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Vacationing in northern California, Alfred Hitchcock was struck by a story in a Santa Cruz newspaper: "Seabird Invasion Hits Coastal Homes." From this peculiar incident, and his memory of a short story by Daphne du Maurier, the master of suspense..

Patch Adams raises two schools of thought: There are those who are inspired by the true story of a troubled man who finds happiness in helping others--a man set on changing the world and who may well accomplish the task. And then there are those who..

Actor Errol Flynn Cornell Borchers John Bentley Torin Thatcher Leif Erickson Creator William H. Daniels Sherman Todd Albert J. Cohen Barbara Gray Richard Alan Simmons Seton I...

Critics and audiences didn't seem too happy with this inventive, perhaps too clever sequel to the popular 1985 comedy about a high school kid (Michael J. Fox) who travels into the past and has to bring his parents together (or lose his own..

Actor John Wayne Susan Hayward Pedro Armendáriz Agnes Moorehead Thomas Gomez Creator Harry J. Wild Joseph LaShelle Leo Tover Howard Hughes Richard Sokolove Oscar Millard Format Closed-captioned Color NTSC

Actor Jesse Cameron-Glickenhaus Pat Morita Joanna Pacula Duncan Regehr Michael Dorn Creator Stephen M. Katz David Kern Alan M. Solomon Jefferson Richard Jerrold W. Lambert Leonard..

John Goodman puts on the pinstripes to play baseball legend Babe Ruth in this exciting account of "The Sultan of Swat's" colorful life. The film follows "the Bambino" from his early years at a boy's school in Baltimore to his glory days with the..

Actor Patrick Day Jim Dale Frederic Forrest Anne Shropshire Sada Thompson Creator Walter Lassally Jerrold L. Ludwig Jane Iredale Kim Eveleth William P. Perry Guy Gallo Mark Twain Format Color HiFi Sound NTSC

The classic science fiction novel by Ray Bradbury was a curious choice for one of the leading directors of the French New Wave, Fran ois Truffaut. But from the opening credits onward (spoken, not written on screen), Truffaut takes Bradbury's..

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John Waters's goofy, 1990 comedy about a Baltimore girl (Amy Locane) who can't decide if she should remain "good" in her 1954 world or hang out with the motorcycle boys is funny in a scene-by-scene way, but doesn't quite gel into the grand piece the..

Peter Sellers's third go-around as the prideful but bumbling Inspector Jacques Clouseau is funny enough, but this 1975 Blake Edwards revival of the Sellers-Clouseau connection is a little weak in comparison to predecessors The Pink Panther and A..

If Franz Kafka had been an animator and film director--oh, and a member of Monty Python's Flying Circus--this is the sort of outrageously dystopian satire one could easily imagine him making. However, Brazil was made by Terry Gilliam, who is all of..

This clunky road movie about three drag queens (Patrick Swayze, Wesley Snipes, and John Leguziamo) who get stranded in a sleepy Nebraska town on their way to a beauty contest, is too uplifting for its own good. Released during drag's mid-'90s heyday..

Fast & Furious is high octane torque-er porn that puts the franchise back on course after drifting in Tokyo. With the original cast once again in the driver's seat, we are good to go with a this-time-it's-personal plot and spectacular race and chase..

After creating many of the innovative special effects for 2001: ASpace Odyssey, Douglas Trumbull tried his hand at directing, and 1971's Silent Running marked an impressive debut. (In addition to creating the visual effects for Close Encounters of..

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The ancient Jordanian city of Petra offers a suitably monumental backdrop for this memorial concert honoring legendary tenor Luciano Pavarotti. An all-star company that includes Andrea Bocelli, Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo, Angela Gheorghiu, and..

Gene Saks, an old hand at directing Neil Simon's work on film (The Odd Couple, Barefoot in the Park), here takes a stab at Simon's most autobiographical work, which stars Jonathan Silverman as an aspiring writer living with two families under one..

A frantic and frequently amusing cocktail of Tarantino cool and Hong Kong bullet ballet, Joe (Narc) Carnahan's Smokin' Aces delivers some inspired moments of action and dark comedy in its dizzying-comic book plot about a rogue's gallery of killers..

An impressive, action-packed account of one of the most controversial public figures of the century. Gregory Peck is superb as the general who defied the enemy in World War II and Korea and the White House at home. With Ed Flanders, Russell Johnson,..

A wimpy remake of an already anemic movie (the 1947 Rita Hayworth vehicle Down to Earth), this glitzy musical from 1980 improbably stars Olivia Newton-John as a heavenly muse sent here to help open a roller-derby disco. Gene Kelly is mixed up in..

A phenomenal hit when it was released in 1989, Field of Dreams has become a modern classic and a uniquely American slice of cinema. It functions effectively as a moving drama about the power of dreams, a fantasy ode to our national pastime, and a..