrupt agent who helps PL: the drug dealing FBI agent and his accomplice locate him. There are PL: many subsequent chase scenes as Rick and girlfriend revisit his former PL: lives. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Crime ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Birdman of Alcatraz PL: A man condemned to life in prison in the notorious prison in PL: San Francisco Bay seeks solace from the forbidding existence PL: by raising and selling birds. Based on a true story. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Drama Prison ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Birds, The PL: Spoilt socialite and notorious practical joker Melanie Daniels is shopping PL: in a San Francisco pet store when she meets Mitch Brenner. Mitch is looking PL: to buy a pair of love birds for his young sister's birthday; he recognises PL: Melanie but pretends to mistake her for an assistant. She decides to get her PL: own back by buying the birds and driving up to the quiet coastal town of PL: Bodega Bay, where Mitch spends his weekends with his sister and mother. PL: Shortly after she arrives, Melanie is attacked by a gull, but this is just PL: the start of a series of attacks by an increasing number of birds. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Bishop's Wife, The PL: An episcopal Bishop, Henry Brougham, has been working for months on the PL: plans for a new cathedral paid for by a stubborn widow. He is losing PL: sight of his family and of why he became a churchman in the first place. PL: Enter Dudley, an angel sent to help him. Dudley does help everyone he PL: meets, but not necessarily in the way they would have preferred. With the PL: exception of Henry, everyone loves him, but Henry begins to believe that PL: Dudley is there to replace him, at work, and in his families affections, PL: as Christmas approaches. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Bitter Moon PL: British couple Fiona and Nigel Dobson are sailing to Istanbul en route to PL: India. They encounter a beautiful French woman, and that night Nigel meets PL: her while dancing alone in the ship's bar. Later he meets her crippled PL: American husband Oscar, who tells him their story... While living in Paris PL: for several years trying to be a writer, he becomes obsessed with a woman PL: he met by chance on a bus. He tracks her down and they start a steamy love PL: affair. Soon Oscar finds himself enslaved body and soul by her love, and PL: continues to tell Nigel the details of of the various stages of this PL: relationship over a number of visits to Oscars cabin. BY: Sami Al-Taher <smmat@ukc.ac.uk> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Black Hole, The PL: The crew of the spaceship Palamino stumbles across the ``lost'' ship PL: U.S.S. Cygnus, hovering on the edge of an emense black hole. PL: Once aboard, they find the ship is manned by robots - it's only human PL: inhabitant, one Dr. Hans Reinhardt; an eminent scientist, missing for the PL: past twenty years. His plan - to enter the Black Hole . . . PL: Whether Dr. Reinhardt is a genius or a mad-man, one thing is for sure, PL: he will not be denied his life's dream. What lies beyond the Black Hole? PL: Immortality . . . or, Oblivion . . . ? BY: Mark Harding <ccsmh@midge.bath.ac.uk> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Black Magic (1992) (TV) PL: A man is having dreams of his dead cousin who tells him he's been PL: killed by a witch in Istanbul, North Carolina. He goes there and meets PL: the woman and confronts her. He begins having spells of clumsiness PL: as he pursues his cousin, who has been missing, and is convinced that PL: the witch has put a curse on him. Meanwhile he's falling in love with PL: her. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Black Narcissus PL: Anglican nuns, led by the stern Sister Clodagh, attempt to establish PL: a religious community in the Himalayas, and must battle not only PL: suspicious locals and the elements, but their own demons as well. BY: Little Pine Weasel <kristinat@cerritos.edu> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Black Robe PL: In the 17th century a Jesuit priest and a young companion PL: are escorted through the wilderness of Quebec by Algonquin PL: Indians to find a distant mission in the dead of winter. PL: The Jesuit experiences a spiritual journey while his young PL: companion falls in love with the Algonquin chief's beautiful PL: daughter underneath the imposing and magnificent mountains. PL: Dread and death follows them upriver. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Historical Drama Adventure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Black Rose, The PL: In the time of the crusades, a saxon youth is forced to run away from PL: England. He goes with his loyal retainer who brings along a British long PL: bow. The two go all the way to China where they become involved in PL: intrigues in the court of Kubla Kahn. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Historical Adventure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Black Widow (1986) PL: An attractive woman appears to have made her goal in life to marry PL: rich men and collect the inheritance when they die. Nothing new there, PL: except that to speed up the process she kills each of her husbands with PL: a poison that leaves no trace. Hot on her trail is a keen female federal PL: investigator who cannot convince people about the murders or that the same PL: woman keeps inheriting the money. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Thriller Murder ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Black and White in Color PL: French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find PL: themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must PL: do their proper duty and fight the Germans, they promptly conscript the PL: local native population. Issuing them boots and rifles, the French attempt PL: to make "proper" soldiers out of the Africans. A young, idealistic French PL: geographer seems to be the only rational person in the town, and he takes PL: over control of the "war" after several bungles on the part of the others. BY: Carl Seiler (lcs9549@tamsun.tamu.edu) GE: Comedy Historical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Blackmail (1929) PL: Alice White is the daughter of a shopkeeper in 1920's London. Her boyfriend, PL: Frank Webber is a Scotland Yard detective who seems more interested in PL: police work than in her. Frank takes Alice out one night, but she has PL: secretly arranged to meet another man. Later that night Alice agrees to go PL: back to his flat to see his studio. The man has other ideas and as he tries PL: to rape Alice, she defends herself and kills him with a bread knife. When PL: the body is discovered, Frank is assigned to the case, he quickly PL: determines that Alice is the killer, but so has someone else and blackmail PL: is threatened. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Thriller Blackmail Murder ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Blade Runner PL: Deckard is a Blade Runner, a police man of the future who hunts down PL: and terminates replicants, artificially created humans. He wants to get PL: out of the force, but is drawn back in when 5 "skin jobs", a slang term PL: for replicants, hijack a ship back to Earth. The city that Deckard PL: must search for his prey is a huge, sprawling, bleak vision of the future. PL: This film questions what it is to be human, and why life is so precious. BY: Greg Bole <bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> GE: Sci-Fi Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Blades PL: People are showing up sliced and diced at Tall Grass Country Club. PL: Norman, the owner of the club, wants to avoid undue publicity on the PL: eve of the televised pro-am tournament, and encourages new pro Roy to PL: get to the bottom of the killings quietly. Roy has a history of alcohol PL: problems since he choked while playing a big tournament years before, PL: and Kelly, who feels she should have been hired as the new pro, isn't PL: making the situation easier for him, insisting they cancel the PL: tournament until the killer can be stopped. After a seedy character PL: named Deke Slater is arrested, the owner relaxes, but Roy and Kelly PL: begin to feel that Deke's rantings about a runaway lawnmower aren't so PL: far-fetched after all, and after Deke is released the three of them PL: prepare for a battle to the death out on the uncharted fairways. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy Horror Parody ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Blame It on Rio PL: Caine plays a man on holiday in Rio with his best friend. Both men have PL: teenage daughters with them. When Caine falls for the amorous daughter PL: (played by Valerie Harper) of his best friend, they embark on a secret, PL: if slightly one-sided relationship. Harper's father is furious when PL: he finds out about the 'older man' in his daughter's life, and sets PL: out to hunt him down with the aid of Caine!. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Romance Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Blazing Saddles PL: The Ultimate Western Spoof. A town where everyone seems to be named PL: Johnson is in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, PL: Hedley Lemar, a politically connected nasty person, sends in his henchmen PL: to make the town unlivable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands PL: a new sheriff from the Governor. Hedley convinces him to send the town PL: the first Black sheriff in the west. Bart is a sophisticated urbanite who PL: will have some difficulty winning over the townspeople. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Western Spoof ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Blind Date (1984) PL: A man goes blind when remembering his lost girlfriend, but the doctors PL: can't find anything wrong with his eyes. They fit him with an experimental PL: device which allows him to see with the aid of a computer interface and PL: brain electrodes. Meanwhile, a taxi driver is taking young women up to PL: their apartments, giving them gas, and performing a little fatal amateur PL: surgery on them. Their paths inevitably converge, and the blind man must PL: try to stop the psychopath. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Blind Date (1987) PL: Walter Davis is a workaholic. His attention is all to his work and very PL: little to his personal life or appearance. Now he needs a date to take to PL: his company's business dinner with a new important Japanese client. His PL: brother sets him up with his wife's cousin Nadia, who is new in town and PL: wants to socialise, but when he was warned that if she gets drunk, she PL: looses control and becomes wild. How will the date turn out - PL: especially when they encounter Nadia's ex boyfriend David? BY: Sami Al-Taher <smmat@ukc.ac.uk> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Blind Fury PL: A Vietnam vet blinded in the war uses his samurai fighting PL: skills and a concealed sword stick to help protect the son PL: of a dead comrade from a crime organisation. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Blind Side (1993) (TV) PL: A couple visits Mexico to scout a new location for their furniture PL: manufacturing business and hit a cop with their car on the way back PL: stateside. Realizing that if they report it they could land in a Mexican PL: jail (guilty until proven innocent) they clean up the car and return home. PL: A few days later an insistent man shows up wanting a job and insinuating PL: that he saw something in Mexico that he would not want to report, and the PL: couple must make a decision about how far they will allow themselves to PL: be blackmailed. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Bliss PL: An advertising executive dies and goes to hell... except nothing changes. PL: Well, his daughter is buying drugs with sexual favours from her PL: brother, and the number of cancer-causing products is on the increase. PL: But the notes he writes to himself to prove he hasn't gone insane PL: are getting more disjointed, and he runs off with an ex-prostitute PL: called Honey Barbera. BY: David Carroll <davidc@atom.ansto.gov.au> GE: Surreal Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Blob, The (1988) PL: Remake of the 1958 horror sci-fi about a deadly blob from another PL: planet which consumes everyone in its path. Teenagers try in vein PL: to warn the townsfolk, who refuse to take them seriously. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Horror Sci-fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Blood Feast PL: Egyptian caterer busies himself collecting body parts from young maidens PL: in order to bring Ishtar, an ancient goddess of good and evil back to life. PL: When he has prepared enough parts for the ceremony, he hypnotizes a woman PL: giving an engagement party for her daughter, at which he plans to perform PL: the ancient rites of summons, using the daughter as his final sacrifice. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Blood Simple PL: A bar-owner in Texas is certain that his wife is cheating on him and PL: hires a private detective to spy on her. This is just the beginning of PL: a complex plot which is full of misunderstandings and deceit. Ethan PL: and Joel Cohen's first feature film. BY: Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Bloody Birthday PL: In 1970, three children are born at the height of a total eclipse. Due PL: to the sun and moon blocking Saturn, which controls emotions, they have PL: become heartless killers ten years later, and are able to escape detection PL: because of their youthful and innocent facades. A boy and his teenage PL: sister become endangered when they stumble onto the bloody truth. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Blown Away (1993) PL: After her mother is killed by a car bomb, a 17-year-old girl lives a PL: reckless and decadent lifestyle. She begins having sex with a boy who PL: works at a local ski resort. He falls in love, and she tells him of PL: her suspicions that her strict father was responsible for her mother's PL: death and wants him to help her out of her situation. He must decide PL: whether she's telling the truth or using him to her own ends. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Thriller Erotic Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Blowup PL: A photographer who is talented but aimless has photographed violence and PL: pain without feeling any involvement. When he takes pictures of a couple PL: in a park, he finds that he may have discovered a mystery, one that insists PL: on involving him. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Drama Mystery ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Blue Chips PL: Pete Bell, a college basketball coach is under a lot of pressure. His team PL: aren't winning and he cannot attract new players. The stars of the future PL: are secretly being paid by other teams. This practise is forbidden in the PL: college game, but Pete is desperate and has pressures from all around. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Sport Basketball Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Blue Ice PL: Harry Anders is a former MI6 agent who now owns a bar. When a beautiful PL: woman literally runs into him, they fall in love (lust perhaps). When PL: she finds out about his history, she asks him to help with a problem she PL: has. Harry is forced to re-enter the dangerous world of espionage PL: once more. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Spy Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Blue Sky PL: Lange stars in a dramatic film about a family moving to a military PL: base, and she quickly becomes part of a cover-up involving nuclear PL: bomb tests. BY: Anonymous GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Blue Steel (1990) PL: A female rookie in the police force engages in a cat and mouse PL: game with a pistol wielding psychopath who becomes obsessed PL: with her. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Blue Thunder PL: Blue Thunder is a specially modified helicopter. It is for police work, PL: but is armed and designed to counter street insurgencies. It's makers PL: want to show what it will do, but have to train a Los Angeles Police pilot PL: Ben Murphy, to fly and use it in order to allow it to operate in the city. PL: Murphy and the project pilot have differences going back to Vietnam. The PL: conflict between them continues to heat up as Murphy begins to suspect that PL: Blue Thunder is more than has been disclosed. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Blue Velvet PL: A man returns to his home town after being away and discovers a severed PL: human ear in a field. Not satisfied with the police's pace, he and the PL: police detective's daughter carry out their own investigation. The PL: object of his investigation turns out to be a beautiful and mysterious PL: woman involved with a violent and perversely evil man. BY: Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Blues Brothers, The PL: After the release of Jake Blues from prison, he and brother Elwood go to PL: visit the old home where they were raised by nuns. They learn the PL: church stopped its support and will sell the place to the education PL: authority, and the only way to keep the place open is if the $5000 tax on PL: the property is paid within 11 days. The brothers want to PL: help and decide to put their blues band back together and raise the PL: the money by staging a big gig. As they set off on their "mission from PL: god" they seem to make more enemies along the way. Will they manage to come PL: up with the money in time? BY: Sami Al-Taher <smmat@ukc.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Music Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Boat, The PL: A detailed look into the claustrophobic and terrifying world PL: of a German U-boat crew hunting ships from undersea. Gritty, PL: realistic, and peppered with black humour, this is one of PL: the few sympathetic portrayals of the war from the German side PL: to be released in western distribution. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: War Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Bob Roberts PL: Documentary-style look at the fictional Senatorial campaign of PL: Bob Roberts, an arch-conservative folk singer turned politician. PL: This political satire includes several original songs co-written PL: and performed by writer/director/star Tim Robbins, and cameo PL: appearances by other stars as reporters and news anchors. BY: Scott Renshaw <as.idc@forsythe.stanford.edu> GE: Comedy Satire Political ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Bockerer, Der PL: A politically naive Viennese butcher (Bockerer) manages to survive the Nazi PL: occupation of Austria and the second world war. BY: Otto Oberhauser <Oberhauser@cc.univie.ac.at> GE: Political Historical Satire ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Body Double PL: Jake comes home to find his girlfriend with another man and has to find a PL: new place. In between his acting workshops and his job in a vampire PL: B-movie, he scans the paper looking for anything. He happens to PL: meet a fellow actor who needs a house sitter. Both are pleased with the PL: arrangement that will have Jake staying in the house and for a sweetener, PL: Frank shows him his 'favorite neighbor', a well built woman who strips PL: with her window open each night. Jake becomes obsessed with meeting her PL: and is able to help recover her purse from a thief, but shows his own PL: phobia, he is incapacitated by claustrophobia when the thief runs through a PL: tunnel. When Jake witnesses a murder, he finds out that the police love PL: to pin crimes on peeping Toms. Jake discovers that here are just too many PL: coincidences but must hunt them down himself without the police. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Mystery Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Body Snatchers PL: Family moves to military base for the summer, but the soldiers are PL: behaving even more strangely than usual. Is it a toxic spill as suggested PL: or is it something more sinister? BY: Andrew Welsh <andreww@bnr.ca> GE: Sci-Fi Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Body of Evidence (1993) PL: A millionaire is found dead of heart failure handcuffed to the bed with a PL: home video tape of him and his lover. When cocaine is found in his PL: system, and his will leaves $8 million to his lover, they arrest her on PL: suspicion of murder. Her lawyer succumbs to her charms, and he begins PL: a torrid and kinky affair with her. As new evidence turns up during trial, PL: he begins to wonder if he's defending a murderer. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Thriller Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Bodyguard, The (1992) PL: A pop singer has been receiving threatening notes, and her manager hires PL: a bodyguard known for his good work. The bodyguard ruffles the singer's PL: feathers and most of her entourage by tightening security more than they PL: feel is necessary. The bodyguard is haunted by the fact that he was on PL: Reagan's secret service staff but wasn't there to prevent the attack by PL: Hinckley. Eventually the bodyguard and the singer start an affair, PL: and she begins to believe his precautions are necessary when the stalker PL: strikes close to home. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Thriller Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Bonfire of the Vanities, The PL: Financial "Master of the Universe" Sherman McCoy sees his life unravel PL: when his mistress Maria Ruskin hits a black boy with his car. When PL: yellow journalist Peter Fallow enflames public opinion with a series PL: of distorted tabloid articles on the accident, the case is seized upon PL: by opportunists like Reverend Bacon and mayoral candidate D.A. Abe Weiss. BY: Jon Reeves <reeves@zk3.dec.com> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Bonnie & Clyde: The True Story (TV) PL: Bonnie Parker is a divorcee while still only eighteen or twenty. PL: Clyde Barrow, a handsome charmer who is in love with Bonnie, is a PL: small-time thief, 'borrowing' cars to teach Bonnie to drive. He falls in PL: with WD Jones, and their crime levels quickly rise. Soon Bonnie is PL: dragged in with them, due to her love for Clyde, and within a short PL: space of time, everyone is baying for the blood of Bonnie and Clyde. BY: Liz Jordan <c9310494@alinga.newcastle.edu.au> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Bonnie and Clyde PL: Clyde Barrow is a bank robber recently out of prison. He meets Bonnie PL: Parker and together the two form the nucleus of a gang of bank robbers who PL: terrorize the southwest in the 1920s. Based on the true story of a pair PL: of notorious bank robbers, the film personalizes them while still showing PL: the violence that went along with them. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> PL: A bored small-town girl and a small-time bank robber leave PL: in their wake a string of violent robberies and newspaper PL: headlines that catch the imagination of the Depression-struck PL: Mid-West in this take on the legendary crime spree of these PL: archetypal lovers on the run. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Crime Historical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Boogie Man Will Get You, The PL: Crazy professor Nathaniel Billings is working on creating a race of supermen PL: in the basement of a New England house. He sells the building to a naive PL: woman and her ex-boyfriend to run as a hotel. Billings then teams up with PL: equally crazy Dr. Lawrence and uses the guests as a source for their PL: experiments. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Comedy Horror Spoof ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Born Innocent (TV) PL: A constant runaway is given over to the care of the state and finds PL: herself in a remand centre for girls. She is soon caught between the PL: uncaring bureaucracy, the sometimes brutal treatment from her peers and PL: her own abusive family, and only one care worker sees her potential PL: to rise above her tragic circumstances. BY: David Carroll <davidc@atom.ansto.gov.au> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Born Yesterday (1993) PL: A businessman shows up in Washington to lobby agendas that are friendly PL: to his construction plans. His ditzy ex-showgirl bimbo proves to be an PL: embarrassment in social situations, so he hires a reporter to teach her PL: how to appear more intelligent. Soon it becomes apparent to the reporter PL: that she isn't so stupid after all, and things become more complicated as PL: she begins questioning the papers her sugar daddy keeps getting her to PL: sign, and the reporter begins falling in love with her. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Borrower, The PL: Aliens punish one of their own by sending him to earth. The alien PL: is very violent, and when the body he occupies is damaged, he PL: is forced to find another. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Horror Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Boston Strangler, The PL: Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of PL: women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path PL: through several leads before introducing the Strangler as a character. It PL: is seen almost exclusively from the point of view of the investigators who PL: have very few clues to build a case upon. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Mystery Drama Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Boudu Saved from Drowning PL: Boudu, a tramp, jumps into the Seine. He is rescued by Mr Lestingois, a PL: gentle and good bookseller, who gives shelter to him. Mrs Lestingois and PL: the maid Anne-Marie (Mr Lestingois' mistress) are far from delighted, for PL: Boudu is lazy, dirty and salacious... BY: Yepok GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Boxing Helena PL: A top surgeon is besotted with a beautiful woman who PL: once ditched him. Unable to come to terms with life PL: without her, he tries to convince her that they need PL: each other. She has other ideas, but an horrific accident PL: leaves her at his mercy. The plot is bizarre and perhaps PL: sick at times, ending abruptly and with a twist. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Thriller Mystery Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Boy and His Dog, A PL: A post-apocalyptic tale based on a novella by Harlan Ellison. A boy PL: communicates telepathically with his dog as they scavenge for food PL: and sex, and they stumble into an underground society where the old PL: society is preserved. The daughter of one of the leaders of the PL: community seduces and lures him below, where the citizens have become PL: unable to reproduce because of being underground so long. They use him PL: for impregnation purposes, and then plan to be rid of him. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> PL: Don Johnson plays a young man in a post nuclear war world who has an PL: interesting friend, a telepathic dog. The dog gives him an advantage in PL: dealing with the barbaric world he lives in. When Johnson finds one place PL: that has escaped the devastation of the war, he also finds some rather odd PL: attitudes. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Boys from Brazil, The PL: Barry Kohler, a young Nazi hunter, tracks down a group of SS officers PL: meeting in Paraguay in the late 1970s. The Nazis, led my Dr Mengele, are PL: planning something. Old Nazi hunter, Ezra Lieberman, is at first PL: uninterested in Kohler's findings. But when he is told something of PL: their plan, he is eager to find out more. Lieberman visits several homes PL: around Europe in order to uncover the Nazi plot. It is at one of these PL: houses he notices something strange, which turns out to be a horrible PL: discovery. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Brady's Escape PL: Brady is an airman shot down during World War II over the Hungarian Plateau PL: who is hidden by the local people. They are ranchers, occupied by the PL: Germans who speak very little English, thus most of the film is PL: communicated by action. Brady and a boy from the village try to go by PL: horseback across country and avoid the German patrols long enough to PL: reach neutral territory. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: War Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Brain Damage PL: An normal, average guy living in New York City becomes dependant on an PL: evil disembodied brain. The brain feeds him drugs in exchange for his PL: unwitting assistance in obtaining the brains of innocent victims for PL: sustenance. This turns into a tour of circa-1987 underground NYC PL: clubs. One scene features the band "Swimming Pool Cues" playing PL: "Corruption." BY: Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Brain Donors PL: Three manic idiots; a lawyer, cab driver and a handyman team up to PL: run a ballet company to fulfil the will of a millionaire. Stooge-like PL: antics result as the trio try to outwit the rich widow and her scheming PL: big-shot lawyer, who also wants to run the ballet. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Brainstorm (1983) PL: Michael and Karen Brace are working on a virtual reality system that sends PL: sensory inputs directly into the brain. When one of the senior workers PL: begins to die of a heart attack and puts on the tape unit, things get PL: more interesting. Michael tries to follow her experiences after death, PL: but is prevented by the authorities when one of their people goes into PL: cardiac arrest trying to follow him. The military take over the project PL: to use the experiences of psychotics and others as training and possibly PL: torture aids. Pornographic experience tapes begin to appear as well. PL: None of this is what they had in mind, and Michael is convinced that he PL: must complete the tape of his friends death. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Sci-fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Bram Stoker's Dracula PL: This version of Dracula is closely based on Bram Stoker's classic PL: novel of the same name. A young lawyer (Jonathan Harker) is PL: assigned to a gloomy village in the mists of eastern europe. He is PL: captured and imprisoned by the undead vampire Dracula, who travels PL: to London, inspired by a photograph of Harker's betrothed, Mina PL: Murray. In Britain, Dracula begins a reign of seduction and PL: terror, draining the life from Mina's closest friend, Lucy PL: Westenra. Lucy's friends gather together to try to drive Dracula PL: away. BY: Goth <brooks@odie.ee.wits.ac.za> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Brazil (1985) PL: Bureaucracy and ductwork run amok in the story of a paperwork mixup that PL: leads to the imprisonment of Mr. Buttle, shoe repairman, instead of PL: Harry Tuttle, illegal freelance Heating Engineer. Bureaucrat Sam Lowry PL: (prone to escapes to a fantasy world) gets branded a terrorist and becomes PL: hunted by the state himself in the process of correcting the mistake. BY: Jon Reeves <reeves@zk3.dec.com> GE: Fantasy Satire ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Breakfast at Tiffany's PL: Based on Truman Capote's novel, this is the story of a young, jet- PL: setting woman in New York City who meets a young man when he moves into PL: her apartment building. He is being kept by a wealthly, older woman, PL: but wants to be a writer. She is working as a high-priced escort and PL: searching for a rich, older man to marry. The opening scene has her PL: window-shopping at Tiffany's at six in the morning, after being up all PL: night on a date. BY: Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Breaking Away PL: One reviewer subtitled it, the Boy Who Wanted to be Italian. The Stollers PL: only child has graduated high school and (along with three friends) must PL: decide what to do with his life. He won a bike in the year before opening PL: scene and has become very good at racing, winning all the local trophys. PL: His heroes are the Cinzano racing team from Italy. He begins listening to PL: operas, learning Italian, and finally shaving his legs to cut down wind PL: resistance. All of this is driving his father crazy. He even pretends PL: to be an Italian exchange student when he meets a college girl. Set in PL: the area around Indiana University, it dwells on the alienation between PL: the college students and the locals, who are called 'Cutters' (as in Stone PL: Cutters). How the four Cutters take on the fraternities in the yearly PL: bike race, earning not only the college students' respect, but their peers PL: as well is the focal point of the film. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Breaking In PL: Professional thief Ernie takes Mike on as an apprentice, but while Mike PL: clearly has "larceny in his heart", it will take him a long time to get PL: as good as Ernie. BY: Jon Reeves <reeves@zk3.dec.com> GE: Comedy Adventure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Brewster McCloud PL: Brewster is an owlish, intellectual boy who lives in a fallout shelter of PL: the Houston Astrodome. He has a dream: to take flight within the confines PL: of the stadium. Brewster tells those he trusts of his dream, but displays PL: a unique way of treating others who do not fit within his plans. When the PL: fateful day arrives, and he enters the dome with his fanciful PL: construction of bird wings, Brewster is surrounded by the police. Will he PL: be caught before he attempts to fly? BY: Rick Gregory <rag.apa@email.apa.org> GE: Comedy Fantasy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Brewster's Millions (1985) PL: Brewster is a minor league baseball player. Unknown to him, he PL: had a (recently deceased) rich relative. In order to test if Brewster PL: knows the value of money, he is given the task of disposing of $30m PL: in 30 days. Brewster isn't allowed to have any assets to show for PL: the $30m or waste the money in any way. If successful, Brewster gets to PL: inherit $300m. The biggest problem of all however, is that Brewster PL: can't tell anyone what he's doing, so everyone thinks he's crazy. Add to PL: this the fact that if he fails, two scheming trustees will get their hands PL: on the money, Brewster's task is not an easy one. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Bride of Killer Nerd PL: Harold Kunkle has moved to a new city after the unfortunate incidents in PL: "Killer Nerd." At a nearby high school, a nerd girl is having similar PL: problems to Kunkle's: rampant anti-nerd bigotry. They meet by chance PL: in church and fall madly in love. Her classmates plan to get even for PL: imagined slights, and invite her and Kunkle to a party. When they make PL: a fool of her, she and Kunkle team up to cause attrition amongst their PL: detractors. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Bridge Too Far, A PL: Adapted from Cornelius 'The Longest Day' Ryan's novelization PL: of the ill-fated Operation Market Garden, this WWII film PL: follows the perspectives of American, Polish and British PL: soldiers attempting to capture key bridges behind German PL: lines in a complicated parachute and armoured assault. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: War Historical Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Bridge at Remagen, The PL: A war weary American unit is ordered to capture whole the last PL: bridge left standing across the Rhine before a determined corp PL: of German defenders can blow it up in this WWII movie about PL: futility and bravery. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: War ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Bridge on the River Kwai, The PL: British WW2 prisoners of war are given the task, by their Japanese captors, PL: of building a railway bridge in a harsh Asian jungle. Led by Col Nicholson, PL: a stereotypical British officer, the prisoners score a moral victory over PL: the Japanese by not only building the bridge, but running the whole show. PL: Unknown to Nicholson, an allied demolition team are planning a spectacular PL: opening for the bridge. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: War ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Bridges at Toko-Ri, The PL: Set during the Korean War, a Navy fighter pilot must come to terms with PL: with his own ambivalence towards the war and the fear of having to PL: bomb a set of highly defended bridges. The ending of this grim war PL: drama is all tension. BY: KC Hunt <khunt@eng.morgan.edu> GE: War Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Bringing Up Baby PL: David Huxley, an archeologist, is waiting to get a bone he needs for his PL: museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets PL: Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a PL: leopard called Baby. BY: Liza Esser <essereli@student.msu.edu> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Broadcast News PL: Basket-case network news producer Jane Craig falls for new PL: reporter Tom Grunnick, a pretty boy who represents the trend PL: towards entertainment news she despises. Aaron Altman, a PL: talented but plain correspondent, carries an unrequited torch PL: for Jane. Sparks fly between the three as the network prepares PL: for big changes, and both the news and Jane must decide between PL: style and substance. BY: Scott Renshaw <as.idc@forsythe.stanford.edu> GE: Comedy Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Broken Blossoms PL: Young Lucy Battling lives under her father's iron rule. Out one day, she PL: falls in love with Cheng Huan, newly arrived in London from China. This PL: This does not please her father, who attempts to break the bond by brute PL: force. BY: John J. Magee <magee@helix.mgh.harvard.edu> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Brood, The PL: A man's wife is under the care of an eccentric psychiatrist who uses PL: innovative and theatrical techniques to breach the psychological blocks PL: in his patients. When their daughter comes back from a visit with mom PL: and she's covered with bruises and welts, the father attempts to bar his PL: wife from seeing the daughter, but faces resistance from the secretive PL: psychiatrist. Meanwhile, the wife's mother and father are attacked by PL: deformed children, and the husband begins to suspect a connection with PL: the psychiatrist's methods. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Buffy the Vampire Slayer PL: An airhead cheerleader turns out to be the Chosen One to hunt and PL: kill vampires, and after being trained in the art must go against PL: the Prince of Darkness and his minions. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> PL: Buffy thinks very highly of her keen fashion-sense. In fact, fashion, PL: cheerleading, movies and parties are all she ever thinks about. Then PL: one day, Merrick approaches her; telling her she has a specific mission PL: in life - killing vampires. What good is her "keen fashion-sense" in PL: her new dayly tasks? BY: Lars J. Aas <larsa@colargol.edb.tih.no> GE: Action Comedy Vampire College ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Bull Durham PL: Veteran minor-league catcher Crash Davis is assigned to the PL: Class A Durham Bulls to handle the team's star rookie, wild PL: pitcher "Nuke" LaLoosh. Team groupie Annie Savoy romances both PL: players, creating a comic triangle. BY: Scott Renshaw <as.idc@forsythe.stanford.edu> PL: Crash is an aging minor league ball player, brought up from another team PL: to mature a young pitcher with maturity problems. Both of them become PL: involved with Ann, a baseball groupie with her own perspective on the PL: game. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Sports Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Bullet in the Head PL: In 1967, on the way to the wedding of a friend a young man is accosted by PL: a local gang member. Later, the three friends administer justice, in the PL: process of which the gang member is killed, so they leave Hong Kong to PL: avoid the police and the gang. They run black market supplies to Saigon PL: and get embroiled in the war, being arrested as Viet Cong, then later PL: captured by the Viet Cong, and find that their friendship is tested to PL: the limits as they try to escape. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Action Historical Crime ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Bullitt PL: Frank Bullitt is selected by Chalmers, a politician with ambition, to PL: guard a mafia informant. Bullitt's friend is shot and the witness PL: is left at death's door by two hit men who seem to know exactly where the PL: the witness was hiding. Bullitt begins a search for both the killer and PL: the leak, but he must keep the witness alive long enough to make sure PL: the killers return. Chalmers has no interest in the injured policeman or PL: the killers, only in the hearings that will catapult him into the public PL: eye and wants to shut down Bullitt's investigation. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Crime Mystery ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Bullseye! (1991) PL: Moore and Caine play dual rolls in this off-beat and highly silly PL: caper - a pair of small time con-men and a partnership of nuclear PL: physicists. As con-men, they use their uncanny resemblance to the PL: high-living scientists to con their way to the scientists' safety PL: deposit boxes, but in so-doing become entangled in a shady world of PL: spies and international intrigue. BY: Paul Roach <paul.roach@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Buried Alive (1984) (TV) PL: A young rich orphan loses his fiancee to voodoo doll mischief on the part PL: of his housekeeper who is jealous of his attentions. He digs his PL: girlfriend up, cleans her out, stuffs her, and puts her in bed at the PL: mansion. Following this, he tries out and disposes of a series of young PL: maidens, trying to find the right replacement for her, and the PL: disapproving housekeeper helps him with the disposals. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid PL: Butch and Sundance are the two leaders of the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang. Butch PL: is all ideas, Sundance is all action and skill. The west is becoming PL: civilized and when Butch and Sundance rob a train once too often, a special PL: posse begins trailing them no matter where they run. Over rock, through PL: towns, across rivers, the group is always just behind them. When they PL: finally escape through sheer luck, Butch has another idea, Let's go to PL: Colombia. Based on the exploits of the historical characters. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Western Action Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Butcher's Wife, The PL: A clairvoyant thinks she's met her husband to be because PL: she's seen him in her dreams. They marry quickly, and return PL: to the husband's ("the butcher"), home in the city. She PL: has a big impact on everyone she meets by anticipating their questions PL: and actions and advising them on their love life. Her interference PL: then brings her into contact with the real man of her dreams. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: By Dawn's Early Light (TV) PL: The crew of a nuclear bomber attack the Soviet Union while the PL: President of the United States tries desperately to regain PL: control of his military after his helicopter crashes during PL: a limited nuclear exchange in this film with a scenario similar PL: to _Fail Safe_ and _Dr. Strangelove_. Originally a made for PL: cable movie, it concentrates on the relationship between a PL: veteran pilot and his female co-pilot and the president's PL: attempt to wrest control away from a war-mongering successor. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: War Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Caddyshack PL: Comical goings on at an exclusive golf club. All the members are PL: wealthy and eccentric, and all the staff are poor and slightly PL: less eccentric. The main character is 'Danny'; he's a caddy who PL: will do almost anything to raise money to go to college. There are PL: many subplots, including the assistant green keeper's pursuit of a PL: cute (obviously stuffed) gopher. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Cadillac Man PL: Joe's a car salesman with a problem. He has two days to sell 12 cars PL: or he loses his job. This would be a difficult task at the best of times PL: but Joe has to contend with his girlfriends (he's two timing), a missing PL: teenage daughter and an ex-wife. What more could go wrong ?.. a lot, PL: enter a crazy jealous husband with a machine gun.. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Kidnap Crime ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Caged Heat PL: A girl is caught in a drug bust and sent to the hoosegow. The iron-handed PL: superintendent takes exception to a skit performed by the girls and takes PL: punitive steps, aided by the sadistic doctor who is doing illegal PL: electroshock experiments and raping drugged prisoners. After a while the PL: prisoners put away their petty differences and plan the Big Prison Escape. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Action Female Prison ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Caine Mutiny, The PL: A group of officers get a new captain during WW II. The new captain is PL: different and they begin to suspect his sanity. In wartime, will he PL: endanger them? Will they have to remove him from command? Will they be PL: charged with mutiny in time of war if they do? BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: War Psychological Courtroom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Cameraman, The PL: Luke Shannon is a newsreel cameraman. He wants to work for MGM, to be near PL: a beautiful office worker among other reasons. After many foibles, he finds PL: himself with his camera in the middle of a major news event. BY: John J. Magee <magee@helix.mgh.harvard.edu> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Candyman (1992) PL: An old tale says that if you say "candyman" five time whilst PL: looking into a mirror, then "he" will appear behind you and PL: cut you in two. PL: The heroine of this story is writing a thesis on such tales. PL: During her investigations, she encounters the "candyman". BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death PL: The government hires a feminist at the local university to track down PL: the Piranha Women living in the uncharted Avocado Jungle (westernmost PL: outpost is San Bernardino) to convince them to move to a reservation PL: condo in Malibu. She hires a guide at the edge of the jungle, a male PL: chauvinist pig, and they have many arguments about men and women as they PL: work their way in, and eventually confront the Piranha Women. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Cape Fear (1991) PL: Max Cady is a psychopath just released from prison for rape. He is out PL: seeking revenge from his lawyer Sam Bowden who he believes deliberately PL: held back important information about his case during the trial, which PL: could have kept him out of jail. He sets off to terrorise Bowden, his PL: wife and even goes after their 15 year old daughter. BY: Sami Al-Taher <smmat@ukc.ac.uk> GE: Thriller Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Captain Horatio Hornblower PL: A reasonably accurate screen adaptation of the books by C.S. Forrester PL: about the British naval captain during the Napoleonic Wars. Hornblower PL: is sent to the pacific coast of Latin America to bring arms to a rebel PL: leader against Spain only to find he must also defeat a ship nearly half PL: again the size of his frigate Lydia. Adventure yarn with a romance PL: slipped in. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Adventure Historical War ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Carlito's Way PL: A Puerto Rican ex-con pledges to stay away from his former PL: drug dealing ways but finds himself being dragged back by PL: his past connections and the naive machinations of his PL: lawyer and best friend. Hoping to raise enough money to PL: get away from New York, Carlito Brigante takes on the job of PL: running a nightclub, renews an affair with a dancer but PL: old associates and old instincts suck him back into a world PL: of violence and mistrust. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> PL: Carlito has just gotten out of prison due to technicalities with the help PL: of his sleazy lawyer. After a life spent trafficking heroin he decides PL: not to pursue the life of the streets. He buys into a night club and PL: begins saving money to move to the Bahamas, but his presence as a known PL: player makes it inevitable that he get sucked back into his violent former PL: life. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Crime Gangster Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Carnal Knowledge PL: Sandy and Jonathan are roomates in college who's experiences with women PL: offer a contrast. Both of them go from one disfunctional relationship to PL: another in this Jules Feiffer script. A line that Feiffer removed from the PL: Script was, "Boys begin life not liking girls, later they don't change, they PL: just get horny." This is a very uncomfortable film for many men to watch PL: because so many of the interactions are so common and shown as so PL: disfunctional. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Carol for Another Christmas (TV) PL: A man sits back on Christmas and mourns his son who died 20 years PL: before in World War II. He sits and listens to _Don't sit under the PL: apple tree_ and becomes more and more sullen. He is visited by three PL: ghosts who center the experience they supply on not just Christmas, PL: but War. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Carpetbaggers, The PL: George Peppard plays a hard-driven industrialist more than a little PL: reminiscent of the late Howard Hughes. While he builds airplanes, PL: directs movies and breaks hearts, his friends and lovers try to PL: reach his human side, and find that it's an uphill battle. PL: The film's title is a metaphor for self-promoting tycoons who PL: perform quick financial takeovers, impose dictatorial controls for PL: short-term profits, then move on to greener pastures. BY: Jeanne Baker <jbaker@erim.org> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Carrie (1976) PL: Carrie White is a shy young girl who doesn't make friends easily. PL: After her class mates taunt her about her horrified reaction to her PL: totally unexpected first period one of them takes pity on her and gets PL: Tommy Ross, her boyfriend and class hunk to invite Carrie to the senior PL: prom. PL: Meanwhile another girl who has been banned from the prom for her PL: continued aggressive behaviour is not as forgiving and plans a trick to PL: embarrass Carrie in front of the whole school. What she doesn't realise PL: is that Carrie is ... gifted, and you really don't want to get her PL: angry. BY: Mark Thompson <mrt@oasis.icl.co.uk> PL: Based on a Stephen King novel, Carrie is the story of Carrie White. She PL: is a girl brought up, almost in isolation, by her psychotically PL: religious mother Margaret. After an embarrassing incident in the PL: showers causes her fellow pupils to tease Carrie ruthlessly, her PL: teacher Miss Collins disciplines them severely. Determined to have PL: revenge, the other students hatch a plot against Carrie, which turns PL: horribly wrong when Carrie's strange mental powers are unleashed PL: during the school prom. BY: Goth <brooks@odie.ee.wits.ac.za> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Carry On - Don't Lose your Head PL: The time of the French revolution, and Citizen Robespierre is beheading the PL: French aristocracy. When word gets to England, two noblemen, Sir Rodney PL: Ffing and Lord Darcy take it upon themselves to aid there French PL: counterparts. Sir Rodney is a master of disguise, and becomes "the black PL: fingernail", scourge of Camembert and Bidet, leaders of the French secret PL: police... BY: Simon N. McIntosh-Smith <Simon.N.Smith@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Historical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Carry On - Follow That Camel PL: Bertram Oliphant West (also known as Bo West) wants to clear his unjustly PL: smeared reputation. He joins the Foreign Legion, with Simpson his manservant PL: in tow. But the fort they get posted to is full of eccentric legionnaires, PL: and there is trouble brewing with the locals too. Unbeknown to Bo, his PL: lady love has followed him in disguise... BY: Simon N. McIntosh-Smith <Simon.N.Smith@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Historical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Carry On Abroad PL: A group of holidaymakers head for the Spanish resort of Elsbels for a 4-day PL: visit. When they get there, they find the Hotel still hasn't been finished PL: being built, and the weather is awful. And there is something strange about PL: the staff. They all look very similar. To top it all off, the weather seems PL: to be having an adverse affect on the Hotel's foundations... BY: Simon N. McIntosh-Smith <Simon.N.Smith@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Carry On Again, Doctor PL: Dr Nookey is disgraced and sent to a remote island hospital. He is given a PL: secret slimming potion by a member of staff, Gladstone Screwer, and he PL: flies back to England to fame and fortune. But others want to cash in on PL: his good fortunes, and some just want him brought down a peg or two. BY: Simon N. McIntosh-Smith <Simon.N.Smith@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Medical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Carry On Behind PL: Archaeology and camping are a strange combination, but when Major Leep PL: discovers Roman remains under his run-down campsite, the visiting holiday- PL: makers have to mix with the flocking archaeologists. Confusion is bound PL: to follow, and a string of misunderstandings lead to chaos. BY: Simon N. McIntosh-Smith <Simon.N.Smith@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Carry On Cabby PL: Speedee Taxis is a great success, which means its workaholic owner Charlie PL: starts neglecting Peggy, his wife. Suddenly a fleet of rival taxis appears PL: from nowhere and start pinching all the fares. The rivals are Glamcabs, PL: and they have a secret weapon. All their drivers are very attractive women! PL: Who's behind Glamcabs? It's open warfare and only one fleet can survive! BY: Simon N. McIntosh-Smith <Simon.N.Smith@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Carry On Camping PL: Sid and Bernie keep having their amorous intentions snubbed by their PL: girlfriends Joan and Anthea. The boys suggest a camping holiday, secretly PL: intending to take them to a nudist camp. Of course they end up in the wrong PL: place, and meet up with the weirdest bunch of campers you can imagine! Coach PL: loads of sex-starved schoolgirls and bands of hippies all add to the laughs. BY: Simon N. McIntosh-Smith <Simon.N.Smith@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Carry On Cleo PL: Two Britons are captured and enslaved by invading Romans and taken to PL: Rome. Hengist Pod creates useless inventions, while Horsa is a brave and PL: cunning fighter. One of their first encounters in Rome leaves Hengist being PL: mistaken for a fighter, and gets drafted into the Royal Guard to protect PL: Cleopatra. Cleo doesn't want him around and plots for his sudden demise... BY: Simon N. McIntosh-Smith <Simon.N.Smith@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Historical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Carry On Constable PL: A local police force is left short-staffed by a flu epidemic. Enter PL: four bungling trainee policemen to fill the gap! Sergeant Wilkins PL: has to try to turn them into real police overnight, but in the PL: meantime criminals can breath a sigh of relief while the innocent PL: had better watch out... BY: Simon N. McIntosh-Smith <Simon.N.Smith@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Police ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Carry On Cowboy PL: Stodge City is in the grip of the Rumpo Kid and his gang. Mistaken identity PL: again takes a hand as a sanitary inspector by the name of Marshall P. Knutt PL: is mistaken for a law marshall! Being the conscientious sort, Marshall tries PL: to help the town get rid of Rumpo, and a showdown is inevitable. Marshall PL: has two aids - revenge-seeking Annie Oakley and his sanitary expertise... BY: Simon N. McIntosh-Smith <Simon.N.Smith@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Western ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Carry On Cruising PL: Captain Crowther's lot is not a happy one! Five of his crew have to be PL: replaced and at such short notice before the voyage begins there isn't PL: much to choose from. Not only does he get the five most incompetent PL: shipmates ever to sail the seven seas, but the passengers turn out to be a PL: rather strange bunch too. The SS Happy Wanderer will never be the same. BY: Simon N. McIntosh-Smith <Simon.N.Smith@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Carry On Dick PL: Dick Turpin is terrorising the countryside around Upper Dencher. Captain PL: Fancey and Sergeant Jock Strapp plan to put an end to his escapades, and PL: enlist the help of the Reverend Flasher. Little do they know that the priest PL: leads a double life. Then Madame Desiree and her "Birds of Paradise" arrive PL: in the village... BY: Simon N. McIntosh-Smith <Simon.N.Smith@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Historical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Carry On Doctor PL: The popular Dr Kilmore is sacked after being discovered in a compromising PL: position on the roof of the nurses' home. The patients are determined PL: not to lose him, and so take on the might of the "cutting" Dr Tinkle and PL: the overpowering Matron. BY: Simon N. McIntosh-Smith <Simon.N.Smith@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Medical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Carry On Emmanuelle PL: The beautiful and sex-starved Emmannuelle Prevert just cannot inflame her PL: husband's ardour. In frustration she seduces a string of VIPs, including PL: the Prime Minister and the American Ambassador. A jealous lover gives a list PL: of all her conquests to the national press and a scandal ensues. But will PL: she ever manage to get her own husband into bed? BY: Simon N. McIntosh-Smith <Simon.N.Smith@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Erotica ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Carry On England PL: Major S. Melly takes over as the new Commanding Officer at an experimental PL: mixed sex air defence base. It's 1940 and England is under heavy PL: bombardment, but the crew seem more interested in each other than the enemy PL: planes above. Major Melly plans to put a stop to all this, and becomes the PL: target of a campaign to abandon his separatist ideals... BY: Simon N. McIntosh-Smith <Simon.N.Smith@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy War ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Carry On Girls PL: Local hotelier Sidney Fiddler persuades the Mayor to help improve the image PL: of their rundown seaside town by holding a beauty contest. But formidable PL: Councillor Prodworthy, head of the local womens lib. has other ideas. It's PL: open warfare as the womens lib. attempt to sabotage the contest. BY: Simon N. McIntosh-Smith <Simon.N.Smith@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Carry On Henry VIII PL: Henry VIII has just married Marie of Normandy, and is eager to consummate PL: their marriage. Unfortunately for Henry, she is always eating garlic, and PL: refuses to stop. Deciding to get rid of her in his usual manner, Henry has PL: to find some way of doing it without provoking war with Marie's cousin, the PL: King of France. Perhaps if she had an affair... BY: Simon N. McIntosh-Smith <Simon.N.Smith@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Historical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Carry On Jack PL: This is the tale of Albert Poop-Decker, a newly commissioned Midshipman PL: (although he took 8 1/2 years to qualify). He joins the frigate Venus, and PL: adventures through Spanish waters, mutinee and Pirates taking his Captain, PL: his sweet-heart and his best-friend with him! With mistaken identities PL: and shipwrecks awash, it's a surprise any of them live to tell the tale! BY: Simon N. McIntosh-Smith <Simon.N.Smith@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Historical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Carry On Loving PL: The Wedded Bliss computer dating agency aims to bring together the lonely PL: hearts of Much-Snoggin-in-the-Green. Its owner, Sidney Bliss, has enough PL: complications in his own love life, but still produces a pamphlet called PL: "The Wit to Woo". The strange collection of hopefuls lead to some PL: outlandish matches, and jealousies are bound to lead to trouble. BY: Simon N. McIntosh-Smith <Simon.N.Smith@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Carry On Matron PL: A gang of thieves plan to make their fortune by stealing a shipment of PL: contraceptive pills from Finisham maternity hospital. They assume disguises PL: and infiltrate the hospital, but everything doesn't go according to plan. PL: The hypochondriac consultant Sir Bernard Cutting, Matron and the doctors and PL: nurses at Finisham have a habit of getting in the way. BY: Simon N. McIntosh-Smith <Simon.N.Smith@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Medical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Carry On Nurse PL: An idiosyncratic group of patients wreak havoc in the men's surgical PL: ward of Haven Hospital. They decide to take their revenge on the PL: frosty Matron, and their is even a spot of DIY surgery! BY: Simon N. McIntosh-Smith <Simon.N.Smith@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Carry On Regardless PL: The Helping Hands agency employs some very strange people to perform PL: some very strange jobs! Even the simplest of tasks get bungled by PL: the incompetent but lovable staff, as they get given jobs ranging PL: from taking animals for walks (no ordinary animals you understand) PL: to demonstrating new products at a large and prestigious exhibition... BY: Simon N. McIntosh-Smith <Simon.N.Smith@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Carry On Screaming PL: The sinister Dr Watt has an evil scheme going. He's kidnapping beautiful PL: young women and turning them into mannequins to sell to local stores. PL: Fortunately for Dr Watt, Detective-Sergeant Bung is on the case, and he PL: doesn't have a clue! In this send up of the Hammer Horror movies, there are PL: send-ups of all the horror greats from Frankenstein to Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde. BY: Simon N. McIntosh-Smith <Simon.N.Smith@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Carry On Sergeant PL: Sergeant Grimshaw wants to retire in the flush of success by winning PL: the Star Squad prize with his very last platoon of newly called-up PL: National Servicemen. But what a motley bunch they turn out to be, PL: and it's up to Grimshaw to put the no-hopers through their paces. BY: Simon N. McIntosh-Smith <Simon.N.Smith@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy War ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Carry On Spying PL: A top secret chemical formula has been stolen by STENCH (the Society for the PL: Total Extinction of Non-Conforming Humans), and so Agent Simpkins and his PL: three trainees are hot on the trail, chasing the villains across the world. PL: There are gadgets galore, and disguises are compulsory if the heroes are to PL: win the day from The Fat Man, Dr Milchman and Dr Crow! BY: Simon N. McIntosh-Smith <Simon.N.Smith@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Spy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Carry On Teacher PL: Pupils run amock at Maudin Street School in an attempt to hang on PL: to their headmaster. He has applied for a new job, but the students PL: like him and don't want to lose him. They concoct a plan - blacken PL: his record in front of the Ministry Inspector and then he won't ever PL: be able to get another job! BY: Simon N. McIntosh-Smith <Simon.N.Smith@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Carry On Up the Jungle PL: The Carry On team send up the Tarzan tradition in great style. Lady Evelyn PL: Bagley mounts an expedition to find her long-lost baby. Bill Boosey is the PL: fearless hunter and guide. Prof. Tinkle is searching for the rare Oozalum PL: bird. Everything is going swimmingly until a gorilla enters the camp, and PL: then the party is captured by an all female tribe from Aphrodisia... BY: Simon N. McIntosh-Smith <Simon.N.Smith@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Carry On Up the Khyber PL: Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond looks after the British outpost near the Khybar PL: pass. Protected by the kilted Third Foot and Mouth regiment, you would PL: think they were safe. But the Khazi of Kalabar has other ideas. He wants PL: all the British dead! But his troops fear the "skirted-devils"; they are PL: rumoured not to wear anything underneath. Then one is caught with his PL: pants on... BY: Simon N. McIntosh-Smith <Simon.N.Smith@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Historical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Carry On at Your Convenience PL: This is the tale of industrial strife at WC Boggs' Lavatory factory. Vic PL: Spanner is the union representative who calls a strike at the drop of a hat; PL: eventually everyone has to get fed up with him. This is also the ideal PL: opportunity for lots of lavatorial jokes... BY: Simon N. McIntosh-Smith <Simon.N.Smith@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Cars That Ate Paris, The PL: A small town in rural Australia (Paris) makes its living by causing PL: car accidents and salvaging any valuables from the wrecks. Into this PL: town come brothers Arthur and George. George is killed when the PL: Parisians cause their car to crash, but Arthur survives and is brought PL: into the community as an orderly at the hospital. PL: But Paris is not problem free. Not only do the Parisians have to be PL: careful of outsiders (such as insurance investigators), but they also PL: have to cope with the young people of the town who are dissatisfied with PL: the status quo. BY: Mark Thompson <mrt@oasis.icl.co.uk> PL: A man's car breaks down in a country town, somewhere in New South Wales. PL: His brother has been killed, and his fear of cars has returned full-blown, PL: yet accidents around here are more common than strict coincidence would PL: allow, and just leaving the town becomes a problem all of its own. PL: Especially when the various factions in town start a feud that has PL: been brewing for a long time... BY: David Carroll <davidc@atom.ansto.gov.au> GE: Mystery Horror Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Casablanca PL: Rick Blaine, who owns a nightclub in Casablanca, discovers his old flame PL: Ilsa, is in town with her husband, Victor Lazlo. Lazlo is a Resistance PL: leader, and with Germans on his tail, Ilsa knows Rick can help them get PL: out of the country - but will he ? Some interesting trivia - Ronald PL: Reagan was originally cast to play Rick Blaine ! BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Drama War ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Casino Royale PL: Sir James Bond, a spy from the old school (a good spy is a pure spy) is PL: called back to service by the death of "M" and the imminent collapse of PL: civilization. The opposition tries to compromise him, but even as PL: nubile young agents are thrown at him, he remains above it all. Going PL: beyond parody to sillyness, every agent is renamed James Bond, 007 to PL: confuse the enemy, including Woody Allen who plays, Little Jimmy Bond. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Farce Spy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Cast a Giant Shadow PL: An American Army officer is recruited by the yet to exist Israel to help PL: them form an army. He is disturbed by this sudden appeal to his jewish PL: roots. Each of Israel's Arab neighbors has vowed to invade the poorly PL: prepared country as soon as partition is granted. He is made commander PL: of the Israeli forces just before the war begins. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: War Historical Adventure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Cat Ballou PL: Cat(herine) Balou's family farm is being threatened by the Rail Road. She PL: sends for Kid Shelleen, finding him to be the drunkest gunfighter in the PL: west. When her father is killed by the rail road magnate's gunman, she PL: vowes to fight on. Shelleen manages to ride sideways in several scenes, PL: while minstrels sing the ballad of Cat Ballou in between scenes. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Western ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Cat Chaser PL: An American veteran (Weller) of the Dominican Republic intervention PL: (LBJ era) is running a hotel in Miami, and is trying to put the memories PL: of the intervention behind him. He gets involved with a former Dominican PL: Republic general's wife (McGillis). He then gets duped through a series PL: of intricate plot twists into helping a group of people trying to rip the PL: general off. Based on the novel by Elmore Leonard. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Thriller Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Catchfire PL: An artist (Foster) witnesses a mafia hit and calls the police. At the PL: police station she realizes that the mafia has a man in the force, so PL: she runs. Trailed by the police, who need her testimony, and a hitman PL: (Hopper) hired by the mafia, she goes to Mexico, where eventually she PL: meets the hitman, who has become infatuated after studying her art and PL: life to prepare for the hit. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Catholics (TV) PL: In the near future, the Catholic church has joined with other western PL: religions in an ecumenical movement that has washed out much of the PL: original message of the religion. A group of Irish monks have begun PL: saying the mass again in Latin and have begun to have an international PL: following. Martin Sheen is sent from Rome to bring them to task and they PL: must confront what is truly essential in their worship and what is not. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Drama Religious ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Champagne PL: A spoilt rich girl leads a life of luxury on the profits from her father's PL: champagne business. To bring her back down to earth he tells her that all PL: the money has been lost so she goes to seek her fortune. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Comedy Silent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Chances Are PL: Louie Jeffries is happily married to Corinne. On their first anniversary, PL: Louie is killed crossing the road. Louie is reincarnated as Alex Finch, PL: and twenty years later, fate brings Alex and Louie's daughter, Miranda, PL: together. It's not until Alex is invited to Louie's home that he begins PL: to remember his former life, wife and best friend. Of course, there's PL: also the problem that he's attracted to Louie's/his own daughter. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Romantic Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Changeling, The (1980) PL: A writer whose family is killed in a road accident retires PL: to a lonely mansion and begins to experience supernatural PL: occurrences linked to the house's mysterious past and its PL: previous owners. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Charade (1963) PL: Regina is about to divorce her husband when she finds that he has been PL: murdered after converting every penny they owned to cash, which is also PL: missing. She meets Cary Grant who changes his name every 15 min. or so PL: and is interested in her husband's money, which seems to have come from PL: a WWII payroll he stole. His partners in crime are also very interested PL: in where the money is, as he stole it from them as well. Everyone PL: assumes Regina MUST know where the money is. The situation becomes more PL: tense when the searchers begin turning up dead. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Mystery Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Chariots of Fire PL: The true story of two British track athletes competing PL: in the 1924 Summer Olympics. One is a devout Scottish PL: missionary who runs for God, the other is a Jewish PL: student at Cambridge who runs for fame and to escape PL: prejudice. BY: Ray Hamel <hamel@primate.wisc.edu> GE: Drama Biography Running Olympics ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Charly PL: Charly is a good natured retarded adult. Scientists try an experimental PL: treatment on him which raises his IQ to genius levels but which does not PL: give him emotional maturity. His shift from a dependant to an autonomous PL: individual gives power to the story. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Cheap Detective, The PL: Lou Peckinpaugh, the Cheap detective has entered a world that is half PL: Casablanca and half Maltese Falcon. A parody of Bogart's films in which PL: Lou goes through a series of scenes from the two movies trying to keep PL: ahead of the police who think he killed his partner and find the black PL: bird. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Cheaters, The (1945) PL: A wealthy family is preparing for Christmas in their usual stylish PL: fashion (Eugene Pallette and Billie Burke play the parents.) They hit on a PL: bright idea that will make them outstanding durng this holiday season among PL: their friends. They will adopt a "lost man" and bring him to their house for PL: the holidays. They find a news story of a washed-up actor (Joseph PL: Schildkraut) who has attempted to commit suicide and bring him to their PL: home. The actor proves far more than they bargained for and he shows them PL: some real truths about giving and living. BY: Anonymous GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Cheyenne Social Club, The PL: John is working as a cow poke for very little money with his friend Harley PL: when he gets word his uncle has left him The Cheyenne Social Club. He PL: and Harley ride for nearly a thousand miles to his inheritance only to PL: find he is now the owner of a first class brothel. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Western ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Children of the Corn PL: A young couple wander into a mid-western town where all the PL: adults are apparently dead and the children participate in a PL: cult that worships a malevolent force in the corn fields. PL: Based on a Stephen King novella. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: China Girl (1987) PL: A modern day Romeo & Juliet story is told in New York when an PL: Italian boy and a Chinese girl become lovers, causing a tragic PL: conflict between ethnic gangs. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: China Syndrome, The PL: While doing a series of reports on alternative energy sources, PL: an opportunistic reporter Kimberly Wells witnesses an accident PL: at a nuclear power plant. Wells is determined to publicise the PL: incident but soon finds herself entangled in a sinister conspiracy PL: to keep the full impact of the incident a secret. BY: Dave Jenkins <david.jenkins@smallworld.co.uk> GE: Thriller Political ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Chinatown PL: J.J. (Jake) Gittes, a worthy successor to Sam Spade and PL: Philip Marlowe, unravels a complicated plot involving murder, PL: drought, land rights, corruption, decay and incest in the Los PL: Angeles of 1937. His growing attachment to Evelyn Mulwray, PL: daughter of Noah Cross, the chief villain of the piece, PL: provides an equally complex romantic interest that leads to a PL: tragic conclusion. Tenacity and loyalty to truth and justice PL: lead him through the kind of events that respectable people PL: don't usually hear much about. BY: Dave Cook <cookd@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Chinesen kommen, Die (TV) PL: Delegates and workmen from China appear in a small Bavarian village to PL: dismantle and ship to their country parts of a shut-down industrial plant. PL: Four Bavarian labourers are supposed to assist them in their efforts, and PL: in spite of cultural differences and language barriers this rather unusual PL: encounter of two cultures seems to go pretty well. BY: Otto Oberhauser <Oberhauser@cc.univie.ac.at> GE: Comedy Rural ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Chopper Chicks in Zombietown PL: The title should be enough to explain the plot here. Riding around on PL: their motorbikes, a gang of tough women bikers are the only thing PL: that stands between a crowd of Zombies, which have been accidentally PL: let out of their secure cave (!), and those still alive in the town. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Horror Zombie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Chopping Mall PL: Teenagers working at the local mall sneak in supplies and wait until the PL: mall locks up for an intimate party night. The mall has a sophisticated PL: robot security system that goes into attack mode after a malfunction and PL: kills the human guards. Now the teens must run for their lives and try PL: to find a way out of the mall using materials available in different mall PL: stores. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Cinderella (1950) PL: Retelling of the fairy tale of the same name. Cinderella, adopted PL: daughter of an upper-class lady, is made a slave in her own home. PL: While her mother and ugly stepsisters are out at the royal ball PL: she gets a surprise visit from a friend. BY: Tim Pickett <quetzal@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au> GE: Animated Childrens Musical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Circle of Iron PL: A young martial artist competes for and wins the right to go on a quest PL: for the Book of All Knowlege held by a wizard named Zetan. Along the PL: way, he meets strange enemies and allies--often having difficulty PL: determinimg which is which. BY: Hal Wadleigh <wadleigh@process.com> GE: Martial-Arts Fantasy Adventure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Circus of Horrors PL: In 1947 England, a plastic surgeon must beat a hasty retreat to France PL: when one of his patients has ghastly problems with her surgery. Once PL: there, he operates on a circus owner's daughter, deformed by bombs from PL: the war. Later he becomes the owner of the circus, and continues PL: transforming disfigured women into the beautiful stars of his show. The PL: police and a nosy reporter (as well as Scotland Yard) become interested PL: when the women who want out of the circus begin dying in freak accidents, PL: and they begin suspecting the good doctor is responsible. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Citizen Kane PL: Considered by many as the best film ever made, this is the story of PL: Charles Foster Kane. The film opens with a long shot of Xanadu - the PL: private estate of one of the world's richest men. In the middle of PL: the estate is a castle. We see, inside the castle, a dying man PL: examining a winter scene within a crystal ball. As he drops it, it PL: smashes, and one word is heard - "Rosebud"... What follows are pieces PL: of newsreel like footage detailing how Kane amassed his fortune, and PL: turning around full circle at the end. BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: City Lights PL: A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind girl. Her family is in PL: financial trouble. The tramp's on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man PL: allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor. BY: John J. Magee <magee@helix.mgh.harvard.edu> GE: Comedy Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: City Slickers PL: Mitch is a middle aged big-city radio ads salesman. He and his friends Ed PL: and Phil are having mid-life crisis. They decide the best birthday gift is PL: to go on a two week holiday in the wild west driving cattle from New Mexico PL: to Colorado. There they meet cowboy Curly who not only teaches them how to PL: become real cowboys, but also one or two other things about life in the PL: open air of the west. BY: Sami Al-Taher <smmat@ukc.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Adventure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: City of Joy PL: An American surgeon loses a young patient, quits the medical profession PL: and goes to India to find himself. There he runs into a nun who is trying PL: to establish a free clinic in a neighborhood of untouchables. He resists PL: the call back to medicine, but eventually begins helping them build the PL: clinic, which angers the local "Godfather" who tries to stop the project PL: by intimidation. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Claire's Knee PL: Cultural attache Jerome spends his last holidays as a bachelor at Lake PL: Annecy where he meets Aurora, an Italian writer and old friend. She talks PL: him into a flirt with his landlady's teenage daughter, Laura, but he PL: falls for Laura's half-sister Claire and develops a desire to caress her PL: knee. BY: Otto Oberhauser <Oberhauser@cc.univie.ac.at> GE: Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Class PL: Jonathan, a naive country boy, gets a scholarship to a classy prep school, PL: where he rooms with suave, rich and handsome Skip. Skip decides it is his PL: duty to see that Jonathan loses his virginity, so he sends Jonathan to PL: Chicago, where Jonathan meets Ellen, a beautiful older woman, and they be- PL: gin an affair which ends abruptly when Ellen discovers Jonathan is 17. PL: During Christmas break, Jonathan visits Skip's house and discovers that PL: Ellen is Skip's mother. Ellen tells Jonathan to leave when he rejects her PL: advances, but then begins calling him and begging to see him. Finally, PL: Jonathan agrees to meet her and plans to end the affair, but Ellen seduces PL: him--and that's when Skip, who followed Jonathan, discovers them. BY: Denise P. Meyer <dpm1@cornell.edu> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Class Action PL: Jeb Ward is an attorney who specializes in whistle blower, David vs. PL: Goliath, type cases. He finds a client who is suing an auto company over PL: a safety problem that has had a severe effect on his life after the PL: accident. He must replace the current atorney and be ready for trial PL: quickly, and then he finds that the defense atorney will be his estranged PL: daughter. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Courtroom Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Class of 1999 PL: Robot teachers have been secretly placed in the schools where the students PL: have run riot. The teachers do a god job of controlling the unruly PL: youngsters, until they go too far and some students get suspicious. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Sci-Fi Horror School Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Client, The PL: A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a PL: prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry 'The Blade' PL: Modano, a Mafia hitman. Before Jerome shoots himself, he tells Mark PL: where the body of Senator Boyd Boyett is buried. Mark escapes, and PL: Clifford shoots himself. Mark is found at the scene, and both the FBI PL: and the Mafia quickly realise that Mark probaly knows more than he says. PL: Mark decides he needs a lawyer, and goes looking for one. He finds Reggie PL: Love, who also becomes convinced that Mark knows more than he says, but PL: Mark isn't talking... BY: Liz Jordan <c9310494@alinga.newcastle.edu.au> GE: Thriller Mystery ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Cliffhanger PL: Gabe hasn't recovered from a terrible climbing accident, so when he's PL: asked to search for a group, missing in the Rockies, he is initially PL: reluctant. Adding to this the fact he has to work with an old friend, PL: who now hates him; Gabe is not a happy man. Unknown to Gabe and his PL: 'friend', the group they are out to rescue are armed and dangerous. The PL: group need a local expert to locate and recover millions of $s of PL: stolen money. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Action Crime Climbing ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Clockwise PL: Brian Stimpson is the headmaster of a comprehensive (high) school in PL: England. He sets himself, his staff and pupils very high standards. PL: On the way to a conference at which he is to talk, all manner of disasters PL: strike. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Clockwork Orange, A PL: In a futuristic Britain, a gang of teenagers go on the rampage every PL: night, beating and raping helpless victims. After one of the boys PL: quells an uprising in the gang, they knock him out and leave him for PL: the police to find. He agrees to try "aversion therapy" to shorten PL: his jail sentence. When he is eventually let out, he hates violence, PL: but the rest of his gang members are still after him. BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> PL: Alex, a teenage hooligan in a near-future Britain, gets jailed by the PL: police. There he volunteers as guinea pig for a new aversion therapy PL: proposed by the government to make room in prisons for political PL: prisoners. "Cured" of his hooliganism and released, he is rejected by PL: his friends and relatives. Eventually nearly dying, he becomes a major PL: embarrassment for the government, who arrange to cure him of his cure. PL: A pivotal moment is when he and his gang break into an author's home: PL: the book he is writing (called "A Clockwork Orange") is a plea against PL: the use of aversion therapy, on the grounds that it turns people into PL: Clockwork Oranges (Ourang is Malay for "Man"): they are not being good PL: from choice (sentiments later echoed by the prison chaplain). The film PL: reflects this: many bad scenes in a Clockwork Orange are accompanied by PL: jolly music; if we are to experience them as we should, we have to do PL: it consciously, by realising they are bad, and not because the director PL: tells us so through the use of music and images. BY: Steven Pemberton <Steven.Pemberton@cwi.nl> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Close Encounters of the Third Kind PL: Roy Neary sets out to investigate a power outage when his truck stalls PL: and he is bathed in light from above. After this, strange visions PL: and five musical notes keep running through his mind. Will he find PL: the meaning of the visions, and who - or what - placed them in his PL: mind ? BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> PL: Planes reported missing in 1945 suddenly appear in the Mojave desert. A PL: commercial flight is buzzed by a 'bright' object that the pilot 'wouldn't PL: know how to describe'. Roy Neary, while working one night, has a PL: Close Encounter... PL: PL: The US Government determine where the visitors plan to land and create PL: an elaborate cover-up to keep people away. However, a group of people, PL: including Neary, share a vision which draws them to the place and a PL: meeting with new, and old, friends. BY: Mark Harding <ccsmh@uk.ac.bath.ac.uk> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Coca-Cola Kid, The PL: An eccentric marketing guru visits a Coca-Cola subsidiary in Australia PL: to try and increase market penetration. He finds zero penetration in PL: a valley owned by an old man who makes his own soft drinks, and visits PL: the valley to see why. After "the Kid's" persistence is tested he's PL: given a tour of the man's plant, and they begin talking of a joint PL: venture. Things get more complicated when the Coca-Cola man begins PL: falling in love with his temporary secretary, who seems to have connections PL: to the valley. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Cocktail PL: After leaving the army, Brian Flanigan trys to get a job in New York. But PL: without a degree, this was not possible. He then decides to start studying PL: for a business degree and gets a part time job as a bartender. He realises PL: its not that easy, but when boss Douglas Koglan teaches him the secrets of PL: the trade they become the most famous bar-men in town. Brian wants his own PL: top class cocktail bar and to get the necessary money travels to Jamaica PL: where work is easier, and pay is good. There he meets Jordan, a young and PL: pretty American artist, and they fall in love. But when he starts an affair PL: with an older and rich woman Jordan leaves... Will she forgive him?? BY: Sami Al-Taher <smmat@ukc.ac.uk> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Cocoon PL: A group of aliens return to earth to take back some cocoons of their people PL: they left behind from an earlier trip. The cocoons are resting at the PL: bottom of the ocean. They kept the recovered cocoons in the swimming pool PL: of a house they rented in a small Florida town. Their mission is hampered PL: by a number of old people from an elderly home nearby, who have PL: been secretly using the pool and discovering the unusual power of PL: these cocoons. BY: Sami Al-Taher <smmat@ukc.ac.uk> GE: Sci-Fi Fantasy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Cohen and Tate PL: A boy kidnapped by two mismatched hitmen puts them at PL: each other's throats while being driven to their PL: employers, possibly to be killed. Cohen, an older professional PL: becomes increasingly irritated with his partner Tate, a PL: brutish killer, when their prisoner uses unnatural guile and PL: resourcefulness to play them off against each other. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Thriller Crime ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Cold Heaven PL: A woman is planning to leave her husband for another man when hubby has PL: a nasty accident. She keeps getting flashbacks of something compelling PL: that had happened to her a year before, which builds to a supernatural PL: encounter. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama Supernatural Religious ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Collector, The PL: Freddie, a socially withdrawn bank clerk and butterfly collector, PL: decides to expand to collecting human specimens. PL: That's where art student Miranda Grey comes in. PL: Miranda matches wits with Freddie the icy psychopath. BY: A.M.Putnam GE: Drama Suspense Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Color Me Blood Red PL: An eccentric artist is panned by a well-known critic at his opening for PL: not having a good color sense, so he starts a new series, using his own PL: blood to paint. Soon he is weakened and must find other sources of blood PL: to continue his paintings. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Colors PL: A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran PL: partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barrios of L.A. PL: about to explode in violence in this look at the gang PL: culture enforced by the colors that members wear. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Crime Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Colossus: The Forbin Project PL: Forbin is the designer of an incredibly sophisticated computer that will PL: run all of America's nuclear defenses. Shortly after being turned on, it PL: detects the existence of Goliath, the Soviet counterpart, previously PL: unknown to US Planners. Both computers insist that they be linked, and PL: after taking safeguards to preserve confidential material, each side PL: agrees to allow it. As soon as the link is established the two become PL: a new Super computer and threaten the world with the immediate launch of PL: nuclear weapons if they are detached. Colossus begins to give it's plans PL: for the management of the world under it's guidance. Forbin and the PL: other scientists form a technological resistance to Colossus which must PL: operate underground. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Sci-Fi Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Come Back, Charleston Blue PL: Sequel to Cotton comes to Harlem. Another bad influence is hitting PL: Harlem and Gravedigger and Coffin Ed are the two cops who will stop it. PL: Charleston Blue was a prohibition era black gangster, dead 4 decades. PL: When he seems to have reappeared, once again slitting throats with his PL: Blue straight edge razors, the two cops begin a complicated search for PL: some answers. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Coming to America PL: It is the 21st birthday of Price Akeem of Zamunda and he is supposed PL: to marry a woman he never saw before. Now the prince breaks with PL: tradition and travels to America to look for the love of his life. BY: Harald Mayr <marvin@augusta.de> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Command Decision PL: General Casey of the Royal Air Force in England in World War II finds that PL: he must order his planes deeper and deeper into Germany to prevent the PL: production of military jet planes that will turn the tide of battle to PL: the Germans. He must fight congressmen, and his own chain of command to PL: win the political battle before he can send his planes out. His problem PL: is complicated by a very narrow window of good weather necessary to PL: allow his effort to be successful. Adapted from a stage play, it attempts PL: to look at the challenges of command in the political arena. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: War ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Commando (1964) PL: A French Foreign Legion commander is told to assemble a unit and capture PL: an Algerian rebel leader. He gathers in his old unit, most of whom are no PL: longer in top form. One is having nightmares of past indiscretions, PL: another is now drinking, another has lost his nerve. He takes them in PL: captures the leader, but then is unable to make it to the pick up. He PL: encounters a rebel patrol and is trapped unless they can escape before PL: their water runs out. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: War Intrigue ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Commando (1985) PL: Colonel Matrix has retired and is living with his 10 year old daughter in PL: the country. His Daughter is kidnapped to assure that Matrix will kill PL: the president of a latin american country to allow the return of a PL: dictator. Matrix escapes off a plane flight and has until it lands to PL: rescue his daughter. Matrix must follow the clues he has and solve the PL: mystery in time. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Adventure Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Commitments, The PL: The travails of Jimmy Rabbitte to form the "World's Hardest Working PL: Band," The Commitments, and bring soul music to the people of Dublin, PL: Ireland. BY: Jeff Hansen <jmh@umich.edu> GE: Musical Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Compromising Positions PL: Judith Singer is a housewife, out of the journalism business for many PL: years. When a dentist she has been seeing (who has a strong bedside manner PL: even while female patients are still in the chair) is found murdered, she PL: finds that a neighbor is a suspect. She begins to investigate. This PL: places her in danger from the murderer, from the women who have had PL: affairs with the dentist, and from the police who begin to wonder why she PL: is always at the scenes where clues are discovered. Her husband becomes PL: angry at what is happening, placing strains on her family as she finds PL: herself more and more attracted to the police detective investigating the PL: murder. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Mystery ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Conagher (TV) PL: Mrs. Evie Teale is struggling to stay alive while raising her two children PL: alone on a remote homestead. Conn Conagher is a honest, hardworking PL: cowboy. Their lives are intertwined as they fight the elements, indians, PL: outlaws, and loneliness. BY: David J. Kiseleski <davidk269@aol.com> GE: Western ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Conan the Barbarian PL: A barbarian trained in the arts of war joins with thieves in PL: a quest to solve the riddle of steel and find the sorcerer PL: responsible for the genocide of his people in this faithful PL: adaptation of Robert E. Howard's sword and sorcery adventures. PL: This film briefly sparked a wave of fantasy films including PL: the sequel, Conan the Destroyer, in the early 80s. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Fantasy Adventure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Conan the Destroyer PL: Conan, the swashbuckler, is promised that his dead love will be revived if PL: he procures a magic horn from a magic fortress. He gathers Grace Jones, PL: Mako, and Jeff Corey (fighter, wizard, and thief) to help him as he PL: overcomes the perils on the way. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Adventure Fantasy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Concrete Jungle, The (1982) PL: A drug runner hides cocaine in his girlfriend's skis to minimize his PL: chances of getting caught. She's busted at the airport and put in prison. PL: She defies the control games the bitch warden and her "Queen Bee" prisoner PL: minion are playing, and she must suffer the consequences as she tries PL: to find a way out of her situation. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Action Crime Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Confessions of a Serial Killer PL: After being arrested, a Texas man begins confessing to the brutal murder PL: of over 200 women. He recounts his random selection of victims and his PL: traveling companions, his friend and friend's sister. But the police PL: can't be sure whether to believe him or not until he locates a body and PL: shows them some polaroids. Based on the true story of Henry Lee Lucas. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Crime Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Continental Divide PL: Ernie Souchak (John Belushi), a tough Chicago reporter, gets a little too PL: close to the Mob, and his apartment is blown up. To take the heat off PL: of him, his editor sends him to Colorado to investigate an PL: eagle researcher (Blair Brown). Sparring partners at first, PL: the pair eventually fall in love, but Souchak must return to PL: Chicago when one of his sources is mysteriously killed. BY: Ray Hamel <hamel@primate.wisc.edu> GE: Romance Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Convict 99 PL: A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough PL: prison governor and assigned the charge of a prison for particularly PL: hardened criminals. Believing he is being sent to a school rather than PL: a prison, he celebrates accordingly only to find that his drunkenness PL: accidently lands him on the wrong side of the prison bars. The PL: Governorship is eventually restored to him, and he sets about popularising PL: himself amongst the convicts by turning a blind eye to their shady PL: dealings. BY: D.Giddings <sdjg0@uk.ac.rl.ib> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Coogan's Bluff PL: Coogan, an Arizona cop, is sent to New York to collect a prisoner. Everyone PL: in New York assumes Coogan is from Texas, much to his annoyance. To add PL: to Coogan's problems the prisoner isn't ready, so he decides to cut a few PL: corners. In the process the prisoner escapes, and Coogan is ordered home. PL: Too proud to return home empty handed, Coogan sets out into the big city PL: to recapture his prisoner. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Crime Chase ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, The PL: The wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive PL: romance with a gentle bookseller between meals at her husband's PL: restaurant. Food, colour coding, sex, murder, torture and PL: cannibalism are the exotic fare in this beautifully filmed but PL: brutally uncompromising modern fable which has been interpreted PL: as an allegory for Thatcherism. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Cool Surface, The PL: A writer returns to Hollywood after finishing his novel in the wilderness. PL: Still smarting from his girlfriend's suicide and his publisher's PL: criticisms of his novel, he becomes intrigued by the neighbor couple's PL: abusive relationship. Eventually he intervenes and becomes involved PL: with the girl, basing a new book on their increasingly violent PL: relationship sparked by his insane jealousy of her friends and her acting PL: career. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Thriller Erotic ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Cop PL: Lloyd Hopkins, a hard-boiled American police detective is on PL: the trail of a mass murderer who is victimizing women in Los Angeles. PL: The pursuit leads him through a world that has become his own natural PL: habitat - a nasty world of crime, drugs, prostitution and male hustlers PL: where "innocence kills" and continued exposure corrupts. Paradoxically, PL: it's also a world of love, secret admirers, romantic feminist poets and PL: modern chivalry. And for the viewer, it's the background for an PL: exciting, suspense movie. BY: Dave Cook <cookd@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Cotton Comes to Harlem PL: Gravedigger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson are two black cops with a PL: reputation for breaking the odd head. Both are annoyed at the success of PL: the Reverend Deke O'Mailey who is selling trips back to Africa to the poor PL: on the installment plan. When his truck is hijacked and a bale of cotton PL: stuffed with money is lost in the chase, Harlem is turned upside down by PL: Gravedigger and Coffin Ed, the Reverend, and the hijackers. Much of the PL: humor is urban black, which was unusual in 1970. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Action Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Counterfeit Traitor, The PL: Eric Erickson, a Swedish oil trader, agrees to spy for the allies against PL: the Nazis. His friends all turn away from him as the image of the PL: collaborator colors all of his business and personal dealings. The action PL: increases as he needs to escape before he is found out. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Spy Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell, The PL: The true story of General Billy Mitchell, a pioneering crusader for PL: the Army's fledgling air corp. In spite of an impressive performance PL: during the First World War, the commanders of America's armed forces PL: still think of the airplane as little more then a carnival attraction. PL: Even after sinking an "unsinkable" captured German battleship PL: from the air, Mitchell sees funds dry up and friends die due to PL: poor equipment. He is court-martialed after questioning the loyalty PL: of his superiors for allowing the air corp to deteriorate. BY: KC Hunt <khunt@eng.morgan.edu> GE: Historical Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501 (TV) PL: When a passenger plane crashes after a bomb scare, there are many PL: unanswered questions, which can only be attributed to "pilot error". PL: The pilot's wife, Diane Halstead, is convinced her husband could never PL: have caused the disaster, but nobody will listen to her. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Crazy People PL: Emory works in advertising, and is beginning to crack-up. PL: His latest idea is honesty, e.g. "Volvos, Yes they PL: are boxy, but they're safe". This doesn't go down too well with PL: the boss, so Emory is sent to a psychiatric hospital to 'recover'. PL: Meanwhile, back at the office, Emory's work is accidentally sent to PL: the printers. His ads are a huge success. But now Emory has fallen PL: for Kathy (another patient) and so doesn't want to leave. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Creator PL: Dr. Harry Wolper is a character. First he steals Boris, a new student PL: assistant by promising him a co-ed's phone number. Then he hijacks PL: new high tech equipment for his own research, confusing the other PL: university researchers who can't see "the big picture." Harry has a PL: plan, he wants to clone his dead wife, but first he needs an egg and PL: a host. He mounts his search by stapling notices to every telephone PL: pole in town from his bike, which is how he meets Mili. As the year PL: progresses, he sees Boris' romance follow the same pattern as his own, PL: twenty-five years ago. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Sci-fi Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Creepers PL: Someone is killing people in a Swiss village, and then a girl with PL: insect empathy shows up and helps the local entomologist try to solve PL: the mystery. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Creepozoids PL: The year is 1998, six years after the nuke wars reduced the world to PL: rubble and a few bands of wandering survivors. One of these groups PL: stumbles into an abandoned government research facility, where they were PL: working on making the body capable of creating its own amino acids, PL: thus obviating the need for food. They are then attacked by one of the PL: leftover experiments and begin experiencing an attrition problem. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Sci-Fi Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Creepshow PL: Five tales of terror are presented in the gothic style of the old EC PL: comics such as Tales From The Crypt and The Haunt of Fear. The first PL: deals with a demented old man returning from the grave to get PL: the Father's Day cake his murdering daughter never gave him. The PL: second is about a not-too-bright farmer discovering a meteor that PL: turns everything into plant-life. The third is about a vengeful husband PL: burying his wife and her lover up to their necks on the beach. PL: The fourth is about a creature that resides in a crate under the steps PL: of a college. The final story is about an ultra-rich businessman who PL: gets his comeuppance from cockroaches. BY: Todd A. Bobenrieth <TAB146@PSUVM.EDU> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Creepshow 2 PL: Three more stories told from a comic book are presented by "The Creep." PL: The first is about a dime store Indian that seeks revenge on those who PL: killed the store owner. The second is about a carnivorous mass of pond PL: scum that attacks four people on a raft. The final tale is about a PL: rich woman who accidentally kills a hitchhiker while speeding home from PL: an affair with a male prostitute. BY: Todd A. Bobenrieth <TAB146@PSUVM.EDU> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Crimes of Passion PL: An architect leads a double life as a hooker named China Blue. One of PL: her clients, a divorced man, decides he loves her and figures out who PL: she is. He then begins wooing her, which she fights against since he PL: was a client. Meanwhile a street preacher works the red light district PL: trying to save souls. He decides to save China's immortal soul and PL: begins hounding her. Eventually he gets out of hand and the man in love PL: with her must try to help her. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Crimson Pirate, The PL: Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who PL: involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the PL: late 1700s. A light hearted adventure involving prison breaks, an oddball PL: Scientist, sailing ships, naval fights, and tons of swordplay. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Adventure Historical Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: CrissCross (1992) PL: Set in 1969, a twelve-year-old grows up in Key West with his mother, PL: who is paying the bills by stripping at the local topless bar. The boy PL: finds out about her activities and tries to convince her to stop, to PL: no avail. A local restaurant owner hires him to collect fish from a boat PL: out in the bay, and the boy discovers that the restaurant owner is using PL: the fish to bring drugs in to shore. He steals one load and goes about PL: selling it so his mother can afford to quit her job. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Critters PL: A massive ball of furry creatures from another world eat their PL: way through a small mid-western town followed by intergalactic PL: bounty hunters opposed only by militant townspeople. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Sci-Fi Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Cross of Iron PL: A squad of German soldiers fighting on the Eastern Front during PL: WWII led by a battle-hardened officer fight to survive Soviet PL: attacks and dogmatic commanders in a chaotic and lethal PL: environment in this sympathetic portrayal of another side of PL: the war not commonly portrayed in Hollywood film. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: War ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Crow, The PL: Eric Draven and his fiance are brutally murdered on Devil's Night, a PL: night when the henchmen of crime-boss Top Dollar traditionally indulge PL: in wanton acts of violence and arson. A crow brings Draven's restless PL: soul back from the dead and he sets out to wreak revenge upon his PL: killers. BY: Alexander Lum <aj_lum@postoffice.utas.edu.au> PL: Shelly and Eric were very much in love. But no one gets married PL: on Hallowe'en, not in Detroit. Shelly is raped and beaten by city PL: boss Top Dollar's thugs, only to die 30 hours later in a hospital. Eric PL: is shot and pushed out a window. A year later death is no longer what PL: it was as Eric Draven, accompanied by a Crow and gifted with new PL: powers and a world of grief and pain, is brought back to life to avenge PL: his love's death. After all, love is forever. And some of us PL: Believe in Angels. BY: Tara O'Shea tara@hydra.unm.edu GE: Horror Action Fantasy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Crush, The (1993) PL: A journalist, Nick Elliot, moves into a picturesque suburb. PL: His landlady's daughter, Darien, takes more than a passing PL: interest in him. Her fullblown obsession turns violent when PL: he rejects her. She ruins him, his work and his girlfriend. PL: If she can't have him, no one can. BY: Samantha Santa Maria <TE7441667@NTUVAX.NTU.AC.SG> PL: An investigative journalist moves into a garage apartment owned by a PL: well-to-do family. The prodigal 14-year-old daughter develops a crush PL: on him. When he acquires a new lady friend she becomes insanely jealous PL: and begins a diabolical revenge strategy that threatens to destroy the PL: journalist's life and friends. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> PL: Nick Elliot is looking for a new place to live. He works in PL: advertisement/research, and needs to live in a place that is PL: peaceful, with little noise. He finds a backhouse that is owned by Cliff PL: and Live Forrester. He also meets their daughter, Darian Forrester, who PL: is 14, has only 1 friend (Cheyenne) and desperately wants an older man. PL: Nick gets a new job and meets Amy Maddik and brings her home for a PL: party. Darain doesn't like this, and will do ANYTHING to keep Nick's PL: attention on HER, instead of Amy. BY: A K 4 7 <ak47@cyberverse.com> GE: Suspense Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Crying Game, The PL: A British soldier is kidnaped by IRA terrorists. He befriends one of his PL: captors, who is drawn into the soldier's world. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama Romance Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Curse of the Demon PL: Dr. John Holden ventures to London to attend a paranormal psychology PL: symposium with the intention to expose devil cult leader, Julian PL: Karswell. Holden is a skeptic and does not believe in Karswell's PL: power. Nonetheless, he accepts an invitation to stay at Karswell's PL: estate, along with Joanna Harrington, niece of Holden's confidant PL: who was electrocuted in a bizarre automobile accident. Karswell PL: secretly slips a parchment into Holden's papers that might possibly PL: be a death curse. Recurring strange events finally strike fear into PL: Holden, who believes that his only hope is to pass the parchment PL: back to Karswell to break the demonic curse. BY: Rick Gregory <rag.apa@email.apa.org> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Curtains PL: Samantha Sherwood has worked with the well-known director Jonathan Stryker PL: on all his major films. She naturally assumes she has been given the title PL: role in his latest venture, "Audra". He tells her that she nn needs to do PL: some background research on the part, so arranges to have her committed to PL: an asylum (as Audra is a former psychiatric patient). She goes along with PL: this, not realising that he intends to leave her there indefinitely and PL: audition six young women of various professions for the part instead. She PL: finally manages to escape, and returns to the spooky old mansion where the PL: auditions are taking place. But who is causing the disappearances of the PL: young hopefuls?? Is it Samantha? Stryker? Or is one of the actresses willing PL: to kill for the coveted part?? Just who is the killer behind the old-hag PL: mask??? BY: Anonymous GE: Horror Slasher ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Cutting Edge, The PL: Kate is talented and spoiled. She and her coach have eliminated her PL: most recent figure skating partner with little time to find a replacement. PL: None of the candidates will do, and her coach finds a college hockey PL: player with no figure skating experience as a last possibility. The two PL: are from totally different worlds and argue constantly, but his strong PL: work ethic brings both her father and her coach around. The two enter PL: international competition trying out a new routine that is dangerous for PL: each of them as their respect for each other finally begins to grow. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Sports Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) PL: The classic, tragic story brought to the screen once again. This French PL: film tells the tale of the soulful poet/philosopher and expert duelist named PL: Cyrano who falls in love with the fair Roxanne, but is ashamed to woo her PL: because of his huge nose. Instead he writes love letters for slow-witted, PL: but handsome Christian in order to win her hand for him. She falls deeply PL: in love with the author, but doesn't know they were written by Cyrano. BY: Greg Bole <bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> GE: Romance Action Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: D.O.A. (1988) PL: Dexter Cornell, an English Professor becomes embroiled in a series of PL: murders involving people around him. Dexter has good reason to want PL: to find the murderer but hasn't much time. He finds help and comfort from PL: one of his student, Sydney Fuller. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Murder Mystery ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Dad's Army PL: Film of the BBC TV series "Dad's Army". Shows how the Warmington Upon PL: Sea Home Guard (affectionately known as the Dad's Army) were formed. PL: Characters include Mainwaring the bank manager, Fraser the undertaker PL: and Jones the butcher. Mainwaring and company save the day when a crew PL: of a German aircraft take the vicar and villagers hostage in the church. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy War ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Dagger of Kamui PL: An orphan named Taro killed who Tein-Hei told her was the killer of his PL: family. Taro found out, years later that Tein-Hei PL: is the true killer and the man he killed was his father. Taro's revenge PL: attempts start off a trail of assassinations and ninja swords fights PL: spanning from Hokaido, Alaska to California where Tien-Hei's secrets PL: gradually unfold. The revenge road leads to a climatic battle with PL: Tien-Hei on the fall of Japan's Shogun-era. BY: Tzung-I Lin <tzung@hugo.att.com> GE: Japanese-Animation Action Adventure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Dam Busters, The PL: The British are desperate to shorten the length of WW2 and PL: propose a daring raid to smash Germany's industrial heart. PL: At first the objective looks impossible until a British scientist PL: invents an ingenious weapon capable of destroying the planned target. BY: Dave Jenkins <david.jenkins@smallworld.co.uk> PL: Dramatization of an actual operation in World War II in which low level PL: Bombers from England drop skimming bombs into reservoirs in the Ruhr PL: water system to cause floods destroying much of Germany's industrial base. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: War Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Damage PL: A member of Parliament (Irons) falls passionately in love with his son's PL: fiancee. They pursue their affair with obsessive abandon despite the PL: dangers of discovery and what it would do to his complacent life and PL: his son. Completely obsessed, he wants to give up his current lifestyle PL: to be with her. She has no intention of allowing him to do this, PL: preferring to have her marriage to the son as a cover. They are PL: eventually discovered, and must deal with the damage. Based on the PL: novel by Josephine Hart. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Romance Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Dance of the Damned PL: A vampire follows his instincts to a strip joint where he focuses in on PL: one of the performers. He picks her for his meal because she is PL: contemplating suicide, but he wants to share her life before taking it, PL: and during the course of the evening they discuss their differences, their PL: fears, and their lifestyles. As the moment of truth approaches, the woman PL: becomes less sure that she wants to die. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror Drama Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Dance with Death PL: A string of murders at a local strip joint give a reporter the chance to PL: do undercover investigation. She gets a job as a stripper at the PL: establishment, where she befriends some of the other women, who know more PL: about what is happening than they have publicly admitted. As she gets PL: closer to the truth, her life is put in jeopardy. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Thriller Erotic ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Dances with Wolves PL: Lt. John Dunbar is dubbed a hero after he accidentally leads Union troops PL: to a victory during the Civil War. He requests a position on the western PL: frontier, but finds it deserted. He soon finds out he is not alone, but PL: meets a wolf he dubs "Two-socks" and a curious Indian tribe. Dunbar PL: quickly makes friends with the tribe, and discovers a white woman who was PL: raised by the Indians. He gradually earns the respect these native people, PL: and sheds his white-man's ways. BY: Greg Bole <bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> GE: Western Adventure Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Dangerous Liaisons PL: Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet PL: regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. The PL: lover, Valmont, bets that he can seduce her, even though she is an PL: honorable woman. If he wins, he can have his lover to do as he will. PL: However, in the process of seducing the married woman, Valmont falls PL: in love. Based on the same novel as "Valmont." BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Dangerous Woman, A (1993) PL: Martha Horgan is mentally slow. She lives with her aunt Frances. She PL: is known for NEVER lying. This causes her to get fired from her job; she PL: tells on 1 of the other store employees, Getso, for taking 20 dollars PL: out of the cash register. The owner thinks MARTHA did it, her being PL: mentally slow and all. Back at the house, Mackey, who does odd jobs PL: hears that Frances needs a worker to fix her porch. He ends up working PL: there, only to become intimately involved with Martha. He is attracted PL: to her naivete. BY: A K 4 7 <ak47@cyberverse.com> GE: Drama Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Dark Backward, The PL: A man pursues stand-up comedy encouraged by his fellow garbage man. PL: Though his friend, who accompanies him on accordion, continues to tell PL: him how great he is, he actually stinks. When the "comedian" grows a PL: third arm out of his back, the friend uses this twist to get him PL: signed up with a sleazy talent agent, and it begins to look like his PL: career is on the move, even though his girlfriend has left him. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy Surreal ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Dark Passage PL: Bogart plays a man convicted of murdering his wife who escapes from PL: prison in order to prove his innocence. Bogart finds that his features PL: are too well known, and is forced to seek some illicit backroom plastic PL: surgery. The entire pre-knife part of the film is shot from a PL: Bogart's-eye-view, with us seeing the fugitive for the first time as he PL: starts to recuperate from the operation in the apartment of a PL: sympathetic young artist (played by Bacall) for whom he soon finds PL: affection. But what he's really after is revenge. BY: Mark Thompson <mrt@oasis.icl.co.uk> GE: Thriller Noir ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Dark Romances Vol. 1 (V) PL: "The Black Veil." Set in 1888, the widow of a psychiatrist visits a PL: college friend who is performing in a theatre that enacts gruesome PL: mutilations and torture. The actress suffers from severe headaches, and PL: the friend tries to help her with a hypnotizing machine designed by her PL: father, and uncovers horrors that parallel the stage productions. PL: "Listen to Midnight." A photographer recounts the events leading up to PL: his murder, which is linked to a story he had heard in Japan about a PL: female dragonfly luring the male to his death. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Dark Romances Vol. 2 (V) PL: "She's Bad, She's Blonde, She's Lunch." A couple hold up a store to pay PL: the rent, then take an ill-fated trip to Lover's Lane, where they meet a PL: man involved in genetic research. PL: "Cardinal Sin." A young man escapes into Hustler fantasies and must avoid PL: his overbearing and religious mom. Eventually he ameliorates his PL: situation. PL: "Pet Shop of Death." A henpecked husband goes to a specialty pet store to PL: get something to help free him up so he can pursue his neighbor. PL: "Last Love." A psychiatrist is forlorn over the loss of her husband, and PL: takes steps to make her affair with his ghost more permanent. PL: "What Goes Around..." A composer who can't create music since the death PL: of his wife and child finds new inspiration from the affair with a femme PL: fatale. But she has a price. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Dark Star PL: Low-budget story of four astronauts in deep space, whose mission is to PL: destroy unstable planets in star systems which are to be colonised. The late PL: Commander Powell is stored in deep freeze, where he is still able to offer PL: advice. As their mission nears completion, they must cope with a runaway PL: alien which resembles a beach-ball, faulty computer systems, and a "smart PL: bomb" who thinks it is God. BY: Alexander Lum <aj_lum@postoffice.utas.edu.au> GE: Sci-Fi Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Darkman PL: Peyton Westlake is a scientist who has discovered a way to produce PL: synthetic skin. This could revolutionise skin grafting, except for PL: one minor glitch; the synthetic skin degrades after 100 minutes of PL: exposure to light. When gangsters attack Peyton, he is horrifically PL: burnt, and assumed dead. In his quest for revenge, Peyton, aka the PL: Darkman, is able to take on the appearance of anyone (using the PL: synthetic skin,) but he's only got 100 minutes per disguise. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Horror Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Darkness PL: A small community is besieged by vampires. After he watches friends PL: ravaged in a convenience store, a lone avenger goes off to do battle PL: with the undead, armed with shotgun, chainsaw, and Holy water. Later PL: he finds other survivors and they try to stay alive long enough to do PL: battle with Liven, king of the vampires. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Dave PL: Dave Kovic looks so much like President Bill Mitchell that he's asked to PL: stand in for him, while the Bill occupies his time elsewhere !. PL: When Bill falls into a coma, a secret and highly illegal plot is hatched PL: by Bob Alexander to keep Dave on as the president. Unknown to Dave, Bob PL: is working on making himself president, but he doesn't count on Dave PL: being so popular and keen to continue. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Political ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Dawn of the Dead PL: This sequel to Night of the Living Dead is filled with splattered blood PL: and brains in living color. The dead have come back to life to eat PL: the living. This is the story of four people's escape from an urban PL: nightmare to a suburban one. They barricade themselves in a shopping PL: mall and try to start new lives. Much of this movie was filmed outside PL: Pittsburgh. BY: Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com> PL: In this first sequel to Night of the Living Dead, a group of four PL: people take up residence in a deserted mall while trying to stay PL: alive amidst the armies of the dead and a vicious gang of militant PL: bikers. BY: Todd A. Bobenrieth <TAB146@PSUVM.EDU> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Day in the Death of Joe Egg, A PL: A couple uses extremely black comedy to survive taking care of a daughter PL: who is nearly completely brain dead. They take turns doing the daughter's PL: voice and stare into the eyes of death and emotional trauma with a humor PL: that hides their pain. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Black-comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Day of the Dead PL: This sequel to Dawn of the Dead is even gorier than the first two PL: "Dead" films. The location is an underground government installation PL: in sunny Florida, the purpose of which is to research the phenomenon PL: causing the dead to come back to life. BY: Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com> PL: In this final chapter of George A. Romero's "Dead Trilogy", only a PL: handful of survivors are left to stop the living dead and must PL: figure out how to do that before they kill each other in their PL: underground compound. BY: Todd A. Bobenrieth <TAB146@PSUVM.EDU> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Day of the Jackal, The PL: It is the early 60s in France. The remaining survivors of the aborted PL: French Foreign Legion have made repeated attempts to kill DeGaulle. The PL: result is that he is the most closely guarded man in the world. As a PL: desperate act, they hire The Jackal, the code name for a hired killer who PL: agrees to kill French President De Gaulle for a million dollars. We watch PL: his preparations which are so thorough we wonder how he could possibly fail PL: even as we watch the French police attempt to pick up his trail. The PL: situation is historically accurate. There were many such attempts and PL: the film closely follows the plot of the book. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> PL: A British assassin is employed by disgruntled French generals PL: to kill Charles de Gaulle while a dedicated gendarme follows PL: the assassin's trail in this political thriller. The film PL: uses the perspectives of the ultra-professional assassin as PL: he prepares his work and that of the harried but humble PL: French detective as he undercovers the plot. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Thriller Political Spy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Day the Earth Stood Still, The PL: An alien (Klaatu) with his mighty robot (Gort) land their spacecraft PL: on cold war Earth just after the end of World War II. They bring PL: an important message for the planet which Klaatu wishes to tell PL: to representatives of all nations. However, communication turns out to PL: be difficult so, after learning something of the natives, Klaatu PL: decides on an alternative approach. BY: Bruce Janson <bruce@cs.su.oz.au> PL: A flying saucer orbits the 1950s Earth. It lands in Washington, D.C. on PL: the Mall. The lone occupant steps out and is shot by a jumpy soldier. PL: Gort, a large and very powerful robot appears to save him. He is able to PL: melt tanks with the slightest bit of his power. The wounded alien orders PL: Gort to stop and is taken to a hospital from which he escapes in order to PL: learn more about this planet, even moving in as a boarder with an Earth PL: family. When they begin to suspect him, he reveals himself, along with the PL: news that Gort will destroy the Earth if provoked. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Sci-fi Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Day the Fish Came Out, The PL: A cautionary tale. A plane carrying a weapon more dangerous than a PL: nuclear weapon goes down near Greece. To prevent panic, the U.S. PL: officials go in dressed as tourists (who are dressed so casually that PL: the pilots assume that they are all gay). The pilots are not to make PL: themselves known and can't contact the rescue team. The secrecy causes PL: a comedy of errors including the desolate Greek Isle deciding that since PL: tourists have now arrived, they have to become touristy. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Dazed and Confused PL: It's the last day of school at a high school in a small town in Texas PL: in 1976. The upperclassmen are hazing the incoming freshmen, and PL: everyone is trying to get stoned, drunk, or laid, even the football PL: players that signed a pledge not to. BY: Jon Reeves <reeves@zk3.dec.com> PL: In a small Texas enclave, highlights the rites of passage on the last PL: day of school in 1976 for the new, incoming freshmen at the hands of PL: the class of '77 at Robert E. Lee High School. Freshman boys are PL: physically punished, while the girls largely face the brunt of verbal PL: abuse and humiliation. Two main figures emerge. Incoming freshman PL: Mitch Kramer comes to a new realization in his role as a major target PL: of senior hazing. And, among the seniors is Randall "Pink" Floyd, the PL: school's star quarterback, who moves with facile grace among groups of PL: greasers, nerds, stoners, and athletes alike. BY: Rick Gregory <rag.apa@email.apa.org> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Dead Again PL: Mike Church is a Los Angeles private detective who specialises in finding PL: missing persons. He takes on the case of a mystery woman who he calls PL: Grace. She is suffering from amnesia and have no memories of her own. She PL: keeps having nightmares involving the murder of a pianist Margaret, by her PL: husband Roman Strauss in the late 1940's. In an attempt to solve the PL: mystery about these nightmares, Church seeks the help of Madson who is PL: an antiques dealer with the gift of hypnosis. The hypnosis sessions will PL: soon begin to reveal some surprises. BY: Sami Al-Taher <smmat@ukc.ac.uk> PL: In 1949 composer Roman Strauss is executed for the vicious murder of his PL: wife Margaret with a pair of scissors. In 1990s Los Angeles a mute amnesiac PL: woman shows up at an orphanage and private eye Mike Church is called in to PL: investigate. Under hypnosis both the woman and Church seem to have a PL: strange link back to the Strauss murder. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Thriller Mystery ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Dead Alive PL: In 1957 a zoologist traps a rare rat monkey on Skull Island and brings PL: it back to New Zealand with the local aborigines hot on his trail. PL: Later, a young man falls in love and takes the young woman to the zoo. PL: His overbearing and disapproving mother follows them and gets bitten PL: by the rat monkey. The monkey's bite turns her into a zombie, and her PL: doting son has to keep her (and the others she's bitten) tranquilized PL: in the basement while trying to preserve his love life. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Dead Calm PL: John Ingram and his wife Rae, who's recovering from an auto accident PL: that killed their baby boy, are on their sailboat, becalmed somewhere PL: in the Pacific Ocean. Their leisurely isolation is interrupted by PL: Hughie, the lone survivor of a sinking black schooner they spot one PL: morning. Hughie's story doesn't quite jibe, so John boards the PL: schooner to investigate, where he discovers the real truth. When PL: Hughie wakes and realizes where John is, he takes control of the PL: Ingram yacht from Rae, and motors off towards the horizon. Can Rae PL: regain control of the boat and find John before the schooner sinks? BY: Jeff Hansen <jmh@umich.edu> PL: An Australian couple take a sailing trip in the Pacific to forget about PL: a terrible accident. While on the open sea, in dead calm, they come PL: across a ship with one survivor who is not at all what he seems. BY: Loring Holden <loring@healthchex.com> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Dead Can't Lie, The PL: Eddie is a private detective. When a client asks him to help PL: persuade his ex-wife to leave him alone, Eddie says yes. Nothing PL: strange about that ?, well 'ex' refers to the fact that she died PL: 10 years ago. Eddie thinks this will be an 'easy money' case, but PL: soon falls for the beautiful woman who insists she's no ghost. PL: Is she, or isn't she ?. Watch and find out. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Dead Poets Society PL: Painfully shy Todd Anderson has been sent to the school where his PL: popular older brother was valedictorian. His room-mate, Neil, although PL: exceedingly bright and popular, is very much under the thumb of his PL: overbearing father. The two, along with their other friends, meet PL: Professor Keating, their new English teacher, who tells them of the Dead PL: Poets Society, and encourages them to go against the status quo. PL: Each, in their own way, does this, and are changed for life. BY: Liz Jordan <c9310494@alinga.newcastle.edu.au> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Dead Zone, The PL: Christopher Walken wakes from a coma due to a car accident, only to find PL: he has lost five years of his life, and yet gained psychic powers. PL: Foreseeing the future appears to be a 'gift' at first, but ends up causing PL: problems... BY: Paul Reynolds <pjr@eccles.dsbc.icl.co.uk> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Dead-Bang PL: A cop is gunned down on Xmas eve. Jerry Beck, the homicide cop given the job PL: of hunting the killer, investigates some leads which bring him into PL: contact with a group of white supremacy extremists. In addition to the PL: racists, Beck also has to contend with an unhelpful FBI agent. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Murder Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Deadbeat at Dawn PL: After one too many encounters with The Spiders (a rival gang), The Ravens' PL: leader's girlfriend tells him to quit the gang or it's Splitsville. He PL: does so, but the leader of The Spiders is hellbent on revenge and arranges PL: the murder of the girlfriend. That ticks off the boyfriend, who wreaks PL: havoc with the two gangs, who have joined forces in order to pull off a PL: security truck heist. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Deadly Weapons PL: After the mob hits a guy with a list, one of the hoods keeps the list PL: for himself to blackmail the people on it. When the mobsters find out PL: he's a double-crosser, they off him, which angers his busty girlfriend. PL: She goes after them using the only two weapons she has. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Crime Drama Erotic ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Dear Phone PL: A narrator relates a variety of peculiar stories involving characters PL: with the initials HC and their dealings with telephones. These are PL: interspersed with artistic shots of telephone boxes in a variety of PL: locations. BY: D. Giddings <sdjg0@uk.ac.rl.ib> GE: Art ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Death Becomes Her PL: Helen and Madeline hate each other. Madeline is married to Ernest, who PL: is having an affair with Helen. Both women rely on Ernest for plastic PL: surgery for their continued good looks, so when Madeline finds a cure PL: for ageing, Helen gets it too. It isn't until both become immortal that PL: they realise that 'life' will never be the same again. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Fantasy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Death Race 2000 PL: A champion of a brutal cross-country car race of the future PL: where pedestrians are run down for points has a change of PL: heart while being hounded by rivals and a conspiracy seeking PL: to stop the race. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Sci-Fi Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Death Wish PL: An upper-middle class architect living in New York City turns into PL: murdering vigilante after his wife and daughter are raped and killed. PL: The movie that inspired Bernard Goetz. BY: Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com> GE: Action Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Deathstalker PL: The warrior Deathstalker is tasked by an old witch lady to obtain and PL: unite the three powers of creation - a chalice, an amulet, and a sword - PL: lest the evil magician Munkar get them and use them for nefarious PL: purposes. After obtaining the sword, Deathstalker joins with other PL: travelers going to the Big Tournament to determine the strongest warrior. PL: The false king holds the true princess in captivity, and plots to have PL: Deathstalker killed, and Deathstalker must fight to free the princess. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Fantasy Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Deathstalker II (V) PL: Deathstalker helps Reena the Seer out of a few jams, and she solicits his PL: help for a bigger task. She reveals that she is actually Princess Evie, PL: but the evil sorcerer had her abducted and cloned in order to seize PL: control of the kingdom. Together they travel to the evil sorcerer's PL: stronghold to restore the princess to her rightful position, encountering PL: challenges along the way both from the sorcerer's goons and the fierce PL: Amazon women. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> PL: Princess Evie of Jzafir is deposed by the evil sorcerer/swordsman PL: Jerak and his voluptuous, and very dangerous, ally Sultana. PL: Posing as Reena the Seer, Princess Evie enlists the aid of the PL: renowned hero Deathstalker. Together they battle the forces of PL: evil, including a clone of Evie created by Jerak, to win back PL: Evie's kingdom. BY: Daniel J. Connolly <dcon@cc.bellcore.com> GE: Fantasy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Deathtrap (1982) PL: A washed up playwright has had another play bomb. He receives a wonderful PL: play in the mail from a new writer and first wonders if he can trick him PL: out of it and then if he could murder for it, but it's not that simple. PL: Multiple turnabouts confuse and terrify the viewer. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Mystery ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Deep Cover (1992) PL: A black uniformed policeman is recruited by a devious drug PL: enforcement agent to infiltrate a smuggling organization PL: seeking to expand into designer drugs. This 'ugly side of PL: the war on drugs' explores the context of race, identity PL: and hypocrisy within a brutal and alienating investigation. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Crime ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Deep Red PL: A psychic who can read minds picks up the thoughts of a murderer in the PL: audience and soon becomes a victim. An English pianist gets involved PL: in solving the murders, but finds many of his avenues of inquiry cut off PL: by new murders, and he begins to wonder how the murderer can track his PL: movements so closely. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Deep Red (1994) PL: After a young girl is accidently infected with an alien substance known PL: as "Deep Red", the astonishing results attract the attention of the PL: illustrious scientist Dr. Newmeyer. Disillusioned security expert Joe PL: Keyes must team up with his estranged wife to protect the girl and her PL: mother from the obsessed scientist who will stop at nothing to get what PL: he wants. BY: Leslie <leslie@snoopy.usask.ca> GE: Sci-Fi Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Deep, The PL: A pair of young vacationers are involved in a dangerous PL: conflict with treasure hunters when they discover a way into PL: a deadly Caribbean wreck. Featuring extended underwater PL: sequences and a look into the affairs of treasure hunting. PL: Based on a novel by Peter 'Jaws' Benchley. BY: Anonymous GE: Adventure Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: DeepStar Six PL: The crew of an experimental underwater nuclear base are PL: forced to struggle for their lives when their explorations PL: disturb a creature who threatens to destroy their base. PL: One of a wave of underwater movies that appeared within PL: months of each other including _Leviathan_ and _The Abyss_. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Sci-Fi Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Defending Your Life PL: Yuppie Daniel Miller is killed in a car accident and goes to Judgment City, PL: a waiting room for the afterlife. During the day, he must prove in a PL: courtroom-style process that he successfully overcame his fears (a hard PL: task, given the pitiful life we are shown); at night, he falls in love PL: with Julia, the only other young person in town. Nights are a time of PL: hedonistic pleasure, since you can (for instance) eat all you want without PL: getting fat. BY: Jon Reeves <reeves@zk3.dec.com> GE: Comedy Fantasy Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Delicatessen (1991) PL: In a post-apocalyptic world, the residents of an apartment above PL: the butcher shop receive an occasional delicacy of meat, something that PL: is in low supply. A young man new in town falls in love with PL: the butcher's daughter, which causes conflicts in her family, who need PL: the young man for other business-related purposes. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> PL: An ex-clown turns up seeking work at an ancient tenament in the middle of PL: nowhere. Little does he know that the landlord, a butcher, feeds his PL: tenants, in these days of extreme food shortages, on fattened up handymen. BY: John Hartnup <hartnupj@cs.aston.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Surreal ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Deliverance PL: Canoeing down a river, four city men run into some unfriendly locals. PL: Unable to escape from the gorge in which the river runs, the locals PL: become more and more of a threat. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Demolition Man PL: Frozen in 1996, Phoenix, a convicted killer is "thawed" out for parole well PL: into the 21st century. Revived into a crime free society, Phoenix resumes PL: his murderous rampage, and no one can stop him. Spartan, the cop who PL: captures Phoenix in 1996 has also been cryogenically frozen, this time PL: for a crime he didn't commit. In desperation they turn to Spartan to PL: help recapture Phoenix. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Action Futuristic ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Deranged (1974) PL: A man living in rural Wisconsin takes care of his bed-ridden mother, PL: who is very domineering and teaches him that all women are evil. PL: After she dies he misses her, so a year later he digs her up and takes PL: her home. He learns about taxidermy and begins robbing graves to PL: get materials to patch her up, and inevitably begins looking for fresher PL: sources of materials. Based closely on the true story of Ed Gein. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Dersu Uzala PL: A Russian army explorer who is rescued in Siberia by a rugged PL: Asiatic hunter renews his friendship with the woodsman years PL: later when he returns at the head of a larger expedition. The PL: hunter finds that all his nature lore is of no help when he PL: accompanies the explorer back to civilisation. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Desert Attack PL: A group of army personnel and nurses attempt a dangerous and PL: arduous trek across the deserts of North Africa during the second PL: world war. The leader of the team dreams of his ice cold beer when PL: he reaches Alexandria, but the problems just won't go away. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: War WWII Adventure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Desert Patrol PL: A small british army team is sent to destroy a German petrol dump as PL: part of the preparation for a major attack in the North African PL: campaign. Whilst they are there they spot a large number of tanks and PL: realise that army intelligence must be informed or some Tommies are PL: going to be in for a nasty surprise. The Germans are equally determined PL: that they should not reach their base, and a tense chase across the PL: desert is the result. BY: Mark Thompson <mrt@oasis.icl.co.uk> GE: War Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Desire (1993) PL: A Scottish woman who attends school in Paris comes home for the summer PL: and helps take in the straw, where she meets an attractive and simple PL: man. They begin a torrid affair despite the differences in their PL: lifestyles. He asks her to marry him but she refuses, and they continue PL: their separate lives but also continue their affair through the years, PL: loving each other despite their differences. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Romance Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Destination Tokyo PL: Made during World War II, this chronicles a voyage of a U.S. submarine on PL: a secret mission to the very shores of Japan. Much of the film is spent PL: developing the cast of characters that populate the sub. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: War Historical Adventure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Destroy All Monsters! PL: Aliens have released all the giant monsters from their imprisonment PL: on Monster Island and are using them to destroy all major cities on PL: the planet. It is up to the daring crew of the super rocket ship X-2 PL: to infiltrate the aliens' headquarters before the Earth monsters and PL: King Ghidrah annihilate the planet. BY: Todd A. Bobenrieth <TAB146@PSUVM.EDU> PL: In the year 1999, all the Earth's giant monsters (Godzilla, Rodan, Mothra, PL: Angilas and Minya, among others) are incarcerated on a small island near PL: Japan. The Kilaaks, a race of aliens from a small planet somewhere in the PL: asteroid belt, release the beasts and send them to trample the cities of PL: our world. An Earth spaceship must penetrate the aliens' moonbase and take PL: control of the monster army before a final confrontation with the space PL: dragon King Ghidrah. BY: David Thiel <d-thiel@uiuc.edu> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Destry Rides Again (1939) PL: Kent, the unscrupulous boss of Bottleneck has Sheriff Keogh killed PL: when he asks one too many questions about a rigged poker game that PL: gives Kent a stranglehold over the local cattle rangers. PL: The mayor, who is in cahoots with Kent appoints the town drunk, PL: Washington Dimsdale, as the new sheriff assuming that he'll be easy to PL: control. But what the mayor doesn't know is that Dimsdale was a deputy PL: under famous lawman, Tom Destry, and is able to call upon the equally PL: formidable Tom Destry Jr to be his deputy. PL: Featuring a career reviving performance from Marlene Dietrich as bar PL: singer Frenchie, which could well have been the inspiration for PL: Madeline Kahn's "Blazing Saddles" character, Lili Von Schtupp. BY: Mark Thompson <mrt@oasis.icl.co.uk> GE: Western ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Devil and Daniel Webster, The PL: A down-on-his-luck farmer makes a deal with the devil for seven years of PL: prosperity. When Mr. Scratch comes to collect, orator and hero of the PL: common man Daniel Webster comes to the rescue. Based on the short PL: story by Stephen Vincent Benet. Also known as "All That Money Can Buy." BY: Little Pine Weasel <kristinat@cerritos.edu> GE: Fantasy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Devil in the Flesh (1986) PL: An Italian high school student becomes infatuated with a woman he sees PL: outside his class window. Her fiancee is in jail for being involved PL: in a radical movement, and she spends much time in court providing moral PL: support. At first she resists the student's advances, but eventually PL: begins an affair with him. Their situation is condemned by her family PL: and his father, who is the woman's psychologist. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Devil's Daughter, The (1990) PL: A spree of grisly murders is perpetrated in Frankfurt by a group of PL: Satan worshippers. A school teacher almost runs over an old man with PL: a box and takes him in. It's no accident that the old man has come PL: into her life, and it quickly becomes apparent that he has plans for PL: her, plans that involve a permanent future with the Satanic cult. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Devonsville Terror, The PL: A witch hunt in Devonsville 300 years ago purges three young ladies, PL: one of which screams a curse as she disappears into the nether world. PL: Now it's The Present, and things come to a head when a man kills his PL: wife, thus activating the curse. A new school teacher comes to town, PL: and finds the town suspicious of her, as she tries to find out what PL: the town is hiding. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Diabolique PL: The wife and mistress of a cruel school master collaborate in a PL: carefully planned and executed attempt to murder him. The plan goes PL: well until the body, which has been strategically dumped, disappears. PL: The strain starts to tell on the two women as a retired police PL: investigator who is looking into the disappearance on a whim begins PL: to think that they know more than they are telling, and their mental PL: state is not helped when their victim is seen, apparently alive and PL: well by one of the pupils. BY: Mark Thompson <mrt@oasis.icl.co.uk> GE: Mystery Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Dial M for Murder (1954) PL: Ex-tennis pro Tony Wendice decides to murder his wife for her money and PL: because she had an affair the year before. He blackmails an old college PL: associate to strangle her, but when things go wrong he sees a way to turn PL: events to his advantage. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Thriller Mystery ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Diamond Fleece, The (TV) PL: Jeweller Phillippe Golden purchases one of the largest diamonds ever PL: from an auction. Diamond thief Rick Dunne is released from prison to PL: consult in constructing safety precautions. However, Inspector Outlaw PL: suspects that Rick may be up to his old wiles. BY: Timo Lamminjoki <lamminjo@pcu.helsinki.fi> GE: Comedy Crime ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Diamonds Are Forever PL: The British Government become suspicious when large shipments PL: of uncut diamonds begin disappearing during transit and then PL: fail to reappear on the international market. British agent James PL: Bond is at first reluctant when ordered to investigate believing PL: it to be a simple case of smuggling, but when a lead points to the PL: involvement of 007's arch nemesis Blofeld, Bond becomes desperate to PL: uncover his plans and to avenge the death of his wife Tracy. BY: Dave Jenkins <david.jenkins@smallworld.co.uk> GE: Spy Action Bond ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Die Hard PL: New York cop John McCLane flys to Los Angeles on Christmas eve to spend PL: the holidays with his family. He arrives at the Nakatomi corp. building PL: for his wife's office party. International terrorists take over the PL: building and hold every one as hostage to steel $600 million of bonds from PL: the vaults of the building. Now its up to McCLane to face the terrorists PL: and save his wife and the other hostages. BY: Sami Al-Taher <smmat@ukc.ac.uk> GE: Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Die Hard 2 PL: New York cop John McClain stumbles into another paramilitary PL: takeover, this time at an airport when professionals attempt PL: to foil the extradition of a Latin American drug lord by PL: isolating the entire airport. Die Hard 2 continues the first PL: movie's emphasis on automatic weaponry and split second stunt PL: coordination. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> PL: John McClain is again trapped in a difficult situation. With his wife on PL: an airplane circling Dulles Airport in Washington, terrorists take over the PL: landing system and black out the airport. As the airport authorities seem PL: to challenge his every move, John must defeat the terrorists and allow the PL: planes to land before they run out of fuel. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> PL: John McClane, a Los Angeles police officer, is awaiting the arrival of PL: his wife at Washington Airport. Also scheduled for this evening is a PL: flight from South America which should bring a drug dealer back to the PL: United States. A team of high tech gangsters manage to take over the PL: Airport's radar facility. They want to free the drug dealer. But they PL: have only one little problem: John McClane. BY: Harald Mayr <marvin@augusta.de> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Diggstown PL: Gabriel Cane has just been released from prison when he sets up a bet with PL: a business man. The business man owns most of a boxing mad town called PL: Diggstown. The bet is that Gabe can find a boxer that will knock out PL: 10 Diggstown men, in a boxing ring, within 24 hours. Honey Roy Palmer PL: is that man - although at 46, many say he is too old. A sub plot is PL: thrown in about Charles Makem Diggs - the heavyweight champion that gave PL: the town its name - and who is now confined to a wheel-chair. BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Thriller Comedy Boxing ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Dinosaur Island PL: An army captain is flying three misfit deserters home for a court martial PL: when the plane has engine trouble and they must land on an uncharted PL: island. There they find a primitive society of cave women who routinely PL: sacrifice virgins to appease The Great One, the top dog dinosaur on the PL: the island. Mistaken for gods, the men must destroy The Great One or face PL: death, but meanwhile they fall in love. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy Sci-Fi Erotic ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Dirty Dancing PL: Baby is becoming a young woman in the summer where she meets Johnny Castle PL: who teaches dance at a family Summer Camp and in his off hours Dirty PL: Dances with the other dancers. She learns a routine so that one of the PL: women can recover from an abortion and becomes Johnny's lover. As the PL: summer winds down, Each must come to grips with responsibility and love PL: and others' expectations. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Dance Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Dirty Dozen, The PL: A Major with an attitude problem and a history of getting things done is PL: told to interview military prisoners with death sentences or long terms for PL: a dangerous mission; To parachute behind enemy lines and cause havoc for PL: the German Generals at a rest house on the eve of D-Day. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: War Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Dirty Harry PL: It's all in a day's work for Dirty Harry, a plainclothesman with the PL: San Francisco police and for his new partner, Chico. A bank robbery PL: and an attempted suicide form the prelude to the main event: catching PL: a skillful sniper who is murdering the innocent while holding a city to PL: ransom. Catching him becomes a war between good and evil - PL: with the protagonists on both sides shown as ruthless, PL: bitter and merciless products of a violent society. BY: Dave Cook <cookd@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels PL: Lawrence and Freddie are con-men; big-time and small time PL: respectively. They unsuccessfully attempt to work together only PL: to find that this town (on the French Mediterranean coast) aint big PL: enough for the two of them. They agree to a "loser leaves" bet. The bet PL: brings out the best/worse in the two. Interesting twist at the end. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Do or Die PL: Silly sex romp disguised as a action/espionage film. Two beautiful PL: American special agents are given a head start by an oriental crime boss. PL: The head start is to get away from the teams of assassins he has PL: lined up to kill them. Numerous visual costume changes later, the busty PL: duo team up with other agents to make a convenient team of eight, all PL: paired off in a boy/girl, boy/girl manner. It's a wonder that they aren't PL: all killed as very little watching gets done while each couple take guard PL: duty. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Action Spy Chase ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Do the Right Thing PL: It's the hottest day of the year in the Bed-Stuy district of Brooklyn, and PL: tensions are growing in this black ghetto area, with the only local PL: businesses a Korean grocery and Sal's Pizzeria. Mookie, Sal's delivery PL: boy, manages to always be at the center of the action. BY: Jon Reeves <reeves@zk3.dec.com> GE: Comedy Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Doc Hollywood PL: Benjamin Stone is a young doctor driving to L.A where he was offered a new PL: job as a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills. He gets off the highway to avoid PL: a traffic jam, but gets lost and ends up crashing into a fence in the small PL: town of Grady. He is sentenced to 32 hrs of community service at the local PL: hospital. All he wants is to serve the sentence and get moving, but PL: gradually the locals become attached to the new doctor, and he falls for PL: the pretty ambulance driver, Lou. Will he leave? BY: Sami Al-Taher <smmat@ukc.ac.uk> GE: Romantic Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Doctor Zhivago PL: Set just before and in the years following the Bolshivek Revolution in PL: Russia, it follows the life of Zhivago as he marries, raises a family, has PL: his life totally disrupted by first World War One, and then by the PL: Revolution. Shown against the Epic of a world turned on it's head, his PL: life and freedom are torn from him as the new society makes demands. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Historical Romance Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Dog Day Afternoon PL: Based upon true events, a New York man and two accomplices are PL: besieged in a bank with all the bank employees after his PL: attempt to rob enough money to pay for his male lover's sex PL: change operation goes awry. What results is a two day media PL: circus in which his private life and the humiliation of the PL: police is laid bare for the whole city. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Drama Comedy Crime ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Dogs of War, The PL: An American mercenary executes a coup in a small African PL: country designed to bring to power another dictator friendlier PL: to a British multinational company. Not a remake of _The Wild PL: Geese_ but another and more faithful adaptation of the PL: novel 'The Dogs of War'. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: War ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Domino (1989) PL: A girl in the video industry travels with a jeweled turtle and makes PL: Billie Holliday videos. Though having relations with some of her friends, PL: she is looking for love. She begins getting calls from a stranger who PL: tells her not to worry, that he'll watch over her. But when she wants to PL: meet him he does not show up. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Surreal Erotic Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead PL: Single Mother goes away for the summer. The kids are first delighted PL: but then find that Mom has hired the sitter from hell to stay with PL: them. When the sitter dies of a sudden coronary they deposit the body PL: at a mortuary only to discover all their Summer expense money was in PL: her purse. The kids must find a way to survive the summer without mom PL: or her money. This means actual work! BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Doors, The PL: Oliver Stone's homage to 60's rock group The Doors also doubles as a bio- PL: graphy of the group's late singer, the "Electric Poet" Jim Morrison. The PL: movie follows Morrison from his days as a film student in Los Angeles to PL: his death in Paris in 1971, at the age of 27. The movies features a tour- PL: de-force performance by Val Kilmer, who not only looks like Jim Morrison's PL: long-lost twin brother, but also sounds so much like him that he did much PL: of his own singing. It has been written that even the surviving Doors had PL: trouble distinguishing Kilmer's vocals from Morrison's originals. BY: Denise P. Meyer <dpm1@cornell.edu> GE: Biography ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Doppelganger (1993) PL: A woman (Barrymore) moves from NYC to LA after a murder, in which she PL: is implicated. She is followed by what is apparently her evil alter- PL: ego. She moves into a room for rent by a writer (Newbern), and he PL: begins having an affair with her, but after some strange things happen, PL: he's not so sure if the affair is with her or her doppelganger. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Thriller Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Double Impact PL: Jean Claude Van Damme plays a dual role as Alex and Chad, twins PL: separated at the death of their parents. Chad is raised by a family PL: retainer in Paris, Alex becomes a petty crook in Hong Kong. Seeing a PL: picture of Alex, Chad rejoins him and convinces him that his rival in PL: Hong Kong is also the man who killed their parents. Alex is suspicious PL: of Chad, especially when it comes to his girlfriend. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Double Indemnity (1944) PL: Insurance salesman Walter Neff meets attractive Phyllis Dietrich when he PL: calls to renew her husband's automobile policy. The couple are immediately PL: drawn to each other and an affair begins. Soon they cook up a scheme to PL: murder Mr. Dietrich for the insurance money, but all does not go to plan. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Film_Noir Thriller Suspense ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Down and Out in Beverly Hills PL: Beverly Hills couple Barbara and Dave Whiteman are very rich but not happy PL: Dave is a hard working business man, his wife is only interested in yoga, PL: aerobics and other meditation classes, and he sleeps with the house maid. PL: Their teenage son is confused about his sexuality and their daughter is PL: suffering from eating disorders. While they are celebrating thanksgiving PL: having plenty of food, street tramp Jerry is hungry, homeless, sleeping PL: rough and has lost his dog. Jerry decides to end his life by drowning PL: himself in their swimming pool. Dave rescues him and invites him to stay PL: for a while. How does this stranger change the life style of this family? BY: Sami Al-Taher <smmat@ukc.ac.uk> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Downhill PL: Public schoolboy Roddy Berwick is expelled from school when he takes the PL: blame for a friend's theft and his life falls apart in a series of PL: misadventures. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Drama Silent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Dr. No PL: British agent, James Bond, is sent to Jamaica to investigate the murder PL: of a fellow operative. Bond's enquiries soon establish a connection PL: between the death, a spate of recent failures in the US space program, PL: and the mysterious Dr. No. BY: Dave Jenkins <david.jenkins@smallworld.co.uk> GE: Spy Action Bond ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb PL: General Jack D. Ripper goes completely and utterly mad, and sends a bomber PL: wing to destroy the U.S.S.R. He suspects that the communists are trying PL: to rob Americans of their "precious bodily fluids". The U.S. president PL: meets with his advisors, where the Soviet ambassador tells him that if PL: the U.S.S.R. is hit by nuclear weapons, it will trigger a "Doomsday Device" PL: which will destroy the U.S. with buried bombs. Will the bombers be PL: caught in time, or will General Jack D. Ripper have succeeded in PL: destroying the world ? BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Sci-Fi Comedy War ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Dragnet (1987) PL: Friday and Streebek are assigned to some very strange robberies, like i.e. PL: the stealing of one bat, a 30 feet long snake and the mane of a lion from a PL: zoo. All the latest BAIT magazines were also recently stolen, and some PL: chemichals that when are mixed correctly develops a very deadly gas. All PL: these thefts have one thing in common; visit cards with the word "PAGAN" PL: left at the crime scenes. Solving these crimes, including why plenty of PL: police vehicles have been stolen lately, involves the usual; to drink PL: coffee at strip tease bars, rescue kidnapped virgins from drowning and lose PL: the job. BY: Lars J. Aas <larsa@colargol.edb.tih.no> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Draughtsman's Contract, The PL: An English noblewoman employs a haughty artist to paint PL: portraits of her husband's estate in exchange for sex. PL: When the liaison comes to include the noblewoman's married PL: daughter the artist begins to understand that the points of PL: the contract are negotiable. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Drama Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Dream Machine, The PL: As a reward from a jilted millionairess, Davis is given the $100,000 PL: Porsche of the unfaithful husband. Unknown to Davis and the wife, the PL: body of the husband is in the Porsche. The killer tries in vein to recover PL: the body before it is discovered. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Dreamscape PL: A government funded project looks into using psychics to enter PL: people's dreams, with some mechanical help. When a subject dies PL: in his sleep from a heart attack Alex Gardner becomes suspicious PL: that another of the psychics is killing people in the dreams PL: somehow and that is causing them to die in real life. He must PL: find a way to stop the abuse of the power to enter dreams. BY: Zaphod <aaa@scs.leeds.ac.uk> PL: A man who can enter and manipulate people's dreams is recruited PL: by a government agency to help cure the President of the United PL: States of his nightmares about nuclear war but finds a PL: conspiracy is hiding the true reason behind the research. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Sci-Fi Adventure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Dressed to Kill (1980) PL: Caine plays the part of a psychiatrist to a woman who is murdered PL: early in the film. He is initially reluctant to help the police. PL: The detective assigned to the murder seems happy to do nothing, leaving PL: the investigation to a prostitute who witnessed the murder and the son of PL: the deceased. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Driller Killer, The PL: An artist slowly loses his mind as he and his two female friends scrape PL: to pay the bills. The punk band downstairs increasingly agitates him, PL: his art dealer is demanding that he complete his big canvas painting PL: as promised, and he gets into fights with his girlfriends. When the PL: dealer laughs at his canvas he snaps, and begins taking it out on the PL: people responsible for his pain and random transients in the manner PL: suggested by the title. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Driving Miss Daisy PL: An elderly Jewish widow living in Atlanta can no longer drive. Her son PL: insists she allow him to hire a driver, which in the 1950s meant a black PL: man. She resists any change in her life but, Hoke, the driver is hired by PL: her son. She refuses to allow him to drive her anywhere at first, but Hoke PL: slowly wins her over with his native good graces. The movie is directly PL: taken from a stage play and does show it. It covers over twenty years of PL: the pair's life together as they slowly build a relationship that PL: transcends their differences. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Drama Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Drowning by Numbers PL: Tired of her husband's philanderous ways, the mother of two daughters PL: drowns her husband. With the reluctant help of the local coroner, PL: the murder is obscured. Her daughters are having similar problems with PL: relationships, and tend to follow their mother's example, and the PL: coroner becomes reluctantly duplicitous. As the plot progresses, visual PL: and spoken numbers appear in the scenes, counting from one to 100. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama Surreal ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Drum Struck PL: A man shows up to a drum audition and puts to shame the other drummer who PL: has better equipment. He gets the gig and plays surfer-style music. PL: Later, the other drummer attacks him and messes him up, but his new PL: girlfriend helps him to regain his drum skills with electricity. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama Short Surreal ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Duck Soup PL: To rescue the small country of Freedonia from bankruptcy, Mrs. Teasdale PL: agrees to donate 20 million dollars if Rufus T. Firefly is appointed PL: its new president. Firefly is a cynical, sarcastic dictator who PL: refuses to play politics by the book. For instance, he does reduce PL: workers' hours~~by shortening their lunch breaks! Firefly attempts to PL: win the hand of Mrs. Teasdale, as does Ambassador Trentino of the PL: neighboring country, Sylvania. When the two leaders cannot resolve PL: their dispute over the wealthy dowager, war between the countries is PL: declared, and Mrs. Teasdale's house comes under attack. Who will save PL: the day? BY: Rick Gregory <rag.apa@email.apa.org> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Dudes PL: Two punks from the big city travelling across the country PL: in a Volkswagen bug embrace the western ethos when they must PL: take revenge against a group of rednecks for killing their PL: friend in this lighthearted road movie. Along the way they PL: enlist the help of a young woman who runs a wrecking service. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Duel (TV) PL: David Mann is trying to drive his car across California. When he tries PL: to pass a gas tanker, the driver somehow takes offence. At first the PL: unseen driver just annoys David by continually passing him and PL: slowing down. Then he starts playing mind games with David, tempting PL: him to pass the tanker, only to prevent him when he tries. The story PL: is seen from David's point of view, with commentary as he thinks to PL: himself. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Thriller Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Duellists, The PL: Set during the grand, sweeping Napoleonic age, an officer in the French PL: army insults another officer and sets off a life-long emnity. The two PL: officers, D'Hubert and Feraud, cross swords time and time again in an PL: attempt to achieve justice and preserve their honor. BY: Greg Bole <bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> GE: Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Dumbo PL: The stork delivers a baby elephant to Mrs Jumbo, veteran of the PL: circus, but the newborn is ridiculed because of his truly enormous PL: ears and dubbed "Dumbo". Dumbo is relegated to the circus' clown PL: acts; it is up to his only friend, a mouse, to assist Dumbo to PL: achieve his full potential. BY: Tim Pickett <quetzal@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au> GE: Animated Childrens ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Dune PL: In the far future, a duke and his family are sent by the Emperor to a PL: sand world from which comes a spice that is essential for interstellar PL: travel. The move is designed to destroy the duke and his family, but his PL: son escapes and seeks revenge as he uses the world's ecology as one of his PL: weapons. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> PL: The desert planet Arrakis - we enter the year 10191 and the whole uni- PL: verse depends on the spice Melange which exists only on this dry and PL: desolate planet. The natives of this planet await the arrival of their PL: Messiah who will lead them into a holy war against the evil Harkonnen PL: empire. This is the film adaptation based on Frank Herbert`s cult novel. BY: Harald Mayr <marvin@augusta.de> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Duplicates (TV) PL: When a woman sees her brother who was supposed to have with died PL: along with her son, she naturally becomes suspicious. When he claims PL: to be someone else, she isn't convinced. After tracing the home of the PL: 'brother', she and her husband stumble upon a top secret project. They PL: get too close to the truth and are therefore intercepted... BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Sci-Fi Mystery ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial PL: A group of aliens visit earth and one of them is lost and left behind PL: stranded on this planet. The alien is found by a 10 year old boy, PL: Elliot. Soon the two begin to communicate, and start a different kind of PL: friendship in which E.T learns about life on earth and Elliot learns about PL: some new values for the true meaning of friendship. E.T. wants to go PL: home, but if Elliot helps him, he'll lose a friend... BY: Sami Al-Taher <smmat@ukc.ac.uk> GE: Sci-Fi Fantasy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Eagle Has Landed, The PL: Colonel Steiner is a German Officer in WW II who has been imprisoned for PL: opposing genocide. He is offered an assignment to go to England and PL: Assassinate Winston Churchill. His group of loyal commandos dress as PL: British soldiers and take over a small English town, supposedly on a PL: training maneuver to await the coming visit of the Prime Minister. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: War Adventure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Easy Rider PL: Two long-haired bikers from Los Angeles take off on a PL: cross-country trip to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. On the way PL: they meet several unusual characters. A rancher and his family, PL: a hitchhiker and the hippie commune where he lives, hookers, PL: red-necks, but most noticeably George Hansen played by Jack PL: Nicholson. Mr. Nicholson gained national attention for his PL: role as the "law'er with the ACLU". Dennis Hopper won "Best New PL: Director" at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival. BY: J.C. Porter <Jeff_Porter@mmacmail.jccbi.gov> GE: Adventure Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Easy Virtue PL: Larita Filton is named as correspondent in a scandalous divorce case. She PL: escapes to France to rebuild her life where she meets John Whittaker. PL: They are later married, but John's well-to-do family finds out Larita's PL: secret. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Drama Silent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Easy Wheels PL: A group of leather-clad bikers are on the trail of the female bikers PL: who are stealing babies all over the state and selling them on the PL: black market. BY: Todd A. Bobenrieth <TAB146@PSUVM.EDU> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Echoes of a Summer PL: The eleven-year-old Deirdre suffers from an incureable heart trouble. For PL: two years, her parents Eugene and Ruth have consulted heart specialists - PL: but without any success. Now they have gone to Mahone Bay in Canada, to PL: arrange for her last days as pleasant as possible. The nine-year-old PL: neighbour boy Phillip is the only one who brings a little happiness into the PL: home, because Deirdre knows exactly whats wrong with her. PL: After she suffered from an acute attack and the end comes faster than PL: everybody had thought, Deirdre and Phillip succeed in celebrating the PL: twelfth birthday of the girl as a day of joy. BY: Thomas Manhardt <Thomas.Manhardt@wu-wien.ac.at> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Educating Rita PL: A young wife decides to complete her education and take her exams. She PL: meets a professor who teaches her to value her own insights while still PL: being able to beat the exams. The change in her status causes friction PL: between her and her husband. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Edward Scissorhands PL: A modern day fairy tale which tells the story of Edward, the man created by PL: an inventor, who died before finishing him and left Edward with scissors PL: where he should have hands. One day when the local "Avon" representative PL: calls at the historic mansion where Edward has been living alone, she takes PL: him home to stay with her family. He has to adapt to the new life and PL: environment that he isn't used to. Soon he shows a talent in cutting hair PL: and hedges, and wins every body's heart. But life isn't always so sweet... BY: Sami Al-Taher <smmat@ukc.ac.uk> GE: Fantasy Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Eiger Sanction, The PL: Jonathan Hemlock is an Art teacher and collector who finances his hobby by PL: performing the odd sanction (assassination) for an obscure government PL: bureau. He is forced to take a case where he must find out which of the PL: members of a mountain climbing team is the Russian killer he has been PL: given as a target by joining an expedition to climb the treacherous Eiger. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Spy Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Element of Crime, The PL: Fischer, an ex-cop, returns to his old beat somewhere in northern PL: Europe after a thirteen-year hiatus in Cairo. His former mentor and PL: role model, author of a treatise called "The Element of Crime", asks PL: him to solve a series of murders involving lottery ticket PL: sellers. Guided by the theories put forth in the book, Fischer PL: retraces the steps of a suspect, Harry Grey, as recorded in a PL: three-year-old police surveillance report. A dark film set in a PL: post-somethingorother Europe with unique visual atmosphere and kind of PL: cult-movie status (in Europe at least). BY: eddi sommer <eddi@gmd.de> GE: Sci-Fi Crime ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Elephant Man, The PL: Based on the true story of John Merrick, a 19th-century PL: Englishman afflicted with a disfiguring congenital disease. PL: With the help of kindly Dr. Frederick Treves, Merrick attempts PL: to regain the dignity he lost after years spent as a side-show PL: freak. BY: Scott Renshaw <as.idc@forsythe.stanford.edu> GE: Drama Biography ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Elvira, Mistress of the Dark PL: Elvira, who is the host of a cheap horror movie program finds that she is PL: the heir to an aunt's mansion in New England. The mansion is the home of PL: some interesting magical items, but her first conflicts come from her PL: attempts to bring some life to the small town, especially to the young PL: people. The adults of the town are appalled by her dress, her tone, in fact PL: everything about her, especially her sexual references. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Emerald Forest, The PL: An American businessman searches the Amazon rainforest PL: for the Indian tribe that he believes has kidnapped his PL: son and begins to understand the damage that a dam project PL: is exacting on the forest and on its people. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Adventure Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Eminent Domain PL: A high-ranking Polish politburo member is banished from the party, and PL: must find out why. Set in 1979 Poland before the Solidarity events. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Emmanuelle - The Joys of a Woman PL: Emmanuelle returns to her husband in Hong Kong and proceeds to have PL: several extramarital affairs -- with his knowledge, of course. Her PL: husband's lover and American guest are both very puzzled by their PL: openness. [Fans of the Italian Emanuelle (sic!) series should watch for PL: Laura Gemser as an uncredited masseuse.] BY: Eric Conrad <econrad@magnus.ohio-state.edu> GE: Romance Erotica ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Emmanuelle 4 PL: In order to escape from her former lover Marc, Sylvia goes to Brazil PL: where Dr. Santamo transforms her into the beautiful Emmanuelle. With PL: this new identity comes a sexual awakening which is complicated by PL: her memories of Marc. As with other entries in this series, the plot PL: twists provide ample opportunities to expose the characters. BY: Eric Conrad <econrad@magnus.ohio-state.edu> GE: Romance Erotica ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Emmanuelle 5 PL: [American version.] Emmanuelle has a streak of bad luck that starts PL: when she is stripped by a mob of adoring fans at the Cannes Film PL: Festival. Her rotten luck continues when the dictator of a banana PL: republic uses the screening of one of her films as a pretext to get PL: her into his country. Our heroine finds herself admitted into his harem PL: as a slave. [Roger Corman fans may be able to identify stock action PL: footage used in the American version.] BY: Eric Conrad <econrad@magnus.ohio-state.edu> GE: Action Prison Harem ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Empire Strikes Back, The PL: Darth Vader is helping the Empire crush the rebellion determined to PL: end the Empire's domination of the universe. The rebels are based PL: on Hoth, and when troops arrive to wipe them out, Han Solo and Princess PL: Leia flee to Cloud City. Luke Skywalker, in a bid to strengthen PL: his knowledge of the force, finds Yoda, one of the finest Jedis ever. PL: Will they be able to get back together and halt the Empires progress ? BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Empire of the Sun PL: Based on J. G. Ballard's autobiographical novel, tells the story of a PL: boy, James Graham, whose privileged life is upturned by the Japanese PL: invasion of Shanghai, December 8, 1941. Separated from his parents, PL: he is eventually captured, and taken to Soo Chow confinement camp, PL: next to a captured Chinese airfield. Amidst the sickness and food PL: shortages in the camp, Jim attempts to reconstruct his former life, PL: all the while bringing spirit and dignity to those around him. BY: Jeff Hansen <jmh@umich.edu> GE: War Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Enchanted April (1991) PL: Four women rent a chateau on a remote Italian island to try to come to PL: grips with their lives and relationships. They explore the differences PL: in their personalities, reassess their goals, and reexamine their PL: relationships in a sisterly fashion. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Enchantment PL: Uncle Rollo finally retires to the house he was brought up in. Lost in PL: thoughts of his lost love, Lark, he does not want to be disturbed in his PL: last days. However, the appearance of his niece and the subsequent romance PL: between her and Lark's nephew causes him to reevaluate his life and offer PL: some advice so the young couple don't make the same mistake he did, all PL: those years ago. BY: Mark Harding <ccsmh@uk.ac.bath.ac.uk> GE: Melodrama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Enemy From Space PL: Dr. Quatermas is the director of an important scientific base, where he PL: builds nuclear rockets for the colonization of the Moon. A strange fall PL: of meteorites in a nearby village leads to the discovery of a huge base PL: under a strict military control, officially a factory of artificial food. PL: The shrewdness of Quatermas reveals that the factory is the place chosen by PL: the aliens to conquer the Earth: they come in the form of an alive gas PL: hidden in the meteors and to live in our atmosphere they use the human body PL: taking the control of the brain. The courage of Quatermas and the launch of PL: of his nuclear rocket against the asteroid of the aliens save the Earth. BY: Maurizio Semolic <semolic@oat.ts.astro.it> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Enforcer, The (1976) PL: San Francisco Police Inspector Harry Callahan returns in the third of PL: the Dirty Harry movies. Teamed with his new partner, Policewoman PL: Inspector Kate Moore, they hunt for a group of terrorists that are PL: blackmailing the City of San Francisco for two million dollars. BY: David J. Kiseleski <davidk269@aol.com> GE: Crime ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Engel mit der Posaune, Der PL: A long time-span of Austrian history (from the late 19th century to the PL: years after world war II) is reflected in the ups and downs of a family of PL: piano-makers in Vienna. BY: Otto Oberhauser <Oberhauser@cc.univie.ac.at> GE: History Political Family ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Enid Is Sleeping PL: Enid is horrible, her husband and younger sister are having an PL: affair. When Enid walks in on them 'enjoying' themselves, she is PL: furious. A fight develops and Enid is hit over the head with a heavy PL: object. One disaster after another ensues, as they attempt to make PL: Enid's death look like an accident. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Black ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Enter the Dragon PL: A martial arts expert is recruited to infiltrate a drug PL: operation under the guise of taking part in an invitational PL: competition sponsored by the one handed crime boss. This was PL: Bruce Lee's most popular film in the west. This is spoofed PL: in _The Kentucky Fried Movie_. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Eraserhead PL: Is it a nightmare or an actual view of a post-apocalyptic world? PL: Set in an industrial town in which giant machines are constantly PL: working, spewing smoke, and making noise that is inescapable, Henry PL: Spencer lives in a building that, like all the others, appears to PL: be abandoned. The lights flicker on and off, he has bowls of water PL: in his dresser drawers, and for his only diversion he watches and PL: listens to the Lady in the Radiator sing about finding happiness in PL: heaven. Henry has a girlfriend, Mary X, who has frequent spastic PL: fits. Mary gives birth to Henry's child, a frightening looking PL: mutant, which leads to the injection of all sorts of sexual imagery PL: into the depressive and chaotic mix. BY: Rick Gregory <rag.apa@email.apa.org> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Escape (1979) PL: A women's prison camp is located deep in the tropical rain forest. PL: Sadistic guards and a warden from hell make life almost unbearable for PL: the inmates, and any infraction of the rules is dealt with swiftly and PL: savagely. The camp doctor is horrified at what he sees happening, and PL: drinks heavily to push the horror away. Finally the inmates have had PL: had enough, and they enlist the help of the doctor to try and escape. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Action Female Prison ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Escape from New York PL: A condemned criminal and former war hero is offered his PL: freedom if he can rescue the President of the United States PL: from the walled prison island of Manhattan after a terrorist PL: brings down the President's plane in this futuristic adventure. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Sci-Fi Adventure Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Estrategia del Caracol, La PL: A lot of people live in an ocupated house; after many years of quiet PL: living, the owner of the house wants them out. They try whatever they PL: can to avoid being put out, without sucess. But one of them thinks of a PL: way of saving, at least, their dignity... BY: Anonymous GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Europa Europa PL: A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of PL: WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart PL: of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually becomes PL: a Hitler Youth. Although improbabilities and happenstance PL: are cornerstones of the film, it is based upon a true story. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Drama Historical War ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Eve and the Handyman PL: Eve is dressed in a long raincoat and follows the handyman around as he PL: makes his appointed rounds. She watches as he has humorous run-ins while PL: cleaning toilets, taking scrap metal to the dump, cleaning windows, PL: delivering a tree, climbing poles, and remaining a gentleman while trying PL: to help a topless hitchhiker. But why is she watching him so carefully? BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Eve of Destruction PL: Eve is a robot, modelled on "her" creator. Eve's armoury includes a PL: nuclear bomb, which for unexplained reasons is on-board during Eve's PL: testing. When things go wrong during the tests, Eve is lost in the big PL: city. Enter the rescue team, which includes the real (human) Eve. They PL: must find and disarm her before she goes "bang". Eve is programmed to PL: protect herself at all costs, so when she runs into a problem, she PL: resorts to her super strength; hence the destruction. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> PL: Eve is a military robot made to look exactly like her creator. When she PL: is damaged during a bank robbery, the robot begins to use more of the PL: memories she has been programmed with by her creator, the dark, angry PL: ones. She will also become a killing machine if anyone tries to stop her. PL: Gregory Hines is assigned to stop the robot and with the scientist who PL: programmed her tries to think what she will do next. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Sci-Fi Action Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Even Dwarfs Started Small PL: A group of dwarves living in a sort of prison in a remote country PL: are fed up with their condition and begin rebelling against their PL: keepers. Their acts of rebellion grow to alarming proportions. An PL: allegory on the depravity of prisoners as well warders. BY: Gene Volovich {volovich@netcom.com} GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Evil Dead II PL: A sequel/remake of the film The Evil Dead. A young man named Ash takes his PL: girlfriend Linda to a secluded cabin, and plays back a professor's tape PL: recorded recitation of passages from the Book of the Dead. The spell calls PL: up an evil force from the woods which turns Linda into a monstrous Deadite, PL: and threatens to do the same to Ash. When the professor's daughter and her PL: entourage show up at the cabin, the night turns into a non-stop, grotesquely PL: comic battle with chainsaw and shotgun on one side, demon horde and flying PL: eyeball on the other. BY: David Thiel <d-thiel@uiuc.edu> GE: Horror Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Evil Roy Slade (TV) PL: Evil Roy Slade, the meanest villain the West has known, meets PL: a beautiful young woman who persuades him to change careers PL: from train robber to family man. He is pursued by Marshal PL: Bing Bell, while a helpful psychologist teaches him to live PL: without weapons. BY: Mike Welsch <m.welsch@az05p.bull.com> GE: Comedy Western ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Evil Spawn PL: Microbes are brought back to earth via a space probe from Venus. A PL: scientist is using them in experiments on ageing, but dies before the PL: work is finished. His assistant approaches an ageing actress who is being PL: passed by for the lead roles, and she injects the serum hoping to become PL: young again. When the actress is still passed up for the plum roles, the PL: alien bacterium transforms her into a hideous bug-like alien resulting in PL: a predictable attrition problem amongst her detractors. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Excalibur PL: The myth of King Arthur brought once again to the screen. Uthur PL: Pendragon is given the mystical sword Excalibur by the wizard Merlyn. PL: At his death Uthur buries the sword into a stone, and the next man that PL: can pull it out will be King of England. Years later Arthur, Uthur's PL: bastard son draws Excalibur and becomes king. Guided by Merlyn, Arthur PL: marries Guenivere and gathers the Knights of the Round Table. Arthur's PL: evil half-sister Morgana sires a son with him, who may prove his downfall. BY: Greg Bole <bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> GE: Fantasy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Exodus PL: The theme is the founding of the state of Israel. The action begins on PL: a ship filled with Jewish immigrants bound for Israel who are being off PL: loaded on Malta. An Intelligence officer succeeds in getting them back PL: on board their ship only to have the harbor blocked by the British with PL: whom they must negotiate. The second part of the film is about the PL: situation in Israel as independence is declared and most of their PL: neighbors attack them. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: History War ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Exorcist, The PL: Beatty's novelization of a real case of possession that happened in a PL: Washington Suburb (Mt. Ranier, MD) puts Regan, an adolescent girl, PL: Living with her mother in Georgetown in Washington, into a more and more PL: difficult situation. She exhibits strange symptoms, including levitation PL: and great strength. When all medical possibilities are exhausted, her PL: mother is sent to a priest who is also a psychiatrist. He becomes PL: convinced that Regan is possessed and he and a second priest experienced PL: in exorcism try to drive the spirit from Regan before she dies. Very PL: graphic for it's time. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Explorers PL: Ben Crandall, an alien-obsessed kid, dreams one night of a circuit PL: board. Drawing out the circuit, he and his friends Wolfgang and Darren PL: set it up, and discover they have been given the basis for a starship. PL: Setting off in the ThunderRoad, as they name their ship, they find the PL: aliens Ben hopes they would find... but are they what they seem? BY: Liz Jordan <c9310494@alinga.newcastle.edu.au> GE: Childrens Fantasy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Eye of the Needle PL: A German spy carrying information that will reveal the PL: target of Operation Overlord becomes involved with the PL: wife of a crippled man on an isolated island off the English PL: coast while he waits to be picked up. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Spy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Eyes of a Witness (TV) PL: Roy Baxter is concerned for his daughter Christina's safety. She's PL: working as a doctor among the Masai in Kenya. Poaching gangs are PL: slaughtering protected species, then raiding Masai villages and forcing PL: them to help carry their ill-gotten gains across the border. Roy flies PL: to Kenya to convince her to leave and becomes a suspect for murder when PL: the village is raided and he tries to help a UN doctor shot by the raiders. PL: The only witness is a young Masai boy, who is reluctant to come forward PL: because of possible retribution against his tribe. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: F.P.1 Doesn't Answer PL: Urged by famous airman Ellissen the Lennartz Company puts into reality PL: the project proposed by his friend Droste: F.P.1, a huge floating platform PL: in the Atlantic that makes long-distance flights viable. Ellissen is in PL: love with company heiress Claire, but when he returns from his adventures PL: to save the endangered F.P.1 he finds out that he has lost her to Droste. BY: Otto Oberhauser <Oberhauser@cc.univie.ac.at> GE: Sci-Fi Sea Aviation ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: F/X PL: A movies special effects man is hired by a government agency PL: to help stage the assassination of a well known gangster. PL: When the agency double cross him, he uses his special effects to PL: trap the gangster and the corrupt agents. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Action Crime ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Fabulous Baker Boys, The PL: Frank and Jack Baker are professional musicians who play small clubs. PL: They play smaltzy music and have never needed a day job. Times are PL: changing and dates are becoming more difficult to get so they interview PL: female singers. They finally decide on Susie Diamond, a former 'escort' PL: who needs some refinement, but the act begins to take off again. While PL: the act is now successful, both Frank and Jack have problems with their PL: life on the road. Susie becomes the agent that makes them re-evaluate PL: where they are going, and how honest they have been with each other. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Drama Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Fahrenheit 451 PL: From the Ray Bradbury novel, Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature that paper PL: will burst into flame. Oskar Werner plays a fireman who does not put out PL: fires, but who searches out books and burns them. Books make people PL: unhappy. In a parody of social correctness, all discordant strains are PL: removed. The world is a lonely one of separate people in which Werner PL: begins to read the books before burning them. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Fail-Safe PL: A technical malfunction in the Pentagon's strategic control system PL: causes an erroneous order to be sent to a B-52 squadron on a routine PL: training mission instructing the bombers to fly beyond their fail safe PL: distance. At this point the flight crew are trained to cease communications PL: and prepare to fulfill their objective by bombing Moscow. As the planes near PL: their target, the crisis deepens and together the Americans and Soviets PL: decide on a final, desperate solution. BY: Dave Jenkins <david.jenkins@smallworld.co.uk> PL: A series of human and computer errors sends a squadron of American PL: B-58 "Hustler" bombers to nuke Moscow. The President, in order to PL: convince the Soviets that this is a mistake, orders the Strategic PL: Air Command to help the Soviets stop them. This movie pulls no punches. PL: The ending will make you thank God the Cold War is over! BY: KC Hunt <khunt@eng.morgan.edu> GE: Thriller Political Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Falling Down PL: William (D-FENS) just wants to get home to see his daughter on her birthday. PL: Unfortunately, nothing seems to be going right for him. First there's PL: the traffic jam, then the unhelpful Korean shopkeeper who "doesn't give PL: change". D-FENS begins to crack and starts to fight back against the every PL: day "injustices" he encounters on his journey home. The film has a story PL: running in parallel about a desk-bound cop who is about to retire. He's PL: retiring for his wife's sake, and obviously isn't happy about it. The cop PL: tracks down D-FENS and in the final scene..... BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> PL: A divorced engineer for the defense industry gets stuck in L.A. traffic PL: and finally snaps. He gets out of his car and begins a walk through PL: central L.A., where he encounters various levels of harassment, which PL: he learns to deal with by acquiring weapons along the way. His actions PL: attract the attention of a retiring cop, and he gets involved with the PL: case, following the engineer's path toward Venice, where his daughter is PL: having a birthday party. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Family Plot PL: Fake medium Madam Blanche and her taxi driver boyfriend make a living from PL: her phoney powers. They are hired by an aging widow, Julia Rainbird to find PL: her nephew who was given away for adoption many years earlier following a PL: family scandal. Meanwhile, an extremely clever couple are behind a series of PL: kidnappings in the San Francisco area. The two couples path's cross and PL: chaos results in Hitchcock's last film. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Thriller Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Fanny and Alexander PL: The title characters are children in the exuberant and colorful Ekdahl PL: household in a Swedish town early in this century. Their parents, PL: Oscar and Emilie, are the director and the leading lady of the local PL: theatre company. Oscar's mother and brother are its chief patrons. PL: After Oscar's early death, his widow marries the bishop and moves with PL: her children to his austere and forbidding chancery. The children are PL: immediately miserable. The film dramatizes and resolves those PL: conflicts. A sub-plot features Isak, a local Jewish merchant who is PL: the grandmother's lover and whose odd household becomes the children's PL: refuge. BY: Jack.Hailey@SEN.CA.GOV GE: Comedy Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Fantasia PL: Various classical music works are illustrated, some abstractly, some PL: humorously, and some dramatically. A wide range of artistic styles is BY: Jon Reeves <reeves@zk3.dec.com> PL: Animation done to classical music by Bach, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky PL: and others. BY: Tim Pickett <quetzal@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au> PL: Disney animators set pictures to classical music as Leopold Stokowski PL: conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra. "The Sorceror's Apprentice" features PL: Mickey Mouse as an aspiring magician who oversteps his limits. "The Rite of PL: Spring" tells the story of evolution, from single-celled animals to the PL: death of the dinosaurs. "Dance of the Hours" is a comic ballet performed by PL: ostriches, hippos, elephants and alligators. "Night on Bald Mountain" and PL: "Ave Maria" set the forces of darkness and light against each other as a PL: devilish revel is interrupted by the coming of a new day. BY: David Thiel <d-thiel@uiuc.edu> GE: Animated Musical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Fantastic Voyage PL: A diplomat is nearly assassinated. In order to save him, a submarine is PL: shrunken to microscopic size and injected into his blood stream with a PL: small crew. They have just begun their voyage when it becomes clear there PL: is a saboteur on board. From the novel by Isaac Asimov. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Sci-fi Adventure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Far and Away PL: A young man (Cruise) leaves Ireland with his landlord's daughter (Kidman) PL: after some trouble with her father, and they dream of owning land at PL: the big giveaway in Oklahoma ca. 1893. When they get to the new land, PL: they find jobs and begin saving money. The man becomes a local barehands PL: boxer, and rides in glory until he is beaten, then his employers steal PL: all the couple's money and they must fight off starvation in the winter, PL: and try to keep their dream of owning land alive. Meanwhile, the woman's PL: parents find out where she has gone and have come to America to find her PL: and take her back. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Farewell to the King PL: An American sailor who escapes the execution of his comrades PL: by Japanese soldiers in Borneo during WWII becomes the leader PL: of a personal empire among the headhunters in this war story PL: told in the style of Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling. The PL: American is reluctant to rejoin the fight against the PL: Japanese on the urging of a British commando team but conducts PL: a war of vengeance when the Japanese attack his adopted people. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: War Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Farewell, My Lovely PL: This, the second adaptation of Raymond Chandler's novel is much closer PL: to the source text than the original, 'Murder, My Sweet', which tended PL: to avoid some of the sleazier parts of the plot, but still concerns PL: private eye Philip Marlowe's attempts to locate Velma, a former dancer PL: at a seedy nightclub, and the girlfriend of Moose Malloy, a petty PL: criminal just out of prison. PL: Marlowe finds that once he has taken the case events conspire to put PL: him in dangerous situations, and he is forced to follow a confusing PL: trail of untruths and double crosses before he is able to locate Velma. BY: Mark Thompson <mrt@oasis.icl.co.uk> GE: Thriller Noir ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Farmer's Wife, The (1928) PL: Farmer Sweetland is a lonely old widower. He is determined to marry again PL: and he enlists the help of his housekeeper Minta to pick a wife from the PL: local single women. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Comedy Silent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Fast Getaway PL: A lighthearted tail about a gang of bank robbers who fall out and split up. PL: The brains of the gang is a boy who, with his father, successfully continue PL: their crime spree. Annoyed at this, Lilly and her loyal, and stupid PL: companion, decide to kidnap the boy, Nelson, and force him to work for them. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Crime Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Fast Times at Ridgemont High PL: Follows a group of high school students growing up in southern PL: California, based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron PL: Crowe. Stacy Hamilton and Mark Ratner are looking for a love interest, PL: and are helped along by their older classmates, Linda Barrett and Mike PL: Damone, respectively. The center of the film is held by Jeff Spicoli, PL: a perpetually stoned surfer dude who faces off with the resolute Mr. PL: Hand, who is convinced that everyone is on dope. BY: Rick Gregory <rag.apa@email.apa.org> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! PL: Three strippers seeking thrills encounter a young couple in the desert. PL: After dispatching the boyfriend, they take the girl hostage and begin PL: scheming on a crippled old man living with his two sons in the desert, PL: reputedly hiding a tidy sum of cash. They become houseguests of the old PL: man and try and seduce the sons in an attempt to locate the money, not PL: realizing that the old man has a few sinister intentions of his own. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> PL: Three wild women in three fast cars take time off from stripping in PL: clubs to go on a murder rampage. They kidnap and drug the girlfriend PL: of one of their victims and hole up at a secluded ranch owned by a PL: wheelchair-bound man and his two sons. BY: Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com> GE: Action Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Fatal Attraction (1987) PL: Happily married New York lawyer Dan Callagher has an affair with his PL: business partner Alex, and the two enjoy a love weekend while Dan's wife PL: and kid are away. But Alex will not let go of him, and she will stop at PL: nothing to have him for herself. Just how far will she go to get what she PL: wants?. BY: Sami Al-Taher <smmat@ukc.ac.uk> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Fatal Beauty PL: Rita Rizzoli is a narcotics cop with a plethora of disguises. When a drug PL: shipment is hijacked, the thieves don't know that the drug is unusually PL: pure and packs of 'Fatal Beauty' begin turning up next to too many dead PL: bodies. Mike works for the original owner of the drugs and tries to tell PL: himself that since he does not handle the drugs, he is 'clean'. Mike PL: becomes Rita's constant companion as the drug hijackers (who are nearly PL: psychotic and very well armed) are hunted, while more and more bodies PL: continue to turn up. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> PL: Rita Rizzoli is a cop with a thing for disguises. She is on the track of PL: a deadly batch of drugs stamped 'fatal beauty' and then stolen. Mike PL: Marshak is the bodyguard of the original owner of the drugs who is sent PL: to 'help' her, whether she likes it or not. The two track down the thieves PL: who are distributing 'fatal beauty' and bullets in about equal amounts. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Action Police ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Fatal Bond PL: Leonie Stevens, a bored hairdresser, is caught up with a drifter PL: who claims he's in the car business, and has a strong interest in PL: avoiding the law. But as they travel through New South Wales, a corpse PL: is left behind them, and she begins to wonder just how far he will PL: go, and what she will do to help him. BY: David Carroll <davidc@atom.ansto.gov.au> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Father Goose PL: During World War II South Sea beachcomber Walter Eckland is persuaded to PL: spy on planes passing over his island. He gets more than he bargained for PL: as schoolteacher Catherine Frenau arrives on the run from the Japanese with PL: her pupils in tow! BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Father's Revenge, A (TV) PL: German terrorists kidnap the crew of an aeroplane as they leave the airport. PL: The terrorists demand the release of two of their colleagues, who are to PL: be extradited to the USA. The father of one of the stewardesses decides PL: he can no longer wait for diplomacy, and so flies out to Germany. There, PL: frustration leads him to hire a former SAS counter-terrorism expert. PL: Together they hunt down the terrorists. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish, The PL: A farce, Hoskins plays a photographer who specializes in religious PL: pictures who searches for a model for Jesus. He does a favor for PL: a friend and finds himself doing a voice track for a porno movie with PL: Natasha Richardson. Hoskins finds his model for Jesus in Jeff Goldblum and PL: a romantic triangle begins in which Goldblum finds adoring crowds believing PL: him to be Jesus and then begins to believe it himself. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Farce ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Fear of a Black Hat PL: In the tradition of Spinal Tap and CB4, this 'documentary', PL: parodying Gangsta Rap, chronicles the career of rap group PL: N.W.H. (Niggers Wit' Hats) and its members Tasty-Taste, Ice PL: Cold, and Tone Def. The movie irreverently pokes fun at PL: white rappers, the L.A. riots, as well as violence in rap. PL: It also features music video parodies such as My Peanuts and PL: F*** the Security Guards. Even the movie's title is a parody PL: (taken from Fear of A Black Planet- title of rap group PL: Public Enemy's third album). BY: Daniel Bredy <gt3655a@prism.gatech.edu> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Fearless Vampire Killers or: Pardon Me, But Your Teeth Are in My Neck, The PL: Plot outline is fairly standard, doddering but highly intelligent professor PL: and his youthful and slightly foolish assistant go to Transylvania to PL: search for proof of Vampirism. While staying at an inn, the owner is PL: killed by vampires, the daughter and the well stacked bar maid are PL: kidnapped and the professor and his assistant go after them. What is going PL: on is, however not the standard story. One vampire is jewish and laughs PL: at crosses, another is effeminate and seems only interested in the youthful PL: assistant, and there is the full dress ball of the vampires in the castle. PL: All of the music is done by vocal chorus. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Fellini Satyricon PL: In first century Rome, two student friends, Encolpio and Ascilto, PL: argue about ownership of the boy Gitone, divide their belongings PL: and split up. The boy, allowed to choose who he goes with, chooses PL: Ascilto. Only a sudden earthquake saves Encolpio from suicide. PL: We follow Encolpio through a series of adventures, where he is PL: eventually reunited with Ascilto, and which culminates in them PL: helping a man kidnap a hermaphrodite demi-god from a temple. The PL: god dies, and as punishment Encolpio becomes impotent. We then PL: follow them in search of a cure. PL: The film is loosely based on the book Satyricon by Gaius Petronius PL: Arbiter, the "Arbiter of Elegance" in the court of Nero. The book PL: has only survived in fragments, and the film reflects this by PL: being very fragmentary itself, even stopping in mid-sentence. BY: Steven Pemberton <Steven.Pemberton@cwi.nl> GE: Historical Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Female Jungle PL: A blonde actress is murdered across from a bar. An off-duty cop has been PL: getting pleasantly sloshed, but becomes worried about his innocence when PL: he finds out he was seen leaving the establishment with a blonde, but PL: doesn't remember. As he investigates, he interviews a columnist who was PL: going with the actress, a caricaturist who drew the victim, the PL: caricaturist's wife who works at the bar, and the caricaturist's lover, PL: and slowly begins to put the pieces of the deadly puzzle together. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Crime Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Ferris Bueller's Day Off PL: Ferris is a street-wise kid who knows all the tricks. Today he decides PL: to take the day off school. When Ferris takes the day off, so must his PL: best friends, Cameron and Sloane. Cameron is reluctantly persuaded to PL: borrow his father's Ferrari (which is never used). And together they PL: hatch a plan to get Sloane out of class. Suspicious principal Ed Rooney PL: knows all about Ferris, but can never catch him. Ferris' sister Jeanie PL: is also frustrated that Ferris always gets away with his tricks and she PL: doesn't. Furthermore, Ferris is an 'angel' in his parents eyes. It's PL: Ferris' day off, he's out to enjoy himself, and he does!. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Few Good Men, A PL: Defence lawyers, Kaffee (maverick) and Galloway (dutiful) are assigned PL: the case of defending two US soldiers, accused of murdering a fellow PL: soldier who was deemed to have 'broken the code'. Kaffee and Galloway PL: soon run into a brick wall (Jessup), who sees himself as a military PL: 'untouchable.' The accused claim they were obeying orders (Jessup's), and PL: that the death was an accident. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Courtroom Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Field of Dreams PL: Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella hears a voice in his corn field tell PL: him, "If you build it, he will come." He interprets this PL: message as an instruction to build a baseball field on his farm, PL: upon which appear the ghosts of Shoeless Joe Jackson and the PL: other seven Chicago White Sox players banned from the game for PL: throwing the 1919 World Series. When the voices continue, Ray PL: seeks out a reclusive author to help him understand the meaning PL: of the messages and the purpose for his field. BY: Scott Renshaw <as.idc@forsythe.stanford.edu> GE: Fantasy Drama Baseball ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Fiend Without a Face PL: An American airbase in Canada provokes resentment amongst the nearby PL: residents after fallout from the nuclear experiments at the base are PL: blamed for a recent spate of disappearances. PL: A captain from the airbase is assigned to investigate, and begins to PL: suspect that an elderly British scientist who lives near the base and PL: conducts research in the field of mind over matter knows more than he PL: is letting on about the unseen killer. BY: Mark Thompson <mrt@oasis.icl.co.uk> GE: Mystery Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Fighting Seabees, The PL: Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build PL: military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of PL: the Army to protect them. After a series of attacks by the Japanese, PL: something new is tried, Construction Batalions (CBs=Seabees). The new PL: CBs have to both build and be ready to fight. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: War ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Final Analysis PL: Barr is a psychiatrist who falls in love with the sister of one of his PL: clients. She's beautiful and married (to a gangster). She hates her PL: husband but is unable to escape from him. To avoid spoilers, someone dies, PL: but who did what and why ? BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> PL: A psychiatrist (Gere) has an affair with his patient's sister (Basinger) PL: who is married to a Greek mobster (Roberts). The mobster is a tyrant over PL: his wife. The psychiatrist wants her to get a divorce, but she is PL: afraid of what her husband would do. She has a medical condition that PL: becomes apparent when she drinks. One night she drinks anyway and PL: attacks her husband. The psychiatrist uses his professional pull to try PL: and help her out of the consequences of her actions, but becomes uncertain PL: if she is telling him the truth. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Final Approach PL: Col. Jason Halsey (USAF) has just had a terrible air disaster and can't PL: remember a thing -- even his name. Now he must go head-to-head with the PL: psychiatrist Dr. Gottlieb as his only chance to recover his memory. PL: Col. Halsey is a stealth fighter test pilot in the highly classified PL: project Black Magic. Is Dr. Gottlieb a helping professional or is he PL: a counter-intelligence agent sent to debrief Halsey? This movie draws PL: considerable footage from the Lockheed Corp. documentary "Blackbird: The PL: Movie" for its background material on the SR-71 spy plane. BY: Anonymous GE: Thriller Spy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Final Conflict, The PL: Now come into his full knowledge and power, the Anti-Christ in the body PL: of Damien Thorne is about to strike his final blow. The Christ-child has PL: been born again, on the Angel Isle, England. The plan is simple, find PL: the male children born on the specified day, and kill them all. BY: David Carroll <davidc@atom.ansto.gov.au> GE: Horror Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Final Countdown, The PL: An American nuclear aircraft carrier and its crew are caught PL: in a classic dilemma when a supernatural storm sends them back PL: in time just before the Japanese assault on Pearl Harbour. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Sci-fi Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Final Option, The PL: A commando with the British Special Air Service (SAS) PL: infiltrates a radical political group who are planning PL: a terrorist operation against American dignitaries. PL: A glamourized look at the methods and tactics of the PL: famed British anti-terrorist squad. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Spy Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Finnegan Begin Again (TV) PL: Robert Preston is retired and taking care of his senile wife. He can't PL: get her to allow him to throw anything out and their house has become PL: unmanageable. He meets Mary Tyler Moore who is dating a man with whom PL: she is hopelessly mismatched. They become confidants and each allows the PL: other to share their life and experiences with them. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Drama Comedy Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Fire and Ice (1987) PL: Animation. A civilized people living in the frozen north is to be the PL: latest victim of uncivilized tribemen from the south, lead by a magician. PL: The princess is kidnapped and a masked man involves himself in her PL: rescue. In this animation, the women wear very little, The men are drawn PL: as bare chested Tarzan types. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Fantasy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Fire! Trapped on the 37th Floor (TV) PL: Susan and Paul are working late on the 37th floor of a LA sky-scraper. PL: Also in the building are the cleaning staff, security and some engineers PL: installing sprinklers. Right on cue, as the water is switched off so that PL: work on the sprinklers can continue, a fire starts on one of the lower PL: floors (15?). The title says it all. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Disaster ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Firm, The PL: Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to PL: sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he PL: doesn't refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him, he is PL: totally oblivious to the more sinister side of his company. PL: Then, two Associates are murdered. The FBI contact him, asking him for PL: information and suddenly his life is ruined. He has a choice - work with PL: the FBI, or stay with the Firm. Either way he will lose his life as he PL: knows it. Mitch figures the only way out is to follow his own plan... BY: Mark Harding <ccsmh@uk.ac.bath.ac.uk> PL: Mitch is a much sought after young graduate of law school. When he's made PL: an excellent offer by a small law firm in Memphis, he and his wife PL: Abby, are elated. Very soon Mitch becomes worried about "The Firm's" PL: clients, and is approached by the FBI who are investigating their Mafia PL: connections. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: First Blood PL: John Rambo is a disoriented Vietnam Vet. He is hitchhiking from town to PL: town to see friends from the war. A sheriff tries to make him leave town PL: and when he refuses, arrests him for vagrancy. While in jail, a deputy PL: takes delight in abusing him. Rambo escapes showing his old Vietnam PL: fighting skills and takes to the woods as the sheriff and deputies try and PL: find him in his element. Things get out of hand as Colonel Trautman PL: Rambo's old commander appears to shed light on the situation. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: First Great Train Robbery, The PL: Sutherland and Connery wish to rob a moving train's safe in Victorian PL: England. They need wax impressions of keys, coffins, dead cats, and PL: a great deal of planning in order to pull it off. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: First Nudie Musical, The PL: The son of famous studio owner is forced to make porno films to keep the PL: bankrupt studio from being made into a shopping center. In an attempt to PL: get back on the high ground he makes a nudie musical. He makes a bet PL: with the debtors who wish to take ownership of the studio, that if they PL: finance the musical and he can't complete it within two weeks, they PL: can foreclose. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Musical Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Fish Called Wanda, A PL: Sexy American diamonds lover Wanda and her boyfriend Otto are in England to PL: plot alongside George and Ken the robbery of a diamond collection. Wanda PL: and Otto want the stolen diamonds for themselves, and inform the police PL: about George not knowing that he has already moved the diamonds to another PL: secret place. Wanda thinks the best way to find out is by getting close PL: to George's lawyer - Archie Leach. BY: Sami Al-Taher <smmat@ukc.ac.uk> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Fisher King, The PL: A talk DJ (Bridges) inadvertently convinces a psycho to blow away PL: restaurant patrons and himself when the psycho calls in for advice. PL: After three years of wallowing in his remorse, he is attacked and almost PL: set on fire, but a crazy street person (Williams) rescues him. The DJ PL: finds out the transient is on a mission to find the holy grail, and PL: tries to repay his kindness with money, but the transient has more PL: hands-on assistance in mind, and tries to convince the DJ to help him PL: get the grail. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy Drama Surreal ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Five Million Years to Earth PL: While digging a new subway line in London, a construction crew discovers PL: first: a skeleton, then what they think is an old World War II German PL: missle. Upon closer examination the "missle" appears to be not of this PL: earth! This movie examines the age old question of how we came to be on PL: this planet. It is suprizingly scary. BY: KC Hunt <khunt@eng.morgan.edu> GE: Sci-Fi Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Flaming Star PL: Sam Burton's second wife Neddy is Indian, their son Pacer a half-breed. As PL: struggle starts between the whites and the Kiowas, the Burton family is PL: split between loyalties. Neddy and Sam are killed; Pacer sides with the PL: Indians, his half-brother Clint with the whites. BY: Otto Oberhauser <Oberhauser@cc.univie.ac.at> GE: Western ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Flash Gordon (1980) PL: In this update of the 1930's comic strip, Flash is a football hero who is PL: skyjacked aboard Dr. Zarkov's rocketship along with beautiful Dale Arden. PL: The threesome are drawn into the influence of the planet Mongo, controlled PL: by Ming the Merciless. Ming has been testing the Earth with unnatural PL: disasters, and deeming it a threat to his rule, he plans to destroy it. He PL: also intends to take Dale as his concubine. Flash must avoid the amorous PL: attentions of Ming's daughter and unite the warring kingdoms of Mongo to PL: rescue Dale and save our world. BY: David Thiel <d-thiel@uiuc.edu> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Flashdance PL: Alex Owens is a female dynamo: steel worker by day, exotic dancer PL: by night. Her dream is to get into a real dance company, though, PL: and with encouragement from her boss/boyfriend, she may get her PL: chance. The city of Pittsburgh co-stars. What a feeling! BY: Stewart M. Clamen <clamen@cs.cmu.edu> GE: Dance Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Flatliners PL: Medical students begin to explore the realm of near death experiences, PL: hoping for insights. Each has their heart stopped and is revived. They PL: begin having flashes of walking nightmares from their childhood, PL: reflecting sins they committed or had committed against them. The PL: experiences continue to intensify, and they begin to be physically beaten PL: by their visions as they try and go deeper into the death experience to PL: find a cure. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Horror Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Flesh & Blood (1951) PL: A band of mercenaries in medieval Europe are betrayed by PL: their employers after a difficult siege and take revenge PL: by kidnapping a noble girl to be married to their PL: employer's heir while the Plague stalks the land. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Adventure War ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Flesh + Blood (1985) PL: A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble lord who PL: decides not to pay them by kidnapping the betrothed of the PL: noble's son. As the plague and warfare cut a swathe of PL: destruction throughout the land, the mercenaries hole up in a PL: castle and await their fate. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Fantasy Action Historical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Flesh Gordon PL: A parody of the serial _Flash Gordon_ with a strong sexual campy flavor. PL: Not only is there nudity any time there is any excuse for it, but many of PL: the scenes are staged as closely as possible to the old serial shots. Many PL: of the scenes are only funny if you've seen the original. Quite outrageous. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Parody Sexual ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Fletch PL: Fletch is an ace reporter. While working on a story on Drug sales, he is PL: approached by Alan Stanwyck who wants Fletch to murder him to save him PL: from a lingering cancer death. Fletch begins to nose around and finds PL: irregularities in Stanwyck's past and Underhill's Visa Number. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Mystery Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Flight of the Navigator PL: A 12 year old boy goes missing in 1978, only to reappear once more PL: in 1986. In the eight years that have passed, David hasn't aged. PL: It is no coincidence that at the time David 'comes back', a flying PL: saucer is found, entangled in electricity cables. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Sci-Fi Adventure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Flight of the Phoenix PL: A cargo plane goes down in a sandstorm in the Sahara with less than a PL: dozen men on board. One of the passengers is an airplane designer who PL: comes up with the idea of ripping off the undamaged wing and using it PL: as the basis for an airplane they will build to escape before their food PL: and water run out. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Drama Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Flintstones, The PL: The Flintstones and the Rubbles are modern stone-age families. Fred and PL: Barney work at Slate and Company, mining rock. Fred gives Barney some PL: money so he and Betty can adopt a baby. When Fred and Barney take a test PL: to determine who should become the the new associate vice president, PL: Barney returns the favor by switching his test answers for Fred's, whose PL: answers aren't very good. Fred gets the executive position, but little PL: realizes that he's being manipulated by Cliff Vandercave to be the fall PL: guy for an embezzlement scheme. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Fly, The (1986) PL: Seth Brundle, a brilliant but eccentric scientist attempts to woo PL: investigative journalist Veronica Quaife by offering her a scoop on PL: his latest research in the field of matter transportation, which PL: against all the expectations of the scientific establishment have PL: proved successful. Up to a point. PL: Brundle thinks he has ironed out the last problem when he PL: successfully transports a living creature, but when he attempts to PL: teleport himself a fly enters one of the transmission booths, and PL: Brundle finds he is a changed man. This Science-Gone-Mad film is the PL: source of the quotable quote "Be afraid. Be very afraid." BY: Mark Thompson <mrt@oasis.icl.co.uk> PL: Seth Brundle is a scientist working on teleportation. Just when he PL: thinks he's ironed out the last bug in his system, the intervention PL: of a common house fly turns Seth into a 6 foot insect. The transformation PL: from man to fly is gradual but horrific, and is witnessed by Veronica; a PL: reporter documenting Seth's story. Seth has some time to try to find PL: a cure, but is there enough time...? BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Horror Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Flying PL: Robin and her father have a car accident. Her father dies. Robin is PL: badly injured and cannot compete in gymnasics tournaments anymore. PL: Shattered dreams. She lives with her mother and bad step-father. Robin PL: is accepted to the school atlethics team but is not accepted by some PL: other girls, so she works out at a friends house. Eventually Robin and PL: her team compete in the national scholastic meet. BY: Ivo Kroone <ab2693@triton.heao.hsa.nl> GE: Drama Sports Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Fog, The PL: The Centenary of the small sea town, Antonio Bay, is approaching. While PL: the townsfolk prepare to celebrate, the victims of the crime that founded PL: the town rise from the sea to claim retribution. Under cover of the fog, PL: they carry out their vicious attacks, searching for what is rightly theirs. BY: Mark Harding <ccsmh@midge.bath.ac.uk> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Footsteps in the Dark PL: A high society type (Francis Warren) has a secret life; He writes murder PL: mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes. This PL: causes him no end of problems when his wife wants to know about his little PL: disappearances and exceptionally late nights out. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Mystery Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: For Better, For Worse (1954) PL: A honeymooning couple become entangled in a plot to recover plates for PL: counterfeiting US dollars. SHE thinks she's just retired from a PL: government 'dirty jobs' department, but her superiors have other ideas. PL: HE thinks she's a retired travel agent. Set in Spain, there's a constant PL: flow of visual jokes, mainly at the expense of a group of incompetent PL: thieves who are in hot pursuit of the plates. Many of the jokes are PL: predictable, but there's enough to keep almost everyone amused. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: For Your Eyes Only PL: A British spy trawler is accidentally sunk off the coast of a PL: Warsaw pact county. On board is a hi-tech encryption device called an PL: ATAC which the British use to send launch instructions to their PL: Polaris fleet. The British send agent James Bond to investigate PL: but once the Soviets learn of the loss the race is on to recover PL: the device at any cost. BY: Dave Jenkins <david.jenkins@smallworld.co.uk> GE: Spy Bond Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Forbidden Planet PL: When Adams and his crew are sent to investigate the silence from a planet PL: inhabited by scientists, he finds all but two have died. Dr. Morbius and PL: his daughter Altaira have somehow survived a hideous monster which PL: roams the planet. Unknown to Adams, Morbius has made a discovery, and PL: has no intention of sharing it (or his daughter!) with anyone. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Sci-Fi Space ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Foreign Correspondent PL: Johnny Jones is an action reporter on a New York newspaper. The editor PL: appoints him European correspondent because he is fed up with the dry, PL: reports he currently gets. Jones' first assignment is to get the inside PL: story on a secret treaty agreed between two European countries by the PL: famous diplomat, Mr. Van Meer. However things don't go to plan and Jones PL: enlists the help of a young woman to help track down a group of spies. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Thriller Spy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Formel Eins Film, Der PL: Tina Lehmann is an auto mechanic who dreams of becoming a pop star. PL: One day after work she sneaks onto the set of the TV music program PL: 'Formel Eins' with her demo tape, and lands a job as a go-fer. Her PL: boyfriend Stevie Dromberger, who has been drafted into the army, doesn't PL: like the attention she's receiving from the celebrity guests, and goes PL: AWOL when he thinks she is dating the singer Limahl. BY: Kevin Ackley <k.ackley@genie.geis.com> GE: Musical Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Forrest Gump PL: A low-intelligence man tells his life's tale to people PL: waiting at a small town bus stop. He has captured fame, PL: fortune and glory, but his one true love has continuously PL: eluded him. BY: Kevin <Kibble@vm.temple.edu> GE: Comedy Action Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Fortress (1993) PL: A futuristic prison movie. Protagonist and wife are nabbed at a PL: future US emigration point with an illegal baby during population PL: control. The resulting prison experience is the subject of the movie. PL: The prison is a futuristic one run by a private corporation bent PL: on mind control in various ways. BY: Mark Allyn <allyn@netcom.com> PL: In a futuristic USA, it's forbidden to give birth to more than one child PL: for each woman. As usual, you can escape to Mexico to avoid the PL: authorities in USA, which is exactly what John and Karen Brennick were PL: trying to do when Karen is pregnant with her second child (their first PL: child was born dead). When they think they have made it they are PL: discovered and put to prison (for 31 years), a modern prison called the PL: "Fortress" where the prisoners are controlled by lasers, neutron-cannons, PL: cameras, mind-scanners and electronic pain-causing devices in their PL: stomachs. With those odds, John still plans to escape with his wife. BY: Lars J. Aas <larsa@colargol.edb.tih.no> GE: Futuristic Prison Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Fortune Cookie, The PL: A cameraman is knocked over during a football game. His brother in law as PL: the king of the ambulance chasing lawyers starts a suit while he's still PL: knocked out. The cameraman is against it until he hears that his ex-wife PL: will be coming to see him. He pretends to be injured to get her back, but PL: also sees what the strain is doing to the football player who injured him. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Fountainhead, The PL: Individualistic and idealistic architect Howard Roark is expelled from PL: college because his designs fail to fit with existing architectural PL: thinking. He seems unemployable but finally lands a job with like-minded PL: Henry Cameron, however within a few years Cameron drinks himself to PL: death, warning Roark that the same fate awaits unless he compromises his PL: ideals. Roark is determined to retain his artistic integrity at all costs. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Four Weddings and a Funeral PL: The film follows the fortunes of Charles and his friends as they wonder if PL: they will every find true love and marry. Charles thinks he's found "Miss PL: Right" in Carrie, an American. This British subtle comedy revolves around PL: Charlie, his friends and the four weddings and one funeral which they PL: attend. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Fourth Man, The PL: An alcoholic writer begins having visions apparently warning him of PL: impending danger. After he delivers a lecture, he begins an affair PL: with a woman from the audience. The visions intensify, however, and PL: begin to threaten his relationship with the woman, since it may be PL: her the visions are warning against. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Fourth Protocol, The PL: Caine plays the British agent with the task of preventing PL: the Russians detonating a nuclear explosion next to an PL: American base in the UK. The Russians hoping this will shatter PL: the 'special relationship' between the two countries. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> PL: Caine plays a senior British administrator who is part of the PL: intelligence establishment. When his findings offend his superiors PL: he is reassigned to a customs post. While there he finds odd things PL: showing up, which might well be parts of a small nuclear device. A PL: Russian agent has been sent to England with instructions to assemble the PL: device just prior to the British election next to an American Air PL: Base in order to throw the election to Labor and get Britain out of NATO. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Spy Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Frankenhooker PL: A medical school dropout loses his fiancee in a tragic lawnmower incident, PL: and decides to bring her back. Unfortunately, he was only able to save PL: her head, so he goes to the red light district in the city and lures PL: prostitutes into a hotel room so he can get parts for his girlfriend. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Frantic (1988) PL: A doctor and his wife go to Paris for a medical conference. While napping, PL: his wife disappears. His lack of language, and the odd way she disappeared PL: makes it nearly impossible for him to find any official help in his search PL: as he enters the punk/drug culture to find out what has happened to her. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Mystery Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Fraternity Vacation PL: A nerd gains the friendship of two of his frat brothers when his dad PL: offers them his condo for the week in Palm Springs, and also offers the PL: fraternity a hot tub and jacuzzi if they can help his son find a girl. PL: They meet two guys from a rival fraternity, and make a bet on who PL: can nail the Designated Babe first. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Freaked PL: A company that produces a toxic chemical tries to improve its image PL: via a popular spokesperson, Ricky Coogan. Ricky travels to South PL: America to get a first-hand look at the chemical's effects and finds PL: himself at a mutant freak farm. Elijah, who runs the farm, is only PL: too happy to have new subjects on which to try his freak machine. PL: The very chemical that Ricky is supposed to promote is the one PL: responsible for creating the great variety of freaks. BY: Christine Sai-Halasz <sai@mit.edu> GE: Comedy Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Freaks PL: A carnival barker displays a sideshow freak called the Feathered Hen PL: and tells her story. Cleopatra, a trapeze artist with the carnival, PL: is adored by a midget named Hans. Frieda, Hans' fiancee (also a PL: midget), warns Hans that Cleopatra is only interested in him so that PL: he will give her money. Cleopatra has an affair with Hercules, and PL: when Frieda lets it slip that Hans is to come into an inheritance, PL: Cleopatra and Hercules plan to get the money be having Cleopatra PL: marry Hans. During the wedding reception, Cleopatra, although PL: openly romantic with Hercules, is accepted by the freaks, but is PL: revolted and mocks them. The freaks decide that they no longer need PL: Hercules in their carnival and have a new career for Cleopatra all PL: lined up, and make sure she doesn't "chicken" out. BY: Rick Gregory <rag.apa@email.apa.org> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare PL: In part six of the Nightmare on Elm Street series, dream monster Freddy PL: Krueger has finally killed all the children of his hometown, and seeks to PL: escape its confines to hunt fresh prey. To this end, he recruits the aid PL: of his (previously unmentioned) daughter. However, she discovers the PL: demonic origin of her father's powers and meets Dad head-on in a final PL: showdown (originally presented in 3-D). BY: David Thiel <d-thiel@uiuc.edu> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Free Willy PL: Fishermen separate a young orca whale (Willy) from his parents and he PL: ends up in a fish bowl at a marina. Meanwhile, a street kid runs afoul PL: of the law and gets caught vandalising the marina, but his social worker PL: gets him off the hook (so to speak) provided he cleans up his mess at PL: the marina. While there, he befriends the whale and teaches him tricks, PL: something the trainer hasn't been able to do. But when Willy is a dud PL: in front of the audience, the marina owner plans some bad things, and PL: the boy and his friends must try to (*** MAJOR SPOILERS ***) free Willy. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama Family ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: French Connection II, The PL: New York narcotics detective Popeye Doyle follows the trail of PL: the French connection smuggling ring to France where he teams PL: up with the gendarmes to hunt down the ringleader. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Crime ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: French Connection, The PL: Popeye Doyle and Buddy Russo get wind of a big shipment of Heroin and PL: begin a tail of the suspects, and their French Connection, two french PL: nationals who are the european link. As money troubles begin for the hoods PL: they decide to kill Popeye and Buddy to give them enough room to bring in PL: the Heroin. A combination of police procedural and action/car chase. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Crime Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Frenzy (1972) PL: London is terrorised by a vicious sex killer known as the neck tie PL: murderer. Following the brutal slaying of his ex-wife, down-on-his-luck PL: Richard Blaney is suspected by the police of being the killer. He goes on PL: the run, determined to prove his innocence. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Thriller Serial_Killer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Fresa y Chocolate PL: Diego, a cultivated, homosexual and quite skeptical young boy, falls in PL: love with a young comunist full of prejudices and doctrinary ideas, not PL: homosexual. First come rejection and suspiciousness, but also PL: fascination. Fresa y chocolate is the story of a great friendship, that PL: is, a great love between two men, which gets over incomprehension and PL: intolerance. BY: Anonymous GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Freshman, The (1990) PL: Clark Kellogg is a young man starting his first year at film PL: school in New York City. After a small time crook steals all PL: his belongings, Clark meets Carmine "Jimmy the Toucan" Sabatini, PL: an "importer" bearing a startling resemblance to a certain PL: cinematic godfather. When Sabatini makes Clark an offer he PL: can't refuse, he finds himself caught up in a caper involving PL: endangered species and fine dining. BY: Scott Renshaw <as.idc@forsythe.stanford.edu> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Friday the 13th PL: Many years after two summer camp councilers are killed at Camp Crystal PL: Lake, the owner decides to reopen, which sparks a series of grisly PL: murders. BY: Anonymous GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe PL: Evelyn Couch is having trouble in her marriage, and no one seems to PL: take her seriously. While in a nursing home visiting relatives, she meets PL: Ninny Threadgoode, an outgoing old woman, who tells her the story of PL: Idgie Threadgoode, a young woman in 1920's Alabama. Through Idgie's PL: inspiring life, Evelyn learns to be more assertive and builds a lasting PL: friendship of her own with Ninny. BY: Kevin <Kibble@vm.temple.edu> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: From Beyond PL: Scientists create a resonator to stimulate the pineal gland (sixth PL: sense), and open up a door to a parallel (and hostile) universe. PL: Based on a story by H. P. Lovecraft. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: From Russia with Love PL: Evil crime cartel SPECTRE seeks revenge for the death of its operative PL: Dr No and sets a trap to lure British agent James Bond to his death. PL: The bait is a Soviet encryption machine called a Lektor, which the British PL: Secret Service are desperate to get hold of. BY: Dave Jenkins <david.jenkins@smallworld.co.uk> GE: Spy Action Bond ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Front, The PL: Woody Allen plays a man of no real talent or strong political convictions PL: who is paid to be a front for a group of black listed writers during the PL: McCarthy period in the United States (early 1950s). There are comedic PL: elements in his attempts to pass off stories he hasn't read as his own, PL: until he comes under the view of the UnAmerican Activities Subcommittee. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Historic Comedy Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Frozen Terror PL: A woman loses her lover in a tragic car crash that decapitates him. The PL: same day the woman's daughter drowns her brother. The woman spends a PL: year in an asylum, and when she gets out she moves in with her dead PL: lover's blind brother, where she keeps something secret in the icebox. PL: The brother becomes curious about her movements and begins investigating. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Fugitive, The (1993) PL: Eminent surgeon, Dr. Richard Kimble, is arrested and charged with the murder PL: of his wife, despite his insistence that a one-armed intruder had committed PL: the crime. When an accident involving his prison bus sets him free, Kimble PL: must use his wits to solve the mystery and find the man who killed his wife. PL: Hot on his trail, however, is an equally crafty US Marshall, who will stop PL: at nothing until Kimble is behind bars. BY: Alexander Lum <aj_lum@postoffice.utas.edu.au> PL: Dr Richard Kimble comes home to find an intruder has murdered his wife. PL: The police fail to find any evidence to back the doctor's story, so he PL: is convicted of his wife's murder. On route to the prison, Kimble has the PL: chance to escape. He uses this opportunity to find the real killer. Hunting PL: Kimble is a persistent US marshal. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Thriller Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Full Metal Jacket PL: A two-segment look at the effect of the military mindset and war PL: itself on Vietnam era Marines. The first half follows a group PL: of recruits in basic training under the command of the punishing PL: Sgt. Hartman. The second half shows one of those recruits, PL: Joker, covering the war as a correspondent for Stars and PL: Stripes, focusing on the Tet offensive. BY: Scott Renshaw <as.idc@forsythe.stanford.edu> GE: War Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Fun and Fancy Free PL: Disney version of fairy tale "Jack and the Beanstalk", featuring PL: Mickey, Donald and Goofy in the main roles. Also contains another PL: short film, re-released as "Bongo" BY: Tim Pickett <quetzal@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au> GE: Animated Childrens ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Funeral in Berlin PL: Colonel Stok, a Soviet intelligence officer responsible for PL: security at the Berlin Wall, appears to want to defect but the PL: evidence is contradictory. Stok wants the British to handle his PL: defection and asks for one of their agents, Harry Palmer, to smuggle PL: him out of East Germany. BY: Dave Jenkins <david.jenkins@smallworld.co.uk> GE: Thriller Spy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, A PL: Pseudolus is the laziest slave in Rome and has but one wish, purchase his PL: freedom. When his master and mistress leave for the day he finds out that PL: the young master has fallen in love with a virgin in the house of Lycus, PL: a slave dealer specializing in beautiful women. Pseudolus concocts a deal PL: in which he will be freed if he can procure the girl for young Hero. Of PL: course, it can't be that simple as everything begins to go wrong. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Farce ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Gambit PL: Harry Dean has a plan to pull off a major robbery and needs PL: Nicole as a gambit and windowdressing. He outlines his PL: ideas about his perfect crime in a dream sequence and then PL: meets Nicole, and nothing goes quite right again. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Crime Caper ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Gamera PL: From out of the arctic comes a gigantic flying, fire-breathing turtle PL: that sets its sights on destroying Tokyo. BY: Todd A. Bobenrieth <TAB146@PSUVM.EDU> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Gamera vs Barugon PL: A giant monster that emits a destructive ray from its back attacks PL: Japan and takes on Gamera. BY: Todd A. Bobenrieth <TAB146@PSUVM.EDU> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Gamera vs Gaos PL: A gigantic bat emerges from a volcano to terrorize Japan and only one PL: thing can stop it...Gamera! BY: Todd A. Bobenrieth <TAB146@PSUVM.EDU> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Gamera vs Guiron PL: Aliens kidnap two children and take them to another planet in an PL: attempt to lure Gamera into fighting the fierce monster, Guiron. BY: Todd A. Bobenrieth <TAB146@PSUVM.EDU> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Gamera vs Zigra PL: Space aliens arrive on Earth with their giant shark and intend to PL: take over the planet but they must first destroy Gamera. BY: Todd A. Bobenrieth <TAB146@PSUVM.EDU> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Gate, The PL: The removal of an old tree in Glen's backyard reveals a large and PL: mysterious hole. Glen and his sister, Al, are left to look after themselves PL: for three days when their parents go away. This is when strange things begin PL: to happen, all of them centered around the "hole". BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Genevieve PL: Two men race their vintage cars on the annual London to Brighton PL: rally. "Genevieve" is the name of one of the cars, which, like her PL: competitor, runs into one problem after another. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Race ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Geronimo (1962) PL: An Apache warrior who defies U.S. attempts to bring the Indians PL: under control grapples with an array of U.S. soldiers sent to PL: subdue his revolt. Sympathetic scouts seek to bring Geronimo PL: back to the reservation before he is hunted down. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Western Biography ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Get Carter PL: A vicious London gangster, Jack Carter, travels to Newcastle for PL: his brother's funeral. He begins to suspect that his brother's death PL: was not an accident and sets out to follow a complex trail of lies, PL: deceit, cover-ups and backhanders through Newcastle's underworld, PL: leading, he hopes, to the man who ordered his brother killed. PL: Because of his ruthlessness Carter exhibits all the unstopability PL: of the android in Terminator, or Walker in Point Blank, and he and PL: the other characters in the film are prone to sudden, brutal acts of PL: violence. BY: Mark Thompson <mrt@oasis.icl.co.uk> GE: Thriller Mobster ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Getaway, The (1994) PL: Doc McCoy is put in prison because his partners chickened out and flew off PL: without him after exchanging a prisoner with a lot of money. Doc knows PL: Jack Benyon, a rich "business"-man, is up to something big, so he tells PL: his wife (Carol McCoy) to tell him that he's for sale if Benyon can get PL: him out of prison. Benyon pulls some strings and Doc McCoy is released PL: again. Unfortunately he has to cooperate with the same person that got PL: him to prison. BY: Lars J. Aas <larsa@colargol.edb.tih.no> GE: Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Gettysburg PL: The four and 1/4 hour depiction of the historical and PL: personal events surrounding and including the decisive PL: American civil war battle features thousands of civil PL: war re-enactors marching over the exact ground that the PL: federal army and the army of North Virginia fought on. PL: The defense of the Little Round Top and Pickett's Charge PL: are highlighted in the actual three day battle which is PL: surrounded by the speeches of the commanding officers and PL: the personal reflections of the fighting men. Based upon PL: the novel 'The Killer Angels'. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: War Historical Drama Biography ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Ghidrah, The Three-Headed Monster PL: A massive meteor falls to Earth, and from it emerges the three-headed PL: King Ghidrah, who must defeat the combined forces of Godzilla, Rodan, PL: and Mothra. BY: Todd A. Bobenrieth <TAB146@PSUVM.EDU> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Ghost (1990) PL: Sam and Molly are a very happy couple and deeply in love. Walking back to PL: their new apartment after a night out at the theatre, they encounter PL: a thief in a dark alley, and Sam is murdered. He finds himself PL: trapped as a ghost and realises that his death was no accident. PL: He must warn Molly about the danger that she is in. But as a ghost he can PL: not be seen or heard by the living, and so he trys to communicate with PL: Molly through Oda Mae Brown, a psychic who didn't even realise PL: that her powers were real. BY: Sami Al-Taher <smmat@ukc.ac.uk> GE: Romance Thriller Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Ghost of St. Michael's, The PL: Will Hay, back in his role as a hapless teacher, is hired by a grim PL: school in remotest Scotland. The school soon starts to be haunted PL: by a legendary ghost, whose spectral bagpipes signal the death of PL: one of the staff. Hay, assisted by Claude Hulbert and Charles Hawtrey, PL: has to unravel the mystery before he becomes the next victim. BY: D.Giddings <sdjg0@uk.ac.rl.ib> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Ghostbusters PL: Three odd-ball scientists get kicked out of their cushy positions PL: at a university in New York City where they studied the occult. They PL: decide to set up shop in an old firehouse and become Ghostbusters, PL: trapping pesky ghosts, spirits, haunts, and poltergeists for money. PL: They wise-crack their way through the city, and stumble upon a gateway PL: to another dimension, one which will release untold evil upon the city. PL: The Ghostbusters are called on to save the Big Apple. BY: Greg Bole <bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Ghostbusters II PL: Five years after the events of the first film, the Ghostbusters have been PL: plagued by lawsuits and court orders, and their once-lucrative business is PL: bankrupt. However, when Dana begins to have ghost problems again, the boys PL: come out of retirement only to be promptly arrested. The Ghostbusters PL: discover that New York is once again headed for supernatural doom, with a PL: river of ectoplasmic slime bubbling beneath the city and an ancient PL: sorcerer attempting to possess Dana's baby and be born anew. Can the PL: Ghostbusters quell the negative emotions feeding the otherworldly threat PL: and stop the world from being slimed? BY: David Thiel <d-thiel@uiuc.edu> GE: Comedy Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Giant PL: Texan rancher Bick Benedict visits a Maryland farm to buy a prize horse. PL: Whilst there he meets and falls in love with the owner's daughter Leslie, PL: they are married immediately and return to his ranch. The story of their PL: family and its rivalry with cowboy and (later oil tycoon) Jett Rink unfolds PL: across two generations. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Gigot PL: A poignant comedy about a mute who befriends Nicole, the little daughter PL: of a prostitute. Gleason shows his considerable talents as an actor PL: without uttering a sound as he plays the bumbling, kind-hearted janitor, PL: Gigot. Gleason wrote the original story and music for this film. BY: Charlie Watkins <watkins@selway.umt.edu> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Girl in a Swing, The PL: A London art broker goes to Copenhagen where he requires the services PL: of a secretary fluent in Danish, English, and German. He falls deeply PL: in love with the woman, despite the fact that he knows virtually nothing PL: about her. She insists on not being married in a church, and after they PL: are married, some bad things from her past begin surfacing in subtly PL: supernatural ways, and he must find the best way to deal with them PL: without destroying their relationship. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Romance Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Girlfriends (1993) PL: A lesbian couple support themselves by picking up guys with money and PL: blowing them away. They yearn for a more normal life, so they vow to get PL: out of the murder/theft business and live off welfare money and turning PL: tricks. They decide to have a baby, so they get a donor, but they find PL: that it's not as easy as they thought to get past their former lifestyle. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy Crime ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Gleaming the Cube PL: Brian's adopted brother is killed when he discovers that the shop he PL: works in sends weapons to Vietnam instead of medications. To the PL: police it looks like suicide, but Brian knows better so he skates off PL: to investigate the murder himself. BY: Lars J. Aas <larsa@colargol.edb.tih.no> GE: Skateboard Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Glengarry Glen Ross PL: Times are tough in a Chicago real-estate office; the salesmen PL: (Shelley Levene, Ricky Roma, Dave Moss, and George Aaronow) are PL: given a strong incentive by Blake to succeed in a sales PL: contest. The prizes? First prize is a Cadillac Eldorado, PL: second prize is a set of steak knives, third prize is the sack! PL: There is no room for losers in this dramatically masculine PL: world; only "closers" will get the good sales leads. There is a PL: lot of pressure to succeed, so a robbery is committed which has PL: unforseen consequences for all the characters. BY: Patrick Dominick <ptd@ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Go Tell the Spartans PL: A unit of American military advisors in Vietnam prior to the PL: major U.S. involvement find similarities between their helpless PL: struggle against the Viet Cong and the doomed actions of a PL: French unit at the same site a decade before in this bitter PL: look at the beginnings of the Vietnam war. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: War ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: God Told Me To PL: A rash of mass murders in NYC has the detective stumped. When asked why, PL: all the perpetrators say "God told me to," then kill themselves. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Suspense Horror Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: God's Little Acre PL: A poor farmer is obsessed with finding gold on his land supposedly PL: buried by his grandfather. To find it he conveniently moves a marker PL: out of his way that designates the land on which it rests as as God's PL: Little Acre, where anything that comes from the ground will go to God's PL: work. Eventually he abducts an albino to help him find the gold. PL: Meanwhile, his daughter-in-law is suspected of fooling around with a PL: labor activist out of work since the mill closed, and a local political PL: hopeful actively seeks his daughter's hand in marriage. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Godfather, Part II, The PL: The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family tells the PL: story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in PL: 1920s New York; and follows Michael Corleone in the 1960s PL: as he attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, PL: Hollywood and Cuba. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Drama Crime ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Godfather, Part III, The PL: In the final instalment of the Godfather Trilogy, an aging PL: Don Michael Corleone seeks to legitimize his crime family's PL: interests and remove himself from the violent underworld PL: but is kept back by the ambitions of the young. While he PL: attempts to link the Corleone's finances with the Vatican, PL: Michael must deal with the machinations of a hungrier gangster PL: seeking to upset the existing Mafioso order and a young PL: protoge's love affair with his daughter. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Drama Crime ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Godfather, The PL: Don Vito Corleone is the head of a New York Mafia "family". Problems PL: arise when a gangster supported by another Mafia family, Lettieri, PL: announces his intentions to start selling drugs all over New York. PL: Don Vito hates the idea of drugs, and his quite happy with the PL: gambling/protection etc. that make him money, so an attempt is made on PL: his life. Lettieri then kidnaps one of Don Vitos advisors, and tries PL: to make him force Don Vitos son to agree to sell drugs, but the plan PL: goes wrong when Lettieri finds out that Don Vito is still alive. BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Crime Mafia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Godzilla PL: From out of the South Seas comes a gigantic monster that attacks PL: Tokyo and devastates Japan. The American version of the film PL: added Raymond Burr as a reporter named Steve Martin, who PL: witnesses the destruction up close. BY: Todd A. Bobenrieth <TAB146@PSUVM.EDU> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Godzilla 1985 PL: Godzilla returns for the first time in many years to demolish Tokyo PL: but in time some things have changed...the buildings are now taller than PL: he is, and the humans have developed an attack jet called Super X. PL: Raymond Burr reprises his role as reporter Steve Martin in the American PL: version. BY: Todd A. Bobenrieth <TAB146@PSUVM.EDU> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Godzilla Raids Again (AKA-Gigantis, The Fire Monster) PL: In this second entry of the Godzilla series, another monster is PL: introduced to fight Godzilla. The new creature is called Anguirus PL: and looks like a big spiked turtle. The two creatures wage their PL: war in Japan and level cities along the way. BY: Todd A. Bobenrieth <TAB146@PSUVM.EDU> GE: Sci Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Godzilla vs Biollante PL: A scientist combines the cells of a rose with those of Godzilla to PL: create a biological creature more horrifying than any seen before. PL: The two do battle after a destructive tour of Japan by Godzilla. PL: A newly released version includes many new fight scenes that were cut PL: out of the theatrical version. BY: Todd A. Bobenrieth <TAB146@PSUVM.EDU> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Godzilla vs Gigan (AKA-Godzilla On Monster Island) PL: Aliens from space plan to conquer the world using space monsters PL: Gigan and King Ghidrah, which they control from their secret headquarters PL: inside the head of the Godzilla-replica building at a theme park. PL: The only thing that can stop them is the combined efforts of Godzilla PL: and Anguirus. BY: Todd A. Bobenrieth <TAB146@PSUVM.EDU> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Godzilla vs King Ghidrah PL: Time travelers from the 23rd century return to 1992 to warn Japan that PL: Godzilla will cause a catastrophic nuclear incident in the 21st century PL: and suggest a way to rid the world of him forever. They intend to go PL: back to 1944, to Ragos Island, where a dinosaur was exposed to radiation PL: from the Bikini H-Bomb test and became Godzilla. Upon completion of PL: this task, King Ghidrah appears in 1992 and the visitors' true plan is PL: discovered. They wish to destroy Japan so it will not become the PL: dominant economic force. Luckily for the Japanese, Godzilla was still PL: created and will now fight Ghidrah. BY: Todd A. Bobenrieth <TAB146@PSUVM.EDU> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla (1993) PL: A research team discovers a giant egg that is being guarded by Rodan. PL: It is assumed that the egg is Rodan's when Godzilla appears and PL: the two begin to fight. While they are battling, the egg is taken to PL: Japan and hatches. Its contents turn out to be a baby Godzilla which PL: Godzilla intends to get back. To stop the retrieval, the Godzilla team PL: creates Mechagodzilla, which attacks Godzilla and Rodan. The battle PL: rages on as Tokyo is leveled. BY: Todd A. Bobenrieth <TAB146@PSUVM.EDU> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla (AKA-Godzilla vs The Cosmic Monster) PL: Aliens intend to take over the planet and, just in case Godzilla PL: tries to interfere, have built a mechanical version of him to put PL: an end to his interference. The Earth humans summon the legendary PL: King Seesar to assist Godzilla in the battle. BY: Todd A. Bobenrieth <TAB146@PSUVM.EDU> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Godzilla vs Monster Zero PL: Aliens from the mysterious Planet X, which resides on the dark side of PL: of Jupiter, come to Earth asking its people to help them save their PL: world from the dreaded King Ghidrah by letting them "borrow" Godzilla PL: and Rodan. The aliens are actually planning to use the three monsters PL: to take over our planet. BY: Todd A. Bobenrieth <TAB146@PSUVM.EDU> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Godzilla vs Mothra (1992) PL: The Earth is headed for disaster and when an archeological research PL: team visits Infant Island to find out why, they discover two tiny PL: women who reveal that the Earth is fighting back for all the harm PL: humans have done here and sends out the evil Battra to destroy us. PL: The Cosmos, as the girls are called, offer their help by calling PL: Mothra to battle the creature. Unfortunately, Godzilla also appears PL: and a three way battle begins that threatens to destroy Japan. BY: Todd A. Bobenrieth <TAB146@PSUVM.EDU> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Godzilla vs. Biollante PL: Following the events of Godzilla 1985, scientists collect genetic PL: material from the mutated dinosaur Godzilla's scales. A Middle Eastern PL: country wants the samples for their own purposes, but meanwhile, a lonely PL: scientist combines Godzilla's genetic code with those of a rose and his PL: own deceased daughter. The result is Biollante, an eerie plant of titanic PL: proportions. To make matters worse, a psychic woman detects Godzilla PL: stirring from his volcanic prison. The military sends the flying Super-X2 PL: to stop the beast from thrashing Japan, but eventually Godzilla engages PL: the rapidly mutating Biollante in a fight to the death. BY: David Thiel <d-thiel@uiuc.edu> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Godzilla vs. King Ghidrah PL: In this sequel to Godzilla vs. Biollante, time-travelers from the future PL: warn that Japan will ultimately be destroyed if the monster Godzilla PL: can't be neutralized. They reveal the circumstances of Godzilla's origin: PL: a dinosaur who survived into the 20th Century (and who inadvertently saved PL: a group of Japanese soldiers from American forces during World War II), PL: only to be mutated by atomic testing on his island home. The future PL: people have an audacious plan: to remove the pre-Godzilla dinosaur from PL: his timestream and prevent his mutation. However, things take an PL: unexpected turn, resulting in the creation of a new horror--the three- PL: headed dragon King Ghidrah. BY: David Thiel <d-thiel@uiuc.edu> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Godzilla vs. Megalon PL: The underground kingdom of Seatopia sends out Megalon, a giant beetle, PL: and Gigan to destroy the above ground dwellers. In an attempt to stop PL: them, an independently thinking robot brings Godzilla into the fight. BY: Todd A. Bobenrieth <TAB146@PSUVM.EDU> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster PL: A sea cruise goes bad when a crash landing on a tropical island subjects PL: the crew to an army that wants to take over the world. While the crew PL: tries to get out alive, Godzilla takes on a giant crab that inhabits the PL: waters and can only be kept away by the juice of a berry that grows on PL: the island. BY: Todd A. Bobenrieth <TAB146@PSUVM.EDU> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster PL: From Earth's pollution a new monster is spawned. Hedrah, the smog PL: monster, destroys Japan and fights Godzilla while spewing his PL: poisonous gas to further the damage. BY: Todd A. Bobenrieth <TAB146@PSUVM.EDU> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Godzilla vs. the Thing PL: Godzilla returns to his old stomping grounds to square off against PL: Mothra in both larvae and flying moth forms. BY: Todd A. Bobenrieth <TAB146@PSUVM.EDU> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Godzilla's Revenge PL: Using footage from previous films, the story revolves around a boy PL: who uses his imagination to take him to Monster Island so he can PL: escape the pains of real life. BY: Todd A. Bobenrieth <TAB146@PSUVM.EDU> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Goin' South PL: Henry Moon is captured for a capital offence by a possee when his PL: horse quits while trying to escape to Mexico. He finds that there is PL: a post Civil War law in the small town that any single or widowed woman PL: can save him from the gallows by marrying him. Julia Tate needs a PL: man to help her work her mine and marries him. The sherrif makes it very PL: clear to Moon what the consequences of his leaving Julia will be. PL: The two begin to try and form a relationship based on necessity in which PL: they have nothing in common. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Western Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Gold Rush, The PL: A lone prospector ventures into Alaska looking for gold. He gets mixed up PL: with some burly characters and falls in love with the beautiful Georgia. PL: He tries to win her heart with his singular charm. BY: John J. Magee <magee@helix.mgh.harvard.edu> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Golden Child, The PL: Eddie Murphy plays a detective with a speciality of finding lost PL: children. He is told he is the 'Chosen one' who will find and PL: protect the Golden Child, a Bhuddist mystic who was kidnapped by an PL: evil sorcerer. Murphy disbelieves the mysticism but finds more and PL: more evidence of demon worship as he investigates. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Mystery Adventure Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Goldfinger PL: The Bank of England has discovered that someone is stockpiling vast PL: quantities of gold and suspects international bullion dealer Auric PL: Goldfinger of being involved. The Bank requests that British agent PL: James Bond be sent to investigate. Bond soon uncovers an audacious PL: plan to commit "the crime of the century" and bring economic chaos PL: to the West. BY: Dave Jenkins <david.jenkins@smallworld.co.uk> GE: Spy Action Bond ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Gone with the Wind PL: Spoiled Southern heiress Scarlett O'Hara faces the harsh realities PL: of dealing with life during the Civil War in this Academy PL: Award-winning adaptation of Margaret Mitchell's beloved novel. Along PL: the way, she changes from a self-centered young lady to a woman PL: determined to save her home, the plantation known as Tara. BY: Drew Grgich <dgrgich@insightd.com> GE: Historical Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Good Morning, Vietnam PL: A new Disc Jockey is shipped from Crete to Vietnam to bring humor to PL: Armed Forces Radio. He turns the studio on it's ear and becomes wildly PL: popular with the troops but runs afoul of the middle management who think PL: he isn't G.I. enough. While he is off the air, he tries to meet Vietnamese PL: especially girls, and begins to have brushes with the real war that never PL: appears on the radio. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy War ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Good Son, The PL: After his mother's death, a young boy, Mark, is left with his aunt and PL: uncle while his father makes an important trip. Cousin Henry is at first PL: great fun, but isn't your average boy next door. Mark believes Henry PL: is evil, but no one else can see this. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, The PL: Two gunmen have formed a partnership. One is a wanted man (the Ugly) and PL: his partner (the Good) will turn him in for the reward. When the hanging PL: takes place, Good shoots the rope clean through and allows Ugly to escape. PL: When they have a falling out, Good leaves Ugly in the desert. Ugly vows PL: Revenge and tracks Good down and repeats the favor. Just before passing PL: out, a dying man gives Good the secret of a hidden payroll. Both of them PL: end up in a Union Prisoner of War camp run by a sadistic Union officer PL: (The Bad) who discovers their secret and wants the treasure, taking them PL: from the camp to find the cash. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Western Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: GoodFellas PL: Henry Hill is a small time gangster, who takes part in a robbery with PL: Jimmy Conway and Tommy De Vito, two other gangsters who have set their PL: sights a bit higher. His two partners kill off everyone else involved PL: in the robbery, and slowly start to climb up through the hierarchy of PL: the Mob. Henry, however, is badly affected by his partners success, PL: but will he stoop low enough to bring about the downfall of Jimmy and PL: Tommy ? BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Crime ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Goodbye Charlie PL: Shot by a jealous husband, Charley falls out a porthole and is lost at sea PL: only to find himself returned as an attractive blond woman. His best PL: friend is staying at his house as he puts Charlie's affairs in order and PL: after being convinced, finds himself an unwilling helper in Charlie's new PL: plan to marry into money. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Goodbye Girl, The PL: A divorced woman and her daughter come home to find that her boyfriend has PL: left for an out of town job with no warning. This has happened before. PL: The second surprise comes in the form of another actor who has sublet the PL: apartment from her boyfriend (who did not mention the pair of females who PL: would be in residence). After some negotiation the two decide to share PL: the apartment even though she has vowed to stay away from actors. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Romance Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Goonies, The PL: A group of west coast kids facing their last days together PL: before a development paves over their homes stumble onto PL: evidence of pirate's treasure, which attracts the attention PL: of a family of criminals. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Adventure Childrens ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Goose Steps Out, The PL: A bumbling teacher (Will Hay) conveniently turns out to be the double PL: of a German general. In the true spirit of wartime propoganda high jinks, PL: he is flown into Germany to impersonate the general and cause chaos and PL: hilarity in a Hitler Youth college (populated by the likes of Peter PL: Ustinov, Charles Hawtrey and Barry Morse). BY: D.Giddings <sdjg0@uk.ac.rl.ib> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Gorillas in the Mist PL: Sigourney Weaver stars as Dian Fossey, in this true story PL: about Fossey's study of gorillas, and her efforts to stop PL: the decimation of the endangered apes. BY: Ray Hamel <hamel@primate.wisc.edu> GE: Biography Adventure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Gorky Park PL: An investigator on the Moscow police force relentlessly pursues the PL: solution to a triple homicide which occurred in Moscow's Gorky Park. PL: He finds that no one really wants him to solve the crime because it is PL: just the tip of a complex conspiracy which involves the highest levels PL: of the Moscow city government. BY: Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Gotcha! PL: Jonathan plays a game called Gotcha in which he hunts and is hunted by PL: other students with paint guns. After a big win, he goes off for a PL: vacation in Germany where he meets the sexy Sasha who says she is only PL: interested in him because he is a virgin. She takes him with her to East PL: Germany where they are separated and he has to escape back to the west on PL: his own, all the while being trailed by East German spies. He arrives home PL: only to find the game is still going on, and a canister of film is in his PL: backpack. Then Sasha re-appears. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Action Spy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Graduate, The PL: Benjamin is home from school, having graduated with honors from college PL: with no idea of what to do with his life. Mrs. Robinson, a close family PL: friend old enough to be his mother, removes her clothes and tells him PL: that she's 'available'. The same evening Mr. Robinson advises Ben to PL: take what opportunities come up, because he'll never be 21 again. As he PL: begins the affair, he finds that it fills his time, but depresses him. PL: Under pressure from his parents and Mr. Robinson, he agrees to take out PL: the daughter, Elaine Robinson. Mrs. Robinson becomes furious and Ben PL: finds himself very attracted to Elaine. Everything explodes and Elaine PL: returns to school. Ben follows her having decided to marry her, though, PL: "She doesn't really like me very much." As he begins to make progress PL: with Elaine, her parents descend and arrange a hasty marriage to another PL: boy. Ben follows again to disrupt the wedding and win Elaine. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Drama Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Grand Day Out, A PL: Wallace and Gromit have run out of cheese and this provides an execellent PL: excuse for the animated duo to take their holiday on the moon, where, PL: as everyone knows, there is ample cheese. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Stop-Motion Animated Comedy Family ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Grand Highway, The PL: Louis, a nine-year-old boy from Paris, spends his summer vacation PL: in a small town in Brittany. His mother Claire has lodged him with PL: her girlfriend Marcelle and her husband Pelo while she's having her PL: second baby. There Louis makes friends with Martine, the ten-year- PL: old girl next door, and learns from her about life. BY: Clemens Huwig <cx@cs.uni-sb.de> GE: Drama Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Grand Hotel PL: The interlinked stories of several guests staying at the Grand Hotel in PL: Berlin: a down-and-out Baron operates as a jewel thief; a popular dancer PL: is bored with her fame; a dying office clerk wants to experience some of PL: life's luxuries; a businessman tries to save his factory with a big deal; PL: and a young secretary tries to get ahead in the world. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Grand Illusion PL: During 1st WW, two french officers are captured. Captain De Boeldieu is an PL: aristocrat while Lieutenant Marechal was a mechanic in civilian life. They PL: meet other prisoners from various backgrounds, as Rosenthal, son of wealthy PL: Jewish bankers. They are separated from Rosenthal before managing to PL: escape. A few months later, they meet again in a fortress commanded by the PL: aristocrat Van Rauffenstein. De Boeldieu strikes up a friendship with him PL: but Marechal and Rosenthal still want to escape... BY: Yepok GE: Prison War ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Great Escape, The PL: Based on a true story, a group of allied escape artist type prisoners PL: of war are all put in an 'escape proof' camp. Their leader decides to PL: try to take out several hundred all at once. The first half of the film PL: is played for comedy as the prisoners mostly outwit their jailers to PL: dig the escape tunnel. The second half is high adventure as they use PL: boats and trains and planes to get out of occupied Europe. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> PL: The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps PL: by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocates them to a PL: high-security "escape-proof" camp to sit out the remainder of the war. PL: Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts PL: of World War II. Based on a true story. BY: Kevin Ackley <k.ackley@genie.geis.com> GE: War Adventure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Great Impostor, The PL: Based on a true story, a bright young man who hasn't the patience for PL: the normal way of advancement finds that people rarely question you if your PL: papers are in order. He becomes a marine, a monk, a surgeon onboard a PL: Canadian Warship, and a prison warden. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Biography ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Great Muppet Caper, The PL: Kermit and Fozzie are newspaper reporters sent to London to interview PL: Lady Holiday, a wealthy fashion designer whose priceless diamond PL: necklace is stolen. Kermit meets and falls in love with her secretary, PL: Miss Piggy. The jewel thieves strike again, and this time frame Miss PL: Piggy. It's up to Kermit and Muppets to bring the real culprits to PL: justice. BY: Kevin Ackley <k.ackley@genie.geis.com> GE: Comedy Musical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Great Race, The PL: Professional daredevil and white-suited hero, The Great Leslie, PL: convinces turn-of-the-century auto makers that a race from New York PL: to Paris (westward across America, the Bering Straight and Russia) PL: will help to promote automobile sales. Leslie's arch-rival, the PL: mustached and black-attired Professor Fate vows to beat Leslie to PL: the finish line in a car of Fate's own invention. PL: The Blake Edwards style of slapstick and song originated with this PL: movie. A dedication to Laurel and Hardy appears at the beginning PL: of the film. Edwards' tribute to Stan and Ollie can be seen most PL: clearly in the interaction between Professor Fate and his cohort PL: Max, as well as in the operatic Pottsdorf pie fight. BY: Jeanne Baker <jbaker@erim.org> GE: Musical Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery, The PL: The all-girl school foil an attempt by train robbers to recover PL: two and a half million pounds hidden in their school. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Children Comedy Train ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Great Waldo Pepper, The PL: A biplane pilot who had missed flying in WWI takes up PL: barnstorming and later a movie career in his quest for PL: the glory he had missed, eventually getting a chance PL: to prove himself in a film depicting the dogfights in PL: the Great War. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Green Card PL: George Faure is a Frenchman who has been offered a job in the U.S. But PL: in order to get the job he must obtain a work permit - green card, and PL: the easiest way is to marry an America. Bronte Parrish is a New Yorker PL: who is a keen horticulturalist and just found the perfect flat with its PL: own greenhouse. Unfortunately the flat is for married couples only. PL: A marriage of convenience seems the ideal solution to both problems. To PL: convince the immigration officers they are married for love, they must PL: move in with each other. As the mismatched couple attempt to cope with PL: life together, they start to fall in love. BY: Sami Al-Taher <smmat@ukc.ac.uk> GE: Romantic Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Gremlins PL: A loveable but mysterious exotic pet brought home from PL: Chinatown becomes the source of a slew of miseries for PL: an American suburb when the "Mogwai's" owners disobey PL: a few basic precautions and help spawn a host of evil PL: creatures. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Adventure Comedy Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Gremlins II: The New Batch PL: An army of malevolent little monsters take over a high-tech PL: corporate skyscraper when a cute and intelligent exotic pet PL: is exposed to water. The "Mogwai's" owner joins forces with PL: the Trump-like head of the corporation to regain control. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Adventure Comedy Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Grifters, The PL: Lily works for a bookie, placing bets to change the odds at the track. PL: When her son is hospitalized after an unsuccessful con job and resultant PL: beating, she finds that even an absentee parent has feelings for her PL: child. This causes her own job to go wrong as well. Each of them faces PL: the down side of the grift. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Crime Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Grim Prairie Tales PL: Two travellers, one a well to do young clark on the way to a reunion PL: with his wife, the other a scruffy, feral bounty hunter meet at sundown PL: on a lonely prairie and agree to swap stories to pass the time. PL: This is a portmanteau film featuring four intriguing stories linked PL: by the two story teller's attempts to psych each other out. BY: Mark Thompson <mrt@oasis.icl.co.uk> GE: Western Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Grim Reaper, The PL: Tourists take a boat to a remote island, where they find that most of PL: the people have disappeared, and something is stalking them. They find PL: a hidden room in the big mansion on a hill, and an ancient diary, which PL: gives them clues to the source of the terror. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Groundhog Day PL: A weather man is reluctantly sent to cover a story about PL: a weather forecasting "rat" (as he calls it). This is his PL: fourth year on the story, and he makes no effort to hide his PL: frustration. On awaking the 'following' day he discovers that PL: it's Groundhog Day again, and again, and again. First he uses PL: this to his advantage, then comes the realisation that he is PL: doomed to spend the rest of eternity in the same place, seeing PL: the same people do the same thing EVERY day. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Guardian, The (1990) PL: Alan and Molly Sheridan have a baby boy named Jake. They hire a PL: baby-sitter, Camilla, to look after Jake and she becomes part of the PL: family. The Sheridan's friend and neighbour, Phil, takes a liking to PL: Camilla and asks her out. She refuses, but Phil follows her and PL: discovers that she is not quite human. Camilla discovers that she has PL: been followed and Phil is pursued. He leaves a desperate message for PL: Alan and Molly which reveals that Camilla has special plans for baby PL: Jake. BY: Goth <brooks@odie.ee.wits.ac.za> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner PL: The answer to that question is, your new son-in-law. A wealthy white PL: family is informed that their daughter's intended is coming to meet them, PL: and he's black. Scripted in the late 60s, the idea of a bi-racial PL: marriage was still fairly shocking. To smooth this over, the son-in-law PL: to be is a prince. He's a Doctor who lives in Switzerland and intends to PL: take their daughter there to live. Set in California, it's not quite PL: a return to Selma, Alabama, but was controversial in its day. This was PL: the last Hepburn-Tracey Movie and the last film Spencer Tracey made before PL: his death. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Guide for the Married Man, A PL: Walter Mathau is becoming restless in his marriage and confides in his PL: friend, Robert Morris. Morris begins to give him pointers on PL: how to successfully cheat on his wife without getting caught. Each PL: pointer is demonstrated by a vignette starring 1 or 2 name stars in cameos. PL: As this continues, Mathau prepares for the inevitable happening. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> PL: Robert Morris and Walter Mathau are friends. Though both are married, PL: Mathau discovers Morris is fooling around. When asked about it, Morris PL: passes on the oral history and guide to fooling around without your wife PL: finding out. This is done by a series of vignettes with cameos from PL: famous actors that illustrate the point Morris wants to make. Between PL: pieces of advice, we follow Matheau as he begins to prepare for his big PL: affair. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Guilty as Sin PL: A man accused of murdering his wife approaches a hotshot female criminal PL: attorney to take his case. The man is a self-professed womaniser, and PL: his alleged motive would be the large sum of money his wife left him. PL: The attorney begins to have second thoughts about representing him when PL: he starts making it look like they're having an affair and tells her PL: things she can't reveal because of lawyer/client privilege, so she starts PL: her own investigation of him, which threatens her career and the safety of PL: her friends and herself. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Thriller Crime Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag, The PL: Betty Lou is a librarian in a very small town. Her husband is a police PL: detective who takes her for granted. Betty Lou is the ultimate mouse. PL: After a gangland figure is mysteriously murdered in town, Betty Lou finds PL: the murder weapon, but can't get anyone's attention to tell them (we're PL: talking very mousey, here). Finally in a fit of frustration she fires the PL: gun in a restroom and when taken to the police station insists she is the PL: murderer. It has the desired effect, people do pay attention to her. With PL: hints at social graces from the hookers in her cell block, she's on her way. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Mystery ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Gundam: Char's Counter Attack PL: Amuro and Char, two best mobile suit (robotic weapons) pilots who fought PL: together against Titans after the Jion's independency war, must face PL: each other in a fateful duel where the Neo-Jion, led by Char, attempts PL: to drop a gigantic meteor and its nuclear weapons to Earth in order to PL: cause Nuclear Winter to wipe out the Earth inhabitants. BY: Tzung-I Lin <tzung@hugo.att.com> GE: Japanese-Animation War Action Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Gunga Din PL: Based loosely on the poem by Rudyard Kipling, this takes place in British PL: India during the Thuggee uprising. Three fun loving sergeants are doing PL: fine until one of them wants to get married and leave the service. The PL: other two trick him into a final mission where they end up confronting PL: the entire cult by themselves as the British Army is entering a trap. PL: This is of the "War is fun" school of movie making. It has the flavour PL: of watching Notre Dame play an inferior high school team. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Historical War Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Guns of Navarone, The PL: A team is put together to destroy the large naval guns at Navarone. They PL: must be destroyed or a planned invasion will be certainly defeated. The PL: team is plagued by leaks and is always just one step ahead of the Germans PL: as they move on the fortress. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: War Action Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Hamlet (1948) PL: In this film of the classic Shakespearean play, a Danish prince seeks to PL: avenge his father's death when his uncle murders his father, succeeds him PL: as King, and marries the Queen. Along the way, Hamlet spurns his PL: girlfriend, scolds his mother, contemplates suicide, and kills some folks. BY: Liza Esser <essereli@student.msu.edu> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Hand That Rocks the Cradle, The PL: Peyton Flanders seemed to be the perfect nanny, but secretly she was PL: out to wreck the lives of the family she was supposed to be helping. PL: Before becoming the nanny, Peyton had a miscarriage, and blamed it PL: on Claire (the mother). Claire suspects nothing, having never met PL: Peyton before. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> PL: A gynecologist takes suicide when he is accused for having sexually PL: molested 5 of his patients, and his wife loses her unborn baby as a PL: result of stress. She then takes on another name and applies to the PL: nanny position that the first woman to make the accusation has PL: announced. She gets the job and she's up for revenge in her sly ways. BY: Lars J. Aas <larsa@colargol.edb.tih.no> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Hannah and Her Sisters PL: During a Thanksgiving Day party we make aquaintance with a numerous PL: and problematic family. The leading characters are three sisters: Lee, PL: the woman of Frederick, an old misanthrope painter; Holly, PL: who dreams of becoming a writer, or an actress, or who knows who...; PL: Hannah, famous actress, beautiful, intelligent, good mother, good wife, PL: good sister, in short perfect, the pivot of the family. The balance begins PL: to break up when Hannah's husband, Elliot, falls in love with Lee, who PL: leaves Frederick. Holly goes through a deep crisis and meets Mickey, the PL: former husband of Hannah, a hipocondriac TV producer. The affairs evolve PL: and at the last Thanksgiving ... BY: Maurizio Semolic <semolic@oat.ts.astro.it> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Hard Promises PL: A man who doesn't like stable work environments has been away for too PL: many years, and finds out his wife has divorced him and is planning to PL: remarry. He comes home to confront her, trying to convince her not to PL: get married, aided by the daughter, who loves him despite his wandering PL: ways. The couple finds out they still have feelings for each other PL: but must decide how best to handle the contradiction of their lifestyles. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Hard Target PL: Natasha Binder comes to New Orleans looking for her father, who has gone PL: missing. In doing so, she meets a very hard man called Chance. He helps PL: her find out that her father was killed by an organisation who sell the PL: opportunity to hunt human prey. They are taking advantage of a police PL: strike in New Orleans. Will the Muscles from Brussels win through? BY: John Hartnup <hartnupj@cs.aston.ac.uk> GE: Action Crime Adventure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Hard to Die PL: Five buxom and scantily clad women are left alone to take inventory at PL: a lingerie company. The janitor is kind of spooky, and there are rumors PL: about him being involved in a tragic incident a few years back, and he's PL: giving them the heebie-jeebies. They accidentally open a mysterious PL: package and something other-worldly escapes, and they must fend for their PL: lives. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy Horror Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Hard-Boiled PL: Mobsters are smuggling guns into Hong Kong. The police orchestrate a PL: raid at a teahouse where the ace detective loses his partner. Meanwhile, PL: the two main gun smugglers are having a war over territoriality, and a PL: young new gun is enlisted to wipe out informants and overcome barriers PL: to growth. The detective, acting from inside sources gets closer to the PL: ring leaders, and eventually must work directly with the inside man. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Action Crime Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Hardware PL: A wandering soldier finds a robot head in the post-apocalyptic desert. PL: He brings it back to his girlfriend for use in one of her sculptures. He PL: investigates the origin of the head, and discovers it's from the Mark 13 PL: project, canceled because of unreliability. His girlfriend, nay, society PL: at large become endangered when the robot puts itself back together using PL: the parts she has for her sculptures. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Sci-Fi Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Harold and Maude PL: Harold is a depressed, death-obsessed 20-year-old man-child who spends PL: his free time attending funerals and staging fake suicides in front of PL: his mother. At a funeral, Harold befriends Maude, a 79-year-old woman PL: who has a zest for life. She and Harold spend much time together during PL: which she exposes him to the wonders and possibilities of life. After PL: rejecting his mother's three attempts to set him up with a potential PL: wife, and committing fake suicide in front of all of them, Harold PL: announces that he is to be married to Maude. However, Maude has a PL: surprise for Harold that is to change his life forever. BY: Rick Gregory <rag.apa@email.apa.org> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Harry and the Hendersons PL: Returning from a hunting trip in the forest, the Henderson family's car PL: hits an animal in the road. At first they fear it was a man, but when they PL: examine the "body" they find it's a "bigfoot". They think it's dead so PL: they decide to take it home (there could be some money in this..). As you PL: guessed, "it" isn't dead. Far from being the ferocious monster they fear PL: "Harry" to be, he's a friendly giant. In their attempts to keep Harry a PL: secret, the Henderson's have to hide him from the authorities and a man, PL: who has made it his goal in life, to catch a "bigfoot". BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Harvey (1950) PL: A middle aged drunk has been driving his sister and niece wild PL: by introducing everyone he meets to his pal Harvey. Harvey PL: is a big white rabbit, six feet three and a half inches tall, PL: which only Elwood (and occasionally his sister when she's PL: feeling odd) can see. The sister, Veta Louise Simmons, tries PL: to have Elwood committed to Chumleys Rest sanatorium, but PL: they let Elwood out and lock her up. After sorting out the PL: mistake, Dr Chumley goes after Elwood himself. BY: Zaphod <aaa@scs.leeds.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Fantasy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Hatchet for the Honeymoon PL: The owner of a design house busies himself murdering the new brides PL: who have modelled his bridal fashions. When he decides to murder his PL: wife, she becomes the ghost that wouldn't leave. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Haunting of Morella, The PL: A witch is put to death in Colonial America, leaving her husband and PL: infant daughter behind. Seventeen years later, the daughter has grown PL: up and stands to inherit money set up by her mother's family. Now that PL: the stage is set, the mother wants to return to life by taking over her PL: daughter's body. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Hear My Song PL: A sleazy Irish entertainment promoter has about run his course offering PL: pseudo-acts like Franc Cinatra. He gets a lead on a known baritone singer, PL: Josef Locke, who had to leave England 25 years before, who also turns out PL: to be a fake, which puts the promoter under. In order to win back the love PL: of his estranged girlfriend, he travels to Ireland in search of the real PL: Josef Locke, who would risk imprisonment if he agrees to sing in England PL: again. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Heartbreak Ridge PL: Sergeant Tom Highway, a hardened, tough veteran of Korea and PL: Vietnam returns to the United States for his last tour of PL: duty with the U.S. Marine Corps. He is assigned to training PL: new recruits. Their cool, trendy and 'hippy' approach to PL: military life is a reminder to him that he is, in the words PL: of his general, "an anachronism" - useful only "in case of PL: war". Conveniently, a war does arise (the invasion of PL: Grenada in October, 1983) and successfully tests both PL: his usefulness and the effectiveness of the new recruits. BY: Dave Cook <cookd@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca> GE: War ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Heathers PL: Veronica mingles with Heather I, II and III to be as popular as them, even PL: though she hates them. She hates them enough to wish they were dead, but PL: she would never want to be their cause of death though. When she starts PL: dating Jason Dean, however, she finds herself involved in the murdering of PL: most of her enemies, covered up as suicides. BY: Lars J. Aas <larsa@colargol.edb.tih.no> PL: Three high school girls named Heather run an iron clad social clique at PL: high school. One of their anointees, Veronica, isn't sure she wants to PL: fit into the clique, particularly when she has to snub some of her old PL: friends at the Heathers' behest. When Veronica meets the new guy at PL: school, she starts pulling away from the clique, while some of the more PL: popular students start showing up dead with suicide notes. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Heaven Can Wait (1978) PL: Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl PL: when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him PL: to heaven only to discover that he wasn't ready to die, and that his body PL: has been cremated. A new body must be found, and that of a recently PL: murdered millionaire is chosen. His wife and accountant, the murderers, PL: are confused by this development, as he buys the L.A. Rams in order to PL: once again quarterback them into the superbowl. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Heaven and Earth (1993) PL: The final movie in Oliver Stone's Vietnam trilogy follows the PL: true story of a Vietnamese village girl who survives a life of PL: suffering and hardship during and after the Vietnam war. As a PL: freedom fighter, a hustler, young mother, a sometime PL: prostitute, and the wife of a US. marine, the girl's PL: relationships with men suggests an analogy of Vietnam as PL: Woman and the U.S. as Man. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Hell Comes to Frogtown PL: 'Hell' is the name of the hero of the story. He's a prisoner of the PL: women who now run the USA after a nuclear/biological war. Results of the PL: war are that mutants have evolved, and the human race is in danger of PL: extinction due to infertility. Hell is given the task of helping in the PL: rescue of a group of fertile women from the harem of the mutant leader PL: (resembling a frog). Hell cannot escape since he has a bomb attached to PL: his private parts which will detonate if he strays more than a few hundred PL: yards from his guard. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Action Adult ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Hell Night PL: Before being able to join Alpha Sigma Rho fraternity and its sister PL: sorority, four pledges must spend the night in Garth Manor, twelve PL: years to the day after the previous resident murdered his entire PL: family. Some, however, say that one member of the Garth family PL: survived, and still resides somewhere in the now-deserted mansion. BY: Kevin Ackley <k.ackley@genie.geis.com> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Hellbound PL: Shatter and Jackson, 2 Chicago police officers, are investigating the brutal PL: murder of a rabbi and are summoned to Israel for questioning. While they PL: are in Israel they continue their investigation there on some leads they PL: have. After a while they begin to understand that they are trying to catch PL: a supernatural being, and if they don't do it fast something terrible will PL: happen. BY: Lars J. Aas <larsa@colargol.edb.tih.no> GE: Action Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Hellraiser PL: A man finds he is given more than he bargains for when he solves the PL: puzzle of the Lamont Configuration - a doorway to hell. But his PL: ex-lover has found a way of bringing him back, and his niece, PL: Kirsty Lawrence, finds herself bargaining with the Cenobites, angels PL: to some, demons to others, whose greatest pleasure is the greatest PL: pain. BY: David Carroll <davidc@atom.ansto.gov.au> PL: The head of a psychiatric prison who meddles with a satanic PL: puzzle cube unleashes a cabal of pain-seeking demons who PL: terrorise his daughter. The girl must find a way to solve PL: the puzzle and force the demons back to hell after a series PL: of victims fall victim to the cube's power. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth PL: Pinhead is stuck in a block after the Big Confrontation in "Hellbound," PL: The block containing Pinhead and the puzzle cube is bought by a young PL: playboy as sculpture. Pinhead busies himself escaping by getting the PL: playboy to lure victims to his presence so he can use their blood. Once PL: free, he seeks to destroy the puzzle cube so he need never return to PL: Hell, but a female reporter is investigating the grisly murders and PL: stands in his way. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Help! PL: The Beatles second film has an obscure Asian cult that believes in human PL: sacrifice after Ringo who has accidentally put on the victim's ceremonial PL: ring. He is pursued by the cult, a pair of mad scientists, and a member PL: of a side cult that no longer believes in human sacrifice and the London PL: police who are trying to help. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Musical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Henry & June PL: In 1931 Paris, Anais Nin meets Henry Miller and his wife June. Intrigued PL: by them both, she begins expanding her sexual horizons with her husband PL: Hugo as well as with Henry and others. June shuttles between Paris and PL: New York trying to find acting jobs while Henry works on his first major PL: work, "Tropic of Cancer," a pseudo-biography of June. Anais and Hugo help PL: finance the book, but June is displeased with Henry's portrayal of her, PL: and Anais and Henry have many arguments about their styles of writing on PL: a backdrop of a Bohemian lifestyle in Paris. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama Erotic Historical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Henry V (1989) PL: King Henry V of England (Kenneth Branagh) is insulted by the King of PL: France. As a result, he leads his army into battle against France. PL: Along the way, the young king must struggle with the sinking morale of PL: his troops and his own inner doubts. The war culminates at the bloody PL: Battle of Agincourt. BY: Liza Esser <essereli@student.msu.edu> PL: Young King Henry of England invades France in order to claim PL: his right to a kingdom and to the daughter of the King of PL: France in this second film adaptation of the Shakespeare play. PL: Henry's small but embattled army meet the French forces on PL: the field of Agincourt. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Drama War Historical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer PL: Henry likes to kill people, in different ways each time. PL: Henry shares an apartment with Otis. When Otis' sister PL: comes to stay, we see both sides of Henry; the "guy-next-door" PL: and the mass murderer. Low budget movie, with some graphic PL: murder scenes. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Crime Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Her Alibi PL: A writer of BAD detective novels is in full writers' block. He pretends PL: to be the alibi of a beautiful woman who was arrested for murder at first PL: thinking her innocent, but as she shows more and more interesting abilities PL: (such as knife throwing) he begins to doubt his first assessment. He is PL: still falling for her, but more and more nervous as time passes, and there PL: are more close calls with death on his part. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Mystery ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Hidden, The PL: An alien is on the run in America. To get his kicks, it kills anything PL: that gets in its way, and uses the body as a new hiding place. This alien PL: has a goal in life; power. Hotly pursued by a good-guy alien (who's PL: borrowed the body of a dead FBI agent), lots of innocent people die in PL: the chase. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Horror Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: High Anxiety PL: Dr. Richard Thornhill arrives as new administrator of the PL: Psychoneurotic Institute for the Very, VERY Nervous to discover PL: some suspicious goings-on. When he's framed for murder, Dr. PL: Thornhill must confront his own psychiatric condition, "high PL: anxiety," in order to clear his name. An homage to the films of PL: Alfred Hitchcock; contains many parodies of famous Hitchcock PL: scenes from THE BIRDS, PSYCHO, and VERTIGO. BY: Scott Renshaw <as.idc@forsythe.stanford.edu> GE: Comedy Spoof ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: High Commissioner, The PL: Rod Taylor plays a policeman sent to return a sensitive case; An PL: Australian citizen, currently acting as high commissioner for peace talks PL: who is wanted for an old charge -- of murder. The talks are too sensitive PL: to be disturbed, so Taylor ends up watching Christopher Plummer as he PL: conducts his talks, and discovers that some want the talks to fail enough PL: to think that killing Plummer is an obvious way to stop them. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Action Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: High Heels (1991) PL: A girl's mother returns after 15 years to find her daughter has married PL: one of her (the mother's) old boyfriends. They try to mend their PL: broken mother/daughter relationship and deal with their common lover. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: High Noon PL: A retiring lawman about to leave town with his new bride PL: seeks allies among the fearful townspeople when an outlaw he PL: put in prison returns with his gang to take revenge in this PL: classic western. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Western ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: High Road to China PL: A biplane pilot is saddled with a spoiled industrialist's PL: daughter on a search for her missing father through Asia PL: that eventually involves them in a struggle against a PL: Chinese warlord. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Adventure Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: High School Confidential! PL: A tough kid comes to a new high school and begins muscling his way into PL: the drug scene. As he moves his way up the ladder, a schoolteacher PL: tries to reform him, his aunt tries to seduce him, and the "weedheads" PL: are eager to use his newly found enterprise, but he has his own agenda. PL: After an altercation involving fast cars, hidden drugs, and police, PL: he's accepted by the drug kingpin and is off into the big leagues. A PL: typical morality play of the era, filled with a naive view of drugs, PL: nihilistic beat poetry, and some incredible '50s slang. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama Teen Delinquent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: High Sierra PL: Roy 'Mad Dog' Earle is broken out of prison by an old associate who PL: wants him to help with an upcoming robbery. When the robbery goes wrong PL: and a man is shot and killed Earle is forced to go on the run, and with PL: the police and an angry press hot on his tail he eventually takes PL: refuge among the peaks of the Sierra Madres, where a tense siege ensues. PL: But will the Police make him regret the attachments he formed with PL: two women during the brief planning of the robbery. BY: Mark Thompson <mrt@oasis.icl.co.uk> GE: Thriller Noir ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: High and Low PL: An executive mortgages all he owns to stage a coup and gain control PL: of the National Shoe Company, with the intent of keeping the PL: company out of the hands of incompetent and greedy executives. He PL: needs the same money, though, to pay the ransom that will possibly PL: save a child's life. His resolution of that dilemma -- the certain PL: loss of the company vs. the probable loss of the child -- makes for PL: one distinct drama, and an ensuing elaborate police procedure makes PL: for a second. BY: levin <levin@world.std.com> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Highlander PL: Born in the Highlands of Scotland in 1518, Connor Macleod is immortal. PL: When he is wounded in battle but does not die, he is banished from his PL: village. He meets another like himself, Ramirez, who teaches him PL: swordsmanship--the only way to kill another immortal is to take his PL: head--and the ways of the immortals. Modern-day New York is the PL: location of "The Gathering," where Connor and the few remaining PL: immortals must battle to the last for "The Prize." BY: Jeff Hansen <jmh@umich.edu> GE: Adventure Fantasy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: His Girl Friday PL: Hildy Johnson has divorced Walter Burns and visits his office to tell him PL: that she is engaged to another man and that they are going to get married PL: the day after. Walter Burns can't let that happen and frames the other man, PL: Bruce Baldwin, for a lot of stuff getting him into trouble all the time, PL: while he tries to steer Hildy back into her old job as his employee (editor PL: of his newspaper). BY: Lars J. Aas <larsa@colargol.edb.tih.no> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Hitcher, The PL: A young man transporting a car to another state is stalked PL: along the road by a cunning and relentless serial killer PL: who eventually frames the driver for a string of murders. PL: Chased by police and shadowed by the killer, the driver's PL: only help comes from a truck stop waitress. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> PL: Driving someone else's car from Chicago to San Diego, a young man (Jim?) PL: picks up a hitchhiker with a taste for murder. The police, unaware of PL: of the real murderer i.e. the John Ryder, blame Jim. Ryder shows super PL: human powers in his destructive spree. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Thriller Horror Road ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Hollywood Hot Tubs PL: A teen and his friends get into trouble for vandalizing the Hollywood sign, PL: and rather than going to prison he opts to work for his uncle's hot tub PL: repair company. The sleazy salesman drums up business by sabotaging the PL: tubs at Hollywood Hot Tubs and by wooing the owner. The nephew begins PL: falling in love with the secretary at his uncle's company, but risks PL: losing her when caught in compromising but unintentional situations while PL: he goes about his duties as tub repairman. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Home Alone PL: A large upper-middle class family goes on a Christmas vacation to PL: France, but accidentally leaves their eight year old son behind in PL: Chicago. This is the film which made Macaulay Culkin famous. BY: Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Home Alone 2: Lost in New York PL: The McAllister family go on a holiday to Hawaii. Kevin McAllister PL: gets separated from his family, and manages to get himself onto a plane PL: to New York instead. There, he checks into the best hotel with his PL: father's credit card, and sets out to enjoy himself. Unfortunately, the PL: burgulars he had foiled before were in New York after being released PL: from jail, and had plans to rob the biggest toyshop in New York on PL: ChristmasEve. Kevin discovers their plan, and sets out to foil their PL: plots again, while the burgulars set out to finish off what they had not PL: done before- the killing of the brat Kevin. BY: Liz Jordan <c9310494@alinga.newcastle.edu.au> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Honeymoon in Vegas PL: On her deathbed, a mother makes her son promise never to get married, PL: which scars him with psychological blocks to a commitment with his PL: girlfriend. They finally decide to tie the knot in Vegas, but a wealthy PL: gambler arranges for the man to lose $65K in a poker game and offers to PL: clear the debt for a weekend with his fiancee. Suddenly the man is PL: insanely jealous, and pursues his fiancee and her rich companion, but PL: finds pitfalls in his path as the gambler tries to delay his interference. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Hook (1991) PL: Peter Pan (Williams) has grown up to be a cut-throat merger and PL: acquisitions lawyer, and is married to Wendy's granddaughter. Captain PL: Hook (Hoffman) kidnaps his children, and Peter returns to Never Land with PL: Tinkerbell (Roberts). With the help of her and the Lost Boys, he must PL: remember how to be Peter Pan again in order to save his children by PL: battling with Captain Hook once again. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy Action Musical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Hoosiers PL: A high school basketball coach and the town drunk try to shape PL: the local boys squad into an unlikely contender for the Indiana PL: state championship in this sports fantasy. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Sports ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Hope and Glory PL: A semiautobiographical project by John Boorman about a nine year old boy PL: called Bill as he grows up in London during the blitz of World War 2. PL: For a young boy, this time in history was more of an adventure, a total PL: upheaval of order, restrictions and discipline. The liberating effect PL: of the war on the women left behind. And the joy when Hitler blows up PL: your school. BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Comedy Drama War ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Horse Soldiers, The PL: A Union Cavalry outfit is sent behind confederate lines in strength to PL: destroy a rail/supply centre. Along with them is sent a doctor who PL: causes instant antipathy between him and the commander. The secret plan PL: for the mission is overheard by a southern belle who must be taken along PL: to assure her silence. The Union officers each have different reasons for PL: wanting to be on the mission. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: War Western Adventure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Hospital, The PL: Herbert Block is head of surgery in a major teaching hospital. His wife PL: has left him, he is impotent and his children have both disowned him. PL: He is toying with the idea of suicide when patients begin dying, not PL: from complications, but from the erroneous treatments the Hospital is PL: giving them. People in the wrong beds are given wrong medicines, sent to PL: operating theatres for incorrect surgery, and found in waiting rooms dead PL: of natural causes. Barbara Drummond has come to take her comatose father PL: back to the Souix reservation where he operates a clinic and they each PL: reach out to each other for emotional support, as a shadowy figure stalks PL: the patients and staff of the hospital. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Mystery ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Hot Chili PL: A group of American teenage boys goes south of the border to work for PL: the summer at a Mexican resort. There they encounter many wacky guests PL: and have zany adventures involving a German dominatrix, a music teacher PL: that gets hot when giving lessons, a buxom cook, and an uptight socialite PL: that eventually thaws. More often than not they end up in bed with PL: someone, but one of the teens is holding out for True Love. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Hot Shots! (1991) PL: Topper Harley, a top gun fighter pilot, is recalled to serve on the PL: SS Essess. Topper's mission is to destroy Saddam Hussein's nuclear plants. PL: Unfortunately, Topper is psychologically imbalanced and is sure to crack PL: under pressure. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> PL: "Top Gun" meets "Airplane!" Ace pilot Topper Harley is asked to come back PL: to the Navy for a special assignment (he dropped out to go live with Native PL: Americans after an incident made him doubt his abilities). He has PL: personality conflicts with the other Top Gun, as they are both PL: romantically interested in the same woman. An aerospace company's owner PL: is trying to sabotage the mission so the current fighter jet will be PL: scrapped in favor of his jets. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Hot Shots! Part Deux PL: Topper Harley is found to be working as an odd-job-man in a monastery. PL: The CIA want him to lead a rescue mission into Iraq, to rescue the last PL: rescue team, who went in to rescue the last rescue team who... who went in PL: to rescue hostages left behind after Desert Storm. The president is PL: Tug Benson, who also likes to be in on the action. PL: Basically, it's a send-up of all the big shoot-em-up Rambo/Robocop/T2/ PL: Commando type movies. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Spoof ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Hot Spot, The (1990) PL: A loner (Johnson) drives into a small Texas town and gets himself a job PL: at the used car place. Being an opportunist, he checks out the bank for PL: security and begins setting fires around town in order to set up an PL: eventual heist. The boss' wife (Madsen) wishes to use him for her own PL: purposes, and begins attempting to manipulate him. He resists, however, PL: as he finds himself falling in love with the accountant (Connelly) at PL: work, who has her own problem to work out. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Hot Stuff PL: Three cops try to set up a sting by establishing their own Fencing PL: operation. They have less than complete support from above and as they PL: begin mingling more and more with the underworld elements decide to PL: finance the operation through re-selling some of the proceeds. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: House Calls PL: At the beginning of the 20th century, Claude Roc, a young middle-class PL: Frenchman meets in Paris Ann Brown, a young Englishwoman. They become PL: friends and Ann invites him to spend holidays at the house where she PL: lives with her mother and her sister Muriel, for whom she intends PL: Claude. During these holidays, Claude, Ann and Muriel become very close PL: and he gradually falls in love with Muriel. But both families lay down PL: a one-year-long separation without any contact before agreeing to the PL: marriage. PL: So Claude goes back to Paris when he has many love affairs before PL: sending Muriel a break-off letter... BY: Gilles Goullet GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: House of Games PL: A famous psychologist, Margaret Ford, decides to try to help one of her PL: patients get out of a gambling debt. She visits the bar where Rick, to PL: whom the debt is owed, runs poker games. He convinces her to help him in PL: a game: her assignment is to look for "tells", or give-away body language. PL: What seems easy to her becomes much more complex. BY: John J. Magee <magee@helix.mgh.harvard.edu> GE: Thriller Mystery Crime ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: House on the Edge of the Park, The PL: Alex, a psychopathic mechanic, rapes a woman in the park. Later, a PL: decadent couple pull into his shop needing car repair. They invite PL: Alex and his mentally challenged buddy to join them at a decadent PL: suburban party. Once there, Alex amuses himself by tormenting and PL: raping the guests, not realizing the guests have an agenda of their own. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror Suspense ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Housesitter PL: Con artist Goldie moves into Steve's empty house without his knowledge, PL: and begins setting up house posing as his new wife. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> PL: Davis builds his dream house and presents it to Becky with a proposal of PL: marriage. She turns him down. He leaves the house, still with a ribbon PL: running around it and returns to the city, terribly smitten with Becky. He PL: meets Gwen who has an interesting relationship with the truth. He spends PL: the night with her, but leaves while she is sleeping. She takes his PL: description of the house, searches it out, and moves in. The residents of PL: Davis' home town become curious and she invents a marriage, a courtship, PL: and and an entire history. Davis' parents meet Gwen and are immediately PL: taken with her. By the time Davis finds out what has happened, 2 things PL: have happened, the whole town thinks he's married, and Becky tells him that PL: Gwen has made her see him in a whole new light. Gwen and Davis agree that PL: she can pretend to be his wife and get free rent while Davis works on Becky PL: until they can announce a divorce. The trouble is that no one in the town PL: wants them to separate and keep trying to help them reconcile. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Romance Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: How to Murder Your Wife PL: Jack Lemmon is a happily unmarried man with all the creature comforts one PL: could desire including a wonderful butler who takes care of all his PL: material needs. At a bachelor party for a friend, Lemmon gets drunk and PL: wakes up married to an Italian woman who speaks nearly no English. It PL: totally alters his life. He even changes the cartoon he writes and shifts PL: it from a secret agent to a household comedy. When he begins to have PL: trouble with all of these changes he starts to plot that at least his secret PL: agent cartoon will return to order and plans, in his daily comic strip, PL: killing his wife. When she disapears, the cartoons are used as evidence at PL: his trial. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Courtroom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Howards End PL: Two sisters have encounters with a wealthy family. The younger sister PL: (Carter) is rejected by the son of the wealthy family. The older sister PL: (Thompson) becomes a good friend of the wealthy mother, whose most PL: cherished possession is their cottage at Howard's End, and wishes PL: fervently that Thompson could live there, as they are kindred spirits. PL: Over the course of years, the older sister marries into the wealthy PL: family, and the family tries to keep her from taking possession of PL: Howard's End. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Hunt for Red October, The PL: Based on the Best Selling novel by Tom Clancy this film tells the story PL: of Captain Marko Ramius, the skipper of the Soviet Union's newest nuclear PL: sub. Jack Ryan of the CIA gets involved in a tense, tangled hunt for PL: this sub, when Ramius defects, taking the "Red October" with him. The PL: story is an action packed techno-thriller. BY: Greg Bole <bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> GE: Action Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Hurry Sundown PL: Set in the south in the days just after World War II, a black and a white PL: farmer team up to irrigate their fields and escape the crushing poverty PL: that their families live under. This will cause problems for the plans of PL: a rich landowner who will try using family, law, and even his retarded son PL: in order to stop them. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Hysterical PL: A burned out writer retreats to a northwest town called Hellview to PL: write the great American novel. Unfortunately for him, the lighthouse PL: he is renting is inhabited by the spirit of a woman who killed herself PL: there one hundred years before and now wants him to replace her lost PL: love, Captain Howdy. When Captain Howdy is resurrected, two daring PL: adventure seekers are brought in to solve the case and find out the PL: secret of the lighthouse. BY: Todd A. Bobenrieth <TAB146@PSUVM.EDU> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: I Come in Peace PL: Jack Kane is an unorthodox Houston cop out to stop a yuppie criminal gang PL: known as the White Boys. A large quantity of heroin is stolen from a police PL: warehouse and non-addicts start to show up dead from massive heroin PL: overdoses, all show the same puncture wounds to the forehead. Reluctantly PL: partnered with FBI agent Laurence Smith, Kane begins to realise that an PL: alien presence is on the streets collecting a priceless intergalactic drug PL: that can only be found in the human brain. Much explosions and car chases PL: ensue. BY: James Mahoney <jwm93@aber.ac.uk> GE: Sci-Fi Cop Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: I Confess PL: Otto Kellar and his wife Alma work as caretaker and housekeeper at a PL: Catholic church in Quebec. Whilst robbing a house where he sometimes works PL: as a gardener, Otto is caught and kills the owner. Racked with guilt he PL: heads back to the church where Father Michael Logan is working late. Otto PL: confesses his crime, but when the police begin to suspect Father Logan he PL: cannot reveal what he has been told in the confession. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: I Don't Buy Kisses Anymore PL: Bernie Fishbine is overweight. He stops at the neighborhood store to PL: buy some chocolate kisses every day. This is where he meets PL: Theresa Garabaldi. Then they take the same bus route every evening. PL: Theresa invites Bernie to see her play piano at her father's restaurant. PL: It is here that she gets him to join a gym. Theresa is in college and PL: gets the idea to write about Bernie's weight problem for her thesis. She PL: does this without telling Bernie. Meanwhile, Bernie is falling in love PL: with Theresa, and vice versa. BY: A K 4 7 <ak47@cyberverse.com> GE: Romance Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: I Know My First Name Is Steven (TV) PL: 7-year old Steven Stayner is kidnapped a few days before Christmas by PL: Reverend Kenneth Parnell. Under the belief that Parnell has been PL: given legal custody of him, and that his family has moved away, he stays PL: with Parnell for seven years, enduring repetitive sexual abuse the PL: entire time. Finally, at fourteen, he returns home to his family. BY: Liz Jordan <c9310494@alinga.newcastle.edu.au> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: I Love You to Death PL: Joey works with Rosalie in their pizza parlor. She is convinced that he PL: works all of the time for them and her world dissolves when she finds that PL: he has been fooling around for years. Being Catholic, divorce is PL: out of the question, so she and her mother and her best friend decide to PL: kill him. Hopelessly incompetent as killers, they hire incompetent PL: professionals as they beat, poison, and shoot Joey who remains oblivious PL: to their attempts. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: I'm Dangerous Tonight (TV) PL: An ancient Egyptian cloth with a curse accidentally finds its way PL: into the possession of a young woman. She decides to make a dress from PL: the cloth. Whomever wears this cloth/dress comes under it's spell; all PL: inhibitions and moral responsibilities are lost. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Ice Pirates, The PL: In the far future water is the most valuable substance. Two space pirates PL: are captured, sold to a princess, and recruited to help her find her father PL: who disapeared when he found information dangerous to the rulers. A real PL: Space Opera with sword fights, explosions, fighting robots, monsters, bar PL: fights and time warps. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Sci-Fi Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Idle Class, The PL: Chaplin plays a tramp who sneaks into a upper class golf PL: resort. The tramp meets a rich woman (Edna Purviance) who is PL: having an argument with her drunken husband (also played by PL: Chaplin). Complications arise when she mistakes the tramp for her PL: husband. BY: Robert Duncan <robert.duncan@usask.ca> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Imitation of Life (1959) PL: In 1947 at Coney Island, down-on-her-luck actress Lora Meredith and her PL: young daughter Susie meet coloured Annie Jackson and her daughter Sarah PL: Jane. Annie is desperate for a place to live and offers to work as Lora's PL: maid for food and lodging. Lora's luck begins to change as a result of PL: their meeting and their two stories unfold across the years. However, PL: Annie's problems start when Sarah Jane tries to pass as white. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Drama Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Immediate Family PL: Linda and Michael, married for ten years, desperately want a baby and PL: turn to an adoption agency which introduces them to Lucy, a teenage PL: girl expecting her first baby. The three agree that Linda and Michael PL: will adopt Lucy's baby and that Lucy will sign away custody. Things PL: don't go quite to plan however.. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Relationship Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Impromptu PL: Novelist George Sand (Judy Davis) falls in love with composer Fredric PL: Chopin (Hugh Grant). She tries to profess her love for him at a weekend PL: hosted by a pretentious, artistically minded dutchess for famous musicians, PL: artists, and writers of the day. The gentle and sickly Chopin is wary of PL: the outspoken Sand, but finds himself strangely drawn to her, as well. BY: Liza Esser <essereli@student.msu.edu> GE: Romantic-Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: In Like Flint PL: Flint is again called out of retirement when his old boss finds that PL: he seems to have missed 90 seconds while golfing with the president. PL: Flint finds that the president has been replaced by an actor (Flint's PL: line [with a wistful look] is "An Actor as President?") Flint finds PL: that a group of women have banded together to take over the world PL: through subliminal brainwashing in beauty salons they own. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Spy Adventure Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: In This Our Life PL: A young woman (Stanley Timberlake) dumps her fiancee (Craig Fleming) PL: and runs off with her sister's (Roy Timberlake) husband (Peter PL: Kingsmill). They marry, settle in Baltimore, and Stanley ultimately PL: drives Peter to drink and suicide. Stanley returns home to Richmond only PL: to learn that her sister Roy and old flame Craig have fallen in love and PL: plan to marry. The jealous and selfish Stanley attempts to win back PL: Craig's affections, but her true character is revealed when, rather than PL: take the rap herself, she attempts to pin a hit and run accident on the PL: young black clerk (Parry Clay) who works in Craig's law office. BY: Bonnie Barber <bonbar@mit.edu> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: In the Heat of the Night PL: Virgil Tibbs is a Chicago Homicide detective home to see his mother in the PL: rural south. He is arrested on general principles when a rich white man is PL: found dead, and Tibbs' being Black is enough reason. When his identity is PL: established, his boss offers his services to the small town sheriff who PL: has little experience with murder investigations. As the two policemen PL: learn how to work together, they begin to make progress on the crime. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Mystery Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: In the Line of Fire PL: Veteran Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan is a man haunted PL: by his failure to save President Kennedy while serving PL: protection detail in Dallas. Thirty years later, a man calling PL: himself "Booth" threatens the life of the current President, PL: forcing Horrigan to come back to protection detail to confront PL: the ghosts from his past. BY: Scott Renshaw <as.idc@forsythe.stanford.edu> GE: Suspense Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: In the Name of the Father PL: A small time theif from Belfast, Gerry Conlon, is falsely implicated in the PL: IRA bombing of a pub that kills several people while he is in London. PL: Bullied by the British police, he and four of his friends are coerced PL: into confessing their guilt. Gerry's father and other relatives in London PL: are also implicated in the crime. He spends 14 years in prison with his PL: father trying to prove his innocence with the help of a British attorney, PL: Gareth Peirce. Based on a true story. BY: Liza Esser <essereli@student.msu.edu> PL: Based on the true story of Gerry Conlon, a Belfast youth who - along PL: with family members and friends - was wrongly convicted of bombing two PL: pubs outside of London. A story about the relationship between a father PL: and his son who fought for justice to clear his father's name. BY: Harald Mayr <marvin@augusta.de> GE: Political Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: In-Laws, The PL: In preparation for his daughter's wedding, dentist Sheldon PL: Kornpett meets Vince Ricardo, the groom's father. Vince, a PL: manic fellow who claims to be a government agent, then proceeds PL: to drag Sheldon into a series of chases and misadventures from PL: New York to Central America. BY: Scott Renshaw <as.idc@forsythe.stanford.edu> PL: A mild mannered dentist is about to marry off his daughter but he's never PL: met the boy's father. When the father of the groom comes to dinner, he PL: brings with him weird behavior and an international plot that involves PL: stolen plates for U.S. Currency. This is bad enough, but it occurs to PL: him that no one would be suspicious of a dentist and he begins to ask for PL: a few favors that have people trying to kill our hero. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Spy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Incident in a Small Town (TV) PL: Harman Cobb is a small town lawyer, it's 1941 and his son is fighting PL: in Europe. A German prisoner at the local POW camp is accused of murdering PL: the town's doctor, and Harman is railroaded into defending him. Harman PL: is not at all interested in defending the German; the whole town have PL: booked their seat for the hanging. However, a note written by the victim PL: reveals that the case isn't as straightforward as it first appeared. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Courtroom War WWII Prison Murder ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Indecent Proposal PL: A young couple very much in love are married and have started their PL: respective careers, she as a real estate broker, he as an architect. PL: She finds the perfect spot to build his dream house, and they get loans PL: to finance it. When the recession hits, they stand to lose everything PL: they own, so they go to Vegas to have one shot at winning the money they PL: need. After losing at the tables, they are approached by a millionaire PL: who offers them a million dollars for a night with the wife. Though the PL: couple agrees that this is a way out of their financial dilemma, it PL: threatens to destroy their relationship. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Romance Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade PL: Renowned archeologist and expert in the occult, Dr. Indiana Jones, returns PL: for the 3rd and final Indy film. Teaming up with his father, Indiana PL: sets out to try and find the Holy Grail. Once again, the Nazis are after PL: the same prize, and try to foil Indianas plans. BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Adventure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom PL: Renowned archeologist and expert in the occult, Dr. Indiana Jones, is PL: back in action in the 2nd Indy film. He teams up with a night club PL: singer and a 12 year old named Short Round. They end up in an PL: Indian village, where the people believe evil spirits have taken their PL: children away after a sacred stone was stolen. Indiana agrees to try PL: and retrieve the stone for the villagers. BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Adventure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Inner Sanctum (1991) PL: A woman attempts suicide when she suspects her husband doesn't love PL: her and is having an affair. Now she's wheelchair-bound, and her PL: husband, who indeed doesn't love her and is having an affair, hires a PL: private nurse to look after his wife. The nurse begins to suspect that PL: she was hired because of unproven allegations that she murdered someone's PL: wife in a similar situation, that the husband wants her to murder his PL: wife. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Thriller Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Innerspace PL: Lt. Tuck Pendelton, an American pilot, takes part in an experiment where PL: he is miniaturised inside a submarine-like craft and is to be injected PL: into a rabbit. The bad guys try to steal him, and the machine, while he PL: is miniaturised, and eventually he ends up inside Jack Putter, a PL: hypochondriac. This film borrows ideas from the classic "Fantastic PL: Voyage" and Steve Martins "All of Me". BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Comedy Fantasy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Innocent Blood PL: Marie has two appetites, sex and blood. Her career as a vampire is going PL: along fine until two problems come up, she is interrupted while feeding on PL: Sal (the shark) Macelli and she begins to develope a relationship with the PL: policeman who has been trying to put Sal away. Sal wakes up in the morgue PL: very confused and very thirsty. He goes back to his old haunts and begins PL: to create an organized crime family of vampires while Marie and her PL: policeman lover hunt him. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> PL: Marie, a female vampire with a conscience, decides to restrict her feeding PL: requirements to the violent Pittsburgh gangsters who are at large in the PL: city. Marie's victims become vampires themselves if she fails to PL: permanently immobilise them, so when this happens, the gangsters become PL: a serious problem which she has to fix. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Horror Comedy Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Inserts PL: A once-great silent film director, unable to make the transition PL: to the new talkies, lives as a near-hermit in his Hollywood home, PL: making cheap, silent sex films, and suffering in the knowledge of PL: his sexual impotence, and apathetic about the plans to demolish PL: his home to make way for a motorway. PL: His producer and his producer's girlfriend come by to see how he PL: is doing (and to supply heroin to the actress as her payment). The PL: girlfriend stays to watch them filming, and is deeply impressed by PL: his methods. When the actress goes to the bathroom, and dies there PL: of an overdose, the girlfriend takes her place in the film. Then PL: the producer returns... BY: Steven Pemberton <Steven.Pemberton@cwi.nl> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Inside Moves PL: After a failed suicide attempt leaves him partially crippled, Rory begins PL: spending a lot of time at a neighborhood bar full of interesting misfits. PL: When Jerry the bartender suddenly finds himself playing basketball for PL: the Golden State Warriors, Rory and the rest of the bar regulars hope PL: his success will provide a lift to their sagging spirits. Will Jerry PL: forget his friends? What about his junkie hooker girlfriend and her pimp? BY: Peter L. Blaskowski <pblask@lilly.com> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Insignificance PL: Four 1950's cultural icons (Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, PL: Joe DiMaggio and Senator Joseph MacCarthy) who conceivably could PL: have met and probably didn't, fictionally do in this modern fable PL: of post-WWII America. Visually intriguing, the film has a fluid PL: progression of flash-backs and flash-forwards centering on the PL: fictional Einstein's current observations, childhood memories PL: and apprehensions for the future. BY: Jeanne Baker <jbaker@erim.org> GE: Fantasy-Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Interceptor PL: While test flying a stealth-fighter with a new Virtual-Reality control PL: circuit somewhere over Turkey, Capt. Christopher Winfield encounters PL: problems and must eject from the plane, that subsequently crashes. Capt. PL: Winfield must follow the two remaining stealth-fighters home to the US PL: in the cargo-bay of a transport-plane flown by Maj. Janet Morgan for a PL: court martial. A group of terrorists led by a man called Phillips PL: are very interested in the planes and try to high-jack one in mid-air, PL: thus forcing Capt. Winfield to go into action. BY: Rene Boe Soerensen <rene@iesd.auc.dk> GE: Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Intruder (1988) PL: The ex-boyfriend of a check-out girl at a supermarket returns at closing PL: time to make trouble. They quarrel and the boyfriend is ejected from the PL: store. After they lock the building up to take inventory, the employees PL: start dying off, and the survivors must eventually find a way to escape PL: with their lives. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Intruders (1992) (TV) PL: All over the world, people report they've been visited PL: by aliens, taken aboard spaceships and medically examined. PL: The authorities appear to know all about these visits but PL: won't acknowledge it publicly. This film focuses on two PL: 'victims' who struggle to live normal lives, but the aliens PL: keep coming back. All is explained (perhaps ?) at the end. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Invaders from Mars (1986) PL: In this remake of the classic 50s SF tale, a boy tries to PL: stop an invasion of his town by aliens who take over the PL: the minds of his parents, his least-liked schoolteacher PL: and other townspeople. With the aid of the school nurse PL: the boy enlists the aid of the U.S. army. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) PL: Dr Miles Bennel returns his small town practice to find several of PL: his patients suffering the paranoid delusion that their friends or PL: relatives are impostors. He is initially sceptical, especially when the PL: alleged dopplegangers are able to answer detailed questions about their PL: victim's life, but he is eventually persuaded that something odd PL: has happened, and determines to find out what. PL: This film can be seen as a paranoid 1950s warning against those Damn PL: Commies, or conversely as a metaphor for the tyranny of McCarthy-ism PL: (or the totalitarian system of Your Choice) and has a pro- and epilogue PL: forced upon Siegel by the studio to "lighten the tone". BY: Mark Thompson <mrt@oasis.icl.co.uk> GE: Sci-Fi Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) PL: The first remake of the paranoid infiltration classic moves the PL: setting for the invasion from a small town to the city of San PL: Fransisco and starts as Matthew Bemmell notices that several of his PL: friends are complaining that their close relatives are in some way PL: different. When questioned later they themselves seem changed as they PL: deny everything or make lame excuses. PL: As the invaders increase in number they become more open and Bemmell, PL: who has by now witnessed an attempted "replacement" realises that he PL: and his friends must escape or suffer the same fate. But who can he PL: trust to help him and who has already been snatched? BY: Mark Thompson <mrt@oasis.icl.co.uk> GE: Sci-Fi Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Invisible Maniac, The PL: A budding young scientist lad is caught by his mom checking out the lady PL: across the way with his telescope, whereupon she lectures him on the PL: evils of women. Twenty years later and all grown up, the scientist PL: announces his theories of invisibility, and his colleagues laugh, to which PL: he responds by killing four of them. He escapes from the loony bin and PL: gets a job teaching summer school physics at a high school. The students PL: decide to tease him about the same time as he perfects his invisible PL: juice, and he goes on a spree of vengeance. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Ipcress File, The PL: A number of leading Western scientists have been kidnapped PL: only to reappear a fews days later. Unfortunately, each scientist has PL: been brain washed and is now completely useless. The British send their PL: agent, Harry Palmer, to investigate. Palmer is surprised to be selected PL: for such a mission (considering his past) and believes he has been chosen PL: because he is expendable. BY: Dave Jenkins <david.jenkins@smallworld.co.uk> GE: Thriller Spy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: It Could Happen to You PL: Charlie Lang, a New York cop with a heart of gold, wins a share of the PL: lottery. However, the day before, having been caught without enough money PL: to tip waitress (Yvonne), Charlie offers her half the winnings. PL: Charlie's wife, Muriel, is the complete opposite of her husband. She wants PL: more and more money, and she's not impressed by Charlie's honest and kind PL: nature. As Charlie and Muriel grow apart, Charlie and Yvonne grow together. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: It Happens Every Spring PL: A college professor is working on a long term experiment when a baseball PL: comes through the window destroying all his glassware. The resultant PL: fluid causes the baseball to be repelled by wood. Suddenly he realizes PL: the possibilities and takes a leave of absence to go to New York to pitch PL: in the big leagues where he becomes a star and propels his team to the PL: world series. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: comedy Baseball ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World PL: After a long prison sentence Smiler Grogan is heading at high speed to a PL: California park where he hid $350,000 from a job 15 years previously. He PL: accidentally careers over a cliff in view of four cars whose occupants PL: go down to help. The dying Grogan gives details of where the money is PL: buried and when the witnesses fail to agree on sharing the cash, a crazy PL: chase develops across the state. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: It's a Wonderful Life PL: George Bailey has so many problems he is thinking about ending it all - PL: and it's Christmas ! As the angels discuss George, we see his life PL: in flashback. As George is about to jump from a bridge, he ends up PL: rescuing his guardian angel, Clarence. Clarence then shows George PL: what his town would have looked like if it hadn't been for all his good PL: deeds over the years. Will Clarence be able to convince George to PL: return to his family and forget about suicide ? BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Italian Job, The PL: Charlie has just left prison, and now wants to do a 'big job'. The job PL: is to steal $4m of gold arriving in Italy from China. PL: Charlie's job needs financing, so he goes to Mr Bridger (a Mafia-type boss) PL: who is in prison (Charlie has to break in !). In Italy, a clever plan is PL: used to distract the authorities, while the raiders make their get-away PL: in three Minis. This leads to an excellent car chase sequence through PL: Italian streets, buildings, rivers, sewers, highways and rooftops which PL: lasts for several minutes. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Crime Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Jacknife PL: A conflict develops between a troubled Vietnam veteran and the PL: sister he lives with when she becomes involved romantically PL: with the army buddy who reminds him of the tragic battle they PL: both survived. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Jake Speed PL: When her sister is kidnapped by white slavers, only Grandpa knows what to PL: do. He puts in a call to a fictional hero, Jake Speed. She is amazed to PL: find that he actually exists, and that as flesh and blood, is much less PL: formidable than his reputation. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Action Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Jamaica Inn (1939) PL: Irish orphan girl Mary is sent to stay with Aunt Patience and Uncle Joss in PL: Cornwall. Joss is the landlord of Jamaica Inn and also the head of a PL: gang of pirates who lure ships to their doom on the rocky coast. Mary soon PL: finds herself in trouble when she discovers the truth. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: January Man PL: Nick and Frank Starkey were both policemen. A scandal forced Frank to PL: leave the force, now a serial killer has driven the police to take him PL: back. A web that includes Nick's wife, bribery, and corruption all PL: are in the background as Frank tries to uncover the secret of where PL: the killer will strike next, and finally must lay a trap without the PL: police. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Mystery Thriller Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Jason and the Argonauts PL: Jason has been prophesied to take the throne of Thessaly. When he PL: saves Pelias from drowning, but does not recognize him as the man PL: who had earlier killed his father, Pelias tells Jason to travel to PL: Colchis to find the Golden Fleece. Jason follows his advice and PL: assembles a sailing crew of the finest men in Greece, including PL: Hercules. They are under the protection of Hera, queen of the gods. PL: Their voyage is replete with battles against harpies, a giant bronze PL: Talos, a hydra, and an animated skeleton army, all brought to life PL: by the special effects wizardry of Ray Harryhausen. BY: Rick Gregory <rag.apa@email.apa.org> GE: Fantasy Adventure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Jaws PL: The peaceful community of Amity island is being terrorised. There is PL: something in the sea that is attacking swimmers. They can no longer PL: enjoy the sea and the sun as they used to, and the spreading fear is PL: affecting the numbers of tourists that are normally attracted to this PL: island. After many attempts the great white shark won't go away and PL: sheriff Brody, with friends Hooper and Quint decide to go after the shark PL: and kill it. BY: Sami Al-Taher <smmat@ukc.ac.uk> GE: Thriller Suspense ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Jaws 2 PL: The chief of police of Amity Island must contend again with a PL: man-eating great white shark when a group of boating teenagers PL: including his son are attacked. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Jaws 3-D PL: A biologist and workers at an ocean amusement park attempt to PL: hunt down a murderous great white shark who apparently blames PL: them for the death of her progeny. Originally released as 3D PL: in the theatrical release. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Jaws: The Revenge PL: The long suffering wife of Chief Brody decides she's had enough of PL: Amity and heads off to the Caribbean to join her son, daughter-in-law PL: and grandchild. However, the shark with an attitude just won't leave her PL: alone... did it follow her ?, is it the same shark ?. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Horror Sea ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Jean de Florette PL: Set in rural France, this is the classic tale of a hunchback peasant PL: (Depardieu) who encounters greed and jealousy as he searches for the PL: spring that will bring him prosperity. The story continues in PL: Manon des Sources (Manon of the Spring). BY: Martin Urch c/o <ccsmh@midge.bath.ac.uk> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Jennifer Eight PL: A big city copy from LA moves to a small town police force and immediately PL: finds himself investigating a murder. Using theories rejected by his PL: colleagues, the cop, John Berlin, meets a young blind woman named Helena, PL: who he is attracted to. Meanwhile, a serial killer is on the loose and only PL: John knows it. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Thriller Murder ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Jeremiah Johnson PL: A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes PL: the unwilling object of a long vendetta by Indians when he PL: proves to be the match of their warriors in one-to-one combat PL: on the early frontier. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Western ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Jesus of Montreal PL: A group of actors putting on an interpretive Passion Play PL: in Montreal begin to experience a meshing of their PL: characters and their private lives as the production takes PL: form against the growing opposition of the Catholic church. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Drama Religious ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Jetsons: The Movie PL: George Jetson gets a job offer: he can run his own sprocket factory. PL: However, the factory is on some distant planet and he's not the first PL: employee from Spacely Sprockets inc. to be sent to the factory. It PL: turns out that the plant is sabotaged because it affects the caves PL: underneath. How does George satisfy his boss and stops the plant from PL: destroying the land of the creatures living below the factory? BY: Ivo Kroone <ab2693@triton.heao.hsa.nl> GE: Animated ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Jewel of the Nile, The PL: This is the sequel to "Romancing the Stone" where Jack and Joan have their PL: yacht and easy life, but are gradually getting bored with each other and PL: this way of life. Joan accepts an invitation to go to some middle eastern PL: country as a guest of the sheik, but there she is abducted and finds her- PL: self involved with the "jewel". Jack decides to rescue her with his new PL: partner Ralph. They all go from one adventure to another... What is the PL: story of this "jewel"? BY: Sami Al-Taher <smmat@ukc.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Adventure Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Joe Versus the Volcano PL: Diagnosed as having only a few months to live, Joe is persuaded PL: by a rich businessman to jump into a volcano on a Pacific island PL: in order to satisfy the inhabitants. On his trip to the island, Joe PL: meets Meg Ryan playing three different characters. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Johnny Handsome PL: A career criminal who has been deformed deformed since birth is given a PL: new face by a kindly doctor and paroled from prison. It appears that PL: he has gone straight, but he is really planning his revenge on the man PL: who killed his father-figure and sent him to prison. BY: Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Jokers, The PL: Oliver Reed and Michael Crawford play two brothers who are always trying PL: to find some way to succeed with cleverness rather than simple drudgery. PL: Crawford is constantly living in his brother's shadow as the one who PL: gets caught. After Crawford is forced to resign from the army after PL: an episode of unappreciated cleverness, the two decide their careers would PL: go better if there was a large amount of publicity, so they decide to PL: steal the crown jewels from the tower of London. Bombs, misdirection, PL: disguises and acting allow them to enter the tower with all of the alarms PL: turned off. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Journalist, The PL: Comedy about a Journalist on A Sydney Newspaper BY: Anonymous GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Ju Dou PL: A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill PL: in rural China conceives a boy with her husband's nephew but PL: is forced to raise her son as her husband's heir without PL: revealing his parentage in this circular tragedy. Filmed in PL: glowing technicolour, this tale of romantic and familial love PL: in the face of unbreakable tradition is more universal than its PL: setting. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Judgment Night PL: Four pals are on their way to a boxing game, but gets stuck in heavy PL: traffic. To get to the game in time they take the first exit they find PL: to find another way to the game. As they are driving around lost in PL: gang-land they get stuck and witness a brutal murder. The killer wants PL: no witnesses and tries to kill them too. The four pals get away the PL: first time, but the killer is soon back on their tail again while they PL: are trying to find help in the middle of nowhere. BY: Lars J. Aas <larsa@colargol.edb.tih.no> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Judgment at Nuremberg PL: In 1948, an American court in occupied Germany tries four Nazi judges PL: for war crimes. BY: Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Jumpin' Jack Flash PL: Terry works for a bank, and uses computers to communicate with PL: clients all over the world. One day she gets a strange message PL: from an unknown source. The message is coded. After decoding PL: the message, Terry becomes embroiled in an espionage ring. People PL: are killed, and Terry is chased. Throughout she remains in contact PL: with this unknown person, who needs Terry to help save his life. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Espionage ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Jungle Book, The (1967) PL: Disney animation inspired by Rudyard Kiplings "Mowgli" story. Mowgli PL: is a boy who has been raised by wolves in the Indian jungle. When the PL: wolves hear that the fierce tiger, Shere Kahn, is nearby, they decide to PL: send Mowgli to a local "man tribe". On his way to the village, Mowgli PL: meets many animal characters in this musical tale. When Shere Kahn learns PL: of Mowgli's presence, he tracks him down. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Children Animated Musical Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Juno and the Paycock PL: A poor Dublin family gets into trouble during the uprising of the 1920s BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Jurassic Park PL: Scientists develop a means of bringing dinosaurs to life using PL: DNA taken from dino' blood, which has been preserved inside insects PL: encased in amber. Whilst Hammond is showing off his dinosaur 'theme park' PL: to a selected audience [a lawyer (Gerrano), mathematician (Malcolm), dino' PL: expert (Grant), palaeobotanist (Sattler) and his grandchildren (Tim & Lex)], PL: Nedry (computer expert) disables the security system so that he can make PL: his escape with some stolen embryos. This enables all the dinosaurs to PL: escape their enclosures... Look out the dinosaurs are coming ! BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Adventure Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Just Like a Woman PL: Gerald is a yuppie-like transvestite in his thirties. His wife arrives PL: home earlier than expected and discovers female attire spread over their PL: apartment. Not knowing anything about his habit, she misinterprets this PL: and throws him (and the attire) out of their home and marriage. He rents PL: a room in Monica's house, recently divorced and around 50. Their relation- PL: ship evolves from landlady/tenant over friends to lovers. Monica learns PL: about, begins to understand and finally appreciates and supports Gerald- PL: ine, Gerald's alter ego. His transvestitism, a rarely filmed subject, PL: it's ups and downs, is treated with a lot of respect, warmth and humour. BY: Jan-Olov Agren <ja111@lu.erisoft.se> GE: Drama Comedy Transvestitism ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: K-9 PL: The extravagant cop Michael Dooley needs some help to fight a drug dealer PL: who has tried to kill him. A "friend" gives him a dog named Jerry Lee, PL: who has been trained to smell drugs. With his help, Dooley sets out to PL: put his enemy behind the bars, but Jerry Lee has a personality of his PL: own and works only when he wants to. On the other hand, the dog is quite PL: good at destroying Dooley's car, house and sex-life... BY: Flavio Rizzardi <spillo@maya.dei.unpid.it> GE: Comedy Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Kafka PL: Kafka, an insurance worker gets embroiled in an underground group PL: after a co-worker is murdered. The underground group is responsible for PL: bombings all over town, attempting to thwart a secret organization that PL: controls the major events in society. He eventually penetrates the PL: secret organization and must confront them. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama Surreal Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Kagemusha PL: When a powerful warlord in medieval Japan dies, a poor actor PL: recruited to impersonate him finds difficulty living up PL: to his role and clashes with the spirit of the warlord during PL: turbulent times in the kingdom. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Drama War Historical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Kalifornia PL: Brian Kessler, a journalist researching serial killers, and his PL: photographer girlfriend Carrie set out on a cross-country tour PL: of the sites of the killings. Sharing the ride and their PL: expenses are Early Grayce, a paroled white trash criminal, and PL: his girlfriend Adele. As the trip progresses, Early begins to PL: appear more and more unstable, and Brian and Carrie begin to PL: fear that they may have a real-life serial killer in the back PL: seat of their car. BY: Scott Renshaw <as.idc@forsythe.stanford.edu> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Keep, The PL: Nazis make an old East European town's Keep their base. The local people PL: fear the place is haunted. As soldier after soldier is killed by the PL: beast in the Keep, the Nazis have no option but to seek the aid of a PL: Jew to translate some manuscripts. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Horror War WWII ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Kelly's Heroes PL: During World War II a German General is captured by the PL: Americans but before he can be interrogated an artillery PL: barrage hits the camp. However, Private Kelly manages to PL: reach the General, get him drunk and learn that he is on a PL: secret mission to ship $16,000,000 of gold to a base in PL: France. Kelly is determined to get the gold and plans for PL: himself and a few of his fellow soldiers to slip into PL: enemy territory and steal the bullion. BY: Dave Jenkins <david.jenkins@smallworld.co.uk> GE: Action Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Kidnapped (1986) PL: Sisters Bonnie and Debbie visit San Diego on Debbie's sixteenth birthday. PL: After telling a sleazy pickup artist to take a hike, he follows them to PL: the zoo and has Debbie kidnapped on behalf of his sleazy boss in order PL: to shoot her full of dope and make her perform in porno films. Despite PL: admonitions from the abductors, Bonnie teams up with detective Vince PL: McCarthy, and together they try to infiltrate the porno industry in order PL: to rescue Debbie. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Killer Nerd PL: A nerd is harassed by punks, and is the object of ridicule at work. PL: Enamoured by a co-worker, he buys a tape series on how to be cool, summons PL: up his nerve, and goes to the co-worker's house, only to find her in the PL: clutches of another co-worker. Dejected, he goes out on the town and PL: parties with some babes, but when their friends, who turn out to be the PL: same punks that harassed him earlier, trash him again something snaps, and PL: the irritants in his life begin experiencing an attrition problem. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Killer, The (1989) PL: A violent Hong Kong action film, this is the story of an assassin, PL: Jeffrey Chow (aka Mickey Mouse) who takes one last job so he can PL: retire and care for his girlfriend Jenny. When his employers betray PL: him, he reluctantly joins forces with Inspector Lee (aka Dumbo), the PL: cop who is pursuing him. Together, the new friends face the final PL: confrontation of the gangsters out to kill them. BY: Jeff Hansen <jmh@umich.edu> GE: Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Killing Zoe PL: An American vault-cracker ( Zed ) meets up with an old friend ( Eric ) PL: in Paris. Eric and his gang have planned to raid the only bank in the PL: city which is open on Bastille day. Zed is trapped in a situation beyond PL: his control when heroin abuse, poor planning and a call-girl named Zoe PL: all conspire to turn the robbery into a very bloody seige. BY: Peter Goldsack <peteg@hpsqf.sqf.hp.com> GE: Crime Thriller Violence ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: King Kong (1933) PL: An expedition exploring a remote island capture a gigantic PL: ape and bring him back to New York for exhibition. A beautiful PL: actress who accompanies them is menaced when the monster's PL: love for her causes him to break out. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Adventure Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: King Kong Escapes PL: King Kong is brought in by an evil ruler to dig for precious gems in PL: a mine when the robot MechaKong is unable to do the task. This leads to PL: the machine and the real Kong engaging in a tremendous battle that PL: threatens to level Japan. BY: Todd A. Bobenrieth <TAB146@PSUVM.EDU> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: King Kong vs. Godzilla PL: An exploration team discovers a lost tribe of savages and their god, PL: a giant ape on a tropical island. They bring the monster to Japan PL: just in time to fight Godzilla, who has appeared out of an iceberg. BY: Todd A. Bobenrieth <TAB146@PSUVM.EDU> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: King of Hearts PL: During the latter part of World War I, Private Charles Plumpick is PL: chosen to go into the French town of Marville and disconnect a bomb PL: that the German army has planted. However, Charles is chased by PL: some Germans and finds himself holed up at the local insane asylum, PL: where the inmates are convinced that he is the "King of Hearts." PL: Feeling obligated to help the inmates, Charles attempts to lead PL: them out of town, but they are afraid to leave and frolic about the PL: streets in gay costumes. Will Charles be able to deactivate the bomb PL: in time and save his newfound friends? BY: Rick Gregory <rag.apa@email.apa.org> GE: Fantasy War ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: King of Marvin Gardens, The PL: 'It's Monopoly out there'. Jason Staebler, The King of PL: Marvin Gardens, has gone directly to jail, lives on the PL: Boardwalk and fronts for the local mob in Atlantic City. PL: He is also a dreamer who asks his brother, David, a radio PL: personality from Philadelphia to help him build a paradise PL: on a Pacific Island - asking him to believe in yet another PL: of his dreams, yet another of his get-rich-quick schemes. PL: But luck is against them both and the game ends badly - real PL: life reduced to radio drama. BY: Dave Cook <cookd@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: King of New York PL: A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out PL: all his competition and distribute the profits of his PL: operations to the city's poor in this stylish and ultraviolent PL: modern twist on Robin Hood. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Crime ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: King of the Hill PL: Depression era movie. The protagonist is a little boy who's mother PL: is forced into a sanitarium and who's father gets a traveling PL: salesman job. The boy fends for himself in a seedy SRO hotel. The focus PL: is on the boy's relationships with others and his struggle to survive. BY: Mark Allyn <allyn@netcom.com> GE: Childrens Historical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Knight Moves PL: A chess grandmaster is in a big tournament, and when his lover is found PL: painted up and the blood drained out of her body he becomes a chief PL: suspect. After he gets a call from the killer urging him to try and PL: figure out the game, he cooperates with police and a psychologist to try PL: and catch the killer, but doubts linger about the grandmaster's innocence PL: as the string of grisly murders continues. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Mystery Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Kuffs PL: George Kuffs didn't finish high-school, just lost his job and his girl- PL: friend who still is in college is pregnant. Since he can't see how he PL: can support her, he thinks she is better off without him. So he visits PL: his elder brother, Brad, to squeze him for a loan so he can go to Brazil PL: where there's a gold-rush going on. Unfortunately Brad is killed and PL: George is suddenly the owner of Brad's "patrol special" district. BY: Lars J. Aas <larsa@colargol.edb.tih.no> GE: Action Comedy Police ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: La Femme Nikita PL: Nikita is a young lady who with two Nihilist friends commit robbery and PL: murder while on drugs. After her trial she is not executed or taken to PL: prison, but to a school for special operatives. She is told that Nikita PL: no longer exists and she will be trained to pay back society for what she PL: has done, as a spy/assassin. She is trained for over two years and with PL: no warning is handed a gun in a restaurant and told to kill the man at the PL: next table as her handler leaves. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Spy Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Labyrinth (1986) PL: Young Sarah (Jennifer Connelly) is left home alone by her parents and she PL: has to babysit her little brother Toby. But the baby keeps crying and PL: Sarah, while telling him a story to make him sleep, inadvertently conjures PL: from a fantasy world the King of Goblin (David Bowie) who steals the child PL: and brings him to his castle in the middle of a labyrinth. Sarah has to PL: rescue him before midnight, or the baby will became a goblin... BY: Flavio Rizzardi <spillo@maya.dei.unpid.it> GE: Fantasy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Labyrinth of Passion PL: A camp melodrama/comedy about Sexilia (a nymphomaniac), Sadec (a gay PL: Islamic terrorist), Riza Niro (the son of the emperor of Tiran), and PL: Queti (the daughter of a dry-cleaner). When Riza Niro discovers that PL: Sadec and his colleagues are after him, he disguises himself as a PL: punk rocker, and falls in love with the stunning Sexilia, his first PL: straight relationship. Meanwhile Queti, Sexilia's "biggest fan", PL: helps Sexilia come to terms with her new life-style. BY: Tristan H E White (THEWHITE@qmw.ac.uk) GE: Melodrama Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Lady Jane PL: The death of King Henry VIII throws his kingdom into chaos because PL: of succession disputes. His weak son Edward, is on his deathbed. PL: Anxious to keep England true to the Reformation, a scheming PL: minister John Dudley marries off his son, Guildford to Lady Jane PL: Grey, whom he places on the throne after Edward dies. At first PL: hostile to each other, Guildford and Jane fall in love. But PL: they cannot withstand the course of power which will lead to PL: their ultimate downfall. BY: Samantha Santa Maria <TE7441667@NTUVAX.NTU.AC.SG> GE: Historical Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Lady Vanishes, The (1938) PL: Travellers on a trans-European train are delayed for a night due to bad PL: weather in an unnamed country. The passengers cram into the small village PL: hotel where socialite Iris Henderson meets an old governess called Miss PL: Froy. Shortly after the journey restarts, Miss Froy disappears. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Thriller Railway ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Lady and the Tramp PL: Lady, a golden cocker spaniel, meets up with a mongrel dog who calls PL: himself the Tramp. He is obviously from the wrong side of town, but PL: happenings at Lady's home make her decide to travel with him for a PL: while. This turns out to be a bad move, as no dog is above the law. BY: Tim Pickett <quetzal@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au> GE: Animated Childrens Musical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Ladyhawke PL: Philipe Gastone, a thief, escapes from the dungeon at Aquila, sparking a PL: manhunt. He is nearly captured when Captain Navarre befriends him. Navarre PL: has been hunted by the Bishop's men for two years, ever since he escaped PL: with the Lady Isabeau who the Bishop has lusted after. Navarre and Isabeau PL: have a curse that the Bishop has placed on them that causes Navarre to be PL: a wolf during the night and Isabeau to be a hawk during the day. Navarre PL: insists that Philipe help him re-enter the city to help him kill the PL: heavily guarded Bishop. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> PL: Philip Gaston, called The Mouse (Matthew Broderick) escapes from the prison PL: of the medieval city of Aquila. Chased by the guards of the evil Bishop of PL: the city, Philip meets a mysterious knight (Rutger Hauer) with a beautiful PL: hawk and begins to follow him. Philip soon discovers that the knight PL: has been cursed by the Bishop, so that when the night falls... BY: Flavio Rizzardi <spillo@maya.dei.unpid.it> GE: Fantasy Adventure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Ladykillers, The (1955) PL: A gang planning a 'job' find themselves living with a little old PL: lady, who thinks they are musicians. When the gang set out to kill PL: Mrs Wilberforce, they run into one problem after another, and they PL: get what they deserve. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Ealing ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Laputa: Castle in the Sky PL: A young boy stumbles into a mysterious girl who floats down from the sky. PL: The girl, Sheet, was chased by pirates, army and government secret agents. PL: In saving her life, they begin a high flying adventure that goes through PL: all sorts of flying machine, eventually searching for Sheet's identity PL: in a floating castle of a lost civilization. BY: Tzung-I Lin <tzung@hugo.att.com> GE: Japanese-Animation Adventure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Laser Moon PL: Someone is killing women with a laser to the temple during the full moon PL: (hence the title, get it?). An all-night DJ whose marriage and ratings PL: are disintegrating gets the killer to call him. He helps the detectives PL: to try and route him out, but risks the wrath of the killer against PL: himself or his estranged wife. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Lassiter PL: Lassiter is a handsome jewel thief operating in London in the late 1930s. PL: One day he is arrested and told that if he wishes to avoid prison, he must PL: break into the heavily guarded German Embassy in London and steal millions PL: in Gems. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Mystery Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Last Action Hero PL: Young Danny Madigan is a big fan of Jack Slater, a larger-than-life PL: action hero played by Arnold Schwarzenegger. When his best friend, PL: Nick the projectionist, gives him a magic ticket to the new Jack PL: Slater film, Danny is transported into Slater's world, where the PL: good guys always win. One of Slater's enemies, Benedict the hitman, PL: gets hold of the ticket and ends up in Danny's world, where he PL: realises that if he can kill Schwarzenegger, Slater will be no PL: more. Slater and Danny must travel back and stop him. BY: Alexander Lum <aj_lum@postoffice.utas.edu.au> PL: Danny Madigan knows all the first 3 Jack Slater movies in and out. The 4th PL: one is just about to be released too, and with a magical ticket Danny really PL: gets to know that movie in and out too, literaly speaking. During one of PL: the action climaxes Danny is transported into the movie, into a world PL: following other rules than the real one. Benedict, one of the evil guys, PL: gets hold of the ticket and escapes out to the real world, a world where PL: evil guys can actually win. Danny and Jack follows him back to the real PL: world to get back the ticket and stop Benedict from killing the actor PL: playing Jack. BY: Lars J. Aas <larsa@colargol.edb.tih.no> GE: Action Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Last Boy Scout, The PL: A down and out cynical detective teams up with a down and out PL: ex-quarterback to try and solve a murder case involving a pro football PL: team and a politician. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Action Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Last Emperor, The PL: A biography of Aisin-Gioro "Henry" Pu Yi, who at the age of three was PL: named the Emperor of China, and dies as a gardener at the Botanical PL: Gardens of Peking. Told in an interesting flashback/flashforward PL: style, we learn of Pu Yi's childhood, the time he spent imprisoned PL: in the Forbidden City, his term as the emperor of Japans Manchukuo, and PL: his eventual release back to public life in 1959. BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Historical Biography ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Last Party, The PL: Robert Downey, Jr. gives reports and interviews with other stars in PL: this documentary about the Democratic National Convention in 1992. BY: Kevin <Kibble@vm.Temple.Edu> GE: Documentary Political ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Last Starfighter, The PL: Alex Rogan lives in a trailer court where his mother is manager and everyone PL: is like a big extended family. He beats the Starfighter Video Game to the PL: applause of everyone in the court and later that day finds he has been PL: turned down for a scholarship to college. Depressed, he meets Centauri, PL: an alien with a proposition, take the skills he showed on the video game PL: into real combat to protect the galaxy from an invasion. Alex gets as far PL: as the Starfighter base before deciding the trailer court wasn't all that PL: bad. Arriving back home, he finds an alien 'hit beast' is stalking him. PL: Alex returns to the Starfighter base to find all the pilots have been PL: killed and he is the galaxy's only chance to save itself from invasion and PL: to defeat the invaders who are paying the hit beasts to stalk him. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Last Wave, The PL: A Sydney lawyer has more to worry about than higher-than-average PL: rainfall when he is called upon to defend five Aboriginals in court. PL: Determined to break their silence and discover the truth behind the PL: hidden society he suspects lives in his city, the Lawyer is drawn PL: further, and more intimately, into a prophesy that threatens a PL: new Armageddon, wherein all the continent shall drown. BY: David Carroll <davidc@atom.ansto.gov.au> GE: Mystery Religious ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Last Year at Marienbad PL: In a huge, old-fashioned luxury hotel a stranger tries to persuade a PL: married woman to run away with him, but it seems she hardly remembers PL: the affair they may have had (or not?) last year at Marienbad. BY: Otto Oberhauser <Oberhauser@cc.univie.ac.at> GE: Romance Mystery Monologue Cult ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Last of the Mohicans, The (1992) PL: British and French troops do battle in colonial America, with aid from PL: various native American war parties. The British troops enlist the help PL: of local colonial militia men, who are reluctant to leave their homes PL: undefended. A budding romance between a British officer's daughter and PL: an independent man who was reared as a Mohawk complicates things for the PL: British officer, as the adopted Mohawk pursues his own agenda despite PL: the wrath of different people on both sides of the conflict. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> PL: As the English and French soldiers battle for control of the North American PL: colonies in the 18th century, the settlers and native Americans are forced PL: to take sides. Cora and her sister Alice unwittingly walk into trouble PL: but are saved by Hawkeye, an orphaned settler adopted by the last of the PL: Mohicans. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Historical War Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Last of the Red Hot Lovers PL: A middle aged restaurateur begins to feel the desire to roam and realizes PL: that one day each week, his mother's apartment will be empty all afternoon. PL: He makes several attempts at seduction, only to learn that it is much more PL: complicated and difficult than he could have imagined. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Late for Dinner PL: Two young men, one in need of medical attention, are cryogenically frozen PL: in the early 1960s. The two are preoccupied with the fact that the police PL: are pursuing them to realise what they are doing. The next thing they know PL: is that they are in a strange new world (thirty years on). BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Drama Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Laura (1944) PL: Detective Mark McPherson investigates the killing of Laura, found dead on PL: her apartment floor before the movie starts. McPherson builds a mental PL: picture of the dead girl from the suspects whom he interviews. He is helped PL: by the striking painting of the late lamented Laura hanging on her PL: apartment wall. But who would have wanted to kill a girl with whom every PL: man she met seemed to fall in love? To make matters worse, McPherson finds PL: himself falling under her spell too. Then one night, halfway through his PL: investigations, something seriously bizarre happens to make him re-think PL: the whole case. BY: Steve Hosgood <iiitsh@pyr.swan.ac.uk> GE: Crime Mystery Film-Noir ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Lawnmower Man, The PL: A scientist performs experiments involving intelligence enhancing drugs PL: and virtual reality on a simple-minded gardener. He puts the gardener PL: on an extensive schedule of learning, and quickly he becomes brilliant. PL: But at this point the gardener has a few ideas of his own on how the PL: research should continue, and the scientist begins losing control of PL: his experiments. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> PL: A trip into virtual reality. Angelo has developed a virtual reality system, PL: which truly immerses the user into the world of computer make-believe. PL: The lawnmower man, Jobe, who is retarded, is put 'into' the system to PL: find out if his intelligence can be improved. It can, but not without PL: some serious side-effects. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Sci-Fi Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Lawrence of Arabia PL: A biography of T.E.Lawrence. The young lieutenant Lawrence manages to PL: get a job as an observer with Prince Feisal, the leader of an Arab PL: tribal army. Lawrence decides to stay and help Feisal. His PL: adventures are detailed by Jackson Bentley, a journalist. BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Biography Adventure War ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: League of Their Own, A PL: The Second world war is beginning. Most of the baseball players are being PL: drafted. In an attempt to save the sport, several owners formed the All PL: American Girls Baseball League. The film begins in the 90s as one of the PL: players from the 40s leaves to attend their installation in the Baseball PL: Hall of Fame. The story told in one long flashback, is of two sisters who PL: play in the inaugural year of the league. They have to establish PL: themselves with baseball professionals, the public and each other as they PL: try and live the lives of women athletes in the 1940s. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Historical Sport ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Lean on Me PL: An arrogant and unorthodox teacher returns as principal to the PL: idyllic high school from which he had earlier been fired to PL: find it a den of drug abuse, gang violence and urban despair. PL: Eventually his successful, though unorthodox, methods lead to PL: a clash with city officials that threatens to undo all his PL: efforts. Based on a true story. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Leather Jackets PL: Claudia, a girl who gets around, finally lands her dream man in PL: Mickey. However, Mickey's friend Dobbs spoils their nuptial plans PL: when the thugs of a Vietnamese gangster that he has robbed, come PL: looking for him. In order to save Dobbs, Mickey and Claudia, hide PL: him in the boot of their car as they take off to LA. Things don't PL: go as smoothly as planned, and Mickey finds out more about his PL: fiancee than he ever needs to know. BY: Samantha Santa Maria <TE7441667@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III PL: This, (hopefully) the last sequel to "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" has PL: poor Leatherface trying to make half as much money as Jason (from the PL: "Friday the Thirteenth" series) even though he (Leatherface) came first. BY: Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Left Hand of God, The PL: Humphry Bogart plays a soldier of fortune in China during the warlord PL: phase of it's history. When he finds his employer will not allow him PL: to leave he is near despair until he finds a priest among the dead. He PL: changes clothes with the priest and goes to the mission mentioned in PL: the priest's letters. There he finds that people continue to depend PL: on him, but in a much different way, and that his techniques must be PL: different. He also begins to fall in love with one of the western women PL: but obviously can't do much about it while masquerading as a priest. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Drama War ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Legend PL: A demon who seeks to create eternal night by destroying the PL: last of the unicorns and marrying a fairy princess is opposed PL: by the forest boy Jack and his elven allies in this magical PL: fantasy. Two different versions of this picture feature PL: soundtracks by either Tangerine Dream or Jerry Goldsmith. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Fantasy Adventure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Legend of the Rollerblade 7, The PL: In a post-apocalyptic world where rollerblading is the chief means of PL: travel, the evil Pharoah sends his minions outside the Wheel Zone to PL: abduct a psychic. The psychic has been trained in the way of the samurai, PL: but has shunned her training to become a Passive. Once abducted, her PL: brother joins forces with others to try and rescue her, but they face many PL: challenges from the Dark Side. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Action Cult ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Leningrad Cowboys Go America PL: The Leningrad Cowboys, a group of Russian musicians, and their manager, PL: travel to America seeking fame and fortune. As they cross the country, PL: trying to get to a wedding in Mexico, they are followed by the village PL: idiot, who wishes to join the band. BY: Alexander Lum <aj_lum@postoffice.utas.edu.au> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Lenny PL: Interview-style biography of controversial and pioneering PL: stand-up comedian Lenny Bruce. The film traces Bruce from his PL: beginnings as a Catskills comic to his later underground PL: popularity based on his anti-establishment politics and his PL: scatological humor. BY: Scott Renshaw <as.idc@forsythe.stanford.edu> GE: Biography Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Less Than Zero PL: Clay, an eighteen-year-old freshman, comes back from his first PL: term at a college in New Hampshire to spend his Christmas vacation PL: with his broken-up wealthy family in Los Angeles. His former PL: girlfriend, Blair, is now involved with his ex-best-friend, Julian. PL: She warns Clay that Julian needs help: he is using a lot of cocaine PL: and has huge debts. What follows is a look at the youth culture of PL: wealthy post adolescents in Beverly Hills with a strong anti-drug PL: message. Apart from the setting and the names, the film has very PL: little to do with Bret Easton Ellis's book by the same title on PL: which it was based. BY: Jeroen van Bree <J.vBree@kub.nl> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Let Him Have It PL: In 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a PL: group of petty criminals led by Chris Craig, a teenager with a PL: fondness for American gangster films. Chris and Derek's PL: friendship leads to their involvement in the true case which PL: would forever shake England's belief in capital punishment. BY: Scott Renshaw <as.idc@forsythe.stanford.edu> GE: Drama Crime Historical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Lethal Weapon PL: Roger Murtaugh has just turned 50, and only has a few more years to go PL: before he retires from the Los Angeles Police Department. Martin Riggs PL: has just lost his wife in an accident, and doesn't care if he lives or PL: dies. When they are paired together, Murtaugh has problems with Riggs PL: suicidal attitude towards work, as they investigate a drugs baron dubbed PL: "The General". BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Crime Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Lethal Weapon 2 PL: Riggs and Murtaugh are at it again in this sequel to the original PL: Lethal Weapon in 1987. When a red BMW crashes while they are chasing PL: it, they discover the trunk is full of South African Krugerands. PL: Their boss assigns them to protect a federal witness named Leo Getz PL: to try and keep them out of trouble. When the witness reveals he has PL: been doing business with South Africans, the story evolves into a fast PL: moving chase. BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Crime Thriller Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Lethal Weapon 3 PL: Police officers Riggs and Murtaugh team together for the third time. PL: This time they must track down a guy who has robbed weapons from the PL: Los Angeles police depot. Riggs and Murtaugh also have to deal with PL: Leo Getz, the hectic guy from Lethal Weapon 2 and Riggs has very PL: special problems with a young and beautiful female police officer. BY: Harald Mayr <marvin@augusta.de> GE: Crime Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Leviathan (1989) PL: Underwater deep-sea miners encounter a Soviet wreck and bring PL: back a dangerous cargo to their base on the ocean floor with PL: horrifying results. In a story owing a lot to _Alien_ and PL: _The Thing_, the crew of the mining base must fight to PL: survive against a genetic mutation that hunts them down one PL: by one. Part of a wave of underwater movies including PL: _The Abyss_ and _Deep Star Six_. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Sci-Fi Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Licence to Kill PL: Shortly after an important drugs bust, CIA agent Felix Leighter is PL: married, but when the drug lord he arrested escapes, kills his wife PL: and mutilates Leighter his old friend British agent James Bond seeks PL: revenge. When "M" orders 007 to drop the matter and start PL: a new assignment, Bond deserts Her Majesty's Secret Service and embarks PL: on a world wide personal vendetta to kill those responsible. BY: Dave Jenkins <david.jenkins@smallworld.co.uk> GE: Spy Action Bond ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, The PL: A no account outlaw establishes his own particular brand of PL: law and order and builds a town on the edges of civilization PL: in this farcical western. With the aid of an old law text PL: and unpredictable notions Roy Bean distinguishes between PL: lawbreakers and lawgivers by way of his pistols. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> PL: Roy Bean is nearly killed by the inhabitants of a badlands bar and brothel. PL: He returns to take vengeance only to find that he is the new symbol of law PL: and order in the area. He becomes the Judge and dispenses justice until PL: time and events pass him by. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Western ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Life of Brian PL: Irreverent satire of Biblical films and religious intolerance PL: focuses on Brian, a Jew in Roman-occupied Judea. After joining PL: up with an anti-Roman political organization, Brian is mistaken PL: for a prophet, and becomes a reluctant Messiah. BY: Scott Renshaw <as.idc@forsythe.stanford.edu> PL: Brian is born in a stable on Christmas, right next to You Know Who. The PL: wise men appear and begin to distribute gifts. The star moves further, so PL: they take it all back and move on. This is how Brian's life goes. The Jews PL: are looking for a release from the Romans, Spiritual and political decay, PL: keep looking for signs and a group decides Brian is the Messiah. He cannot PL: convince them he is not. He joins the Judean People's Front, one of several PL: dozen separatist groups who actually do nothing, but really hate the Romans. PL: While not about Jesus, it is about those who hadn't time, or interest to PL: listen to his message. Many Political and Social comments. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> PL: The Monty Pyton team tells the life, death and resurrection (?) of Brian PL: from Nazareth, an unwilling prophet who wants to free his land from the PL: oppression of Rome. When Brian covers a huge wall with the writing "ROMANI PL: ITE DOMUM" (Romans go home), a local revolutionary group begins to take PL: him seriously... BY: Flavio Rizzardi <spillo@maya.dei.unpid.it> GE: Comedy Satire Python ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Lifeboat PL: In the Atlantic during WWII, a ship and a German U-boat are involved in a PL: battle and both are sunk. The survivors from the ship gather in one of the PL: boats. They are from a variety of backgrounds: an international journalist, PL: a rich businessman, the radio operator, a nurse, a steward, a sailor and PL: an engineer with communist tendencies. Trouble starts when they pull PL: a man out of the water who turns out to be from the U-boat. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Thriller War ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Lifeforce PL: A space shuttle mission investigating Halley's Comet brings PL: back a malevolent race of space vampires who transform most of PL: London's population into zombies. The only survivor of the PL: expedition and British authorities attempt to capture a PL: mysterious but beautiful alien woman who appears responsible. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Sci-Fi Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Lift, The PL: A lift begins displaying some erratic behavior, like trapping some party PL: goers and nearly suffocating them, and decapitating a security guard. PL: Felix, the technician from the lift company, can't find anything wrong PL: with the circuitry. When he and a nosy reporter begin asking questions PL: of the lift company's electronics partner (Rising Sun Electronics) his PL: boss puts him on a leave of absence. A subsequent visit to a professor PL: leads them to believe that some evil experiments are being conducted with PL: MICROCHIPS. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Light Sleeper PL: A drug dealer with upscale clientele is having moral problems going PL: about his daily deliveries. A reformed addict, he has never gotten PL: over the wife that left him, and the couple that use him for deliveries PL: worry about his mental well-being and his effectiveness at his job. PL: Meanwhile someone is killing women in apparently drug-related incidents. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Linda (1993) (TV) PL: Two couples, friends for a long time, decide to go away together. Things PL: soon take a turn for the worse when Linda and Jeff spend far to much time PL: together instead of with their respective spouses, Paul and Stella. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Linnea Quigley's Horror Workout (V) PL: After a nice shower, Linnea does some warm-up stretches and then goes for PL: a run. She encounters some flabby zombies who follow her back to the PL: house, where she leads them in some poolside aerobic routines. Later she PL: unwinds by inviting some girlfriends over for a slumber party and some PL: exercise. When something goes bump in the house, her friends begin PL: experiencing an attrition problem. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy Exercise Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Lion in Winter, The PL: Henry the VI and Eleanor meet with their three surviving sons at Christmas PL: to decide which of them should become the new king after Henry's death. PL: Originally a stage play, the action is mostly in the speeches the people PL: make. Each of the sons has some flaw that makes the decision difficult, PL: but the pair have spent their lives fighting for position and even at the PL: end can't possibly stop. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Historical Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Liquid Dreams PL: In a slightly future America, a woman goes to the big city to visit with PL: her sister, who is dead in her apartment. In order to find out what PL: happened to her sister, she gets a job working at a dance club, a lower PL: notch in the strip joint circuit. Some of her colleagues begin showing PL: up dead as she uncovers a sinister hierarchy in the strip club management PL: that is harnessing the sexual activity for their own twisted ends. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Sci-Fi Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: List of Adrian Messenger, The PL: Messenger asks a friend to check into a list of names before leaving on a PL: trip. When his plane is blown out of the sky, the matter becomes more PL: serious. As his friend checks into the list, each seems to have died in PL: mysterious circumstances. As he goes down the list, the deaths become PL: more recent and a race to find the remaining survivors and what put PL: each of them on this list ensues. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Mystery ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Little Big Man PL: Jack Crabb is about 100 years old as the film begins. A collector of oral PL: histories asks him about his past. He recounts being captured and raised PL: by indians, becoming a gunslinger, marrying an indian, watching her killed PL: by General George Armstrong Custer, and becoming a scout for him at Little PL: Big Horn. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Western Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Little Drummer Girl, The PL: An American Actress with a penchant for lying is forceably recruited by PL: Mosad, the Israeli intelligence agency to trap a Palestinian bomber, by PL: pretending to be the girlfriend of his dead brother. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> PL: A Palestinian bomber has killed an Israeli diplomat and his family and PL: the Israeli plot to neutralise him becomes convoluted as they select an PL: American Actress (Charlie) to impersonate the Bomber's brother's girlfriend PL: after the Israeli's capture and kill the brother. Charlie is placed into PL: a world where she begins being an actress, then becomes a spy, then is PL: trained by the Palestinians as a guerrilla and finally is sent to deliver PL: a bomb. She is chronically confused by how far she is really supposed to PL: go in her impersonations and how much of herself she must give up. From PL: the book by John Le Carre BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Spy Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, The PL: A poet and his 14 year old daughter (Rynn) buy a house in a small PL: American town and move in. The poet is never seen however and this PL: arouses the suspicion of Mrs Hallet (their estate agent), of FRANK (her PL: 30 yr old son) and of Miglioriti (the sheriff). In reality the poet had PL: died of cancer shortly after moving in. To avoid having to go to an PL: orphanage Rynn was to pretend that her father was still alive and to PL: continue life on her own until she reached adult age. She could then PL: gain control of his fortune. Mrs Hallet keeps nosing around at Rynn's PL: house treating her with considerable disrespect. Eventually she PL: discovers the poet's body and Rynn kills her. Frank attempts to seduce PL: Rynn and gets killed too. At the same time the sheriff's son Mario and PL: Rynn fall in love. She reveals the truth to him and he helps her to bury PL: the two bodies and to get rid of other incriminating evidence. The film PL: ends with Mario having to impersonate the poet to convince Miglioriti PL: that he is still alive. He then promises to guard over Rynn and to help PL: her to keep her secret. BY: Carlo Zanotti <clm@ic.ac.uk> GE: Mystery Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Little Mermaid, The (1989) PL: Loosely based upon the story by Hans Christian Andersen. PL: Ariel, youngest daughter of King Triton, is dissatisfied with life PL: in the sea. She longs to be with the humans above the surface, and PL: is often caught in arguments with her father over those "barbaric PL: fish-eaters". She goes to meet Ursula, the Sea Witch, to strike a PL: deal, but Ursula has bigger plans for this mermaid and her father. BY: Tim Pickett <quetzal@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au> GE: Animated Musical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Little Murders PL: A girl brings home her latest boyfriend to meet her parents. This is done PL: against the background of random shootings that had just begun in NYC at PL: the time the play was written. How the family's failings are magnified PL: by the social confusion of the times is the crux of the plot. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Little Shop of Horrors (1986) PL: Seymour, an orphan and a nerd, is taken in and given a job by Mr. PL: Mushnik, the owner of a run down Florists in the seedy part of town. PL: Seymour spends his time doing menial tasks and dreaming of the shop PL: assistant, Audrey. PL: PL: One day, just after an eclipse of the Sun, Seymour discovers a strange PL: plant. He buys it and names is Audrey II. While caring for Audrey II, PL: Seymour discovers the plant's rather unique appetite. PL: PL: The plant grows and grows, as does Seymour's infatuation for Audrey, but PL: who will get her first? PL: PL: FEED ME! BY: Mark Harding <ccsmh@uk.ac.bath.ac.uk> GE: Musical Comedy Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Little Shop of Horrors, The (1960) PL: Seymour Krelboin is a clerk in Gravis Mushnik's florist shop. PL: Mushnik tells Seymour that if it wasn't for the fact that his PL: daughter Audrey loved him, Seymour would be fired. Soon after, PL: Seymour crossbreeds a butterworth and a Venus flytrap to produce PL: a new type of flower that he names Audrey, Jr. Because of this new, PL: one-of-a-kind plant, Mushnik gains more business and starts treating PL: Seymour with respect. But when Audrey, Jr. appears to have died, PL: Mushnik and Seymour are once again at loggerheads. Seymour is able PL: to regain the life of Audrey, Jr., but it isn't fertilizer and PL: sunlight that this plant needs to stay healthy. BY: Rick Gregory <rag.apa@email.apa.org> GE: Comedy Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Little Women (1933) PL: Little Women is a "coming of age" drama tracing the lives of four sisters: PL: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. During the American Civil War, the girls father is PL: away serving as a minister to the troops. The family, headed by thier PL: beloved Marmee, must struggle to make ends meet, with the help of their PL: kind and wealthy neighbor, Mr. Laurence, and his high spirited grandson PL: Laurie. BY: Liza Esser <essereli@student.msu.edu> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Live and Let Die PL: Several British agents investigating drugs smuggling are killed in PL: mysterious circumstances. Each murder is linked to a Harlem PL: crime boss, Mr. Big, and an international diplomat Katanga. PL: The British send agent James Bond to investigate. PL: When 007 arrives in New York he is nearly killed by one of PL: Mr. Big's hoods, but the attempt gives Bond a lead and he soon PL: discovers a plot to flood the US main land with a billion dollars PL: worth of heroin. BY: Dave Jenkins <david.jenkins@smallworld.co.uk> GE: Spy Action Bond ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Living Daylights, The PL: During a training operation a "00" agent is unexpectedly murdered. When PL: British agent James Bond organises the defection of a top ranking Soviet PL: general, the Russian divulges a plan by the KGB to kill all its enemy PL: agents. Bond is suspicious of the plot, but never-the-less is ordered to PL: kill the KGB officer masterminding the operation. BY: Dave Jenkins <david.jenkins@smallworld.co.uk> GE: Spy Action Bond ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Lodger, The (1926) PL: A serial killer known as "The Avenger" is on the loose in London, murdering PL: blonde women. A mysterious man arrives at the house of Mr. and Mrs. Bunting PL: looking for a room to rent. The Bunting's daughter is a blonde model and PL: is seeing one of the detectives assigned to the case. The detective becomes PL: jealous of the lodger and begins to suspect he may be the avenger. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Thriller Serial_Killer Silent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Logan's Run PL: Logan, a Sandman (police assassin), is forced to search for PL: "Sanctuary" - a place to which people have apparently escaped PL: from the sealed city of the future in which he lives. PL: Jessica is caught up along the way and becomes his companion PL: fugitive as they are both pursued by Francis, a fellow Sandman. PL: Sanctuary is not what they expect. BY: A.M.Putnam GE: Sci-Fi Action Adventure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Lone Wolf McQuade PL: The archetypical renegade Texas Ranger wages war against a drug PL: kingpin with automatic weapons, his wits and martial arts after PL: a gun battle leaves his partner dead. All of this inevitably PL: culminates a martial arts showdown between the drug lord and PL: the ranger, and involving the woman they both love. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Lonely Hearts (1991) PL: Alma, a lonely woman, falls for the conman who steals her money after PL: seducing her. Frank doesn't want Alma around him, but he cannot do anything PL: about the situation in case she goes to the police. Hot on the trail of PL: the two is a female private detective, working for another of Frank's PL: victims. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Long Riders, The PL: The origins, exploits and the ultimate fate of the Jesse James PL: gang is told in a sympathetic portrayal of the bank robbers made PL: up of brothers who begin their legendary bank raids because of PL: of revenge. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Western Biography ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Longest Day, The PL: Tells the story of the D-Day invasion of Normandy in WWII. There are PL: dozens of characters, some seen only briefly, who together weave the PL: story of five separate invasion points that made up the operation. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: War ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Look Back in Anger (1980) PL: Jimmy is a self-loathing and frustrated musician who works at a candy PL: shop. He takes out his rage on his long suffering wife and his business PL: partner and best friend, who lives next door. Jimmy's marital problems PL: come to a head when his wife discovers that she's pregnant and one of her PL: friends, an actress, comes to stay with them. Based on the play, the story PL: takes place in England in the 1950's. BY: Liza Esser <essereli@student.msu.edu> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Lord of the Rings, The PL: Only the first two parts of J.R.R. Tolkein's classic fantasy PL: trilogy of the same name are covered by this rotoscoped PL: animated feature about a band of travellers of different races PL: who seek to defeat an evil sorcerer and his armies with the aid PL: of powerful but insidious magical ring. See also _The Hobbit_. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Fantasy Animated ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Lorna PL: Lorna has been married to Jim for a year, but still hasn't been satisfied PL: sexually. While Jim is working at the salt mine, she is raped by an PL: escaped convict, but falls in lust with him. Meanwhile Jim's buddies are PL: giving him a hard time about Lorna's supposed infidelity, not realizing PL: how close to the mark they really are. Trouble starts when Jim gets home PL: early from work because it's their anniversary. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Lost Boys, The PL: A mother and her two sons move to a small coast town in California. PL: The town is plagued by bikers and some mysterious deaths. The younger PL: boy makes friends with two other boys who claim to be vampire hunters PL: while the older boy is drawn into the gang of bikers by a beautiful PL: girl. The older boy starts sleeping days and staying out all night PL: while the younger boy starts getting into trouble because of his PL: friends' obsession. BY: Zaphod <aaa@scs.leeds.ac.uk> PL: Financial troubles force a recent divorcee and her teenage sons Mike and PL: Sam to settle down with her father in the California town of Santa Carla. PL: At first, Sam laughs off rumours he hears about vampires who inhabit the PL: small town. But after Mike meets a beautiful girl at the local amusement PL: park, he begins to exhibit the classic signs of vampirism. Fearing for PL: his own safety, Sam recruits two young vampire hunters to save his PL: brother by finding and destroying the head vampire. BY: Kevin Ackley <k.ackley@genie.geis.com> GE: Horror Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Love Crimes PL: A tough female district attorney (Young) is investigating a man who picks PL: out women from public places by posing as a famous photographer, then PL: takes pictures of them, then pushes on their submissive tendencies and PL: takes advantage of them physically and financially. The trouble is that PL: none of these women want to press charges, because they feel fulfilled PL: in some way by their encounter. The DA arranges to meet him and finds PL: herself in a similar situation as the other victims, and has to come to PL: grips with her own submissive desires. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Thriller Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Love Feast (1971) PL: Mr. Murphy, a photographer, lures models to his house on the pretense of PL: legitimate modelling work, and then busies himself bedding them. After PL: a while, his bedroom has gotten pretty crowded and he's exhausted, so he PL: snags a taxi cab driver to help out. Soon, a trio of domineering women PL: show up and force him (willingly) to dress in women's clothes and submit PL: to their whims. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy Erotica ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Love Letters (1945) PL: During WWII, a British soldier has been writing love letters for a friend, PL: but finds himself falling in love with the woman from afar. When his PL: friend is killed, the letter writer tries to find out more about the PL: woman, but finds his way obscured by a scandal no one will talk about. PL: As he investigates he discovers that the disappearance of the woman is PL: related to the mysterious circumstances of his friend's death. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Romance Mystery ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Love and Death PL: Woody Allen plays a Russian {Woody Allen Character} who is caught up in PL: the Napoleonic invasion of his country. Much of the humor comes from PL: the philosophic conversations that people break into in the midst of crisis PL: situations. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> PL: When Napoleon threatens to invade the Russian Empire, the coward Boris PL: Grushenko (Woody Allen) is forced to enlist to save his country. PL: He actually captures a group of enemy officers, but the French Army is PL: too strong and soon Napoleon reaches Moscow. Boris thinks that this should PL: put an end to the war, but his young wife (Diane Keaton) wants to murder PL: Napoleon... BY: Flavio Rizzardi <spillo@maya.dei.unpid.it> GE: Comedy Historical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Love at Large PL: A down and out private detective (Berenson) is asked by a beautiful woman PL: (Archer) to follow her lover (Young) because she thinks he may be planning PL: to kill her. Due to her poor description she's in danger. He ends up PL: following the wrong man, but discovers the wrong man has some sleazy secrets PL: himself. Meanwhile another detective (Perkins) has been hired to follow PL: Berenson, and they eventually decide to work together to find out what PL: is really going on. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Thriller Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Lover, The PL: It is French Colonial Vietnam in 1929. A young French girl from a PL: family that is having some monetary difficulties is returning to PL: boarding school. She is alone on public transportation when she PL: catches the eye of a wealthy Chinese businessman. He offers her a PL: ride into town in the back of his chauffeured sedan, and sparks PL: fly. Can the torrid affair that ensues between them overcome the PL: class restrictions and social mores of that time? PL: Based on the semi-autobiographical novel by Maugerite Dumas. BY: Cal Lott <cal.lott@gsb.uchicago.edu> GE: Romance Drama Biography ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Lovers (1991) PL: Set in '50s Spain, a young man (Sanz) leaves the army and looks for a PL: job so he and his fiancee (Verdu) can get married. He rents a room PL: from a widow (Abril), and shortly begins a torrid affair with her. PL: The fiancee figures it out and decides to win him back by offering PL: herself to him and taking him to meet her family. Ultimately he has PL: to make a decision. Based on a true story. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Romance Drama Crime ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Lucas PL: A young nerdy boy hopes to gain acceptance in a high school by PL: not backing down against the school bullies, attempting to make PL: the football team and by befriending a new popular girl. His PL: life is complicated when he falls in love with her while she PL: falls in love with his protector, the school football star, in PL: this sensitive and true portrayal of growing up. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Lunatics: A Love Story PL: In the seedy part of Los Angeles, a man who writes poetry has spent six PL: months without leaving his apartment because of his paranoid delusions PL: involving sadistic doctors, rappers, and spiders. A woman who seems to PL: jinx things by wanting to help is dumped by her boyfriend and finds PL: herself penniless on the streets, and soon runs afoul of a local gang. PL: Due to a telephone glitch, the man calls her at a phone booth trying to PL: dial a "talk line" and invites her to his place. There they must help PL: each other to overcome their respective problems. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: M*A*S*H PL: Mobile Army Surgical Hospital. That's where two young surgeons, Duke and PL: Hawkeye end up during the Korean War. There is no plot as such, but PL: instead a series of episodes during which they put their stamp on the camp PL: including a football game against a larger unit with thousands riding on PL: it, a trip to Tokyo to operate on a congressman's son and play a little PL: golf, and finding out if the head nurse is a natural blonde. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy War ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Mad Max PL: In an Australian dystopia of decaying order and violent PL: highways, a police pursuit driver is drawn into a path PL: of vengeance after a motorcycle gang targets him for the PL: death of their former leader. In the U.S. the Aussie PL: accents were dubbed over. The sequel to _Mad Max_ was PL: originally titled _The Road Warrior_ but is now known as PL: _Mad Max 2_. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Action Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome PL: Thunderdome is a city on the edge of a desert that has managed to retain PL: some technology if no civilization. Max has his supplies stolen and must PL: seek shelter there in a post apocalypse world where all machines have PL: begun to break down and barbarians hold what is left. He becomes PL: involved in a power struggle in this third Mad Max film where he must PL: first survive the town, survive the desert and then rescue the innocent PL: children he has discovered. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> PL: In the third of the Mad Max movies, Max is attacked and loses all of his PL: goods in the desert. He must go to the nearest town where he becomes PL: embroiled in a fight between two powers. When the fight is over, he is PL: sent back into the desert to die. At the limit of endurance he finds a PL: colony of orphaned children who have waited for help to arrive for years. PL: When several of them take his appearance as a sign and go off into the PL: desert, he follows them back to the town. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Made in Britain (TV) PL: Trevor is a 16 year old, sometimes-violent punk with no regard for PL: authority, and would rather spend his time stealing cars than sitting in the PL: detention centre to which he is sent. His social worker, Harry Parker, tries PL: to do his best, but Trevor is only interested when there's something that he PL: can get out of it. The authorities within the centre try to make Trevor PL: conform to the norms of society, but he takes no notice, and would rather PL: speak in a torrent of four-letter words and racial abuse. If you are easily PL: shocked, do not view. If you like a good story, well told, with good acting PL: and direction, DO view! It was a TV movie made by Central Television. BY: Dominic Robinson (mcclane@sound.demon.co.uk) GE: Drama Crime Prison ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Made in Heaven PL: A romantic, occassionaly funny, drama about two souls who consumate PL: their marriage literally in "Heaven". Mike Shea, in his first life PL: dies as a young man performing a heroic rescue. Shortly after PL: arriving in "Heaven" he meets a new soul, Annie Packert, who has PL: never lived on Earth before. The drama centers around their separation PL: soon after being wedded and the burning question is whether they will PL: reunite on Earth before time runs out or whether they are fated to PL: eternal soul-searching. BY: Anonymous GE: Romance Drama Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Magic PL: Magician's assistant Corky performs disastrously at his first solo PL: appearance. He is given a ventriloquist dummy called Fats to improve his PL: act and within a few years Corky is at the height of fame. However, PL: Fats has developed a mind of his own and wants to control his master. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Magnificent Seven, The PL: A bandit terrorizes a small Mexican farming village each year. Several PL: of the village elders send three of the farmers into the United States PL: to search for gunmen to defend them. They end up with 7, each of whom PL: comes for a different reason. They must prepare the town to repulse an PL: army of over 100 bandits who will arrive wanting food. PL: An Americanization of the film, The Seven Samurai. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Western ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Main Event, The (1979) PL: Hillary Kramer, successful Perfume magnate awakes one morning to find that PL: her accountant has robbed her blind and left for South America. Going PL: through all of her remaining assets she finds a boxer, purchased as a tax PL: write off. She decides to take Kid Natural, (Eddie Scanlon) who is much PL: more at home giving driving lessons, into the ring and use him as her PL: key to riches. Eddie thinks this will only get him killed and resists. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Sport ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Maitresse PL: A common thief (Depardieu) breaks into the house of a professional PL: dominatrix (Ogier), and begins to help her "train" her clients. PL: Though this world is alien to his experience, he finds himself falling PL: in love with her. Eventually he discovers that she does this in order PL: to support her son, and he attempts to help her out of this life, which PL: she is not sure she really wants to leave. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Major League PL: An exotic dancer marries the owner of a baseball club. He does not PL: survive the honeymoon and she is in control of his ball club. Looking at PL: a small stadium, she wants to move to warmer climes where some new PL: stadiums have been built, but her lease has only one escape clause, poor PL: attendance. She fields the worst team she can find. The attitude of the PL: owner gives the misfits and losers something to rally around and they PL: fight back. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Sports Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Make Mine Music PL: Animation done to modern (for the 1940s) music. BY: Tim Pickett <quetzal@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au> GE: Animated ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Making a Splash PL: Peter Greenaway's celebration of water, and the human relationship PL: with it, choreographed to Michael Nyman music and culminating with PL: a synchronised swimming sequence! BY: D. Giddings <sdjg0@uk.ac.rl.ib> GE: Art ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Malice PL: A tail about a happily married couple who would like to have children. PL: Tracy teaches infants, Andy's a college professor. Things are never the same PL: after she is taken to hospital and operated upon by Jed, a "know all" PL: doctor. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Maltese Falcon, The (1941) PL: While Sam Spade is investigating the murder of his partner, he finds PL: himself surrounded by a host of strange characters all after one thing - PL: a statue of a falcon reputed to contain priceless jewels. Warning - PL: avoid the Ted Turner colorized version of this movie. BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Mystery ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Man Bites Dog PL: A camera crew follows a serial killer/thief around as he exercises his PL: craft. He expounds on art, music, nature, society, and life as he PL: offs mailmen, pensioners, and random people. Slowly he begins involving PL: the camera crew in his activities, and they begin wondering if what PL: they're doing is such a good idea, particularly when the killer kills a PL: rival and the rival's brother sends a threatening letter. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy Crime Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Man Who Fell to Earth, The (1976) PL: Thomas Jerome Newton is a humanoid alien who comes to Earth to get PL: water for his dying planet. He starts a high technology company PL: to get the billions of dollars he needs to build a return spacecraft, PL: and meets Mary-Lou, a girl who falls in love with him. He does not PL: count on the greed and ruthlessness of business here on Earth, however. BY: Gene Volovich {volovich@netcom.com} GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1934) PL: Bob and Jill Lawrence are on a winter sports holiday with their teenage PL: daughter Betty. When their friend Louis Bernard is shot whilst dancing with PL: Jill, he tells Bob of an assassination about to take place in London. PL: Fearing that their plot will be revealed, the assassins kidnap Betty in PL: order to keep the Lawrence's quiet. Bob and Jill return to London and take PL: matters into their own hands. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Thriller Kidnap Assassination ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1956) PL: Dr. Ben McKenna, his wife Jo and their son Hank are on a touring holiday of PL: Africa when they meet the mysterious Louis Bernard on a bus. The next day PL: Bernard is murdered in the local marketplace, but before he dies he manages PL: to reveal details of an assassination about to take place in London. PL: Fearing that their plot will be revealed, the assassins kidnap Hank in order PL: to keep the McKenna's silent. Ben and Jo go to London and take matters into PL: their own hands. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Thriller Kidnap Assassination ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Man Who Would Be King, The PL: This adaptation of the famous short story by Rudyard Kipling tells PL: the story of Daniel Dravot and Peachy Carnahan, two ex-soldiers in PL: India when it was under British rule. They decide that the country PL: is too small for them, so they head of to Karafistan in order to become PL: Kings in their own right. Kipling is seen as a character that was there PL: at the beginning, and at the end of this glorious tale. BY: Greg Bole <bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> GE: Adventure Epic ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Man and a Woman, A PL: A man and a woman meet by accident on a Sunday evening at their childrens' PL: boarding school. Slowly they reveal themselves to each other, finding PL: that each is a widow/widower. Each is slow to reveal anything personal so PL: that each revelation is hidden by a misperception. They become friends, PL: then close friends, and then she reveals that she can't have a lover PL: because, for her, her husband's memory is still too strong. Much of the PL: film is told wordlessly in action, or through hearing one of their thoughts PL: as they go about their day. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Man from Snowy River, The PL: Jim Craig has lived his first 18 years in the mountains of Australia on PL: his father's farm. The death of his father forces him to go to the low PL: lands to earn enough money to get the farm back on its feet. Kirk Douglas PL: plays two roles as twin brothers who haven't spoken for years, one of whom PL: was Jim's father's best friend and the other of whom is the father of PL: the girl he wants to marry. A 20 year old feud re-erupts, catching Jim and PL: Jessica in the middle of it as Jim is accused of letting a prize stallion PL: loose. He rides off with the crack riders to bring it back, back into the PL: mountains where he was raised. Jim goes out with them because of the PL: regard in which his father was held, and comes back having earned his own PL: respect. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Western Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Man with One Red Shoe, The PL: In order to send the CIA on a wild goose chase, Richard is picked out PL: of an airport crowd because of his distinctive odd shoes (one red). PL: With the CIA following every move he makes, the bad guys get some PL: breathing space. One of his CIA followers is the beautiful Maddy. She PL: uses all the tricks to try to get information out of him, but she doesn't PL: count on falling for him. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> PL: When Richard's practical joking friend Morris hides all but 2 mismatched PL: shoes, he is forced to wear one red shoe back from a trip. A CIA man has PL: to set his watchers on someone and seeing that one eye catcher, fingers PL: Richard as a courier. This excessively complicates his life. Morris is PL: especially hard hit by this as the sudden appearance and disappearance of PL: people and things causes him to wonder about his sanity. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Spy Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Man with the Golden Gun, The PL: When a golden bullet arrives at the headquarters of British PL: intelligence with "007" engraved on it, the British believe PL: that James Bond is the next target for international PL: assassin Scaramanga. 007 is given the assignment to kill PL: Scaramanga before he kills Bond and collects his $1,000,000 PL: fee. BY: Dave Jenkins <david.jenkins@smallworld.co.uk> GE: Spy Action Bond ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Manchurian Candidate, The PL: After Harvey returns from the Korean War as a decorated hero, the other PL: members of his platoon can't really remember what he did to win his PL: medal. Two of the soldiers start having recurring nightmares, and one PL: of them decides to investigate Harveys current activities. What dark PL: and sinister secrets are being withheld by the Government and the PL: Army ? BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Political Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Manhattan PL: Isaac, 42, has divorced Jill. She is now living with another woman, PL: Connie, and is writing a book in which she will reveal some very private PL: points of their relationship. Isaac has a love affair with Tracy, 17, when PL: he meets Mary, the mistress of his best friend Yale. Yale is already PL: married to Emily. BY: Yepok GE: Comedy Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Manhattan Murder Mystery PL: Larry and Carol are fairly normal New Yorkers who have sent their son off PL: to college. They meet an elderly couple down the hall and later in PL: the week find that the wife has suddenly died. Carol becomes suspicious PL: of Paul who seems to be too cheerful and too ready to move on. She PL: begins her investigation. Larry insists she is becomming too fixated on PL: what their neighbor as all of the irregularities seem to have simple PL: non-homicidal explanations. Ted, a recently divorced friend helps PL: her investigation and Larry begins to become jealous of their PL: relationship and agrees to help her. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Mystery ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Manhunter (1986) PL: A psychopathic serial killer is on the lose, killing a family each full moon PL: and the police and FBI are clueless. Therefore they ask Will Graham, the PL: FBI agent who captured Doctor Hannibal Lecktor, to look into the case. PL: Will Graham has been out of the game for a while, so he visits Dr. Lecktor PL: in prison to get into the thought patterns of a psychopathic again. PL: See also _Silence of the Lambs, The_ (qv) which follows the same plot. BY: Lars J. Aas <larsa@colargol.edb.tih.no> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Mannequin (1987) PL: Jonathan Switcher is a young artist. He just doesn't seem to last in any PL: job he does. But when he builds a mannequin, he makes it so perfect, PL: he falls in love with it. It is the first thing he has made that PL: makes him feel like a real artist. The mannequin ends up in the PL: window of a big department store. When he saves the life of an old lady PL: who happens to be the owner of that store, he is rewarded by getting a job PL: at the store as stock boy. Later the mannequin comes to life as Emmy, who PL: was an ancient Egyptian living in the year 2514BC. The two redesign the PL: window display to make it most eye catching in town. The store competitors PL: are not happy and will do anything to stop them! BY: Sami Al-Taher <smmat@ukc.ac.uk> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Manon of the Spring PL: In this, the sequel to Jean de Florette, Manon (Beart) has grown into a PL: beautiful young shepherdess living in the idyllic Provencal countryside. PL: She determines to take revenge upon the men responsible for the death of PL: her father in the first film. BY: Martin Urch c/o <ccsmh@midge.bath.ac.uk> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Manxman, The PL: Despite their differing backgrounds, fisherman Pete and lawyer Philip have PL: been life long friends on the Isle of Man. Pete wants to marry Kate, the PL: landlord's daughter at the local inn, however Kate's father doesn't think PL: he is good enough. Pete leaves the island to seek his fortune abroad and PL: entrusts Kate to Philip, but they start to be attracted to each other. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Romance Silent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Map of the Human Heart PL: Fantastic improbabilities, happenstance and the undying bridge PL: of love are part of this romantic fantasy about an Inuit who PL: crosses years, oceans and the ravages of WWII to find his PL: childhood love, a Metis girl, but finds that their cultures are PL: the most difficult spaces to gap. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> PL: In 1931, a chartist lands a plane in the Arctic to map unrecorded PL: regions. He takes an Eskimo boy with tuberculosis back to civilisation PL: where he is healed and indoctrinated in a Catholic foster home. The PL: Eskimo meets a "half-breed" girl (father was French, mother was Indian) PL: and they fall in love. They are separated and the Eskimo returns to PL: the Arctic. Years later he encounters the chartist again and sends a PL: message to his love via the chartist. He joins the air force to fight PL: Hitler, and runs into her again, but there are obstacles that threaten PL: his friendships and relationships. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Marathon Man PL: A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn PL: into a mysterious plot involving his globe trotting brother, PL: his European girlfriend and a Nazi war criminal in hiding. PL: Includes one of the most agonizing torture scenes ever PL: portrayed. "Is it safe?" You'll never see your dentist the PL: same way again. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Marnie PL: Marnie Edgar is an ice-cold habitual thief. She uses her looks to gain the PL: confidence of her employers, robs them, and changes her identity. Her only PL: loves are her horse and her mother, although she has problems with the PL: latter relationship. Marnie applies for a job at Mark Rutland's Philadelphia PL: publishing company. Mark recognises her since he is a client of her last PL: employer, but instead of turning her in, he decides to watch her. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Thriller Psychoanalysis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Marooned PL: After spending several months in an orbiting lab, three astronauts prepare PL: to return to earth only to find thier rockets wont fire. After initially PL: thinking they might have to abandon them in orbit, NASA dicides to launch PL: a daring rescue. Thier plans are complicated by a Hurrician headed towards PL: the launch site and a 36-hour air supply in the astronauts capsule. BY: KC Hunt <khunt@eng.morgan.edu> GE: Sci-Fi Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Marquis PL: The scene is a pre-French Revolution Bastille, where various political PL: prisoners are being held: a woman who was raped and impregnated by the PL: king, a police chief who was accused of selling bad pork, and the Marquis, PL: who was unjustly accused of working for the overthrow of the king. The PL: Marquis is only interested in writing his deviant stories, while his PL: penis yearns for a little action (they argue about this frequently), the PL: prime candidate being the jailer who likes to be buggered. The corrupt PL: priest arranges to have the pregnant woman raped by the Marquis so they PL: can claim the king had nothing to do with it. The priest also steals PL: the Marquis' manuscripts and publishes them for his own profit. Things PL: come to a head as the people rise up against the tyranny. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy Puppets Animation ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Martin PL: George Romero does for vampires what he has already done to zombies - PL: an intense and realistic treatment that follows the exploits of Martin, PL: who claims to be eight hundred years old, and who certainly drinks PL: human blood. The boy arrives in Pittsburg to stay with his uncle, PL: who promises to save Martin's soul and destroy him once he is finished, PL: but Martin's loneliness finds other means of release. BY: David Carroll <davidc@atom.ansto.gov.au> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Mary Poppins PL: Two banker's children lose their nanny due to her frustration with them. PL: A change in the wind blows in an assertive nanny who matches the PL: qualifications of the children and not the father. As she helps them PL: magically explore the world around them the father grows increasingly PL: disapproving of her methods, and must eventually deal with his own PL: distance from his children. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Musical Comedy Family ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Masculine-Feminine PL: Paul is young, just demobbed from national service in the French Army, PL: and dishillusioned with civilian life. As his girlfriend builds herself PL: a career as a pop singer, Paul becomes more isolated from his friends PL: and peers ('the children of Marx and Coca Cola', as the credits announce) PL: and their social and emotional politics. BY: D.Giddings <sdjg0@uk.ac.rl.ib> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Mask, The (1994) PL: A bank clerk without much success with women comes in to possession PL: of a mysterious mask which transforms him into his inner personality. PL: Set in "Edge City", a big American city with a pollution and gangster PL: problem, as "The Mask" the bumbling clerk becomes an unconventional PL: super hero in search of justice and a good time too. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy FX Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Masquerade (1988) PL: A recently orphaned millionairess, Olivia, really hates her scheming PL: step-father. Olivia finds love with a young yacht racing captain, Tim, who PL: isn't completely truthful with her. When the two run into a problem the PL: local cop, who happens to be an old friend of Olivia's, seems to be turning PL: a blind eye to incriminating evidence. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Murder Romance Mystery ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Matinee (1993) PL: A showman introduces a small coastal town to a unique movie PL: experience and capitalises on the Cuban Missile crisis hysteria PL: with a kitschy horror extravaganza combining film effects, PL: stage props and actors in rubber suits in this salute to the PL: B-movie. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Maverick PL: Maverick is recreated from the character James Garner created in the PL: 1950s TV program. Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone PL: than fight them. He needs an additional three thousand dollars in order PL: to enter a Winner Take All poker game that begins in a few days. He PL: tries to win some, tries to collect a few debts, and recover a little PL: loot for the reward, all with a light hearted air. He joins forces with PL: a woman gambler with a marvelous, though fake, southern accent as the PL: two both try and enter the game. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Western ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: McCabe & Mrs. Miller PL: Set in winter in the Old West. Charismatic but dumb John McCabe arrives in a PL: young Pacific Northwest town to set up a whorehouse/tavern. The shrewd Mrs. PL: Miller, a professional madam, arrives soon after construction begins. She PL: offers to use her experience to help McCabe run his business, while sharing PL: in the profits. The whorehouse thrives and McCabe and Mrs. Miller draw PL: closer, despite their conflicting intelligences and philosophies. Soon, PL: however, the mining deposits in the town attract the attention of a major PL: corporation, which wants to buy out McCabe along with the rest. He refuses, PL: and his decision has major repercussions for him, Mrs. Miller, and the PL: town. BY: John J. Magee <magee@helix.mgh.harvard.edu> GE: Western Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Mean Season, The PL: Malcolm Anderson is a reporter for a Miami newspaper. He's had enough PL: of reporting the local murders and so promises his school teacher PL: girlfriend (Christine), they'll move away soon. Before Malcolm PL: can hand in his notice, the murderer from his latest article phones PL: him. The murderer tells Malcolm that he's going to kill again. PL: The phone calls and murders continue, soon Malcolm finds that he's PL: not just reporting the story, he is the story. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Thriller Crime ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Mean Streets PL: The future is set for Tony and Michael - owning a neighbour- PL: hood bar and making deals in the mean streets of New York PL: city's Little Italy. For Charlie, the future is less clearly PL: defined. A small-time hood, he works for his uncle, making PL: collections and reclaiming bad debts. He's probably too nice PL: to succeed. In love with a woman his uncle disapproves of PL: (because of her epilepsy) and a friend of her cousin, Johnny PL: Boy, a near psychotic whose trouble-making threatens them all PL: - he can't reconcile opposing values. A failed attempt to PL: escape (to Brooklyn) moves them all a step closer to a PL: bitter, almost preordained future. BY: Dave Cook <cookd@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Meanest Man in the World, The PL: Compassionate small-town lawyer Richard Clarke moves to New York City to PL: seek his fortune, but is unsuccessful until he takes a friend's advice PL: and tries to convince the world he's a ruthless heel. Suddenly he's the PL: most popular lawyer in town -- but he could lose his fiancee. BY: Kevin Ackley <k.ackley@genie.geis.com> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Mechanic, The PL: An aging hitman befriends a young man who wants to be a professional PL: killer. Eventually it becomes clear that someone has betrayed them. BY: Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com> GE: Action Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Medicine Man (1992) PL: An eccentric scientist working for a large drug company is working on PL: a research project in the Amazon jungle. He sends for a research PL: assistant and a chromatoscope because he's close to a cure for cancer. PL: When the assistant turns out to be a "mere woman," he rejects her help. PL: Meanwhile the bulldozers get closer to the area in which they are PL: conducting research, and they eventually learn to work together, and PL: begin falling in love. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama Romance Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Mediterraneo PL: Greek Sea, World War II. An Italian ship leaves a handful of soldiers in a PL: little island; their mission is to spot enemy ships and to hold the island PL: in case of attack. The village of the island seems abandoned and there PL: isn't a single enemy in sight, so the soldiers begin to relax a little. PL: Actually, the island isn't deserted and when the Greeks understand that PL: those Italians are harmless, they came out of their hiding places in the PL: mountains and continue their peaceful lives. Soon the soldiers discover PL: that being left behind in a God-forgotten Greek island isn't such a bad PL: thing, after all... BY: Flavio Rizzardi <spillo@maya.dei.unpid.it> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Meet the Applegates PL: Giant cockroaches living in some far off jungle decide to move into PL: suburban USA. Disguised as humans, the roaches are planning something.. PL: Could it be connected to dad's job in the power station perhaps ?. PL: One day the daughter roach forgets WHAT she really is when she's with her PL: boyfriend.. oops. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Sci-Fi Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Melody Time PL: Animation done to contemporary music. Somewhat of a sequel to "Make PL: Mine Music". BY: Tim Pickett <quetzal@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au> GE: Animated ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Memoirs of an Invisible Man PL: Nick Halloway is accidentally made invisible during an accident. When PL: Jenkins finds out about Nick, he set out to recruit him into the world PL: of espionage, seeing the potential for an invisible CIA agent. PL: When Alice Monroe falls in love with Nick, they are forced to flee the PL: attentions of Jenkins. Nick also has the problem of living invisibly PL: whilst trying to find a cure. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Men at Work PL: Carl and James are two pleasant but unambitious garbage men. Carl has a PL: telescope with which he observes his neighbors. One evening he sees a PL: man giving a female neighbor a hard time. As she leaves he shoots the man PL: with a pellet gun. Hiding, he and James miss two men strangling the man PL: and leaving with the body. When he appears in a can on their route they PL: are afraid and hide the body, fearing that they may be implicated in the PL: death. Trying to crack the case, they spy on the woman, join up with a PL: slightly to majorly crazed vietnam vet, kidnap a pizza man and help to PL: protect the ecology. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Menace II Society PL: This urban nightmare chronicles several days in the PL: life of Caine Lawson, following his high-school PL: graduation, as he attempts to escape his violent existence PL: in the projects of Watts, CA. BY: Daniel Bredy <gt3655a@prism.gatech.edu> GE: Action Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Mephisto (1981) PL: A German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed PL: blessings in the popularity of his performance in a Faustian PL: play as the Nazis take power in pre-WWII Germany. As his PL: associates and friends flee or are ground under by the Nazi PL: terror, the popularity of his character supercedes his PL: own existence until he finds that his best performance is PL: keeping up appearances for his Nazi patrons. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Drama Historical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Meridian (V) PL: Two American students go to Italy after graduating from art school, one PL: to work in restoration of paintings, the other because she's inherited PL: her father's castle. When the restorer visits her friend at the castle, PL: they invite the players of a traveling sideshow to dinner, and are PL: slipped drugs, leading to an orgy of abandon. The woman who owns the PL: castle keeps having visions of a young woman who has been stabbed in the PL: castle. After talking to her nanny, she finds that the "vision" woman PL: is her father's sister, who was murdered brutally as the consequence of PL: a 15th Century curse put on her family, and that she is the next in line, PL: and the troupe they have entertained is a part of the curse. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror Thriller Erotic ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Midnight Cowboy PL: A "cowboy," Joe Buck, moves to New York City from Texas to make his PL: fortune as a hustler servicing rich Park Avenue women. Shortly after PL: arriving, he is hustled by homeless con man Ratzo Rizzo, who had said he PL: would manage him for a $20 fee. Bent on getting his money back, Buck PL: finds the rapidly deteriorating Rizzo, ends up feeling sorry for him, PL: and moving into Rizzo's room in an abandoned building to care for him. PL: The two remain hopeful of striking it rich with Rizzo managing Buck's PL: career, but it soon becomes obvious that they are no match for the urban PL: jungle. BY: Bonnie Barber <bonbar@mit.edu> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Midnight Movie Massacre PL: Set in the '50s in a movie theatre showing a serial called "Space Patrol," PL: this particular episode being "Back from the Future." The evil scientist PL: on the serial goes back to the '50s and his crew members have to PL: chase him. Meanwhile at the theatre, patrons busy themselves doing PL: strange things. An alien has landed and is eliminating theatre staff PL: and patrons. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Midnight Run PL: Bounty hunter Jack Walsh is sent to find and return bail jumper and PL: former Mafia accountant, Jonathan "The Duke" Mardukas. The FBI have had PL: no success it locating The Duke, so when Jack finds him in next to no PL: time, they are a little embarrassed. In order to collect his $100,000 PL: fee, Jack must take The Duke from New York to Los Angeles. However, PL: the Mafia and the FBI have other ideas, as does Marvin, a rival bounty PL: hunter. On their long cross-country trip to LA, the two get to know each PL: other and they build up a strange friendship. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Crime Mafia Chase Action Comedy Adventure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Midway PL: The battle of midway is done with captions to identify historical PL: characters. Historically accurate in it's major points, a subplot of an PL: American flyer who is engaged to a Hawiian girl of Japanese descent has PL: been added. This is the battle in which the previously undefeated PL: Japanese fleet was stopped in a battle during which all damage was done by PL: aircraft. The opposing fleets never saw each other. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Historical War ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Mighty Ducks, The PL: Gordon Bombay is forced to withdraw from the minor hockey league with PL: a knee injury. Much to his surprise, he is given the job of coach of PL: Team USA Hockey for the Junior Goodwill Games in California. With most PL: of the Ducks and a few new players in tow, he sets forth for LA. All PL: appears to be going well for a while, but the hype of Hollywood starts PL: to get to Gordon, and he is distracted when Iceland, the favourites to PL: win the title, appear on the scene. BY: Liz Jordan <c9310494@alinga.newcastle.edu.au> PL: Gordon Bombay, a hotshot lawyer, is haunted by memories of his PL: childhood, when, as the star player in his champion hockey team, he lost PL: the winning goal in a shootout, thereby losing the game, and the approval PL: of his coach. When the court orders him to coach a peewee hockey team, PL: the worst in the league, Gordon is at first very reluctant. However, he PL: eventually gains the respect of the kids and teaches them how to win, PL: gaining a sponsor on the way and giving the team the name of The Ducks. PL: In the finals, they face Gordon's old team, coached by Gordon's old PL: coach, giving Gordon a chance to face old ghosts. BY: Liz Jordan <c9310494@alinga.newcastle.edu.au> GE: Childrens Sports Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Miles from Home PL: Two brothers who are forced off their farm in the debt stricken PL: mid-west become folk heroes when they begin robbing the banks PL: that have been foreclosing on farmers. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Millennium PL: An investigator seeking the cause of an airline disaster PL: discovers the involvement of an organisation of time travellers PL: from a future Earth irreparably polluted who seek to rejuvenate PL: the human race from those about to die in the past. Based on PL: a novel by John Varley. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Sci-Fi Adventure Disaster ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Miller's Crossing PL: Tom Reagan is an advisor to Leo, a crime boss in an unnamed PL: Prohibition-era town. When Leo and rival boss Johnny Caspar PL: feud over a bookie who's been cheating Caspar, Tom tries to keep PL: the peace. Instead he finds himself caught in the middle of a PL: war of ambushes and shifting allegiances where nothing is ever PL: quite what it seems. BY: Scott Renshaw <as.idc@forsythe.stanford.edu> GE: Gangster Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Mindwalk PL: A US politician (Sam Waterston) visits his poet friend (John Heard) PL: in Mont. St. Michael, France. While walking through the medeival island PL: discussing their philosophies of life they happen upon Sonja (Liv Ullman), PL: a scientist in recluse, who joins in their conversation. The two men listen PL: to the ideas of this brilliant woman and discuss how her ideas can work PL: in their own politician and poet lives. BY: Heather Classen <classen@ctron.com> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Miracle Beach PL: A romatically hapless young man (Scott) has his life changed when PL: he finds the proverbial genie-in-a-bottle, in this case a very comely PL: lass (Jeanie). With Jenie granting wishes left and right, Scott soon PL: has a fine house, a wonderful car, and a chance to impress the girl PL: of his dreams. But is this the way to true happiness? BY: Rick Munoz <rick.munoz@his.com> GE: Romantic comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Miracle Mile PL: A young man meets and falls in love with a young woman at the La Brea PL: Tar Pits in Los Angeles. This area is known as Miracle Mile, and the PL: whole movie takes place there. They make a date, which he misses, and PL: while he is searching for her, he accidentally finds out that we (the PL: United States) are about to start a nuclear war with the Soviet Union. PL: He frantically searches for her so that they can escape Los Angeles. BY: Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Mirage PL: Three couples set off to spend some time in the dessert. At first all is PL: well and they all have a lot of fun (if you know what I mean!). Watching PL: their fun is a mysterious stranger in a pickup truck, who has plans for PL: some fun of his own that the youngsters aren't going to appreciate. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Horror Mystery ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Misery PL: Novelist Paul Sheldon crashes his car on a snowy New England PL: road. He is found by Annie Wilkes, the "number one fan" of PL: Paul's heroine Misery Chastaine. Annie is also somewhat PL: unstable, and Paul finds himself crippled, drugged and at her PL: mercy. BY: Scott Renshaw <as.idc@forsythe.stanford.edu> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Miss Firecracker PL: Carnelle isn't happy with her life, so in order to improve herself PL: she enters a local beauty contest, trying to emulate her cousin Elain's PL: win many years ago. Few think she can win, even her closest friends PL: and relatives (e.g. slightly mad cousin Delmount) think she's heading PL: for a big disappointment, but Carnelle is ever hopeful, seeing a win PL: as a ticket to escape her small town in Mississippi. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Melodrama Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Mission, The (1986) PL: Father Gabriel ascends the mountains of Brazil to bring christianity to PL: the natives. He is successful and brings about a golden age among them. PL: Mendoza, a slaver, kills his brother in a fit of rage, and only Fr. PL: Gabriel's guidance prevents his suicide. Gabriel brings Mendoza to work PL: at his mission with the natives, and Mendoza finds peace and asks to PL: become a priest. The church , under pressure, cedes the land to the PL: Portuguese which will allow slavers in again. Mendoza breaks his vows PL: and organizes the natives to resist while Gabriel warns him to help them PL: as a priest. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Drama Historical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Mississippi Burning PL: Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers PL: during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a PL: small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. PL: The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the PL: small town ways of his former Sheriff partner. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Drama Crime ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Mississippi Masala PL: An Indian family is expelled from Uganda when Idi Amin takes power. PL: They move to Mississippi and time passes. The Indian daughter PL: falls in love with a black man, and the respective families PL: have to come to terms with it. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Mister Roberts PL: Mister Roberts is aboard a US cargo ship, working in the Pacific during PL: the Second World War. He'd do anything to leave the quiet of the ship to PL: join in the "action". Trouble is, the captain of the ship, is a bit of PL: a tyrant, and isn't willing to sign Roberts' transfer requests. Also on PL: board is Ensign Pulver, who avoids work as best he can, whilst living off PL: the riches of his buying and selling. Roberts and the crew are in constant PL: battle, even over the smallest of disagreements. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy War ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Mom and Dad Save the World PL: Emperor Spengo sees Marge Nelson and using a giant magnet, kidnaps her and PL: her husband Dick, hoping to make Marge his before blowing up the Earth. The PL: Emperor and other inhabitants of his planet are somewhat less than bright, PL: and Dick begins reliving episodes of Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers in order PL: to rescue Marge, save the Earth, and restore the rightful emperor to the PL: throne. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Money Pit, The PL: Walter and Anna want a home of their own. When Walter's real estate agent PL: friend offers him what looks like the perfect home, Anna and Walter PL: buy it. The house has many problems; structural, plumbing, electrical... PL: These problems only come to light after they've moved in. Hence, the PL: house is a 'money pit'. Also worthy of note are the comical builders PL: and the terrible ex husband, Max, who still chases Anna. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> PL: A young couple sinks their life savings into a house that was trashed by PL: a rock group to the extent that it no longer has a main stairway or water. PL: This creates strains on their relationship. Every home owner will PL: recognize some of the situations they encounter. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> PL: Walter and Anna want a home of their own. When Walter's real estate agent PL: friend offers him what looks like the perfect home, Anna and Walter PL: buy it. The house has many problems; structural, plumbing, electrical... PL: These problems only come to light after they've moved in. Hence, the PL: house is a 'money pit'. Also worthy of note are the comical builders PL: and the terrible ex husband, Max, who still chases Anna. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Monkey Business (1931) PL: On a transatlantic crossing, the Marx brothers get up to their usual PL: antics and manage to annoy just about everyone on board the ship. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Marx-Brothers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Monkey Business (1952) PL: Barnaby Fulton is a research chemist working on a fountain of youth pill PL: for a chemical company. While trying a sample dose on himself, he PL: accidentally gets a dose of a mixture added to the water cooler PL: and believes his potion is what is working. The mixture PL: temporarily causes him to feel and act like a teenager, including PL: correcting his vision. When his wife gets a dose that is even PL: larger, she regresses even further into her childhood. When an old PL: boyfriend meets her in this state he believes that her never wanting PL: to see him again means a divorce and a chance for him. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Monty Python and the Holy Grail PL: The Monty Python team are at it again in their second movie. This time PL: we follow King Arthur and his knights in their search for the Holy PL: Grail. This isn't your average medieval knights and horses story - for PL: a start, due to a shortage in the kingdom, all the horses have been PL: replaced by servants clopping coconuts together ! BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Comedy Historical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Monty Python's the Meaning of Life PL: The comedy groups last full length movie returns to the feel of the PL: hugely popular BBC TV show. It features small comedy sketches dealing PL: with all of the stages and trials of life. Expect the un-expected. PL: Plenty of religious, vulgar, and sexual humor may offend some groups. PL: There are even musical numbers, but with that same unmistakable brand PL: of Python humor. BY: Greg Bole <bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Moon 44 PL: An unconventional corporate agent is given the task of shaping PL: a group of violent criminals and technical wizards into a PL: helicopter defence force assigned to protect a mining station PL: on a remote moon. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Sci-Fi Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Moon Over Parador PL: Little known actor, Jack Noah, is working on location in the dictatorship PL: of Parador at the time the dictator dies. The dictator's right hand man, PL: Roberto, makes Jack an offer he cannot refuse.. to play the dictator. PL: Jack's acting skills fool the masses but not close friends and employees PL: of the dictator. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Political Satire ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Moonraker (1979) PL: A Boeing 747 carrying a US space shuttle on loan to the UK PL: crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. When the British examine the PL: wreckage they can find no trace of the space craft and send PL: agent James Bond to the shuttle's manufacturers, Drax Industries, PL: to investigate. BY: Dave Jenkins <david.jenkins@smallworld.co.uk> GE: Spy Action Bond ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Moonstruck PL: While waiting for her timid fiancee to decide between her and PL: his mother, Cher falls in love with the fiancee's estranged PL: brother (Nicolas Gage), a bakery worker with a love of opera PL: and life. BY: Ray Hamel <hamel@primate.wisc.edu> GE: Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Morning After, The (1986) PL: Alex Sternberg wakes up with a hangover and no memory of how she ended up PL: in bed with a dead man. She flees, convinced that she has had another PL: blackout and stabbed someone. Her only support, Turner, an ex cop and PL: recovering alcoholic who is unsympathetic to her plight. She could PL: believe that it is as simple as a violent act committed while drunk, PL: except that the body keeps re-appearing. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Thriller Mystery ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Mortal Storm, The PL: The Roth family lead a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps PL: during the early 1930's. When the Nazi's come to power, the family is PL: divided and Martin Brietner, a family friend is caught up in the turmoil. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Drama War ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Mortal Thoughts PL: Cynthia comes forward to talk to detective John about the murder of her PL: best friend's husband. The story is told as a series of flashbacks... PL: James was a bullying, verbally and physically abusive husband. His wife PL: Joyce has, on a number of occasions, expressed her intension to kill him. PL: One night when all three are at the fair, Joyce has a row with James, and PL: Cynthia helps James back to the van. But later he was found dead, and PL: Joyce is arrested for his murder. As more details are told the result is PL: further tragedy and murder. What exactly did happen that night? BY: Sami Al-Taher <smmat@ukc.ac.uk> GE: Mystery Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Moscow on the Hudson PL: A Russian circus visits the US. A clown wants to defect, but doesn't PL: have the nerve. His saxophone playing friend however comes to the PL: decision to defect in the middle of Bloomingdales. He is befriended PL: by the black security guard and falls in love with the Italian PL: immigrant from behind the perfume counter. We follow his life as he PL: works his way through the American dream and tries to find work PL: as a musician. BY: Zaphod <aaa@scs.leeds.ac.uk> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Mosquito Coast, The PL: An eccentric and dogmatic inventor sells his house and takes PL: his family to Central America to build an ice factory in PL: the middle of the jungle. Conflicts with his family, a local PL: preacher and with nature are only small obstacles to his PL: obsession. Based upon a Paul Theroux novel. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Mothra PL: When two tiny women are taken off Infant Island and used as a moneymaker PL: by a greedy businessman, their guardian Mothra, a giant caterpillar, PL: attacks Tokyo in an attempt to retrieve the girls. But just as the army PL: thinks they have stopped the creature, it spins a cocoon around a tower PL: and emerges as a giant butterfly, ready to finish its task. BY: Todd A. Bobenrieth <TAB146@PSUVM.EDU> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Motor Psycho PL: Three bad boy motorcyclists get kicks raping other people's women and PL: generally being a nuisance. When they rape a veterinarian's wife, he PL: takes exception and pursues them, teaming up with a Cajun woman whose PL: husband they killed. The leader of the gang, a Vietnam Vet, begins showing PL: signs of being a few slices short of a loaf. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama Delinquent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Motorama PL: A ten year old boy gets tired of life with abusive parents and cashes in PL: his piggy bank and steals a Mustang. He rides off into a surreal America PL: playing "Motorama," a game sponsored by Chimera Gas Company. He has PL: various encounters with different people, and eventually reaches the PL: Chimera Gas Company where he finds they are not playing by the rules of PL: the game. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy Surreal ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Mountain Eagle, The PL: In the Kentucky hills a store keeper tries to win the love of an innocent PL: schoolteacher. She runs away and seeks refuge with a hermit. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Drama Silent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Mountain Men, The PL: A pair of grizzled frontiersmen fight indians, guzzle liquor, PL: and steal squaws in their search for a legendary valley 'so PL: full of beaver that they jump right into your traps' in this PL: fanciful adventure. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Western ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Mountains of the Moon PL: The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning PL: Speke's expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of PL: Queen Victoria's British Empire. The film tells the story of their PL: meeting, their friendship emerging amidst hardship, and then dissolving PL: after their journey. BY: Greg Bole <bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> GE: Adventure Epic ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Mouse That Roared, The PL: The dutchy of Grand Fenwick decides that the only way to get out of their PL: economic woes is to declare war on the United States, lose and accept PL: foreign aid. They send an invasion force to New York (armed with PL: crossbows) which arrives during a nuclear drill that has cleared the PL: streets. Wandering about to find someone to surrender to, they discover PL: a scientist with a special ultimate weapon that can destroy the Earth. PL: When they capture him and his bomb they are faced with a new possibility: PL: What do you do when you win a war? BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Mouse on the Moon, The PL: Sequel to The Mouse that Roared; The Tiny Country of Grand Fenwick has a PL: hot water problem in the castle. To get the money necessary to put in a PL: new set of plumbing, they request foreign aid from the U.S. for Space PL: Research. The Russians then send aid as well to show that they too are for PL: the internationalization of space. While the grand Duke is dreaming of PL: hot baths, their one scientist is slapping together a rocket. The U.S. PL: and Soviets get wind of the impending launch and try and beat them to the PL: moon. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Political-Satire ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Mr. Baseball PL: A Major Leaguer down on his percentages gets traded to the Chiunichi PL: Dragons, and has trouble adjusting to Japanese customs. He resists PL: what he considers ridiculous and arbitrary rules of the club and PL: belittles the etiquette expected of him as a representative of his PL: team. When he starts seeing the interactions of his coach with the PL: owners of the team, and falls in love with his translator, he begins PL: to rethink his attitude. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House PL: The Blandings live in New York in a tiny apartment. They decide to move PL: to the country and find that buying and building and living in their own PL: home is simpler said than done. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Mr. Destiny PL: Larry Burrows is unhappy and feels powerless over his life. He believes PL: his entire life could have turned out differently had he not missed that PL: shot in a baseball game when was a kid. One night he meets this mysterious PL: man, who could change his fate by offering him that alternative life he PL: always dreamed of. But as Burrows embarks on this journey of self discovery PL: he realises that even this new life has its problems and drawbacks.. BY: Sami Al-Taher <smmat@ukc.ac.uk> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Mr. Jones PL: The story about the relationship between a manic depressive PL: man, Mr Jones, and the female doctor who takes more than a professional PL: interest in his treatment. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Mr. Majestyk PL: A farmer battles a group of evil and powerful men who want to drive PL: him out of business so that they can buy his land for cheap. BY: Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com> GE: Action Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Mr. North PL: Mr. North, a stranger to a small, but wealthy, Rhode Island town, PL: quickly has rumors started about him that he has the power to heal PL: people's ailments. The rumors are magnified by his tendency to collect PL: negative charges and give shocks to anyone he touches. In his adventures PL: he befriends an old man who is a shut-in and helps him rediscover the PL: world. BY: Kevin <Kibble@vm.temple.edu> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington PL: Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is PL: appointed on a lark by the spineless governor of his state. He is PL: reunited with the state's senior senator--presidential hopeful and PL: childhood hero, Senator Thomas Payne. In Washington, however, Smith PL: discovers many of the shortcomings of the political process as his PL: earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the PL: state political boss, Jim Taylor. Taylor first tries to corrupt Smith PL: and then later attempts to destroy Smith through a scandal. BY: James Yu <jamestyu@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu> GE: Political Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Mr. and Mrs. Smith PL: Sophisticated New York couple David and Annie Smith have an unusual marriage PL: with an inordinate number of rules and regulations. One rule entitles them PL: to ask each other one question per month which the other must answer PL: completely honestly. Annie asks David if he would marry her again if he PL: could have the time over again and David confides that he misses his freedom PL: and so probably wouldn't. Later that day, an official from the town where PL: they got married calls to see David. He explains that owing to a state PL: boundary dispute, all couples married between 1936 and 1939 in the county PL: where not legally married. David decides to have fun with this fact, but PL: unbeknown to him, the county official calls to see Annie too and disaster PL: results. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Comedy Screwball ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Mrs. Doubtfire PL: Out of work father Robin Williams find himself suddenly divorced without PL: custody of his kids. To solve this problem, he disguises himself as an PL: old Scottish nanny to get hired by his ex-wife and be closer to his kids. BY: Jeremy Waide <jwaide@bvsd.k12.co.us> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Ms. 45 PL: A mute woman gets raped twice coming home from work and decides to PL: take matters into her own hands. She dresses suggestively and roams PL: the streets alone, reaking vengeance upon anyone who tries to take PL: advantage of her. Eventually her secret life spills over into her PL: regular life in the fashion industry. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Crime Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Much Ado About Nothing (1993) PL: Young lovers Hero and Claudio are to be married in one week. To pass the PL: time, they conspire with Don Pedro to set a "lover's trap" for Benedick, PL: and arrogant confirmed bachelor, and Beatrice, his favorite sparring PL: partner. Meanwhile, the evil Don Jon conspires to break up the wedding by PL: accusing Hero of infidelity. In the end, though, it all turns out to be PL: "much ado about nothing." BY: Liza Esser <essereli@student.msu.edu> GE: Romantic-Comedy Shakespeare ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Mudhoney PL: It's 1933, in the midst of the Depression and Prohibition. Calif, a PL: stranger with a past walks into Spooner, Missouri on his way from Michigan PL: to California. He hires on with Lute Wade to earn some travelling money, PL: but gets entangled in a bad family situation: Lute's daughter is married PL: to Sidney, a good-for-nothing drunk that frequents the rural equivalent of PL: a whorehouse and beats his wife and is just waiting for Lute to kick the PL: bucket to get his money. When Sidney and a local wacko preacher begin PL: orchestrating a smear campaign against Calif, he finds it difficult to PL: conceal his past and his growing affection for Sidney's wife. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Muppet Movie, The PL: Kermit the Frog is persuaded by agent Dom DeLuise to pursue PL: a career in Hollywood. Along the way, Kermit picks up PL: Fozzie Bear, Miss Piggy, Gonzo, and a motley crew of other PL: Muppets with similar aspirations. Meanwhile, Kermit must PL: elude the grasp of a frog-leg restaurant magnate. BY: Ray Hamel <hamel@primate.wisc.edu> GE: Musical Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Murder Weapon PL: Two daughters of mobsters get out of the sanitarium after having killed PL: a boyfriend in the shower, supposedly cured and on the right track. PL: They hold a party and invite all their old boyfriends, making all of PL: them think there is still hope for a relationship. Then the boyfriends PL: start disappearing one by one. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Murder by Death PL: Truman Capote has invited the five greatest detectives to a "dinner and PL: murder." How can they resist? Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute PL: maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities, and PL: more plot turns and twists than are decently allowed. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Spoof Mystery ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Murder by Decree PL: Sherlock Holmes investigates London's most infamous case, Jack the Ripper. PL: As he investigates, he finds that the Ripper has friends in high places. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Mystery Historical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Murder! PL: An actress in a travelling theatre group is murdered and Diana Baring, PL: another member of the group is found suffering from amnesia standing by PL: the body. Diana is tried and convicted of the murder, but Sir John Menier PL: a famous actor on the jury is convinced of her innocence. Sir John sets out PL: to find the real murderer before Diana's death sentence is carried out. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Thriller Mystery ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Murder, My Sweet PL: This adaptation of the Raymond Chandler novel 'Farewell, My Lovely', PL: renamed for the American market to prevent filmgoers mistaking it for a PL: musical (for which Powell was already famous) has private eye Philip PL: Marlowe hired by Moose Malloy, a petty crook just out of prison after a PL: seven year stretch, to look for his former girlfriend, Velma, who has PL: not been seen for the last six years. PL: The case is tougher than Marlowe expected as his initially promising PL: enquiries lead to a complex web of deceit involving bribery, perjury PL: and theft, and where no one's motivation is obvious, least of all PL: Marlowe's. BY: Mark Thompson <mrt@oasis.icl.co.uk> GE: Thriller Noir ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Murphy's Romance PL: Emma is a divorced woman with a teen aged boy who moves into a small town PL: and tries to make a go of a horse ranch. Murphey is the town druggist who PL: steers business her way. Things are going along predictably until her PL: ex husband shows up, needing a place to stay. The three of them form an PL: intricate circle, Emma's son liking Murphey, but desperately wanting his PL: father back. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Romance Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: My Bodyguard PL: Clifford Peache is the new kid in Lake View High School. Faced with PL: all the stress that role entails he makes his situation worse by PL: insulting Moody, the leader of a group of toughs who extort lunch PL: money from kids. These punks pretend to be bodyguards for the kids PL: to protect them from Linderman who, it is rumored, killed his PL: brother in cold blood. Clifford befriends the sullen Linderman and PL: hires him as his bodyguard. When Moody ups the ante, Linderman must PL: decide whether fighting for what he believes in, with his haunted PL: past and image, is justified. BY: Rick Gregory <rag.apa@email.apa.org> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: My Cousin Vinny PL: Two teenage boys from New York are travelling down south when PL: a series of coincidences lands them in jail charged with first PL: degree murder. They can't afford the $50K for an attorney so they PL: call the lawyer cousin of one of the boys. Vinny is a stereotypical PL: New Yorker who is initially a complete disaster, but can he get them PL: off the hook ? BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Courtroom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: My Father Is Coming PL: A immigrant's father is coming to visit from Germany. She has lied to him PL: about her acting career, having looked unsuccessfully for parts for a year, PL: and has also told him she's married. So she enlists her gay roommate to PL: act as her husband, which causes complications in his lifestyle. When Dad PL: arrives, he accompanies her to an audition for a New Age Erotic film PL: with Annie Sprinkle, and he accidentally gets a part in a commercial, and PL: gets involved with Annie. The daughter is miffed, and ends up trying to PL: decide what her own sexual orientation is. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: My Father the Hero (1994) PL: Andre, a Frenchman divorced from his American wife takes his teenage PL: daughter, Nicole, on vacation with him. She's desperate to appear as PL: a woman and not a girl, so in order to impress a local boy, she makes up PL: more and more ridiculous stories, starting with Andre being her lover. PL: Andre is desperate to make Nicole happy and so plays along with her PL: crazy games, and the stories they make up get increasingly bizzare. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> PL: A 14-year-old New York girl goes to the Bahamas for vacation with her PL: French father. She gives her dad a hard time because of his lack of PL: attention over the years. When she becomes attracted to a boy who works PL: at the hotel, she pretends that her father is her lover in order to impress PL: him. The strategy predictably backfires, and all the other guests give PL: the dad a cold shoulder as he and his daughter both try to sort out their PL: love lives. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: My Favorite Year PL: Benjy Stone is the junior writer on the top rated variety/comedy show, in PL: the mid 50s (the early years). Its a new medium and the rules were not PL: fully established. Alan Swann, an Erol Flynn type actor with a drinking PL: problem is to be that weeks guest star. When King Kaiser, the headliner PL: wants to throw Swann off the show, Benjy makes a pitch to save his PL: childhood hero, and is made Swann's babysitter. On top of this, a union PL: boss doesn't care for Kaiser's parody of him and has plans to stop the PL: show. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: My Girl PL: Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her PL: father runs a funeral parlour. She is also in love with her English PL: teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. PL: Thomas J., her best friend, is "allergic to everything", and sticks with PL: Vada despite her hangups. When Vada's father hires Shelley, a makeup PL: expert, in his funeral parlour, and begins to fall in love with her, PL: Vada is outraged and does everything in her power to split them up. BY: Liz Jordan <c9310494@alinga.newcastle.edu.au> GE: Comedy Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: My Girl 2 PL: Vada Sultenfuss has a holiday coming up, and an assignment: to do and PL: essay on someone she admires and has never met. She decides she wants to PL: do an assignment on her mother, but quickly realises she knows very PL: little about her. She manages to get her father to agree to let her PL: go to LA to stay with her Uncle Phil and do some research on her mother. PL: Once in LA, she finds herself under the protection of Nick, the son of PL: Phil's girlfriend, who at first is very annoyed at losing his holidays PL: to escort a hick *girl* around town. However, he soon becomes more PL: involved in the difficult search. BY: Liz Jordan <c9310494@alinga.newcastle.edu.au> GE: Comedy Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: My Learned Friend PL: An insane murderer is on the loose, and gunning for the men who put PL: him away. Will Hay is on the list, and co-opts Claude Hulbert to try PL: and stop him from meeting a grisly end. This black comedy suggests that, PL: had he lived, Will Hay might have moved on to the darker corners of PL: Ealing comedies such as 'The Ladykillers'. BY: D.Giddings <sdjg0@uk.ac.rl.ib> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: My Own Private Idaho PL: River Phoenix plays a narcoleptic male prostitute, and Keanu PL: Reeves plays the son of the mayor of Portland who joins Reeves in what PL: is apparently meant to be a modern-day version of Shakespeare's PL: _Henry IV, Part I_. Don't try to look to hard for a plot, though, PL: in between the random shots of farmhouses falling out of the sky, PL: salmon swimming upstream, and our heroes (?) bonking away in some PL: truly bizarre sex scenes (all still shots, and far too many limbs PL: to be accounted for). PL: The opening scene is a printed definition of narcolepsy, defining PL: it as a medical condition marked by frequent uncontrollable urges PL: to fall asleep. Make of that what you will. BY: Geva Patz <geva@concave.cs.wits.ac.za> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: My Son Johnny (TV) PL: Anthony Cortino lives with his mother in a quiet suburb. His father PL: is dead, and his violent criminal brother is a long way off, in the PL: city- and if Anthony has his way, that's where he will stay. However, PL: Johnny runs into trouble with the police in the city, and when he asks PL: to come home, his mother agrees, despite Anthony's objections. A reign PL: of terror begins for Anthony then, for as long as Johnny is around, PL: Anthony is never safe, and never has been. BY: Liz Jordan <c9310494@alinga.newcastle.edu.au> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Mysterians, The PL: Aliens arrive on Earth and ask permission to be given a certain tract of PL: land for their people to live on. But when they are discovered to be PL: invaders, responsible for the giant robot that is destroying cities, the PL: armed forces attempt to stop them with every weapon available. BY: Todd A. Bobenrieth <TAB146@PSUVM.EDU> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Mystery Train PL: A Japanese punk couple go to Nashville because the boyfriend's life is PL: Elvis. Chance encounters interweave and/or link three different PL: stories in the city, the common thread being the seedy hotel where they PL: all are staying. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy Drama Crime ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Mystery of the Wax Museum, The PL: A mild mannered artist who works in wax has created a wax museum of his PL: 'friends' when his partner sets fire to it for the insurance. He is PL: injured in the fire and must make use of other less talented artists to PL: work his creations into shape. At the same time a series of bizarre PL: murders begin in London. The girlfriend of one of the young artists finds PL: that not only are her friends disappearing, but a masked man is stalking PL: her. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Mystic Pizza PL: Sisters, Daisy and Kat, work in a local Pizza store. Daisy is PL: beautiful but seems to be wasting her life, Kat is going to College. PL: The story revolves around the love lives of the two sisters and PL: their friend Jojo. Jojo has stood at the alter but couldn't go through PL: with a marriage, Daisy hasn't found Mr Right yet, and Kat hasn't PL: got time for boyfriends. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Drama Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Naked PL: Johnny flees Manchester for London, to avoid a beating from the family of a PL: girl he has raped. There he finds an old girlfriend, and spends some time PL: homeless, spending much of his time ranting at strangers, and meeting PL: characters in plights very much like his own. BY: John Hartnup <hartnupj@cs.aston.ac.uk> GE: Drama Political ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear, The PL: Lt. Frank Drebbin returns to save the day once again. This time he's PL: out to foil the "big boys" in the energy business. A top scientist (Dr PL: Mainheimer) is about to publish his report on energy supply for the future. PL: Things don't look good for the traditional suppliers; oil, coal and PL: nuclear. To save their industries, the suppliers kidnap Mainheimer and PL: replace him with a decoy with a more favourable report. Jane, the Dr's PL: secretary, is Drebbin's old flame; they're passionate love affair is thus PL: rekindled. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Spoof ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult PL: Frank Drebin is persuaded out of retirement to go undercover PL: in a state prison. There he is to find out what top terrorist, Rocco, PL: has planned for when he escapes. Frank's wife, Jane, is desperate for PL: a baby.. this adds to Frank's problems. A host of celebrities PL: at the Academy awards ceremony are humiliated by Frank as he blunders PL: his way trying to foil Rocco. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Spoof Police ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!, The PL: A re-run of many of the gags from the original TV series 'Police Squad'. PL: An Airplane type spoof, this time with the an incompetent lieutenant PL: (Drebin) who always 'gets his man'. Visual gags come thick and fast, PL: and it's impossible to catch them all with one viewing. The plot.. PL: Queen Elizabeth II of England is coming to town, and Vincent Ludwig has PL: plans to assassinate her using a brainwashed baseball player. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Naked Instinct PL: A woman is in therapy bacause of her uncontrollable desire for young PL: men. She recounts stories of her sordid past, including seducing a PL: rich kid when his parents are away, and giving a fraternity boy a good PL: time. The therapist tells her about another of his patients who has PL: virtually the same problem, and tells of this patient's encounters with PL: a pool cleaner, a hot tub repairman, a football jock, and a young army PL: recruit. Eventually patient and therapist get to know each other better. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama Erotic Fantasy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Naked Lunch PL: Not an adaptation of beat writer William S. Burrough's novel PL: but a mix of biography and an interpretation of his drug- PL: induced writing processes combined with elements of his work PL: in this paranoid fantasy about Bill Lee, a writer who PL: accidentally shoots his wife, whose typewriter transforms into PL: a cockroach and who becomes involved in a mysterious plot in PL: an Islamic port called Interzone. Wonderfully bizarre, not PL: unlike Burrough's books. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Fantasy Biography Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Naked Obsession PL: A city councilman explores the seedy side of town to help him decide PL: how to approach an urban renewal project. Being obviously not from PL: there he is beaten in the street and his wallet stolen. A transient PL: helps him and guides him into the sordid world surrounding a strip PL: tease dive, and eventually has an intense affair with one of the PL: strippers. Then someone is murdered, and he is implicated and must PL: try to clear his name. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Narrow Margin (1990) PL: A woman secretly witnesses the murder of her blind date for the evening PL: by a top Mafia boss. She immediately goes into hiding without informing PL: the authorities. When they finally catch up with her, she is unwilling PL: to testify to what she has seen, but the Mafia are on her trail. PL: Accompanied by a deputy district attorney, the woman boards a train PL: travelling through a remote part of Canada. The Mafia know him but they PL: have never seen her. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Crime Murder Mafia Railway Chase ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: National Lampoon's Animal House PL: Faber College has one frat house so disreputable it will take anyone. PL: It has a second one full of white, anglo-saxon, rich young men who are PL: so sanctimonious no one can stand them except Dean Wormer. The dean PL: enlists the help of the second frat to get the boys of Delta House off PL: campus. This film gives high-jinks and fooling around a bad name. P PL: The dean's plan comes into play just before the homecoming parade to PL: end all parades for all time. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 PL: An LA detective is murdered because she has microfilm with the recipe to PL: make cocaine cookies. A "Lethal Weapon" style cop team tries to find and PL: stop the fiends before they can dope the nation by distributing their PL: wares via the "Wilderness Girls" cookie drive. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: National Lampoon's Vacation PL: Follows the Griswold family, Clark and Ellen along with their two PL: children Rusty and Audrey, as they venture westward from the suburbs PL: of Chicago to the Disneyland-like theme park, Walley World. Clark has PL: planned the trip down the last detail, including seeing the world's PL: largest ball of twine. However, Clark's pursuit of adventure is matched PL: by his dimwitted bumbling, leading to a vacation his family will not PL: soon forget. BY: Rick Gregory <rag.apa@email.apa.org> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Natural, The PL: An unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs with a mysterious PL: past appears out of nowhere to take a losing 1920s baseball PL: team to the top of the league in this magical sports fantasy. PL: With the aid of a bat cut from a lightning struck tree, Hobbs PL: lives the fame he should have had earlier when, as a rising PL: pitcher, he is inexplicably shot by a young woman. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Sports Fantasy Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey, The PL: A young boy in 14th century Cumbria (north of England) keeps PL: getting visions he cannot explain. His village has so far been PL: spared from the black death, but the villagers fear its imminent PL: arrival. With the boy as their guide, a group set out to dig a hole PL: to the other side of the world, so as to fulfil the visions and PL: save the village. At the 'other side' is 20th century New Zealand !.. PL: N.B. Flips from B+W to colour frequently. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Fantasy Time-travel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Near Dark PL: A mid-western farm boy reluctantly becomes a member of the PL: undead when a girl he meets turns out to be part of a band PL: of southern vampires who roam the highways in stolen cars. PL: Part of his initiation includes a bloody assault on a hick PL: bar. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Horror Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Necessary Roughness PL: Due to NCAA sanctions, the Texas State University Fightin' PL: Armadillos must form a football team from their actual student PL: body, with no scholarships to help, to play their football PL: schedule. With fewer players than most teams, the makeshift PL: team must overcome obstacles that the best teams in the country PL: couldn't deal with. Using a 34 year old quarterback, a female PL: placekicker and a gang of misfits, Ed "Straight Arrow" Genero PL: must take his team to play the number one Texas Colts. BY: Kevin <Kibble@vm.temple.edu> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Necromania PL: A couple having marital problems (the husband can't seem to rise to the PL: occasion) visits Madame Heles, a necromancer, in hopes of ameliorating PL: their boudoir blunders. After an elaborate ritual with a skull, Heles' PL: lovely assistant Tanya first takes care of another client, then moves on PL: to the couple, each in their turn. Once she's worked with each of them on PL: a physical level, they are ready to meet the Madame, who will decide how PL: best to help them. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror Sleaze ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Network PL: In 1975 terrorist violence is the stuff of network nightly news PL: programming and the corporate structure of the UBS television network PL: is changing. Meanwhile, Howard Beale, the aging UBS news anchor, PL: has lost his once strong ratings share and so the network PL: fires him. Beale reacts in an unexpected way. We then see how this PL: affects the fortunes of Beale, his coworkers (Max Schumacher and PL: Diana Christensen), and the network. BY: Bruce Janson <bruce@cs.su.oz.au> PL: A fourth network is struggling for ratings and turns it's News division PL: over to the entertainment division. As one of the ramifications of this PL: move the news Anchor is fired. He goes on the air with a wonderfully daffy PL: rant and rave session culminating in his insisting that people go to the PL: windows and yell, "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore." PL: His ravings make him an Icon as the need to sell begins to overwhelm PL: everyone touched by the network. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Drama Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Never Say Never Again PL: SPECTRE agents under the command of Ernst Blofeld infiltrate a US air PL: force base situated in the UK and steal two Tomahawk cruise missiles. PL: When NATO is held to ransom, the British reactive their "00" agents and PL: send James Bond to recapture the warheads and kill Blofeld. BY: Dave Jenkins <david.jenkins@smallworld.co.uk> GE: Spy Action Bond ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Night Before, The PL: Winston Connelly wakes up in the middle of the night in an alley with PL: no idea of how he got there. Nor does he know where in Los Angeles he PL: is or why he is wearing a beat-up tuxedo. Through a series of PL: flashbacks, he remembers that he was sidetracked on his way to the prom PL: the night before. In the meantime, he has to figure out what happened PL: to his wallet, his car keys, his date, and why a pimp named "Tito" PL: wants him dead. BY: Christine Sai-Halasz <sai@mit.edu> GE: Comedy Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Night My Number Came Up, The PL: At a fashionable dinner party in Hong Kong a pilot is coaxed into PL: revealing details of a dream in which eight persons take off from PL: Bangkok in a Dakota bound for Tokyo and crash in the Japanese PL: mountains. Amongst those listening is Air Marshall Hardie who is PL: due to fly to Tokyo the next day. Hardie initially dismisses the PL: dream because he is scheduled to fly out in a Liberator, but as PL: Hardie arrives at the airport he discovers that the Liberator PL: has developed mechanical problems and has been replaced by a PL: Dakota. When, just before the flight is due to depart, two soldiers PL: board the plane making a complement of eight, Hardie fears that the PL: Dream may be coming true and he is destined to die. BY: Dave Jenkins <david.jenkins@smallworld.co.uk> GE: Thriller Disaster ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Night Porter, The PL: Thirteen years after WWII a concentration camp survivor (Rampling) and her PL: tormentor, currently the night porter at a Berlin hotel, meet again PL: and fall back into their sado-masochistic relationship. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama Historical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Night Trap PL: A man sells his soul to the devil and shows up on a killing spree at Mardi PL: Gras in New Orleans. Leaving a trail of bodies, the apparently PL: indestructible demon challenges the detective to stop him by the end of PL: Mardis Gras or lose his soul. With help from a voodoo lady and his police PL: captain, who remembers the demon from a past Mardis Gras, he gets closer, PL: but risks the destruction of his ex-wife and newly found girlfriend. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Night at the Opera, A PL: The Marx Brothers take on high society. Two lovers who are both in opera PL: are prevented from being together by the man's lack of acceptance as an PL: operatic tenor. Pulling several typical Marx Brothers' stunts, PL: they arrange for the normal tenor to be absent so that the young lover PL: can get his chance. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Farce ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Night of the Comet PL: Two pretty high school girls (one a cheerleader!) don't like their PL: mother or her new boyfriend ("Daddy would have gotten us Uzis!"). One PL: morning, they wake up to find that everybody in Los Angeles has been PL: turned to dust by Halley's Comet except them, a guy who looks like Erik PL: Estrada, some zombies and the occupants of a secret underground PL: government installation. BY: Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com> GE: Action Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Night of the Demons PL: A group of teens decides to have a Halloween party up at the deserted PL: funeral parlor. They accidentally awaken a demon while having a seance. PL: The demon enters the body of one of the women, and soon the teens begin PL: experiencing an attrition problem. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Night of the Generals PL: Three Nazi generals are implicated in the murder of a PL: prostitute in Warsaw in 1940. Major Grau, an investigator PL: is prevented from completing his investigation, but fate PL: brings the 4 of them to Paris in 1944, just before D-Day PL: and this time the complicating factor is that some of the PL: generals are involved in the plot against Hitler. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Mystery Historical War ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Night of the Living Dead (1968) PL: The radiation from a fallen satellite causes the recently deceased to PL: rise from the grave and seek the living to use as food. This is the PL: situation that a group of people penned up in an old farmhouse PL: must deal with. BY: Todd A. Bobenrieth <TAB146@PSUVM.EDU> PL: The dead come back to life and eat the living in this low budget, black PL: and white film. Several people barricade themselves inside a rural PL: house in an attempt to survive the night. Outside are hordes of PL: relentless, shambling zombies who can only be killed by a blow to the PL: head. BY: Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Night of the Living Dead (1990) PL: In this remake of the original classic film, a group of people are PL: trapped inside a farmhouse as legions of the walking dead try to get PL: inside and use them for food. BY: Todd A. Bobenrieth <TAB146@PSUVM.EDU> PL: This remake of the 1968 film is in color. Also, the female heroine has PL: become tougher, and is now suspiciously similar to the two female PL: characters in the movie Aliens. BY: Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Night on Earth PL: A collection of five stories involving cab drivers in five different PL: cities. Los Angeles - A talent agent for the movies discovers her cab PL: driver would be perfect to cast, but the cabbie is reluctant to give up PL: her solid cab driver's career. New York - An immigrant cab driver is PL: continually lost in a city and culture he doesn't understand. Paris - PL: A blind girl takes a ride with a cab driver from the Ivory Coast and PL: they talk about life and blindness. Rome - A gregarious cabbie picks PL: up an ailing man and virtually talks him to death. Helsinki - an PL: industrial worker gets laid off and he and his compatriots discuss the PL: bleakness and unfairness of love and life and death. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Nightbreed PL: A community of mutant outcasts of varying types and abilities PL: attempts to escape the attentions of a psychotic serial killer PL: and redneck vigilantes with the help of a brooding young man PL: who discovers them. Based on the novel "Cabal" by Clive Barker. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Nightmare Before Christmas, The PL: Jack Skellington, the pumpkin king of Halloween Town, is bored with PL: doing the same thing every year for Halloween. One day he stumbles PL: into Christmas Town, and is so taken with the idea of Christmas that PL: he tries to get the resident bats, ghouls, and goblins of Halloween PL: town to help him put on Christmas instead of Halloween -- but alas, PL: they can't get it quite right. BY: Jon Reeves <reeves@zk3.dec.com> GE: Fantasy Musical Stop-motion ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Nightmare in Badham County (TV) PL: Two UCLA coeds have engine trouble in small Southern town. When they PL: spurn the local sheriff's advances he arranges for them to be taken to PL: the women's prison on trivial charges (the judge is a cousin), where PL: they must endure atrocities at the hands of the administrators of the PL: prison and the prison guards. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, A PL: Picking up where the original Nightmare left off, Nancy has grown up and PL: become a psychiatrist specializing in dream therapy. She meets a group PL: of children at a local hospital facing Freddy Krueger, the same demon she PL: once encountered in her sleep. One of them is Kristen, who has the power PL: to draw other people into her dreams. Working with a male doctor assigned PL: to the case, Nancy helps the kids realize their special abilities within PL: the nightmare world. When Freddy captures one of her charges, she leads a PL: rescue attempt into Krueger's domain, in hopes of putting his spirit to PL: rest once and for all. BY: David Thiel <d-thiel@uiuc.edu> PL: The third Nightmare continues Freddy's story with the sole survivor of PL: the first movie, Nancy Thompson. Nancy has just accepted a position as a PL: research scientist at a pschiatric institution near the fated house on Elm PL: Street and is working with a group of children who all share nightmares of PL: Freddy. She discovers that one of the children (Kristen) has a special PL: gift which may help them destroy Freddy forever. BY: Goth <brooks@odie.ee.wits.ac.za> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, A PL: Following up the previous Nightmare film, dream demon Freddy Krueger is PL: resurrected from his apparent demise, and rapidly tracks down and kills PL: the remainder of the Elm Street kids. However, Kristen (who can draw PL: others into her dreams) wills her special ability to her friend Alice. PL: Alice soon realizes that Freddy is taking advantage of that unknown power PL: to pull a new group of children into his foul domain. BY: David Thiel <d-thiel@uiuc.edu> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, A PL: Alice, having survived the previous installment of the Nightmare series, PL: finds the deadly dreams of Freddy Krueger starting once again. This time, PL: the taunting murderer is striking through the sleeping mind of Alice's PL: unborn child. His intention is to be "born again" into the real world. PL: The only one who can stop Freddy is his dead mother, but can Alice free PL: her spirit in time to save her own son? BY: David Thiel <d-thiel@uiuc.edu> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge, A PL: A new family moves into the house on Elm Street, and before long, the PL: kids are again having nightmares about deceased child murderer Freddy PL: Krueger. This time, Freddy attempts to possess a teenage boy to cause PL: havoc in the real world, and can only be overcome if the boy's sweetheart PL: can master her fear. BY: David Thiel <d-thiel@uiuc.edu> PL: The Grady family, including their teenage son Jesse, moves into a PL: house on Elm Street which has been vacant for some time. Hardly PL: surprising, since it was the same house in which the first Nightmare on PL: Elm Street took place. Ron starts having strange nightmares and finds PL: that Freddy Kruger is using him to commit terrible deeds. It is up to PL: his girlfriend to find some way of stopping Freddy. BY: Goth <brooks@odie.ee.wits.ac.za> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Nightmare on Elm Street, A PL: Nancy is having nightmares about a frightening, badly-scarred figure who PL: wears a glove with razor-sharp "finger knives". She soon discovers that PL: her friends are having similar dreams. When the kids begin to die, Nancy PL: realizes that she must stay awake to survive. Uncovering the secret PL: identity of the dream killer and his connection with the children of Elm PL: Street, the girl plots to draw him out into the real world. BY: David Thiel <d-thiel@uiuc.edu> PL: Freddy Kruger is the substance of nightmares. He always appears PL: strangely dressed and has knives on the fingers of his right hand. A PL: group of four teenagers all begin to have the same strange dreams about PL: Freddy and then one of them is gruesomely murdered in her sleep. The PL: survivors soon realise that if Freddy kills them in their sleep, then PL: they will die in real life too. Thus begins an ordeal of wakefulness as PL: they try to find some way to stop Freddy. BY: Goth <brooks@odie.ee.wits.ac.za> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: No Highway in the Sky PL: Theodore Honey is an aeronautical engineer being sent to Labrador from PL: London to examine the wreckage of a new passenger plane designed by his PL: company. His theory is that the planes are susceptible to metal fatigue PL: after a specific amount of time in the air. The absent minded Honey PL: boards the Reindeer class plane and only realizes that this plane is due PL: to fail in the next few hours after the plane is airborne. He decides to PL: warn the crew and creates an incident regardless of whether he is right or PL: wrong. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Drama Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: No Secrets PL: Three childhood girlfriends reunite at the parents' remote cottage where PL: they try and come to grips with their separate development and diverging PL: interests. Then a man with a secret shows up and lies his way into their PL: situation. They take turns falling in love with him and then suspecting PL: he is not being level with them, which causes a strain in their already PL: strained relationship. Eventually they must make a decision on whether PL: to get rid of him or flee. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: No Way Out (1987) PL: Tom Farrell is a navy officer who gets posted at the Pentagon and is PL: to report to the secretary of defence David Brice. He starts an affair PL: with Susan Atwell not knowing that she is Brice's mistress. When Susan PL: is found dead, Tom is assigned to the case of finding the killer who PL: is believed to be a KGB mole! Tom could soon become a suspect when a PL: polaroid negative of him was found at Susan's place. He now has only PL: a few hours to find the killer before the computer regenerates the photo. BY: Sami Al-Taher <smmat@ukc.ac.uk> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: North by Northwest PL: Middle-aged Madison Avenue advertising executive Roger O. Thornhill is PL: mistaken for a government agent by a gang of spies. He gets involved in a PL: series of misadventures and is pursued across the States by both the spies PL: and the government whilst being helped by a beautiful blonde. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Thriller Comedy Road ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Nosferatu PL: Not the original Dracula movie (but close enough for most people), this PL: follows the familiar story of Count Orloc moving from his ruined castle PL: to the city of Brennen, after the visit of one Jonathan Harker. PL: Once there he become involved with Jonathan's fiancee Nina, who alone PL: hold the power to destroy him. BY: David Carroll <davidc@atom.ansto.gov.au> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Not of This Earth (1988) PL: A science fiction vampire movie. The Vampire is an emissary from an PL: embattled world near destruction who teleports to Earth to see if they PL: can live here. He finds that our blood is nourishing and that at least PL: one source of it is a steady stream of transfusions. He hypnotizes a Dr. PL: to provide them and has his blond nurse move in to administer them. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> PL: A nurse is assigned to help a strange man requiring regular blood PL: transfusions at his home. He is really an alien checking out humans PL: for harvesting their blood, since his race is dying out because of PL: intergalactic nuclear wars. An assistant joins him as the final studies PL: of blood are being completed, but the nurse, her boyfriend, and a local PL: doctor begin figuring it out and resist. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Sci-Fi Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Nothing But Trouble (1991) PL: A financier [Chevy Chase] meets a spurned lover [Demi Moore] and PL: agrees to take her to a business meeting. On the way there, they PL: run a stop sign in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere. They PL: are arrested and taken to the local court. But all is not as it PL: seems: the courthouse and the "prison" are a maze of zany booby- PL: traps and deadly contraptions. The antics of the captured PL: couple as they try to escape from the mad judge and his bizarre PL: family make up the rest of this unusual film. BY: Goth <brooks@odie.ee.wits.ac.za> GE: Comedy Adventure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Notorious (1946) PL: Following the conviction of her German father for treason against the U.S., PL: Alicia Huberman takes to drink and men. She is approached by a government PL: agent (T.R. Devlin) who asks her to spy on a group of her father's Nazi PL: friends operating out of Rio de Janeiro. A romance develops between Alicia PL: and Devlin, but she starts to get too involved in her work. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Thriller Romance Spy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Number Seventeen (1932) PL: A gang of thieves gather at a safe house following a robbery, but a PL: detective is on their trail. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Nuns on the Run PL: Brian and Charlie (B & C) work for a gangster. When the boss learns they PL: want to "leave", he sets them up to be killed, after they help rob PL: the local Triads of their drug dealing profits. B & C decide to steal PL: the money for themselves, but when their escape doesn't go to plan, PL: they have to seek refuge in a Nuns' teacher training school. Disguised PL: as nuns, B & C have to avoid their boss, Triads, police and Brian's PL: girlfriend. There's also the problem of them being men disguised as PL: nuns in an all women institution. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Object of Beauty, The PL: American couple Jake and Tina are living in an expensive London hotel PL: way beyond what they can afford. When they were asked to pay the bill, PL: Jake wants to sell Tina's 20.000 pound Henry Moore sculpture, but she is PL: not happy about that. The deaf-mute hotel maid admires the sculpture for PL: its beauty rather than its value. When the sculpture goes missing, the PL: couple start fighting over it... BY: Sami Al-Taher <smmat@ukc.ac.uk> GE: Drama Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Octopussy PL: When a "00" agent is found dead holding a Faberge egg, the PL: British are suspicious and send James Bond to investigate. 007 PL: discovers a connection between the priceless egg, an elaborate PL: smuggling operation and a plot by a renegade Soviet general PL: to instigate World War Three. BY: Dave Jenkins <david.jenkins@smallworld.co.uk> GE: Spy Action Bond ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Odessa File, The PL: On the night President Kennedy is shot, Peter Miller, a West German PL: freelance journalist, follows an ambulance on a whim. He finds an old Jew PL: has committed suicide and a police friend gives him the old man's PL: diary. Reading the diary of Tauber's experiences at the hand of an SS PL: Major Roschmann, a man who delighted in the murders he committed. Miller PL: becomes obsessed with bringing Roschman to justice and becomes involved PL: with Simon Wiesenthal, the Nazi hunter, the Israeli secret service, and PL: Odessa, the organization of SS soldiers who cling to money and power. PL: Miller finds that his life and that of his girl friend are both in danger PL: as he follows the trail of Roschmann through the Odessa underground. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Mystery ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Of Unknown Origin PL: A man who recently completed rebuilding a townhouse becomes obsessed PL: with a rat infestation until it becomes an interspecies duel. BY: Hal Wadleigh <wadleigh@process.com> GE: Psychological Adventure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Officer and a Gentleman, An PL: Zack Mayo is a young man who has signed up for Navy Flight School. He is PL: a Navy brat who has a bad attitude problem. Sgt. Foley is there to train PL: and evaluate him and will clearly find Zack wanting. Zack meets Paula, a PL: girl who has little beyond family and must decide what it is he wants to do PL: with his life. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Drama Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Oh, God! PL: Jerry, a assistant grocery manager (John Denver) is approached by PL: God to help spread his message. Reluctant at first, PL: Jerry finally ends up in a court case involving the slander PL: of a popular evangelist. BY: Ray Hamel <hamel@primate.wisc.edu> GE: Comedy Religious ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Oh, Mr Porter! PL: Through the influence of a relative, a hopeless railway employee is PL: made stationmaster the sleepy Irish station of Buggleskelly. PL: Determined to make his mark, he devises a number of schemes to put PL: Buggleskelly on the railway map, but instead falls foul of a gang of PL: gun runners. BY: D.Giddings <sdjg0@uk.ac.rl.ib> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Oldman Z PL: An old man is being treated specially by the Department of Health under PL: the so-called Project Z, a special nursing bed with a 6th generation PL: computer on board. When the pain and loneliness of the old man reaches PL: his ex-private nurse, she decides to rescue him from the government's PL: experiment. Thus begins a wild chase through the busy streets of Tokyo PL: as the 6th generation computer begins to have the personality of the PL: old man's ex-wife and as the government's secret project unfolds. BY: Tzung-I Lin <tzung@hugo.att.com> GE: Japanese-Animation Action Comedy Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: On Deadly Ground PL: Posing as an environmental story about a corrupt oil company owner called PL: Jennings, who will stop at nothing to open a new refinery in Alaska, PL: this is just an excuse for another action film. Fists, feet, bullets and PL: bombs galore as Forest Taft, a disgruntled employee, is chosen by an PL: Eskimo chief as the saviour of his people. Forest's mission is to PL: prevent the new refinery going on-line before the land rights are PL: returned to the Eskimos. The "God-damn" ludicrous dialogue is supposed PL: to be "God-damn" serious, but you just try not "God-damn" laughing at it. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Action Adventure Environmental ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: On Golden Pond PL: Norman and Ethel are a couple in the twilight of their lives, coming to PL: terms with their age and their strained relationship with their daughter, PL: Chelsea. They face these issues during the summer at their house on Golden PL: Pond, when they take care of Chelsea's fiance's 13 year old son, Billy, PL: while the couple is in Europe. BY: Liza Esser <essereli@student.msu.edu> GE: Family Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: On Her Majesty's Secret Service PL: Whilst on leave, British agent James Bond prevents a young woman, PL: Tracy Draco, from committing suicide. Her father is the head of a PL: powerful crime syndicate who is impressed by Bond and wants him PL: to protect his daughter by marrying her. In exchange he offers PL: Bond information which will lead 007 to his arch enemy Ernst Blofeld. PL: At first Bond agrees to the deal purely to fulfil his objective to kill PL: Blofeld but later he grows to love Tracy but when the British learn that PL: Blofeld plans to destroy mankind with a deadly virus, 007 is torn between PL: his loyalty to his county and his intent to marry Tracy. BY: Dave Jenkins <david.jenkins@smallworld.co.uk> GE: Spy Action Bond ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: On the Beach PL: An Australian submarine is on patrol when the world is destroyed by PL: nuclear war. Their attempt to find a safe place to land takes them PL: around the world as witnesses to the holocaust. BY: Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com> PL: An US submarine is on patrol when the Northern Hemisphere is destroyed by PL: nuclear war. They land in Melbourne, Australia where they live with the PL: rest of the city which has less than 12 months to live. They travel back PL: to the west cost of the US and witness the holocaust. BY: <anonymous> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: On the Waterfront PL: Terry Malloy dreams about being a prize fighter, while tending his pigeons PL: and running errands at the docks for Johnny Friendly, the corrupt boss of PL: the dockers union. Terry witnesses a murder by two of Johnny's thugs, and PL: later meets the dead mans sister and feels responsible for his death. PL: She introduces him to Father Barry, who trys to force him to provide PL: information for the courts that will smash the dock racketeers. BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> PL: The Waterfront Crime Commission is about to hold public hearings on PL: union crime and underworld infiltration. As workers are turned against PL: each other, Terry Malloy inadvertently participates in the murder of PL: fellow longshoreman Joey Doyle. Union boss Johnny Friendly orchestrates PL: the murder along with other illegal dockside activities, aided by PL: Terry's brother Charley. Terry begins to feel pangs of conscience. When PL: Joey's sister Edie sees more in Terry than he sees in himself and Father PL: Barry urges him on, Terry reassesses his past and begins to regain PL: responsibility for his actions. BY: Bruce Janson <bruce@cs.su.oz.au> GE: Drama Crime ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Once Upon a Time in America PL: Epic tale of a group of Jewish gangsters in New York, from childhood, PL: through their glory years during prohibition, and their meeting again 35 PL: years later. BY: Andrew Welsh <andreww@bnr.ca> GE: Crime Drama Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Once Upon a Time in the West PL: A mysterious stranger with a harmonica joins forces with PL: a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a PL: ruthless assassin working for the railroad in this long PL: frontier epic. Mysterious pasts and the strength of loyalties PL: is explored amid lightning fast gun battles and stylish vistas. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Western ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Once Were Warriors PL: Set in urban Auckland (New Zealand) this movie tells the story of the PL: Heke family. Jake Heke is a violent man who beats his wife frequently PL: when drunk, and yet obviously loves both her and his family. The movie PL: follows a period of several weeks in the family's life showing Jake's PL: frequent outburst of violence and the effect that this has on his family. PL: The youngest son is in trouble with the police and may be put into a PL: foster home while the elder son is about to join a street gang. Jake's PL: daughter has her own serious problems which are a key element in PL: the plot. BY: Chris Maslin <maslinc@cad.canterbury.ac.nz> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: One Against the Wind (TV) PL: Mary Linden works for the French Red Cross in Occupied France during PL: World War II and helps allied soldiers who have been shot down to PL: escape to the unoccupied side. Her activities are complicated by PL: her high profile and her daughter's love affair with a German officer. PL: Based on the true story. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Historical Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest PL: McMurphy thinks he can get out of doing work while in prison by PL: pretending to be mad. His plan backfires when he is sent to a mental PL: asylum. He tries to liven the place up a bit by playing card games PL: and basketball with his fellow inmates, but the head nurse is after PL: him at every turn. After he organised a party, one of the inmates PL: commits suicide and things start to go badly wrong. BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: One Woman or Two PL: An ad executive (Weaver) impersonates an archeology professor (Westheimer) PL: to avoid a situation with an obsessed former lover. She enlists the help PL: of a hapless archeologist (Depardieu) who is at the airport to pick the PL: real archeology professor (Weaver sees her lover and needs to escape). PL: What follows is a series of conflicting and comical situations involving PL: the "switcheroo." BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Open House PL: Someone is killing off nubile real estate agents. A psychologist doing a PL: therapy talk show begins getting calls from the perpetrator, and PL: cooperates with the police to try and stop him. Unfortunately, his lover PL: is a real estate agent, and when it becomes clear that the madman is PL: getting information for his kills from her discarded home listings, they PL: both become endangered. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Operation Petticoat (1959) PL: A submarine newly commissioned is damaged in the opening days of WW II. PL: A captain, looking for a command insists he can get it to a dockyard and PL: captain it. Going slowly to this site, they find a stranded group of PL: Army nurses and must take them aboard. How bad can it get? Trying to get PL: a primer coat on the sub, they have to mix white and red in order to have PL: enough. When forced to flee the dock during an air attack, they find PL: themselves with the world's only Pink submarine, still with 5 women in the PL: tight quarters of a submarine. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy War ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Ordinary Magic PL: Jeffrey is a Canadian boy raised in Sri Lanka. When his parents die he moves PL: to a small Canadian town to live with his aunt. He brings with him different PL: customs, beliefs and a very different way of handling conflict. BY: Ivan Weisz <weisz@math.ohio-state.edu> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Ordinary People PL: Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of PL: the death of the other son. Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced PL: guilt to the extent of a suicide attempt. He is in therapy. Beth had PL: always preferred his brother and is having difficulty being supportive PL: to Conrad. Calvin is trapped between the two trying to hold the family PL: together. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Osterman Weekend, The PL: The host of an investigative news show is convinced by the CIA PL: that the friends he has invited to a weekend in the country are PL: engaged in a conspiracy that threatens national security in PL: this adaptation of the Robert Ludlum novel. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Spy Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Other People's Money PL: A corporate raider threatens a hostile take-over of a "mom and pop" PL: company. The patriarch of the company enlists the help of his wife's PL: daughter, who is a lawyer, to try and protect the company. The raider PL: is enamoured of her, and enjoys the thrust and parry of legal manoeuvring PL: as he tries to win her heart. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Our Man Flint PL: When the intelligence agencies of the world find that their agents PL: are being murdered at an alarming rate their leaders all write out the PL: qualities an agent will need to succede against the terrible crisis they PL: are facing. Derick Flint is the only agent with all the qualities, but PL: his old boss refuses to work with him until ordered to by the president. PL: Flint is the worlds greatest secret agent, worlds greatest lover, an PL: expert on electronics and Dolphin speech and goes to Moscow for PL: Ballet (To Teach!) When attempts on his life are made, Flint begins PL: to search out the mad scientists who want to remake the world after PL: taking over with the aid of their earthquake machine. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Spy Adventure Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Outland PL: A marshal in outer space assigned to a remote mining colony PL: refuses to look the other way when miners begin dying from PL: a deadly narcotic designed to increase their productivity in PL: this film patterned on _High Noon_. Separated from his family, PL: the marshal finds few allies in the corporate-controlled PL: colony when assassins are sent to take care of him. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Outrageous Fortune PL: Lauren and Sandy are total opposites who end up in the same acting class PL: and who don't know they are sharing a lover. When he disappears under PL: mysterious circumstances they refuse to believe that he is dead and are PL: the only ones who are searching for him across several states. Ending up PL: in the western US., they discover he had other interests as they find PL: their lives in danger. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Mystery Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: PT 109 PL: Dramatization of President John F. Kennedy's war time experiences during PL: which he captained a PT boat, took it to battle and had it sunk by a PL: Japanese destroyer. He and the survivors had to make their way to an PL: island, find food and shelter and signal the Navy for rescue. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Biography War ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Pacific Heights PL: Based on a real life experience, a couple Patty and Drake buy their dream PL: house in San Fransisco. They decide to rent out the ground floor apartment PL: to help out with the mortgage payments. Charming Carter Hayes initially PL: seems to be an ideal tenant, but after he moves in things begin to go PL: wrong. He doesn't pay his rent, refuses to leave and barricades himself PL: in. The laws of tenancy are strange and he couldn't be forced out. When PL: he is tired of playing his psychological games, he leaves to find another PL: victim. Patty goes after him and wants revenge. BY: Sami Al-Taher <smmat@ukc.ac.uk> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Package, The PL: Gene Hackman, A sergeant is sent with a prisoner from Germany. PL: The prisoner escapes in the men's room at National Airport PL: and Hackman begins his search for his man. Enlisting the PL: help of his ex wife (Joanna Cassidy) and various old friends PL: he finds that the prisoner is part of a plot by senior PL: military figures on both sides to kill the Soviet premier in PL: order to sabotage arms control talks. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Spy Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Paint Your Wagon PL: A Michigan farmer and a prospector form a partnership in the California PL: gold country. Their adventures include buying and sharing a wife, PL: hijacking a stage, kidnaping six prostitutes, and turning their mining camp PL: into a boomtown. Along the way there is plenty of drinking, gambling, PL: and singing. They even find time to do some creative gold mining. BY: David J. Kiseleski <davidk269@aol.com> GE: Comedy Musical Western ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Pale Rider PL: A gold mining camp in the California foothills is besieged by a neighboring PL: landowner intent on stealing their claims. A preacher rides into camp and PL: uses all of his powers of persuasion to convince the landowner to give up PL: his attacks on the miners. BY: David J. Kiseleski <davidk269@aol.com> GE: Western ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Panic in Year Zero PL: Made during the cold war, a family escapes a nuclear attack by driving PL: to the countryside. There they struggle to survive and to start their PL: lives over again. BY: Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Paradine Case, The PL: The beautiful Mrs. Paradine is accused of poisoning her older, blind PL: husband. She hires married Anthony Keane as her lawyer and when he begins to PL: fall in love with her, she encourages him. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Drama Courtroom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Paris, Texas PL: A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds PL: him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked PL: out on his wife and son four years before. As his memory returns, he PL: makes contact with various people from his past. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama Surreal ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Party, The PL: An Indian actor screws up royally during the filming of a costume epic. PL: When the 'Fire this guy' list gets confused with the studio head's guest PL: list for a party, he appears there and everyone assumes he must belong. PL: A great many sight gags and misunderstanding gags are played out at the PL: party where the rest of the film takes place. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Passage to India, A PL: Tensions between Indians and the colonial British come to a PL: boil when a white female tourist accuses a young Indian student PL: of rape during a visit to caverns. A study of colonial PL: relations and the nature of memory. Based on E. M. Forster's PL: novel. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Drama Historical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Passed Away PL: When Jack Scanlan passes away just before telling his son, Johnny what was PL: really important in life, Johnny begins to wonder if he's let life pass him PL: by. With the funeral as backdrop, all the Scanlans appear, each with an PL: interesting situation. One of Johnny's sisters is divorced but hasn't told PL: anyone, the sister who is a nun is now into liberation theology and has an PL: illegal immigrant with her, and Tony is fighting for control of his PL: father's union. Johnny and Terry (the divorced sister) both think that PL: they may have found true love in the chaos (though what Johnny's wife PL: thinks of it is up for grabs) as Johnny tries to make some kind of sense PL: out of the various strains in his family. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Passionate Thief, The PL: An american pickpocket with a hostile attitude spends a night with PL: his new assistant and a hooker during which nothing goes right, and PL: as a result he finds himself questioning his attitudes. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Passport to Pimlico PL: Residents of a part of London declare independence, when they discover PL: an old treaty. This leads to the need for a 'Passport to Pimlico'. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Ealing ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Past Midnight PL: A man (Hauer) gets out of prison after 15 years for stabbing his wife to PL: death, and his social worker (Richardson) becomes convinced he was PL: innocent. As she researches his case, and interviews other people who PL: were involved, she begins to fall in love with him, as her friends warn PL: her that he's dangerous. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid PL: It's 1881 in New Mexico, and the times they are a'changing. Pat Garrett, PL: erstwhile travelling companion of the outlaw Billy the Kid has become a PL: sheriff, tasked by cattle interests with ridding the territory of Billy. PL: After Billy escapes, Pat assembles a posse and chases him through the PL: territory, culminating in a final confrontation at Fort Sumter, but is PL: unaware of the full scope of the cattle interests' plans for the New West. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Western Historical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Pat and Mike PL: Pat Pemberton is a women's sports sensation-- a champion in golf, tennis, PL: and whatever else she decides to do. Knowing a good thing when he sees it, PL: Mike Conovan becomes her manager. Mike has made his living fixing sports PL: events, but he tries to go legit before Pat finds out his schemes. BY: Liza Esser <essereli@student.msu.edu> GE: Romantic Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: PatLabor, the Movie PL: A mysterious suicide and a series of unmanned robot run-aways sparks off PL: a Police investigation into the suspicious software on-board thousands of PL: industrial robots around Tokyo. Step by step, the police find themselves PL: tangled up by the web of a perfect crime which awaits the approaching PL: Typhoon to activate thousands of virus affected robots. As time runs out, PL: Asuma and his team must complete a task that is doomed to be a failure PL: before the Typhoon lands Tokyo. BY: Tzung-I Lin <tzung@hugo.att.com> GE: Japanese-Animation Suspense Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Paths of Glory PL: The futility and irony of the war in the trenches in WWI is PL: shown as a unit commander in the French army must deal with PL: the mutiny of his men and a glory-seeking general after PL: part of his force falls back under fire in an impossible PL: attack. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: War Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Patriot Games PL: Jack Ryan, the hero of Tom Clancy's techno-thriller series, returns PL: in the sequel to _The Hunt for Red October_. Ryan is on vacation in PL: England when he spoils an assassination attempt on an important member of PL: the Royal Family. Ryan gets drawn back into the CIA when the same PL: splinter faction of the IRA targets him and his family. BY: Greg Bole <bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> PL: Jack Ryan and his family ruin the IRA's plans to assasinate one of PL: England's highest rated political men, and soon end up being targeted by PL: them. Jack Ryan tries to prevent this, leading to action and terror. BY: Anonymous GE: Action Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Patton PL: The story of General George S. Patton, Jr. during World War II. His PL: battlefield genius garners him fear and respect from the Germans, and PL: resentment and misunderstanding from the Allies. A military historian PL: and poet, he believes he was a warrior in many past lives, and that he PL: is destined for something great during this life, but his stubbornness PL: and controversial methods nearly prevent the fulfillment of that PL: destiny. BY: Jeff Hansen <jmh@umich.edu> GE: War Biography ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Pauline at the Beach PL: Fifteen year old Pauline and her older cousin, model-shaped Marion, go PL: to the emtying Atlantic coast for an autumn holiday . Marion ignores the PL: approaches of a surfer and falls for Henri, a hedonist who is only PL: interested in a sexual adventure and drops her soon. Pauline's little PL: romance with a young man (Sylvain) is also spoiled by Henri. BY: Otto Oberhauser <Oberhauser@cc.univie.ac.at> GE: Romance Female Teen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Pee-wee's Big Adventure PL: The love of Pee-wee Herman's life is his bicycle. When it PL: is stolen, he is send on a wild cross country adventure after PL: a fortune teller tells him his bicycle is in the basement of PL: the Alamo. Along the way, Pee-wee encounters an escaped PL: convict, a waitress with wanderlust and a jealous boyfriend, PL: and a mysterious female truck driver. BY: Ray Hamel <hamel@primate.wisc.edu> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Penn & Teller Get Killed PL: Penn & Teller enjoy playing jokes on each other. When Penn says on an PL: interview show that he wishes he has someone threatening his life so that PL: he "wouldn't sweat the small stuff," each of them begins a series of pranks PL: on the other to suggest a real threat. Then they find that a real PL: psychopath is interested in them. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Magic ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: People Under the Stairs, The PL: A young boy (about 10 years of age) helps his sister's PL: boyfriend burgle the house of their money grabbing landlord. PL: The house is a cross between that of the Adams Family and Fort Knox.. PL: The burglars manage to get in but they cannot get out. The owners PL: return. Locked inside the house, unable to escape, the boy witnesses PL: the horrific habits of the owners, and the numerous caged PL: "people under the stairs". BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Perfect World, A PL: After escaping from a Huntsville prison, convict Butch Haynes and his PL: partner Terry Pugh kidnap a young boy, Phillip Perry, and flee PL: across Texas. As they travel together, Butch and Phillip discover PL: common bonds and suffer the abuses of the outside "Perfect World." PL: In pursuit is Texas Ranger "Red" Garnett and criminologist Sally PL: Gerber. BY: James Yu <jamestyu@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu> GE: Action Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik Yak, The PL: Gwendoline arrives in China in a box, and is helped out of her immediate PL: predicament by a female contact and a devil-may-care adventurer. She's on PL: a mission to find her father, who was last seen searching for a rare PL: butterfly in the Land of the Yik Yak. They confront the evil Cheops in an PL: attempt to find Gwen's lost father and the butterfly, and face many other PL: challenges to their mission. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Action Erotic ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Permanent Record PL: When David Sinclair, a popular and talented high school student commits PL: suicide, his best friend Chris takes over many of his responsibilities; PL: from the school production of "HMS Pinafore" to caring for his family, PL: and soon finds himself under the same pressures. BY: Alexander Lum <aj_lum@postoffice.utas.edu.au> PL: David Sinclair seems to have everything going for him: he's smart, PL: musically talented, and very successful. To top off his senior year PL: in high school, his band is trying to get a recording session. PL: Therefore, David's suicide leaves everyone, especially his best PL: friend and band-mate, Chris, with a lot of questions. BY: Christine Sai-Halasz <sai@mit.edu> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lesson (TV) PL: Ken Malansky is a law student attending a class being taught by Perry PL: Mason. When a friend tells him that his girlfriend was assaulted by a PL: fellow student, Ken rushes to the university's mock courtroom to confront PL: him and finds him dead. The murder weapon was Ken's own knife. Perry PL: is reluctant to take on his case, especially since the victim was the son PL: of a close friend. BY: Kevin Ackley <k.ackley@genie.geis.com> GE: Mystery ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Perry Mason: The Case of the Reckless Romeo (TV) PL: Sleazy talk show host Ted Mayne writes a tell-all book, which enrages and PL: embarrasses several very prominent women. One of them, actress Roxanne PL: Shield, loses her composure during an interview and winds up making a PL: televised death threat. Of course, when Ted is murdered, she is arrested. PL: Witnesses claim they saw Roxanne outside his apartment that night and PL: police later find the murder weapon in her car. Renowned defence attorney PL: Perry Mason accepts the challenge of defending her in court. BY: Kevin Ackley <k.ackley@genie.geis.com> GE: Mystery ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal (TV) PL: The beautiful president of a cosmetics firm promotes a new "miracle PL: beauty formula" by presenting a birth certificate that proves she is PL: actually much older than she looks. Everyone, including her husband and PL: her lover, are shocked. After a faked burglary attempt at company PL: headquarters, she insists on taking the secret formula home with her. PL: That night she is murdered during another apparent robbery. But the PL: murder weapon came from her husband's gun collection. Perry Mason, an PL: old friend, comes to his defense. BY: Kevin Ackley <k.ackley@genie.geis.com> GE: Mystery ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Perversion PL: A prominent millionaire gets a woman drunk and rapes her, biting off her PL: nipple in the process. Because of his influence and powerful lawyer, PL: though, he is able to beat the rap, claiming the woman was trying to PL: extort money from him. He continues his life of debauchery, using women PL: and flaunting his power until he meets a new woman, who won't let him PL: have his way with her, but wants to be his friend. Falling madly in love PL: with her, he cleans up his act and devotes his attentions to her, not PL: realizing that she has a hidden agenda. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror Sleaze ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Peter Pan (1953) PL: Adaptation of J. M. Barrie's story about a boy who never grew up. PL: The three children of the Darling family receive a visit from Peter PL: Pan, who takes them to Never Never Land where an ongoing war with PL: the evil Pirate Captain Hook is taking place. BY: Tim Pickett <quetzal@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au> GE: Animated Childrens Musical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Peter's Friends PL: Seven friends in an acting troupe graduate from Cambridge University PL: in 1982 and go their separate ways. Ten years later, Peter inherits a PL: large estate from his father, and invites the rest of the gang to spend PL: New Year's holiday with him. Many changes have taken place in the lives PL: of all the friends assembled, but Peter has a secret that will shock them PL: all. BY: Liza Esser <essereli@student.msu.edu> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Phantasm PL: Mike cannot decide what is real and what isn't, and is plagued by vivid PL: nightmares. He gets the shock of his life when he watches, with PL: binoculars, the conclusion of the funeral of his older brother's PL: friend--the mortician (the Tall Man), by himself, lifts the casket into PL: the back of a hearse. Mike heads to the grounds of the mortuary, which PL: is home to very bizarre happenings, including a unique security device. PL: Enlisting the help of brother Jody and ice cream salesman Reggie, Mike PL: attempts to vanquish the Tall Man. BY: Rick Gregory <rag.apa@email.apa.org> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Philadelphia PL: A gay lawyer stricken with AIDS seeks assistance from a PL: homophobic personal injury attorney when a prestigious PL: Philadelphia law firm fires him for incompetence. Not the PL: standard 'issue' movie or even the standard courtroom drama but PL: a sensitive and heartfelt look at the affect of AIDS on family, PL: friends and the people who interact with an AIDS victim. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Philadelphia Experiment 2, The PL: David Hrdeg's participation in a failed 1943 experiment in radar PL: invisibility has propelled him 40 years into the future. An aberration PL: in his genetic makeup enabled him to pass through the portal of time. PL: It has also made him sensitive to any alteration to the time continuum. PL: Another disasterous experiment in 1993 sends a stealth aircraft through PL: the time portal, into 1943 Germany. Simultaneously, Herdeg is pulled PL: into the portal, and finds himself in the terrifying 1993 that resulted PL: from a Nazi victory in World War II. BY: Kevin Ackley <k.ackley@genie.geis.com> GE: Sci-Fi Adventure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Philadelphia Story, The PL: Philadelphia heiress Tracy Lord throws out her playboy husband C.K. Dexter PL: Haven shortly after their marriage. Two years later, Tracy is about to PL: marry respectable George Kittredge whilst Dexter has been working for "Spy" PL: magazine. Dexter arrives at the Lord's mansion the day before the wedding PL: with writer Mike Connor and photographer Liz Imbrie, determined to spoil PL: things. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> PL: Haughty divorced socialite Tracy Lord is preparing for her PL: second marriage. Enter Dexter Haven, her first husband, and PL: Macaulay Connor, a tabloid reporter with a distrust of the PL: wealthy. What follows is a rapid-fire war of words as the two PL: men try to help Tracy discover the heart beneath her PL: holier-than-thou exterior. BY: Scott Renshaw <as.idc@forsythe.stanford.edu> GE: Comedy Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Piano, The PL: It is the mid-nineteenth century. Ada is a mute who has a young PL: daughter, Flora. In an arranged marriage she leaves her native Scotland PL: accompanied by her daughter and her beloved piano. Life in the rugged PL: forests of New Zealand's South Island is not all she may have imagined PL: and nor is her relationship with her new husband Stewart. She suffers PL: torment and loss when Stewart sells her piano to a neighbour, George. PL: Ada learns from George that she may earn back her piano by giving him PL: piano lessons, but only with certain other conditions attached. At PL: first Ada despises George but slowly their relationship is transformed PL: and this propels them into a dire situation. BY: Patrick Dominick <ptd@ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au> GE: Romance Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Picnic at Hanging Rock PL: Three students and a school teacher disappear on an excursion to PL: Hanging Rock, in Victoria, on Valetine's Day, 1900. Widely (and PL: incorrectly) regarded as being based on a true story, the movie PL: follows those that disappeared, and those that stayed behind, but PL: it delights in the asking of questions, not the answering of them. BY: David Carroll <davidc@atom.ansto.gov.au> GE: Mystery Historical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Pink Floyd - The Wall PL: The movie tells the story of rock singer "Pink" who is sitting in his PL: hotel room in Los Angeles, burnt out from the music business and only PL: able to perform on stage with the help of drugs. Based on the 1979 PL: double album "The Wall" by Pink Floyd, the film begins in Pink's youth PL: where he is crushed by the love of his mother. Several years later he PL: is punished by the teachers in school because he is starting to write PL: poems. Slowly he begins to build a wall around himself to be protected PL: from the world outside. The film shows all this in massive and epic PL: pictures until the very end where he tears down the wall and breaks PL: free. BY: Harald Mayr <marvin@augusta.de> GE: Musical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Pink Panther Strikes Again, The PL: Charles Dreyfus escapes from the mental asylum and tries to kill Chief PL: Inspector Jacques Clouseau. He doesn't succeed at first, so he takes PL: on another strategy, namely to build a Doom's Day machine and demand that PL: someone else kills Jacques Clouseau, or Dreyfus will use the machine to PL: wipe out whole cities and even whole countries... With about 22 assassins PL: from all over the globe on his tail, Clouseau decides to find Dreyfus PL: alone and put him back in the mental asylum. BY: Lars J. Aas <larsa@colargol.edb.tih.no> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Pink Panther, The PL: A French detective, Inspector Clouseau, is obsessed with the PL: capture of a glamourous jewel thief known only as "The PL: Phantom". A lead takes Clouseau to Switzerland and to Sir PL: Charles, a rich English playboy. During the course of his PL: investigations the most unexpected of persons becomes a PL: strong suspect. BY: Dave Jenkins <david.jenkins@smallworld.co.uk> PL: The pink panther is a gem with an imperfection that looks like a pink PL: panther. It is the goal of the Phantom, a jet set thief who has been PL: terrorizing the European smart set. He is pursued by Inspector Clouseau, PL: the most bumblng detective in Europe. Assisting the phantom are his PL: nephew and the wife of Clouseau. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Farce ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Pinocchio (1940) PL: Inventor Gepetto creates a wooden marionette called Pinocchio. His PL: wish that Pinocchio be a real boy is unexpectedly granted by a PL: fairy. The fairy assigns Jiminy Cricket to act as Pinocchio's PL: "conscience" and keep him out of trouble. Jiminy is not too PL: successful in this endeavor and most of the film is spent with PL: Pinocchio deep in trouble. BY: Tim Pickett <quetzal@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au> GE: Animated Childrens ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Pirate Movie, The PL: The crew of a large ship sail the high seas encountering other pirates from PL: other ships. The boy from the ship (Christopher Atkins) end up having saves PL: his girlfriend who is kidnapped by a bunch of other pirates BY: Anonymous GE: Adventure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Plan 9 from Outer Space PL: "Can your heart stand the shocking facts about Graverobbers from Outer PL: Space?" That's the question on the lips of the narrator of this tale about PL: flying saucers, zombies and cardboard tombstones. A pair of aliens, angered PL: by the "stupid minds" of planet Earth, set up shop in a California cemetary. PL: Their plan: to animate an army of the dead to march on the capitals of the PL: world. (The fact that they have only managed to resurrect three zombies to PL: date has not discouraged them.) An intrepid airline pilot living near the PL: cemetary must rescue his wife from this low-budget terror. "Can you prove PL: it *didn't* happen?" BY: David Thiel <d-thiel@uiuc.edu> GE: Sci-Fi Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Planet of the Apes PL: Charlton Heston and two other astronauts come out of deep hibernation to PL: find that their ship has crashed. Escaping with little more than clothes PL: they find that they have landed on a planet where men are pre-lingual and PL: uncivilized while apes have learned speech and technology. Heston is PL: captured and taken to the city of the apes after damaging his throat so PL: that he is silent and cannot communicate with the apes. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Sci-Fi Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Platoon PL: A gritty and emotional look at the lives of a platoon of PL: American soldiers as they patrol, fight and die in the jungles PL: of Vietnam as seen through the perspective of a young recruit. PL: Two veteran sergeants clash when one of them precipitates a PL: massacre of villagers. The first movie in Vietnam veteran PL: Oliver Stone's Vietnam trilogy. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: War Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Play It Again, Sam PL: A mild mannered film critic is dumped by his wife and his ego is crushed. PL: His hero persona is the tough guy played by Humphrey Bogart in many of his PL: movies and the apparition of Bogart begins showing up to give him advice. PL: With the encouragement of his two married friends, he actually tries dating PL: again, with less than satisfactory results, until he relaxes. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Play Misty for Me PL: A DJ for KRML, a jazz radio station in Carmel has what he believes to PL: be a casual affair with one of his more ardent fans, however when he PL: tries to return to his regular girlfriend he discovers that Jessica PL: Walter's character has other ideas and intends to become part of his PL: life, or possibly his death. PL: If this plot sounds familiar it is because the Michael Douglas, Glenn PL: Close hit, Fatal Attraction is a virtual remake. The title comes from PL: the song, Misty, which Walters requests from her DJ lover. BY: Mark Thompson <mrt@oasis.icl.co.uk> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Player, The PL: A studio script screener gets on the bad side of a writer by not accepting PL: his script. The writer is sending him threatening postcards. The PL: screener tries to identify the writer in order to pay him off so he'll be PL: left alone, and then in a case of mistaken identity gone awry, he PL: accidentally gives the writer solid ammunition for blackmail. This plot PL: is written on a backdrop of sleazy Hollywood deals and several subplots PL: involving the politics of the industry. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Pleasure Garden, The PL: Patsy Brand is a chorus girl at the Pleasure Garden music hall. She meets PL: Jill Cheyne who is down on her luck and gets her a job as a dancer. Jill PL: meets adventurer Hugh Fielding and they get engaged, but when Hugh travels PL: out of the country, she begins to play around. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Drama Silent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Point Break PL: In the coastal town of Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers call themselves PL: the ex-presidents. commit their crimes while wearing masks of ex-presidents PL: Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. The FBI believes that the members of the PL: gang could be surfers and send young agent Johnny Utah undercover at the PL: beach to mix with the surfers and gather information. Utah meets surfer PL: Bodhi and gets drawn into the lifestyle of his new friend. BY: Sami Al-Taher <smmat@ukc.ac.uk> PL: Johnny Utah, a freshman at FBI's bank-robbery crew, goes undercover PL: to infiltrate a gang of surfers he suspects can be the infamous ex- PL: president-robbers. To infiltrate them, he has got to learn to surf, PL: something his boss doesn't like very much. BY: Lars J. Aas <larsa@colargol.edb.tih.no> GE: Action Surfing ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Poison Ivy (1992) PL: A sexy teen (Barrymore) who lives with her aunt moves in with a reclusive PL: teen (Gilbert) and slowly works her way into the lives of her adopted PL: family. The mother (Ladd) is sickly and can't sexually satisfy her PL: husband (Skerritt) any more, and to the daughter's horror, begins seducing PL: her father. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Poltergeist PL: A young family are visited by ghosts in their home. At first the ghosts PL: appear friendly, moving objects around the house to the amusement of PL: everyone, then they turn nasty and start to terrorise the family before PL: they "kidnap" the youngest daughter. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Horror Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Pom Pom Girls, The PL: A football player at Rosedale High School is amorous of one of the PL: cheerleaders, who is going with another guy. Another player can't decide PL: which of two cheerleaders he wants to be with. Meanwhile, the Big Game PL: with Hardin High School is approaching, and a prank war is in full swing. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy Teen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Popeye PL: The comic strip and animated sailor hero comes to life in this PL: meticulous live action production that looks at the origins of PL: Popeye and his battle against arch-rival Bluto. Nearly all the PL: characters from the strip are reproduced here. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Comedy Adventure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Popi PL: Abraham is a Puerto Rican single parent with two boys. He is becoming PL: very worried about them living in their run down neighborhood when one day PL: he notices that Cubans who escape are lionized and given exceptional PL: benefits. He thinks up a plot to have his sons washed ashore as cuban PL: immigrants who will be adopted by rich anglos. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Drama Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Pork Chop Hill PL: American GI's must retake a baren hill in Korea that has been overrun by PL: Red Chinese troops. The insuing battle becomes a meat grinder for American PL: and Chinese alike. This story of a an actual battle is all grit. BY: KC Hunt <khunt@eng.morgan.edu> GE: War Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Porky's PL: Porky's bar is the sleaziest dive imaginable, and the place where the boys PL: in a small Florida town KNOW they will find action, underage or not. When PL: they finally make it to Porky's the owner dumps them in the bay and the PL: boys plot revenge. Every juvenile sexually related story you have ever PL: heard is represented in the movie, including the famous, "Drill a hole PL: in the wall of the girls' shower room" scene. The humor is mostly sexual, PL: mostly juvenile, and mostly just a touch mean spirited, but just a touch. PL: Many of the subplots relate to pranks the boys play on each other. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Postman Always Rings Twice, The (1946) PL: A drifter hitches a ride from the local District Attorney to an out-of- PL: the-way restaurant/gas station owned by a man and his beautiful wife. PL: They fall in love and together they plot the murder of her husband. BY: Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Predator PL: Dutch and his group of commandos are hired by the CIA to rescue downed PL: airmen from guerillas in a South American jungle. The mission goes well PL: but as they return they find that something is hunting them. Nearly PL: invisible, it blends in with the forest, taking trophies from the bodies PL: of it's victims as it goes along. Occasionally seeing through it's eyes, PL: the audience sees it is an intelligent alien hunter, hunting them for PL: sport, killing them off one at a time. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Sci-fi Action War ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Predator 2 PL: Harrigan, a brash policeman who is fighting drug lords in a decaying L.A. PL: finds that the criminals are being killed in a very odd fashion. The PL: federal authorities keep telling him to stay out, even though his own men PL: are also being killed. He catches sight of a nearly invisible alien PL: hunter who is searching for trophies. Harrigan injures the creature and PL: pursues it, becoming the hunter. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Thriller Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Prelude to a Kiss PL: A couple fall in love despite the girl's pessimistic outlook. As they PL: struggle to come to terms with their relationship, something supernatural PL: happens that tests it. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Romance Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Presumed Innocent PL: Rusty Sabich is still recovering from his affair with Caroline, it nearly PL: having destroyed his marriage when he is called in to investigate her PL: brutal murder. His Boss's tenure as county Prosecuting Atorney may hang in PL: the balance. When the election is lost, the new PA indites him for the PL: murder. The story is told in a way that avoids giving the viewer a firm PL: idea who the killer is. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Mystery Courtroom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Pretty Baby (1978) PL: Set in Storyville, New Orleans in 1917, Pretty Baby is the story of a young PL: girl (Violet), brought up in a whorehouse with her mother (Hattie) who works PL: as a prostitute. A photographer (Bellocq), obsessed with the prostitutes in PL: New Orleans' red-light district, visits the whorehouse in order to PL: photograph one of the women. He is captivated by Hattie's beauty and begins PL: photographing her. Violet starts to show interest in Bellocq, and signs of PL: jealousy enter as she senses that he is very fond of her mother. Although PL: Bellocq is at first frustrated by Violet's numerous questions and remarks, PL: she begins to charm him with her curious naive coquettishness. Because she PL: is raised in such an environment, Violet is naturally influenced to follow PL: life of those around her, and begins prostitution at her young age. Hattie, PL: and one of her customers (Alfred Fuller) decide that they will marry, and PL: she leaves the whorehouse promising Violet that she will send for her. PL: Violet gets a beating due to her bad behaviour, and in turn runs away to PL: Bellocq's house. Bellocq agrees to look after her, and in the end he finally PL: marries Violet. However, the inevitable situation arises, as Hattie returns PL: for her daughter. BY: Anonymous GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Pretty Woman PL: Edward Lewis is a very rich businessman. He just broke up with his PL: girl friend who is angry with him being busy working and neglecting her. PL: As he drives the streets of Holywood after a party, he is trying to PL: find the way back to his Beverly Hills penthouse. He stops to ask for PL: directions from street girl Vivian. She is struggling to survive and shares PL: a room with another hooker who steels their rent money to buy drugs. After PL: spending the night with him, Edward offers her to work for him as an escort PL: while he is in town. They soon get close and fall in love. BY: Sami Al-Taher <smmat@ukc.ac.uk> GE: Romantic Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Prime Cut PL: A Chicago mobster is trying to collect on a bad debt from someone in PL: Kansas City, but his collection personnel tend to disappear or get mailed PL: to him as sausage. He retains ace enforcer Nick Devlin to investigate. PL: Devlin, who has a history with the loanee and his wife, finds an almost PL: impenetrable system of good-old-boy connections protecting a thriving PL: forced prostitution ring. He attempts to collect the money and help some PL: of the victims of this nefarious activity. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Action Crime ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Prince of Pennsylvania, The PL: In the rural coal mining town of Mars, Pennsylvania, Rupert Marshetta is PL: driven to distraction by his right-wing father and his adulterous mother. PL: Ex-hippie Carla convinces Rupert to get back at his family by kidnapping PL: his father and holding him for ransom. BY: Alexander Lum <aj_lum@postoffice.utas.edu.au> PL: Gary Marchetta, a Pennsylvania coal miner, is fed up with his elder PL: son, Rupert. Rupert dropped out of high school, lives in the family's PL: garage, and spends his time with Carla at her low-business ice cream PL: store. Gary gets Rupert a job at the coal mine to instill some PL: discipline. Rupert thinks that if he can get a lot of money, he won't PL: have to work at the mine and he can make both Carla and his mom PL: happier; thus, he decides to kidnap his dad. BY: Christine Sai-Halasz <sai@mit.edu> GE: Comedy Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Princess Bride, The PL: To cheer up his ailing grandson, The Grandfather reads his favorite story, PL: a classic tale of love, intrigue, and fire swamps. It's the story of PL: Westley's love for Buttercup (The Princess Bride), and Inigo Montoya's PL: life-long search for the six-fingered man that killed his father ("prepare PL: to die"). BY: Jon Reeves <reeves@zk3.dec.com> PL: When a young boy is sick in bed, his kindly grandfather comes over to PL: read him a fairytale. The story is about Princess Buttercup, who longs PL: for her long-lost love to come and save her from the nasty Prince she PL: married. This is a story about love, fighting, monsters, heros, pirates, PL: villains, and even some kissing. BY: Greg Bole <bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> GE: Comedy Fantasy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Private Parts PL: A young woman leaves her roommate's place in LA and shows up at her PL: aunt's pension house/hotel. Her aunt is very leery of women who paint PL: themselves up to be attractive, and disapproves of her niece. The niece PL: begins discovering that there are some dark secrets about the hotel, and PL: begins falling in love with a resident photographer, who has a few secrets PL: himself. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Prize, The PL: Andrew Craig wrote a splendid novel several years ago. He is awarded the PL: Nobel Prize for Literature for it. He reveals that since his novel, he has PL: been writing detective novels under a pseudonym and drinking heavily. PL: Inger is assigned by the Nobel Committee to keep him out of trouble. Craig PL: finds that something odd is happening with Dr. Max Stratman and slowly PL: discovers a substitution has been made by the East Germans to embarrass the PL: United States Nuclear program. Craig plays detective to the Nobel PL: Committee while trying to recover Stratman before he can be taken PL: from the country. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Mystery Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Producers, The PL: Down-on-his-luck theatrical producer Max Biyalistok is forced to PL: romance rich old ladies to finance his efforts. When timid PL: accountant Leo Bloom reviews Max's books, the two hit upon a way PL: to make a fortune by producing a sure-fire flop. The play which PL: is to be their gold mine? "Springtime for Hitler." BY: Scott Renshaw <as.idc@forsythe.stanford.edu> PL: Max Bialystock is a washed up Broadway producer. Leo Bloom is a mousey PL: CPA. When the two meet, their combined expertise points them toward the PL: ultimate scam: Raise more money than you need for a SURE Flop Broadway PL: Show. No one will expect anything back and you can pocket the difference. PL: They need the ultimate bad play to do this. They find it in the Musical PL: Springtime for Hitler. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Musical Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Program, The PL: Several players from different backgrounds try to cope PL: with the pressures of playing football at a major PL: university. Each deals with the pressure differently, some PL: turn to drinking, others to drugs, and some to studying. BY: Kevin <Kibble@vm.temple.edu> GE: Action Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Prospero's Books PL: An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against PL: his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief PL: enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling of the PL: 'The Tempest'. Intricate staging, graphic nudity, and lavish PL: art production are part of this lurid spectacle. Shakespeare PL: has never seemed quite the same. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Fantasy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Psycho PL: Phoenix officeworker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated PL: her. She has to meet her lover Sam in lunch breaks and they cannot get PL: married because Sam has to give most of his money away in alimony. One PL: Friday Marion is trusted to bank $40,000 by her employer. Seeing the PL: opportunity to take the money and start a new life, Marion leaves town and PL: heads towards Sam's California store. Tired after the long drive and caught PL: in a storm, she gets off the main highway and pulls into The Bates Motel. PL: The motel is managed by a quiet young man called Norman who seems to be PL: dominated by his mother. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Horror Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Psycho II PL: In this sequel to Hitchcock's 1960 classic, Norman Bates has finally PL: been judged mentally sound and released from the mental institution PL: where he has been for 22 years. Lila Loomis, the sister of Marion PL: Crane who was murdered in the shower 22 years before, protests fiercely PL: over his release. Then Norman sees his mother in the window of the PL: Bates mansion and the murders start happening again. But this time it PL: isn't Norman... or is it? BY: Goth <brooks@odie.ee.wits.ac.za> GE: Horror Thriller Mystery ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Psycho from Texas PL: A drifter/hitman is hired by a local business man to kidnap the local oil PL: baron. The hitman had been reared in squalor, suffering the abuses of PL: his whoring mama. When the baron escapes his assistant must chase him PL: while the hitman takes care of a few loose ends. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Psychomania (1971) PL: A Gang of young people call themselves the Living Dead. They terrorise the PL: population from their small town. After an agreement with the evil, if they PL: kill themselves firmly believing in it, they will survive and gain eternal PL: life. Following their leader, they commit suicide the ones after the others, PL: but things don't necessarily turn out as expected... BY: Guillaume Robieux <robiegpj@sun.aston.ac.uk> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Pump Up the Volume PL: Mark is an intelligent buy shy teenager who has just moved to Arizona from PL: the East Coast. His parents give him a short-wave radio so he can talk to PL: his pals, but instead he sets up shop as pirate deejay Hard Harry, PL: who becomes a hero to his peers while inspiring the wrath of the local high PL: school principal. When one of Harry's listeners commits suicide and Harry- PL: inspired chaos breaks out at the school, the authorities are called in to PL: put a stop to Harry's broadcasts. BY: Denise P. Meyer <dpm1@cornell.edu> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Pumpkinhead PL: A group of young vacationers heading to a cabin in the remote PL: hill country incur the wrath of a demonic incarnation when the PL: father of a boy they accidentally kill calls for revenge. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Pursuit of D.B. Cooper, The PL: A speculation on the fate of the famous hijacker who PL: parachuted with his ransom and disappeared in the mountains, PL: has Cooper following a meticulous plan to disappear into PL: anonymity despite the best efforts of a dogged cop. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Adventure Crime ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Q PL: New York police are bemused by a spate of reports of a giant flying PL: lizard which has been spotted around the rooftops of New York, which PL: they assume to be bogus until the lizard starts to eat people. PL: An out of work, ex-con piano player is the only person who knows the PL: location of the monster's nest and is determined to turn the knowledge PL: to his advantage, but will his gamble pay off or will he end up as PL: lizard food? BY: Mark Thompson <mrt@oasis.icl.co.uk> GE: Horror Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Q & A PL: A young district attorney seeking to prove a case against a PL: corrupt police detective encounters a former lover and her PL: new protector, a crime boss who refuse to help him in this PL: gritty crime film. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Crime Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Quackser Fortune Has A Cousin in the Bronx PL: In Dublin, a working class family has been unsuccessful in convincing their PL: son to get a real job: the son prefers his job of scooping up horse's dung PL: and selling it for flower gardens. An American exchange student almost PL: runs him over and gets to know him. The dung man has ignored warnings PL: from his family and suddenly the horses have been banned from Dublin. His PL: new love is leaving for America and he must find a way to cope with the PL: new reality. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy Romance Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Quest for Fire PL: Anthony Burgess created the primitive language for the early PL: humans in this prehistoric adventure about a trio of warriors PL: who travel the savanna, encountering sabre-toothed tigers, PL: mammoths and cannibalistic tribes in search of a flame that PL: would replace the fire their tribe has lost. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Fantasy Adventure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Quick Change PL: When a man dressed as a clown enters a bank and trys to rob it, no one PL: takes him seriously at start. But as this New Yorker pulls this daring PL: robbery with the help of his friends, it looks like leaving the bank with PL: all the stolen money is the easy part! All they have to do now is make it PL: out of the city and to the airport. They have plenty of time, but its not PL: that easy as they seem to get out of one problem only to fall into another. PL: Will they make before the cops catch up with them? BY: Sami Al-Taher <smmat@ukc.ac.uk> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Quiet Earth, The PL: A man wakes up to find himself literally alone in the world, and goes PL: about trying to find other survivors, as well as to find out what happened. PL: He suspects that a government research project he was involved in had PL: something to do with the disappearance of everyone. Eventually he finds PL: several other people, and once they begin to trust each other they try to PL: figure out why they were left on earth. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Quigley Down Under PL: Sharpshooter Matt Quigley (Selleck) is hired from America by an Australian PL: rancher so he can shoot aborigines at a distance. Quigley takes PL: exception to this and leaves. The rancher tries to kill him for refusing, PL: and Quigley escapes into the brush with a woman he rescued from some of PL: the rancher's men, and are helped by aborigines. Quigley returns the help. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Action Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Rabid PL: Rose is involved in a motorcycle accident, and has experimental surgery PL: performed in order to save her life. However, she develops a taste for PL: blood. Her victims grow in number as well as madness, turning the PL: city into chaos. BY: Paul Reynolds <pjr@eccles.dsbc.icl.co.uk> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Rachel, Rachel PL: Rachel is a 35 year old school teacher who has no man in her life and PL: lives with her mother. When a man from the big city returns and asks PL: her out, she begins to have to make decisions about her life and where PL: she wants it to go. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Radio Days PL: Woody Allen's sentimental reminiscence about the golden age of PL: radio. A series of vignettes involving radio personalities is PL: intertwined with the life of a working class family in Rockaway PL: Beach, NY circa 1942. BY: Scott Renshaw <as.idc@forsythe.stanford.edu> GE: Comedy Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Raiders of the Lost Ark PL: Renowned archeologist and expert in the occult, Dr. Indiana Jones, is PL: hired by the U.S. Government to find the Ark of the Covenant, which is PL: believed to still hold the ten commandments. Unfortunately, agents PL: of Hitler are also after the Ark. Indy, and his ex-flame Marion, PL: escape from various close scrapes in a quest that takes them from PL: Nepal to Cairo. BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Adventure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Rain Man PL: Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father dies and leaves a fortune -- to PL: Raymond, the institutionalized savant brother that Charlie didn't know PL: he had. They set out on a cross-country journey of discovery. BY: Jon Reeves <reeves@zk3.dec.com> GE: Drama Relationship ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Rainbow Warrior, The (TV) PL: This film tells the true story of the sinking of the Greenpeace ship, PL: the Rainbow Warrior (commanded by Jon Voight), in Auckland Harbor PL: in 1984, and the subsequent investigation by the New Zealand Police PL: (led by Sam Neill) which revealed French government responsibility. PL: The ship was on its way to protest French nuclear testing in the PL: Pacific. BY: Anonymous GE: Drama Political ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Raintree County PL: A graduating poet/teacher falls in love with a Southern woman, and then PL: the Civil War and her past create problems. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Raise the Red Lantern PL: A woman who has finished college decides to become the fourth wife of a PL: man. The story focuses on the relationships of the four wives to each PL: other, of their treacheries and loyalties. The red lantern is raised by PL: the door of the wife who will get to sleep with the husband that night. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Raising Arizona PL: Recidivist hold-up man H.I. McDonnough and police woman Edwina PL: marry, only to discover they are unable to conceive a child. PL: Desperate for a baby, the pair decide to kidnap one of the PL: quintuplets of furniture tycoon Nathan Arizona. The McDonnoughs PL: try to keep their crime secret, while friends, co-workers and a PL: feral bounty hunter look to use Nathan Jr. for their own PL: purposes. BY: Scott Renshaw <as.idc@forsythe.stanford.edu> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Ran PL: This is a Japanese adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear. An aging PL: warlord decides to split his kingdom between his three sons, who will PL: live in three separate castles. The two eldest sons are quite happy, PL: but the youngest thinks his father has gone mad, and predicts that PL: it won't be long until the two older brothers are fighting with each PL: other. BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Historical War ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Rapid Fire PL: When student Jake Lo witnesses a killing, he finds himself caught PL: between two feuding drug lords. Betrayed and set up by the federal PL: agents protecting him, the only one he can trust is Ryan, a PL: single-minded Chicago cop who reminds Jake of his deceased father. To PL: clear his name, Jake agrees to help Ryan bring down the drug lords. BY: Jeff Hansen <jmh@umich.edu> GE: Action Martial-Arts ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Rapture, The (1991) PL: This is the story of a young woman (who lives in Los Angeles) with a PL: very boring job. At night however, she and a male partner cruise the PL: bars as swingers. After a time, she begins to believe that a PL: conspiracy exists and decides that she must become a born-again PL: Christian. The movie presents an interesting view of how even the most PL: unlikely person might become born-again. BY: Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com> GE: Mystery Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Rawhide (1951) PL: Not a Rowdy Yates in sight in this western set in a stop over for the PL: California to St Louis mail stagecoach run. The two staff are warned PL: that four dangerous outlaws are in the area, and together with a female PL: stage passenger and her baby they wait patiently for the word to go PL: round that these men have been caught. PL: Can you guess where the outlaws decide to hide out while they plan a PL: large gold robbery? What follows is a film that concentrates on small PL: details (like attempts to slip a warning note to a passing stage, or to PL: reach a hidden gun that the bad guys don't know about) as the captives PL: try anything to get away from the outlaws. BY: Mark Thompson <mrt@oasis.icl.co.uk> GE: Western ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Re-Animator PL: A medical student and his girlfriend become involved in a PL: bizarre experiment into reanimating the dead conducted by PL: the student's incorrigible housemate in this campy sendup PL: of an H.P. Lovecraft story. The emphasis is on humour but PL: once the dead walk, there is gore aplenty. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> PL: A medical student returns from Austria after working in regenerative PL: experiments with a well known scientist who died under mysterious PL: circumstances. He enrolls at Miskatonic University where he begs to PL: differ with his professor on issues of the time of death, and PL: eventually enlists his roommate to help him continue experiments on PL: re-animating the dead. Based on a story by H.P. Lovecraft. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> PL: In this H.P. Lovecraft tale, Herbert West is a Swiss scientist who has PL: discovered a fluid which brings living tissue back to life. After the PL: suspicious death of his professor in Switzerland, West moves to PL: Miskatonic University to continue his research. He involves fellow PL: student Dan Cain and his fiancee Megan Halsey in his research by PL: experimenting on their dead cat. Dan, fascinated by West's research, PL: agrees to smuggle him into the hospital morgue with predictable PL: results. BY: Goth <brooks@odie.ee.wits.ac.za> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Real Genius PL: Two brilliant teenagers head a team of young geniuses developing a laser PL: for what they believe is a class project. When they find out that their PL: professor intends to turn their work over to the government for use as a PL: weapon, they decide to ruin his plans. BY: Denise P. Meyer <dpm1@cornell.edu> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Real McCoy, The PL: In this attempted Kim Basinger vehicle, a woman is released from prison PL: with only the clothes on her back and a condom. She was an expert bank PL: robber, but now she just wants to settle down and go straight. PL: Unfortunately, her ex-husband won't let her see her little boy, and her PL: parole officer and her former employer are trying to get her to do one PL: more bank robbery. Also, the condom is never used. BY: Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Reality Bites PL: In this study of Generation X manners, Lelaina, the valedictorian of PL: her college class, camcords her friends in a mock documentary of PL: posteducation life. Troy is her best friend, a perpetually unemployed PL: musical slacker. Vickie is a manager at the Gap who worries about the PL: results of an AIDS test, while Sammy has problems grappling with his PL: sexuality. When Lelaina meets Michael, an earnest video executive who PL: takes her homemade video to his MTV-like station, she must decide what PL: she values--the materialism of yuppie Michael or the philosophical PL: musings of Troy. BY: Rick Gregory <rag.apa@email.apa.org> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Rear Window PL: Professional photographer L.B. "Jeff" Jeffries breaks his leg while PL: getting an action shot at an auto race. Confined to his New York PL: apartment, he spends his time looking out of the rear window observing PL: the neighbours. He begins to suspect that the man opposite may have PL: murdered his wife. Jeff enlists the help of his society model girlfriend PL: Lisa Freemont and his nurse Stella to investigate. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Thriller Mystery ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Rebecca PL: A shy ladies companion is staying in Monte Carlo with her stuffy employer PL: when she meets the wealthy Maxim de Winter. Max is still troubled by the PL: death of his wife, Rebecca in a boating accident the year before. She and PL: Max fall in love, get married and return to Manderlay, his large country PL: estate in Cornwall. The second Mrs. de Winter meets the housekeeper Mrs. PL: Danvers and discovers that Rebecca still has a strange hold on everyone at PL: Manderlay. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Romance Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Red Dawn PL: A group of high school students become guerrilla fighters when PL: their town is invaded by Central American and eventually Soviet PL: soldiers at the beginning of WWIII in this apocalyptic fantasy. PL: The pressures of their desperate existence begin to wear away PL: at the "Wolverine's" unity as the Soviet bloc forces hunt them PL: down. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: War Fantasy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Red Heat (1985) PL: An American woman visiting her fiancee in West Germany is caught up PL: with a defecting spy and captured by those in the East. After brutal PL: interrogation she is placed in a prison along with sadistic guards and PL: in-mates. As she tries to survive in a world of deprivation and rape, PL: her fiancee fights his own bureaucracy in an attempt to find her. BY: David Carroll <davidc@atom.ansto.gov.au> GE: Thriller Prison ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Red Heat (1988) PL: Arnold Schwartzenegger plays a Russian policeman sent after a Russian PL: drug dealer who has escaped to the United States and is awaiting PL: extradition in Chicago. Jim Belushi plays his temporary partner on the PL: Chicago police. When the drug dealer escapes, the two police must overcome PL: their differences in order to recapture him BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Action Police ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Red Rock West PL: When a promised job for Texan Michael fails to materialise in Wyoming, Mike PL: is mistaken by Wayne to be the hitman he hired to kill his unfaithful PL: wife, Suzanne. Mike takes full advantage of the situation, collects the PL: money and runs. During his getaway, things go wrong, and soon get worse PL: when he runs into the real hitman, Lyle. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Thriller Murder ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Reefer Madness PL: Propaganda film that relates the story, as told by high school PL: principal Dr. Carroll to parents at a PTA meeting, of the scourge PL: of marijuana. The tale revolves around Mae and Jack, accomplices PL: in the distribution of marijuana, who manage to entice the local PL: high school kids to stop by Mae's apartment to smoke reefer. The PL: lives of all who are involved with this menace are inevitably PL: shattered. One youngster becomes so addicted to the killer weed PL: that a judge orders him to be committed for life to a mental PL: hospital! Dr. Carroll advises us to not incur the same tragedy. BY: Rick Gregory <rag.apa@email.apa.org> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Reflecting Skin, The PL: A young boy tries to cope with rural life circa 1945 and his fantasies PL: become a way to interpret events. After his friends tell him stories PL: of vampires, he becomes convinced that the widow up the road is a PL: vampire, and tries to find ways of discouraging his brother, just returned PL: from the war, from seeing her. He must deal with an abusive mother, PL: a father with a charge of molestation, a band of youths creating havoc, PL: and an unforgiving environment in general. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Regarding Henry PL: Henry is a lawyer who survives a shooting only to find he cannot remember PL: anything. If that weren't enough, Henry also has to recover his speech PL: and mobility, in a life he no longer fits into. Fortunately, Henry has PL: a loving wife and daughter to help him. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Remains of the Day, The PL: A rule bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the PL: household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a PL: housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. PL: The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of PL: ties with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained PL: veneer of servitude. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Drama Historical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins... PL: Police officer Remo Williams is framed for a crime and sentenced to PL: death. The death is faked, and he is inducted into the organization PL: CURE, dedicated to preserving the constitution by working outside of PL: it. Remo is to become the enforcement wing (assassin) of CURE, and PL: learns an ancient Korean martial art from Chiun, the Master of Sinanju. PL: Based on the popular pulp series "The Destroyer," by Richard Sapir PL: and Warren Murphy. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Action Crime ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Renaissance Man PL: Danny DeVito plays an advertising man who is slowly sliding PL: downhill. When he is fired from his job in Detroit, he signs up for PL: unemployment. One day they find him a job; Teaching thinking skills PL: to Army recruits. He arrives on base to find that there is no structure PL: set up for the class. He begins by having them write and summarize books PL: and magazines they are reading. When one of them asks him to PL: describe what he is reading, he gives a National Enquirer's view of PL: _Hamlet_, (Incest, murder, intrigue.) They ask to read it with him and PL: the structure of the class is born; They will read _Hamlet_ and PL: critically analize it. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Drama Tear-jerker ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Repo Man PL: Otto is working at the grocery when he loses his temper and quits. PL: Befriended by a Repo Man, Otto sees vehicle repossession as a kind of PL: modern buckaneering. He is attracted by the adventure and the 'who gives a PL: damn' attitude of the other Repo men. At the same time a package is taken PL: from a government lab that has strange effects on anyone who sees it. It PL: is hidden in a car which the government lists for reposession with a PL: hefty reward. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Repulsion PL: A beautiful but sexually repressed young woman lives with her older PL: sister, but disapproves of her older sister's boyfriend. When the PL: sister and her boyfriend go on vacation, the woman sinks into PL: depression. She has many graphics hallucinations of rape and murder. BY: Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com> GE: Psychological Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Rescuers Down Under, The PL: Sequel to The Rescuers (1977). Cody, a boy from Mugwomp Flats (a PL: fictitious place in central Australia) falls in with Percival PL: McLeach, a poacher of native animals. It is up to Bernard and PL: Bianca of the Rescue Aid Society to put McLeach where he belongs. BY: Tim Pickett <quetzal@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au> GE: Animated Childrens ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Rescuers, The PL: Bernard and Bianca, of the Rescue Aid Society (a mouse organization) PL: receive a message in a bottle from an orphaned girl who appears to have PL: been kidnapped by Madame Medusa, a selfish woman who has no qualms PL: about using children for her own purposes. The two mice go off PL: to Devil's Bayou to attempt to rescue the little girl. BY: Tim Pickett <quetzal@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au> GE: Animated Childrens ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Reservoir Dogs PL: A gang of thieves carry out an armed robbery on a Diamond warehouse. PL: The police are after them so quickly that they suspect they have a rat PL: in their company. This film starts right after the robbery, with PL: flashbacks to before the robbery, and to the planning of the crime. PL: We are also introduced to the main characters in flashback mode. PL: Plenty of fast action, and plenty of blood and gore. BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Thriller Heist ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Resurrected, The (1992) PL: Charles Dexter Ward's wife enlists the help of a private detective to PL: find out what her husband is up to in a remote cabin owned by his family PL: for centuries. The husband is a chemical engineer, and the smells from PL: his experiments (and the delivery of what appear to be human remains at PL: all hours) are beginning to arouse the attention of neighbors and local PL: law enforcement officials. When the detective and wife find a diary of PL: the husband's ancestor from 1771, and reports of gruesome murders in the PL: area begin to surface, they begin to suspect that some very unnatural PL: experiments are being conducted in the old house. Based on an H.P. PL: Lovecraft story. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Return of the Jedi PL: Darth Vader and the Empire are building a new, indestructible Death PL: Star. Meanwhile, Han Solo has been imprisoned, and Luke Skywalker PL: has sent R2D2 and C3PO to try and free him. Princess Leia - disguised PL: as a bounty hunter - and Chewbacca go along as well. The final battle PL: takes place on the moon of Endor, with its natural inhabitants, the PL: Ewoks, lending a hand to the rebels. Will Darth Vader and the dark PL: side overcome the rebels and take over the universe ? BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Return of the Living Dead 3 PL: Colonel Reynolds and his group of government scientists continue their PL: work on re-animating the dead for military use. His son Curt and his PL: girlfriend Julie use Dad's security pass to sneak in and watch the PL: proceedings. Later when father and son have a disagreement, Curt and PL: Julie take off on a motorcycle and Julie is killed in an accident. PL: Grief-stricken, Curt takes her body to the lab and brings her back to PL: life. Curt must help Julie deal with her new existence as military PL: agents and local gang members try to find them. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Return of the Living Dead Part II PL: In this first sequel to The Return of the Living Dead, a group of PL: kids discover one of the drums containing a rotting corpse and PL: release the 2-4-5 Trioxen gas into the air, causing the dead to once PL: again rise from the grave and seek out brains. BY: Todd A. Bobenrieth <TAB146@PSUVM.EDU> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Return of the Living Dead, The PL: When a bumbling pair of employees at a medical supply warehouse PL: accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause PL: the dead to re-animate as they go on a rampage through PL: Louisville, Kentucky seeking their favorite food, brains. BY: Todd A. Bobenrieth <TAB146@PSUVM.EDU> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Revenge of the Pink Panther PL: To prove that he still is strong and powerful, Philippe Douvier decides to PL: kill Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau. Once Clouseau's death has been PL: announced, the former Chief Inspector, Charles Dreyfus, feels much, much PL: better and is released from the mental hospital. Jacques Clouseau tries to PL: take advantage of his "death" and goes under cover with Cato to find out PL: who tried to assassinate him. BY: Lars J. Aas <larsa@colargol.edb.tih.no> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Reversal of Fortune PL: Alan Dershowitz a brilliant professor of law is hired by wealthy PL: socialite Claus von Bulow to attempt to overturn his two convictions PL: for attempted murder of his extremely wealthy wife. PL: Based on a true story the film concentrates not on the trial like PL: other legal thrillers, but on the preparatory work that Dershowitz and PL: his students put in as they attempt to disprove the prosecution's case PL: and achieve the Reversal of Fortune of the title. BY: Mark Thompson <mrt@oasis.icl.co.uk> GE: Drama Courtroom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Rich and Strange PL: Fred and Emily Hill lead a boring life in the London suburbs. They decide PL: to escape from it all by writing to a rich relative and asking for their PL: inheritance in advance. Using the money they go on a world cruise and get PL: into a series of misadventures. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Comedy Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Right Stuff, The PL: Thomas Wolfe's book on the history of the U.S. Space program reads like PL: a novel, and the film has that same fictional quality. It covers the PL: breaking of the sound barrier by Chuck Yeager to the Mercury 7 PL: astronauts, showing that no one had a clue how to run a space program or PL: how to select people to be in it. Thrilling, funny, charming and PL: electrifying all at once. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Historical Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Ring, The (1927) PL: Jack Saunders and Bob Corby are two boxers in love with Nellie. Jack and PL: Nellie are married but their marriage is flat so she starts to look to PL: Bob for comfort. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Drama Boxing Silent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Rising Sun PL: At a celebration over the completed joint venture between a Japanese PL: company and a US defence contractor a young woman is found strangled. A PL: retired foreign liaison with expertise on Japanese culture is called in PL: to help the current liaison overcome resistance from the Japanese, who PL: are actively trying to mislead the investigation. As the liaisons get PL: closer to the truth, political pressure is applied to get them off the PL: case, and they must race against time to resolve the it. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Risky Business (1983) PL: A suburban Chicago teenager's parents leave on vacation, and he cuts loose. PL: An unauthorised trip in his father's Porsche means a sudden need for lots of PL: money, which he raises in a creative way. BY: Jon Reeves <reeves@zk3.dec.com> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: River of No Return PL: The title river unites a farmer recently released from prison, his PL: young son, and an ambitious saloon singer. In order to survive, PL: each must be purged of anger, and each must learn to understand PL: and care for the others. PL: In addition to Marilyn Monroe's musical numbers, Robert Mitchum PL: sings the title song. BY: Jeanne Baker <jbaker@erim.org> GE: Western Adventure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: River of Rage: The Taking of Maggie Keene (TV) PL: Maggie, a divorcee with 2 daughters and an ex-step-son is nervous about PL: a river rafting trip with her new boyfriend. To avoid spoilers.. Maggie PL: finds herself alone but pursued by ruthless gang. She has to survive the PL: Texan river and heat. The ex-step-son gets worried and set out from PL: California to find her. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Adventure Thriller Chase Outdoors ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: River's Edge (1986) PL: A group of high school friends must come to terms with the fact that PL: one of them, Samson, killed another, Jamie. Reactions vary, as Layne PL: is intent on protecting Samson and smuggling him out of the state, PL: while others think it's best to go to the police. Matt's tough little PL: brother also finds out about the body and no one knows quite how the PL: police will learn about the murder or who will be blamed for it. BY: Christine Sai-Halasz <sai@mit.edu> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: RoGoPaG PL: This consists of four short films by different directors. Rosselini's PL: 'Chastity' ('Illibatezza') deals with an attractive air hostess who PL: receives the unwelcome attentions of a middle aged American. Godard's PL: 'New World' ('Il Nuovo Mondo') illustrates a post-apocalypse world PL: the same as the pre-apocalyptic one but for an enigmatic change in PL: attitude in most people, including the central character's girlfriend. PL: In Pasolini's 'Curd Cheese' ('La Ricotta'), a lavish film about the life PL: of Jesus Christ is being made in a poor area. The impoverished people PL: subject themselves to various indignities in the name of moviemaking in PL: order to win a little food. The central character is hoisted up on a PL: cross for filming, and dies there. Finally comes Gregoretti's 'Free PL: Range Chicken' ('Il Pollo Ruspante') in which a family of the materialist PL: culture inadvertantly illustrate the cynical, metallic voiced doctrine of PL: a top sales theorist. BY: D.Giddings <sdjg0@uk.ac.rl.ib> GE: Drama Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Road House (1989) PL: Dalton is the Cooler in bars; He backs up and directs the bouncers. He PL: takes a job in a Road House that has gotten far too rough. His attempts PL: to clean things up put him in conflict with Brad Wesley, the town bully PL: and rich person. Things heat up. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Drama Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Road Warrior, The PL: Max is travelling in a post apocalypse Australia where Gasoline PL: is the most valuable commodity. He becomes involved in a struggle PL: between bandits and a town that has build defenses around a small PL: refinery. He must cross the no man's land several times to allow them to PL: make a dash for freedom, pursued by the bandits in their vehicles. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Robbery PL: A dramatization of the Great Train Robbery. While not a 'how to', it is PL: very detail dependent, showing the care and planning that took place to PL: pull it off. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Crime Mystery ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Robe, The PL: Marcellus is a centurion in the time of Christ. He is in charge of the PL: group that is assigned to crucify Jesus. Drunk, he wins Jesus' homespun PL: robe after the crucifixion. He is tormented by nightmares and delusions PL: after the event. Hoping to find a way to live with what he has done, and PL: still not believing in Jesus, he returns to Palestine to try and learn what PL: he can of the man he killed. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Historical Religious ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Robin Hood (1973) PL: Retelling of the Robin Hood legend with animals for the characters. PL: Robin Hood is an outlaw who starts to form a gang in Sherwood Forest PL: to fight the injustices of the Sheriff of Nottingham, who levies PL: unpayable taxes upon the people. BY: Tim Pickett <quetzal@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au> GE: Animated Childrens ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves PL: Robin of Locksley escapes from a prison in the Holy Land with his friend, PL: Azeem. He returns to England to find his father has been murdered, King PL: Richard the Lionheart is in exile, and the evil Sheriff of Nottingham PL: has taken over the countryside. Robin encounters a gang of thieves, and PL: wins their trust and respect. Robin Hood - as the thieves call him - PL: leads the gang in an attempt to defeat the Sheriff and his army. BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Action Adventure Historical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Robin and Marian PL: Robin Hood is an old man when he returns with his best friend Little John PL: to England after the Crusades. Maid Marian has entered a nunnery, King PL: Richard is a raving lunatic, his Brother John a moron, and the age of PL: great adventure has seemed to have passed Robin by. But when The Sheriff PL: of Nottingham once again threatens Sherwood, Robin gathers his faithful PL: men, and band of peasants to fight oppression. BY: Greg Bole <bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> GE: Adventure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Robocop PL: Detroit - in the future - is crime ridden, and run by a massive company. PL: The company have developed a huge crime fighting robot, which PL: unfortunately develops a rather dangerous glitch. The company sees a way PL: to get back in favour with the public when a cop called Alex Murphy is PL: killed by a street gang. Murphys body is reconstructed within a steel PL: shell and named Robocop. The Robocop is very successful against PL: criminals, and becomes a target of supervillian Boddicker. BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Crime Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Robot Wars PL: In the year 2041, the rebel Centros are a plague to the survivors of the PL: great toxic gas scare of 1993. A renegade Megarobot pilot (Paul) and an PL: archeologist (Crampton) must team up (despite personal differences, a PL: reluctant romance, and official pressure to cease and desist) to thwart PL: the Centro's attempts to resurrect a hidden Megarobot, with which they can PL: challenge the prevailing order. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Sci-Fi Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Rock 'n' Roll High School PL: Vince Lombardi High School keeps losing principals to nervous PL: breakdowns because of the students' love of rock 'n' roll and their PL: disregard of education. The putative leader of the students is Riff PL: Randell, who loves the music of the Ramones. A new principal, the rock PL: music hating Miss Evelyn Togar, is brought in and promises to put an end PL: to the music craze. When Miss Togar and a group of parents attempt to PL: burn a pile of rock records, the students take over the high school, PL: joined by the Ramones, who are made honorary students. When the police PL: are summoned and demand that the students evacuate the building, they do PL: so, which leads to an explosive finale. BY: Rick Gregory <rag.apa@email.apa.org> GE: Comedy Fantasy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Rocketeer, The PL: Straight from the pages of a pulp comic from a past era, the Rocketeer PL: recreates 1930's Hollywood, complete with gangsters, Nazi spies, and PL: the growth of the Age of Aviation. Young pilot Cliff Secord stumbles PL: on a top secret rocket-pack and with the help of his mechanic/mentor, PL: Peevee, he attempts to save his girl and stop the Nazis as The Rocketeer. BY: Greg Bole <bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> GE: Action Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Rocky Horror Picture Show, The PL: After Janet accepts Brad's marriage proposal, the happy couple drive PL: away from Denton, Ohio, only to get lost in the rain. They stumble upon PL: the castle of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a transvestite who is holding the PL: annual convention of visitors from the planet Transsexual. PL: Frank-N-Furter unveils his creation, a young man named Rocky Horror, who PL: fears the doctor and rejects his sexual advances. When Frank-N-Furter PL: announces that he is returning to the galaxy Transylvania, Riff Raff the PL: butler and Magenta the maid declare that they have plans of their own. PL: (An audience participation film) BY: Rick Gregory <rag.apa@email.apa.org> GE: Sci-Fi Horror Musical Fantasy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Rodan PL: When a village is besieged by giant caterpillars, a more horrifying PL: discovery is made in their underground home...a giant flying creature PL: that resembles the prehistoric pterodactyl. Soon after, a second Rodan PL: appears and the two monsters begin to destroy Japan. BY: Todd A. Bobenrieth <TAB146@PSUVM.EDU> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Rollerball PL: In a futuristic society where corporations have replaced countries, PL: the violent game of Rollerball is used to control the populace by PL: demonstrating the futility of individuality. However, one player, PL: Jonathan E., rises to the top, and fights for his personal freedom and PL: threatens the corporate control. BY: Jeff Hansen <jmh@umich.edu> GE: Sci-Fi Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Romance with a Double Bass PL: A bassist shows up early for the betrothal ball of a beautiful princess, PL: and whiles away the time having a dip in the river. The princess is PL: doing the same, unbeknownst to the bass player, but when someone steals PL: their clothes, the bass player helps the princess to preserve her PL: dignity by transporting her back to the castle in his bass case, and PL: along the way they discover they have feelings for each other. Based on PL: a short story by Anton Chekhov. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Romancing the Stone PL: The writer of romantic novels Joan Wilder travels to south America to look PL: for and rescue her kidnapped sister. She finds herself stranded in the PL: jungles and finds help in the form of the soldier of fortune Jack Colton. PL: The two go through a number of adventures, deal with the bad villains PL: Ralph and company, and end up falling in love. BY: Sami Al-Taher <smmat@ukc.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Action Adventure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Romeo Is Bleeding PL: A corrupt police sergeant who supplies tips on the locations PL: of safeguarded witnesses to the Mob bites off more than he can PL: chew when he attempts to assassinate a beautiful but ruthless PL: Russian hitwoman in this no holds barred noir thriller. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Crime Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Romper Stomper PL: Nazi skinheads in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese, who PL: are seen as threatening racial purity. Finally the Vietnamese have had PL: enough and confront the skinheads in an all-out confrontation, sending the PL: skinheads running. A woman who is prone to epileptic seizures joins the PL: skins' merry band, and helps them on their run from justice, but is her PL: affliction also a sign of impurity? BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama Delinquent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Ronde, La (1950) PL: An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in PL: Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. PL: Later he has an affair with a young lady, who becomes a maid and does PL: similarly with the young man of the house. The young man seduces a PL: married woman. On and on, spinning on the gay carousel of life. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy Musical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Room Service PL: The Marx Brothers try and put on a play before their landlord finds out PL: that they have run out of money. To confuse the landlord they pretend that PL: the play's author has contracted some terrible disease and can't be moved. PL: Originally a stage play, the setting shows it's origins, but this is PL: vintage Marx Brothers. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Room with a View, A PL: When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperone Charlotte Bartlett find themselves PL: in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son PL: George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could PL: change Lucy's life forever but, once back in England, how will her PL: experiences in Tuscany affect her marriage plans? BY: Bridget Jones PL: Lucy Honeychurch, a young Englishwoman, makes her first visit to Florence, PL: Italy in the early 1900's. There, she meets a quiet yet eccentric young man PL: named George Emerson. Upon her return to England, Lucy must decide PL: whether to follow through with her marriage to her stotic fiance, Cecil, PL: or follow her heart and her growing attraction to George. BY: Liza Esser <essereli@student.msu.edu> GE: Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Rope PL: Brandon and Philip are two young men who share a New York apartment. They PL: consider themselves intellectually superior to their friend David Kentley PL: and as a consequence decide to murder him. Together they strangle David PL: with a rope and placing the body in an old chest, they proceed to hold a PL: small party. The guests include David's father, his fiancee Janet and their PL: old schoolteacher Rupert from whom they mistakenly took their ideas. As PL: Brandon becomes increasingly more daring, Rupert begins to suspect. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Suspense Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Rosemary's Baby PL: Rosemary and her new husband, Guy, move into a new apartment in New York, PL: befriending an elderly couple who live near by. But when another girl PL: in the block commits suicide, Rosemary starts getting more attention PL: than she desires, from all the wrong people. And now with her (late) PL: friend's warnings about witches in mind, she has a new problem - PL: the protection of her forthcoming child. But it may not be the child PL: that needs protection. BY: David Carroll <davidc@atom.ansto.gov.au> PL: Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse move into an apartment in a building with a PL: bad reputation. They discover that their neighbours are a very friendly PL: elderly couple named Roman and Minnie Castevet, and Guy begins to spend PL: a lot of time with them. Strange things start to happen: a woman PL: Rosemary meets in the washroom dies a mysterious death, Rosemary has PL: strange dreams and hears strange noises and Guy becomes remote and PL: distant. Then Rosemary falls pregnant and begins to suspect that her PL: neighbours have special plans for her child. BY: Goth <brooks@odie.ee.wits.ac.za> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead PL: Showing events from the point of view of two minor characters from PL: Hamlet, men who have no control over their destiny, this film examines PL: fate and asks if we can ever really know what's going on? Are answers PL: as important as the questions? Will Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (or PL: Guildenstern and Rosencrantz) manage to discover the source of Hamlet's PL: malaise as requested by the new king? Will the mysterious players who PL: are strolling around the castle reveal the secrets they evidently know? PL: And whose serve is it? BY: Mark Thompson <mrt@oasis.icl.co.uk> GE: Comedy Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Roswell (TV) PL: Beginning at a 30-year reunion for members of a military nuclear PL: bomb unit, flashbacks are presented that follow the attempts of PL: Major Jesse Marcel to discover the truth about strange debris found PL: on a local rancher's field in July of 1947. Told by his superiors PL: that what he has found is nothing more than a downed weather balloon, PL: Marcel maintains his military duty until the weight of the truth, PL: however out of this world it may be, forces him to piece together PL: what really occurred. Adapted from real-life events portrayed in the PL: book _UFO Crash at Roswell_ by Kevin Randle and Donald Schmitt. BY: Rick Gregory <rag.apa@email.apa.org> GE: Drama Historical UFO ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Roxanne PL: A modernisation of Edmond Rostands "Cyrano De Bergerac". PL: C.D. Bales is a fire chief, who just happens to have an enormous nose. PL: He hires a new fire-fighter, Chris, who is handsome, and knows his PL: hoses, but is useless when it comes to women. Roxanne is an astronomer PL: who has just arrived in town. She catches the eye of Chris, and he PL: asks C.D. to help him woo her. Little does Chris know that C.D. is mad PL: about Roxanne, but hasn't found the right way to tell her - yet. BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Comedy Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Rubdown (TV) PL: A rich man offers his masseur, a former baseball player with damaged PL: knees, $50,000 to have an affair with his wife so she'll be in violation PL: of their pre-nuptial agreement and he can divorce her without losing his PL: fortune. The masseur reluctantly agrees because of his massive gambling PL: debts, but due to objections from his girlfriend, he pretends that the wife PL: found out their plan and left before the consummation. When someone is PL: murdered, the masseur begins to realise he's been set up as the fall guy, PL: and must struggle to clear his name while avoiding the mobsters that he PL: owes money. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Thriller Erotic ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Ruling Class, The PL: A member of the House of Lords dies in a shockingly silly way, leaving PL: his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son is insane: he thinks he PL: is Jesus Christ. The other somewhat-more respectable members of their PL: family plot to steal the estate from him. Murder and mayhem ensues. BY: Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com> GE: Black-Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Rumble Fish PL: Rusty James is the leader of a small, dying gang in an industrial town. PL: He lives in the shadow of the memory of his absent, older brother -- PL: The Motorcycle Boy. His mother has left, his father drinks, school has PL: no meaning for him and his relationships are shallow. He is drawn into PL: one more gang fight and the events that follow begin to change his life. BY: Bruce Janson <bruce@cs.su.oz.au> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Runaway (1984) PL: A police officer specializes in runaway robots in the near future. When PL: a robot becomes homicidal, he begins to unravel a mastermind's plot to PL: create killer robot weapons, and then the policeman becomes a target PL: himself. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Thriller Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Runaway Train PL: A hardened convict and a younger prisoner escape from a brutal PL: prison in the middle of winter only to find themselves on an PL: out-of-control train with a female railway worker while being PL: pursued by the vengeful head of security. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Thriller Prison ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Running Man, The (1987) PL: A parody within an action thriller. Arnold Schwartzenegger plays an PL: innocent man who is sentenced to the Running Man game show, a PL: futuristic audience participation capital punishment television show. PL: While running from champions with Chain saws and sharpened hocky sticks, PL: the host (Richard Dawson) is busy with calls to the network about ratings. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Sci-fi Adventure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Running Scared (1986) PL: Danny and Ray are two street wise cops in Chicago. When they are almost PL: killed on a case, they are forced to take a vacation by their captain. PL: Key West offers a substantial change over frozen Chicago. They decide to PL: quit and open a bar in Key West. Upon returning, they find that Julio, PL: the drug dealer who nearly killed them has made bail and is trying to PL: complete a giant drug deal. They decide to complete their case against PL: Julio before quitting, but then begin being careful. Their effectiveness PL: drops as they find they can't operate the way they did before if they don't PL: have the edge of a long time commitment. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Action Police ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!, The PL: When a Soviet submarine captain comes up for a look at America (off the PL: coast of a small island in Maine) he runs aground. He sends his two PL: English speaking crewmen to procure a boat with enough power to pull them PL: off. The 2 English speakers and 6 Russian sailors don't exactly blend in PL: and the town is convinced that they are being invaded. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Rustlers' Rhapsody PL: While the audience watches a black and white horse opera, a narrator's PL: voice wonders what such a movie would be like today. Tex O'Herlehan, PL: The Singing Cowboy, finds himself in color and enters a cliche ridden PL: town, in which the evil cattle baron (Andy Griffith) and the new PL: Italian cowboys (who always wear raincoats no matter how hot it gets) PL: join forces to get him and the sheep ranchers to leave the valley. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Western ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Ruthless People PL: Slime ball businessman Sam Stone plots to murder his horrible wife for her PL: money, so he can marry his mistress. He can't believe his luck when she is PL: kidnapped by Ken and Sandy Kessler who wanted revenge from Sam for stealing PL: their savings, and Sandy's money making fashion design, then marketing it as PL: his own. When Barbara learns of what Sam has done to this couple and then PL: realises that he isn't doing anything to secure her release, she becomes PL: friends with her kidnapper and they plan to teach Sam a lesson. BY: Sami Al-Taher <smmat@ukc.ac.uk> GE: Black Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Sabotage PL: Mr. Verloc is part of a gang of foreign saboteurs operating out of London. PL: He manages a small cinema with his wife and her teenage brother as a cover, PL: but they know nothing of his secret. Scotland Yard assign an undercover PL: detective to work at the shop next to the cinema in order to observe the PL: gang. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Saboteur PL: Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane goes on the run across the States when PL: he is wrongly accused of starting a fire which killed his best friend. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Thriller Road ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Sacrifice, The PL: It is Otto's birthday, and his family have gathered at his remote PL: cottage to celebrate. The celebrations are marred, however, first PL: by conventional family intrigue, then by the terrifying news that PL: the low-flying jet planes signalled the start of a nuclear war PL: between the superpowers. As the family attempts to cope, Otto PL: is troubled by extraordinary dreams, and then informed by the PL: unfathomable philosopher-postman Victor that he has the power to PL: redeem the world, including his dear infant son, if only he will PL: visit the solitary Anna, who Victor insists is a witch. BY: Dan Ellis PL: Alexander, a journalist and former actor and philosopher, tells his PL: little son how worried he is about the lack of spirituality of PL: modern mankind. In the night of his birthday, the third world war PL: breaks out. In his despair Alexander turns himself in a prayer to PL: God, offering him everything to have the war not happened at all. BY: Gert de Boer GE: Religious Psychological ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Sailor of the King PL: A british naval officer has a brief affair with a woman in Canada and PL: never knows that she bears him a son. 20 years later the boy is on a ship PL: under his command when he is tracking a German Raider. When the boy is PL: captured after his ship is sunk, he finds a way to slow the German's PL: progress while a lethal hunt for him goes on. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: War Action Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Salmonberries PL: A woman who grew up in a small town in Alaska goes to the public library PL: to try and find out who her parents were. She was brought to town as a PL: baby in a cardboard box with "Kotzebue" on it, which is the name of the PL: town and also the name of the family that founded the town. She PL: eventually befriends the librarian, an East German immigrant who lost her PL: husband while escaping from behind the Iron Curtain. They help each other PL: try to find closure to the events in their past. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Same Time, Next Year PL: Just before each of them is about to get married to others, a couple has a PL: one night stand that is exceptionally passionate. They agree to meet on PL: the same weekend each year. Originally a stage play, the two are seen PL: changing, years apart, always in the same room in different scenes. Each o PL: of them always appears on schedule, but as time goes on each has some PL: personal crisis that the other helps them through, often without both of PL: them understanding what is going on. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Sammy and Rosie Get Laid PL: Sammy and Rosie are an unconventional middle-class London married PL: couple. They live in the midst of inner-city chaos, surround themselves PL: with intellectual street people, and sleep with everybody - except PL: each other! Things become interesting when Sammy's father, Raffi, PL: who is a former Indian government minister, comes to London for a PL: visit. Sammy, Rosie, and Raffi try to find meaning through their lives and PL: loves. BY: Martin Lewison <milst1@cislabs.pitt.edu> GE: Comedy Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Satan Bug, The PL: A germ warfare lab has had an accident. The first theory is that one of PL: the nasty germs has gotten free and killed several scientists. The big PL: fear is that a more virulent strain, named The Satan Bug because all life PL: can be killed off by it should it escape, may have been stolen. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Thriller Spy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Saturn 5 PL: Two lovers stationed at a remote base in the asteroid fields PL: of Saturn are intruded upon by a retentive technocrat from PL: Earth and his charge: a malevolent 8-ft robot. Remember, in PL: space no one can hear you scream... BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Savage Streets PL: An altercation between a group of girls out for the night and a gang PL: of local punks leaves the punks vowing revenge. It comes in the form PL: of the gang-rape of a young mute (Heather) and her older sister (Brenda) PL: starts hunting the gang in turn - armed with bear traps and crossbow. BY: David Carroll <davidc@atom.ansto.gov.au> GE: Drama Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Savannah Smiles PL: The young daughter of a politician runs away due to lack of attention. PL: She hides in the car of two not too bright crooks who are slowly converted PL: into parent figures as the police web closes down on the supposed PL: kidnappers. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Family Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Say Anything... PL: High school senior Lloyd Dobler wants nothing more than to go PL: out with beautiful and intelligent Diane Court. Lloyd attempts PL: to win her heart over the objections of her over-protective PL: father before Diane leaves for a scholarship in England. BY: Scott Renshaw <as.idc@forsythe.stanford.edu> PL: An improbable couple meets after high school graduation and must deal with PL: their friends, family, and other pressures just to stay together. Lloyd PL: Dobler is an average kickboxer with a good heart but limited ambition. Diane PL: Court is an aloof genius who is very closely protected by her father. When PL: Diane gets a scholarship to study in England, she has a weighty decision to PL: make. BY: Jeremy Rasmussen <jr@intrepid.uunet.uu.net> GE: Romance Comedy Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Scandal PL: An English bon-vivant osteopath is enchanted with a young exotic dancer PL: and invites her to live with him. He serves as friend and mentor, and PL: through his contacts and parties she and her friend meet and date members PL: of the Conservative Party. Eventually a scandal occurs when her affair PL: with the Minister of War goes public, threatening their lifestyles and PL: their freedom. Based on the real Profumo scandal of 1963. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama Historical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Scanners PL: Darryl Revok is the most powerful of all the scanners, and is the head of PL: the underground scanner movement for world domination. Scanners have PL: great psychic power, strong enough to control minds; they can inflict PL: enormous pain/damage on their victims. Doctor Paul Ruth finds a scanner PL: that Revok hasn't, and converts him to their cause - to destroy the PL: underground movement. BY: Paul Reynolds <pjr@eccles.dsbc.icl.co.uk> GE: Horror Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Scarface (1983) PL: In this modern retelling of the original 1932 film, Tony Montana is a PL: Cuban gangster who immigrates to the United States in the huge Cuban PL: exodus of the 1980's. Tony ("you fucking little monkey") makes a PL: bloody climb up the ladder of the cocaine business. From the film, one PL: can learn about many things: the cocaine business, money laundering, PL: and dozens of new uses for the word "fuck". BY: Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Scarlet and the Black, The (TV) PL: Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding PL: downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. PL: His diplomatic status in a Catholic country prevents Colonel Kappler from PL: openly arresting him, but O'Flaherty's activities become so large that PL: the Nazi's decide to assassinate him the next time he leaves the Vatican. PL: O'Flaherty continues his work in a variety of disguises. Based on a true PL: story. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Historical Religious ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Scenes from a Mall PL: On their 16. anniversary, during a shopping stroll, the lawyer Nick Fifer PL: confesses his wife Deborah some affairs. She goes wild and insists on a PL: divorce. After they agreed to the dividing up of their belongings, Deborah PL: confesses having an affair, too. Now he gets very upset and wants the PL: divorce for his part, but the last word is not spoken yet. BY: Thomas Manhardt <Thomas.Manhardt@wu-wien.ac.at> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Scent of a Woman (1992) PL: Frank is a retired Lt Col in the US army. He's blind and impossible PL: to get along with. Charlie is at school and is looking forward to PL: going to university; to help pay for a trip home for Christmas, he PL: agrees to look after Frank over thanksgiving. Frank's niece PL: says this will be easy money, but she didn't reckon on Frank spending PL: his thanksgiving in New York. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Drama Comic ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Schindler's List PL: Oskar Schindler is a vain, glorious and greedy German businessman who PL: becomes unlikely humanitarian amid the barbaric Nazi reign when he PL: feels compelled to turn his factory into a refuge for Jews. Based on PL: the true story of Oskar Schindler who managed to save about 1100 Jews PL: from being gassed at the Auschwitz concentration camp. A testament for PL: the good in all of us. BY: Harald Mayr <marvin@augusta.de> PL: The true story of Czech born Oskar Schindler, a businessman who tried PL: to make his fortune during the Second World War by exploiting cheap PL: Jewish labour, but ended up penniless having saved over 1000 Polish PL: Jews from almost certain death during the holocaust. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Historical War WWII Biography ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: School for Scoundrels PL: Based on the play by Sheridan, a young man finds a very special school. It PL: teaches him how to take advantage of people; How to seduce women, how to PL: gain points in conversation, and how to beat a better tennis player by PL: driving him crazy. He begins to put the lessons into operation. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Scissors PL: After a young woman is attacked in the elevator she meets PL: her neighbours (two brothers) for the first time. One of PL: the brothers has a secret, the other has a crush on her. Her analyst PL: tries to help her over the attack, but when she is invited PL: to a mysterious apartment things get worse and worse. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Scrooged PL: Frank Cross runs a US TV station which is planning a live adaptation PL: of Dickens' Christmas Carol. Frank's childhood wasn't a particularly PL: pleasant one, and so he doesn't really appreciate the Christmas spirit. PL: With the help of the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future, PL: Frank realises he must change. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Christmas Horror Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Sea of Grass, The PL: Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy star as a husband and wife on America's PL: frontier; farmers in a "sea of grass". The wife has an affair which PL: produces a child, and she is ostracized from the community. Meanwhile, the PL: farmers watch helplesslly as the sea of grass is exploited until it becomes PL: a dustbowl. BY: Liza Esser <essereli@student.msu.edu> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Sea of Love PL: Frank Keller is a New York detective investigating a case of a serial PL: killer who finds the victims through the lonely hearts column in PL: newspapers. Keller falls in love with Helen, the main suspect in the case. BY: Sami Al-Taher <smmat@ukc.ac.uk> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Searching for Bobby Fischer PL: Josh Waitzkin is just a typical American boy interested in baseball PL: when one day he challenges his father at chess and wins. Showing PL: unusual precocity at the outdoor matches at Washington Square in PL: New York City, he quickly makes friends with a hustler named Vinnie PL: who teaches him speed chess. Josh's parents hire a renowned chess PL: coach, Bruce, who teaches Josh the usefulness of measured planning. PL: Along the way Josh becomes tired of Bruce's system and chess in PL: general and purposely throws a match, leaving the prospects of PL: winning a national championship in serious jeopardy. BY: Rick Gregory <rag.apa@email.apa.org> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Secret Agent PL: British soldier and novelist Edgar Brodie returns home during WWI to PL: find that a government agency has faked a report of his death. They get PL: him to change his name to Richard Ashenden and travel to Switzerland to PL: track down a German agent. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Spy Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Secret Garden, The (1993) PL: A young British girl born and reared in India loses her neglectful parents PL: in an elephant stampede. She is returned to England to live at her PL: uncle's castle. Her uncle is very distant due to the loss of his wife ten PL: years before. Neglected once again, she begins exploring the estate and PL: discovers a garden that has been locked and neglected. Aided by one of PL: the servants' boys, she begins restoring the garden, and eventually PL: discovers some other secrets of the manor. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama Family ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Secret War of Harry Frigg, The PL: When 4 allied generals are captured in Italy in WW II, it is a propaganda PL: nightmare for the Allies. The generals are all 1 star and refuse to take PL: orders from each other in order to plan an escape. Harry Frigg is a private PL: who has escaped from the guard house dozens of times. He is promoted to PL: Major General (2 stars) and ordered to get the generals out once he is PL: captured. Harry is willing to escape, but then he meets the countess ... BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy War ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Secret of My Success, The (1987) PL: Well educated, Kansas born and raised, Bradley Foster sets out to make his PL: fortune in New York. Unfortunately, when he arrives, the job he is promised PL: fails to materialise, so he reluctantly looks up a distant relative, Howard PL: Prescot, who runs a multimillion dollar corporation. Starting at the bottom, PL: doesn't appeal to Bradley so he pretends to be an executive, whilst keeping PL: this a secret from "uncle" Howard and Bradley's dream girl Christy. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Secret of Santa Vittoria, The PL: Bombolini is a fairly worthless drunk in the small Italian town of Santa PL: Vittoria in the closing days of World War II. When word comes that the PL: Fascist government has surrendered, he climbs a flagpole to tear down the PL: flag. He can't get down and someone gets the crowd to chant his name to PL: give him confidence. The Fascist town council hears this and believes PL: that he is the town's new leader. They surrender to him and make him the PL: new mayor. He rises to the occasion and when he finds that the Germans PL: plan to occupy his town and take their wine (over a million bottles) he PL: works out a plan to hide it. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Drama Historical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Sentinel, The (1977) PL: A fashion model moves into a house inhabited (on the top floor) by a blind PL: priest. She begins having strange physical problems, has trouble PL: sleeping at night, and has some nasty flashbacks of her attempted suicide. PL: She complains to the real estate agent of the noise caused by her strange PL: neighbors, but finds out that the house is only occupied by the priest and PL: herself, and ultimately discovers that she has been put in the house for a PL: reason. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Separate Tables (1958) PL: The stories of several people are told as they stay at a boarding-house PL: in postwar London which features dining at "Separate Tables." BY: Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Sergeant York PL: A hillbilly sharpshooter becomes one of the most celebrated PL: American heroes of WWI when he single-handedly attacks and PL: captures a German position using the same strategy as in PL: turkey shoot. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: War Biography Historical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Serial Mom PL: A picture perfect middle class family is shocked when they find out that PL: one of their neighbors is receiving obscene phone calls. The mom takes PL: slights against her family very personally, and it turns out she is indeed PL: the one harassing the neighbor. As other slights befall her beloved PL: family, the body count begins to increase, and the police get closer to PL: the truth, threatening the family's picture perfect world. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Serpico PL: Serpico is a cop in the early 1970s. Unlike all his colleagues, he refuses PL: a share of the money that the cops routinely extort from local criminals. PL: Nobody wants to work with Serpico, and he's in constant danger of being PL: placed in life threatening positions by his "partners". Nothing seems to PL: get done even when he goes to the highest of authorities. Despite the PL: dangers he finds himself in, he still refuses to 'go with the flow', in PL: the hope that one day, the truth will be known. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Crime Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Seven Minutes, The (1971) PL: The Seven Minutes is a steamy book written in the 20s. To help with an PL: upcoming election, a bookstore clerk is indited for selling obscene PL: material and most of the film centers about the trial. The defense PL: atorneys need to find the mystery of the original publication of the book. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Seven Samurai, The PL: A veteran samurai, who has fallen on hard times, answers a villages PL: request for protection from bandits. He gathers 6 other samurai to PL: help him, and they teach the townspeople how to defend themselves, and PL: they supply the samurai with three small meals a day. The film PL: culminates in a giant battle when 40 bandits attack the village. BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Seven Year Itch, The PL: A professional book reader for a publishing company must endure the PL: dog days of a New York summer alone while his wife and son find PL: themselves on a riverside resort without a paddle. To pass the PL: lonely hours, the overly-imaginative book reader fantasizes about PL: a young model who is lodging temporarily in the apartment upstairs. BY: Jeanne Baker <jbaker@erim.org> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Seventh Seal, The PL: A Knight and his squire are home from the crusades. Black Death is PL: sweeping their country. As they approach home, Death appears to the PL: knight and tells him it is his time. The knight challenges Death to PL: a chess game for his life. The Knight and Death play as the cultural PL: turmoil envelopes the people around them as they try, in different ways, PL: to deal with the upheaval the plague has caused. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Drama Religious ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Sex and Zen PL: A recently married scholar goes on a quest for knowledge of other people's PL: wives, based on his philosophical differences with the Sack Monk. He PL: encounters the Flying Thief, who agrees to help him find women, but only PL: if he attains a penis as big as a horse's. The scholar has a surgeon PL: attach said unit, and he's off and running on his mission, only to find PL: that there are obstacles to his new lifestyle, such as jealous husbands PL: and treacherous females. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy Erotic Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Sex and the Single Girl PL: Using Helen Gurley Brown's book as a jump off point, we follow the PL: adventures of a supermarket tabloid editor as he tries to parlay an PL: interview with the author of the book into headlines and sales. Of PL: course, a romantic entanglement ensues. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Sexual Response PL: A radio call-in host helps people with their relationships, but finds PL: her own marriage lacking. A man approaches her in a bar, and soon she's PL: having an affair with him. The lover starts pushing her away when she PL: begins falling in love with him, and she begins suspecting he has ulterior PL: motives when he steals her husband's gun. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Erotic Thriller Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Shadow of a Doubt (1943) PL: The Newton family lead a quiet life in the North California town of Santa PL: Rosa. The Newton's eldest daughter, Charlotte, decides that things need PL: brightening up and resolves to contact her Uncle Charlie (after whom she PL: is named) and invite him to stay. On arrival at the telegraph office she PL: discovers he is already on his way. However, Uncle Charlie is being pursued PL: by a couple of detectives who suspect him of being "The Merry Widow PL: Murderer", an evil strangler wanted in connection with the deaths of several PL: rich East coast widows. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Shadowzone PL: After someone is killed in the subterranean project called "Shadowzone," PL: a NASA captain is called in to investigate. In the project, sleeping PL: subjects are induced into a deep EDS state whereby they become portals PL: to a parallel universe. Unfortunately this causes adverse reactions in PL: the subject, and something gets through the portal, the consequence of PL: which is an attrition problem. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Sci-Fi Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Shakes the Clown PL: Shakes plods about his duties as party clown, and uses all of his free PL: time getting seriously drunk. Binky, another clown, wins the spot on PL: a local kiddie show, which depresses Shakes even more, and his boss PL: threatens him with unemployment if he can't get his act under control. PL: When someone murders Shakes' boss and makes it look like Shakes did it, PL: he goes undercover, posing as a hated mime, and tries to find information PL: that will clear his name. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Shalako PL: A fairly standard Louis Lamour western. Shalako, the hunter and tracker PL: has to save a party of European hunters who are in danger from an Indian PL: uprising. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Western ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Shampoo PL: In this farcical satire of 70s sexual practices, Warren Beatty is a PL: hairdresser who simply can't resist the women he glamorizes. They can't PL: resist him either, and unfortunately they are all linked somehow. Beatty's PL: freewheeling and funny escapades with three of his lovers culminate in an PL: election night party (Nixon wins) which all three attend, along with another PL: older, richer man who is married to one of Beatty's conspirators, and whom PL: Beatty happens to be soliciting for startup funds for his own beauty PL: business. At the party, all three women desperately want Beatty's PL: attention, and the resulting debacle causes him to reconsider his lifestyle. BY: John J. Magee <magee@helix.mgh.harvard.edu> GE: Comedy Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Shattered (1991) PL: Dan Merrick comes out from a shattering car accident with amnesia. He PL: finds that he is married to Judith who is trying to help him start his PL: life again. He keeps getting flashbacks about events and places that he PL: can't remember. He meets pet shop owner and part time private detective PL: Gus Klein who is supposedly done some work for him prior to the accident. PL: Klein helps Merrick to find out more about his past and true identity. BY: Sami Al-Taher <smmat@ukc.ac.uk> PL: A successful architect is in a car wreck with his wife. He sustains PL: major facial injuries and loses his memory. As he recovers, he begins PL: to find discrepancies in the description of his former life by his wife, PL: his partner, and his partner's wife. He locates a private detective PL: who he had hired before the accident to investigate an affair his wife PL: was having. Now he employs the detective again to help unravel the PL: mystery of his past. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: She-Devils on Wheels PL: A female motorcycle gang busies itself creating a ruckus. They regularly PL: have bike races to determine who gets their pick of men for the night. PL: When a rival male gang encroaches on their territory, it's a battle to PL: the finish. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Action Biker Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Sheena PL: Sheena's white parents are killed while on Safari. She is raised by the PL: mystical witch woman of an African tribe. When her foster mother is PL: framed for the murder of a political leader, Sheena and a newsman, Vic PL: Casey are forced to flee while pursued by the mercenaries hired by the PL: real killer, who hopes to assume power. Sheena's ability to talk to the PL: animals and knowledge of jungle lore give them a chance against the high PL: tech weapons of the mercenaries. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Sheltering Sky, The PL: The american artist couple Port and Kit Moresby travels aimless through PL: Africa, searching for new experiences that could give new sense to PL: their relationship. But the flight to distant regions leads both only PL: deeper into despair. BY: Thomas Manhardt <Thomas.Manhardt@wu-wien.ac.at> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Shining, The PL: Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) gets a job as the custodian of the Overlook PL: Hotel, in the mountains of Colorado. The place is closed down during PL: winter, and Torrance and his family will be the only occupants of the hotel PL: for a long while. When the snow storms block the Torrance family in the PL: hotel, Jack's son Danny - who has some clairvoyance and telepathy powers - PL: discovers that the hotel is haunted and that the spirits are slowly driving PL: Jack crazy. When Jack meets the ghost of Mr. Grady, the former custodian PL: of the hotel who murdered his wife and his two daughters, things begin to PL: get _really_ nasty... BY: Flavio Rizzardi <spillo@maya.dei.unpid.it> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Shoah PL: Claude Lanzmann directed this 9 1/2 hour documentary of the Holocaust PL: without using a single frame of archive footage. He interviews survivors, PL: witnesses, and ex-Nazis (whom he had to film secretly since though only PL: agreed to be interviewed by audio). His style of interviewing by PL: asking for the most minute details is effective at adding up these details PL: to give a horrifying portrait of the events of Nazi genocide. He also PL: shows, or rather lets some of his subjects themselves show, that the PL: anti-Semitism that caused 6 million Jews to die in the Holocaust is still PL: alive in well in many people that still live in Germany, Poland, and PL: elsewhere. BY: Gene Volovich {volovich@netcom.com} GE: Documentary ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Shootist, The PL: J.B. Books, a 60ish gunfighter, finds that he has stomach cancer and PL: two months to live. He takes a room with Bond Rogers and her son, Gillom PL: to wait until death comes. Of course, his very presence starts off PL: events in the town. The Marshall comes, prepared to die in a shootout, PL: Gillom tries to idolize him, Bond first is disgusted and then pitties PL: him. Then, realizing that he will die in great pain, he comes up with PL: an idea to go out with a bang. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Western Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Shopping PL: Lone group of teens, led by recently released joyrider and his disenchanted PL: Belfast girlfriend, strives to leave their mark on "a British city in the PL: near future" while attempting to avoid a rival gang. Scenes of joyriding PL: and ram-raiding, which attempt to portray the addictiveness of fast driving PL: whilst also showing the downside (the effect on the community and ultimately PL: death) BY: Andrew Welsh <andreww@bnr.ca> PL: Billy and his girlfriend Jo steal expensive cars and speed them into PL: shop windows (ram-raiding), which they find exciting and gives them PL: an addictive adrenaline rush. There are many fast chases and PL: encounters with the police. Rivalry grows between Billy and Tommy, as PL: both want to be seen as "the hero". Jo wants her and Billy to change PL: their way of life, but Billy wants first to ram-raid the Shopping PL: Mall, because it has never been done before. But, who will get there PL: first, Billy or Tommy? Hard-hitting, fast-moving, ultraviolent drama. BY: Tristan White (THEWHITE@qmw.ac.uk) GE: Drama Suspense Crime ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Shopworn Angel, The PL: During WWI Bill Pettigrew, a naive young Texan soldier is sent to New York PL: for basic training. He meets worldly wise actress Daisy Heath when her car PL: nearly runs him over. Daisy agrees to pretend to be Bill's girl to impress PL: his friends, but then a real romance begins. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Romance War ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Short Cuts PL: The everyday lives of a number of Los Angeles residents are the subject PL: of this loosely-knitted collection of short stories. BY: Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Short Time PL: Nearing retirement, Dabney Coleman finds that he has a disease that will PL: kill him within days. He then finds that his life insurance only pays off PL: if he is killed in the line of duty. In order to leave something to his PL: wife and children, Coleman becomes supercop, ignoring danger and trying his PL: best to get killed. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Police ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Shot in the Dark, A PL: Inspector Clouseau is called to a country house where a murder was committed PL: and finds that every clue points to the beautiful maid, Maria. As the PL: bodies accumulate, each set of clues always points to Maria, and Cluseau PL: continues to release her and escort her around town. The famous scene in PL: this film is the murder in the Nudist Camp which causes the Inspector and PL: Maria to attempt an escape through Paris without clothes. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Mystery ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Silence of the Lambs, The PL: Young FBI agent Clarice Starling is assigned to help find a missing woman PL: to save her from a psychopathic serial killer who skins his victims. PL: Clarice attempts to gain a better insight into the twisted mind of the PL: killer by talking to another psychopath Hannibal Lecter, who used to be PL: a respected psychiatrist. FBI agent Jack Crawford believes that Lecter who PL: is also a very powerful and clever mind manipulator have the answers to PL: their questions to help locate the killer. Clarice must first try and gain PL: Lecter's confidence before he is to give away any information. BY: Sami Al-Taher <smmat@ukc.ac.uk> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Silent Movie PL: Aspiring filmmakers Mel Funn, Marty Eggs and Dom Bell go to a PL: financially troubled studio with an idea for a silent movie. In PL: an effort to make the movie more marketable, they attempt to PL: recruit a number of big name stars to appear, while the studio's PL: creditors attempt to thwart them. The film contains only one PL: word of dialogue, spoken by an unlikely source. BY: Scott Renshaw <as.idc@forsythe.stanford.edu> GE: Comedy Spoof ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Silent Night, Deadly Night PL: A young boy watches his parents killed by a thief in a Santa suit. He PL: spends his youth in an orphanage, staying quietly to his self, but his PL: mind is further bent by an ironhanded Mother Superior. He finally gets PL: a job at a local store, where he finally snaps when he is required to PL: wear a Santa suit, and goes on a killing spree that leads him slowly PL: back to the orphanage. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Silent Night, Deadly Night Part II PL: The brother of the murderous Santa in the first film finds himself in the PL: loony bin talking about his incidents. Based on the Santa trigger, he PL: has followed in his big brother's footsteps, maximally punishing people PL: doing wrong things. The strict mother superior is to blame for his PL: problems as well. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Silent Running PL: Lowell Freeman looks after plants in giant space greenhouses. Back on PL: earth, all the trees have long vanished, so Lowell puts a lot of heart into PL: his work. When orders from earth are received to destroy the greenhouses, PL: Lowell can't go through with it, and cannot persuade his three colleagues PL: to help him save the plants, so he makes other "arrangements". BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> PL: The loner crew member of a spaceship harbouring Earth's last PL: nature reserves goes renegade when he is instructed to jettison PL: his beloved forests and return home. Accompanied only by three PL: robots, he ponders the fate of his last pocket of nature and PL: the murders of his fellow crew members in this far-looking PL: speculative film. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Sci-fi Drama Environmental ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Silver Streak (1976) PL: Gene Wilder is taking a slow restful trip to Chicago on the Silver Streak. PL: Or so he thinks. He's involved in a love affair, a murder, is thrown from PL: the train, wanted by the police, and joins forces with a car thief to PL: reboard the train to save his love. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Silverado PL: A good old fashioned western stuffed with action, comedy, horse-riding, PL: and gunslinging. A misfit bunch of friends come together to right the PL: injustices which exist in a small town. BY: Greg Bole <bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> GE: Western Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Sinderella and the Golden Bra PL: Prince David is having trouble finding a bride amongst the maidens of PL: the village, so his father decides to hold a masked ball. Sinderella, PL: an adopted French orphan, puts up with abuse from her stepmother and PL: two stepsisters, and is not allowed to go to the ball. She is despondent PL: until her inebriated fairy godfather appears and fixes her up real pretty PL: and sends her on to the ball, with the admontion that she must return by PL: midnight. Sinderella and the Prince get along famously, but the time PL: flies and she leaves in a hurry, dropping her gilded support in her PL: haste. The Prince mounts a desperate search for his loved one, requiring PL: all the maidens of the village to try on the forgotten garment. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Musical Comedy Ribald ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Singin' in the Rain PL: In 1927, Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont are a famous on-screen romantic PL: pair. Lina, however, mistakes the on-screen romance for real love. PL: Don has worked hard to get where he is today, with his former partner PL: Cosmo. When Don and Lisa's latest film is transformed into a musical, PL: Don has the perfect voice for the songs. But Lisa - well, even with PL: the best efforts of a diction coach, they still decide to dub over PL: her voice. Kathy Selden is brought in, an aspiring actress, and PL: while she is working on the movie, Don falls in love with her. Will PL: Kathy continue to "aspire", or will she get the break she deserves ? BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Musical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Single White Female PL: When a 'Single White Female' places an ad in the press for a similar PL: woman to rent a room (to replace the boyfriend she's just left), PL: all the applicants seem weird. Then along comes a level headed woman PL: who seems to be just right. The new lodger has a secret past which PL: haunts her. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Sinister Urge, The PL: Someone is killing young women in the park. Police suspect it's related PL: to the smut picture racket, and begin leaning on Gloria Henderson, a smut PL: front woman for the "mob." Her right arm man continues to procure young PL: women with stars in their eyes to submit to their heinous celluloid PL: activities, and if the women try blackmail, they call in a specialist to PL: take care of the problem. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama Morality ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Sink the Bismarck! PL: Chronicles the breakout of the Bismark during the early days of World War PL: Two. Seen both from the point of view of the many naval vessels on both PL: sides and from the central headquarters of the British where the search PL: for the super battleship was controlled. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: War Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Sins of Desire PL: A therapy clinic is using drugs and sex therapy to aid people with PL: dysfunctions, but the doctor and his wife are using the setup to take PL: advantage of some of the patients. An insurance fraud investigator is PL: trying to find a hidden tape left by his murdered partner. A nurse is PL: investigating the death of her sister by getting a job at the clinic. PL: They join forces to get the evidence against the depraved clinic owners. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Thriller Erotic ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Sins of the Mother (TV) PL: A charismatic Real Estate agent, Kevin Coe, is publicly proud of his PL: mother, a prominent socialite, but privately he must put up with her PL: constant belittlement's and taunts. And while his latest girlfriend starts PL: discovering the depths of his anguish, no-one connects him with PL: a long series of violent rapes that have been troubling the area. BY: David Carroll <davidc@atom.ansto.gov.au> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Sirens PL: A young reverend and his wife are on the way from England to Australia to PL: minister to their flock. The bishop asks him to visit an eccentric PL: artist prone to sexual depiction's and request that he voluntarily withdraw PL: a controversial work call "Crucified Venus" from his show. The minister, PL: who considers himself a progressive, is shocked at the amoral atmosphere PL: surrounding the painter, his wife, and the three models living at his PL: estate. The minister's wife is troubled also, and has to deal with latent PL: sexual urges while trying to remain loyal to her husband. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy Drama Erotic ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Sister Act PL: A Vegas singer witnesses a mob murder and the cops stash her in a PL: nunnery to protect her from the hitmen. The mother superior does not PL: trust her, and takes steps to limit her influence on the other nuns. PL: Eventually the singer rescues the failing choir and begins helping PL: with community projects, which gets her an interview on TV. This PL: alerts the mob to her whereabouts, and the chase is back on. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> PL: Delores is having an affair with her Mafia boss, Vince. Her career as a PL: singer in Las Vegas is going nowhere and Vince won't divorce his wife and PL: she goes to him to break it off, witnessing a murder Vince just ordered. PL: Running from the club, she seeks police protection. They agree to hide PL: her in the one place Vince would never look for her. She finds, to her PL: chagrin, that it is a convent, where she must impersonate a nun. After PL: several false starts, she is assigned to the convent's dismal choir. She PL: challenges and reorganizes them to become a modern singing group. In this PL: she is successful, and as the choir gets better, success brings it's own PL: problems. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Musical Crime ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Six Degrees of Separation PL: Flan and Ouisa Kittredge, rich NYC art dealers, are called on one night by a PL: young man, Paul, who professes to be a friend of their kids' from Harvard. PL: They offer him a bed for the night; he enchants them with a home-cooked meal PL: and magnificent conversation. The next morning, they learn that he is not PL: all he seems to be. Their investigations are intriguing and lead them to PL: re-evaluate their lives. BY: John J. Magee <magee@helix.mgh.harvard.edu> GE: Drama Mystery ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Sketch Artist (TV) PL: A sketch artist for the police helps a witness recall who she saw PL: leaving the scene of a murder, and discovers that the person is his PL: girlfriend. Not willing to believe she was responsible, he resketches PL: the pictures so they don't look like her, and he begins his own PL: investigation of the murder. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Mystery Crime Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Ski School PL: Rival groups in a skiing school do battle on and off the piste. PL: One gang are rich and serious, the other group are party animals. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Adult Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Skin Game, The (1931) PL: An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small PL: English village and almost destroy each other. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Slacker PL: Presents a day in the life in Austin, Texas among its social PL: outcasts and misfits, predominantly the twenty-something set, using PL: a series of linear vignettes. These characters, who in some manner PL: just don't fit into the establishment norms, move seamlessly from PL: one scene to the next, randomly coming and going into one another's PL: lives. Highlights include a UFO buff who adamantly insists that the PL: U.S. has been on the moon since the 1950s, a woman who produces a PL: glass slide purportedly of Madonna's pap smear, and an old anarchist PL: who sympathetically shares his philosophy of life with a robber. BY: Rick Gregory <rag.apa@email.apa.org> GE: Comedy Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Slamdance PL: A cartoonist (Hulce) who had an affair with a girl who is murdered PL: (Madsen) gets himself embroiled in a high-level cover-up of a sex scandal PL: involving his lover. By using his artistic talent to try and reconstruct PL: the scandal, he attracts attention to himself by the people involved, and PL: becomes a target himself. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Slap Shot PL: The player-coach of a nowhere small town hockey team must deal PL: with an intractable owner, hostile crowds and on-ice thuggery PL: in this warm-hearted and only slightly farcical look at ice PL: hockey. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Sports Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Sleeper PL: A saxophone player who also runs a health food store is frozen and brought PL: back in the future by anti-government radicals in order to assist them in PL: their attempts to overthrow an oppressive government. When he goes off on PL: his own, he begins to explore this brave new world that has Orgasmatron PL: booths to replace sex and confessional robots. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Sleeping Beauty (1959) PL: Adaptation of the fairy tale of the same name. Princess Aurora is PL: cursed by the evil witch Maleficent - who declares that before PL: Aurora reaches her 16th birthday she will die by a poisoned PL: spinning-wheel. To try to prevent this, the king places her into PL: hiding, in the care of three goodnatured - but not too bright - PL: fairies. BY: Tim Pickett <quetzal@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au> GE: Animated Childrens ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Sleeping with the Enemy PL: Laura and Martin have been married for four years. They seem to be the PL: perfect, happiest and most successful couple. The reality of their house- PL: hold, however, is very different. Martin is an abusive and brutally PL: obsessed husband. Laura is living her life in constant fear and waits for PL: a chance to escape. She finally stages her own death, and flees to a new PL: town and new identity. But when Martin finds out that his wife is not dead PL: he will stop at nothing to find and kill her. BY: Sami Al-Taher <smmat@ukc.ac.uk> GE: Thriller Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Sleepless in Seattle PL: Sam is a recent widower who is seeking someone new. Sam's son Jonah, is PL: also looking for a new mother, so when Jonah puts his father on national PL: radio, hundreds of women write to him. One of the women is Annie. She's PL: engaged to Walter, but he's a bit strange. Annie goes to great lengths PL: to meet Sam. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Romance Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Sleuth PL: Milo Tindle and Andrew Wyke have something in common, Andrew's wife. In PL: an attempt to find a way out of this without costing Andrew a fortune in PL: alimony, he suggests Milo pretend to rob his house and let him claim the PL: insurance on the stolen jewellery. The problem is that they don't really PL: like each other and each cannot avoid the zinger on the other. The plot PL: has many shifts in which the advantage shifts between Milo and Andrew. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Mystery Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Slumber Party Massacre II PL: Courtney, the younger sister of the "new girl across the street" in the PL: first film is all grown up now, but suffers from nightmares about the Big PL: Wet Incident. She and the other members of her female rock group go to a PL: condo for the weekend to play music and have fun with their boyfriends. PL: Courtney's dreams are of her sister, who is in a mental institution, PL: warning her of having sex, and the dreams begin to spill into real life, PL: threatening Courtney and her friends as they begin experiencing an PL: attrition problem. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Slumber Party Massacre III PL: After a hard day of volleyball at the beach, a teen whose parents are away PL: decides to have a slumber party with her girlfriends. Their boyfriends PL: predictably show up to scare them, but a stranger from the beach is also PL: seen lurking around the house. Soon the group begins experiencing an PL: attrition problem. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Slumber Party Massacre, The PL: An eighteen-year-old high school girl is left at home by her parents and PL: she decides to have a slumber party. There is friction between some of PL: the invited guests and the new girl, who is better at basketball than PL: they, so the new girl decides to stay at home (which is conveniently PL: across the street from the host's house). Meanwhile, a murderer of five PL: people with a propensity for power tools has escaped and is at large, and PL: eventually makes his way to the party, where the guests begin experiencing PL: an attrition problem, with only the new girl to help them. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Small Kill PL: Children are being kidnapped and held for ransom. If the parents don't PL: cooperate, the kids show up dead. An undercover cop gets involved in PL: the case, and his investigation leads him to a connection between a banker PL: and a fortune teller. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Snapper, The PL: Was described by the BBC as a sequel to "The Commitments". But isn't !. PL: Set in Ireland, Sharon Curley is a 20 year old living with her parents PL: and many brothers and sisters. When she gets herself pregnant and PL: refuses to name the father, she becomes the talk of the town. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Drama Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Sneakers PL: A group of security analysts are offered a job by the CIA and when they PL: are reluctant, pressure is brought to bear by the threat to disclose the PL: identity of their leader, a 60s radical with outstanding warrants. A PL: chip exists that will allow any computer to be cracked, and organized PL: crime will soon control it, though sudden changes in their police records PL: suggest that it is already operational. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Spy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: So I Married an Axe Murderer PL: Charlie, a poet, hasn't had much luck with women, but then he meets PL: Harriet, the girl of his dreams.. or is it his nightmares. Charlie PL: begins to suspect that Harriet is Ms X, a woman who marries then PL: kills her husbands. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Romance Farce ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Soapdish PL: Celeste Talbert has been the queen of the soaps for over two PL: decades. Montana Moorehead needs to get her out of her way PL: before she can move on and begins her program to get her to PL: leave. She hires an old boyfriend of Celeste to be on the PL: show and has Celeste become a murderer in the script, but each PL: attempt has unforseen consequences. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Society PL: Bill is worried that he is 'different' to his sister and parents. PL: They mix with other 'upper class' people while Bill is more down PL: to earth. Even his girlfriend seems a bit odd. All is revealed PL: when Bill returns home to find a party in full swing. Not for PL: the weak of stomach. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Horror Mystery ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Solar Crisis PL: A huge solar flare is predicted to fry the Earth. Astronauts must PL: go to the Sun to drop a talking bomb (Freddy) at the right time so PL: the flare will point somewhere else. Giant IXL Corp CEO Teague PL: thinks the flare won't happen and wants the mission to fail so he PL: can buy the planet cheaply while the scare lasts. Employee Haas PL: prepares a surprise for the astronauts. While daddy Steve Kelso PL: commands the space ship where temperaturs rise, granddaddy Admiral PL: Skeet Kelso is searching the desert for grandson Mike who's gone PL: AWOL to say goodbye to his dad but who inadvertently crossed the PL: path of the guys from IXL after meeting desert-dweller Travis. BY: Louis Strous <LStrous@solar.stanford.edu> GE: Sci-Fi Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Solarbabies PL: In a future in which most water has disappeared from the Earth, we find PL: a group of children, mostly teenagers, who are living at an orphanage, PL: run by the despotic rulers of the new Earth. The group in question plays PL: a hockey based game on roller skates and is quite good. It has given them PL: a unity that transcends the attempts to bring them to heel by the PL: government. Finding an orb of special power, they find it has unusual PL: effects on them. They escape from the orphanage (on skates) and try to PL: cross the wasteland looking for a place they can live free as the PL: stormtroopers search for them and the orb. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Solaris PL: The Solaris mission has established a base on a planet that appears PL: to host some kind of intelligence, but the details are hazy PL: and very secret. After the mysterious demise of one of the PL: three scientists on the base, the main character is sent out PL: to replace him. He finds the station run-down and the two PL: remaining scientists cold and secretive. When he also encounters PL: his wife who has been dead for seven years, he begins to PL: appreciate the baffling nature of the alien intelligence. BY: Dan Ellis GE: Sci-fi Mystical-realism ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Sole Survivor (TV) PL: A B-25 bomber is discovered in the middle of the Libian desert and an Air PL: Force investigation team is called in to examine it. The team quickly PL: discovers that it has not been touched since crashing a quarter century PL: earlier. They also discover the plane's navigator survived and is now an PL: Air Force general. The problem? He said the plane went down in the PL: mediterrainian after the captain ordered the crew to bail out. This story PL: has an interesting supernatural twist. BY: KC Hunt <khunt@eng.morgan.edu> GE: Mystery Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Some Girls PL: Michael, a college student, visits his girlfriend Gabriella and her PL: family for Christmas in Canada. When he gets there, she tells him that PL: she doesn't love him any more. Meanwhile, her family is exceedingly PL: strange: her father is a writer who spends most of his time wandering PL: the house nude. Her grandmother mistakes Michael for her dead husband. PL: Her two sisters express interest in him. Granny escapes the hospital and PL: heads back to her home in the woods, and the family chases after her, and PL: Michael is kept reeling. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama Romance Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Some Kind of Wonderful PL: A young tomboy, Watts, finds her feelings for her best friend, Keith, PL: run deeper than just friendship when he gets a date with the most PL: popular girl in school. Unfortunately, the girl's old boyfriend, who is PL: from the rich section of town, is unable to let go of her, and plans to PL: get back at Keith. BY: Kevin <Kibble@vm.temple.edu> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Some Like It Hot (1959) PL: Two Struggling musicians witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and try PL: to find a way out of the city before they are found and killed by the mob. PL: The only job that will pay their way is an all girl band so the two dress PL: up as women. In addition to hiding, each has his own problems; One falls PL: for another band member but can't tell her his gender, and the other has PL: a rich suitor who will not take "No," for an answer. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Historical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Son of Godzilla PL: On a tropical island, scientists are conducting weather experiments and PL: encounter gigantic mantises and a giant spider that are attacking the PL: son of Godzilla, who arrives to defend his offspring. BY: Todd A. Bobenrieth <TAB146@PSUVM.EDU> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Sorcerer PL: Based on the French film _Wages of Fear_, this production PL: begins with the individual beginnings of outcasts of PL: different background who are forced by fortune to work PL: in a remote oil drilling operation in South America. When a PL: fire breaks out of control the outcasts are given the PL: opportunity to earn enough money to get out by transporting two PL: crates of unstable dynamite through miles of jungle in ancient PL: trucks in this taught thriller. One stunt features two trucks PL: attempting to cross a *rope* bridge over a raging river. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama PL: Three frat boys sneak into the Tri-Delt sorority to witness the initiation PL: of new pledges and are caught. The pledges must go to the local bowling PL: lane and steal a trophy, aided by the unwanted frat boys. An accident PL: causes the trophy to break, releasing an evil imp who then begins wreaking PL: havoc with the teens, who begin suffering an attrition problem. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Sorority House Massacre PL: A little girl's brother kills the whole family but her (she escapes by PL: hiding in the basement). He is committed, and she grows up with a new PL: family, eventually going to college, where she joins a sorority. Due PL: to a memory block, she doesn't remember that the sorority house was her PL: childhood house. Her brother senses her presence in the house and PL: escapes so he can finish the job he was unable to complete. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Sound of Music, The PL: Maria is a failure as a nun. The Mother Superior sends her off in answer PL: to a letter from a retired naval captain for a governess for his seven PL: children. She goes to their house and finds that she is the latest in PL: a long line of governesses run off by the children. She teaches the PL: children to sing and that becomes their bonding force, of course leading PL: her to fall in love with their father and marries him. As this is PL: happening Austria votes to be assumed by Germany on the eve of World PL: war II. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Musical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Southern Comfort PL: A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in PL: the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger PL: local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition PL: and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror the PL: Vietnam experience. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: War Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Soylent Green PL: In the year 2022, the starving masses depend upon the government- PL: manufactured food item Soylent Green to exist. But in the PL: midst of a murder investigation, a cop named Thorn (Charlton PL: Heston) uncovers the chilling source of the product. BY: Ray Hamel <hamel@primate.wisc.edu> GE: Science Fiction ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: SpaceCamp PL: American kids go to a space camp during the summer holidays. They learn PL: how to operate the Space Shuttle. A team consisting of a guy who just PL: entered to meet girls, a wanna be astronaut and an instructor who wanted PL: to go on a mission instead of teaching can sit in the Shuttle while PL: testing the engines. Then they're launched by mistake ... BY: Ivo Kroone <ab2693@triton.heao.hsa.nl> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Spaceballs PL: King Roland of the planet Druidia is trying to marry his daughter Princess PL: Vespa (Daphne Zuniga) to Prince Valium, but Vespa is kidnapped by the PL: evil race of the Spaceballs. The Spaceballs ask Roland a tremendous PL: ransom: all the air of Druidia (you see, the air of Spaceball had serious PL: pollution problems...). The King decides to offer a generous amount of PL: money to a space rogue, Lone Star, to persuade him to save Vespa. PL: What follows is the parody of a _LOT_ of famous SF movies. BY: Flavio Rizzardi <spillo@maya.dei.unpid.it> GE: Comedy Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Spartacus PL: The slave Spartacus leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman PL: empire. BY: Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Speed (1994) PL: LAPD cops Jack Traven and Harry Temple rescue a group of executives PL: trapped in a sabotaged elevator, thus foiling mad bomber Howard Payne's PL: ransom demands. In retaliation, Payne sets a new challenge for Traven: PL: a bomb on a city bus which will arm itself when the bus reaches 50 mph, PL: and which will explode if the bus drops below that speed or if any of PL: the passengers try to escape. BY: Alexander Lum <aj_lum@postoffice.utas.edu.au> GE: Action Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Spellbound PL: The head of the Green Manors mental asylum Dr. Murchison is retiring to be PL: replaced by Dr. Edwards, a famous psychiatrist. Edwards arrives and is PL: immediately attracted to the beautiful but cold Dr. Constance Petersen. PL: However, it soon becomes apparent that Dr. Edwards is in fact a paranoid PL: amnesiac imposter. He goes on the run with Constance who tries to help his PL: condition and solve the mystery of what happened to the real Dr. Edwards. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Thriller Romance Psychoanalysis Mystery ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Splash PL: Allen Bauer is rescued from drowning as a young boy off Cape Cod by PL: a young mermaid. Years later he returns to the same location, and PL: once again manages to fall into the sea, and is rescued once more by PL: the mermaid (Allen isn't sure what he's seen and what he's imagined). PL: The mermaid decides to search for Allen in New York, sprouting PL: legs when her tail dries. On finding Allen, they fall in love, but she PL: has a secret, which will no longer be a secret if she gets her legs wet.. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> PL: Alan Bauer nearly drowned as a child but has memories of being saved by a PL: young mermaid. When he is jilted as an adult and loses his wallet in the PL: surf, the young mermaid tries to return it. They are soulmates who have PL: been meant for each other, but Madison fears how he will react when he PL: finds out she is not human. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Romance Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Split Second (1992) PL: In a futuristic London, the rising sea levels mean that large PL: areas are under feet of water. Hauer plays a cop who previously lost PL: his partner to some strange creature. Now the creature is back PL: and its after him. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Action Thriller Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Splitting Heirs PL: A member of the English upper class dies, leaving his estate and his PL: business to an American, whom he thinks is his son who was lost as a PL: baby and then found again. An Englishman who thinks he is an Indian PL: comes to believe that he is actually the heir. He comes to hate the PL: American who is his boss, his friend, and the man who has stolen the PL: woman after whom he lusts. BY: Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com> GE: Black Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Spy Who Came In from the Cold, The PL: Alec Leamas, a British spy is sent to East Germany supposedly PL: to defect, but in fact to sow disinformation. As more plot PL: turns appear, Leamas becomes more convinced that his own PL: people see him as just a cog. His struggle back from PL: dehumanization becomes the final focus of the story. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Spy Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Spy Who Loved Me, The PL: The British discover that someone has perfected a way of PL: tracking submerged submarines and is offering the technology PL: to the highest bidder. An international crisis breaks when a PL: Royal Navy Polaris submarine equipped with sixteen nuclear PL: warheads disappears while on patrol. The British send agent PL: James Bond to secure the tracking device and locate the missing PL: vessel before its missiles are launched at the West. BY: Dave Jenkins <david.jenkins@smallworld.co.uk> GE: Spy Action Bond ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: St. Elmo's Fire PL: Brat Pack film about the ups and downs of life for a group of young PL: friends. Billy can't hold down a job. Wendy's rich parents want her to PL: be a clone of her sister (married, running family business franchise), PL: she prefers the company of Billy. Billy wants to get back together with PL: his wife and baby. Kirby has a crush on an old school date (Dale). PL: Jules goes from one crisis to another. Alex wants to marry Leslie PL: but he's unfaithful, Alex also has to contend with Leslie's other admirer; PL: Kevin. Jules incorrectly thinks Kevin is gay. A nice simple plot. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Stage Fright (1950) PL: Jonathan Cooper is wanted by the police who suspect him of killing his PL: lover's husband. His friend Eve Gill offers to hide him and Jonathan PL: explains to her that his lover, actress Charlotte Inwood is the real PL: murderer. Eve decides to investigate for herself, but when she meets the PL: detective in charge of the case, she starts to fall in love. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Thriller Mystery ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Stakeout PL: Two cops are given the 'dirty' job of staking out the PL: home of an escaped convict's ex-girlfriend. Chris and the PL: beautiful girlfriend accidentally meet and fall in love. PL: Just as Chris' confesses, the convict appears, but will she betray him ? BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Thriller Crime Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Stalag 17 PL: A group of airmen are in a German Prisoner of War camp. Each escape PL: attempt has resulted in failure and a spy is suspected. When the PL: materially successful operator comes under suspicion, he becomes an PL: outcast. When a new arrival is accused of being a spy and saboteur, PL: the camp unites to hide him as the operator looks for the real plant. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Drama Historical War ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Stand by Me PL: 4 young friends set out on an adventure. Geordie, Chris, Teddy and PL: Vern go looking for the missing body of a local teenager - found by PL: a gang of older boys. A story of boys hangin' out and growin' up. BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan PL: Admiral James T. Kirk is still in charge of a space fleet, but from PL: behind a desk. Dr. McCoy and Mr. Spock convince him to take on a PL: mission which sounds simple, but with the appearance of the mysterious PL: Khan, things get a little tricky. BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Star Trek III: The Search for Spock PL: Picking up where exactly where Star Trek II left off, the Enterprise PL: and crew are returning to port for some essential repairs to their ship. PL: When they arrive, they are shocked to discover the Enterprise is to PL: be scrapped. When Dr. McCoy starts acting strangely, Kirk is forced PL: to steal his old ship back and fly across space to a lonely planet PL: to save a friend. BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home PL: A space probe appears over 23rd century earth, emanating strange sounds PL: towards the planet, and apparently waiting for something. As time PL: goes on, the probe starts to cause major storms on earth and threaten PL: its destruction. James T. Kirk and crew are called upon once again PL: to save mankind. They discover the strange sound is actually the call PL: of the humpback whale - which has been hunted to extinction. They PL: have only one choice - to attempt to time travel back into the 20th PL: century, locate a whale, and bring it back to 23rd century earth to PL: reply to the probe. BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Star Trek V: The Final Frontier PL: When the newly-christened starship Enterprise's shakedown cruise goes PL: poorly, Captain Kirk and crew put it into Spacedock for repairs. But an PL: urgent mission interrupts their Earth-bound shore leave. A renegade Vulcan PL: named Sybok has taken several ambassadors hostage on the planet Nimbus PL: III, an event which also attracts the attention of a Klingon captain who PL: wants to make a name for himself. Sybok's rag-tag army captures the PL: Enterprise and takes it on a journey to the center of the galaxy in search PL: of the Supreme Being. BY: David Thiel <d-thiel@uiuc.edu> PL: The crew of the Federation starship Enterprise is called to Nimbus III, PL: the Planet of Intergalactic Peace. They are to negotiate in a case of PL: kidnapping only to find out that the kidnapper is a relative of Spock. PL: This man is possessed by his life long search for the planet Shaka-Ri PL: which is supposed to be the source of all life. Together they begin to PL: search for this mysterious planet. BY: Harald Mayr <marvin@augusta.de> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country PL: After an explosion on their moon, the Klingons have an estimated 50 PL: years before their ozone layer is completely depleted, and they all PL: die. They have only 1 choice - to join the Federation, which will PL: mean an end to 70 years of wars. Admiral James T. Kirk and crew PL: are called upon to help in the negotiations because of their PL: "experience" of the Klingon race. Peace talks don't quite go to plan, PL: and eventually Kirk and McCoy are tried and convicted of assassination, PL: and sent to Rura Penthe, a snowy hard-labour prison camp. Will they PL: manage to escape ? And will there ever be peace with the Klingons ? BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Star Trek: The Motion Picture PL: Admiral James T. Kirk is called upon to take command of the U.S.S. PL: Enterprise for the first time since the TV series ended. A strange PL: alien craft is heading towards earth, destroying everything in its PL: path. Kirk rounds up the rest of his old crew, and acquires a few PL: new members, and sets off to intercept the alien spacecraft. BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Star Wars PL: Luke Skywalker stays with his Aunt and Uncle on a farm on Tatooine. PL: He is desperate to get off this planet and get to the Academy like PL: his friends, but his Uncle needs him for the next harvest. Meanwhile, PL: an evil Emperor has taken over the Galaxy, and has constructed a PL: formidable "Death Star" capable of destroying whole planets. Princess PL: Leia, a leader in the resistance movement, acquires plans of the Death PL: Star, places them in R2D2, a droid, and sends him off to find Obi-Wan PL: Kenobi. Before he finds him, R2D2 ends up on Skywalkers' farm with PL: his friend C3PO. R2 then wanders into the desert, and when Luke PL: follows, they eventually come across Obi-Wan. Will Luke, Obi-Wan, PL: and the two droids be able to destroy the Death Star, or will the PL: Emperor rule forever ? BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Stark (1993) (TV) PL: Australian billionaire, Sly Morgan is invited to join the Stark PL: Conspiracy, a group of the world's richest people who plan to save PL: themselves from the Earth's impending environmental doom. Colin Dobson, PL: or CD to his friends, tries to impress beautiful activist Rachel by PL: joining her and a group of hippies on a mission to foil Stark's PL: evil plan of environmental vandalism. BY: Alexander Lum <aj_lum@postoffice.utas.edu.au> GE: Comedy Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Starman PL: Jenny Hayden never did get over the death of her husband. So when an PL: alien life form decides to model "himself" on the husband, Jenny is PL: understandably confused if not terrified. The alien, or Starman, as he PL: is called, has a deadline to meet, and kidnaps Jenny in order to PL: meet it. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> PL: An alien who has crash-landed in the United States takes on the PL: the appearance of a woman's dead husband and enlists her help PL: to escape from pursuing authorities and rendezvous with a PL: spacecraft on the other side of the country. As he learns how PL: to be more human the alien begins to take on more and more PL: qualities of the woman's husband, drawing the woman closer. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Sci-Fi Romance Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Stay Tuned PL: Roy and Helen Knable are having problems. Roy has become a couch potato PL: and Helen resents this. After a fight, Spike, a high ranking devil, PL: appears to offer Roy the ultimate satellite system. Roy signs without PL: realizing he has sold his soul. When he is sucked into the cable version PL: of Hell, Helen is sucked in with him. They go through the satanic variety PL: of cable TV where dying will consign them to damnation. Shows they find PL: themselves on include, Driving over Miss Daisy, Northern Overexposure, PL: and Autopsies of the Rich and Famous. Roy must take charge and save them PL: from the dangers of this cable Hell. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Satire ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Sting II, The PL: Hooker and Gondorf pull a con on Macalinski, an especially nasty mob boss PL: with the help of Veronica, a new grifter. They convince this new victim PL: that Hooker is a somewhat dull boxer who is tired of taking dives for PL: Gondorf. There is a ringer. Lonigan, their victim from the first movie, PL: is setting them up to take the fall. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Sting, The PL: When a mutual friend is killed by a mob boss, two con men, one experienced PL: and one young try to get even by pulling off the big con on the mob boss. PL: The story unfolds with several twists and last minute alterations. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Crime Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot PL: A tough detective's mother comes to visit him, and promptly starts trying PL: to fix up his life, much to his embarrassment. For his birthday she buys PL: him a machine gun out of the back of a van, and begins to further interfere PL: with his job and love life, eventually helping him with a case he's on. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Story of Qiu Ju, The PL: A pregnant peasant woman seeks redress from the Chinese PL: bureaucracy after the village chief kicks her husband in the PL: groin in this comedy of justice. As she is frustrated by each PL: level of the hierarchy and travels farther and farther away PL: from the countryside the viewer is also provided with a look PL: at the changing Chinese society through the verite camera used PL: in most scenes. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Comedy Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Storyville (1992) PL: A young candidate for the senate is filmed with a hooker as blackmail. PL: As he investigates, he discovers some family secrets involving his PL: father and their political careers. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama Suspense ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Strange Brew PL: Something is rotten at the Elsinore Brewery. Bob and Doug PL: Mackenzie (as seen on SCTV) help the orphan Pam regain the brewery PL: founded by her recently-deceased father. But to do so, they must PL: confront the suspicious brewmaster and two teams of vicious PL: hockey players. BY: Stewart M. Clamen <clamen@cs.cmu.edu> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Strangers on a Train PL: Psychotic mother's boy Bruno Anthony meets famous tennis professional Guy PL: Haines on a train. Guy wants to move into a career in politics and has PL: been dating a senator's daughter (Ann Morton) while awaiting a divorce from PL: his wife. Bruno wants to kill his father, but knows he will be caught PL: because he has a motive. Bruno dreams up a crazy scheme whereby he and Guy PL: exchange murders. Guy takes this as a joke, but Bruno is serious and takes PL: things into his own hands. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Strictly Ballroom PL: Scott Hastings is a champion caliber ballroom dancer, but much PL: to the chagrin of the Australian ballroom dance community, Scott PL: believes in dancing "his own steps". Fran is a beginning dancer PL: and a bit of an ugly duckly who has the audacity to ask to be PL: Scott's partner after his unorthodox style causes his regular partner PL: to dance out of his life. Together, these two misfits try to win the PL: Australian Pan Pacific Championships and show the Ballroom Confederation PL: that they are wrong when they say, "there are no new steps!" BY: Rowena Young GE: Comedy Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Stripes PL: John becomes a defacto leader in his basic training platoon as we follow PL: them through training to their first assignment. Included in this is PL: the recruits version of drilling and a small side trip into East Germany PL: with a top secret combat ready recreational vehicle. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Army-life ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Stunt Man, The PL: While on the run from the police, Steve Railsback hides in a group of PL: moviemakers where he pretends to be a stunt man. Both aided and endangered PL: by the director (Peter O'Toole) he avoids both the police and sudden death PL: as a stuntman. The mixture of real danger and fantasy of the movie is PL: an interesting twist for the viewer as the two blend in individual scenes. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Action Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Suburban Commando PL: Shep Ramsey is an interstellar hero, righting wrongs, etc. His ship is PL: damaged after a fight with an interstellar nasty and he must hide out on PL: Earth until it can recharge. He leaves his power suit at home, but still PL: finds himself unable to allow wrongs to go unrighted and so mixes it up PL: with bad drivers, offensive paperboys, muggers and the like. Then the PL: family he's staying with finds his power suit and the father tries it on. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Sci-fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Suburban Roulette PL: The Fisher family moves into the suburbs to get away from the city, and PL: wife Ilene's propensity for males. They meet the neighbors, the Conleys PL: and Elstons, and become friends. Soon they're having cookouts together, PL: and taking each other's mates for a ride, but not without guilt and PL: repercussions. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Super Monster Gamera PL: Using several clips from previous Gamera entries, this film deals with PL: alien forces sending all the monsters Gamera has faced in one final PL: battle to rid the planet of its last hope. BY: Todd A. Bobenrieth <TAB146@PSUVM.EDU> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Super, The (1991) PL: Louie is a New York slum landlord who is given 120 days to repair one of PL: his apartment blocks. The problem for Louie is that he must live in the PL: rundown block until the repairs are complete. Louie's father is the real PL: boss, and he has no intention of paying for the repairs. This leaves Louie PL: to live in the squaller his tenants endure all year round. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Superman PL: This movie begins on Krypton, where Superman's father sends him off PL: to Earth as a young child. He grows up to be a perfectly normal PL: newspaper reporter named Clark Kent. At least, he appears perfectly PL: normal, until he transforms into Superman - flying around with his PL: underpants over his tights, saving the day. When the evil Lex Luthor PL: plans to take over the world, Superman is the only one who can stop PL: him. BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Sci-Fi Comic ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Superman II PL: Terrorists have taken over the Eiffel Tower, and threaten to blow it PL: up with a nuclear bomb. Once again, Superman is there and saves PL: Paris by throwing the bomb into outer space. Unfortunately, the PL: explosion releases the three bad guys imprisoned in the first Superman PL: movie. They then move in on Earth, taking it over, but little do they PL: know who they will have to defeat. BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Sci-Fi Comic ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Support Your Local Gunfighter PL: James Garner plays a ladies man who ends up on the run from a conquest. PL: He has an embarrassing problem that requires a doctor, but that is not PL: immediatly disclosed. He and a town barsweep form a plot to impersonate PL: a well known gunfighter so that Garner can pay off his debts and skip town PL: before the soon to come arrival of the real gunfighter. The cast is PL: almost identical to _Support your local sheriff!_ and the humor is PL: similar. Typical: "You hit him from behind!" Garner: "Just as hard as I PL: could!" BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Western ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Support Your Local Sheriff! PL: McCullough is "passing through on my way to Australia" when he takes a PL: job in a gold rush town. After a startling display of PL: marksmanship he immediately arrests the youngest son of the evil landowner PL: (Danby). A battle of hired guns begins as McCullough continues to tame PL: the town and defeat the gunslingers with a combination of skill and wit. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Western ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Sure Thing, The PL: College freshman John (Gib) Gibson decides to go cross country to visit PL: his friend in California during winter break. Awaiting there is a bikini- PL: clad babe whom his friend assures him is a "sure thing". Meanwhile, PL: Allison, a cute (but somewhat anal retentive) girl at Gib's college has PL: also decided to head out to Cal. to see her boyfriend during break. Gib PL: and Allison are thrust together on a road trip from hell, and somewhere PL: along the way, they find each other's company to be tolerable. Now, what PL: will become of Gib's "sure thing?" BY: Jeremy Rasmussen <jr@intrepid.uunet.uu.net> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Suspect (1987) PL: A judge commits suicide, and his secretary is found murdered. A homeless PL: deaf-mute man, Carl Anderson is arrested for her murder. Public defender PL: Kathleen is assigned by the court as his lawyer. She sets to find the real PL: killer, and gets help from the congressional advisor, Eddie Sanger who is PL: called to be on the jury panel. Together they discover a dangerous circle PL: of corruption in high places. BY: Sami Al-Taher <smmat@ukc.ac.uk> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Suspicion (1941) PL: Johnny Aysgarth is a handsome gambler who seems to live by borrowing money PL: from friends. He meets shy Lina McLaidlaw on a train whilst trying to travel PL: in a first class carriage with a third class ticket. He begins to court PL: Lina and before long they are married. It is only after the honeymoon that PL: she discovers his true character and she starts to become suspicious when PL: Johnny's friend and business partner, Beaky is killed mysteriously. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Thriller Mystery ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Suspiria PL: A young American dancer travels to Europe to join a famous ballet PL: school. As she arrives, the camera turns to another young woman, who PL: appears to be fleeing from the school. She returns to her apartment PL: where she is gruesomely murdered by a hideous creature. Meanwhile, the PL: young American is trying to settle in at the ballet school, but hears PL: strange noises and is troubled by bizarre occurrences. She eventually PL: discovers that the school is merely a front for a much more sinister PL: organisation. BY: Goth <brooks@odie.ee.wits.ac.za> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Swamp Thing PL: Dr. Alec Holland, hidden away in the depths of a murky swamp, is trying PL: to create a new species - a combination of animal and plant capable PL: of adapting and thriving in the harshest conditions. Unfortunately he PL: becomes subject of his own creation and is transformed . . . PL: Arcane, desperate for the formula attempts to capture the Swamp Thing. PL: An explosive chase ensues that ultimately ends with a confrontation PL: between Holland and a changed Arcane . . . BY: Mark Harding <ccsmh@midge.bath.ac.uk> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Sweet Liberty PL: Michael has written a schollarly book on the revolutionary war. He has PL: sold the film rights. The arrival of the film crew seriously disrupts him PL: as actors want to change their characters, directors want to re-stage PL: battles, and he becomes very infatuated with Faith who will play the female PL: lead in the movie. At the same time, he is fighting with his crazy mother PL: who thinks the Devil lives in her kitchen, and his girlfriend PL: who is talking about commitment. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Sweet Sugar PL: Prostitute Sugar is set up by a corrupt politician. She is convinced PL: of the futility of appealing her case in the courts and signs on to a PL: chain gang run by the notorious Dr. John who performs cruel medical PL: experiments on the people who work for him. BY: Eric Conrad <econrad@magnus.ohio-state.edu> GE: Prison Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Swimmer, The PL: Neddy Merrill has been away for most of the Summer. He reappears at a PL: friends pool. As they talk, someone notices that there are pools spanning PL: the entire valley. He decided to jog from pool to pool to swim the whole PL: valley. As he stops in each pool his interactions tell his life story. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Swimming to Cambodia PL: Spalding Gray sits behind a desk throughout the entire film and recounts PL: his exploits and chance encounters while playing a minor role in the film PL: 'The Killing Fields'. At the same time, he gives a background to the events PL: occurring in Cambodia at the time the film was set. BY: Peter Goldsack <peteg@hpsqf.sqf.hp.com> GE: Comedy Monologue ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Switching Channels PL: A remake of Front Page. Sully is the producer of a cable PL: news network program. Christy is his ex-wife and best PL: reporter. Her desire to quit the news business and marry PL: Blaine, a sporting goods manufacturer comes as an innocent PL: man is about to be executed. Sully's attempts to keep her in PL: town and break up her upcomming marriage happen against the PL: backdrop of a botched execution, a prison break and a PL: possible pardon. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Sword and the Sorcerer, The PL: A mercenary with a three-bladed sword rediscovers his royal PL: heritage dangerous future when he is recruited to help a PL: princess foil the designs of a brutal tyrant and a powerful PL: sorcerer in conquering a land. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Fantasy Adventure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Sword in the Stone, The PL: Arthur (aka Wart) is a young boy who aspires to be a knight's PL: squire. On a hunting trip he falls in on Merlin, a powerful PL: but amnesiac wizard who has plans for Wart beyond mere squiredom. PL: He starts by trying to give Wart an education (whatever that is), PL: believing that once one has an education, one can go anywhere. PL: Needless to say, it doesn't quite work out that way. BY: Tim Pickett <quetzal@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au> GE: Animated Childrens ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: THX 1138 PL: George Lucas adapted this, his first film, from a short he made at PL: University. THX 1138, LUH 3417, and SEN 5241 attempt to escape from PL: a futuristic society located beneath the surface of the Earth. The PL: society has outlawed sex, with drugs used to control the people. PL: THX 1138 stops taking the drugs, and gets LUH 3417 pregnant. They PL: are both thrown in jail where they meet SEN 5241 and start to plan their PL: escape. BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Take Two PL: On her deathbed a woman tells her son that 30 years before she had been PL: a surrogate mother for a millionaire, and that he is that baby's identical PL: twin. He goes to Los Angeles to try and get some of the inheritance, but PL: his brother refuses to even talk to him. So he gets an apartment across PL: from his brother and begins a stakeout as he writes a tabloid story about PL: it, and begins to fall in love from a distance with his brother's wife. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Thriller Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Takin' It All Off PL: A school for strippers is in financial trouble. They audition for The Big PL: Strip Joint Owner, and he's pleased, except that the new girl can't make PL: herself take her clothes off. After hypnosis, she's ready, willing, and PL: able, but always strips when she hears the Big Theme Song, and threatens PL: the future of the strip school when she wants to become unhypnotized. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy Dance Erotic ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Taking Care of Business PL: Jimmy Dworski is a criminal serving the last 48 hours of a jail sentence. PL: He wins a couple of baseball tickets by calling a radio quiz show. With PL: help of other inmates, he escapes to go watch the game. When by chance he PL: finds the filofax of executive Spencer Barns who looses it while traveling PL: on a business weekend. Jimmy finds cash, credit cards and the key to a big PL: mansion. He jumps on the opportunity and starts posing as Barns. While the PL: real Barnes is trying to find his filofax he gets in all sorts of trouble. PL: How will things turn out when the two finally meet? BY: Sami Al-Taher <smmat@ukc.ac.uk> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Taking of Pelham One Two Three, The PL: A tense situation develops in a New York subway when a group of PL: unidentified gunmen hold the passengers of a subway car hostage PL: in exchange for money. A veteran detective attempts to track PL: down the identities of the gunmen in this offbeat crime film. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Crime ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Tales from the Darkside: The Movie PL: This is really three shorter movies, bound together by a fourth tale PL: in which the other three stories are read. The first segment features PL: an animated mummy stalking selected student victims; the second tale PL: tells the story of a "cat from hell" who cannot be killed and leaves a PL: trail of victims behind it; the third story is about a man who PL: witnesses a bizarre killing and promises never to tell what he saw and PL: the "in-between" bit is the story of a woman preparing to cook her PL: newspaper boy for supper. BY: Goth <brooks@odie.ee.wits.ac.za> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Tales of Terror PL: Three stories adapted from the work of Edgar Allen Poe. A man and PL: his daughter are reunited, but the blame for the death of his wife PL: hangs over them, unresolved. A derelict challenges the local PL: wine-tasting champion to a competition, but finds the man's attention PL: to his wife worthy of more dramatic action. A man dying and in PL: great pain agrees to be hypnotised at the moment of death, with PL: unexpected consequences. BY: David Carroll <davidc@atom.ansto.gov.au> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Talk Radio PL: An acerbic radio talk show host based in Dallas starts what could be PL: an important few days when he discovers that his controversial late PL: night show is about to be "picked up" by a nationwide network of radio PL: stations. PL: However, all is not perfect for him, because on top of troubles with PL: his love life and fears that the management of the network will try to PL: alter the content of his show he has to cope with a neo-nazi group who PL: have been angered by his forthright opinions. BY: Mark Thompson <mrt@oasis.icl.co.uk> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Tall Guy, The PL: Dexter King plays straight man to unpleasant comedian Ron Anderson. He falls PL: in love with Kate, a pretty nurse he meets when he is receiving injections PL: for hay fever. When Anderson fires him, he acquires the title role in a PL: musical stage version of "The Elephant Man". Kate dumps him when she PL: suspects he is having an affair with a fellow cast member, and he must win PL: her back. BY: Alexander Lum <aj_lum@postoffice.utas.edu.au> GE: Comedy Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Taming of the Shrew, The (1967) PL: Burton and Taylor play Petrucio and Catherine in a fairly rigorous PL: attempt to stay with both the Shakespearian language and script, while PL: still adding a three dimensional, outdoor flavor to this screen PL: adaptation. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Tank PL: Zack is a Master Sargent assigned to his last post before leaving the PL: service. He is a colorful character and even on has his own WWII PL: vintage tank that is used for parades and such. After he stops a deputy PL: from beating a call girl, he finds that he is a marked man in town. The PL: sheriff arrests his son on a trumped up drug charge. When all else PL: fails, Zack uses his tank to even the odds. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: War ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Taras Bulba PL: A "Romeo and Juliet" story that takes place in 18th c. PL: Ukraine. Taras (Yul Brenner) has settled into comfortable PL: farm life after years of adventures and swashbuckling with PL: his cossack companions. Though not wealthy, he is able to PL: send his son Andrei (Tony Curtis) away to a Polish school. PL: At this time the Poles are overlords of Ukraine and the PL: origin of the cossacks is struggle of the Ukrainian serfs to PL: free themselves and their land of Polish domination. Toward PL: this end Taras hopes that his son will be educated in the PL: ways of the enemy. Instead, Andrei falls in love with the PL: daughter of a Polish nobleman, setting the stage for a clash PL: between love, family honor, and a struggle for national PL: identity. BY: <anonymous> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Tatie Danielle PL: Auntie Danielle, supposedly in ailing health but in reality just a nasty PL: old bitch, lives with a paid housekeeper who she regularly abuses. When PL: the housekeeper dies falling off a ladder, Danielle moves in with her PL: great-nephew and his family. She continues using her nastiness to PL: manipulate everyone into doing things her way until the family goes on PL: vacation to Greece. The young housekeeper they hire to watch after her PL: knows what Auntie is doing, and deals with her accordingly, and they begin PL: forming respect for each other. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Taxi Driver PL: Travis Bickle is a Vietnam veteran who spends his nights driving a New PL: York taxi cab. The violent life he sees through his windscreen turns PL: him into a loner, and after a long nights driving he spends his days PL: alone in his room or in porno movie houses. Then he meets Iris, a PL: 14 year old prostitute. Travis decides to "save" Iris from her PL: situation, and turns himself into a one man killing machine to PL: "put the world to rights". BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Teacher's Pet PL: James Gannon, the hardboiled city editor of a newspaper, believes PL: that the only way to learn the business is by way of the School of PL: Hard Knocks, and has a very low regard for college-taught journalism, PL: so he's not pleased when his managing editor orders him to help Erica PL: Stone, a college professor, with her journalism class. Finding himself PL: attracted to her, he pretends to be a student in her class, not PL: revealing he's Gannon, whom she despises. As they bob and weave around PL: their mutual growing attraction, they both begin to gain respect for each PL: other's approaches to reporting news, but how will Erica react when she PL: finds out who he really is? BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Teen Wolf PL: Teen discovers that puberty for him means he turns into PL: a werewolf. One of the beneficial side effects is that PL: it also turns him into a top-notch basketball player. PL: But will his notoriety cost him his friends and can PL: he find true love? BY: Ray Hamel <hamel@primate.wisc.edu> GE: Comedy Science Fiction ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Temp, The PL: A cookie company takeover has employees scrambling to make a case for PL: continued employment. An executive's administrative assistant takes PL: paternity leave, and he gets a temp who is too good to be true, doing PL: tasks at a fast pace and doing quite a bit of creative work for the PL: project. The executive starts noticing that all the obstacles to his PL: climb up the corporate ladder are disappearing, including the death of PL: some of his rivals. When his regular admin returns to work, his temp, PL: who has made it clear that she wishes to stay with him, begins her PL: own accelerated climb up the ladder, and he begins wondering if she was PL: responsible for the removal of the obstacles. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Thriller Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Ten Commandments, The (1956) PL: Moses leads the slaves from the tyranny of the Egyptian pharaoh PL: and into the desert where he is later given the law of God. PL: Once the pharaoh's chief architect, Moses receives the PL: attentions of the Queen until he rebels and is cast into exile. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Religious ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Tenebrae PL: With Argento's trademark visual style, linked with one of his more coherent PL: plots, Tenebrae follows a writer who arrives to Rome only to find somebody PL: is using his novels as the inspiration (and, occasionally, the means) PL: of committing murder. As the death toll mounts the police are ever PL: baffled, and the writer becomes more closely linked to the case PL: than is comfortable. BY: David Carroll <davidc@atom.ansto.gov.au> GE: Horror Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Tequila Sunrise PL: Mac Mckussic is an unlikely drug dealer who wants to go straight. His old PL: and best friend Nick Frescia is now a cop who is assigned to investigate PL: and bring him to justice. Mac is very attracted to Jo Ann, the owner of a PL: stylish restaurant. Nick gets close to Jo Ann attempting to know more PL: about Mac's drug dealing plans and his connections with the Mexican dealer PL: Carlos, who the police believe is coming to town to meet with him. Nick PL: also falls for Jo Ann's charms and his friendship with Mac is in danger. BY: Sami Al-Taher <smmat@ukc.ac.uk> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Terminator 2: Judgment Day PL: Nearly 10 years have passed since Sarah Connor was targeted for PL: termination by a cyborg from the future. Now her son, John, the PL: future leader of the resistance, is the target for a newer, more deadly PL: terminator. Once again, the resistance has managed to send a protector PL: back to attempt to save John and his mother Sarah. BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> PL: Sequel to Terminator. Skynet, the 21st century computer waging a losing PL: war on humans sends a second terminator back in time to destroy the leader PL: of the human resistance while he is still a boy. His mother is the only PL: one who knows of the existence of the Terminators, human-like robots that PL: exist only to kill and are nearly indestructible, and Sarah, the boy's PL: mother is currently in a state mental hospital because of her 'delusions'. PL: A second protector is sent back to the past by the Human resistance to PL: protect John Connor, their future leader, at all costs. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Sci-fi Action Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Terminator, The PL: A cyborg is sent from the future on a deadly mission. He has to kill PL: Sarah Connor, a young woman whose life will have a great significance in PL: years to come. Sarah has only one protector - Kyle Reese - also sent PL: from the future. The Terminator uses his exceptional intelligence PL: and strength to find Sarah, but is there any way to stop the seemingly PL: indestructible cyborg ? BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> PL: In the future, Skynet, a computer system fights a losing war against the PL: humans who built it and who it nearly exterminated. Just before being PL: destroyed, Skynet sends a Terminator back in time to kill Sarah, the PL: mother to be of John Connor, the Leader of the human resistance. PL: The terminator can pass for human, is nearly indestructible, and has only PL: one mission, killing Sarah Connor. One soldier is sent back to protect PL: her from the killing machine. He must find Sarah before the Terminator PL: can carry out it's mission. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Sci-fi Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Terms of Endearment PL: Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. PL: Beginning with Emma's marriage, Aurora shows how difficult and loving she PL: can be. The movie covers several years of their lives as each finds PL: different reasons to go on living and find joy. Aurora's interludes with PL: Garrett Breedlove, retired astronaut and next door neighbor are quite PL: striking. In the end, different people show their love in very different PL: ways. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Drama Comedy Tear-jerker ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Terror At The Opera PL: A young opera singer (Betty) gets her big chance when the previous PL: star of a production of Verdi's Macbeth is run over by a car. Convinced PL: the opera is bad luck she accepts, and becomes the target (in Argento's PL: unmistakable style) of a psychopath - a man she has been dreaming of PL: since childhood. BY: David Carroll <davidc@atom.ansto.gov.au> GE: Crime Horror Opera ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Terror Within, The PL: It's the post-apocalypse, and the world has been changed by "the PL: accident," a chemical warfare experiment gone awry. At an isolated PL: subterranean complex, a group of people survives because they were able PL: to get the antidote for the illness. They rescue a surface survivor PL: from the gargoyles, who unfortunately had time to impregnate her, and PL: when the "baby" is born and escapes into the ventilation ducts, they PL: begin experiencing an attrition problem. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Sci-Fi Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Terror of Mechagodzilla PL: Aliens rebuild Mechagodzilla with the help of a demented scientist who PL: has discovered a creature called Titanosaurus, which they intend to PL: team up to defeat Godzilla. This was the last Godzilla movie made until PL: 1985. BY: Todd A. Bobenrieth <TAB146@PSUVM.EDU> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Tetsuo: The Iron Man PL: A man is experiencing problems with metal showing up and protruding from PL: his body. Apparently he got a piece of metal in his head when he was hit PL: by a car. He must face the antagonist which lives inside him as he PL: continues to sprout more and more metal. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Sci-Fi Surreal Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, The PL: Daddy, Leatherface and his brother are back in this sequel. This time PL: they have taken up residence in an ghoulishly decorated underground cave. BY: Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The PL: Upon hearing that vandals have desecrated a graveyard where her PL: grandfather is buried, Sally recruits her boyfriend Jerry, her brother PL: Franklyn, and her friends Pam and Kirk to investigate. On a side trip PL: to the grandfather's deserted farm, the travelers pick up a slimy PL: hitchhiker who cuts himself and slashes Franklyn. After arriving at the PL: farm, Pam and Kirk search for an old swimming hole--Kirk hears a PL: generator and believes he can find some gasoline. He enters the house PL: hoping to find the owner. Unfortunately, this is the home of the PL: hitchhiker, as well as Leatherface, who has some surprises for the PL: travelers consisting of sledgehammers, chainsaws, and assorted cutlery. BY: Rick Gregory <rag.apa@email.apa.org> PL: Two couples and a wheelchair-bound man take a drive through the back PL: roads of western Texas. There they are preyed upon by a family of PL: serial killers, who are intent on eating them. "Shut up! You're just PL: the cook!" Lots of close-ups of screaming women. BY: Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: That Night PL: Kathryn, a little girl that doesn't seem to relate to kids her own PL: age, wants to be just like Sheryl O' Connor, the teenager next door. PL: She even spies on Sheryl at night through her bedroom window. Sheryl PL: meets the local hunk, Rick that works at the bowling alley. Sheryl's PL: father, who is in the service dies in duty, and Sheryl finds a friend PL: in Rick, whos ends up being her lover. Kathryn wants to hang out with PL: Rick and Sheryl on their dates. The 3 of them end up going through PL: many good times and bad times together. BY: A K 4 7 <ak47@cyberverse.com> GE: Drama Love-Story ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Them! (1954) PL: Nuclear tests in the desert result in the growth of gigantic PL: mutant ants who menace cities in the American south-west as PL: a team of investigators and the army search for a way to PL: control their spread in this Cold War-era monster film. PL: The archetypal sci-fi film of its time, it combines now PL: anachronistic attitudes and early special effects for a PL: memorable B-movie experience, whose tradition is obviously PL: carried on in James Cameron's _Aliens_. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Sci-Fi Thriller War ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: They Call Me Bruce? PL: A Korean man's resemblance to the legendary martial arts star PL: Bruce Lee proves to be a mixed blessing when he stumbles onto PL: the activities of the Mob. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: They Call Me Trinity PL: A drifter comes to town where his brother is sheriff. His brother is PL: actually a robber who broke the real sheriff's leg and left him for PL: dead, and became sheriff in order to hide out. They team up against PL: the local land baron who is trying to get rid of the Mormon settlers PL: in a valley he wishes to own. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Western Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: They Came from Within PL: A scientist living in an apartment complex kills a girl and uses acid to PL: destroy her internal organs and then kills himself. While investigating, PL: a doctor discovers that the scientist was doing experiments on the use of PL: genetically engineered parasites as organ transplants. Soon other people PL: in the complex begin showing signs of carrying the parasites, spreading PL: the things through wanton orgiastic abandon, and the complex begins PL: suffering an attrition problem. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: They Died with Their Boots On PL: This is the story of General Custer from the time he enters West Point PL: military academy, through the American Civil War, and finally to his PL: death at Little Big Horn. The battle against Chief Crazy Horse is PL: portrayed as a crooked deal between politicians and a corporation which PL: wants the land Custer gave to the Indians. BY: Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com> GE: Western Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Thing From Another World, The PL: Scientist at an Arctic research station discover a spacecraft buried in PL: the ice. Upon closer examination, they discover the frozen pilot. All PL: hell breaks loose when they take him back to thier station and he is PL: accidentally thawed out! BY: KC Hunt <khunt@eng.morgan.edu> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Thing, The (1982) PL: An American scientific expedition to the frozen wastes of the Arctic PL: is interrupted by a group of seemingly mad Norwegians pursuing and PL: shooting a husky. The helicopter pursuing the dog crash-lands leaving PL: no explanation for the chase. During the night, the dog mutates and PL: attacks other dogs in the cage and members of the team that PL: investigate. The team soon realises that an alien life-form with the PL: ability to take over other bodies is on the loose and they don't know PL: who may already have been taken over. BY: Goth <brooks@odie.ee.wits.ac.za> GE: Horror Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Third Man, The PL: An out of work pulp fiction novelist, Holly Martins, arrives in a PL: post war Vienna divided into sectors by the victorious allies, and PL: where a shortage of supplies has lead to a flourishing black market. He PL: arrives at the invitation of an ex-school friend, Harry Lime, who has PL: offered him a job, only to discover that Lime has recently died in a PL: peculiar traffic accident. PL: From talking to Lime's friends and associates Martins soon notices PL: that some of the stories are inconsistent, and determines to discover PL: what really happened to Harry Lime. BY: Mark Thompson <mrt@oasis.icl.co.uk> PL: An American pulp writer arrives in post-WWII Vienna only to PL: find that the friend who waited for him is killed under PL: mysterious circumstances. The ensuing mystery entangles him PL: in his friend's involvement in the black market, with the PL: multinational police, and with his Czech girlfriend. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Mystery Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo PL: The amazingly detailed true story of "The Doolittle Raid" based on the PL: novel of the same name. Stunned by Pearl Harbor and a string of defeats, PL: America needed a victory - badly. To that end, Colonel Jimmy Dolittle, a PL: former air racer and stunt pilot, devises a plan for a daring raid on the PL: heart of Japan itself. To do this, he must train army bomber pilots to PL: to something no one ever dreamed possible - launch 16 fully load bombers PL: from an aircraft carrier! This movie is remarkable in it's accuracy and PL: even uses film footage from the actual raid. BY: KC Hunt <khunt@eng.morgan.edu> GE: Historical War Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: This Boy's Life PL: In 1957, a son and mother flee the East and an abusive boyfriend to PL: find a new life, and end up in Seattle, where the mother meets a polite PL: garage mechanic. The boy continually gets into trouble by hanging out PL: with the wrong crowd. The mom marries the mechanic, but they soon find PL: out that he's an abusive and unreasoning alcoholic, and they struggle to PL: maintain hope in an impossible situation as the boy grows up with plans PL: to escape the small town by any means possible. Based on a true story PL: by Tobias Wolff. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: This Is Spinal Tap PL: Marti DeBergi is a film-maker who decides to make a documentary, a PL: rockumentary actually, about the world's loudest band, the British PL: heavy metal group Spinal Tap. The movie is in fact a biting satire and PL: spoof of the whole rock and roll scene that passes itself off as a real PL: documentary of a real band. Hilarious behind-the-scenes footage is PL: combined with faux-concert clips to breath life into the imaginary group. BY: Greg Bole <bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> GE: Comedy Spoof ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Thomas Crown Affair, The PL: Four men pull off a daring daytime robbery at a bank, dump the money PL: in a trash can and go their separate ways. Thomas Crown, a PL: successful, wealthy businessman pulls up in his Rolls and collects it. PL: Vickie Anderson, an independent insurance investigator is called in PL: to recover the huge haul. She begins to examine the people who knew PL: enough about the bank to have pulled the robbery and discovers Crown. PL: She begins a tight watch on his every move and begins seeing him PL: socially. How does the planner of the perfect crime react to pressure? BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Mystery Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Thoroughly Modern Millie PL: Millie comes to town in the roaring twenties to encounter PL: flappers, sexuality and white slavers. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Musical Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines PL: In the early days of the 20th century, a British Newspaper offers a prize PL: for the winner of a cross channel air race which brings flyers from all PL: over the world. There are many sub-plots as the flyers jockey for position PL: and the affections of various women. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Farce Adventure Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Those were the Days (1933) PL: A farce based on Arthur Wing Pinero's play 'The Magistrate' in which PL: the son (John Mills) of a stern magistrate (Will Hay) visits a music hall PL: against the wishes of his father. In true farcical style, the magistrate PL: too ends up at the music hall, and before long all the characters are PL: trying not to avoid each other... Mainly notable (a) because of its PL: depiction of the music hall as seen by a generation which knew it PL: intimately (b) because of its use of music hall acts of the time and PL: (c) because it gave Will Hay his first film role. BY: D.Giddings <sdjg0@uk.ac.rl.ib> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Three Amigos! PL: Three out of work silent movie actors are accidentally drawn PL: to a Mexican village that is being harassed by a gang of PL: outlaws. The three, 'Ned', 'Lucky Day' and 'Dusty Bottoms' PL: play 'Lone Ranger' types in their movies, but must play PL: their parts for real now. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Western ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Three Colors: White PL: This is the second of the "Three Colors" trilogy "Red" "White" and "Blue"; PL: the colors symbolizing liberty, equality and fraternity. White, therefore, PL: was written around the destructive dynamics of a relationship based upon PL: great inequality. Karol is a Polish hairdresser working in France. He has PL: a beautiful wife, Dominique, who he loves to obsession, and who is in the PL: process of divorcing him for his inability to "consummate the marriage". PL: Karol looses all of his earthly possessions and is literally driven out of PL: France by his estranged wife. The remainder of the movie has Karol fight- PL: ing to resolve his deep passion for Dominique with his own helplessness. PL: French and Polish with English subtitles. BY: Tilo Reber <treber@page.mmc.com> PL: Karol (Polish) marries Domininque (French) and moves to Paris. PL: The marriage breaks down and Dominique divorces Karol, forcing PL: him into the life of a metro beggar and eventually back to PL: Poland. However he never forgets Dominique and while building PL: a new life for himself in Warsaw he begins to plot... BY: Anonymous GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Three Days of the Condor PL: A mild mannered CIA researcher, paid to read books, returns from lunch PL: to find all of his co-workers assassinated. "Condor" must find out who PL: did this and get in from the cold before the hitmen get him. BY: Mike CO <mileco@netcom.com> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Three Musketeers, The (1993) PL: A Disney-ized retelling of Dumas' classic swashbuckling story PL: of three swordsmen plus one of the disbanded French king's PL: guard who seek to save their King from the scheming of the PL: Cardinal Richelieu. Jokes and stunts are the expected fare in PL: this light-hearted and jaunty adventure. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Adventure Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Three of Hearts PL: After her female lover leaves her, a nurse hires a male escort to seduce PL: the lover and then break her heart so she will return. As the escort PL: begins to win her over, however, he begins to fall in love and questions PL: his task and the direction of his life. Meanwhile, an acquaintance has PL: gotten out of prison and seeks to put a hurt on the escort, blaming him PL: for his prison sentence. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Three on a Meathook PL: Four girls go on a romping weekend at a lake, and have car problems on the PL: way home. A nice local boy takes them back to his farm, where he lives PL: with his father. Something ghastly happens, but the father helps his son PL: as he has in the past. When the boy meets a girl and begins falling in PL: love, the father worries about a repeat performance. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Throw Momma from the Train PL: Two men have someone they would dearly love dead; One his ex-wife who is PL: making his life miserable, the other his domineering, nasty mother. What PL: could be simpler than exchanging murders to avoid any possible complicity. PL: Momma turns out to be a hard nut to crack, not to mention the guilt. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Thunderball PL: SPECTRE hatches its most audacious plot to date when its agents hijack a PL: British Vulcan bomber armed with two atomic bombs and hold NATO to ransom PL: for the sum of #100,000,000. The British send all their "00" agents, PL: including James Bond, to recover the warheads before SPECTRE carries out PL: its threat to detonate the devices on the UK and US mainlands. BY: Dave Jenkins <david.jenkins@smallworld.co.uk> GE: Spy Action Bond ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Thunderheart PL: An FBI man with Sioux background is sent to a reservation to help with a PL: murder investigation, where he has to come to terms with his heritage. PL: Slowly he rejects the intimidating tactics of his fellow FBI agents, who PL: are not so interested in solving the crime as covering up an incriminating PL: situation with the locals, and as he becomes more tuned to his heritage, PL: the locals begin trusting him. Based on actual Reservation occurrences PL: of the '70s. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> PL: There has been a series of mysterious homicides on a Sioux indian PL: reservation in the Badlands of South Dakota. The investigation of PL: homicides on Native American territory is within Federal PL: jurisdiction, but the FBI is finding it difficult to gather PL: information from the native Sioux. Ray Levoi, a promising but PL: inexperienced field agent who happens to be one-quarter Sioux, PL: is called in to assist in the investigation. As he probes deeper PL: into the events on the reservation, he is torn between his duty to PL: the FBI and his awakening sense of duty to the Sioux nation. BY: Cal Lott <cal.lott@gsb.uchicago.edu> GE: Mystery Thriller Crime ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Time After Time (1979) PL: H.G. Wells has just invented a time machine but hasn't tried it out yet. PL: When one of his friend's is found to be Jack the Ripper, Jack makes his PL: escape using the time machine. Herbert follows Jack into the late 1970s PL: where he meets Amy, a bank clerk, who teaches Herbert about life in 70s PL: while they pursue Jack, who is enjoying the more violent society in which PL: he continues his murderous activities. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Sci-Fi Time-Travel Murder ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Time Bandits PL: Kevin, an imaginative child, goes on a time-travelling adventure PL: with a bunch of treasure-hunting dwarves, who have "borrowed" a PL: map to the Universe's time holes from The Supreme Being. BY: Stewart M. Clamen <clamen@cs.cmu.edu> PL: A young boy's wardrobe contains a time hole. Through this hole PL: an assortment of short people (i.e. dwarfs) come while escaping PL: from their master, the supreme being. They take Kevin with them PL: on their adventures through time from Napoleonic times to the PL: Middle Ages to the early 1900s, to the time of Legends and PL: the Fortress of Ultimate Darkness where they confront Evil. BY: Zaphod <aaa@scs.leeds.ac.uk> GE: Fantasy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Time Machine, The (1960) PL: From the book by H.G. Wells, a scientist and tinkerer builds a time machine PL: and uses it to explore the distant future where there are two races, a PL: mild gentle race, and a cannibalistic one living underground. His machine PL: is stolen by the underground race and he must risk capture himself (and PL: being eaten) to return to his own time. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Sci-Fi Adventure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Timestalkers (TV) PL: Scott, a history professor, becomes involved with two time travellers PL: from the year 2586 after making a discovery in an old photograph. PL: One of the time travellers is determined to change the course of PL: history, the other to stop him. Scott's fascination with the Old West PL: comes in handy when they all return to 1886. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Sci-Fi Time-travel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: To Be or Not to Be (1983) PL: A bad polish actor is just trying to make a living when what should intrude PL: but World War II in the form of an invasion. His wife has the habit of PL: entertaining young polish officers while he's on stage which is also a PL: source of depression to him. When one of her officers comes back on a PL: Secret Mission, the actor takes charge and comes up with a plan for them to PL: escape. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: To Catch a Thief PL: A series of ingenious jewelry robberies takes place on the French Riviera. PL: The police suspect John Robbie - an expert thief who was known as "The Cat" PL: before he retired from crime. Robbie enlists the help of an insurance man PL: to guess where the real thief will strike next. He befriends wealthy PL: widow Jessie Stevens and her attractive daughter Frances. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Thriller Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: To Have and Have Not PL: Harry Morgan and his alcoholic sidekick, Eddie, are based on the PL: island of Martinique and crew a boat available for hire. However, since PL: the second world war is happening around them business is not what it PL: could be and after a customer who owes them a large sum fails to pay PL: they are forced against their better judgement to violate their PL: preferred neutrality and to take a job for the resistance transporting a PL: fugitive on the run from the Nazis to Martinique. PL: Through all this runs the stormy relationship between Morgan and PL: Marie "Slim" Browning, a resistance sympathizer and the sassy singer in PL: the club where Morgan spends most of his days. BY: Mark Thompson <mrt@oasis.icl.co.uk> GE: Thriller Noir War ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: To Kill a Mockingbird PL: Based on Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize winning book of 1960. Atticus PL: Finch is a lawyer in a racially divided Alabama town in the 1930s. PL: He agrees to defend a young black man who is accused of raping a white PL: woman. Many of the townspeople try to get Atticus to pull out of the PL: trial, but he decides to go ahead. How will the trial turn out - and PL: will it change any of the racial tension in the town ? BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Tobruk PL: British commandos, German Jews and an American demolition's PL: expert must contend with the desert, German patrols and a PL: traitor while on a mission to blow up Rommel's fuel supplies PL: in preparation of an amphibious landing on the North African PL: coast. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: War ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Tokyo Decadence PL: A submissive hooker goes about her trade, suffering abuse at the hands PL: of Japanese salarymen and Yakuza types. She's unhappy about her work, PL: and is apparently trying to find some sort of appeasement for the fact PL: that her lover has married. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Tom Horn PL: A renowned former army scout is hired by ranchers to hunt down PL: rustlers but finds himself on trial for the murder of a boy PL: when he carries out his job too well. Tom Horn finds that the PL: simple skills he knows are of no help in dealing with the PL: ambitions of ranchers and corrupt officials as progress PL: marches over him and the old west. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Western ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Tomb, The PL: A tomb robber steals artifacts from an unmarked tomb in Egypt and sells PL: them to different archeologists in America. This displeases the PL: immortal woman whose tomb has been desecrated, so she follows the PL: artifacts to America, where she busies herself extracting revenge for PL: the theft. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Occult Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Tombstone PL: After success cleaning up Dodge City, Wyatt Earp moves to Tombstone, PL: Arizona, and wishes to get rich in obscurity. He meets his brothers PL: there, as well as his old friend Doc Holliday. A band of outlaws that PL: call themselves The Cowboys are causing problems in the region with PL: various acts of random violence, and inevitably come into confrontation PL: with Holliday and the Earps, which leads to a shoot-out at the OK Corral. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> PL: Former lawman Wyatt Earp, his two brothers and friend Doc PL: Holliday settle in the town of Tombstone in order to lead a PL: profitable and peaceful life but soon come into conflict with PL: the Cowboys, a band of outlaws led by the Clanton brothers. PL: This retelling of the Earp/Clanton feud also follows up the PL: gunfight at the O.K. Corral with a look at the bloody PL: consequences of the showdown. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Western ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Tongs PL: A Chinese immigrant to America is sucked up into the Chinese PL: underworld when he finds greater acceptance in the arms of PL: a small gang. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Too Late the Hero PL: A WWII film set on a Pacific island. Japanese and allied forces PL: occupy different parts of the island. When a group of British soldiers PL: are sent on a mission behind enemy lines, things don't go exactly PL: to plan. This film differs in that some of the 'heros' are very PL: reluctant, but they come good when they are pursued by the Japanese PL: who are determined to prevent them returning to base. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: War Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Tootsie PL: Michael Dorsey is an actor, but he is having trouble finding any work. PL: He transforms himself into Dorothy Michaels, and he gets a part as a PL: mature woman in a New York soap opera. Dorothy's success as a woman PL: surprises even Michael. BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Comedy Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Top Gun (1986) PL: Maverick and Goose are two naval fighter pilots who have shown to be the PL: very best among their squadron. They are selected to go to the U.S. navy PL: fighter weapons school known as Top Gun. There they will be trained to be PL: even better and must compete against the best qualified pilots in the world PL: Maverick falls in love with their instructor, Charlie whos interest in him PL: started when she wanted to know more about his earlier experience with a PL: Russian Mig. BY: Sami Al-Taher <smmat@ukc.ac.uk> GE: Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Top Secret! (1984) PL: When East Germany can't get Leonard Bernstein for their cultural festival PL: (which is to draw attention away from the nefarious plan to rule the world PL: they have put together) they settle for Nick Rivers, renowned singer of PL: Skeet Surfin' and a host of others. Every possible joke, some done PL: simultaneously, is added to the mix including an underwater saloon with PL: a western style fight, meeting Deja Vu, leader of the French resistance, PL: ("Haven't we met before, Deja?" "I don't think so.") and a cow with boots. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Topaz PL: A high ranking Russian official defects to the United States, where he is PL: interviewed by US agent Michael Nordstrom. The defector reveals that a PL: French spy ring codenamed "Topaz" has been passing NATO secrets to the PL: Russians. Michael calls in his French friend and counterpart Andre PL: Devereaux to expose the spies. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Thriller Spy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Torn Curtain PL: U.S. rocket scientist Michael Armstrong and his assistant/fiancee Sarah PL: Sherman are attending a convention in Norway. Michael is acting very PL: suspiciously and Sarah follows him to East Germany when he apparently tries PL: to defect to the other side. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Thriller Spy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Torso PL: Someone is strangling coeds in Rome. The only clue is that the killer PL: owns a red and black scarf, and police are stumped. American exchange PL: student Jane and her friends decide to take a break from classes by going PL: up to Danielle's uncle's villa in the country. Unfortunately the killer PL: decides to follow, and the women begin suffering a rapid attrition problem. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism, The PL: In the Olden Tymes, Count Regula is drawn and quartered for killing PL: twelve virgins in his dungeon torture chamber. Thirty-five years later, PL: he comes back to seek revenge on the daughter of his intended thirteenth PL: victim and the son of his prosecutor in order to attain immortal life. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Total Recall PL: What is reality when you can't trust your memory. Arnold Schwartzenegger PL: is an Earthbound construction worker who keeps having dreams about Mars. PL: A trip to a false memory transplant service for an imaginary trip to Mars PL: goes terribly wrong and another personality surfaces. When his old self PL: returns, he finds groups of his friends and several strangers seem to have PL: orders to kill him. He finds records his other self left him that tell PL: him to get to Mars to join up with the underground. The reality of the PL: situation is constantly in question. Who is he? Which personality is PL: correct? Which version of reality is true? BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> PL: Douglas Quaid is haunted by the same dream every night about a journey PL: to Mars. He hopes to find out more about this dream and buys a holiday PL: at Rekall Inc. where they sell implanted memories. But something goes PL: wrong with the memory implantation and he remembers being a secret PL: agent fighting against the evil Mars administrator Coohagen. Now the PL: story really begins and its a rollercoaster ride until the massive PL: end of the movie. BY: Harald Mayr <marvin@augusta.de> GE: Sci-Fi Fantasy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Touch of Evil PL: A Mexican government investigator and his young American wife PL: put their honeymoon on hold in an American border town when PL: they become embroiled in a frame-up planned by the town's chief PL: investigator. Featuring one of the longest continuous shots in PL: Hollywood. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Crime Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Tower, The (TV) PL: Before Tony can get to work on the first day of his new job, he manages PL: to lock himself out of his appartment. To get back in he uses the his new PL: security pass, which resembles a credit card. The card becomes damaged PL: when it is used to open his front door, and then causes mayhem at work PL: when the main computer fails to identify Tony as the new employee. The PL: high-tech building is run by computer, which interprets its programming PL: as meaning; "destroy all threats". The BUILDING is out to get Tony. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Sci-Fi Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Towering Inferno, The PL: Doug Roberts, Architect, returns from a long vacation to find work nearly PL: completed on his skyscraper. He goes to the party that night concerned PL: he's found that his wiring specifications have not been followed and that PL: the building continues to develope short circuits. When the fire begins PL: Michael O'Halleran is the chief on duty as a series of daring rescues PL: punctuate the terror of a building too tall to have a fire successfully PL: fought from the ground burns. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Drama Disaster ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Town Like Alice, A PL: In 1939, The advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory PL: very quickly. The men are sent off to labor camps, but they have no plan PL: on what to do with the women and children of the British. A group is sent PL: on a forced march from place to place searching for a Women's Camp. PL: Told from the point of view of one of the women, she meets an Australian PL: soldier who sneaks food for them from his labor camp. After the war, she PL: goes to Australia to see the town he was from and settles there, finding PL: a different problem there from being a woman. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Toy Soldiers (1991) PL: Billy Tepper is the leader of a group of rebellious guys at The Regis PL: School. He has already been expelled from three prominent private PL: schools. His best friend, Joey Trotta, is the son of the Head of the New PL: York Mafia; Billy, all their friends and many other kids at the school PL: have equally influential and prominent, if more law-abiding, parents. PL: When Luis Cali's father is put in jail, he heads for the Regis school to PL: put theson of the judge in charge of the case under hostage, only to find PL: he has been removed. However, once he realises who the parents of the PL: rest are, he decides the entire student body of the Regis school would be PL: an even better bargaining chip. BY: Liz Jordan <c9310494@alinga.newcastle.edu.au> GE: Action Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Traces of Red PL: Jack, a Palm Beach detective, becomes involved in a case of multiple PL: murders. All the women can be linked to Jack in some way. Jack and PL: his partner have no leads, but numerous suspects. The murders continue, PL: along with anonymous letters from the killer. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Thriller Murder ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Track 29 PL: A doctor's wife tires of his obsession with model trains, and spends her PL: days wondering about the son she gave up for adoption at birth. While PL: eating at a roadside cafe, she encounters a British hitchhiker, who turns PL: out to be her son. They spend time together trying to find a bond. The PL: son begins to hate the husband, and the wife begins worrying about the PL: safety of her husband and his train set. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama Surreal Mystery ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Trading Places PL: Mortimer and Randolph Duke are commodity brokers who enjoy a little PL: wager now and then. For the latest bet, Randolph believes they can PL: take a common criminal and make him a successful businessman in the PL: company. The criminal, Billy Ray, is to be given the job and home PL: of Louis, who in turn is set up for crimes he didn't commit, to see if PL: he resorts to crime once he's lost his rich environment and friends. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Role-reversal ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Trancers III PL: A time traveling cop, Jack Deth, from the future is taken back to PL: the past to be given the task of destroying the Trancer program before PL: it has a chance to get out of control, sending the world into a state of PL: chaos and war. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Sci-Fi Time-Travel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Trauma (1993) PL: An anorexic young woman escapes from a psychiatric clinic and meets a young PL: man who wants to help. She is caught and returned to her parents, who are PL: soon beheaded by a garrotting stranger making the rounds about town, PL: apparently striking only when it rains. The orphaned young woman and her PL: new lover launch their own investigation and are endangered when a link is PL: discovered with the victims and a particular operation performed years PL: before. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The PL: Dobbs and Curtin meet up in Mexico, and go to work for a contractor, PL: MacClane, who takes them away to remote sight and tells them they will PL: be paid when the job is finished. When they are finished, they return PL: to town to find MacClane to get their wages. MacClane gives them a PL: few dollars, and says he'll just go to the bank and pick up the payroll PL: for them. Dobbs and Curtin then meet up with an old prospector, who PL: claims the hills are still full of gold, and if they can get the cash, PL: he'll go with them. They eventually get the cash from MacClane after PL: a little "persuasion", and all three set off for the hills as good PL: friends, but will they return that way ? BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Adventure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Tremors PL: A small town gradually becomes aware of a strange creature which picks off PL: people one by one. But what is this creature, and where is it ?. At the PL: same time, a seismologist is working in the area, she detects _tremors_. PL: The creature lives underground, and can 'pop up' without warning. Trapped PL: in their town, the town-folk have no escape. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Tron PL: Computer Classic, one of the first computer generated movies. A hacker PL: is split into molecules and is transported into a computer. In this PL: computer a mean program called Master Control behaves like a dictator. PL: The hacker, who programmed a number of features of the environment he PL: got into, teams up with a book keeping program and his girl-friend and PL: together they try to replace Master Control with Tron. Tron is an PL: honest safety system. BY: Ivo Kroone <ab2693@triton.heao.hsa.nl> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Trouble Bound PL: Upon getting out of prison, a man who took the rap for some PL: thief buddies gets together with them again, and tells them he's PL: not interested in doing things with them any more. They stick a PL: dead body in his trunk, unbeknownst to him, and he roars off to find PL: his future. Unfortunately, they forgot to get the key they need off PL: the body, so they're chasing him. Meanwhile, a mafia kingpin's daughter PL: is trying to kill the hitman that killed her father, but her grandmother PL: is trying to make peace with the family that hired the hitman, so PL: she and her thugs are trying to stop the daughter. The guy and the PL: daughter get together and experience mayhem on the run from two PL: directions. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Trouble with Harry, The PL: Trouble erupts in a small, quiet New England town when a man's body is PL: found in the woods. The problem is that almost everyone in town thinks that PL: they had something to do with his death. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Black_Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: True Grit (1969) PL: The sudden death of her father sends a young tomboy of a girl on a mission PL: to find justice, and the avenging of her father's death. She recruits PL: a tough old marshall in the person of Rooster Cogburn and with him and a PL: Texas Ranger takes off into the territories and indian country to find PL: her father's killer. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Western Adventure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: True Lies PL: Harry Tasker is the United States' top secret agent - so secret that PL: even his wife doesn't know his occupation; she thinks he is a PL: computer salesman. Misunderstandings commence as a result, PL: complicating the plot and heating up the action as Harry takes on PL: his wife and nuclear terrorists . . . at the same time! BY: Drew Grgich <dgrgich@insightd.com> PL: Harry Tasker leads a double life. At work he is a government agent with PL: a license to do just about anything, while at home he pretends to be PL: a dull computer salesman. He is on the trail of stolen nuclear weapons PL: that are in the hands of fanatic terrorists when something more important PL: comes up. Harry finds his wife is seeing another man because she needs PL: some adventure in her life. Harry decides to give it to her, PL: juggling persuit of terrorists on one hand and an adventure for his wife PL: on the other while showing he can Tango all at once. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> PL: To his wife, Harry is just a salesman, but in reality he's a spy and PL: is involved in a case to stop terrorists from detonating nuclear bombs PL: they've acquired from the former Soviet Union. The salesman side of Harry's PL: life is dull and predictable, and so his wife seeks excitement elsewhere, PL: causing Harry's business and private lives to become connected. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Action Comedy Spy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: True Romance PL: Clarence and Alabama are newlyweds who acquire an unexpected wedding PL: present. Unknown to the blissfully happy couple, ruthless gangsters are PL: on their tail, determined to reclaim their lost property BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Crime Violence Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Tune in Tomorrow... PL: Martin works at the local radio station, which just hired a new PL: scriptwriter with a reputation for great drama, Pedro Carmichael. PL: Martin's aunt Julia, not related by blood, returns home after many PL: years away and Martin falls for her. Once Pedro finds out about this PL: romance, he starts incorporating details of it into the script of his PL: daily drama series. Soon, Martin and Julia are not only hearing about PL: their fictional selves over the radio, but about what they are going PL: to do next. BY: Christine Sai-Halasz <sai@mit.edu> GE: Romance Drama Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Turk 182! PL: Jimmy Lynch is angry because his older brother, who was injured as a PL: result of an off duty fire rescue, is denied benefits by the city. At the PL: same time, Mayor Tyler is embroiled in a political scandal that he denies PL: all previous knowledge of. Jimmy begins painting "Tyler Knew, Turk 182" PL: as an embarrassment to the mayor. The mayor is furious at this grafitti PL: appearing all over the city and orders the police to find the artist. PL: Jimmy's "Turk 182" spraypaints continue to appear. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Turner & Hooch PL: Scott Turner has 3 days left in the local police department before he moves PL: to a bigger city to get some "real" cases, not just misdemeanors. Then PL: Amos Reed is murdered, and Scott Turner sets himself on the case. The PL: closest thing to a witness in the case is Amos Reed's dog, Hooch, which PL: Scott Turner has to take care of if it's going to avoid being "put to PL: sleep". BY: Lars J. Aas <larsa@colargol.edb.tih.no> GE: Police Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Twelve Chairs, The PL: A treasure hunt. An aging ex-nobleman of the Czarist regime has finally PL: adjusted to life under the commisars in Russia. Both he and the local PL: priest find that the family jewels were hidden in a chair, one of a set of PL: twelve. They return separately to Moscow to find the hidden fortune. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Twelve O'Clock High PL: In this story of the early days of daylight bombing raids over Germany, PL: General Frank Savage must take command of a "hard luck" bomber group. Much PL: of the story deals with his struggle to whip his group into a diciplined PL: fighting unit in spite of heavy losses, and withering attacks by German PL: fighters over thier targets. Actual combat footage is used in this tense PL: war drama. BY: KC Hunt <khunt@eng.morgan.edu> GE: War Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Twenty Bucks PL: The film follows a $20 bill from its ATM birth to its eventual demise. PL: Along the way, the note weaves in and out of the lives of a street PL: person, an aspiring writer, a stripper, two thieves, and many others PL: in surprising and inventive ways. BY: Don Porter <dgp@ee.wustl.edu> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Twilight's Last Gleaming PL: A renegade USAF general, Lawrence Dell, escapes from a military PL: prison and takes over an ICBM silo near Montana and threatens to PL: provoke World War 3 unless the President revels details of a secret PL: meeting held just after the start of the Vietnam War between Dell PL: and the then President's most trusted advisors. BY: Dave Jenkins <david.jenkins@smallworld.co.uk> GE: Thriller Political ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me PL: Essentially a prequel to David Lynch and Mark Frost's earlier PL: tv series "Twin Peaks". The first half-hour or so concerns the PL: investigation by FBI Agent Chet Desmond into the murder of waitress PL: Teresa Banks. The film then cuts to one year later and follows the PL: events during one week in the life of Laura Palmer, a story which was PL: later to motivate much of the series. Contains a considerable amount of PL: sex, drugs, violence, very loud music and inexplicable imagery. BY: Douglas Baptie GE: Drama Surreal ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Twitch of the Death Nerve PL: An elderly heiress is killed by her husband who wants control of her PL: fortunes. What ensues is an all-out murder spree as relatives and PL: friends attempt to reduce the inheritance playing field, complicated PL: by some teenagers who decide to camp out in a dilapidated building on PL: the estate. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Two Evil Eyes PL: "The Facts About Mr. Valdeman." A woman's husband is on his deathbed, PL: and a psychiatrist with whom she's having an affair hypnotizes him so PL: they can get him to sign all his money over to his wife before he dies. PL: The husband dies when he is still in a trance and becomes stuck between PL: the two worlds, and seeks revenge and release. PL: "The Black Cat." A forensic photographer resents his girlfriend bringing PL: a stray cat home. He dispatches the little furball, only to find out PL: he can't rid himself of it that easily. Based on stories by E. A. Poe. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Two Mules for Sister Sara PL: Set in Mexico, a nun called Sara is rescued from three cowboys by Hogan, PL: who is on his way to do some reconnaissance, for a future mission to PL: capture a French fort. The French are chasing Sara, but not for the reasons PL: she tells Hogan, so he decides to help her in return for information PL: about the fort defences. Inevitably the two become good friends but Sara PL: has a secret.. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Western War Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Two Way Stretch PL: Peter Sellers has planned the perfect robbery while in prison. He intends PL: to break out of prison, steal a fortune in diamonds, and break back into PL: prison before anyone notices. With only a few days sentence left, and the PL: perfect alibi - what could possibly go wrong ? BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Comedy Crime ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Two or Three Things I Know About Her PL: In this film, 'Her' refers to both Paris, the character of Juliette PL: Janson and the actress playing her, Marina Vlady. The film is a kind PL: of dramatised documentary, illustrating and exaggerating the emotionless PL: lives of characters in the new Paris of the 60s, where commercialism PL: mocks families getting by on small incomes, where prostitution is a PL: moneyspinning option, and where people are coldly resigned and immune PL: to the human nightmares of Vietnam, and impending Atomic war. BY: D.Giddings <sdjg0@uk.ac.rl.ib> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Two-Lane Blacktop PL: The Driver and The Mechanic are two car freaks driving a 1955 Chevy PL: throughout the southwestern U.S. looking for other cars to race. They PL: are totally dedicated to The Car and converse with each other only PL: when necessary. At a gas station, The Driver and The Mechanic, along PL: with a girl who has ingratiated herself into their world, meet G.T.O., PL: a middle-aged man who fabricates stories about his exploits. It is PL: decided to have a race to Washington, D.C., where the winner will get PL: the loser's car. Along the way, the race and the highway metaphorically PL: depict the lives of these contestants as they struggle to their PL: destination. BY: Rick Gregory <rag.apa@email.apa.org> GE: Drama Car Subculture ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: UHF PL: The wortless daydreaming slob George Newman can't keep a job for more than PL: a few days at a time before he gets fired. Fortunately, his uncle wins a PL: UHF television station in a poker-game (it was almost bankrupt), which PL: George Newman is put in charge of. Will the new job be any different from PL: the last few jobs he's had? BY: Lars J. Aas <larsa@colargol.edb.tih.no> PL: An unemployed visionary finds a job as the manager of a television PL: station his uncle owns. Unfortunately, due to gambling debts, the PL: uncle is forced to consider selling the station to a rival station's PL: owner. With popular less-then network standards of programming, PL: George and his friends try to save the town's new favorite station. BY: Kevin <Kibble@vm.temple.edu> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Ultra PL: The "Brigate Veleno" is a fan group from the soccer club "Lazio Rome". The PL: next match is against "Juventus Turin", the classic prestige duel. Principe, PL: the former leader of the group, has been dismissed from jail a few days PL: before. He has to realize that his best friend Red has not only taken over PL: control of the group, but also has started an affair with his girlfriend. PL: The rivalry between the hot-blooded Principe and the sensible Red causes PL: an anxious mood within the group. When Smilzo, a member of the group, PL: dies during a street fight with another fan group, Red knows that Principe PL: is to be blamed for this catastrophe. BY: Thomas Manhardt <Thomas.Manhardt@wu-wien.ac.at> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Under Capricorn PL: In 1831, Irishman Charles Adare travels to Australia to start a new life PL: with the help of his cousin who has just been appointed governor. When he PL: arrives he meets powerful landowner and ex-convict Sam Flusky, who wants PL: to do a business deal with him. Whilst attending a dinner party at Flusky's PL: house, Charles meets Flusky's wife Henrietta who he had known as a child PL: back in Ireland. Henrietta is an alcoholic and seems to be on the verge of PL: madness. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Under Siege (1992) PL: A US battleship on its way to be decommissioned is the target PL: for a ruthless gang of terrorists. Fortunately, there is a hero, PL: and he's the cook. Single handed, (well almost, he's helped by PL: a beautiful woman) he makes life difficult for the terrorists. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Action Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Undercover Blues PL: A wise-cracking husband and wife team of ex-Spies arrive in New Orleans PL: on maternity leave with their six month old baby girl. There they are PL: hassled by muggers, the police and their FBI boss, who wants them to do PL: just-one-more job. BY: Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Unforgiven (1992) PL: William Munny - a notorious killer - has settled down on a farm with his PL: two children. His animals are sick, and times are very hard. When he PL: finds out there is 500 dollars to be made from killing two cowboys - who PL: deserve it - he reluctantly takes it on. He calls on his old partner, PL: Ned, who rides with him and "The Schofield Kid", the young boy who told PL: Munny about the money. They enter the town, which is watched over by PL: an evil sheriff - Little Bill. A gritty and realistic tale of how the PL: West really was. BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Western Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Unlawful Entry PL: A tried and tested formula.. A person/family befriend PL: someone who gives the first impression of being normal. PL: Soon he/she shows himself/herself to be a psycho. In this PL: version the family are a young professional couple, and PL: the psycho is a cop who answers a burglary call. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> PL: After a break-in at their house, a couple gets help from one of the cops PL: that answered their call. He helps them install the security system, PL: and begins dropping by on short notice and unofficial patrol, and spends PL: a lot of time discussing the couple's problems with the wife. The PL: husband begins wondering if they're getting too much help. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Thriller Crime ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Untamed Heart PL: All of Caroline's boyfriends seem to leave her or cheat on her. On her PL: way home from work two men try to rape Caroline. An introvert man from PL: her work, Adam, rescues her. Adam is an orphanage and he is told that PL: he's got a babboon's heart. Adam opens up to Caroline and together they PL: make sense. Adam and Caroline are very happy together but the rapists PL: try to get back on Adam and not everyone accepts an outcast like Adam. BY: Ivo Kroone <ab2693@triton.heao.hsa.nl> GE: Romance Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Until the End of the World PL: Set in 1999, a woman (Dommartin) has a car accident with some bank PL: robbers, who befriend and enlist her help to take the money to a drop PL: in Paris. On the way she runs into another fugitive from the law PL: (Hurt), an American who is being chased by the CIA. The charges are PL: false, he says, that they want to confiscate a device his father has PL: invented which allows you to record your dreams and vision. On the run PL: from the bank robbers and the CIA, they span the globe, ending up in PL: Australia at the research facility of his father (von Sydow), where they PL: hope to be able to play back the recordings Hurt has made to his blind PL: mother. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama Sci-Fi Surreal ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Untouchables, The PL: Federal agent Elliot Ness assembles a personal team of mob PL: fighters to bring Chicago crime boss Al Capone to justice PL: using unconventional means during the mob wars of the 1920s. PL: This fictionalized account of the arrest of Al Capone PL: is heavy on style and gunfire. The end shootout combines PL: a baby carriage and stairs with a nod to Eisenstein's PL: _The Battleship Potemkin_. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Crime Drama Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Upir z Feratu PL: A doctor (Marek) is shocked when his beloved nurse (Mima) signs a contract PL: with foreign car manufacturer Ferat, in order to work for them as a PL: rally-driver. A fellow doctor makes him believe that human blood is being PL: used as fuel for Mima's ever winning car, but does that really work? BY: Otto Oberhauser <Oberhauser@cc.univie.ac.at> GE: Sci-Fi Car Medical Satire ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Uranus PL: After World War II, a small French village struggles to put the war PL: behind as the controlling Communist Party tries to flush out Petain PL: loyalists. The local bar owner, a simple man who likes to write poetry, PL: who only wants to be left alone to do his job, becomes a target for PL: Communist harassment as they try and locate a particular loyalist, and PL: he pushes back. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Urusei Yatura 2: Beautiful Dreamer PL: Lum is a cheerful alien who now lives with her human fiancee, Ataru and PL: her goods friends on earth. The night before the school festival, PL: the world begins to change, things seem to be repeating themselves. PL: Gradually, all necessary functions come to a stop, people disappearing, PL: streets deserting, buildings decaying except Lum and her friends PL: who live ever happier. When they begin to probe the truth, they PL: find out it's somebody's dream that is changing the world... BY: Tzung-I Lin <tzung@hugo.att.com> GE: Japanese-Animation Comedy Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Valmont PL: Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover a bet PL: regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. The PL: lover, Valmont, bets that he can seduce her, even though she is an PL: honorable woman. If he wins, he can have his lover to do as he will. PL: However, in the process of seducing the married woman, Valmont falls PL: in love. Based on the same novel as "Dangerous Liaisons." BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Vamp PL: Two fraternity pledges go to a sleazy bar looking for strippers to PL: entertain their college friends. They have problems with transportation, PL: Biker gangs, and worst of all, the staff of the bar, all of whom seem to PL: be vampires, with Grace Jones playing the head vampire. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Horror Thriller Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Vampire's Kiss PL: A publishing executive is visited and bitten by a vampire and starts PL: exhibiting erratic behavior. He pushes his secretary to extremes as PL: he tries to come to terms with his affliction. The vampire continues PL: to visit and drink his blood, and as his madness deepens, it begins PL: to look as if some of the events he's experiencing may be hallucinations. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama Comedy Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Venus Flytrap (V) PL: Three street punks--Turk, his girlfriend BB., and his sidekick PL: Wimp--observe two young affluent kids, Ginger and Danny, PL: shoplifting from a record store. On a lark, the street kids PL: invite themselves along to a party at the home of the yuppies' PL: friends, Rod and Arlene. There the party games turn from strip PL: darts to Russian roulette as it becomes increasingly obvious PL: that the yuppies are playing with the street kids' emotions. PL: Eventually the three street kids are all brutally murdered by PL: the yuppies, who had purposely lured them in for exactly that PL: purpose. The yuppies then prepare for their next "kill." BY: Marvin Jones <72657.3276@compuserve.com> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Verboten! PL: A young american serviceman, stationed in Germany after the fall of PL: the Third Reich, jeopardises his position with the Marshall Plan relief PL: effort by breaking the non-fraternisatiom rule and falling in love with PL: a young German woman. PL: He uses his position to obtain food and luxuries for her that are in PL: short supply, and all seems to be going well for the couple. What he PL: doesn't realise is that the Werewolves, the Nazi guerrilla movement, PL: have plans in which he features heavily. BY: Mark Thompson <mrt@oasis.icl.co.uk> GE: War Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Vertigo PL: San Francisco police detective Scottie Fergusson develops a fear of PL: heights and is forced to retire when a colleague falls to his death during PL: a chase. An old college friend (Gavin Elster) hires Scottie to watch his PL: wife Madeleine who has become obsessed with the past. Scottie follows her PL: around San Francisco and is drawn into a complex plot. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Mystery Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Vice Versa (1988) PL: On returning from a buying trip abroad for the department store PL: in which he works, Marshall finds he is in possession of a strange PL: ornamental skull. Marshall is divorced and is looking after his son Charlie PL: for a few days. The skull has special powers, and when Marshall and PL: Charlie simultaneously wish they were each others age, father and son PL: exchange bodies. Now Charlie has to go to work, and Marshall to school. PL: Charlie also has to deal with Marshall's girlfriend. If that weren't enough PL: a pair of smugglers are in pursuit of the skull. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Role-reversal Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Victor/Victoria PL: Victoria is a poverty-stricken soprano trying to find work in PL: turn-of-the-century Paris. With the help of a worldly-wise PL: nightclub singer, she invents her alter-ego Victor, a female PL: impersonator who is hired to sing at a fashionable night spot. PL: "You want me to be a woman pretending to be a man pretending to be PL: a woman?" PL: Interwoven throughout the comedy and musical numbers are some PL: surprisingly astute observations about gender perceptions, PL: discrimination and the battle of the sexes. BY: Jeanne Baker <jbaker@erim.org> GE: Musical Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Victory (1981) PL: In World War II, a group of Nazi officers come up with a propiganda event PL: in which an all star Nazi team will play a team composed of Allied PL: Prisoners of War in a Soccer (Football) game. The Prisoners agree, PL: planning on using the game as a means of escape from the camp. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: War Intrigue Sport ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Victory at Entebbe (TV) PL: An Air France airplane is hijacked by the PLO due the large number PL: of Israeli and Jewish passengers. We follow the action both with PL: the hostages as they cope with confinement and threatened death, and PL: the Israeli cabinet and military that must try to get them out. BY: David Carroll <davidc@atom.ansto.gov.au> GE: Drama Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Videodrome PL: Max runs a TV channel, and is looking for new material to show...he PL: discovers - Videodrome. His girlfriend, Nicki Brand, goes to audition PL: for Videodrome, and Max gets drawn into the underlying plot which uses PL: Videodrome as its front. BY: Paul Reynolds <pjr@eccles.dsbc.icl.co.uk> GE: Horror Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: View to a Kill, A PL: A silicon chip is captured from the Soviets and found to be identical PL: to a prototype British design capable of withstanding the intense PL: electromagnetic radiation of a nuclear blast. The British suspect PL: industrialist Max Zorren of leaking details of the design to the Russians. PL: When James Bond is sent to investigate he finds that Zorren is stockpiling PL: silicon chips and, mysteriously, drilling near the San Andreas fault. BY: Dave Jenkins <david.jenkins@smallworld.co.uk> GE: Spy Action Bond ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Vigil PL: A New Zealand woman and her daughter struggle to cope in the PL: mountains after a poacher accidentally kills her husband and PL: moves into their lives. Told mostly from the perspective of PL: the young daughter, this austere but exotically filmed story PL: is neither overt nor compromising to the viewer. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Violent Years, The PL: A newspaper publisher's daughter suffers from neglect by her parents. PL: She and her friends turn to crime by dressing up like men, holding up gas PL: stations, raping young men at gunpoint, and having makeout parties when PL: her parents are away. Their "fence" gets them to trash the school on PL: request of sinister un-American clients, and they run afoul of the law, PL: apple pie, and God himself. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama Teen Delinquent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Virgin High PL: A girl gets in trouble with her parents for allegedly fooling around with PL: her boyfriend, and they send her to a catholic girls' high school. There PL: she finds that one of the students (Quigley) is "in charge," and makes PL: demands on the other girls because she has unofficial connections with the PL: faculty. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Von Ryan's Express PL: Ryan, an American POW, leads his fellow prisoners on a dangerous PL: escape from the Germans in Italy. Having seemingly making errors PL: of judgement, Ryan has to win the support of the mainly British PL: soldiers he is commanding. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: War Train Prison WWII ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Voyage (1993) (TV) PL: Morgan and Catherine Norvell have their future plans ready. In Monte PL: Carlo, their sailboat is stocked. From there they are going to sail PL: to Malta and live on the boat for a year. They have bought some real PL: estate with an old ruin of a hotel on it, which they are going to PL: rebuild. A few days before they are about to start, they meet Gil and PL: Ronnie Freeland. They would give anything to join them for a couple PL: of days on the sea, and no sooner said than done, all four of them are PL: enjoying the sweet life on the boat. The Norvells soon discover that PL: it was a big mistake to invite them on board... BY: Lars J. Aas <larsa@colargol.edb.tih.no> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Wait Until Dark PL: Susie's husband is asked to hold a doll for a woman as they get off an PL: airplane. She disappears. Mike and Carlino are small time hoods who find PL: the woman's body in Susie's apartment, placed there by her partner, Harry PL: Rote. Susie's blindness is the key to them searching the apartment for PL: the doll that contains smuggled drugs. Mike pretends to be an old friend PL: of Susie's husband while her husband is away and together the crooks PL: invent a story of a police investigation of her husband that only the PL: discovery of the now missing doll can save him from. Rote is a killer, PL: and his stalking of Susie becomes more and more obvious as the story PL: unfolds, leaving us with the question, how does a blind woman defend PL: herself? BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Thriller Mystery ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Walk Through H, A PL: An anonymous narrator outlines a bizarre journey taken through "H", aided PL: by a series of extraordinary maps, and his previous dealings with the PL: mysterious Tulse Luper and the keeper of the bird house at the Amsterdam PL: Zoo. BY: D.Giddings <sdjg0@uk.ac.rl.ib> GE: Fantasy Art Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Walk, Don't Run PL: Cary Grant arrives in Tokyo early during Olympic week. With no hotel rooms PL: anywhere, he pulls a card from the embassy bulletin board and talks his way PL: into Samantha Eggar's flat. Later finding Jim Hutton, an architecture PL: student and olympic athlete (who always avoids any identification of his PL: event) who also has no room, he sublets his part of her apartment to PL: Hutton and then tries to play match maker to the two of them. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Wall, The (1986) PL: The life of the fictional rock star 'Pink' is the subject of PL: the visually evocative cult film based upon the music and PL: visions of the group Pink Floyd as portrayed in the album of PL: the same title. Relationships, drug abuse, sex, childhood, WWII PL: and fascism combine in a disturbing mix of episodic live action PL: and lyrical animation drawn by British caricaturist Gerald PL: Scarfe. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Musical Fantasy Animated ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Waltzes from Vienna PL: The story of Johann Strauss the elder and younger. BY: Colin Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> GE: Musical Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: War Lover, The PL: Buzz Rickson is a dare-devil World War II bomber pilot with a death wish. PL: Failing at everything not involving flying, Rickson lives for the most PL: dangerous missions. His crew lives with this aspect of his personality PL: only because they know he always brings them back alive. BY: KC Hunt <khunt@eng.morgan.edu> GE: War Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: War Room, The PL: A behind-the-scenes documentary about the Clinton for PL: President campaign, focusing on the adventures of spin PL: doctors James Carville and George Stephanopoulos. Bill PL: Clinton himself is almost never seen. BY: Tim Horrigan (horrigan@hanover-crrel.army.mil) GE: Documentary ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: War Wagon, The PL: Taw Jackson returns from prison having survived being shot, to the ranch PL: and gold that Frank Pierce stole from him. Jackson makes a deal with PL: Lomax, the man who shot him 5 years ago to join forces against Pierce and PL: steal a large gold shipment. The shipments are transported in the War PL: Wagon, an armored stage coach that is heavily guarded. The two of them PL: become the key players in the caper to separate Pierce from Jackson's gold. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Western ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: War of the Gargantuas PL: An experimental lab animal called a gargantua escapes from his captors PL: and is suspected to be the creature that is killing people all over the PL: countryside. But when the gargantua from the lab appears at the same PL: time as the evil gargantua, the two begin to battle across Japan. BY: Todd A. Bobenrieth <TAB146@PSUVM.EDU> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: War of the Monsters PL: A giant creature attacks Japan during the World Fair and its up to PL: Gamera to stop it. But the monster injects Gamera with its offspring PL: and a research team must take a craft into Gamera's body to eliminate PL: the parasite. BY: Todd A. Bobenrieth <TAB146@PSUVM.EDU> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: War of the Roses, The PL: The Roses, Barbara and Oliver, live happily as a married couple. Then she PL: starts to wonder what life would be like without Oliver, and likes what PL: she sees. Both want to stay in the house, and so they begin a campaign to PL: force each other to leave. In the middle of the fighting is D'Amato, the PL: divorce lawyer. He gets to see how far both will go to get rid of the PL: other, and boy do they go far.. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: War of the Worlds PL: H.G. Well's classic novel is brought to life is this tale of alien PL: invasion. The resisdents of a small town are excited when a flaming PL: meteor lands in the hills. Thier joy is tempered some what when they PL: discover it has passengers who are not very friendly. The movie itself PL: is understood better when you consider it was made at the height of the PL: Cold War - just replace Martian with Russian... BY: KC Hunt <khunt@eng.morgan.edu> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: WarGames PL: A young computer whizz kid accidentally connects into a top secret PL: super-computer which has complete control over the U.S. nuclear arsenal. PL: It challenges him to a game between America and Russia, and he innocently PL: starts the countdown to World War 3. Can he convince the computer he PL: wanted to play a games and not the real thing ? BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Thriller Action War Hacking ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Warlock (1989) PL: In Boston of 1691, a warlock is sentenced to death, but escapes magically PL: into the future (our present), followed doggedly by the witch hunter. PL: There he is searching for the three parts of the Devil's Bible, trailed PL: by the witch hunter and the woman whose house he landed in. They must PL: stop him, as the book contains the true name of God, which he can use to PL: un-create the world. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Warm Summer Rain PL: A woman tries to kill herself and ends up in the hospital. She escapes PL: and wanders into the desert. There she comes upon a roadside bar where PL: she gets extremely drunk with the locals and a mysterious man, who seems PL: to be shy of policemen. She wakes up in bed with the stranger, not PL: remembering much from the night before, in a nearby abandoned house and PL: finds out that she got married to him at the bar. They try and find PL: an answer to their lives and love in this isolated nowhere. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Warrior Queen PL: In ancient Pompeii, slaves are bought and sold for household chores and PL: sex. A mysterious queen moves among the elite, meantime secretly PL: helping the slaves to escape. Eventually her life is also in jeopardy, PL: and as the volcano erupts she and the slaves attempt to escape while PL: being chased by the military. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama Historical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Water Wrackets PL: Hypnotic photography of swirling rivers and misty ponds and droning PL: music (not Michael Nyman for a change) form the backdrop to a documentary- PL: style narration about the history of a fictional tribe in the distant PL: past (or is it the far future?). BY: D.Giddings <sdjg0@uk.ac.rl.ib> GE: Art ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Waterloo PL: After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two PL: decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has PL: caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him. The best of PL: the British generals, Arthur Welsley was victorious in Spain, but has PL: never faced Napoleon. Welsley stands between Napoleon with a mixed army PL: of Prussians, Mercenaries, Brits and Belgians. Napoleon's victory PL: will plunge Europe back into a long term war. The two meet at Waterloo PL: where the fate of Europe will be decided. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: War Historical ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Watership Down PL: Based upon Richard Adam's novel of the same title, this PL: animated feature delves into the surprisingly violent PL: world of a warren of rabbits as they seek to establish PL: a new colony free of tyranny and human intervention. PL: Frightening and bloody in some scenes. Not recommended for PL: young children. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Fantasy Animated ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Waxwork PL: A waxwork museum comes to town, and a mysterious man invites some teens PL: to come to a special showing at midnight. Once inside, while viewing PL: different exhibits, the scenes come alive and the viewer is sucked PL: into the story being portrayed. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Waxwork II: Lost in Time PL: The couple that survives the wax museum in "Waxwork" is followed by a PL: dismembered hand, which kills the girl's father, for which she must PL: stand trial (those lawyer types are shrewd, they weren't going for that PL: dismembered-hand stuff). She and her boyfriend go to Sir Wilfred's house PL: for clues, where they find a film he has prepared for them, pointing PL: the way to his secret evil-thing-fighting stash. They grab the time PL: machine compass thingy and go back in time to look for evidence that the PL: girl is telling the truth, and get embroiled in different conflicts along PL: the way. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Horror Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Wayne's World PL: Wayne is still living at home. He has a world class collection of name PL: tags from jobs he's tried, but he does have his own public access TV show. PL: A local station decides to hire him and his sidekick, Garth, to do their PL: show professionally and Wayne & Garth find that it is no longer the same. PL: Wayne falls for a lead guitarist and uses his and Garth's Video contacts to PL: help her career along, knowing that Ben Oliver, the sleazy advertising guy PL: who is ruining their show will probably take her away from him if they fail. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: We're No Angels (1989) PL: A couple of escaped convicts on the run find refuge with the Church PL: when they are mistaken for two priests. The two are keen to flee PL: but are unable to do so without the help of Molly. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Prison Escape ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Wedding Banquet, The PL: Simon and Wei-Tung are a gay couple living together in PL: Manhattan. To defer the suspicions of Wei-Tung's parents, Simon PL: suggests a marriage of convenience between Wei-Tung and Wei-Wei, PL: an immigrant in need of a green card. When Wei-Tung's parents PL: come to America for the wedding, they insist upon an elaborate PL: banquet, resulting in several complications. BY: Scott Renshaw <as.idc@forsythe.stanford.edu> PL: A gay Taiwanese-American man is in a happy long term relationship in PL: Manhattan, but his parents in Taiwan are always pressuring him to marry. PL: His tenant, a young Chinese girl needs to marry an American citizen to PL: obtain her green card, so a deal is made. Complications arise when the PL: joyous parents arrive for the wedding and a huge cross-cultural banquet PL: is arranged to celebrate. BY: John Hartnup <hartnupj@cs.aston.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Wedlock PL: Hauer's character has been convicted of stealing millions PL: of dollars which have not been recovered. In his uni-sex PL: prison, each inmate has an unknown partner; when the two are PL: separated by more than 100 yards, an explosive collar kills PL: both inmates. Hauer and his female partner escape and head PL: for the money, but they are hotly pursued by Hauer's double PL: crossing colleagues. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Action Thriller Sci-Fi Prison ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Weekend at Bernie's PL: Two young men are trying to make their way in a corporation. One on charm, PL: the other on hard work. When they go to the president (Bernie) with a PL: serious financial error on a printout, he pretends to be thrilled and PL: invites them to his beach house for the weekend. He actually plans on PL: having them killed. Bernie is also fooling around with the girlfriend of PL: his mafia partner. When the partner has Bernie killed, the boys end up PL: having to pretend Bernie is still alive as the frustrated hit man tries PL: time and time again to complete the job. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> PL: Two friends are invited for a weekend to a luxury island with their PL: boss. The boss gets shot and nobody seems to notice, except for the two PL: friends. In order not to become suspects of murder they treat the body PL: as a puppet and make people believe he's still alive. The killer wants PL: to do his job so when he is informed that the stiff is still alive he's PL: got to shoot him again, and again, and again ... BY: Ivo Kroone <ab2693@triton.heao.hsa.nl> PL: Richard Parker and Larry Wilson discover evidence of fraud at the PL: insurance company they work for, and their boss, Bernie Lomax, rewards PL: them with a stay at his luxurious island beach house. They arrive to PL: find Bernie dead, and find out that he had been embezzling from the PL: company and had hired a hitman to have them killed, but only after he PL: had left the island. Now to stay alive, Richard and Larry must convince PL: the unknown killer that Bernie is alive also. BY: Kevin Ackley <k.ackley@genie.geis.com> GE: Comedy Adventure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Weird Science PL: Two unpopular teenagers, Gary and Wyatt, fail at all attempts to be PL: accepted by their peers. Thier desperation to be liked leads them PL: to "create" a woman via their computer. Their living and breathing PL: creation is a gorgeous woman, Lisa, who's purpose is to boost their PL: confidence level by putting them into situations which require PL: Gary and Wyatt to act like men. On their road to become accepted PL: they encounter many hilarious obstacles which gives the movie an PL: overall sense of silliness. BY: Jeff Ranous <uslwsjgr@ibmmail.com> GE: Fantasy Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: West Side Story PL: Musical adaptation of Romeo and Juliet set in New York City, where PL: rival street gangs (the Jets and the Sharks) battle for territory PL: and respect. Is the love affair between former Jets leader Tony, PL: and Maria, sister to Sharks' leader Bernardo, doomed to failure? BY: Stewart M. Clamen <clamen@cs.cmu.edu> GE: Musical Romance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Wet Gold (TV) PL: Wet Gold is the story of a young woman (Laura), who works as a waitress in a PL: cafe. Laura stumbles across a drunk elderly man (Sampson), who fills her PL: with exciting stories of a boat that went down with millions in gold. PL: Although Laura's boyfriend (Barnes), keeps telling her that Sampson's PL: stories are all false, Sampson makes her believe that they are indeed true. PL: Laura takes Sampson to a library, where she finds an old newspaper article PL: which matches up with the events described to her by him. After becoming a PL: true believer, Laura convinces Barnes, Sampson and a dive shop owner, PL: Keating, to search for the treasure. Together they set off from Key West in PL: the Baker's boat, which Barnes is supposed to be looking after. Keating PL: shows a liking for Laura, and because of this, Barnes begins to feel PL: uncomfortable towards him. After spending some time in the water, their PL: dreams become reality, but the discovery of gold begins to show a change in PL: their personalities. Tension fills the air as passions rise in the wake of PL: greed for both fortune and Laura. BY: Anonymous GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: What About Bob? PL: A new patient appears at a psychiatrist's door. He has every possible PL: insecurity in the world. The amazingly successful shrink gives him a copy PL: of his new book, Baby Steps, and goes off on vacation. Bob, the patient, PL: discovers where the doc has gone and appears at the vacation site, PL: forever changing the shrink's family relationships. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: What's Eating Gilbert Grape PL: Gilbert Grape lives in Endora, a place where nothing much happens. The PL: only times the police got something to do is when Gilbert's retarded PL: brother Arnie tries to climb up on the watertower nearby. Taking care PL: of Arnie is mostly Gilbert's task which can be pretty demanding, at least PL: while you are working at the local grocery store. Then one day Becky and PL: her grandmother passes through Endora getting trouble with the car. PL: Gilbert falls in love with Becky, but gets problems when he tries to PL: find time for his own private life. BY: Lars J. Aas <larsa@colargol.edb.tih.no> GE: Drama Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: What's Love Got to Do with It PL: Chronicles the career of Tina Turner from the time she PL: met musician-songwriter Ike Turner until the launch of PL: her solo career in the early 1980's. Contains faithful PL: reenactments of stage performances by Ike and Tina turner. PL: Based on the autobiograpy of Tina Turner, ``I, Tina''. BY: Robert Rutter <rjr@sparks.uucp> GE: Drama Biography Music ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: What's Up, Doc? PL: Two researchers have come to San Francisco to compete for a research grant PL: in Music. One seems a bit distracted, and that was before he meets her. PL: A strange woman seems to have devoted her life to confusing and embarassing PL: him. At the same time a woman has her jewels stolen and a government PL: whistle blower arrives with his stolen top secret papers. All, of course PL: have the same style and color overnight bag. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: What's Up, Tiger Lily? PL: So you want Plot? Woody Allen bought a Japanese spy movie, removed the PL: voice track, and replaced it with one of his own. He doesn't seem to PL: have bothered with the original script at all. Typical Joke: "Back PL: off! My secret spy camera has taken pictures of you all through your PL: clothes. Unless you release me, your naked photos will be sold in PL: every school yard in Tokyo within the hour. Unless you are totally PL: comfortable with your body, you must release me." Very funny, but PL: also very unusual. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Farce ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Whatever It Takes (1993) PL: Aspiring director Chuckie wants to make a film along the lines of the PL: legendary C.S. Calhoun and his sexploitation films of thirty years ago. PL: He begins filming topless women and travels to California where he can PL: find more available talent. He finally locates Calhoun and they discuss PL: the genre, but now Chuck must find a distributor for his movie. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy Sleaze ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: When Harry Met Sally... PL: Harry and Sally meet when she gives him a ride to New York after they both PL: graduate from the University of Chicago. The film jumps through their PL: lives as they both search for love, but fail, bumping into each other time PL: and time again. Finally a close friendship blooms between them, and they PL: both like having a friend of the opposite sex. But then they are PL: confronted with the problem: "Can a man and a woman be friends, without PL: sex getting in the way?" BY: Greg Bole <bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: When Worlds Collide PL: What would happen if a rogue planet flew into our solar system and PL: slammed into the Earth? That question is answered in this classic sci-fi PL: tale. An astronomer discovers an object that has just entered the solar PL: system. His calculations show him its big and head straight for the PL: Earth. The only problem is convincing the rest of the world. This top PL: notch sci-fi shows humanity at its best and worst. BY: KC Hunt <khunt@eng.morgan.edu> GE: Sci-Fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Where Eagles Dare PL: During WW2 a British aircraft is shot down and crashes in Nazi held PL: territory. The Germans capture the only survivor, an American General, PL: and take him to the nearest SS headquarters. Unknown to the Germans the PL: General has full knowledge of the D-Day operation. The British decide that PL: the General must not be allowed to divulge any details of the Normandy PL: landing at all cost and order Major John Smith to lead a crack commando PL: team to rescue him. Amongst the team is an American Ranger, Lieutenant PL: Schaffer, who is puzzled by his inclusion in an all British operation. When PL: one of the team dies after the parachute drop, Schaffer suspects that PL: Smith's mission has a much more secret objective. BY: Dave Jenkins <david.jenkins@smallworld.co.uk> GE: Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Where's that Fire? PL: A hapless fire crew are given the ultimatum: put out a fire successfully PL: or else be sacked. They fail miserably, and their ancient fire engine PL: is stolen by criminals attempting to steal the crown jewels from the PL: Tower of London. BY: D.Giddings <sdjg0@uk.ac.rl.ib> GE: Comedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Whisky Galore! PL: When 50,000 cases of whisky are stranded on a ship which runs PL: aground, the inhabitants of a Scottish island cannot resist the PL: temptation. Unfortunately, a Home Guard captain (an Englishman) PL: stands in their way. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Ealing ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Whispers in the Dark PL: A psychiatrist (Sciorra) is helping a patient who has a submissive and PL: very satisfying sexual relationship with her lover. A new man the PL: psychiatrist is seeing turns out to be her patient's lover. When PL: someone is murdered, the psychiatrist must decide whether the lover is PL: a homicidal maniac or someone she loves. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Thriller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: White (1994) PL: This is the second of the "Three Colors" trilogy "Red" "White" and "Blue"; PL: the colors symbolizing liberty, equality and fraternity. White, therefore, PL: was written around the destructive dynamics of a relationship based upon PL: great inequality. Karol is a Polish hairdresser working in France. He has PL: a beautiful wife, Dominique, who he loves to obsession, and who is in the PL: process of divorcing him for his inability to "consummate the marriage". PL: Karol looses all of his earthly possessions and is literally driven out of PL: France by his estranged wife. The remainder of the movie has Karol fight- PL: ing to resolve his deep passion for Dominique with his own helplessness. PL: French with English subtitles. BY: Tilo Reber <treber@page.mmc.com> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: White Men Can't Jump PL: Billy and Sydney think they're the best basketball hustlers in town, so PL: when they join forces, nothing can stop them, except each other. PL: To add to their problems, Billy owes money and is being chased by a pair PL: of gangster types. BY: Rob Hartill <Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk> GE: Comedy Sport ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: White Mischief PL: A millionaire past his prime and his young wife arrive in Kenya circa 1940 PL: to find that the other affluent British expatriates are living large as PL: the homefront gears up for war. They are busy swapping partners, doing PL: drugs, and attending lavish parties and horse races. She begins a torrid PL: affair with one of the bon vivants, and her husband finds out and PL: confronts them. The husband and wife decide to break up peacefully, but PL: the bon vivant is murdered and all the evidence points to the husband. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama Romance Crime ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: White Nights (1985) PL: An expatriate Russian dancer is on a plane forced to land on Soviet PL: territory. He is taken to an apartment in which a black American who has PL: married a Russian woman lives with her. He is to become a dancer for the PL: Bolshoi again, but he wishes to escape, but can he trust the American? BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: White Sands PL: A small southwestern town sheriff finds a body in the desert with a PL: suitcase and $500,000. He impersonates the man and stumbles into PL: an FBI investigation. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama Intrigue ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Who Framed Roger Rabbit PL: 'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake PL: with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop PL: on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead PL: and Roger is the prime suspect. Groundbreaking interaction between the PL: live and animated characters, and lots of references to classic animation. BY: Jon Reeves <reeves@zk3.dec.com> PL: Roger Rabbit is a cartoon character who (along with many others) exists PL: along side of real humans. Eddy is a private eye who has seen better days PL: and has been on the skids since the death of his brother at the hands of a PL: Toon (cartoon character). Rogers' boss hires Eddy to see if his sexy wife PL: has other male interests, but things get out of hand as Roger is framed PL: for murder with no one but the Toon hating Eddy to go to for help. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: Comedy Fantasy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Wicked Lady, The (1983) PL: Caroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and invites her sister Barbara to be PL: her bridesmaid. Barbara seduces Ralph, however, and she becomes the new PL: Lady, but despite her new wealthy situation, she gets bored and turns to PL: highway robbery for thrills. While on the road she meets a famous PL: highwayman, and they continue as a team, but some people begin suspecting PL: her identity, and she risks death if she continues her nefarious PL: activities. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Wild Bunch, The PL: Outlaws on the Mexican-U.S. frontier face the march of PL: progress, the Mexican army and a gang of bounty hunters PL: led by a former member while they plan a robbery of a U.S. PL: army train. No one is innocent in this gritty tale of PL: of desperation against changing times. Pump shotguns, PL: machine guns and automobiles mix with horses and winchesters PL: in this ultraviolent western. BY: Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca> GE: Western ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Wild Gals of the Naked West! PL: An old geezer recalls some of the antics of the men and women of his PL: western town, more wild and woolly than Tombstone or Dodge City. In this PL: town no one is a good shot, the women are hungry for new meat, and PL: practical jokers abound. A stranger strolls into town, proving resistant PL: to the mayhem, and after donning some cowboy duds begins cleaning up that PL: town. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Comedy Bawdy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Wild Geese, The PL: Wild Geese are Irish Mercenaries who fought in everyone else's wars from PL: the 1700s on. In modern Ireland, two mercenary officers convince a PL: friend to join them on a rescue mission to Africa against heavy odds. BY: John L. Vogel <JVOGEL@NHQVAX.hq.nasa.gov> GE: War Action ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken PL: Sonora Webster, a runaway in the twenties, desperately wants to be a PL: diving girl- a girl who rides on a diving horse as it drops from a PL: forty-foot platform into a deep pool of water. She finally achieves her PL: dreams, when it seems that it's all going to be taken away from her- she PL: goes blind from an accident. BY: Liz Jordan <c9310494@alinga.newcastle.edu.au> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Wild Horse Hank PL: A teenage girl (Hank) tries to save a herd of wild horses from PL: a local gang intending on capturing and selling them for dogmeat. PL: Unfortunately the nearest Federal land where the horses will be PL: safe lies one hundred and fifty miles away, over badlands and PL: a mountain range. Based on the novel "The Wild Horse Killers". BY: David Carroll <davidc@atom.ansto.gov.au> GE: Drama Horses ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Wild One, The PL: A gang of 40 motorcyclists, the Black Rebels, gatecrash a legitimate PL: motorcycle race. They are eventually thrown out, but one of the gang PL: steals the first prize trophy and gives it to their leader, Johnny. PL: The gang then ride into Wrightsville, where they cruise up and down the PL: main street, and pile into Bleekers - the local bar. The owner of the PL: bar, the Sheriff, is happy to let the bikers spend their money, so does PL: nothing to break up any disturbances. Johnny falls for the Sheriffs PL: daughter, and tries to impress her with the trophy. When a rival gang PL: ride into town, trouble is just around the corner. BY: Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> GE: Drama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Wild for Kicks PL: Paul, a divorced architect, marries Nichole, a woman from Paris. His PL: teen daughter Jenny has fallen in with the English beatnik scene and PL: likes to hang out in cave-like clubs to listen to jazz and rudimentary PL: rock'n'roll. Jenny takes an immediate dislike to her mother-in-law, who PL: is not that much older than she, and goes out of her way to make life PL: miserable for Nichole. When Jenny discovers that Nichole is a friend of PL: one of the strippers from the dance hall across the street, she PL: investigates and uses Nichole's sordid past to embarass her father. PL: Meanwhile Jenny attracts the lecherous eye of Kenny, the owner of the PL: dance hall. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> GE: Drama Teen Delinquent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Wild in the Streets PL: Max Frost, a 24-year old rock star millionaire, joins causes with a PL: California politician to get the vote for 15-year olds. He continues PL: his master plan by helping elect one of his groupies to the senate. Max PL: and his cohorts resort to trickery to get congress to lower the minimum PL: age requirements for higher office, and he's on his way to the Oval Office PL: with his youth-controlled police state agenda. BY: Ed Sutton <esutton@bnr.ca> PL: Max Flatow is a precocious, social miscreant who has a way with PL: home-made explosives. When he tires of these, he runs away from home PL: only to emerge seven years later as Max Frost, the world's most PL: popular entertainer. When Congressman John Fergus uses Frost as a PL: political ploy to gain the youth vote in his run for the Senate, PL: Frost wills himself into the system, gaining new rights for the young. PL: Eventually, Frost runs for the presidency. Winning in a landslide, he PL: issues his first presidential edict: All oldsters are required to live PL: in "retirement homes" where they are forced to ingest LSD, taking PL: the 60s catch phrase "Never trust anyone over 30" to its most PL: extreme consequences. BY: Rick Gregory <rag.apa@email.apa.org> GE: Fantasy Political LSD ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield, The PL: Jayne takes us on a review of her last world tour. She takes us through PL: Rome, shares a fantasy about Roman athletes, and then is off to Cannes. PL: She takes a trip to the nudist colony on the Isle of Levant, where she PL: almost kind of joins in. Then it's off to Paris, where she gets a beauty PL: treatment from Fernand Aubrey, and attends some racy dance revues. In PL: New York and Los Angeles, she visits some topless clubs and listens to a PL: topless all-girl pop band. The film wraps up with some posthumous footage PL: of her family