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Contacts
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The plot summaries database is maintained by Colin Tinto <[e-mail]>.

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 <[e-mail]>, 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
<[e-mail]>

League Table
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This section contains the top ten submitters to the plot summaries list.
At the moment these are:

Number | Name
-------|-----------------------------------------------------
 346 BY: John L. Vogel <[e-mail]>
 301 BY: Ed Sutton <[e-mail]>
 183 BY: Rob Hartill <[e-mail]>
 155 BY: Keith Loh <[e-mail]>
  68 BY: Colin Needham <[e-mail]>
  61 BY: Colin Tinto <[e-mail]>
  50 BY: Sami Al-Taher <[e-mail]>
  42 BY: Todd A. Bobenrieth <[e-mail]>
  36 BY: Mark Logan <[e-mail]>
  30 BY: Simon N. McIntosh-Smith <[e-mail]>

Facts & Figures
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* 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
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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 [e-mail], with
   "PLOT ERROR" as the subject line.   Spelling and Grammar errors should
   be ignored.


Format
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First an example:

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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 <[e-mail]>
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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
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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
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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Adventure

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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 <[e-mail]>. 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 <[e-mail]> 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
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The rec.arts.movies database consists of the following lists:

 List                 | Maintained by                              | Updated
 ---------------------|--------------------------------------------|----------
 Actors               | Col Needham <[e-mail]>             | 09/30/94
 Actresses            | Col Needham <[e-mail]>             | 09/30/94
 Alternative Titles   | Michel Hafner <[e-mail]>        | 09/16/94
 Biographies          | Mark Harding <[e-mail]>        | 09/30/94
 Character Names      | Steve Hammond <[e-mail]>      | 09/16/94
 Cinematographers     | Michel Hafner <[e-mail]>        | 09/16/94
 Composers            | Michel Hafner <[e-mail]>        | 09/16/94
 Costume Designers    | Michel Hafner <[e-mail]>        | 09/16/94
 Crazy Credits        | Mark Harding <[e-mail]>        | 09/23/94
 Directors            | Col Needham <[e-mail]>             | 09/30/94
 Editors              | Col Needham <[e-mail]>             | 09/30/94
 Goofs                | Michael Gaines <[e-mail]>         | 09/02/94
 Movies               | Michel Hafner <[e-mail]>        | 09/16/94
 Plot Summaries       | Colin Tinto <[e-mail]>          | 09/30/94
 Producers            | Andre Bernhardt <[e-mail]> | 07/29/94
 Production Designers | Michel Hafner <[e-mail]>        | 09/16/94
 Quotes               | Lars J Aas <[e-mail]>     | 09/16/94
 Ratings              | Col Needham <[e-mail]>             | 09/30/94
 Running Times        | Mark Harding <[e-mail]>        | 09/30/94
 Soundtracks          | Ron Higgins <[e-mail]>     | 09/16/94
 Trivia               | Murray Chapman <[e-mail]>        | 09/23/94
 Writers              | Jon Reeves <[e-mail]>            | 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 <[e-mail]>. 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 <[e-mail]>

(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
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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Mystery Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Cop

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Fantasy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Spy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sports Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Mystery Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Crime Medical

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Historical Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 ([e-mail])

GE: Crime

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Soap

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Adventure Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Western

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Spy Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Courtroom Mystery Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Spy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Spy Mystery

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Mystery Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Spy

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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

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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 ([e-mail])

GE: Crime

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Western

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Western Spy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Adventure

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Adventure Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Biography

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Courtroom Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Historical

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy War

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Spy Road

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Police Action Adventure Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Romance Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Documentary

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Mystery

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Fantasy Adventure

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Adventure Family

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Animated Childrens

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Adventure

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Adventure Romance War

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Crime Mystery

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Crime

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Sci-Fi Disaster

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Japanese-Animation Adventure

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 {[e-mail]}

GE: Historical War

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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

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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

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Animated Childrens Musical

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Musical

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Crime

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Disaster

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Musical Biography Dance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Historical Political

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror Sci-Fi

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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 {[e-mail]}

GE: Sci-Fi Fantasy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Biography Musical

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Spy Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Crime Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Musical Dance Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Courtroom Mystery

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Musical Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Mystery Thriller Police

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Mystery Thriller

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MV: Animals Are Beautiful People

PL: Hilarious documentary on the wildlife of the Namib Desert.

BY: Ivan Weisz <[e-mail]>


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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Crime Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Cops Mafia Murder

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Adventure

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Adventure

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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

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: War

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Sci-fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Comedy Erotica

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Japanese-Animation War Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Crime

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Adventure Horror Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Adventure Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Mystery Suspense

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Crime Erotic

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Romantic Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Chase Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Crime Drama

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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 {[e-mail]}

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Childrens

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Erotic

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Surfing

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Fantasy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Western Comedy

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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

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Mystery

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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

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Prison Crime

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Western

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Crime

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Adventure

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Historical

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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 ([e-mail])

GE: Comedy Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Historical

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Comedy Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Mystery

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Fantasy Crime Comic

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: War

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: War

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Erotic Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 ([e-mail])

GE: Biography Sports

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Adventure Fantasy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: War Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Animated Musical

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Fantasy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Family Children Animals

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Fantasy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Political

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy War

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Parody Comedy Disaster

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Prison Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Mystery Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Mystery

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Adult-Humour

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Fantasy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Spy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Crime

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Prison

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Historical Drama Adventure

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Historical Adventure

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Murder

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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 ([e-mail])

GE: Comedy Historical

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Blackmail Murder

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Horror Parody

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Romance Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Western Spoof

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Surreal Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror Sci-fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Erotic Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Mystery

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sport Basketball Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Spy Thriller

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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

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Music Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: War Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Satire Political

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Political Historical Satire

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Mystery Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Crime Historical

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Horror Spoof

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Mystery Drama Thriller

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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

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Mystery Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: War Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Fantasy Satire

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Adventure

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Fantasy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: War Historical Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: War

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: War

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: War Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Comedy Vampire College

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sports Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Historical Crime

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Crime Mystery

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Western Action Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: War Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Kidnap Crime

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Female Prison

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: War Psychological Courtroom

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Adventure Historical War

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Crime Gangster Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Historical

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Historical

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Medical

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Historical

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Police

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Western

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Historical

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Medical

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Erotica

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy War

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Historical

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Historical

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Medical

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy War

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Spy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Historical

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Mystery Horror Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama War

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Farce Spy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: War Historical Adventure

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Western

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Religious

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Silent

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Romantic Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Mystery Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Biography Running Olympics

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Western

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Political

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Rural

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror Zombie

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Animated Childrens Musical

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Martial-Arts Fantasy Adventure

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Adventure

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Courtroom Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Horror School Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Mystery

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Crime Climbing

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Fantasy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Crime

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Supernatural Religious

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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

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Crime Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: War

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: War Intrigue

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Adventure Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Musical Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Mystery

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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  <[e-mail]>

GE: Western

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Fantasy Adventure

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Adventure Fantasy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Crime Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Crime Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Romance Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Crime Chase

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Erotic

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Spy Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Historical Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Sci-fi Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Adventure Historical Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: War

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 [e-mail]

GE: Horror Action Fantasy

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Suspense Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Romance Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sports Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Romance Action Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Murder Mystery

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy War

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Japanese-Animation Action Adventure

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: War Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Romance Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror Drama Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Erotic

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Western Adventure Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Surreal

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Noir

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE:  Sci-Fi Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Political

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Black-comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Political Spy

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-fi Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Mystery

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Murder Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Crime Drama Erotic

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Art

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Fantasy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Fantasy Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Fantasy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Mystery

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Crime

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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  <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Thriller

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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

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Fantasy Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Surreal

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Futuristic

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: War WWII Adventure

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: War Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Romance Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: War Historical Adventure

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Western

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Fantasy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Mystery Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Mystery

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Crime

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Spy Action Bond

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Comedy Boxing

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Sci-Fi Erotic

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Dance Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: War Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Spy Chase

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Romantic Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Historical Romance Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Comedy Crime

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: War

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Surreal Erotic Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Biography

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Film_Noir Thriller Suspense

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Silent

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Spy Action Bond

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Comedy War

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Adventure

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Surreal

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Short Surreal

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Animated Childrens

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Mystery

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Fantasy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: War Adventure

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Adventure Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Silent

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Fantasy Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Spy Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Crime

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Biography

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Adventure Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Romance Erotica

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Romance Erotica

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Prison Harem

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: War Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Melodrama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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  <[e-mail]>

GE: Crime

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: History Political Family

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Black

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Female Prison

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Adventure Action

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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

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Historical War

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Action Thriller

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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 {[e-mail]}

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Western

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Fantasy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: History War

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Childrens Fantasy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Spy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Sea Aviation

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Crime

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Political Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Comedy

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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: [e-mail]

GE: Comedy Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

PL: Animation done to classical music by Bach, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky
PL: and others.

BY: Tim Pickett <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Animated Musical

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-fi Adventure

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: War Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Noir

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Silent

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Crime Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Police

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Farce

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Historical Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Crime Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Courtroom Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Fantasy Drama Baseball

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Mystery Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: War

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Romance

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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

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-fi Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Spy Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Comedy Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Fantasy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Disaster

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Musical Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Drama Surreal

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Western

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Dance Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Adventure War

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Fantasy Action Historical

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Parody Sexual

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Mystery Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Adventure

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Sports Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Mystery Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Spy Bond Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Space

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Spy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Musical Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Action Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Futuristic Prison Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Spy Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Mystery Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Family

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Crime

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Crime Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Serial_Killer

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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

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Spy Action Bond

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Historic Comedy Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: War Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Animated Childrens

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Spy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Farce

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Crime Caper

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Race

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Western Biography

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Mobster

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: War Historical Drama Biography

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Romance Thriller Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Romance Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Crime

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Skateboard Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: War

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Suspense Horror Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Crime

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Crime

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Crime Mafia

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Western Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Mystery Adventure Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Spy Action Bond

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Historical Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy War

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Western Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Crime

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Romance Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Adventure Childrens

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Biography Adventure

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Spy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Stop-Motion Animated Comedy Family

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: War Adventure

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Biography

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Musical

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Musical Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Children Comedy Train

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Romantic Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Adventure Comedy Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Adventure Comedy Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Crime Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Western Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Crime Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Mystery

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Japanese-Animation War Action Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Historical War Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: War Action Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Crime Adventure

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Horror Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Crime Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Fantasy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: War

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Action Adult

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Musical

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Erotic Historical

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama War Historical

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Crime Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Mystery

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Spoof

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Western

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Adventure Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Teen Delinquent

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Noir

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Adventure Fantasy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Horror Road

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Action Musical

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sports

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Drama War

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: War Western Adventure

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Mystery

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Spoof

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Mystery Crime

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror Suspense

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Romance Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Courtroom

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Cop Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Romance Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Relationship Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Romantic-Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Spy Adventure Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Mystery Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Suspense Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Political Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Spy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Courtroom War WWII Prison Murder

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Romance Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Adventure

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Adventure

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Fantasy

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror Comedy Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Fantasy-Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Spy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: comedy Baseball

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Crime Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Mystery Thriller Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Fantasy Adventure

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Suspense

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror Sea

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Murder

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Western

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Religious

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Animated

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Adventure Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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MV: Journalist, The

PL: Comedy about a Journalist on A Sydney Newspaper

BY: Anonymous

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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MV: Judgment at Nuremberg

PL: In 1948, an American court in occupied Germany tries four Nazi judges
PL: for war crimes.

BY: Mark Logan <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Espionage

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Children Animated Musical Comedy

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MV: Juno and the Paycock

PL: A poor Dublin family gets into trouble during the uprising of the 1920s

BY: Colin Needham <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Adventure Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Comedy Transvestitism

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Surreal Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama War Historical

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror War WWII

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Crime Thriller Violence

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Adventure Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Fantasy War

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Crime

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Childrens Historical

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Mystery Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Comedy Police

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Spy Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Fantasy

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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 ([e-mail])

GE: Melodrama Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Historical Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Railway

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Animated Childrens Musical

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Fantasy Adventure

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Ealing

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Japanese-Animation Adventure

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Mystery Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Historical Biography

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Documentary Political

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Mystery Religious

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Romance Mystery Monologue Cult

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Historical War Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Crime Mystery Film-Noir

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Biography Adventure War

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Historical Sport

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama War

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Fantasy Adventure

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Cult

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Biography Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Crime Historical

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Crime Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Crime Thriller Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Crime Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Spy Action Bond

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Western

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Satire Python

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller War

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Exercise Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Historical Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Mystery

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Western Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Spy Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Mystery Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Animated Musical

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Musical Comedy Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Spy Action Bond

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Spy Action Bond

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Serial_Killer Silent

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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

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Western Biography

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: War

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Fantasy Animated

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Erotica

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Romance Mystery

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Historical

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Romance Drama Biography

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Romance Drama Crime

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy War

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action

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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 ([e-mail])

GE: Drama Crime Prison

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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

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Western

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Sport

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sports Comedy

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MV: Make Mine Music

PL: Animation done to modern (for the 1940s) music.

BY: Tim Pickett <[e-mail]>

GE: Animated

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Art

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Mystery

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Crime Drama

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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 {[e-mail]}

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Kidnap Assassination

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Kidnap Assassination

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Adventure Epic

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Western Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Spy Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Spy Action Bond

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Political Thriller

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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

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Mystery

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Romance Silent

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Psychoanalysis

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Puppets Animation

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Musical Comedy Family

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy FX Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Murder Romance Mystery

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Western

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Western Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Crime

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Romance Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Sci-Fi Horror

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MV: Melody Time

PL: Animation done to contemporary music.  Somewhat of a sequel to "Make
PL: Mine Music".

BY: Tim Pickett <[e-mail]>

GE: Animated

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Historical

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror Thriller Erotic

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Crime Mafia Chase Action Comedy Adventure

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Historical War

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Childrens Sports Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Adventure Disaster

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Gangster Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Romantic comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror Mystery

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Melodrama Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Historical

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Crime

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy War

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Marx-Brothers

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Historical

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Political Satire

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Spy Action Bond

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Mystery

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama War

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Mystery Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Delinquent

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Surreal

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Silent

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Western

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Adventure Epic

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Political-Satire

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Political Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Screwball

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Crime Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Romantic-Comedy Shakespeare

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Musical Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Spoof Mystery

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Mystery Historical

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Mystery

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Noir

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Romance Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Courtroom

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Drama Crime

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Political

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Spoof

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Spoof Police

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Erotic Fantasy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Fantasy Biography Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Crime Murder Mafia Railway Chase

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sports Fantasy Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Fantasy Time-travel

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror Sleaze

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Spy Action Bond

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Disaster

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Historical

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Farce

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Mystery Historical War

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Fantasy Musical Stop-motion

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Comedy Road

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Adventure

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Romance Spy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Spy Action Bond

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Mystery

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Psychological Adventure

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Religious

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Japanese-Animation Action Comedy Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Adventure Environmental

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Family Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Spy Action Bond

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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 <[e-mail]>

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

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Crime

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Crime Drama Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Western

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Historical Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy War

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Spy Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Spy Adventure Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Mystery Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Biography War

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Spy Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Musical Western

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Western

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Courtroom

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Surreal

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Historical

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Ealing

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Western Historical

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Romantic Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Japanese-Animation Suspense Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: War Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

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

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: War Biography

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Romance Female Teen

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Magic

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Erotic

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Mystery

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Mystery

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Mystery

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror Sleaze

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Animated Childrens Musical

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Adventure

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Romance Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Mystery Historical

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Musical

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Farce

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Animated Childrens

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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

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: War Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Silent

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Surfing

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Teen

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Adventure

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: War Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-fi Action War

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Romance Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Mystery Courtroom

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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

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Romantic Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Crime

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Fantasy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Mystery Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Musical Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Fantasy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror Thriller Mystery

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Adventure Crime

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Crime Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Romance Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Fantasy Adventure

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Adventure

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Relationship

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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

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Historical War

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Martial-Arts

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Mystery Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Western

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Mystery

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Romance Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: War Fantasy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Prison

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Police

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Murder

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Historical

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Crime

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Drama Tear-jerker

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Psychological Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Animated Childrens

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Animated Childrens

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Heist

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Courtroom

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Historical Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Boxing Silent

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Western Adventure

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Adventure Thriller Chase Outdoors

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Crime Mystery

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Historical Religious

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Animated Childrens

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Adventure Historical

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Adventure

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Crime Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Fantasy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Horror Musical Fantasy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Action Adventure

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Crime Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Delinquent

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Musical

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Suspense Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Historical UFO

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Erotic

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Black-Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Prison

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-fi Adventure

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Action Police

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Western

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Black Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Road

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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

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: War Action Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Spy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Family Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Romance Comedy Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Historical

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Historical Religious

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Comic

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Historical War WWII Biography

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Christmas Horror Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Spy Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Family

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy War

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Drama Historical

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: War Biography Historical

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Crime Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Religious

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Erotic Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Erotic Thriller Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Western

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Biker Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 {[e-mail]}

GE: Documentary

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Western Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 ([e-mail])

GE: Drama Suspense Crime

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Romance War

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Police

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Mystery

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Spoof

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-fi Drama Environmental

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Western Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Musical Comedy Ribald

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Musical

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Morality

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: War Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Erotic

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Drama Erotic

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Musical Crime

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Mystery

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Mystery Crime Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Adult Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sports Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Animated Childrens

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Romance Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Mystery Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Spy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Romance Farce

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror Mystery

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Mystery Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Romance Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>


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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Historical

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Musical

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: War Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Science Fiction

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Sci-Fi

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MV: Spartacus

PL: The slave Spartacus leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman
PL: empire.

BY: Mark Logan <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Romance Psychoanalysis Mystery

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Romance Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Thriller Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Black Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Spy Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Spy Action Bond

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Mystery

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Crime Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Historical War

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Romance Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Satire

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Crime Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Suspense

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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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

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Army-life

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Action Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Sci-fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Comic

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Comic

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Western

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Western

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Mystery

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Prison Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Monologue

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Fantasy Adventure

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Animated Childrens

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Dance Erotic

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Crime

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: War

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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

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Science Fiction

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Religious

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-fi Action Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-fi Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Comedy Tear-jerker

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Crime Horror Opera

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Surreal Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Love-Story

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Thriller War

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Western Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Western Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Mystery Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Historical War Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Spoof

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Mystery Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Musical Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Farce Adventure Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Western

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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 <[e-mail]>

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

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Adventure Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Spy Action Bond

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Mystery Thriller Crime

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Time-Travel Murder

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Fantasy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Adventure

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Time-travel

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Noir War

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: War

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Western

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Occult Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Western

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: War Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Spy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Spy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Fantasy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Crime Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Disaster

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Murder

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Surreal Mystery

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Role-reversal

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Time-Travel

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Adventure

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Black_Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Western Adventure

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Comedy Spy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Crime Violence Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Romance Drama Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Police Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: War Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Political

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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

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Western War Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Crime

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Car Subculture

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Western Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Crime

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Romance Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Sci-Fi Surreal

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Crime Drama Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Car Medical Satire

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Japanese-Animation Comedy Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror Thriller Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Comedy Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: War Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Mystery Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Role-reversal Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Musical Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: War Intrigue Sport

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Spy Action Bond

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Teen Delinquent

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: War Train Prison WWII

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Mystery

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Fantasy Art Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Musical Fantasy Animated

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MV: Waltzes from Vienna

PL: The story of Johann Strauss the elder and younger.

BY: Colin Needham <[e-mail]>

GE: Musical Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: War Drama

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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 ([e-mail])

GE: Documentary

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Western

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller Action War Hacking

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Historical

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Art

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: War Historical

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Fantasy Animated

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Prison Escape

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Romance

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Thriller Sci-Fi Prison

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Adventure

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Fantasy Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Musical Romance

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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

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Biography Music

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Farce

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Sleaze

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Ealing

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Sport

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Romance Crime

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Intrigue

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Fantasy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Western

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Bawdy

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: War Action

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Horses

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Teen Delinquent

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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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

GE: Fantasy Political LSD

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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 in mourning.

BY: Ed Sutton <[e-mail]>

GE: Documentary Comedy

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MV: Willies, The

PL: Two brothers camping with their cousin try to frighten each other
PL: by telling stories.  There are two main narrations:  one involves
PL: strange happenings at an elementary school; the other, a teenage
PL: boy with a peculiar interest.

BY: Mike Stark <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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MV: Willow

PL: In the dungeons of the castle of the evil Queen-sorceress Bavmorda, a
PL: prisoner gives birth to a child who, according to an ancient prophecy,
PL: will put an end to the reign of the Queen. A midwife saves the child from
PL: the wrath of Bavmorda, but is forced to throw her cradle in a river when
PL: reached by the Hounds of the Queen. The river brings the child near
PL: a village of dwarves, and little Willow finds and adopts her. When the
PL: Hounds reach the village, Willow begins a difficult journey to bring the
PL: baby back to her people and to fulfill the prophecy.

BY: Flavio Rizzardi <[e-mail]>

GE: Fantasy

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MV: Windbag the Sailor

PL: Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually
PL: extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales
PL: catch him out when he is co-erced into commanding an unseaworthy ship
PL: by an unscrupulous shipping agent who means to have it wrecked. This was
PL: the first film to couple Will Hay with both Moore Marriott and Graham
PL: Moffatt.

BY: D.Giddings <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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MV: Windwalker

PL: An ancient Indian chief who believes he has died must come back
PL: from his 'death' to save his tribe from the raiding party of
PL: rival Indians in this unique story of 'Indians without a single
PL: cowboy.'

BY: Keith Loh <[e-mail]>

GE: Adventure

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MV: Wings of Desire

PL: An angel tires of overseeing human activity and wishes to become human
PL: when he falls in love with a mortal.

BY: Ed Sutton <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Surreal

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MV: Wings of Honneamise

PL: On a far-off planet, a Kingdom tries to launch the planet's first
PL: manned spacecraft.  This ten year old project not only faces funding
PL: and technical problem, but also is subject to political conspiracy and the
PL: neighboring Republic's aggression.  It's all up to Shilo, the first
PL: spaceman to be, his friends and their faith to make the space program
PL: a success.

BY: Tzung-I Lin <[e-mail]>

GE: Japanese-Animation War Action Sci-Fi

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MV: Witchboard

PL: At a party, a guest brings out a Ouija board, and they attempt to contact
PL: a spirit he knows.  The spirit does appear, but it becomes apparent to
PL: the one who brought the Ouija board that this is an evil spirit that
PL: is impersonating his spirit, and despite warnings not to use the board
PL: alone, a woman uses it alone, and becomes harassed by the evil spirit,
PL: his goal to possess her so he can walk the earth again.

BY: Ed Sutton <[e-mail]>

GE: Supernatural Horror

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MV: Witches of Eastwick, The

PL: Alex, Jane, and Suki are three bored New England woman left to live without
PL: their husbands.   They innocently conjure up a mystery man, who could
PL: satisfy all their desires.   A new man moves into town - and he fits the
PL: bill perfectly.   Daryl Van Horne is filthy rich and wild eyed, and
PL: within days the three women have all discovered almighty power within
PL: themselves.   Will good triumph over evil, or will Daryl continue to have
PL: his evil way with his witches ?

BY: Colin Tinto <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror Comedy

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MV: Witches, The (1990)

PL: A young boy, recently orphaned, is taken to England by his grandmother.
PL: At a hotel in which they are staying, a group of witches have gathered
PL: to prepare a plot to rid the world of all children.

BY: Rob Hartill <[e-mail]>

GE: Children Comedy Horror

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MV: With a Vengeance (TV)

PL: Amnesiac nanny and her love-struck employer try to follow the
PL: clues leading into her past, little suspecting that a serial killer is
PL: already waiting at the end of the trail.

BY: afra <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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MV: Without a Clue

PL: This is a Sherlock Holmes story with a difference. Here Dr Watson
PL: is the ace detective and has been using an actor to play the part Holmes.
PL: Holmes is a drunken actor and gets on Watson's nerves. When Watson tries to
PL: go it alone, he doesn't have much success, so he is forced to let
PL: Holmes take all the credit once more.

BY: Rob Hartill <[e-mail]>

PL: Sherlock Holmes is as dashing as ever, but with a little secret:  Dr.
PL: Watson is the brains behing the operation.  Watson scripts all of
PL: Holmes' solutions, having discovered that while people would believe in
PL: Holmes, no one was ready to accept, Dr. Watson, Crime Doctor.  When
PL: Reginald Kincaid, the actor he has hired to play Holmes becomes
PL: insufferable, Watson fires him and tries to go out on his own, but
PL: finds that he has done all too good a job building Holmes up in the
PL: public's mind.

BY: John L. Vogel <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Mystery

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MV: Witness (1985)

PL: Samual Lapp is a young Amish boy who witnesses a murder in Philadelphia
PL: while traveling with his mother Rachel.  A good cop named John Book
PL: must go with them into hiding when the killers come after them.  All
PL: three retreat to Amish country and Book has to adjust to the new life
PL: style, and his feelings for the boys mother.  Of course the killers
PL: are still on their trail.

BY: Greg Bole <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Thriller Romance

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MV: Wiz, The

PL: All-black adaptation of the "Wizard of Oz."  Based on
PL: Broadway musical of same name.  A waste of excellent
PL: material and a talented cast.

BY: Tim Horrigan ([e-mail])

GE: Musical

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MV: Wizard of Gore, The

PL: A magician performs a show where he selects a female volunteer and appears
PL: to put swords, drills, and such through them.  They walk away and everyone
PL: applauds, then they show up somewhere else, dead of the same injuries they
PL: sustained in the magic show.  Police are baffled and can't tie the murders
PL: to the magician.  A man whose girlfriend is infatuated with the show begins
PL: to investigate on his own.

BY: Ed Sutton <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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MV: Wizard of Oz, The

PL: Dorothy and her dog set off on a journey to the see the wizard of Oz,
PL: who she hopes will help her return home. On the way she meets up
PL: with a scarecrow who needs a brain, a lion in need of courage and a
PL: tin man seeking a heart. Together they follow the yellow brick road
PL: to Oz.

BY: Rob Hartill <[e-mail]>

GE: Children Family Fantasy

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MV: Wizard of Speed and Time, The

PL: A Hollywood filmmaker (Mike Jittlov) makes a short for an evil
PL: film studio. Unbeknownest to him, the producer has placed a bet of
PL: $25,000 that he won't come up with anything with a use. Luckily, our
PL: film creator gets the help of his friends.

BY: Magnus Y Alvestad <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Part-Animated

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MV: Woman at War, A (TV)

PL: With the Occupation of Brussels by the Nazis, Helene could forget her
PL: ideas of a university degree. Her energy turned towards the hidden fight
PL: against the occupiers and gradually, inevitably, she joined the Resistance
PL: movement.

BY: Bjorn Stenberg ([e-mail])

GE: Thriller Drama War

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MV: Woman of the Year (1942)

PL: Tess, a successful and independent young woman, falls in love with a sports
PL: reporter, Sam.  The two marry, but they have trouble merging their careers
PL: and relationship.

BY: Liza Esser <[e-mail]>

GE: Romantic Comedy

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MV: Women in Love

PL: This is an exploration of the relationships, personalities, and
PL: philosophies of two men and two women in the high society of the early
PL: 1900s.  One man (Reed) is an industrialist, and treats relationships as
PL: possessions.  The other man (Bates) is a school inspector and tries to
PL: define love between men and women, and men and men.  One woman (Jackson)
PL: is a socialite, and sees relationships in terms of usage.  The other
PL: woman (Linden) sees love as pure and simple, a permanent bond.

BY: Ed Sutton <[e-mail]>

GE: Romance Drama

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MV: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

PL: A woman's lover leaves her, and she tries to contact him to find out
PL: why he's left.  She confronts his wife and son, who are as clueless
PL: as she.  Meanwhile her girlfriend is afraid the police are looking for
PL: her because of her boyfriend's criminal activities.  They talk to a
PL: female lawyer, who turns out to be the lover's new lover, and everyone's
PL: path keeps crossing each other's in a very complicated and confusing
PL: manner.

BY: Ed Sutton <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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MV: Working Girl

PL: Tess McGill is a frustrated secretary, struggling to forge ahead
PL: in the world of big business in New York. She gets her chance when her
PL: boss breaks her leg on a skiing holiday. McGill takes advantage
PL: of her absence to push ahead with her career. She teams up with investment
PL: broker Jack Trainer to work on a big deal. The situation is complicated
PL: after the return of her boss.

BY: Sami Al-Taher <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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MV: World, the Flesh and the Devil, The

PL: Harry Belafonte plays a miner who gets trapped in a small cave-in. He digs
PL: his way out to find every living sole on earth has vanished; that is until
PL: he discovers Inger Stevens. This tale of a post apocolyptic world is
PL: heightened by some interesting sexual and racial overtones.

BY: KC Hunt <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi Drama

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MV: Wrong Arm of the Law, The

PL: The crooks in London know how it works.  No one carries guns and no one
PL: resists the police.  Then a new gang appears that go one better.
PL: They dress as police and steal from the crooks.  This upset's the natural
PL: order of the police/criminal relationship and the police and the crooks
PL: join forces to catch the IPOs (Impersonating Police Officers), including
PL: an armored car robbery in which the police must help the gangs to set a
PL: trap.

BY: John L. Vogel <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Farce

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MV: Wrong Man, The (1957)

PL: Manny Ballestero is an honest hardworking musician at New York's Stork
PL: Club. When his wife needs money for dental treatment, Manny goes to the
PL: local insurance office to borrow on her policy. Employees at the office
PL: mistake him for a hold-up man who robbed them the year before and the
PL: police are called. The film tells the true story of what happened to Manny
PL: and his family.

BY: Colin Needham <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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MV: Wrong Trousers, The

PL: Plasticine animation of the loveable duo of Wallace and Grommit; inventors
PL: of all manner of useful devices. In this Oscar winning story, Grommit
PL: (a dog) finds himself being pushed out of his room and home by a new lodger
PL: who is actually a ruthless criminal (and a small penguin). The penguin
PL: is planning a robbery and needs to use Wallace and his mechanical remote
PL: controlled trousers to pull off the raid. However, Grommit is wise to
PL: the penguin and comes to the rescue. A must see for all ages.

BY: Rob Hartill <[e-mail]>

GE: Stop-Go-Animation Comedy Crime Animals

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MV: Yellow Submarine

PL: The singing group, The Beatles, at the height of their popularity, made
PL: this cartoon of a land that is taken over by the Blue Meanies.  They are
PL: recruited by an escapee to come and bring joy (and music) back to the land.
PL: The techniques are quite psychedelic in the cartoons and much care was
PL: taken to have the walks and mannerisms of the individual Beatles cartoons
PL: match the originals.

BY: John L. Vogel <[e-mail]>

GE: Cartoon Musical

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MV: Yellowbeard

PL: Yellowbeard, a pirate's pirate, is allowed to escape from prison to lead
PL: the authorities to his treasure.  He finds that his wife neglected to tell
PL: him that he now has a son, 20, and shame of shame, an intellectual.  The
PL: British Navy, Yellowbeard, his son, and members of Yellowbeard's old crew
PL: all go after the treasure.

BY: John L. Vogel <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Historical Sea

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MV: You Only Live Twice

PL: During a routine US space mission a manned American rocket mysteriously
PL: disappears while in orbit. The Americans naturally suspect the Soviets
PL: and threaten retaliation. However, the British are more cautious
PL: after one of their tracking stations indicates that the space craft
PL: may have come down near the Sea of Japan. James Bond is sent to
PL: investigate, but when the Soviets lose one of their space craft
PL: in similar circumstances, 007 has only a few days to locate the
PL: launch site and prevent the outbreak of World War III.

BY: Dave Jenkins <[e-mail]>

GE: Spy Action Bond

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MV: Young Frankenstein

PL: The Grandson of Doctor Frankenstein has tried to live in quiet obscurity
PL: to avoid being tarred with the Mad Doctor brush.  When he discovers his
PL: grandfather's journal, he decides he could succeed where his grandfather
PL: had failed.  Traditional problems with the brain, townspeople, the chief
PL: of police and explaining it all to his fiance.

BY: John L. Vogel <[e-mail]>

PL: A young neurosurgeon (Gene Wilder) inherits the castle of his grandfather,
PL: the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny
PL: hunchback called Igor, a pretty lab assistant named Inga and the old
PL: housekeeper, frau Blucher -iiiiihhh!-. Young Frankenstein believes that
PL: the work of his grandfather is only crap, but when he discovers the book
PL: where the mad doctor described his reanimation experiment, he suddenly
PL: changes his mind...

BY: Flavio Rizzardi <[e-mail]>

PL: The grandson of Victor Frankenstein is a teaching surgeon who has
PL: spent his life living down the legend of his grandfather, even
PL: changing the pronunciation of his name.  When the diary of his
PL: grandfather is brought to him, he takes a leave of absence to examine
PL: the family castle.  Then things get a little silly.  Due to a switch,
PL: he implants an abnormal brain in his creation which causes problems,
PL: but things really get out of hand when the young Frankenstein's
PL: bride to be shows up at the castle.   The whole film is shot in
PL: Black and white to simulate the old monster movie feeling.

BY: John L. Vogel <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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MV: Young Guns II

PL: Billy "The Kid" and his gang is wanted by the law, and when "Doc"
PL: Scurlock and Chavez are captured, Billy has to save them.  They escape
PL: and set south for Mexico.  "Let's hire a thief to catch one", John S.
PL: Chisum said, so he paid Pat Barrett, one of Billy's former partners,
PL: $1000 for the killing of William H. Bonney aka Billy "The Kid".

BY: Lars J. Aas <[e-mail]>

GE: Western Action Comedy

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MV: Young Sherlock Holmes

PL: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson meet as boys in an English Boarding
PL: school.  Holmes is known for his deductive ability even as a youth,
PL: amazing his classmates with his abilities.  When they discover a plot
PL: to murder a series of British women by an Egyptian cult, they move to
PL: stop it.

BY: John L. Vogel <[e-mail]>

GE: Action Adventure

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MV: Young and Innocent

PL: A film actress is murdered by her estranged husband who is jealous of all
PL: her young boyfriends. The next day, writer Robert Tisdall (who happens to
PL: be one such boyfriend) discovers her body on the beach. He runs to call the
PL: police, however, two witnesses think that he is the escaping murderer.
PL: Robert is arrested, but owing to a mix up at the courthouse, he escapes and
PL: goes on the run with a police constable's daughter Erica, determined to
PL: prove his innocence.

BY: Colin Needham <[e-mail]>

GE: Thriller

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MV: Youngblood

PL: A skilled young hockey prospect hoping to attract the attention
PL: of professional scouts is pressured to show that he can fight
PL: if challenged during his stay in a Canadian minor hockey town.
PL: His on-ice activities are complicated by his relationship with
PL: the coach's daughter.

BY: Keith Loh <[e-mail]>

GE: Sports Drama

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MV: Z

PL: Costa-Gravis chronicles the overthrow of the democratic government in
PL: Greece.  When a liberal politician is murdered in an attack during a
PL: peace demonstration, the right wing established figures in the military
PL: and the police try and hide not only their parts in it, but try to cover
PL: up the murder as well.  The prosecutor must act as a detective in order to
PL: go through the cover up.  While historically accurate, it is told as a
PL: combination mystery and thriller.

BY: John L. Vogel <[e-mail]>

GE: Historical Documentary Thriller Mystery

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MV: Zapped Again! (V)

PL: A new kid moves into school, making enemies with the affluent societies
PL: and joining the beleaguered Science Club. But when an old potion is
PL: discovered to confer telekinetic power he gets the chance to get his
PL: own back, as well as having a bit of fun on the side.

BY: David Carroll <[e-mail]>

GE: Teen Comedy

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MV: Zardoz

PL: In the distant future Earth is divided into two camps, the barely
PL: civilized group and the overly civilized one with mental powers.  A
PL: plague is attacking the second group after which it's members cease to
PL: have any interest in life and become nearly catatonic.  When Sean Connery
PL: one of the barbarians, crosses over, the tenuous balance in their world
PL: is threatened.

BY: John L. Vogel <[e-mail]>

GE: Sci-Fi

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MV: Zed & Two Noughts, A

PL: Oliver Deuce, a successful doctor, is shattered when his wife is
PL: killed in a freak car accident involving the car being driven
PL: by Alba Bewick colliding with a very large rare bird.  His twin
PL: brother Oswald is researching how carcasses decay at the local
PL: zoo.  Alba survives the accident although she loses one leg,
PL: and her sinister physician eventually removes the other
PL: 'because it looked so sad all alone'.  Oswald and Oliver become
PL: involved in a menage a trois with Alba, and uncover very dubious
PL: trafficking in zoo property.  But ultimately their only goal is
PL: to try and understand their mortal condition.

BY: Dan Ellis

GE: Drama Surreal

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MV: Zelig

PL: Fictional documentary about the life of human chameleon Leonard
PL: Zelig, a man who becomes a celebrity in the 1920s due to his
PL: ability to look and act like whoever is around him.  Clever
PL: editing places Zelig in real newsreel footage of Woodrow Wilson,
PL: Babe Ruth, and others.

BY: Scott Renshaw <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy Satire

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MV: Zentropa

PL: An American of German descent arrives in post-war Germany 1945.  His uncle
PL: gets him a job on the Zentropa train line as a sleeping car conductor.
PL: The American's wish is to be neutral to the ongoing purges of loyalists by
PL: the Allied forces and do what he can to help a hurting country, but he
PL: finds himself being used by both the Americans and the influential family
PL: that owns the railroad.  After falling in love with the railroad magnate's
PL: daughter, he finds that he can't remain neutral and must make some
PL: difficult choices.

BY: Ed Sutton <[e-mail]>

PL: A young American of German roots goes to work as a sleeping
PL: car conductor with his uncle in occupied Germany and soon
PL: is involved in the languid but subversive world of an
PL: industrialist's daughter. Filmed in both B&W and colour
PL: with clever transitions.

BY: Keith Loh <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama Fantasy

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MV: Zombie High

PL: A woman (Madsen) goes to previously all-male boarding school on a
PL: scholarship.  She begins to separate herself from her boyfriend in order
PL: to devote more time to her new environment.  Over a course of time she
PL: notices that more and more students have lost their individuality, and
PL: approach their activities in a lifeless and automatic manner.  Eventually
PL: a diabolical plot fostered by the faculty begins to emerge.

BY: Ed Sutton <[e-mail]>

GE: Horror

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MV: Zorba the Greek

PL: An aimless Englishman finds he has a small inheritance on a greek island.
PL: His joyless existence is disturbed when he meets Zorba, a middle aged
PL: Greek with a real lust for life.  As he discovers the earthy pleasures of
PL: Greece, the Englishman finds his view on life changing.

BY: John L. Vogel <[e-mail]>

GE: Drama

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MV: Zorro, The Gay Blade

PL: When the new Spanish Governor begins to grind the peasants under his heel,
PL: Don Diego Vega becomes Zorro, the masked man in black with a sword who
PL: rights wrongs.  Vega sprains his ankle and cannot figure out how to
PL: continue his campaign when his long lost twin brother (sent off to the
PL: British Navy to make a man of him, flamboyantly gay, and now known as
PL: Bunny Wigglesworth) appears.  He agrees to take his brother's place but
PL: wishes to make some changes.  His new suits are lemmon, plum, and scarlet,
PL: and Bunny insists on using a whip.

BY: John L. Vogel <[e-mail]>

GE: Comedy

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MV: Zulu

PL: A true story about the battle for Rourke's Drift between a small group
PL: of British soldiers and thousands of Zulu warriors. In true British
PL: character, the soldiers dig-in for a fight to the death. The relentless
PL: attacks by the Zulus take their toll, but the courage of the British
PL: is rewarded.

BY: Rob Hartill <[e-mail]>

PL: On the January 22nd 1879 the British Army suffers one of
PL: it's worst defeats when Zulu forces massacre 1,500 of its
PL: troops. A short time after the main battle a Zulu force
PL: numbering in excess of 4000 warriors advances on a British
PL: supply dump guarded by 139 Welsh infantrymen. The film
PL: concentrates on this bloody 12 hour battle.

BY: Dave Jenkins <[e-mail]>

GE: War Historical Action