9 to 5
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VHS |
Comedy; Theme - Office |
Three female employees of a "sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot" find a way to turn the tables on him. |
Aardman Animation
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VHS |
Animation; Family |
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Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
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VHS |
Comedy |
Pet detective Ace Ventura comes out of retirement to investigate the disappearance of a rare white bat, the symbol of an African tribe. |
Adventures in Babysitting
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VHS |
Comedy |
Chris has a big night out planned when her boyfriend cancels on her. She agrees to babysit for a pre-teen girl and a pubescent boy... |
The Adventures of Ford Fairlane
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VHS |
Comedy |
Ford "Mr. Rock n' Roll Detective" Fairlane is experiencing problems, and it's not with the opposite sex... |
The Air Up There
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VHS |
Comedy |
Jimmy Dolan is a college basketball coach who wants a big promotion. To get it, he needs to make a dramatic find... |
Airplane!
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VHS |
Comedy |
An airplane crew takes ill. Surely the only person capable of landing the plane is an ex-pilot afraid to fly. But don't call him Shirley. |
Airport '77
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VHS |
Drama |
A luxury 747 carrying valuable art work is hijacked and lands in the ocean, submerged in shallow water... |
Aladdin
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VHS |
Animation; Disney; Family |
Aladdin, a street urchin, accidentally meets Princess Jasmine, who is in the city undercover. They love each other, but she can only marry a prince. |
Alice in Wonderland
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VHS |
Family; Animation; Disney |
Alice stumbles into the world of Wonderland. Will she get home? Not if the Queen of Hearts has here way. |
Alien Nation
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VHS |
Sci-Fi |
A few years from now, Earth will have the first contact with an alien civilisation. These aliens, known as Newcomers... |
All of Me
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VHS |
Comedy |
A dying millionnaire has her soul transferred into a younger, willing woman. But something goes wrong, and she finds herself in her lawyer's body - together with the lawyer. |
All That Jazz
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VHS |
Drama |
Director/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he details the sordid life of Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider), a womanizing, drug-using dancer. |
Amadeus
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VHS |
Drama |
The incredible story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, told in flashback mode by Antonio Salieri - now confined to an insane asylum. |
American Graffiti
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VHS |
Drama |
The misadventures of four Californian high school graduates one late summer night in 1962. |
America's Castles - Movie Palaces
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VHS |
Documentary |
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Anarchy TV
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VHS |
Comedy |
An outraged reverend (Alan Thicke) buys a public access station that specializes in what he considers... |
And God Created Woman
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VHS |
Drama |
<i>...and on the Seventh Day, He got creative.</i><br><br> She's sexy. She's seductive. She's Robin Shay (De Mornay), a beautiful free spirit whose spontaneous style always get her into trouble - and now she's escaping from a New Mexico prison! But freedom is fleeting as Robin escapes right into the lap of politician James Tiernan (Langella), who reluctantly puts her back in jail. She talks carpenter Billy Moran into a hasty marriage, effecting her immediate parole. However, Robin soon learns that freedom has its price - a "husband" and his family - and all she wants is to play rock 'n' roll. With a smitten politician in one hand, and a passionate husband in the other Robin creates her own rules - then breaks them! |
Animal House
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VHS |
Comedy; Theme - College |
At a 1962 College, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the Delta House Fraternity, but those roughhousers have other plans for him. |
Animalympics - Summer Olympics
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VHS |
Animation; Family; Theme - Sports |
The animal kingdom stages its own olympic games. |
Antz
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VHS |
Animation; Family |
A rather neurotic ant tries to break from his totalitarian society while trying to win the affection of the princess he loves. |
The Apple Dumpling Gang
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VHS |
Family; Western; Disney |
Three orphan children strike gold in 1878 California. |
Armed and Dangerous
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VHS |
Comedy |
A fired cop and useless lawyer sign up as security guards and find they've joined a corrupt union. |
Aspen Extreme
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VHS |
Drama; Theme - Snow-Winter |
T.J. and his friend Dexter quit their jobs in Detroit to become ski-instructors in Aspen. While T.J... |
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
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VHS |
Comedy |
A 1960's hipster secret agent is brought out of cryofreeze to oppose his greatest enemy into the 1990's where his social attitudes are glaringly out of place. |
Babar: The Movie
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VHS |
Animation; Family |
Follow the adventures of every child's favorite elephant! |
Bachelor Party
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VHS |
Comedy |
A soon-to-be-married man's friends throw him the ultimate bachelor party. |
Back to the Beach
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VHS |
Comedy; Theme - Beach |
Frankie and Annette grow up and have kids in the midwest. They return to LA to visit their daughter... |
Back to the Future
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VHS |
Sci-Fi |
Eccentric Doc Brown invents time travel; young Marty McFly goes back in time, stops his parents from meeting; they must, or he won't be born. |
Back to the Future Part II
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VHS |
Sci-Fi |
After visiting 2015, Marty must repeat his visit to 1955 to prevent disastrous changes to 1985... without interfering with his first trip. |
Back to the Future Part III
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VHS |
Sci-Fi |
Marty travels to 1885 to keep Doc Brown from being murdered. |
Bad Medicine
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VHS |
Comedy |
Jeff Marx wants to study medicine and become a physician. However, his grades are far from enough to get him into an American medical school... |
The Baltimore Bullet
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VHS |
Comedy |
James Coburn is "The Baltimore Bullet", a legendary pool player who's seen better days. Coburn "adopts" aspiring pool champ Bruce Boxleitner , teaching him practically everything he knows. As we know it must, the plot requires Coburn and Boxleitner to face each other in the climactic winner-take-all match. As much fun as Baltimore Bullet is, the film can't help but be dwarfed by the 1986 Hustler sequel The Color of Money . Ronee Blakely proves an appealing heroine, while several real-life pool greats ( Willie Mosconi , Irving Crane , Steve Mizerak etc.) show up in cameo roles. — Hal Erickson |
BASEketball
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VHS |
Comedy |
Two childhood friends are pro athletes of a national sport called BASEketball, a hybrid of baseball and basketball, and must deal with a greedy businessman scheming against their team. |
Bean
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VHS |
Comedy |
Bean works as a caretaker at Britain's formidable Royal National Gallery, and his bosses want to fire him because he sleeps at work all the time... |
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
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VHS |
Family; Disney |
An apprentice witch, 3 kids and a cynical conman search for the missing component to a magic spell useful to the defence of Britain. |
Beer
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VHS |
Comedy |
An advertising firm, desperate to keep an account from a financially-ailing brewery, concocts a macho... |
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
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VHS |
Comedy |
This is an energetic, but ultimately mediocre adaptation of the play, directed on Broadway by Tommy Tune. Burt Reynolds is the town sheriff and a regular patron of a local bordello. He wages a public battle to keep it open after it is targeted as the devil's den by a television minister. Charles Durning was nominated for a Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, and there are some lively song and dance numbers featuring Dolly Parton as the madame of the Chicken Ranch. However, this becomes bogged down in too many serious moments for it to be more than a lightweight musical comedy. <I>--Rochelle O'Gorman</I> |
Better Off Dead...
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VHS |
Comedy; Theme - Snow-Winter |
A teenager has to deal with his girlfriend dumping him among family crises, homicidal paper boys, and a rival skier. |
Beverly Hills Cop II
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VHS |
Comedy |
Axel Foley returns to Beverly Hills to solve more crimes. |
Big
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VHS |
Drama |
More than anything else, 13-year old New Jerseyite Josh ( David Moscow ) wants to be "big". That's the wish he makes at an odd-looking amusement pier fortunetelling machine. The next morning, Josh wakes up-only to discover that he's grown to manhood overnight! (At this point, the part is taken over by Tom Hanks ). Still a 13-year-old mentally and emotionally, Josh decides to hide out in New York City until he can figure out what to do next. He lucks into a job with a major toy company run by kid-at-heart McMillan ( Robert Loggia ). By cannily bringing a child's eye view to McMillan's business, Josh rises to the top-and in process, he falls in love with fellow employee Susan ( Elizabeth Perkins ). But he's still a kid, and he'd like to go back to his own world and own body. Written by Gary Ross and Anne Spielberg , Big proved a crucial success for budding director Penny Marshall , who'd work harmoniously with Hanks again on the radically different A League of Their Own . The cinematography was by Barry Sonenfeld , who went on to become a director himself with The Addams Family . That Big was heavily reliant upon the input of Tom Hanks and Penny Marshall was proven by the failed attempt to turn the property into a Broadway musical. — Hal Erickson |
Big Bully
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VHS |
Comedy |
David Leary was bullied by Rosco when he was in elementary school. But he got even on the day his parents moved out of town... |
The Big Picture
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VHS |
Drama |
Nick Chapman graduates from film school, and his short film wins a special prize. This gives him a high... |
Big Trouble
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VHS |
Comedy |
The last film directed by John Cassavetes, <I>Big Trouble</I> reteamed some of the creators of the much funnier <I>The In-Laws</I>. But despite another script by Andrew Bergman, and a cast that reunited Alan Arkin and Peter Falk, this comedy doesn't live up to its predecessor. A spoof of <I>Double Indemnity</I>, the film casts Arkin as a nervous insurance agent faced with huge college tuition bills for a trio of sons headed for Yale. To make extra money, he gets involved in a scheme with a woman (Beverly D'Angelo) trying to kill her husband (Falk). That the whole thing turns out to be an adventure in insurance fraud shouldn't come as a surprise. Despite an inconsistent script, the chemistry between Arkin and Falk can still produce the occasional laugh. <I>--Marshall Fine</I> |
Big Trouble in Little China
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VHS |
Action |
An All-American trucker gets dragged into a centuries-old mystical battle in Chinatown. |
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
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VHS |
Comedy |
Keanu Reeves (<I>The Matrix</I>) and Alex Winter (<I>The Lost Boys</I>) deliver "spirited performances" (<I>The Hollywood Reporter</I>) in the original righteous comedy about the two ditzy dudes from San Dimas, California. Also starring George Carlin, this hysterically funny historical comedy is a "snappily directed" (<I>Time</I>), "bouncy good time" (<I>The Boston Globe</I>) and a party that goes on and on!<br><br> Bill (Winter) and Ted (Reeves) have spent so much time forming their rock band, The Wyld Stallyns, that they're flunking history. Whoa, duuuude! And when Ted's dad threatens to send him away to military school, Bill and Ted realize it could mean the most heinous end of The Stallyns! Luckily, a guardian angel from the future, Rufus (Carlin), has come to them with a most bodacious solution: a time-traversing phone booth to take them into the past to learn about the world from some of history's most influential personalities. Their journey through time turns out to be a blast…but will they learn enough to pass their class? |
Biloxi Blues
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VHS |
Drama |
A group of young recruits go through boot camp during the Second World War in Biloxi Mississippi. From the play by Neil Simon. |
The Birdcage
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VHS |
Comedy |
A gay cabaret owner and his transvestite companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiance's right-wing moralistic parents. |
Black Caesar
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VHS |
Action; Theme - Urban |
Tommy Gibbs is a tough kid, raised in the ghetto, who aspires to be a kingpin criminal. As a young boy... |
Black Sheep
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VHS |
Comedy |
A gubernatorial candidate tries to make sure his well-meaning but incompetent brother doesn't ruin the election. |
The Blair Witch Project
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VHS |
Horror |
In October of 1994, three student film makers disappeared in the woods near Burkittesville, Maryland. One year later, their footage was found. |
Blue in the Face
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VHS |
Drama; Theme - Urban |
Wayne Wang's follow-up movie to Smoke presents a series of improvisational situations strung together... |
The Boatniks
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VHS |
Family; Disney |
The inept Ensign Garland ( Robert Morse ) battles a trio of jewel thieves in this Walt Disney comedy. Garland starts by spilling paint on the lovely Kate Fairchild ( Stephanie Powers ). Harry ( Phil Silvers ), Max ( Norman Fell ) and Charlie ( Mickey Shaughnessy ) try to recover the jewels accidentally dumped by Garland into a picnic basket. Garland's superior is Commander Taylor ( Don Ameche ), who hounds the harried ensign for being a constant bumbler. Jason Bennett ( Wally Cox ) is the playboy who has replaced his yacht engine with a wine cellar. Character actors Joe E. Ross and Al Lewis witness the sight gags and react to the seafaring shenanigans. — Dan Pavlides |
Bob Roberts
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VHS |
Drama |
A corrupt rightwing folksinger runs a crooked election campaign while only one independent muck-raking reporter is trying to stop him. |
Boomerang
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VHS |
Comedy |
Eddie Murphy makes a graceless debut as a romantic lead in this comedy from Reginald Hudlin. Murphy stars as a ladies man for whom the tables turn when he suddenly finds himself taken for granted by a lover (Robin Givens). Meanwhile, the platonic friend (Halle Berry) whom Murphy regularly visits is obviously--to the viewer, anyway--the woman he's supposed to be with. The absurdly long film is filled out with some fairly crude humor, such as the sight of Geoffrey Holder taking a whiff of Grace Jones's underwear. Yet Hudlin and Murphy also strain for a veneer of elegance and sophistication. Wanting to play it both ways, they end up with nothing. But there are several good sequences where Murphy is quite funny just being Murphy, such as his explanation to Berry of how you can tell which characters in an old episode of <I>Star Trek</I> are destined to die. <I>--Tom Keogh</I> |
Bowfinger
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VHS |
Comedy |
When a desperate movie producer fails to get a major star for his bargain basement film, he decides to shoot the film secretly around him. |
Breakfast at Tiffany's
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VHS |
Drama |
Based on Truman Capote's novel, this is the story of a young, jet- setting woman in New York City who... |
Breakin'
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VHS |
Drama |
<i>Push it to pop it! Rock it to lock it! Break it to make it!</i><br><br> Three aspiring dancers take their best shot - and pop and lock - at the big time in the invigorating breakdancing phenomenon that inspired a sequel (<I>Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo</I>) and features a cameo by Ice-T!<br><br> Lucinda Dickey, Adolpho "Shabba-Doo" Quinones and Michael "Boogaloo Shrimp" Chambers pump up the jam as a struggling trio of dancers - jazz for her, break for them - taking on a rival street gang in a professional dance competition. Packed with fast-paced moves and furious jives and featuring smash hits "Breakin'... There's No Stoppin' Us" and "Freakshow on the Dance Floor," this heart-in-your-throat dance movie is a nonstop floor show of "excitingly staged... solid fun" (San Francisco Chronicle) |
Brewster's Millions
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VHS |
Comedy |
A minor league baseball player has to waste $30m in 30 days in order to inherit $300m; however he's not allowed to tell anyone about the $300m deal. |
Bright Lights, Big City
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VHS |
Drama; Theme - Urban |
A young kid from Kansas moves to New York to work on a magazine. He gets caught up in the world of drink and drugs... |
Buckaroo Banzai, Adventures of - The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
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VHS |
Sci-Fi |
<I>The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the 8th Dimension</I> is one of the most agreeably insane movies ever made. Peter Weller stars as Buckaroo, an acclaimed neurosurgeon, particle physicist, and, of course, rock star. He travels with the Hong Kong Cavaliers, a band of hard-rocking scientists who are also really good dressers. Buckaroo's interdimensional experiments with his Operation Overthruster throw him (and the Earth) straight into the middle of an alien war, and before you know it, he's got just a few hours to save the world. Confused? Hang on, we're only 10 minutes into the movie. <I>Buckaroo Banzai</I> hurls you right into the middle of its comic-book universe and keeps going at a breakneck pace. It's chock-full of overlapping jokes (even as we're trying to make sense of Dr. Lizardo's hospital room, a voice calmly announces that "lithium is no longer available on credit" over the PA system), hilarious throwaway dialogue ("You're like Jerry Lewis: you give me hope to carry on."), and weirdness just for the sheer joy of it ("Why is there a watermelon there?" "I'll tell you later."). You'll want to watch it at least twice--there's just no way to catch everything the first time around. Ellen Barkin has a terrific time doing a dead-on film noir moll parody as Penny Priddy, and John Lithgow turns in a brilliant manic performance as Dr. Lizardo/John Whorfin. There is no reason not to own this movie unless you are cold and dead inside. Laugh while you can, Monkey Boys. <I>--Ali Davis</I> |
The Buddy Holly Story
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VHS |
Drama |
A film about the life and career of the early rock and roll star. |
Buford's Beach Bunnies
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VHS |
Comedy; Theme - Beach |
Fast-food mogul Harry Buford serves up the best barbecued bunny sandwiches, and the hottest waitresses... |
Bugsy Malone
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VHS |
Comedy; Family |
A gangster movie where all the gangsters are children. Instead of real bullets they use "splurge guns" that cover the victim in cream... |
Bullseye!
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VHS |
Comedy |
Moore and Caine play dual rolls in this off-beat and highly silly caper - a pair of small time con-men and a partnership of nuclear physicists... |
The 'burbs
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VHS |
Comedy |
An overstressed suburbanite and his paramilitaric neighbor struggle to prove their paranoid theory that the new family in town is a front for a cannibalistic cult. |
Cabin Boy
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VHS |
Comedy |
A foul-mouthed finishing school graduate mistakenly winds up on an ill-fated fishing boat, and faces the wrath of a crew that considers him bad luck. |
The Cable Guy
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VHS |
Drama |
One man wants free cable while his strangely possesive cable guy wants a new friend. |
Caddyshack
|
VHS |
Comedy; Theme - Sports |
An exclusive golf course has to deal with a brash new member. |
Caddyshack II
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VHS |
Comedy; Theme - Sports |
When a crass new-money tycoon's membership application is turned down at a snooty country club, he retaliates... |
Cadillac Man
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VHS |
Comedy; Theme - Urban |
Joe's a car salesman with a problem. He has two days to sell 12 cars or he loses his job. This would... |
Canadian Bacon
|
VHS |
Comedy |
The U.S. President, low in the opinion polls, gets talked into raising his popularity by trying to start a cold war against Canada. |
Candleshoe
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VHS |
Family; Disney |
Small time crook, Harry Bundage discovers that the old manor where Lady St. Edmund resides, with a number... |
Cannibal! The Musical
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VHS |
Musical |
The sole survivor of an ill-fated mining expedition tells how his taste for gold was replaced by that of human flesh. |
Captain Ron
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VHS |
Comedy; Theme - Beach |
A family in Chicago inherits the yacht formerly owned by Clark Gable. They decide to sail it from the island of Ste... |
Car and Driver - Cars of the Future
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VHS |
Documentary |
Car and Driver magazine provides auto enthusiasts with a glimpse into the future of automobiles. Among the featured cars are the Ford Ghia Zig & Zag and the Air-X. Also included are the Nissan Gobi and the Chrysler 300. Another segment is devoted to footage of a car that can fly. Each profiled vehicle is evaluated in terms of its likely speed, maneuverability, production costs, and marketability. — Elizabeth Smith |
Car Wash
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VHS |
Comedy |
Car Wash is about a close-knit group of black employees who one day have all manner of strange visitors coming onto their forecourt... |
Carbon Copy
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VHS |
Drama |
A white corporate executive is supprised to discover that he has a black teen-age son who can't wait to be adopted into the... |
Career Opportunities
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VHS |
Comedy |
Josie, the daughter of the town's wealthiest businessman, faces problems at home and wishes to leave home... |
Casablanca
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VHS |
Drama |
Rick Blaine, a callous nightclub owner in a wartime waystation, has his world turned upside down when his lost love, Ilsa, returns. |
Casino
|
VHS |
Drama; Theme - Gambling-Vegas |
Greed, deception, money, power, and murder occur between two mobster best friends and a trophy wife over a gambling empire. |
The Cat from Outer Space
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VHS |
Family; Disney |
A UFO is stranded on earth and impounded by the US government. Its pilot, a cat with a collar that has special powers... |
Cat's Eye
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VHS |
Horror |
A stray cat is the linking element of three tales of suspense and horror. |
Celebrity
|
VHS |
Comedy |
The fortunes of a husband and wife differ drastically after they divorce. |
Celtic Pride
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VHS |
Comedy |
Two over-loyal Celtic fans kidnap their opponent's star player in order to guarantee their team the championship. |
Chairman of the Board
|
VHS |
Comedy; Theme - Office |
A surfer becomes the head of a major company. |
Chaplin
|
VHS |
Drama |
A film about the troubled and controversial life of the master comedy filmmaker. |
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
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VHS |
Animation; Family; Holiday |
Charlie Brown invites the gang over for a Thanksgiving feast that is catered by Snoopy. |
Chasing Amy
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VHS |
Drama |
Holden and Banky are comic book artists. Everything's going good for them until they meet Alyssa, also a comic book artist. Holden falls for her, but his hopes are crushed when he finds out she's a lesbian. |
Christmas Eve on Sesame Street
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VHS |
Family; Holiday |
This Emmy Award-winning musical from 1978 explores an age-old Christmas conundrum: how does a big guy like Santa Claus squeeze down all those narrow chimneys? When Big Bird and his <I>Sesame Street</I> friends set out to find the answer one Christmas Eve, they explore a variety of amusing theories and learn a lot about the meaning of Christmas in the process. You won't want to miss seeing all your favorite <I>Sesame Street</I> characters as they take to the ice at a nearby skating rink. Perhaps the most enjoyable feature of all is the wealth of wonderful music--everything from traditional Christmas songs to the now famous "Keep Christmas with You" by Joe Raposo. Several numbers are signed in American Sign Language and there's even a brief mention of Hanukkah. This 60-minute, classic <I>Sesame Street</I> special, which teaches kids from 2 to 10 to value giving more than receiving and stresses the importance of love and togetherness, is also thoroughly entertaining. <I>--Tami Horiuchi</I> |
A Christmas Story
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VHS |
Comedy; Holiday |
Ralphie has to convince his parents, teachers, and Santa that a Red Ryder BB gun really is the perfect gift for the 1940's. |
Christmas Vacation
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VHS |
Comedy; Holiday |
The Griswold family's plans for a big family Christmas predictably turn into a big disaster. |
City Lights
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VHS |
Comedy |
The Tramp struggles to help a blind flower girl he has fallen in love with. |
City Slickers
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VHS |
Comedy |
A mid-life crisis plagued man and his friends find renewal and purpose on a cattle driving vacation. |
A Civil Action
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VHS |
Drama |
The families of children who died sue two companies for dumping toxic waste: a tort so expensive to prove, the case could bankrupt their lawyer. |
Cloak & Dagger
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VHS |
Family |
11-year-old Davey, whose mother is dead and whose father is preoccupied with his own problems, has retreated... |
Clue
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VHS |
Comedy |
Six guests are invited to a strange house and must cooperate with the staff to solve a murder mystery. |
Coming to America
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VHS |
Comedy |
An African prince goes to Queens, New York City to find a wife whom he can respect for her intelligence and will. |
Con Air
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VHS |
Action |
A newly released ex con and former US Ranger finds himself trapped in a prisoner transport plane when the other prisoners sieze control. |
Condorman
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VHS |
Family; Disney |
Cartoonist Woody becomes the superhero he draws. Using his gadgets he helps a Soviet spy defect to the West. |
Cool Runnings
|
VHS |
Family; Disney |
Based on the true story of the First Jamacian bobsled team trying to make it to the winter olympics. |
Corvette Summer
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VHS |
Drama |
Ken (Mark Hamill) is a high school student who dreams of driving Corvettes. His passion leads him to a perfect job as a Corvette mechanic... |
The Couch Trip
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VHS |
Comedy |
The escaped delinquent John Burn deputizes for dr. Maitlin, saying he's the psychiatrist Lawrence Baird... |
Crime Story, Part 01
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VHS |
Theme - Gambling-Vegas; Drama |
The saga of a Chicago police detective's efforts to stop a young hood's ruthless rise in the ranks of organized crime. |
Crime Story, Part 02
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VHS |
Drama; Theme - Gambling-Vegas |
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Crime Story, Part 03
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VHS |
Drama; Theme - Gambling-Vegas |
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Crime Story, Part 04
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VHS |
Drama; Theme - Gambling-Vegas |
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Crime Story, Part 05
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VHS |
Drama; Theme - Gambling-Vegas |
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Crime Story, Part 06
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VHS |
Drama; Theme - Gambling-Vegas |
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Crime Story, Part 07
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VHS |
Drama; Theme - Gambling-Vegas |
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Crime Story, Part 08
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VHS |
Drama; Theme - Gambling-Vegas |
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Crime Story, Part 09
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VHS |
Drama; Theme - Gambling-Vegas |
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Crime Story, Part 10
|
VHS |
Drama; Theme - Gambling-Vegas |
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Critical Condition
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VHS |
Comedy |
A man framed in a jewel smuggling tries for an insanity plea and is sent to a hospital for review where he is confused for another doctor and takes over the hospital when a major storm hits. |
Crocodile Dundee
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VHS |
Comedy |
An American reporter goes to the Australian outback to meet an eccentric crocodile poacher and invites him to New York City. |
Darby O'Gill and the Little People
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VHS |
Family; Disney |
Purportedly one of Walt Disney's most personal pet projects, <i>Darby O'Gill</i> shows the effort and care put into it. Even now the special effects hold up shockingly well. Darby O'Gill is an estate caretaker, but in his advanced years he's more fond of telling tall tales in the local pub about the wee folk than keeping the grounds. A new man (a very youthful Sean Connery) is sent in to take his place, and O'Gill doesn't know what will become of himself and his daughter. He snags three spectacular opportunities, however, when he catches the king of the leprechauns. This film is whimsical without being silly, supernatural without being outlandish, and all and all a treat for the whole family. <i>--Keith Simanton</i> |
Dave
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VHS |
Comedy; Theme - Politics |
A lookalike is hired to impersonate the president who has suffered a stroke rendering him a vegetable while having sex with a co-worker. |
Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier
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VHS |
Family; Western; Disney |
Cashing in on the surprise success of his 1954 Davy Crockett TV miniseries (first presented on the weekly anthology Disneyland ), Walt Disney assembled the three hour-long "Crockett" episodes into a 93 minute theatrical feature. While the re-editing process has created a few noticeable continuity gaps, the results are by and large satisfying: certainly audiences in 1955 were satisfied, if box office returns are any indication (and, of course, they are). Fess Parker plays Davy Crockett, Tennessee-born frontiersman, while Buddy Ebsen (Disney's original choice for Crockett) co-stars as Davy's sidekick George Russell. The film is divided into three long episodes, each separated by a title card. Part one shows Crockett the Indian fighter (politically correct? Of course not!); part two finds Davy winning a seat in the Nashville legislature, where his heroism is rather cynically exploited by presidential candidate Andrew Jackson ( Basil Ruysdael ); and part three concludes at the Alamo, with a discreet cutaway just before Davy meets his doom at the hands of Mexican general Santa Anna. Also appearing in this jerry-built film are Hans Conried as Thimblerig and Helene Stanley as Davy's wife Polly. And who could forget "The Ballad of Davy Crockett"—not to mention those neato coonskin caps? Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier was followed in 1956 by a "prequel" (likewise cobbled together from three Disneyland episodes), Davy Crockett and the River Pirates. — Hal Erickson |
The Day After
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VHS |
Drama |
A graphic, disturbing film about the effects of a devastating nuclear holocaust on small-town residents of central Kansas. |
The Day the Earth Stood Still
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VHS |
Sci-Fi |
An alien lands and tells the people of Earth that we must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets. |
Dead Pet
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VHS |
Drama |
Jake Thompson ( Kevin Cotteleer ) returns home during a break from Harvard only to learn his parents have spent his remaining tuition money on medical procedures for their insufferable poodle, Miko. That's just the beginning; mishaps are Jake's fate: He can't cut it as a door-to-door cutlery salesman for a cult-like company; he catches his girlfriend ( Gina Doctor ) with two of his best friends; he's arrested for being in a stolen car; the neighborhood is in an uproar over the suspicious death of Miko; and Jake's every step is chronicled by the local newspaper. With animal rights protestors picketing his parents' house, and with two women in a catfight on the lawn for Jake's affections, Jake decides to take action to change his luck. — Buzz McClain |
Dead Solid Perfect
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VHS |
Drama |
Made for Cable TV movie. A second-string pro golfer desprate for his shot at success tours the country... |
Deal of the Century
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VHS |
Comedy |
Arms dealers from several companies vie to sell the most expensive and highest tech weapons to a South American dictator... |
Death Race 2000
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VHS |
Sci-Fi |
A champion of a brutal cross-country car race of the future where pedestrians are run down for points... |
Demolition Man
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VHS |
Comedy |
A cop is brought out of suspended animation in prison to pursue an old ultra-violent enemy who is loose in a nonviolent future society. |
Desert Blue
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VHS |
Comedy |
An academic obsessed with "roadside attractions" and his tv-star daughter finally discover the world's largest ice cream cone... |
Desperado
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VHS |
Action |
A gunslinger is embroiled in a war with a local drug runner. |
Desperate Moves
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VHS |
Comedy |
A naive young man from a small Oregon town travels to the big city--in this case San Francisco--to pursue his dream... |
Diamonds Are Forever
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VHS |
Action; Bond |
Agent 007 goes to Las Vegas to investigate the disapperance of diamonds in transit and discovers the involvement of his archenemy, Blofeld. |
Die Hard
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VHS |
Action |
New York cop John McClane gives terrorists a dose of their own medicine as they hold hostages in an LA office building. |
Die Hard 2
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VHS |
Action |
John McClane is forced to battle mercenaries who sieze control of an airport's communications and threaten to cause plane crashes if their demands are not met. |
Die Hard 3, Making of
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VHS |
Documentary |
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The Dirt Bike Kid
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VHS |
Drama |
When his mother sends Jack off with money to buy groceries, he comes home with a magic supercharged dirt bike instead... |
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
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VHS |
Comedy |
Lawrence and Freddie are con-men; big-time and small time respectively. They unsuccessfully attempt... |
Disorderlies
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VHS |
Comedy |
A conniving nephew ( Anthony Geary ) wishes to get rid of his elderly uncle ( Ralph Bellamy ) to collect a large inheritance, so he hires the three worst orderlies he can find (played by the Fat Boys ). — John Bush |
Disorganized Crime
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VHS |
Drama |
This movie places some top thiefs, looking to steal money from a bank. The All-Star cast has many blunders on the way... |
The Distinguished Gentleman
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VHS |
Comedy; Theme - Politics |
A Florida con man uses the passing of the long time Congressman from his district who he just happens to share a name with... |
Doc Hollywood
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VHS |
Comedy |
A young doctor causes a traffic accident in a small town and is sentenced to work for some days at the town hospital. |
Doctor Detroit
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VHS |
Comedy |
A timid college professor, conned into posing as a flamboyant pimp, finds himself enjoying his new occupation on the streets. |
Don't Tell Her It's Me
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VHS |
Drama |
Gus is a fat cartoonist that recently won a battle against cancer, which explains his baldness. But he is also lonely... |
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
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VHS |
Comedy |
Beverly Hills couple Barbara and Dave Whiteman are very rich but not happy Dave is a hard working business man... |
Downhill Willie
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VHS |
Comedy; Theme - Snow-Winter |
Seeing that his close friend's business is in dire need of financial help, a daring ski nut enters a challenging downhill race in hopes of winning the prize money. — Sandra Brennan |
Dr. No
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VHS |
Action; Bond |
In the first James Bond movie, Bond pursues the villainous Dr. No to his secret installation on a Caribbean island. |
Dragnet
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VHS |
Comedy |
The equally-straight-laced and "by the book" nephew of Joe Friday must work with his more laid-back partner to solve a mystery. |
DTV - Golden Oldies
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VHS |
Animation; Disney; Family |
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DTV - Rock, Rhythm & Blues
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VHS |
Animation; Disney; Family |
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Duel
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VHS |
Action |
A business commuter is pursued and terrorized by a malevolent driver of a massive tractor-trailer. |
Dumb and Dumber
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VHS |
Comedy |
Delivering exactly what its title promises, this celebration of stupidity was Jim Carrey's 1994 follow-up to <i>Ace Ventura: Pet Detective</i> and <i>The Mask</i>. The film pairs the rubber- faced wacky man with Jeff Daniels as the not-so-dynamic duo of Lloyd and Harry, dunderheads who come into the possession of a briefcase containing ransom money that is intended for Mob-connected kidnappers. Lauren Holly costars as the woman who lost the briefcase, and with whom Carrey falls in love (both in real life and as his moronic on-screen character). As Lloyd and Harry make a mad dash to return the briefcase (never aware of its contents), the bumbling buddies attract Mobsters, cops, and trouble galore. This lowbrow laugh-a-thon scores some solid hits for hilarity, but with gags involving ill-fated parakeets, buxom bimbos, and an overdose of laxatives, be prepared to put your brain--and good taste--on hold. <i>--Jeff Shannon</i> |
Dutch
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VHS |
Comedy |
To get to know his girlfriend's son, a man volunteers to pick him up from a prep school....only to learn that her son's not the nicest kid. |
Easy Money
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VHS |
Comedy |
To inherit his mother-in-law's colossal fortune, a hard living, gambling addict must change his unhealthy ways before it gets the best of him. |
Eight Men Out
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VHS |
Drama; Theme - Sports |
A dramatization of the Black Sox scandal when the underpaid Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to deliberately lose the 1919 World Series. |
The Empire Strikes Back
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VHS |
Sci-Fi |
The middle film in George Lucas's enormously popular <i>Star Wars</i> science fiction trilogy is a darker, more somber entry, considered by many fans as the best in the series. Gone is the jaunty swashbuckling of the first film; the rebellion led by Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) suffers before the superior forces of the Empire, young hero Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) faces his first defeats as he attempts to harness the Force under the tutelage of Jedi master Yoda (voiced by Frank Oz), and cocky Han Solo (Harrison Ford) is betrayed by former ally Lando Calrissian (Billy Dee Williams). In the tradition of the great serials, this film is left with a hefty cliffhanger. The leap in special effects technology in the three years since <i>Star Wars</i> results in an amazing array of effects, including a breathtaking chase through an asteroid field and a dazzling, utopian Cloud City, where Luke faces the black-clad villain Darth Vader (David Prowse, voice of James Earl Jones) in a futuristic sword fight and learns the secret of his Jedi father. Veteran director Irvin Kershner (<i>The Eyes of Laura Mars</i>, <i>Never Say Never Again</i>) took the directorial reins from creator and producer Lucas and invested the light-speed adventure with deeper characters and a more emphatic sense of danger. The special edition expands Luke's encounter with the Abominable Snowman-esque wampa and establishes the creature as a tangibly more terrifying beast, in addition to refining many of the existing effects. The trilogy is concluded in <i>The Return of the Jedi.</i> <I>--Sean Axmaker</I> |
Erik the Viking
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VHS |
Comedy |
Erik the Viking gathers warriors from his village and sets out on a dangerous journey to Valhalla, to... |
The Ernest Film Festival
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VHS |
Comedy |
Before he went to camp, before he went to jail, before he saved Christmas, before he was scared stupid... |
European Vacation - National Lampoon's
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VHS |
Comedy |
The first time the Griswalds took a trip - in <I>National Lampoon's Vacation</I> - moviegoers everywhere went along for the ride… and went bonkers! Now, they're into even zanier sightseeing in <I>National Lampoon's European Vacation</I>, directed by Amy Heckerling (<I>Clueless, Fast Times at Ridgemont High</I>).<br><Br> Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo return as Clark and Ellen, winners of a European tour on which their teenagers Rusty (Jason Lively) and Audrey (Dana Hill) join them. Deluxe accommodations… aren't. Clark tries left-sided English Driving, leaving Stonehenge unhinged. In Bavaria a slap-dancing polka turns into a slaphappy free-for-all. It's holiday road havoc for the Griswalds - and your high road to hilarity! |
Evita
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VHS |
Musical |
<i>The Most Anticipated Motion Picture Event of The Year</i><br><br> Few times in the history of Hollywood has a film been released with the scope and daring of Evita! Now, experience this landmark achievement megastar Madonna- in the role of a lifetime- joins handsome Antonio Banderas for the year's most talked-about motion picture event!<BR><BR> Evita is the riveting true-life story of Eva Peron, who rose above childhood poverty and a scandalous past to achieve unimaginable fortune and fame. Despite widespread controversy- her passion changed a nation forever! Winner of the coveted Academy Award for Best Song (1996) and 3 Golden Globe Awards (Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Song)- critics nationwide hailed Evita as a triumphant must-see masterpiece- and so will you! |
The Experts
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VHS |
Comedy |
When Travis (John Travolta) and Wendell (Arye Gross) are kidnapped while on their way to opening a nightclub in rural Nebraska... |
Fantasia
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VHS |
Family; Animation; Disney |
A collection of animated interpretations of great works of classical music. |
Fargo
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VHS |
Drama |
Es könnte der Plan zum perfekten Verbrechen sein: Der abgebrannte Autoverkäufer Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy) engagiert zwei Galgenvögel, die seine Ehefrau entführen sollen. Doch die beiden Schmalspur-Gangster, der eine ein hypernervöses Wrack (Steve Buscemi), der andere ein schweigsamer Psychopath (Peter Stormare), gehen derart stümperhaft zu Werke, daß auf einmal drei Menschen tot in der verschneiten Einöde Minnesotas liegen. Ein Fall für Marge Gunderson (Frances McDormand). Die hochschwangere Polizistin nimmt die Spur auf - Blutstropfen für Blutstropfen. Ausgezeichnet mit 2 Oscars. |
Father of the Bride
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VHS |
Comedy |
In this remake of the Spencer Tracy classic, George and Nina Banks are the parents of young soon-to-be-wed Annie... |
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
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VHS |
Drama; Theme - Gambling-Vegas |
An oddball journalist and his psychopathic lawyer travel to Las Vegas for a series of psychadelic escapades. |
Feds
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VHS |
Comedy |
Ellie DeWitt and Janis Zuckermann are admitted to the very strict FBI Training Academy. They get a hard course... |
A Few Good Men
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VHS |
Drama |
Neo military lawyer Kaffee defends Marines accused of murder; they contend they were acting under orders of their imperious CO, Jessup. |
Fierce Creatures
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VHS |
Comedy |
Zookeepers struggle to deal with the policies of changing directors. |
The Fifth Element
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VHS |
Sci-Fi |
Two hundred and fifty years in the future, life as we know it is threatened by the arrival of Evil.... |
Finding Graceland
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VHS |
Drama |
An eccentric drifter claiming to be Elvis Presley hitches a ride with a young man and they find themselves on an adventurous road trip to Memphis. |
A Fine Mess
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VHS |
Comedy |
Two friends an actor and a chef discover a plot to fix a horse race and try to capitalize on it. But... |
Flash Gordon
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VHS |
Sci-Fi |
A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyrant, Ming the Merciless, to save Earth. |
Fletch
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VHS |
Comedy |
Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher, Los Angeles journalist, really lives for his profession. As Jane Doe, he publishes... |
Follow that Bird - Sesame Street Presents
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VHS |
Family |
<I>Follow That Bird</I> is as much a journey through time as it is a romp past the Sesame Street stop sign. Curiously, the cast members--live ones like Gordon and Maria, not just the Muppets--have the timeless look to them. Only the cameos (by Sandra Bernhard, John Candy, and others) plus a few ill-conceived hairdos clue us in that this feature film was made in 1985. Otherwise, it's all sophisticated Sesame humor and bighearted fun here as Oscar, the Count, and crew set off to rescue Big Bird, who's on the lam from a family of adoptive dodos. Only one conceivable complaint: The latter crop of <I>Street</I> viewers may miss Elmo, who hadn't been created when <I>Bird</I> first flew into theaters. <I>--Tammy La Gorce</I> |
For Love or Money
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VHS |
Drama |
A consciencious concierge at a Manhattan hotel tries to woo the woman he loves as he manages the demands of his guests... |
For Your Eyes Only
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VHS |
Action; Bond |
Agent 007 is assigned to hunt for a lost British encryption device and prevent it from falling into enemy hands. |
Forrest Gump
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VHS |
Drama |
Forrest Gump, while not intelligent, has accidentally been present at many historic moments, but his true love, Jenny, eludes him. |
Fraternity Vacation
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VHS |
Comedy |
A nerd gains the friendship of two of his frat brothers when his dad offers them his condo for the week in Palm Springs... |
Freaked
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VHS |
Comedy |
A company that produces a toxic chemical tries to improve its image via a popular spokesperson, Ricky Coogan... |
The Freshman
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VHS |
Drama |
Clark Kellogg is a young man starting his first year at film school in New York City. After a small time crook steals all his belongings... |
Fright Night
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VHS |
Horror |
When a teenager learns that his next door neighbour is a vampire, no one will believe him. |
The Frighteners
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VHS |
Comedy |
A con-man who converses with the dead finds himself caught up in a series of murders committed by the ghost of a serial killer. |
From Dusk Till Dawn
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VHS |
Action |
Two brother criminals and their hostages encounter vampires at a Mexican bar. |
From Russia with Love
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VHS |
Action; Bond |
Agent 007 is sent into Turkey to confiscate an encryption device which is actually a trap for him contrived by SPECTRE. |
From the Hip
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VHS |
Drama |
Apprentice lawyer Robin Weathers turns a civil suit into a headline grabbing charade. He must reexamine... |
The Front
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VHS |
Drama |
A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand. |
Fun and Fancy Free
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VHS |
Family; Animation; Disney |
Jiminy Cricket hosts two Disney animated shorts: "Bongo," about a circus bear escaping to the wild, and "Mickey and the Beanstalk," a take on the famous fairy tale. |
Funny Farm
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VHS |
Comedy |
When Andy and Elizabeth buy a farm in Vermont, they can't imagine the trouble that awaits them. Andy... |
Gen-X Cops
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VHS |
Action |
This is what <I>The Mod Squad</I> wanted to be. Chan (Eric Tsang), a cop on the fringe of the force, assembles a team of loose-cannon cadets--the <I>Gen-X Cops</I>--to infiltrate the mobs of Hong Kong, and they find a stolen shipment of explosive rocket fuel. Dressed in skin-tight leather and vinyl, hip to the point of being ridiculous, our heroes (named Jack, Alien, and Match) have to fight not only ultraviolent criminals but also hostile factions within the police as they track down a supercool Japanese gangster with no fear of death. The clichés fly fast and thick, and the plot is at times incomprehensible, but the action is pretty much nonstop. A shootout in a surfboard factory is particularly spectacular but is only one of several rapidly edited, stunt-filled sequences. The dubbing is better than usual (though subtitles would still be preferable), and there's some unfortunate homophobia, but the actors are all good-looking, the rock soundtrack is loud, the colors are bright, and the attitude is intense. <i>Gen-X Cops</i> even features a cameo by Jackie Chan, who's somehow involved with presenting the film. A slick, silly, and very entertaining movie. <I>--Bret Fetzer</I> |
Ghost Fever
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VHS |
Comedy |
Two policeman are sent on a routine assignment to serve an eviction notice. It becomes anything but... |
Gleaming the Cube
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VHS |
Drama |
Brian's adopted brother is killed when he discovers that the shop he works in sends weapons to Vietnam instead of medications... |
The Godfather
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VHS |
Drama |
A Mafia boss' innocent son gets involved in the bloody family business when his father is critically wounded in a mob hit. |
Going Bananas
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VHS |
Comedy |
When a disgruntled chimp escapes from his circus master, he leads a number of people on a wild and crazy chase across Africa. — Iotis Erlewine |
Going Undercover
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VHS |
Comedy |
A bungling gumshoe tries hard to affect a hard-boiled demeanor, despite the fact that his latest assignment is to protect the bratty young heiress to a fortune in this lively spoof of detective movies. Henry Brilliant, Private Eye, is no stranger to the ways of the wealthy as he too comes from a blue-blooded family, but he tries to ignore that to become the classic Chandleresque detective as he heads for Europe to follow the girl on her tour and keep her from being kidnapped by her stepmother who is really after her husband's secret formula for controlling the weather. — Sandra Brennan |
The Golden Child
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VHS |
Drama |
A private detective specializing in missing children is charged with the task of finding a special child that dark forces want to eliminate. |
GoldenEye
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VHS |
Action; Bond |
Bond is back, this time with Pierce Brosnan as the British superspy. Now that the Cold War is over, Bond has new enemies to contend with. |
Goldfinger
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VHS |
Action; Bond |
Investigating a gold magnate's gold smuggling, James Bond uncovers a plot to contaminate the Fort Knox gold reserve. |
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
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VHS |
Western |
Clint Eastwood (the Man with No Name) is good, Lee Van Cleef (Angel Eyes Sentenza) is bad, and Eli Wallach (Tuco Benedito Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez) is ugly in the final chapter of Sergio Leone's trilogy of spaghetti westerns (the first two were <I>A Fistful of Dollars</I> and <I>For a Few Dollars More</I>). In this sweeping film, the characters form treacherous alliances in a ruthless quest for Confederate gold. Leone is sometimes underrated as a director, but the excellent resolution on this digital video disc should enhance appreciation of his considerable photographic talent and gorgeous widescreen compositions. Ennio Morricone's jokey score is justifiably famous. The digital video disc includes about a quarter-hour of footage not seen in the original release. |
GoodFellas
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VHS |
Drama |
Martin Scorsese scores again with his gritty, kinetic adaptation of Nicolas Pileggi 's best-selling Wiseguy , the true-life account of mobster and FBI informant Henry Hill. Set to a true-to-period rock soundtrack, the story details the rise and fall of Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian New York kid who grows up idolizing the "wise guys" in his impoverished Brooklyn neighborhood. He begins hanging around the mobsters, running errands, and doing odd jobs until he gains the notice of local chieftain Paulie Cicero ( Paul Sorvino ), who takes him in as a surrogate son. As he reaches his teens, Hill is inducted into the world of petty crime, where he distinguishes himself as a "stand-up guy" by choosing jail time over ratting on his accomplices. From that moment on, he is a part of the family. Along with his psychotic partner Tommy ( Joe Pesci ), he rises through the ranks to become Paulie's lieutenant; however, he quickly learns that, like his mentor Jimmy ( Robert DeNiro ), another half-Irish mobster, his ethnicity prevents him from ever becoming a "made guy," an actual member of the crime family. Soon he finds himself the target of both the feds and the mobsters, who feel that he has become a threat to their security with his reckless dealings. Goodfellas was rewarded with six Academy Award nominations including Best Picture; Pesci would walk away with Best Supporting Actor for his work. — Jeremy Beday |
A Goofy Movie
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VHS |
Family; Animation; Disney |
When Max makes an preposterous promise to his girlfriend, his chances to fulfilling it seem hopeless when he is dragged onto a cross-country trip with his embarrassing father, Goofy. |
Goofy over Sports
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VHS |
Animation; Disney; Family |
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The Goonies
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VHS |
Family; Drama |
A group of west coast kids facing their last days together before a development paves over their homes stumble onto evidence of pirate's treasure... |
Gotcha!
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VHS |
Drama |
Jonathan plays a game called Gotcha in which he hunts and is hunted by other students with paint guns... |
Great Balls of Fire!
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VHS |
Drama |
The story of Jerry Lee Lewis, arguably the greatest and certainly one of the wildest musicians of the 1950s... |
The Great Bank Hoax
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VHS |
Comedy |
Shortly before the bank examiner is due to arrive, higher-ups at a small-town bank discover that a beloved long-term employee has embezzled $100,000. The embezzler ( Paul Sand ), says he did it just to point out a flaw in the bank's bookkeeping practices. Bank officers Jack and Emanuel ( Burgess Meredith and Richard Basehart ) cook up a scheme to cover up the theft, which, incidentally, will net them an additional hundred grand. The supposedly secret embezzlement and bank examiner visit becomes known throughout the tight-knit community. Some pillars of the community see it as an opportunity for gain and others want to help save reputations, but everyone gets involved. — Clarke Fountain |
The Great Mouse Detective
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VHS |
Family; Animation; Disney |
Basil, the rodent Sherlock Holmes, investigates the kidnapping of a toy-maker and uncovers its link to his archenemy, Professor Ratigan. |
The Great Muppet Caper
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VHS |
Family; Comedy |
Kermit, Gonzo and Fozzie are reporters who travel to Britain to interview a rich victim of jewel thieves and help her along with her secretary, Miss Piggy. |
The Great Outdoors
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VHS |
Comedy |
A Chicago man's hope for a peaceful family vacation in the woods is shattered when the annoying in-laws drop in. |
The Groove Tube
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VHS |
Comedy |
A collection of skits that make fun of television. Everything from commercials to the nightly news are spoofed... |
Grosse Pointe Blank
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VHS |
Comedy |
Hit man Martin Q. Blank (John Cusack) is in an awkward situation. Several of them, actually. He's attending his high school reunion on an assignment; he's got a rival hit man (Dan Aykroyd) on his tail; and he's going to have to explain to his old girlfriend (Minnie Driver) why he stood her up on prom night. This amiable black comedy, cowritten by Cusack and directed by Jonathan Demme protégé George Armitage (<I>Miami Blues</I>), has the feel of Demme's <I>Something Wild</I> and <I>Married to the Mob</I>--which is to say its humor is dark and brightly colored at the same time. Cusack and Driver are utterly charming--as is the leading man's sister, Joan, who plays his secretary. (Ms. Cusack received an Oscar nomination for her next role, in <I>In & Out</i>.) Alan Arkin is also very funny as Martin's psychiatrist. <I>--Jim Emerson</I> |
Groundhog Day
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VHS |
Comedy |
Phil, a sarcastic weather man, finds himself trapped in the identical February 2, but he's the only person that realizes it. |
Gung Ho
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VHS |
Comedy |
When a Japanese car company buys an American plant, the American liason must mediate the clash of work attitudes between the foreign management and native labor. |
Hail Caesar
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VHS |
Comedy |
Caesar is a would-be rock star. But for now, he works at a pencil eraser factory. Soon he falls in love with the owner's daughter... |
Halloween Treat
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VHS |
Animation; Family; Disney; Holiday |
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Hamburger... The Motion Picture
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VHS |
Comedy |
Russell has been expelled from several schools for lewd, crude and nude conduct. Busterburger University... |
Hangin' with the Homeboys
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VHS |
Drama |
Two African-Americans and two Puerto-Ricans (though one pretends to be Italian) go out on the town on a Friday night... |
Happiness
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VHS |
Drama |
Three middle-class New Jersey sisters all have their problems with their families and sex lives. |
Happy Gilmore
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VHS |
Comedy |
A rejected hockey player puts his skills to the golf course to save his grandmother's house. |
Happy New Year
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VHS |
Comedy |
Small time crooksters Nick and Charlie have an elaborate plan to rob an exclusive jewelers store. Using... |
The Hard Way
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VHS |
Comedy |
An action film star researching a role is allowed to tag along with a hardboiled New York cop, who finds him superficial and irritating. |
Hardbodies 2
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VHS |
Comedy |
A film crew is travelling from America to Greece to produce a movie. Before their work is done they will have to face many unusual situations... |
Harlem Nights
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VHS |
Comedy |
"Sugar" Ray is the owner of an illegal casino, who contend with the pressures of vicious gangster and... |
Haunted Honeymoon
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VHS |
Comedy |
Larry Abbot, speaker in the radio horror shows of Manhattan Mystery Theater wants to marry. For the... |
Head Office
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VHS |
Comedy; Theme - Office |
Upon graduation from college with a business degree, John Issel is promptly hired by Helmes's company I.N.C... |
Heathers
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VHS |
Drama |
A girl who half-heartedly tries to be part of the "in crowd" of her school meets a rebel who teaches her a more devious way to play social politics. |
Heavy Metal
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VHS |
Animation; Sci-Fi |
A glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with a collection of stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror. |
Heavyweights
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VHS |
Family; Comedy |
Plump kids are lured into joining a posh fat camp with the promise of quick weight loss and good times, only to find that the facility is a woodland hellhole run by a psycho ex-fitness instructor (Ben Stiller). |
The Heist
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VHS |
Drama |
Framed con-man seeks revenge by planning a racetrack heist. |
Herbie Goes Bananas
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VHS |
Family; Comedy |
This fourth Love Bug movie is a wooden story about Herbie's funny adventures heading toward a race in Brazil. Charles Martin Smith and Steven W. Burns try hard to bring some life into this project, but it just doesn't happen. There is one good laugh in the whole thing, in a scene where Herbie becomes a matador. Otherwise, even the picturesque, south-of-the-border stuff doesn't help. <I>--Tom Keogh</I> |
Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo
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VHS |
Family; Comedy |
Herbie, the Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of its own, is racing in the Monte Carlo Rally. Unbeknownst to Herbie's driver... |
Herbie Rides Again
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VHS |
Family; Comedy |
The living Volkswagen Beetle helps a old lady protect her home from a corrupt developer. |
Hercules
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VHS |
Family; Animation; Disney |
The son of the Greek Gods Zeus and Hera is stripped of his immortality as an infant and must become a true hero in order to reclaim it. |
Hero at Large
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VHS |
Comedy |
An idealistic but struggling actor finds his life unexpectedly complicated when he stops a robbery while wearing the costume of Captain Avenger... |
Hiding Out
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VHS |
Drama |
A very succesful stock broker is called to court to testify against a mob boss who was into some inside trading... |
High School U.S.A.
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VHS |
Comedy |
Set in a senior high school class, J.J. (Michael J. Fox) pursues the girlfriend of a rival from a higher... |
The Holcroft Covenant
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VHS |
Drama |
The son of a German General becomes part of a mysterious conspiracy to gain hidden Nazi funds. |
Hollywood Boulevard, Part 2
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VHS |
Comedy |
Roger Corman's production company does it again with this fast-paced, funny send-up of grade "B" movie-making. Like the first Hollywood Boulevard , this story is set at the kitschiest production company in Tinsel Town, Miracle Pictures. The trouble begins during the filming of Barbarian Goddesses of the Amazon It seems someone has been bumping off the studio's buxom starlets. Poor studio head Max Miranda is frantic to find new ones. When toothsome Candy Chandler slinks in, someone mistakes her for an extra and rushes her into the set for Barbarian , where Max becomes instantly enamored and begins promising her that she will be the studio's brightest young star, something that doesn't set well with jealous diva Mary Randolph. Corman fans will again be delighted by the many clips from earlier New World films and by the many inside jokes. — Sandra Brennan |
Hollywood Shuffle
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VHS |
Comedy |
Bobby Taylor wants to be a respected actor. From Sam Spade to Shakespeare to superheros, he can do it all... |
Honeymoon in Vegas
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VHS |
Comedy; Theme - Gambling-Vegas |
On her deathbed, a mother makes her son promise never to get married, which scars him with psychological blocks to a commitment with his girlfriend... |
The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit
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VHS |
Family; Disney |
Frederick Bolton has to solve two problems. First, his boss has instructed him to come up with a reasonable campaign to promote a new product... |
Hot Dog... The Movie
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VHS |
Comedy |
Naive corn-pone skiing wunderkind picks up beautiful hitchhiking bimbo on way to ski competition. Once... |
Hot Lead and Cold Feet
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VHS |
Disney; Family |
In this Disney western, Jim Dale plays Eli Bloodshy, and his twin sons Wild Billy and Jasper. The older man has founded the town of Bloodshy, and now that he has apparently died, his sons must battle for control of his legacy in a wild train race. One of them is a city-slicker, a mild-mannered, bible-spouting fellow; the other is a gun-fighting, drunken, hot-tempered lad, more at home with outlaws than with law-abiding citizens. When they settle with each other, they still have to battle venal Mayor Ragsdale ( Darren McGavin ) for real control. — Clarke Fountain |
Hot Stuff
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VHS |
Comedy |
Three cops try to set up a sting by establishing their own Fencing operation. They have less than complete... |
Hot to Trot
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VHS |
Comedy; Theme - Sports |
Fred P. Chaney receives as inheritance after the death of his mother a speaking horse that also has good knowledge about the stock-market... |
How the Best Was Won - 1933-1960 - Walt Disney Cartoon Classics Limited Gold Edition
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VHS |
Animation; Disney; Family |
This animated anthology from Walt Disney studios is comprised of some of their most popular cartoon shorts from the 1930s-1960s. Films include the Oscar-winning Ferdinand the Bull (1938), Three Orphan Kittens , Funny Little Bunnies , and Building a Building featuring Mickey Mouse. — Sandra Brennan |
Howard the Duck
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VHS |
Comedy |
A sarcastic humanoid duck is pulled from his homeworld to Earth where he must stop an alien invader. |
The Hudsucker Proxy
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VHS |
Comedy |
A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam. |
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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VHS |
Animation; Family; Disney |
A deformed bellringer must assert his independence from a vicious government minister in order to help his friend, a gypsy dancing girl. |
Idle Hands
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VHS |
Horror |
Lazy Anton's right hand becomes possessed with murderous intent. |
If Looks Could Kill
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VHS |
Comedy |
When Michael Corben, along with the rest of his high-school French class, set out for a trip to France... |
In the Mood
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VHS |
Comedy |
Based upon the true story of "Sonny" Wisecarver. In 1944, Sonny made headlines nationwide due to his affairs with 2 older adult women... |
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
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VHS |
Action |
The daring archaeologist and his father search for the Holy Grail and fight the Nazis. |
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
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VHS |
Action |
In India, Indiana Jones agrees to look for a village's lost magic stone and in doing so, stumbles on to a secret massive Thuggee cult. |
Innerspace
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VHS |
Drama |
A hapless store clerk must foil criminals to save the life of the man who, miniaturized in a secret experiment, was accidentally injected into him. |
The Ipcress File
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VHS |
Drama |
In London, a counter espionage agent deals with his own bureaucracy while investigating the kidnapping and brainwashing of British scientists. |
It's a Wonderful Life
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VHS |
Drama; Family; Holiday |
An angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman by showing what life would had been like if he never existed. |
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
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VHS |
Family; Animation; Holiday |
The Peanuts gang celebrate Halloween while Linus does yet another stubborn vigil for the Great Pumpkin. |
It's the Muppets, Vol. 1 - Meet the Muppets
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VHS |
Family |
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James Taylor - Squibnocket
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VHS |
Musical |
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James Taylor Live at the Beacon Theatre
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VHS |
Musical |
Sensitive singer-songwriter, soft-rock poster boy, boomer troubadour: James Taylor has outlived the stereotypes offered by fans and critics alike by simply staying his musical course and continuing to refine his familiar, deceptively mellifluous style. This 1998 concert displays Taylor's craftsmanship and easy rapport with both his band and his audience to satisfying effect, offering a repertoire that draws from his entire career while providing a generous selection of songs from his Grammy-winning 1997 set, <I>Hourglass</I>. Fans will love it, of course, but even jaded listeners can find fresh feeling and formidable expertise here.<p> By now, Taylor's skill at low-key love songs is a given, making him an archetypal "sensitive New Age guy" on the strength of his canny mix of emotional vulnerability, romantic imagery, and understated delivery. Less obviously, Taylor has gradually transformed the shadows of disillusionment audible in his earliest songs into a nuanced acknowledgment of his own age. "Line 'Em Up," from <I>Hourglass</I>, typifies his skill at limning disarmingly lucid, frankly philosophical vignettes, here woven around a recollection of Richard Nixon's last hurrah, while "Jump Up Behind Me" affords a testament to self-determination ultimately as serious in theme as it is buoyant in its musical framework. Throughout, Taylor's stage band proves a thoroughbred, its accompaniment rock solid and delicately detailed, and perfectly matched to a crack backing chorus.<p> Among the first video concerts produced with DVD in mind, <I>Live at the Beacon Theatre</I> has been in heavy rotation in home demonstration suites ever since its release, an achievement understandable after hearing the crystalline 5.1 mix engineered by Frank Filipetti, who shared a Grammy as coproducer on <I>Hourglass</I> and snagged a second award for his engineering of that album. <I>--Sam Sutherland</I> |
Jekyll and Hyde
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VHS |
Sci-Fi |
In assembling the 1990 TV-movie version of Jekyll and Hyde , writer/director David Wickes recycled many of the elements of his 1988 adaptation of Jack the Ripper —including props, costumes, sets, and star Michael Caine . Caine goes through the standard motions as kindly Henry Jekyll, who dabbles where Men Must Not and unleashes his beastly alter ego Mr. Hyde. Anything new here? Well, the character of Dr. Lanyon, Jekyll's best friend in the original Robert Louis Stevenson story, has been rewritten as his worst enemy. Joss Ackland plays the vitriolic Lanyon, while Cheryl Ladd shows up as a newly fabricated love interest. Jekyll and Hyde has some neat makeup transformations, but otherwise is just the same old cloak 'n' fang jazz seen in so many earlier incarnations of the venerable Stevenson yarn. — Hal Erickson |
The Jerk
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VHS |
Comedy |
Navin is an idiot. Hew grew up in Mississippi as adopted son of a black family. But at his 18th birthday... |
JFK
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VHS |
Drama |
A New Orleans DA discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story. |
Jiminy Cricket's Christmas
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VHS |
Animation; Family; Disney; Holiday |
Jiminy Cricket's Christmas is available on two different videos.. The 30-minute version, consisting of both color and black&white animated material, contains five Christmas-related Disney cartoons, including the seldom-seen Mickey's Good Deed (1932). The 45-minute version includes clips from such cartoon features as Snow White , Cinderella and Pinocchio . As is always the case in these Disney compilations, sound and pictorial quality is consistently high. See if you can spot the differences between Jiminy Cricket's two voices, provided by Cliff "Ukelele Ike" Edwards and Hal Smith. — Hal Erickson |
Joe Versus the Volcano
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VHS |
Drama |
When a hypochondriac learns that he is dying, he accepts an offer to throw himself in a volcano at a tropical island, and along the way there, learns to truly live. |
Johnny Dangerously
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VHS |
Comedy |
Set in the 1930's, an honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills. |
Joy Sticks
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VHS |
Comedy |
In this loud teen movie, a motley crew of youths, ranging from the rainbow-haired King Vidiot ( Jonathan Gries ), to Eugene the king nerd ( Leif Green ) and a washed-up video freak descend to the usual level of tricks to keep their video arcade from being shut down by a businessman ( Joe Don Baker ) who believes the games are a threat to the mental health of today's youth. Based on the characters in this underpar, inanely vulgar movie, the businessman is right. — Eleanor Mannikka |
The Jungle Book
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VHS |
Family; Animation; Disney |
Bagheera the Panther and Baloo the Bear have a difficult time trying to convince a boy to leave the jungle for human civilization. |
Jurassic Park
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VHS |
Action |
Scientists clone dinosaurs to populate a theme park which suffers a major security breakdown and releases the dinosaurs. |
Just One of the Guys
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VHS |
Comedy |
Terry believes her teachers don't take her serious, just because she's a pretty girl. When she fails to win a journalism contest... |
Kalifornia
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VHS |
Drama |
David Duchovny is a blocked author with a fascination for outlaw killers who hatches a plan to road trip through America's mass-murder landmarks to finish his book. He enlists his frustrated photographer girlfriend Michelle Forbes, who desperately wants to leave the East Coast for L.A., to illustrate the tome, and they advertise for riding partners. Luckily for them, they wind up with a veteran killer, the greasy trailer-park ex-con Brad Pitt, who decides to skip parole with his cowering child-woman girlfriend Juliette Lewis. Duchovny is enamored by gun-toting Pitt's recklessness and lawless disregard for, well, everything; he's simultaneously terrified and thrilled by Pitt's brutal beating of a barfly. Meanwhile, Pitt's leaving a trail of corpses in their wake.<p> Directed with a cool remove by Dominic Sena (<I>Gone in 60 Seconds</I> 2000), <I>Kalifornia</I> falls somewhere between <I>Badlands</I> and <I>Natural Born Killers</I>. Pitt brings a ferocious magnetism to his part, but it's still hard to buy genial Duchovny's odd attraction; Juliette Lewis conveys a terrifying sense of victimization with her poor dumb creature. Despite the film's best efforts, it never really plumbs the psyche of Pitt's simmering psycho--he's just plain bad, you know--but it does fashion an effective little thriller out of the tensions brewing in the restless quartet. <I>--Sean Axmaker</I> |
L.A. Story
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VHS |
Comedy |
Harris Telemacher is the "Wacky Weather" presenter for a Los Angeles television station. He finds himself... |
Las Vegas and Surrounding Day Trips
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VHS |
Documentary |
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Last Resort
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VHS |
Comedy |
Sam and Dave are living the boring life until they are beckoned to Sam's uncle's Island. When they get... |
Last Starfighter, The
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VHS |
Sci-Fi |
<i>He Didn't Find His Dreams. . .His Dreams Found Him.</i><br><br> Millions of light-years ago, a great frontier was constructed in the universe to protect the star League of Planets from its enemy, the evil KO-DAN. But now a defector has given the key to the frontier to the KO-DAN, and Starfighters from throughout the galaxy are needed to defend the peace. One recruiter, the alien scalawag Centauri, visits Earth to fill his quota of recruits and finds Alex, an 18-year-old Earthling with an extraordinary talent for video game wizardry. Alex is quickly propelled into the regions of outer space to join others from planets throughout the Star League to fight a war to save the universe. |
Late Last Night
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VHS |
Comedy |
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Legend of Grimace Island - The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald:
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VHS |
Animation; Family |
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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VHS |
Family; Animation; Disney |
Originally released as half of the 1949 feature The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad , Bing Crosby narrates this Disney adaptation of Washington Irving 's story of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman. — Jason Ankeny |
Let It Ride
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VHS |
Comedy; Theme - Sports |
An average kind of guy who has a slight problem with gambling goes to the track, and mystically, it seems as though he can't lose... |
Licence to Kill
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VHS |
Action; Bond |
James Bond leaves Her Majesty's Secret Service to stop an evil drug lord and avenge his best friend, Felix Leiter. |
License to Drive
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VHS |
Comedy; Theme - Driving |
A teen decides to go for a night on the town with his friends despite flunking his driver's test. |
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
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VHS |
Animation; Holiday |
A puppet-animation feature, noted for artistic values and story line, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus is based on a children's story by L. Frank Baum . In the Pagan tale, Santa grows old and nearer to his death, and the story of his life is relayed to immortals who must decide whether or not Santa Claus should be one of those who gets to live forever. Thus, the way Santa came to represent Christmas is explained from the time he was taken in as an orphan by the gods through the time he decided to make it his life's work to bring happiness to children by making and bringing them toys. — Sarah Sloboda |
The Life of Python
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VHS |
Comedy |
And now for Monty Python fans who think they have seen everything, the BBC commemorates the 30th anniversary of the debut of <I>Monty Python's Flying Circus</I> with this treasure trove of new sketches performed by the Pythons (minus spoilsport Eric Idle, and, of course, ex-Python Graham Chapman); new interviews with all the surviving members; classic clips; and recently discovered and rarely seen Python material unearthed from the BBC archives. Volume 1, <i>It's... the Monty Python Story</i>, is a sketchy history, recalling the highs (the first two seasons of the groundbreaking TV series and <I>The Life of Brian</I>) and the lows (the death of Chapman, who in a poignant clip from his memorial service is eulogized by John Cleese as a "freeloading bastard"). Volume 2 really delivers the goods, including a long-lost 10-minute film Monty Python created for the 1971 Pan-European May Day Festival. Michael Palin spoofs his travel shows by giving viewers a tour of "Pythonland." He revisits the actual locations where such classic Python sketches as the Ministry of Silly Walks and the Fish Slapping Dance were filmed. <I>South Park</I> creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone offer an animated tribute (the Dead Kenny sketch), while Meatloaf goes behind the music to reveal the inspiration behind the Python's most memorable songs. Volume 3 contains "The Lost German Episode" of <i>Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus</i>, which was created for German television (don't worry; it's in English) and has never been broadcast in the United States. This is comedy's equivalent to a surviving-Beatles reunion, and though the new sketches and animations are hit and miss, it is heartening to see that the Pythons are still loony after all these years. It is a particular pleasure to see the Gumbys banging bricks once again. And Python sexpot Carol Cleveland is holding up rather well, if you know what I mean, say no more, nudge nudge. <I>--Donald Liebenson</I> |
The Lion King
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VHS |
Family; Animation; Disney |
Tricked into thinking he killed his father, a guilt ridden lion cub flees into exile and abandons his identity as the future King. |
Little Shop of Horrors
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VHS |
Musical |
A nerdish florist finds his chance for success and romance with the help of a giant man-eating plant who demands to be fed. |
Little Vegas
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VHS |
Comedy; Theme - Gambling-Vegas |
Anthony John Denison stars as Carmine DeCarlo, a man trying to break free of familial mob ties after his middle-aged lover ( Anne Francis ) dies. — Jason Ankeny |
Live and Let Die
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VHS |
Action; Bond |
007 is sent to stop a diabolically brilliant heroin magnate armed with a complex organization and a reliable psychic tarot card reader. |
Live Nude Girls
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VHS |
Comedy |
Georgina throws a sleepover party for her friend Jamie, a moderately successful actress, on the night of Jamie's fiancée's bachelor party... |
The Living Daylights
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VHS |
Action; Bond |
James Bond is living on the edge to stop an evil arms dealer from starting another world war. Bond crosses all seven continents in order to stop the evil Whitikar and General Koskov. |
The Lonely Guy
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VHS |
Comedy |
A writer for a greating card company learns the true meaning of loneliness when he comes home to find his girl friend in bed with another man. |
Long Gone
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VHS |
Drama; Theme - Sports |
Story of the Tampico Stogies, a low minor-league baseball team, and its star player and manager, Stud' Cantrell... |
The Longshot
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VHS |
Comedy; Theme - Sports |
With a cast starring such comic veterans as Harvey Korman, Anne Meara, Jack Weston and Tim Conway (who also wrote the script), and executive produced by Mike Nichols, it is normally a safe bet that hiliarity will ensue. Unfortunately, this sure thing does not pay off and is disappointingly dumb as it tells the tale of four luckless gamblers who in desperation borrow a large sum for a local loanshark so they can bet on a particular horse. Unfortunately, they bet on the wrong nag and suddenly the foursome must scramble around for quick cash before the loanshark's thugs show up for some bruising payback. — Sandra Brennan |
Lost & Found
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VHS |
Comedy |
In order to impress his beautiful French neighbor, David Spade dognaps her pet pooch so he can return him and become a hero. Unfortunately, things do not work out as planned. |
The Love Bug
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VHS |
Family; Disney |
A race car driver becomes a champion with a Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of its own. |
Loverboy
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VHS |
Comedy |
Randy Bodek works as a pizza delivery boy at Senor Pizza to make a few extra bucks. Some customers are special... |
Made
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VHS |
Drama |
Two aspiring boxers, lifelong friends, get involved in a money-laundering scheme through a low-level organized crime group. |
Major League
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VHS |
Comedy; Theme - Sports |
An exotic dancer marries the owner of a baseball club. He does not survive the honeymoon and she is in control of his ball club... |
Making of Disney's Animal Kingdom
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VHS |
Documentary |
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The Man with the Golden Gun
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VHS |
Action; Bond |
Bond is led to believe that he is targeted by the world's most expensive assassin and must hunt him down to stop him. |
The Man with Two Brains
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VHS |
Comedy |
Steve Martin comedy about brain transplantation. |
The Manhattan Project
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VHS |
Drama |
A teen and his girlfriend make an atomic bomb with plutonium stolen from a scientist dating his mother. |
Mannequin
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VHS |
Comedy |
Jonathan Switcher is a young artist. He just doesn't seem to last in any job he does. But when he builds a mannequin... |
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
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VHS |
Animation; Disney; Family |
Disney's 1977 <I>The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh</I> may be the last word on (animated) Pooh because it so faithfully honors the first word on Pooh, penned in the 1920s by British storyteller A.A. Milne. Gently paced, subtly humorous, and blessedly understated, this adaptation reflects Walt Disney's original vision to develop the beloved British bear for a wider audience. The film is essentially a collection of the original Pooh shorts, "The Honey Tree," "The Blustery Day," and "Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too." These storybooks are presented in seamless "chapters," narrated by the timeless Sebastian Cabot. The familiar musical score and original voices of Sterling Holloway as Pooh, and Paul Winchell as Tigger, cap this enchanting keepsake. (Ages 2 and up). <I>--Lynn Gibson</I> |
MASH
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VHS |
Comedy |
The staff of a Korean Conflict field hospital use humour and hijinks to keep their sanity amidst the horror of war |
Matinee
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VHS |
Drama |
A small time film promoter releases a kitschy horror film during the Cuban Missile Crisis. |
Maverick
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VHS |
Western; Comedy |
Bret Maverick, needing money for a poker tournament, faces various comic mishaps and challenges, including a charming woman thief. |
The Mean Season
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VHS |
Drama |
Malcolm Anderson is a reporter for a Miami newspaper. He's had enough of reporting the local murders... |
Meatballs
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VHS |
Comedy |
Wacky hijinks of counselors and campers at a less-than-average summer camp. |
Meatballs Part II
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VHS |
Comedy |
Second in the series of Meatball movies. A group of kids attempt to save a summer camp that's a financial failure. |
Medicine Man
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VHS |
Drama |
An eccentric scientist working for a large drug company is working on a research project in the Amazon jungle... |
Medieval Times Souvenier Video
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VHS |
Documentary |
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Men at Work
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VHS |
Comedy |
Carl and James are two pleasant but unambitious garbage men. Carl has a telescope with which he observes his neighbors... |
Men in Black
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VHS |
Comedy; Sci-Fi |
Two men who keep an eye on aliens in New York City must try to save the world after the aliens threaten to blow it up. |
Mickey Mouse Club, Vol. 2
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VHS |
Animation; Disney; Family |
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Mickey's Crazy Careers
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VHS |
Animation; Disney; Family |
Let's go straight to the best entry in the video cartoon compilation Mickey's Crazy Careers . That entry is 1935's The Band Concert , not only Mickey Mouse's first in Technicolor but also one of the finest ten minutes' worth of animation turned out by any studio. Joining Mickey in this rousing musical short are an obstreperous Donald Duck, a billing-and-cooing Clarabelle Cow and Horace Horsecollar, and a "special guest star" cyclone. You'll never again think of The Lone Ranger after hearing Mickey's full-orchestra rendition of "Overture to William Tell." The Band Concert , together with the vertigo-inducing cartoon Clock Cleaners more than compensates for the weakest entry in Mickey's Crazy Careers , the black-and-white potboiler The Mail Pilot . Rounding out the collection are Mickey's Fire Brigade , Magician Mickey and Tugboat Mickey . — Hal Erickson |
Midnight Madness
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VHS |
Comedy |
Leon planned "The Great Allnighter" by picking college students to participate in his night long scavenger hunt... |
Midnight Run
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VHS |
Comedy |
An accountant is chased by bounty hunters, the FBI, and the Mafia after jumping bail. |
The Mighty Ducks
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VHS |
Family; Comedy; Disney |
Gordon Bombay, a hotshot lawyer, is haunted by memories of his childhood, when, as the star player in his champion hockey team... |
Million Dollar Duck
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VHS |
Family; Comedy; Disney |
Professor Dooley takes home a duck from his research laboratory as a toy for his son, but soon finds out that it lays golden eggs. |
Million Dollar Mystery
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VHS |
Comedy |
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Mo' Money
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VHS |
Comedy |
Trying to get his act together, a con artist gets a job in a credit card company. He falls in love with a fellow employee... |
Mobsters
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VHS |
Drama |
The story of a group of friends in turn of the century New York, from their early days as street hoods to their rise in the world of organized crime... |
Monkees Christmas Show
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VHS |
Comedy; Holiday |
Butch Patrick , late of The Munsters , plays a wealthy and cynical youngster named Melvin Vandersnoot. Hired to look after the boy, the Monkees take advantage of the holiday season to show Melvin the true meaning of Christmas — and, incidentally, to prove that money isn't everything. Burt Mustin , who played an octogenarian Tarzan-type on the previous episode "Monkees Marooned," is here seen as Melvin's butler. At the end of the episode, The Monkees introduce the series' production crew, joining them in wishing the viewers a merry Christmas. Song: "Riu Chiu". Scripted by Neil Burstyn from a story by Burstyn and Dave Evans , "The Christmas Story" aired, appropriately enough, on December 25, 1967. — Hal Erickson |
Monkees, Vol. 2
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VHS |
Comedy |
The misadventures of a struggling rock band. |
Monkees, Vol. 5
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VHS |
Comedy |
The misadventures of a struggling rock band. |
Monkees, Vol. 8
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VHS |
Comedy |
The misadventures of a struggling rock band. |
Monty Python's Flying Circus
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VHS |
Comedy |
In 1969, five overeducated British comics and an American illustrator invaded the homes of unsuspecting BBC viewers with a brand of comedy that was, at the very least, odd. "Absurd," "bizarre," and "incomprehensible" are other descriptions that jump to mind. Nonetheless, this wacky sextet inaugurated an absurd tradition that continued through three and a half seasons of half-hour TV episodes, a series of live performances, a handful of movies, and a legacy of dead parrots and upper-class twits. <I>Monty Python's Flying Circus, Set 1</I> features the first episodes foisted on a still-reeling public, introducing running gags ("And now for something completely different") and recurring characters (an armor-clad Terry Gilliam wielding a rubber chicken, Graham Chapman's pompous Colonel intruding on sketches he deems simply too silly, and of course Michael Palin's "It's a Man" wandered through the entire season). Among the sketch highlights in the first three shows are Nudge Nudge, the Funniest Joke in the World, How to Defend Yourself from a Man Attacking You with Fresh Fruit, Confuse a Cat, and The Dull Life of a City Stockbroker, all interspersed with various and sundry cut-out animation sequences by Terry Gilliam. These early episodes may lack the consistency and stream-of-consciousness flow of their later, more assured work, but they're packed with some of the most memorable moments of the group's brief but brilliant history. <I>--Sean Axmaker</I> |
Moon Over Parador
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VHS |
Comedy |
Little known actor, Jack Noah, is working on location in the dictatorship of Parador at the time the dictator dies... |
Moonraker
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VHS |
Action; Bond |
James Bond investigates the mid-air theft of a space shuttle and discovers a plot to commit global genocide. |
Mothra
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VHS |
Sci-Fi |
Mothra was the third major addition to the Toho Studios' giant-monster stable after Godzilla and Rodan, and the first female beast in the series. The creature begins Ishiro Honda 's entertaining film as a giant larva worshipped by island tribesmen and guarded by twin sisters ( Emi and Yumi Ito ) who stand only a few inches high. Eventually, the larva metamorphoses into a giant female moth and panic ensues as the creature attempts to regain her stolen egg and her tiny protectors. The usual pandemonium and destruction is tempered here by a softer edge which would come to dominate the genre for much of the decade. — Robert Firsching |
Movie Bloopers
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VHS |
Documentary |
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Movies, Money & Murder
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VHS |
Drama |
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Moving Violations
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VHS |
Comedy |
A group of careless and unlucky drivers are sentenced to attend traffic school to keep their records clean... |
Mr. Destiny
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VHS |
Comedy |
Larry Burrows is unhappy and feels powerless over his life. He believes his entire life could have turned... |
Mr. Mom
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VHS |
Comedy |
Jack and Caroline are a couple struggling to make ends meet. When Jack loses his job, they agree that... |
Mulan
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VHS |
Family; Animation; Disney |
To save her father from death in the army, a Chinese maiden secretly goes in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroes in the process. |
The Muppet Christmas Carol
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VHS |
Family; Holiday |
The Muppet character tell their version of the classic tale of an old and bitter miser's redemption on Christmas Eve. |
Muppet Classic Theater
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VHS |
Family |
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A Muppet Family Christmas
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VHS |
Family; Holiday |
Kermit and his friends spend Christmas staging a surprise visit to Fozzie Bear's mother's farm. |
The Muppet Movie
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VHS |
Family; Comedy |
Kermit and his new found friends trek across America to find success in Hollywood, but a frog-legs merchant is after Kermit. |
Muppet Weird Stuff
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VHS |
Family |
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The Muppets Take Manhattan
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VHS |
Comedy; Family |
Kermit and his friends go to New York to get their musical on Broadway only to find it's a more difficult task than they anticipated. |
Muscle Beach Party
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VHS |
Theme - Beach; Comedy |
The second film in the <I>Beach Party</I> series returns Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello to the land of endless summer and back-projection surfing. It's as giddy as the first movie. Two inane subplots are added: Frankie is wooed by a wealthy bombshell (knockout Luciana Paluzzi), and Don Rickles trains a team of bodybuilders. The usual <I>Beach Party</I> trademarks are in place, including real surfing footage (much improved from the first film), Candy Johnson's shimmy dancing, and Annette's modified bikini with mesh-covered cleavage. Music is provided by Dick Dale and a rockin' Little Stevie Wonder, with most of the songs penned by a triumvirate of surf-music royalty: Brian Wilson, Roger Christian, and Gary Usher. As Frankie says, "Now you swing with me on that, or you don't swing at all." We swing.<p> <I>Ski Party</I> transfers the <I>Beach Party</I> vibe to snow, with a <I>Some Like it Hot</I> ripoff thrown in. Frankie Avalon and Dwayne Hickman go in drag to discover what girls really want, but Deborah Walley and Yvonne Craig put them in the deep freeze. It's surprisingly fun, with deranged musical appearances by James Brown and Lesley Gore. The outdoor stuff was filmed at Sun Valley. Annette Funicello cameos as a sex-ed instructor. <I>--Robert Horton</I> |
My Blue Heaven
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VHS |
Comedy |
An all too uptight FBI agent must protect a larger than life mobster with a heart of gold, currently under witness protection in the suburbs. |
My Cousin Vinny
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VHS |
Comedy |
Bill and Stan are mistaken for murderers while on vacation, and Bill's family sends his cousin to defend them for his first case as a lawyer. |
My Demon Lover
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VHS |
Drama |
A homeless street musician becomes a demon when sexually aroused. |
My Science Project
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VHS |
Drama |
Michael and Ellie break into a military junkyard to find a science project for Michael's class, and... |
Mystery Train
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VHS |
Drama |
A Japanese couple with an obsession with 50's America go to Memphis because the boyfriend's life is Carl Perkins... |
The Naked Gun - From the Files of Police Squad!
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VHS |
Comedy |
Incompetent cop Frank Drebbin has to foil an attempt to assasinate Queen Elizabeth II. |
Neighbors
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VHS |
Comedy |
A quiet man's peaceful suburban lifestyle is threatened by the new, obnoxious couple that moves in next door. |
New Jack City
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VHS |
Drama |
A crime lord ascends to power and becomes megamanical while a maverick police detective vows to stop him. |
New York, New York
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VHS |
Drama |
Martin Scorsese combined the splashy atmosphere of the old studio musical with an unromanticized marriage story in his valentine to Hollywood and the Big Band era. On V-J Day 1945, newly minted civilian saxophonist Jimmy Doyle ( Robert De Niro ) meets USO singer Francine Evans ( Liza Minnelli ) at a dance, but she rebuffs every advance that he makes. A day and a hotel lobby meeting later, Jimmy finally wins Francine over after she uses her pop instincts to save his too-jazzy audition at a nightclub. When she goes on tour with Frankie Harte ( Georgie Auld ) and his Orchestra, Jimmy tracks her down, taking a job with the orchestra to be with her. Together on stage, they make beautiful music; off stage they marry, but the struggle between two artists begins to take its toll. Unable to understand that Francine's needs and talents are just as important as his, and unwilling to compromise his music for security, Jimmy abandons Francine after their baby is born. Separately, the two succeed even more, as Francine becomes a music and movie star, while Jimmy has a top hit and opens a jazz club. When they are reunited several years later, the pair must decide if their relationship is worth another try. — Lucia Bozzola |
Night of the Living Dead
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VHS |
Horror |
A group of people hide from bloodthirsty zombies in a farmhouse. |
Night Patrol
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VHS |
Comedy |
Melvin is a pathetic loser of a motorcycle cop who gets demoted to working the night shift as a punishment for his constant screw-ups... |
Night Shift
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VHS |
Comedy |
A nebbish of a morgue attendant gets shunted back to the night shift where he is shackled with an obnoxious... |
The Night We Never Met
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VHS |
Comedy |
Sam has a problem with his roommates: they are disgusting, and don't seem to share his views on responsibility... |
The Nightmare Before Christmas
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VHS |
Animation; Holiday |
Jack Skellington, king of Halloweentown, discovers Christmas Town, but doesn't quite understand the concept. |
Ninja Scroll
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VHS |
Animation |
A peak achievement of Japanese anime, <I>Ninja Scroll</I> is a propulsive mix of samurai action adventure and supernatural fantasy from writer-director Yoshiaki Kawajiri (<I>Supernatural Best City</I>). This is defiantly animation for grown-ups, complete with fountains of blood, plenty of naked flesh, and (in both the subtitled and dubbed versions) some decidedly strong language. (Students of Japanese language could pick up some useful expressions.) The plot sounds like a 16th century variation on the <I>X-Files</I>: An entire village has been wiped out by a mysterious plague and an anti-government conspiracy of invulnerable demons seems to be responsible. A wandering ninja, Jubei, and his female counterpart, Kagero, team up to defeat the plotters. Jubei is a classic reluctant hero, agreeing to participate in the mission only after being fed a slow-acting poison; the antidote will be supplied after he cooperates. And Kagero, a looker whose embrace is lethal, is a femme fatale with a difference that seems distinctively Japanese: sexual contact itself is poisonous, especially for a warrior with a pure soul. <i>--David Chute</i> |
No Deposit, No Return
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VHS |
Family; Disney |
Two would-be safe-crackers `sort of' kidnap the two grandchildren of millionaire J. W. Osborne. In a story somewhat reminiscent of O... |
Nobody's Perfekt
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VHS |
Comedy |
The story of a group of misfits living in Miami, and their revenge against government bureaucracy. After... |
Noises Off...
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VHS |
Comedy |
A travelling theater group find so much action going on behind-the-scenes, they almost ruin the performances. |
Norman's Awesome Experience
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VHS |
Comedy |
Through the experiment of a crazy scientist, his colleague Norman, model Erica and her photographer are sent back in time to the Romans... |
North Shore
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VHS |
Drama |
Before entering art school next autumn, Rick sets out to spend the summer surfing at Hawaii. He knows nothing about the local habits... |
Nothing But Trouble
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VHS |
Comedy |
A financier [Chevy Chase] meets a spurned lover [Demi Moore] and agrees to take her to a business meeting... |
Nuns on the Run
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VHS |
Drama |
Brian and Charlie (B & C) work for a gangster. When the boss learns they want to "leave", he sets them up to be killed... |
The Nutty Professor
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VHS |
Comedy |
Grossly overweight Prof. Sherman Klump, desperate to lose weight takes a special chemical that turns him into the slim but obnoxious Buddy Love. |
Octopussy
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VHS |
Action; Bond |
A Faberge Egg found with a murdered British agent puts Bond on the trail that leads to a plot to kill thousands to weaken NATO defences in Europe. |
The Odd Couple
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VHS |
Comedy |
Two friends try sharing an apartment, but their ideas of housekeeping and lifestyles are as different as night and day. |
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
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VHS |
Action; Bond |
Bond is approached by a crime boss to marry his daughter and in return both father and daughter help 007 hunt for his archenemy, Ernst Stavro Blofeld. |
On the Right Track
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VHS |
Comedy |
Lester is a homeless shoeshine boy living in a railway station. He's got this funny knack for picking... |
Once Bitten
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VHS |
Comedy |
The Countess has a problem. She is a 400 year old vampire who will cease to look young unless she is... |
One Crazy Summer
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VHS |
Comedy |
An aspiring teenage cartoonist and his friends come to the aid of a singer trying to save her family property from developers. |
Opportunity Knocks
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VHS |
Comedy |
Eddie and Lou are a couple of two-bit con men on the lam from a loan shark. They hide out in someone's... |
Orgazmo
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VHS |
Comedy |
Naive young Mormon Joe Young is recruited to act in porn movies. |
Oscar
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VHS |
Comedy |
Angelo "Snaps" Provolone made his dying father a promise on his deathbed: he would leave the world of crime and become an honest businessman... |
Out Cold
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VHS |
Comedy |
Sunny is married to the butcher Ernie; their marriage is about to end as both of them have affairs.... |
Outside Ozona
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VHS |
Drama |
A drama revolving around a group of strangers brought together by a common occurrence as well as listening to the same radio station. |
Over the Edge
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VHS |
Drama |
New Grenada is a planned community set in the desert where there is nothing for the kids to do, save for a rec center - which closes at 6 PM... |
Overboard
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VHS |
Comedy |
Rich bitch Joanna hires country carpenter Dean to build a closet on her yacht. When the two don't see eye-to-eye... |
Palmetto
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VHS |
Drama |
A recently released ex-con gets involved in a fake kidnapping scheme that turns very real. |
Parallel Skiing
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VHS |
Documentary; Theme - Snow-Winter |
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Parrot Sketch Not Included: Twenty Years of Monty Python
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VHS |
Comedy |
Sketches from "Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969)". |
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
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VHS |
Comedy |
The weirdo man-child goes on a cross-country trek in pursuit of his stolen beloved bike. |
Pee-Wee's Playhouse Christmas Special
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VHS |
Comedy; Holiday |
The secret word is "Happy New Year" as Pee-Wee Herman ( Paul Reubens ) and the Playhouse gang hold a Christmas party. Things threaten to get out of hand fairly early as the increasingly disappointed Pee-Wee receives one fruitcake after another. When he complains that he didn't get anything he really wanted, our hero learns an important lesson about sharing from none other than Santa Claus. Among Pee-wee's special guests are singers k.d. lang , Grace Jones , Dinah Shore , and the Del Rubio Triplets , "Beach Party" perennials Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon (who'd recently costarred with Pee-wee in the theatrical film Back at the Beach ), the outrageous Little Richard (on ice-skates!) and such pop-culture giants as Oprah Winfrey , Charo , Cher , Joan Rivers , Magic Johnson , and even Zsa Zsa Gabor . Pee-wee Herman's Christmas Special first aired December 21, 1988 on CBS. — Hal Erickson |
Penn & Teller Get Killed
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VHS |
Comedy |
Penn & Teller enjoy playing jokes on each other. When Penn says on an interview show that he wishes... |
Pete's Dragon
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VHS |
Family; Disney |
An orphan boy and his magical dragon come to town with his abusive adoptive parents in pursuit. |
Pinocchio
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VHS |
Animation; Family; Disney |
A living puppet, with the help of a cricket as his conscience, must prove himself worthy to become a real boy. |
Plain Clothes
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VHS |
Drama |
Trying to get his brother out of jail, Nick has to bump his way out again from high school, find the murderer... |
Planes, Trains & Automobiles
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VHS |
Comedy |
A man must struggle to travel home for Thanksgiving, with an obnoxious slob of a shower ring salesman his only companion. |
The Player
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VHS |
Drama |
A studio executive is being blackmailed by a writer whose script he rejected but which one? Loaded with Hollywood insider jokes. |
Police Academy
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VHS |
Comedy |
A group of good-hearted but incompotent misfits enter the police academy, but the instructors there are not going to put up with their pranks. |
Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
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VHS |
Comedy |
When a new gang moves into town it's up to the screwball police team to stop them. |
Popeye
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VHS |
Comedy |
Nothing interests filmmaker Robert Altman more than a contained culture that mixes bare humanity with local eccentricity (think of his <i>M*A*S*H</i> and <i>Nashville</i>). So Altman's <i>Popeye</i> (1980), based on the old comic strip, works best as a portrait of a busy, cluttered, cartoonish town called Sweethaven. But it is much less successful as a comprehensible story about the famous sailor with massive forearms and a relationship with Olive Oyl (Shelley Duvall). Robin Williams plays Popeye with his usual brilliance for mimicry, Paul Dooley makes a credible Wimpy, and Paul L. Smith makes an impression as the oversized bully, Bluto. But this strange, disastrous film never becomes more than an expensive workshop airing out Altmanesque themes. <i>--Tom Keogh</i> |
Prelude to War
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VHS |
Documentary |
The official World War II US Government film statement defining the various enemies of the Allies and why they must be fought. |
Primary Colors
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VHS |
Drama |
A man joins the political campaign of a smooth-operator candidate for president of the USA. |
The Princess Bride
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VHS |
Family; Comedy |
A classic fairy tale, with swordplay, giants, an evil king, a beautiful princess, and yes, some kissing (as read by a kindly grandfather). |
Private Parts
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VHS |
Comedy |
The auto-biographical story of Howard Stern, the radio-rebel who is now also a TV-personality, an author and a movie star. |
The Professional - Golgo 13
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VHS |
Animation |
Duke Togo is Golgo 13, a stone-faced, stone-cold killer for hire. Utterly amoral and usually expressionless, he is known for always getting the job done, even against impossible odds. Which is precisely what he does when he cleanly kills the son of a wealthy industrialist named Lawson on a crowded yacht with a single bullet. Duke takes on another contract against a Sicilian Mafia boss, while Lawson targets Duke to avenge the killing of his son. Thus begins a chain reaction of murder and revenge as Duke fends off the Mafia and corrupt U.S. government agents, all the while having to deal with an increasingly bizarre array of Lawson's assassins. As he battles his way to the top of Lawson's corporate tower, the wife of the slain Lawson has to wonder: Why is her father-in-law obsessed with hunting down Duke, rather than the person who hired him? — Emru Townsend |
Pump Up the Volume
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VHS |
Drama |
Mark (Christian Slater) runs a pirate radio station and causes an uproar when he speaks his mind and enthralls fellow teens. |
Queens Logic
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VHS |
Drama |
Ray ( Ken Olin ) is a young adult and has a girlfriend that he lives with quite happily. However, the agreed-on date of their marriage is coming up, and he's not quite sure he wants to make that kind of commitment. His buddies Dennis, Elliot, and Vinny have their own commitment problems. Dennis ( Kevin Bacon ) isn't sure he wants to stay away from his buddies long enough to get his music career going in Hollywood; Elliot ( John Malkovich ) knows that he's homosexual but thinks that being gay means fitting all sorts of ugly stereotypes — stereotypes he is determined to avoid at all costs; and Vinny ( Tony Spiridakis ) commits himself all too frequently and often to the nearest desirable female. Meanwhile, cousin Al ( Joe Mantegna ) is in trouble with his wife, and only the intervention of a well-intentioned psychotic ( Jamie Lee Curtis ) can put him back on the right track. — Clarke Fountain |
Quick Change
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VHS |
Comedy; Theme - Urban |
Three thieves successfully rob a New York City bank, but making the escape from the city proves to be almost impossible. |
Quicksilver
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VHS |
Drama |
Jack Casey used to be a hot-shot stock market whizkid. After a disasterous professional decision, his life in the fast lane is over... |
Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown
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VHS |
Animation; Family |
The Peanuts gang go to summer camp and participate in a river raft race against some cheating bullies. |
Raging Bull
|
VHS |
Drama |
A biographical film about the middleweight champ, the physically tough, but emotionally self-destructive Jake LaMotta. |
Raiders of the Lost Ark
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VHS |
Action |
Archeologist and adventurer, Indiana Jones, is hired by the US government to find the Ark of the Covenant, before the Nazis... |
Rated X
|
VHS |
Drama |
Biopic of notorious Mitchell Brothers who opened up a successful San Francisco strip club and thriving porn business that lead to a downward spiral of power and greed. |
The Ratings Game
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VHS |
Comedy |
A New Jersey trucker creates a hit TV show with help from his girlfriend in the ratings business. |
Real Genius
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VHS |
Comedy |
Teenage geniuses deal with their abilities while developing a laser. |
The Real Las Vegas, The Complete Story of America's Neon Oasis - Vol. 1 - Boomtown
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VHS |
Documentary; Theme - Gambling-Vegas |
This installment of the series The Real Las Vegas covers the early days of the city. The city started out as a Mormon settlement, but mobsters such as Bugsy Siegel had other plans. They changed the city into a gambling oasis. Learn the early history of this fabled city with the help of actor and narrator Richard Crenna . — Linda J. Shriver |
The Real Las Vegas, The Complete Story of America's Neon Oasis - Vol. 2 - Gamble in the Desert
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VHS |
Documentary; Theme - Gambling-Vegas |
This installment of the series The Real Las Vegas covers the early gambling life of the city. Bugsy Siegel is noted for starting this present-day gambling oasis. He eventually fell from grace with the mob and after he was gone they moved in. Learn about this part of the history of Las Vegas with the help of actor and narrator Richard Crenna . — Linda J. Shriver |
The Real Las Vegas, The Complete Story of America's Neon Oasis - Vol. 3 - Tarnished Dream
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VHS |
Documentary; Theme - Gambling-Vegas |
This installment of the series The Real Las Vegas examines the influence of the Teamsters. The Teamsters supplied the city with large amounts of money to help the gambling economy grow. This was also the time of the heyday of the "Rat Pack." Learn about the history of the city with the help of actor and narrator Richard Crenna . — Linda J. Shriver |
The Real Las Vegas, The Complete Story of America's Neon Oasis - Vol. 4 - House of Cards
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VHS |
Documentary; Theme - Gambling-Vegas |
This installment of the series The Real Las Vegas reports on the city of today. See a profile of present-day mogul Steve Wynn, who controls many businesses in the city, although some resorts are now family-owned. Learn about today's Las Vegas with the help of actor and narrator Richard Crenna . — Linda J. Shriver |
Real Men
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VHS |
Comedy |
Jim Belushi plays a super-competent secret agent on the trail of Russian thugs. John Ritter plays a milquetoast dad who gets mixed up in the caper... |
Remo Williams - The Adventure Begins
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VHS |
Action |
Talk about hubris: this film, released at the height of sequelmania in the mid-1980s, came with its own intimations of future sequels built right into the title. Unfortunately, you have to make a good first film in order to generate follow-ups--something these filmmakers didn't manage--so the adventure began and ended with this one. Based on the pulp paperback adventure series The Destroyer, the film deals with a ne'er-do-well, Remo Williams (Fred Ward), who is recruited to battle the forces of evil. He is trained by an Asian martial arts master who, in those days before political correctness, was played by Joel Grey in heavy makeup. But the action is both forced and preposterous, jokey without every really being funny. The best thing about the film is Grey--and his stereotyped depiction of an Asian is pretty hard to take today. <I>--Marshall Fine</I> |
Rented Lips
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VHS |
Comedy |
A documentary filmmaker, who has spent the last 15 years making films like "Aluminum: Our Shiny Friend,"... |
Return of the Jedi - Star Wars: Episode VI
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VHS |
Sci-Fi |
Han Solo is imprisoned by Jabba the Hutt, the Empire is building a new Death Star, and Luke hasn't finished his Jedi training. |
Revenge of the Nerds
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VHS |
Comedy |
At a big campus, a group of bullied outcasts and misfits resolve to fight back for their peace and self respect. |
Rising Sun
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VHS |
Action |
At a celebration over the completed joint venture between a Japanese company and a US defence contractor a young woman is found strangled... |
Robin Hood
|
VHS |
Animation; Family; Disney |
The story of the legendary outlaw is portrayed with the characters as humanoid animals. |
RoboCop
|
VHS |
Action |
In a dystopic & crime ridden Detroit, a terminally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg with submerged memories haunting him. |
Robot Jox
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VHS |
Sci-Fi |
It is post-World War III. War is outlawed. In its place, are matches between large Robots called Robot Jox... |
Rock 'n' Roll High School
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VHS |
Comedy |
A group of rock-loving students, with the help of The Ramones, take over their school to combat its oppressive administration. |
Rocket Man
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VHS |
Comedy |
Fred Z. Randall is geeky and obnoxious spacecraft designer, who gets the chance to make his dream come... |
Rockula
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VHS |
Comedy |
A young vampire cannot lose his virginity because of a curse casted upon him various centuries ago... |
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
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VHS |
Musical |
A newly engaged couple have a breakdown in an isolated area and must pay a call to the bizarre residence of Dr. Frank-N-Furter. |
Roger & Me
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VHS |
Documentary; Drama |
Michael Moore 's wickedly iconoclastic documentary was inspired by the decline and fall of Flint, Michigan. Once the site of a thriving General Motors plant, Flint went quickly to seed when GM decided to close down and move out. As Moore pokes around what has been described by one magazine as "the worst place to live in America", he finds out how the local populace is coping with GM's betrayal of the American Dream. Among those visited are a family who is evicted just before Christmas, and an enterprising middle-aged woman who set up a thriving business slaughtering and skinning rabbits. Never feigning objectivity, Moore contrasts the impact of the shutdown on the average Joes and Janes with the diffident reaction of Flint's power elite. The latter's patronizing attitude towards the unemployed multitudes is succinctly captured in the scenes in which visiting celebrities Robert Schuller, Anita Bryant, Bobby Vinton and Pat Boone exhort the citizenry to grin and bear it. Even more out of synch is "Miss Michigan" Kaye Lani Rae Rafko, who in her morale-boosting speech to the disenfranchised GM employees begs them to pull for her in the upcoming Miss America pageant! The film's throughline is Moore's futile effort to locate GM chairman Roger Smith, so that he can show Moore first-hand the utter devastation of Flint. Roger & Me is very funny, but it is the gallows humor of soldiers about to embark on a suicide mission. In 1992, Michael Moore more or less updated Roger & Me with his half-hour short subject Pets or Meat: The Return to Flint . — Hal Erickson |
Roller Blade
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VHS |
Drama |
This low-budget martial arts fantasy adventure is set in LA after WW III and chronicles the battle between the wheelchair-bound peacenik nun Mother Speed and the wicked Dr. Saticoy. It seems that Mother possesses a special crystal (used in their worship of a big yellow "have a nice day," smiley face). The bad doctor and his skate-boarding goons are desperate to get it. Unfortunately, she is protected by her roller-blading beauties and he must send in a decoy in order to get it. Yes, it is as campy as it sounds. — Sandra Brennan |
Roxanne
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VHS |
Comedy |
Based on the play "Cyrano de Bergerac", large nosed C.D. Bales falls for the beautiful Roxanne while she falls for his personality but another man's looks. |
Royal Wedding
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VHS |
Musical |
Tom and Ellen Bowen are a brother and sister dance act whose show closes in New York. Their agent books... |
The Running Man
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VHS |
Action |
A wrongly-convicted man must try to survive a public execution gauntlet staged as a TV game show. |
Running Scared
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VHS |
Comedy |
Danny and Ray are two street wise cops in Chicago. When they are almost killed on a case, they are forced to take a vacation by their captain... |
Saturday the 14th
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VHS |
Comedy |
A Family moves into a house inhabited by scary creatures and a number of close calls ensue. |
Scared Silly - The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald
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VHS |
Animation; Family |
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Scrooged
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VHS |
Comedy; Holiday |
A cynically selfish TV executive gets haunted by three spirits bearing lessons on Christmas Eve. |
Second Sight
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VHS |
Comedy |
John Larroquette is the head of a detective agency that is hired to find a missing person, probably kidnapped... |
The Secret of My Success
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VHS |
Comedy |
A talented young man can't get an executive position without rising through the ranks, so he comes up with a shortcut, which also benefits his love life. |
The Secrets of the Back to the Future Trilogy
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VHS |
Documentary |
To tie in with the release of Back to the Future Part III, the third installment in the series, Kirk... |
Seems Like Old Times
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VHS |
Comedy |
Writer Nick Gardenia is kidnapped from his California cliffhouse and forced to rob a bank. Now a fugitive... |
Sgt. Bilko
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VHS |
Comedy |
The classic 1955-59 sitcom The Phil Silvers Show (also known as "You'll Never Get Rich" in its first few episodes) became this high concept comedy with an all-star cast. Steve Martin stars as U.S. Army Master Sergeant Ernest G. Bilko, a conniving motor pool supervisor who uses his position to finance various get-rich-quick schemes, including illegal gambling, at a Kansas military base. His commanding officer, Colonel Hall ( Dan Aykroyd ) is mostly oblivious to Bilko's antics. Trouble arrives when the master sergeant's old rival, Major Thorn ( Phil Hartman ), appears. It seems that Thorn, the butt of several past Bilko capers, is eager to settle the score by spearheading a review of Bilko's records and stealing away his fiancée Rita ( Glenne Headley ), who may have been left at the altar one too many times. At the same time, military engineer Major Ebersole ( Austin Pendleton ) is testing a new high-tech "hover tank" that may not be quite ready for deployment. Directed by light comedy specialist ($Jonathan Lynn}, who brought a similar touch to {#My Cousin Vinny} (1992) and {#Greedy} (1994), the updated {#Sgt. Bilko} costarred {$Cathy Silvers}, daughter of the TV show's late star, as Lieutenant Monday. — Karl Williams |
The Shaggy Dog
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VHS |
Family; Disney |
Through an ancient spell, a boy (played by Tommy Kirk) changes into a sheepdog and back again. It seems... |
The Shawshank Redemption
|
VHS |
Drama |
The life of Andy Dufresne changes when he is convicted and jailed for the murder of his wife. |
Short Cuts
|
VHS |
Drama |
The everyday lives of a number of Los Angeles residents are the subject of this loosely-knitted collection of short stories. |
Showgirls
|
VHS |
Drama; Theme - Gambling-Vegas |
The story of a young dancer's adventures as a dancer/stripper in Las Vegas. |
The Shrimp on the Barbie
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VHS |
Comedy |
Carlos failed in the show-biz and currently works as waiter in a Mexican restaurant. There he meets Alex and dumb footballer Bruce... |
Side Out
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VHS |
Comedy |
A law student comes to California for the summer and ends up playing professional volleyball. |
The Silence of the Lambs
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VHS |
Drama |
Clarice Starling, a young FBI agent, is assigned to help find a missing woman, and save her from a psychopathic killer with the help of another killer. |
Silver Streak
|
VHS |
Comedy |
On a long-distance train trip, a man finds romance but also finds himself in danger of being killed, or at least pushed off the train. |
Simpsons - Best of, Vol. 1
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VHS |
Animation; Comedy |
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Simpsons - Best of, Vol. 2
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VHS |
Animation; Comedy |
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Simpsons - Best of, Vol. 3
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VHS |
Animation; Comedy |
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Simpsons - Best of, Vol. 4
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VHS |
Animation; Comedy |
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Simpsons - Best of, Vol. 5
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VHS |
Animation; Comedy |
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Simpsons - Best of, Vol. 6
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VHS |
Animation; Comedy |
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Simpsons - Best of, Vol. 7
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VHS |
Animation; Comedy |
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Simpsons - Best of, Vol. 8
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VHS |
Animation; Comedy |
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Simpsons - Best of, Vol. 9
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VHS |
Animation; Comedy |
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The Simpsons Christmas Special
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VHS |
Animation; Comedy; Holiday |
It's Christmas time and the Simpsons celebrate it in their own ways. But things take a turn for the worse when Homer's stingy boss... |
Singin' in the Rain
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VHS |
Musical |
A silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound. |
Ski Patrol
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VHS |
Comedy; Theme - Snow-Winter |
In this slapstick comedy, a group of faithful ski patrol members set out to save Snowy Peaks ski resort from the evil plans of greedy businessman Maris ( Martin Mull ). — Iotis Erlewine |
Ski School
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VHS |
Comedy; Theme - Snow-Winter |
In this adolescent comedy, a group of ski instructors spend their time sliding on the slopes, drinking too much, and trying to beat a rival ski school during the annual spring festival. The movie was filmed on location at the Whistler Mountain ski resort in British Columbia, Canada. — Sandra Brennan |
Skiing Frenzy
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VHS |
Documentary; Theme - Snow-Winter |
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Skin Deep
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VHS |
Comedy |
John Ritter portrays a womanizing, drunken, alcholic writer who's life seems to be falling apart at the seams... |
Small Time Crooks
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VHS |
Comedy |
A loser of a crook and his wife strike it rich when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a spectacular success. |
Smokey and the Bandit
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VHS |
Comedy; Theme - Driving |
The Bandit is hired on to run a tractor trailer full of beer over county lines in hot persute by a pesky sheriff. |
Smokey and the Bandit II
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VHS |
Comedy; Theme - Driving |
It's been a few years since Cletus and the Bandit made their famous 24-hour run to Texas for a few cases of Coors... |
Snowball Express
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VHS |
Family; Disney; Theme - Snow-Winter |
When John Baxter inherits a ski resort in the Rocky Mountains, he quits his job in New York and moves the family west to run it... |
Snowballing
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VHS |
Comedy; Theme - Snow-Winter |
Teenagers enter a downhill skiing contest and end up stopping an avaricious, crooked resort owner from cheating their school in this adolescent adventure. — Sandra Brennan |
Snowboard Academy
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VHS |
Comedy; Theme - Snow-Winter |
This goofy low-budget comedy follows a group of maverick misanthropes as they try to save the struggling title school from financial ruin. — Sandra Brennan |
Soapdish
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VHS |
Comedy |
In the comedic farce Soapdish , the behind-the-scenes lives of several soap opera actors are just as melodramatic as what is on the screen. Sally Field stars as the star of a declining television show whose career is thrown into turmoil when her rival ( Cathy Moriarty ) tries to persuade the producer ( Robert Downey Jr .) to write Field off the show. Downey attempts this by hiring her niece ( Elizabeth Shue ) and then her ex-boyfriend ( Kevin Kline ), who was formerly on the show, but was written out of the program 20 years earlier. Soon, the entire cast is beset with rivalries and love affairs, which are all more complicated and wacky than anything on the television show itself. — Stephen Thomas Erlewine |
Something Wicked This Way Comes
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VHS |
Horror; Disney |
In a small American town, a diabolical circus and its demonic proprietor prey on the townsfolk. |
Son in Law
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VHS |
Comedy; Theme - College |
Country girl Rebecca begins college in Los Angeles. There she meets Crawl, a student who is crazy, unpredictable and wild... |
The Sound of Music
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VHS |
Musical |
A woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to a Naval officer widower. |
Space Camp
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VHS |
Drama |
<I>SpaceCamp</I> shares a striking similarity to Ron Howard's <I>Apollo 13</I>--it's about NASA trying to bring some people down from outer space, except in this case <I>13</I> represents the median age of those in danger. Kate Capshaw plays Andie, who throws off the curve by being on the high end of that age scale. She's always a bridesmaid, but never a bride in the shuttle program, an astronaut doomed to play wet nurse to a gaggle of kids enrolled in NASA's summer program. Of course, out of all these teeming hordes of children (there don't appear to be any particular qualifying standards to attend the camp), the film focuses on five. Kathryn (Lea Thompson) is a hopeful pilot who wants to be at the controls of the shuttle one day. Tate Donovan plays Kevin, a daft young carouser who is supposed to be so incorrigible he's winning (he's not). Kelly Preston is Tish, a valley girl with a photographic memory, and Larry B. Scott is Rudy. Rudy's there to meet the Hollywood quota for capsule diversification, but neither he nor Trish does much. Most oddly, Joaquin Phoenix is Max, the young <I>Star Wars</I> nut whose brain and fast friendship with a NASA robot get them all sent into orbit. It's unfortunate that a lot of topical swear words are peppered throughout <I>SpaceCamp</I>, as it could operate as a diverting night's watch for the young astro-nut in your house. Director Harry Winer, who rose from television and sank back to television after this film stiffed over the summer of 1986, directs in 20-minute blocks like he's pacing himself for a commercial break. Once the embarrassing, extremely '80s, opening 40 minutes are dispensed with, however, and the crew accidentally gets blasted into space, the effort to return home is involving, even if it is pretty silly. <I>SpaceCamp</I> won't win any merit badges for script writing, acting, or direction but it's got the right li'l Camp NASA spirit. <I>--Keith Simanton</I> |
Space Mutiny
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VHS |
Sci-Fi |
A starship that looks a lot like, but has nothing to do with, the Battlestar Galactica, finds itself... |
Speed Zone!
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VHS |
Comedy; Theme - Driving |
Our racers are back for a third time in Speed Zone, a continuation of cannonball run 1 and 2. It's the... |
Spies Like Us
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VHS |
Comedy |
Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys. |
The Spirit of '76
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VHS |
Comedy |
Future Americans decide to time travel to 1776 to ask the founding fathers for the solutions to their problems... |
The Spirit of Mickey
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VHS |
Animation; Disney; Family |
Come see Mickey Mouse is a collection of his best shorts. |
The Spy Who Loved Me
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VHS |
Action; Bond |
Agent 007 must work with his female Soviet counterpart to find the answer to the disappearance of nuclear missile carrying submarines. |
The Squeeze
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VHS |
Comedy |
His ex-wife asks the unsuccessful gambler and inventor Harrison for a small favor: to get her a parcel... |
Stand by Me
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VHS |
Drama |
After the death of a friend, a writer recounts a boyhood journey to find a body of a missing boy |
Star Wars
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VHS |
Sci-Fi |
Luke Skywalker leaves his home planet, teams up with other rebels, and tries to save Princess Leia from the evil clutches of Darth Vader. |
Starship Troopers
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VHS |
Sci-Fi |
Humans of a fascisticly militaristic future do battle with giant alien bugs in a fight for survival. |
Start the Revolution Without Me
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VHS |
Comedy |
Two mismatched sets of identical twins - one aristocrat, one peasant - mistakenly exchange identities on the eve of the French Revolution. |
Stay Tuned
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VHS |
Comedy |
A husband and wife are sucked into a hellish TV and have to survive a gauntlet of twisted versions of TV shows they find themselves in. |
Steep and Deep
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VHS |
Documentary; Theme - Snow-Winter |
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Stewardess School
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VHS |
Comedy |
Columbia Pictures spent as estimated $8 million dollars on this laughless sex comedy that crashes and burns before ever leaving the ground. Two bumbling boneheads who are kicked out of flying school decide to remain airborne by becoming stewardesses. Bathroom humor, sight gags, and the prerequisite nudity are the lowlights of this forgettable film. The only interest is the appearance of former Playboy bunny Yuliis Ruval. This dog makes Porky's seem like Shakespeare. — Dan Pavlides |
Stir Crazy
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VHS |
Comedy |
Skip and Harry are framed for a bank robery and end up in a western prison. The two eastern boys are... |
Strange Brew - The Adventures of Bob & Doug McKenzie
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VHS |
Comedy |
Canada's most famous hosers, Bob and Doug McKenzie, get jobs at the Elsinore Brewery, only to learn that something is rotten with the state of it. |
Strange Days
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VHS |
Drama |
A former cop turned street-hustler accidentally uncovers a police conspiracy in 1999 Los Angeles. |
Stripes
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VHS |
Comedy |
Two friends who are dissatisfied with their jobs decide to join the army for a bit of fun. |
The Strongest Man in the World
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VHS |
Family; Disney |
Dexter Riley and his friends accidently discover a new chemical mixed with a cereal seems to give anyone temporary superhuman strength |
The Stuff
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VHS |
Horror |
Weird yummy goo erupts from the earth and is discovered by a couple of miners. They taste it and decide to market it because it tastes so good... |
SubUrbia
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VHS |
Drama |
A group of suburbian teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults. Loosely based on the life of Eric the scriptwriter of the film. |
Summer Rental
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VHS |
Comedy |
Jack Chester, an overworked air traffic controller, takes his family on vacation to the beach. Things immediately start to go wrong for the Chesters... |
Summer School
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VHS |
Comedy |
A high-school gym teacher has big plans for the summer, but is forced to cancel them to teach a "bonehead" English class for misfit goof-off students... |
Superman - The Movie
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VHS |
Family; Action |
An alien orphan is sent from his dying planet to Earth, where he grows up to become his adoptive home's first and greatest super-hero. |
Superman III
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VHS |
Action; Family |
Synthetic kryptonite laced with tobacco tar splits Superman in two: good Clark Kent and bad Man of Steel. |
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
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VHS |
Comedy |
War Games is the streamlined reissue title for the satirical Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? The story is set in a sleepy Southern town, the site of a tranquil army base. Commanding officer Col. Flanders ( Don Ameche ), anxious to win the hearts and minds of the locals, invites the populace to an ice-breaking dance. When the festivities degenerate into a fistfight, right-wing militia leader Billy Joe Davis ( Tom Ewell ) declares war against the Army. The film's romantic subplot is carried by Tony Curtis as a love-'em-and-leave-'em sergeant and Suzanne Pleshette as a smarter-than-she-looks local gal. Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? was reworked as in 1984 as Tank . — Hal Erickson |
Swing Shift
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VHS |
Drama |
Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell got together on <I>Swing Shift</I>--and if that's the main reason people know about this movie, it only has itself to blame. The film has a marvelous subject (women's changing status on the home front during World War II), a hugely attractive cast, and a sympathetic director, Jonathan Demme, whose previous film, <I>Melvin and Howard</I>, had been a splendid piece of Americana. Yet despite this, it feels disjointed. Goldie goes to work at a factory when her husband (Ed Harris) goes off to war; Russell works there too, and they find each other, well, riveting. With the movie wavering between romance and feminist consciousness-raising, the field is open for Oscar®-nominated Christine Lahti, who sparkles as Goldie's lanky, wisecracking best friend. Demme's original version of the movie was obscured by reshoots, which might explain the missed opportunity; this could have been a classic. <I>--Robert Horton</I> |
Switching Channels
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VHS |
Comedy |
A television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story. |
Tae Bo - Basic Workout
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VHS |
Documentary |
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Tae Bo - 8-Minute Workout
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VHS |
Documentary |
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Tae Bo - Instructional Workout
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VHS |
Documentary |
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Tae-Bo - Advanced Workout
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VHS |
Documentary |
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Taking Care of Business
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VHS |
Comedy |
An uptight advertising exec has his entire life in a filofax organizer which mistakenly ends up in the hands of a friendly convict who poses as him. |
Talk Radio
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VHS |
Drama |
An abrasive radio talk show host, the night before he goes national, finds himself getting death threats from neo nazis during his show. |
Teen Wolf
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VHS |
Comedy |
A highschooler discovers that he is a werewolf. |
Teen Wolf Too
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VHS |
Comedy |
Jason Bateman stars in this sequel to Teen Wolf as the original's cousin, Todd. Though not a boxer, he receives a college boxing scholarship, and upon discovering that he is afflicted with the same werewolf genetics, transforms from unremarkable to unbelievable. — Kristie Hassen |
They Call Me Bruce?
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VHS |
Comedy |
A goofy Korean finds his life hopelessly complicated with people continually confusing him with Bruce Lee. |
Thick as Thieves
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VHS |
Comedy |
Tough City - where grifters, dips and shysters scramble for a dirty dollar and a clean shirt - where... |
Three Amigos!
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VHS |
Comedy; Western |
Three unemployed actors accept an invitation to a Mexican village to replay their bandit fighter roles, unaware that it is real thing. |
Thunderball
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VHS |
Action; Bond |
When SPECTRE steals two nuclear bombs for a massive extortion scheme, agent 007 is sent in to find them before they can be used. |
Tombstone
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VHS |
Drama; Western |
After success cleaning up Dodge City, Wyatt Earp moves to Tombstone, Arizona, and wishes to get rich in obscurity... |
Tommy Boy
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VHS |
Comedy |
An incompetent, immature, and dimwitted heir to an auto parts factory must save the business to keep it out of the hands of his stepmother. |
Tomorrow Never Dies
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VHS |
Action; Bond |
Mad media mogul (<a href="/name/nm0000596/">Jonathan Pryce</a>) wants to start World War III to win ratings. Bond has to stop him. |
Top Secret!
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VHS |
Comedy |
This time Zucker and Abrams are spoofing, most notably, Elvis films and WWII spy movies. Val Kilmer stars as Nick Rivers... |
Total Recall
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VHS |
Sci-Fi |
When a man goes for virtual vacation memories of the planet Mars, an unexpected and harrowing series of events forces him to go to the planet for real, or does he? |
Tough Guys
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VHS |
Comedy |
Two elderly gangsters are released from prison only to find they have trouble fitting in as old men who still take no guff from anyone. |
Tougher Than Leather
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VHS |
Drama |
Rap group Run-DMC star as themselves in this cross between a blaxploitation film and a spaghetti western... |
Tourist Trap
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VHS |
Action |
Seeing his family drifting apart, a father announces that he is planning a special vacation that will take them down the same paths followed by his famous ancestor. — Sandra Brennan |
The Toxic Avenger
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VHS |
Horror |
This is the story of Melvin, the resident geek at the local health club. One day, Slug and Bozo (some... |
The Toy
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VHS |
Comedy |
An underemployed reporter finds himself literally purchased as a toy for a rich spoiled brat. |
Toys
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VHS |
Comedy |
An eccentric toymaker finds his family business horribly misused by his militaristic uncle who is bequeathed control of the company. |
Trading Places
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VHS |
Comedy |
A snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires. |
Transylvania 6-5000
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VHS |
Comedy |
In a plot that combines Mary Shelley's mad Dr. Frankenstein and Bram Stoker's Count Dracula, two yellow journalism reporters, Jack and Gil ( Jeff Goldblum and Ed Begley, Jr. ) head off to a castle in Transylvania. The intrepid duo is out to hunt down a story that proves Frankenstein's "monster" is still alive and sparking. What they find is an appropriately demented Dr. Malavaqua and his monstrous creations. Tame stuff for the hardcore groupie, this intended spoof falls a tad short of funny. — Eleanor Mannikka |
Trapped in Paradise
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VHS |
Comedy; Holiday |
Bill Firpo has managed to stay honest, but can't help but be dragged into things by his larcenous brothers... |
Tron
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VHS |
Sci-Fi |
A hacker is literally abducted into the world of a computer and forced to participate in gladiatorial games where his only chance of escape is with the help of a heroic security program. |
True Lies
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VHS |
Action |
When a secret agent learns of his wife's extra-marital affair, he pursues her and uses his intelligence resources in a job he kept secret from her. |
True Stories
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VHS |
Comedy |
David Byrne of Talking Heads fame visits a typical (and fictional) Texas town, on the eve of the town's celebration of the state's sesquicentennial... |
Tucker: The Man and His Dream - The Man and His Dream
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VHS |
Drama |
The story of Preston Tucker, the maverick car designer and his ill fated challenge to the auto industry with his revolutionary car concept. |
Turk 182!
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VHS |
Drama |
Jimmy Lynch is angry because his older brother, who was injured as a result of an off duty fire rescue... |
Twilight Zone: The Movie - The Movie
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VHS |
Horror |
Famous directors create their own versions of classic stories from Rod Serling's landmark television series. |
Twin Dragons
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VHS |
Action |
Jackie Chan resurrects the old <i>Corsican Brothers</i> chestnut of identical twin brothers separated at birth who meet up as adults and discover that they share more than blood ties. Poor boy Chan is a mechanic and race-car driver whose black-market activities have made him the target of some nasty mobsters, while jet-setting Chan is a world-famous conductor back in Hong Kong for a concert. In the same vicinity for the first time in years, they can suddenly feel each other's pain, and more. As one Chan jumps a jet boat for a wild escape, the other becomes a spastic victim of the furious ride, thrown around a posh restaurant while drenching his date with drinking water. Though the American cut has been pared of the worst of Chan's incessant mugging (it's about 12 minutes shorter than the original version), it's still overloaded with silly slapstick and cartoonish mistaken-identity gags as the boys swap girlfriends and dance. But wade through the crude comedy and you're rewarded with a gymnastic free-for-all climax in a car-testing workshop, where Chan leaps over, under, and through cars while taking on an army of gangsters before split-screen brothers team up for a bit of marionette martial arts. Tsui Hark and Ringo Lam codirect, Tsui taking the comedy and Lam handling the action, and John Woo makes a cameo as a priest in the wedding finale. <I>--Sean Axmaker</I> |
Two-Lane Blacktop
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VHS |
Drama |
Story of two men drag racing across the USA in a primer grey 55 chevy. Wilson is the mechanic, James Taylor is the driver. |
UHF
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VHS |
Comedy |
A daydreaming loser assumes control of a dying UHF TV station and starts producing his own strange programming. |
Uncle Buck
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VHS |
Comedy |
Bachelor and all round slob, Buck, babysits his brother's rebellious teenage daughter and her cute younger brother and sister. |
Uncle Tom's Cabin
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VHS |
Drama |
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The Underachievers
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VHS |
Comedy |
Danny Warren ( Edward Albert ) is a former minor-league shortstop who becomes a narc to uncover drug dealing in this situation comedy. Investigating at a high-school adult-education class, he falls for the tempting teacher Katherine, played by the exotic Barbara Carrera . Danny forgets the reward of $10,000 per arrest when he elects to continue his "education." He joins a colorful group of characters that includes ex-cons, illegal aliens, and brain-dead baby boomers who cause more trouble than their younger counterparts. Swimming classes and wine tasting serve as background for a series of comic catastrophes. Danny soon suspects Katherine's colleague Mrs. Grant ( Susan Tyrell ) of being in cahoots with the drug dealers, and Katherine and Mrs. Grant have a prolonged fight scene that is memorably funny. — Dan Pavlides |
Up the Academy
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VHS |
Comedy |
This puber-comedy is a kind of mixture between 'Animal House' and 'Police Academy'. Four boys are sent... |
Used Cars
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VHS |
Comedy |
Used car salesman Rudy Russo needs money to run for State Senate, so he approaches his boss Luke. Luke agrees to front him the $10,000 he needs... |
The Usual Suspects
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VHS |
Drama |
Five villains in New York are rounded up by police in an unconventional manner that worries them. After release, they get together for a spot of revenge, but someone else is controling events. |
Vacation
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VHS |
Comedy; Theme - Driving |
The Griswold family's cross-country drive to the WallyWorld theme park proves to be much more arduous than they ever anticipated. |
Vegas Vacation
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VHS |
Comedy; Theme - Gambling-Vegas |
The Griswolds head off for Las Vegas, as Clark got an extra bonus for developing a food preservative... |
A View to a Kill
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VHS |
Action; Bond |
James Bond is faced up against a mad industrialist who plans to destroy Silicon Valley. It is up to 007 to stop him and his ally May Day. |
The Visitors from Outer Space - The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald
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VHS |
Animation; Family |
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Viva Knievel!
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VHS |
Action |
As the legendary stuntman travels to Mexico to prepare for one of his greatest stunts yet, he takes time out of his schedule to meet his fans... |
Volunteers
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VHS |
Comedy |
Tom Hanks stars as Lawrence, a rich kid with a bad accent and a large debt. After his father refuses to help him out... |
Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave
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VHS |
Family; Animation |
Wallace falls for Wendolene, a wool shop owner, while Gromit is framed for the sheep rustling. |
Wallace & Gromit: A Grand Day Out
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VHS |
Family; Animation |
Wallace and Gromit have run out of cheese and this provides an execellent excuse for the animated duo to take their holiday on the moon. |
Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers
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VHS |
Animation; Family |
Wallace is used by a criminal penguin in a robbery involving mechanical trousers. |
Walt Disney Story, The
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VHS |
Disney; Documentary |
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Walt Disney World, Around the World with Mickey and Friends
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VHS |
Disney; Documentary |
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WarGames
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VHS |
Drama |
A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III. |
Wavelength
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VHS |
Sci-Fi |
Two young lovers learn that a small group of child-like space aliens are marooned on Earth and are being... |
Wayne's World
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VHS |
Comedy |
Two slacker friends try to promote their public-access cable show. |
Weekend at Bernie's
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VHS |
Theme - Beach; Comedy |
A pair of losers try to pretend that their murdered employer is really alive, but the murderer is out to "finish him off." |
Weird Science
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VHS |
Comedy |
Two nerdish boys attempt to create the perfect woman, but she turns out to be more than that. |
Welcome to Hollywood
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VHS |
Comedy |
A film director (Adam Rifkin) decides to chart the course of a young actor (Tony Markes) as he tries to make it in Hollywood... |
Welcome to the Dollhouse
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VHS |
Drama |
Insightful look at an unattractive 7th grader as she struggles to cope with un-attentive parents, snobbish classmates, a smart older brother, an attractive younger sister, and her own insecurities. |
We're No Angels
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VHS |
Comedy |
A couple of escaped convicts on the run find refuge with the Church when they are mistaken for two priests... |
What About Bob?
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VHS |
Comedy |
A successful psychiatrist loses his mind after one of his most dependent patients tracks him down during his family vacation. |
When Harry Met Sally...
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VHS |
Comedy |
Harry and Sally have known each other for years, and are very good friends, but they fear sex would ruin the friendship. |
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
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VHS |
Animation; Comedy; Family |
A toon hating detective is a cartoon rabbit's only hope to prove his innocence when he is accused of murder. |
Who's Harry Crumb?
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VHS |
Comedy |
Harry is the latest generation of the Crumbs, famous and extremely talented detectives. Unfortunately... |
Who's Minding the Mint?
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VHS |
Comedy |
A mint worker accidentally destroys some money and decides to break in and reprint it, but find he has some unwanted partners. |
Wildcats
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VHS |
Comedy |
Molly is a highschool track coach who knows just as much about football as anyone else on the planet... |
Without a Clue
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VHS |
Comedy |
A drunken Sherlock Holmes is really just a cover for the real detective - Dr Watson. |
The Wizard of Oz
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VHS |
Family; Drama |
Dorothy Gale is swept away to a magical land in a tornado and embarks on a quest to see the Wizard who can help her return home. |
Working Girl
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VHS |
Comedy |
When a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss, she seizes an opportunity to steal it back by pretending she has her boss's job. |
Working Stiffs, Vol. 1
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VHS |
Comedy |
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The World Is Not Enough - Special Edition
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VHS |
Action; Bond |
Feeling responsbile for the death of a British oil tycoon and a friend, who died in an explosion in MI6 headquarters, James Bond takes position as bodyguard to the tycoon's daughter, Elektra, |
Worth Winning
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VHS |
Comedy |
Taylor is a man who has no problems with women. So confident is he that he accepts a challenge from... |
The Wrong Guys
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VHS |
Comedy |
Five former cub scouts have a reunion and go camping on the mountain they never conquered. High jinks... |
You Only Live Twice
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VHS |
Action; Bond |
Agent 007 and the Japanese secret service ninja force must find and stop the true culprit of a series of spacejackings before nuclear war is provoked. |
Young Frankenstein
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VHS |
Comedy |
Dr. Frankenstein's grandson, after years of living down the family reputation, inherits granddad's castle and repeats the experiments. |
Young Sherlock Holmes
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VHS |
Drama |
When assorted people start having inexplicable delusions that lead to their deaths, a teenage Sherlock Holmes decides to investigate. |
Ziggy's Gift
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VHS |
Animation; Family; Holiday |
Ziggy, of Tom Wilson's comic strip, has a Christmas adventure in this Emmy-winning special. When he becomes a streetside Santa for charity... |