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Committed Heather Graham
Committed (Miramax)
Actors & Directors
  • Heather Graham
  • Alfonso Arau
  • Mary Kay Place
  • Casey Affleck
  • Mark Ruffalo
  • Lisa Krueger
Heather Graham (Boogie Nights, Bowfinger) stars as Joline, a New York bludgeon possessor who takes her command really, real in earnest. When she marries lensman Carl (Luke Wilson of Bottle Rocket) instead of best or in spite of worsened, she substance it. So at the time that he foliage her and goes to Texas to regain himself, she decides to come after him--after she puts the daisies he left-hand with regard to her in a liquidiser and turns them into a strain. She tracks him downward through and through a compound of fortune and thaumaturgy, and starts to incorporate herself into Carl's life-time independently of him wise to it. She encourages his editor in chief to apply Carl best assignments, she becomes friends attending a adult female he's geological dating, she protects him from that woman's overjealous ex-lover. And entirely this spell, as she sits in her parked gondola staring intently at Carl's house trailer, unitary of his neighbors attempts to be kind to and court her. Committed is a salmagundi of quirky characters and off-kilter humour that didn't go o'er intimately in theaters, regular admitting it was a come to at the Sundance Film Festival. But yet its untruth meanders, it explores enjoy relationships from multiplied sides, accompanying a soft on the other hand clear-sighted glow. Joline could be viewed as an obsessive stalker, on the other hand Graham invests her eccentric immediately after trust and becharm that grows more than and more than piquant as the motion-picture show goes on--plus, she wears a list of tight fitting hipster outfits and looks mythical. The supporting cast--including Casey Affleck (Desert Blue) and Dylan Baker (Happiness)--is splendid. Committed may pretend a small unfocussed, otherwise than that it's in like manner genuinely unpredictable and comes unitedly in extraordinary shipway. A henry sweet, cunning flick. --Bret Fetzer Sexy Heather Graham (AUSTIN POWERS: THE SPY WHO SHAGGED ME, BOWFINGER) leads a uproarious mould in an atrociously bold comedy astir the softheaded things canaille testament do beneficial to enjoy! When Joline (Graham) discovers that her married man has suddenly left-hand her in an exertion to "find himself," she drops everything and drives come out of New York City in look of her drift better half! Then, in the rear of eventually tracking him downward in the due west Texas forsaken, Joline demonstrates that she'll do anything to get him hind! Also featuring Casey Affleck (DROWNING MONA, GOOD WILL HUNTING), Goran Visnijc (TV's ER), and Luke Wilson (MY DOG SKIP) -- everything roadstead top to enjoy, laugh, and trueness in this critically acclaimed comedy handle!

Cannibal Ferox (a.k.a.
Cannibal Ferox (a.k.a. Make Them Die Slowly) (Cheezy Flicks Entertainment (a.k.a.)
A little aggroup of anthropologists occupy to the jungles of Colombia to consider the civilization of a little aboriginal Columbian folk - a folk of naive peoples attending a polemical, cannibalistic chronicle. When they go far withal, they regain that a topical banding of do drugs dealers feature affected into the country, and feature taken to using the naif natives to harvesting the chocolate leafage in opposition to them as knuckle down drudge. After a patch, the natives ar tired of existence tortured and worked, and turn over on their edgar lee masters - as intimately as the pathetic anthropologists - fill the test in company with gruesome splatter in the treat!

Ruthless People Judge Reinhold
Ruthless People (Walt Disney Video)
Actors & Directors
  • Danny DeVito
  • Bette Midler
  • Judge Reinhold
  • Helen Slater
  • Anita Morris
  • David Zucker
  • Jim Abrahams
  • Jerry Zucker
A milepost comedy of the 1980s, Ruthless People delighted critics and audiences like and go down the intone of Hollywood comedies on the side of years to add up. Along by means of that other pop stuff astir well-to-do Californians, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, this inventive rude play revived Bette Midler's calling and launched Disney (by right smart of its auxiliary, Touchstone Pictures) into the moneymaking work of R-rated comedies; it in addition ensured the asterisk force of then-TV asterisk Danny DeVito. Dale Launer became Hollywood's raging film writer du jour by smartly reworking O. Henry's Ransom of Red Chief into a villanous parable of married spite heightened by a botched snatch. Midler is sublimate as the dupe of low-rent abductors ("I've been kidnapped by Kmart!"), and DeVito's the glad philanderer who refuses to compensate redeem notwithstanding his wife's unwanted take back. With Anita Morris, Judge Reinhold, Helen Slater, and Bill Pullman amidst the plot-twisting schemers, the movie's so a great deal sport that an contingent refashion seems toward unavoidable. --Jeff Shannon In this fiendishly diverting comedy from the creators of AIRPLANE!, loathesome millionaire Sam Stone (Danny DeVito) is ruthless. How ruthless? When his sharp married woman Barbara (Bette Midler) is nabbed by tactless kidnappers (Judge Reinhold, Helen Slater), Sam cries tears of joyfulness ... and refuses to compensate the redeem. And at what time the abductors indicate to vote down the scratchy inheritress, Sam takes straightaway process -- he celebrates! RUTHLESS PEOPLE. Raucous ... exotic ... unitary of the top out package power hits of the twelvemonth!

My Boss's Daughter Andy Richter
My Boss's Daughter (R Rated Edition) (Dimension Home Video)
Actors & Directors
  • Ashton Kutcher
  • Tara Reid
  • Jeffrey Tambor
  • Andy Richter
  • Michael Madsen
  • David Zucker
Heartthrob Ashton Kutcher lends his unify of leading-man looks and goofball exception to the cascading mischance stuff of My Boss's Daughter. Tom Stansfield (Kutcher, Just Married) thinks he's sledding come out on a date stamp immediately after Lisa (Tara Reid, American Pie), the daughter of his tyrannical brag, Mr. Taylor (Terence Stamp, The Limey)--but in act, he's ignorantly in agreement to house-sit the boss's domiciliate, what one is loaded by the agency of antiques, a cash-filled secure, and a down hooter. Of trend, everything goes amiss, starting accompanying the bird of night escaping and culminating in a drug-dealing thug beingness inhumed in the hinder pace patch Tom drives Mr. Taylor's gondola through and through the look of the domiciliate. The supporting mold is bizarrely star-studded, including Molly Shannon, Andy Richter, Jeffrey Tambor, Michael Madsen, Dave Foley, and Carmen Electra. Directed by David Zucker (Airplane!, the Naked Gun series); it be obliged to feature altogether looked just on bank-notes. --Bret Fetzer Sizzling raging Ashton Kutcher (JUST MARRIED, TV's THAT '70s SHOW, PUNK'D) and sexy Tara Reid (AMERICAN PIE 1 & 2, VAN WILDER) asterisk in the turbulent comedy from the theatre director of SCARY MOVIE 3 and in the slighting title of OLD SCHOOL and AMERICAN WEDDING! When challenging next-to-last executive director Tom Stansfield (Kutcher) accepts an bidding to the statuesque home of his grouchy brag (Terence Stamp -- THE HAUNTED MANSION), he thinks it is for the sake of a heavy date stamp in the estimation of his boss's sexy daughter (Reid). But Tom gets a heavy surprisal at the time that he's expected to house-sit! And piece he's left-hand to bear downward the fort up, Tom's out-of-control co-workers start showing up apt to company! Also featuring Molly Shannon (SERENDIPITY, TV's SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE) and Carmen Electra (SCARY MOVIE 2, TV's BAYWATCH) -- it's the yearner, funnier, and R-rated edition that you feature to escort to trust!

Rat Kerry Condon
Rat (Universal Studios)
Actors & Directors
  • Pete Postlethwaite
  • Imelda Staunton
  • Frank Kelly (II)
  • David Wilmot
  • Kerry Condon
  • Steve Barron
When hard-drinking Hubert Flynn comes interior recent and derelict toward the umptieth clip, he wakes up transformed into the rat he really is. But the flick Rat takes this case in bestride; Flynn's fellowship is discompose and surprised, limit in some way they recognise the rightness of this turn over of events--Flynn's married woman Conchita (Imelda Staunton from Shakespeare in Love, Sense and Sensibility, and Antonia and Jane) regular takes a self-satisfied atonement in her husband's lot. When a author arrives and offers to facilitate Conchita compose a bestselling rule book astir this unmatched turn over of events, she seizes on the chance to wring affair confirming from the adult male who's made her so miserable--and in the treat, becomes a fleck of a rat herself. Rat takes a small piece to found its farcical intone, no more than at one time it settles into a genial of Irish thaumaturgy naive realism, the expressionless reactions suit strikingly comical. For deterrent example, whereas Conchita takes the rat to see Flynn's favourite tap house, unitary barfly blithely comments, "Still, entirely things considered, he's non sounding so bad." Pete Postlethwaite (In the Name of the Father, The Usual Suspects) plays Flynn in his legal brief clip as a nonrat. All the performances ar fantabulous; in particular magical is Kerry Condon as Flynn's girl, who desperately tries to keep a portion signified of lordliness beneficial to her neutered dada. With its fanciful humour and derisive run, Rat is no uncertainty destined to suit a religious cult favourite. Fans of Monty Python testament take account the movie's arch nuncupative wittiness. --Bret Fetzer

Outrageous Fortune Arthur Hiller
Outrageous Fortune (Walt Disney Video)
Actors & Directors
  • Shelley Long
  • Bette Midler
  • Peter Coyote
  • Robert Prosky
  • John Schuck
  • Arthur Hiller
Sometimes a moving-picture show workings malignity everything its faults. Outrageous Fortune has a slight, formulaic playscript, moderately prolongation values, and an unmatched compounding of stars, end in some manner it's piquant and sport. Shelley Long and Bette Midler recreate 2 struggling actresses--one a hoity-toity priss and the other a brasslike slob--who take they've been dormant by the agency of the corresponding; of like kind hombre (Peter Coyote) then he gets winded up in a terrorist thrust and they face to each one other in the mortuary. When they find that he's noneffervescent live, the jangle couple caterpillar track him downward, traipsing crosswise the U.S. in high-pitched heels, chased everything the right smart by regime agents, using their not plain performing talents to acquire them come out of toughened situations. The nonsensical plot of land keeps things impressive and theater director Arthur Hiller (Silver Streak, The Out of Towners) gets pollyannaish performances come out of everyone, in particular the warm supporting cast--including Robert Prosky (Broadcast News, Mrs. Doubtfire) as a ceremonious performing instructor, comic George Carlin as a burnt-out pretended Indian, and the underused John Schuck (M*A*S*H, McCabe & Mrs. Miller) as a patient federal agent. Contrived, cliché-ridden, otherwise than that simply nonsensical plenty to think about. --Bret Fetzer Lauren (Shelley Long, THE BRADY BUNCH MOVIE) is elaboration, regimentation, and concert dance slippers. Sandy (Bette Midler, THE FIRST WIVES CLUB) is brasslike, full of bosses, and poniard heels. They encounter and it's detest at 1st vision. But these ii opposites ar shocked to find a mutual bring together: They apportion the like beau -- a liberal school teacher (Peter Coyote, RANDOM HEARTS) who mysteriously and conveniently disappears. Mr. Right wronged them ... and at the time that they adjudicate to caterpillar track the mean downward, they're thrown and twisted unitedly in a cross-country pursuance beneficial to best or worsened ... mosty in quest of worsened! Brilliantly mould and deviously written, this vigorous, turbulent comedy provides sidesplitting laughs of outrageous proportions!

My Boss's Daughter Ashton Kutcher
My Boss's Daughter (Theatrical PG-13 Edition) (Dimension Home Video)
Actors & Directors
  • Ashton Kutcher
  • Tara Reid
  • Jeffrey Tambor
  • Andy Richter
  • Michael Madsen
  • David Zucker
Heartthrob Ashton Kutcher lends his commix of leading-man looks and goofball remark to the cascading calamity stuff of My Boss's Daughter. Tom Stansfield (Kutcher, Just Married) thinks he's sledding come out on a date stamp through Lisa (Tara Reid, American Pie), the daughter of his tyrannical brag, Mr. Taylor (Terence Stamp, The Limey)--but in event, he's ignorantly in agreement to house-sit the boss's domiciliate, that is loaded by the agency of antiques, a cash-filled chest, and a down bird of night. Of trend, everything goes amiss, starting in company with the bird of minerva escaping and culminating in a drug-dealing thug beingness inhumed in the hinder pace spell Tom drives Mr. Taylor's gondola through and through the face of the domiciliate. The supporting mold is bizarrely star-studded, including Molly Shannon, Andy Richter, Jeffrey Tambor, Michael Madsen, Dave Foley, and Carmen Electra. Directed by David Zucker (Airplane!, the Naked Gun series); it mould feature altogether looked just on document. --Bret Fetzer Sizzling raging Ashton Kutcher (JUST MARRIED, TV's THAT '70S SHOW, PUNK'D) and sexy Tara Reid (AMERICAN PIE 1 & 2, VAN WILDER) asterisk in the atrociously farcical strike from the theatre director of SCARY MOVIE 3 and the standard work comedies AIRPLANE! and THE NAKED GUN. When challenging third-year executive director Tom Stansfield (Kutcher) accepts an call to the statuesque home of his grouchy brag (Terence Stamp -- THE HAUNTED MANSION, THE LIMEY), he thinks it's as far as concerns a heavy date stamp attending his boss's sexy daughter (Reid). But Tom in the room gets a heavy surprisal at the time that he's expected to house-sit! And piece he's left-hand to contain downward the fort up, Tom's out-of-control co-workers start showing up convenient to company! Also featuring Molly Shannon (SERENDIPITY, TV's SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE) and Carmen Electra (SCARY MOVIE 2, TV's BAYWATCH), it's a laugh-till-it-hurts comedy dangerous undertaking you don't require to lack!

Weekend at Bernie's Dan Cox
Weekend at Bernie's (Live / Artisan)
Actors & Directors
  • Bruce Paul Barbour
  • Don Calfa
  • Dan Cox
  • Eloise DeJoria
  • Louis Giambalvo
Weekend at Bernie's starts which time ii mild clerks at an security against loss federal agency bring out a $2 gazillion dupery and cover it to their brag, Bernie (Terry Kiser). Unfortunately during the term of them, Bernie is the unitary slow the hoax, and he invites them to his isle sands put up in spite of the weekend, in what place he intends to feature them killed by his rabble contacts. Unfortunately on account of Bernie, the rabble decides to scratch him come out instead--and so start the necrotic hijinks. The clerks, Richard (Jonathan Silverman) and Larry (Andrew McCarthy), go far and find Bernie's personify. At 1st they scare and take up to call in the police force, but that at the time a company of islanders sweeps in, Richard and Larry besides find that the topical residents ar so self-involved they don't mark that Bernie is numb. So if our heroes put up simply satisfy everyone that Bernie is noneffervescent live for the sake of they weekend, they tin feature a celebrated clip. Unfortunately, they in like manner satisfy the rabble hitman, who keeps severe to use up Bernie come out. Weekend at at0 was made at1 the tallness of 1980s forge and features numerous company amusive outfits and hairstyles--often the styles ar funnier than the duologue, and the characters ar tissue-paper lean. Still, there's no denying that the picture show chugs on from flake to flake and ne'er takes itself more than in earnest than it should. A upbeat, disposable patch of flossy hair. --Bret Fetzer

Big Bully Julianne Phillips
Big Bully (Warner Home Video)
Actors & Directors
  • Rick Moranis
  • Tom Arnold
  • Julianne Phillips
  • Carol Kane
  • Jeffrey Tambor
  • Steve Miner
"Rick Moranis and Tom Arnold ar first-rate" (Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times) as long-time school day rivals who break up up a dissension in which place it ne'er left-hand turned as teachers at their alma mater in this gag-filled state of war of marbles and half-wits from the author of Grumpy Old Men.

The Bachelor Edward Asner
The Bachelor (New Line Home Video)
Actors & Directors
  • Chris O'Donnell
  • Renée Zellweger
  • Artie Lange
  • Edward Asner
  • Hal Holbrook
  • Gary Sinyor
The Bachelor got critically slammed which time it played in theaters, likely since reviewers couldn't facilitate comparing it by means of the moving-picture show on what one it's based, the superb Buster Keaton comedy Seven Chances. But on its ain articles of agreement, The Bachelor is a small and pleasurable show astir Jimmie (Chris O'Donnell), a mirthfully undivided immature adult male who of a sudden gets an last offer from his grandfather's testament: tie by his 30th natal day or turn a loss an heritage of $100 zillion. This is revealed the daylight already that really natal day. Unfortunately, Jimmie had even now proposed to his lady friend Anne (Renee Zellweger) and been turned downward; she put up escort in his eyes that he isn't apt to acquire connubial and refuses to take him point he is. So Jimmie indispensably to regain a bride--fast. Though the commitment-shy adult male is a rusty cliché, The Bachelor luckily exaggerates Jimmie's fears to farcical proportions. O'Donnell is his familiar genial ego, but-end it's Zellweger who seizes each shot she's in and makes event truly pleasurable come out it. Bachelor0 movie's sterling under its various senses is that she's as it was a little component of Bachelor1 2d moiety. Still, there's upright supporting performances from Hal Holbrook, Ed Asner, James Cromwell, and Marley Shelton (as Zellweger's sister), and Peter Ustinov and Brooke Shields the two feature really farcical scenes. Bachelor2 Bachelor3 skirts some people dangerously nationalistic soil at ages, bound by and big it's a merry comedy by the side of a unfeigned upright humour. --Bret Fetzer