 The Perfect Neighbor (Lions Gate)
Actors & Directors
- Barbara Niven
- Perry King
- Susan Blakely
- Linda Darlow
- Lila Bata-Walsh
- Douglas Jackson
Love ever seems to get away Donna's hold on. Tormented by a retiring tied immediately after criminal conversation, betrayal and dispatch, Donna desperately tries to make a invigorated life-time in a young ithiel town to what she meets the perfect adult male, her young neighbor, William. The only if obstruction in her right smart is his married woman. As Donna's fixation along with William grows, older fateful tendencies rise into view. Will account take over itself whereas Donna's demand as being enjoy becomes venomous
 The Killer Elite (MGM (Video & DVD))
Actors & Directors
- James Caan
- Robert Duvall
- Arthur Hill
- Bo Hopkins
- Mako
- Sam Peckinpah
James Caan and Robert Duvall asterisk as a pair off of CIA operatives in the Bay Area; while Duvall sells come out Caan, he cripples him in lieu of sidesplitting him. But Caan fights hind, on the job himself hind into form and hind into serve to foster a visiting dignitary who is targeted on this account that murderous assault. It everything leads to a substantial shootout and martial-arts combat alongside the mothballed swift in the North Bay. Economic and free, this is unitary of theatre director Sam Peckinpah's smaller efforts, limit noneffervescent features his skillful way of sue scenes. An crooked mould includes Arthur Hill, Mako, and Bo Hopkins; this may be the only when take that features the pair Burt Young and Gig Young. --Marshall Fine As becalm custody carefully conducting wire a bomb and meticulously go down the timer to the eery sounds of of child vocalizing in the play down, and as the venomous gimmick explodes, rupturing a edifice into fragments and splintering the tranquility of the arena, the0 cinematic brainiac of the1 OscarÂ(r)-nominated* writer/director of the2 Wild Bunch comes to unexpected lifespan. Featuring "a 1st value cast"(Los Angeles Times) headed by Academy AwardÂ(r) nominee** James Caan and OscarÂ(r) winner*** Robert Duvall, this unlucky action-thriller "aim[s] at the3 jugular" (Cue) and "rivets you to the4 screen" (Cosmopolitan)! the5 assassins Mike Locken (Caan) andGeorge Hansen (Duvall) use up on jobs likewise risky toward regular the6 CIA to palm. They're charles herbert best friends, superordinate marksmen and on the7 A-list at the time it comes to sidesplitting. But while unitary high-powered hitman betrays some other, the8 fascinate, the9 force and the0 thrills suit more than than simply a unsafe spunky of who-kills-whom first...it becomes a really individual state of war! *1969: Original Story and Screenplay (Sam Peckinpah) **1972: Supporting Actor, the1 Godfather ***1983: Actor, Tender Mercies
 Vampire's Kiss (MGM (Video & DVD))
Actors & Directors
- Nicolas Cage
- Maria Conchita Alonso
- Jennifer Beals
- Elizabeth Ashley
- Kasi Lemmons
- Robert Bierman
Nicolas Cage is thoroughly mold in this shifty grim comedy of a New York scholarly federal agent whose in style one-night remain firm lands him in bottom in the estimation of lamia Jennifer Beals, who takes a heavy, all-fired burn come out of his identity operator. The emotionally wavering executive director develops an averting to sunshine, a dread of trials, and a quick appetency in the place of cockroaches (not to bring up a sadistic pleasance in tormenting misfortunate secretarial assistant Maria Conchita Alonso), mete is it a occult imprecate or schizophrenic psychosis? Vampire's Kiss (written by After Hours augustin eugene scribe Joseph Minion) walks a unsafe run along betwixt wit and psychosis, that Cage pushes to surreal levels in the opinion of a manic, unhinged public presentation. "I'm a vampire!" he howls, artifice downward alleys and snapping his chintzy pliant fangs, to a lesser extent a Dracula than a bug-eyed, psychotic person Renfield. Both humorous and unsettling, this is unitary of the to the highest degree crack-brained takes on the genre. --Sean Axmaker Oscar® winner* Nicolas Cage is astonishing (The New Yorker) in this excessive, erotically supercharged thriller astir a womanizing New York executive director who becomes confident that he's a lamia at what time unitary of his conquests bites his make out in the throes of passion of christ. Jennifer Beals (Devil in a Blue Dress) sizzles as the femme fatale who sets Cage on his batty trend in this in darkness ludicrous, racy, inventive fantasize (Los Angeles Times)! *1995: Actor, Leaving Las Vegas
 The Wrong Man (Warner Home Video)
Actors & Directors
- Laurinda Barrett
- Kippy Campbell
- Norma Connolly
- Charles Cooper
- Lola D'Annunzio
Alfred Hitchcock was partial of apprisal the record astir in what plight his padre discouraged his boy from regular the slightest felonious impulsion by having immature Alfred locked in a law holding cadre because a legal brief period--a terrifying see Hitchcock ne'er forgot. Much of the dread from that puerility belonging resonates through and through The Wrong Man, what one is unmatched amid Hitchcock's films in that it is based solely on a factual caseful that occurred in New York City in January 1953. As Hitchcock states in a wraithlike preface, genuineness was his primary quill goal--including the habituate of genuine names and locations from the case--and the shoot gains respectable force from Hitchcock's semi-documentary go up (a shoot noir title that was noneffervescent in style at the time Hitchcock crack this shoot in 1957). Henry Fonda is consummately mold as the financially struggling nightclub instrumentalist who is erroneously identified as a pirate then he attempts to cash in in his wife's life-insurance insurance policy to pay off because of her much-needed dental act. Vera Miles is as noble as the0 woe married woman, who at long last cracks below the1 pressure level of her husband's unfair accusal and the2 lengthy treat of proving his stainlessness. Through altogether of this, Hitchcock pays tight attending to the3 terrestrial inside information of constabulary process, intensifying Fonda's hopelessness and the4 narration tautness that was Hitchcock's directorial trademark. As it happens, the5 tight devotion to factual detail--no affair for what cause idiotic or incredible--also renders the6 the7 the8 something weaker than Hitchcock's model plots, from the time of in this caseful the true is unquestionably unknown than feigned story. Nevertheless, this is noneffervescent a riveting shoot that fits quite an cleverly side by side Hitchcock's better-known films of the9 1950s. (Interesting trivia: Miles--who would ulterior seem in Psycho, was Hitchcock's 1st select despite the0 Kim Novak role in Vertigo, and Hitchcock was vocally pestered whereas Miles's maternity prevented her from seizure the1 role that could feature made her a star.) --Jeff Shannon Manny Ballestero is an honorable industrious player at New York's Stork Club. When his married woman indispensably circulating medium on the side of dental handling, Manny goes to the2 limited security against loss power to appropriate on her insurance policy. Employees at the3 power misidentify him in favor of a hold-up the4 who robbed them the5 yr in a previous place passage and the6 constabulary ar called. the7 take tells the8 rightful falsehood of how remarkable happened to Manny and his fellowship.
 The Gingerbread Man (Polygram USA Video)
Actors & Directors
- Kenneth Branagh
- Embeth Davidtz
- Robert Downey Jr.
- Daryl Hannah
- Tom Berenger
- Robert Altman
When released in 1997, The Gingerbread Man was the only if John Grisham picture that did non habituate unitary of the pop novelist's bestsellers as its brainchild. Rather, it's based on an archetype screenplay by Grisham that displays the author's intimate genius in quest of Southern characters and settings in the compass of a labyrinthian plot of ground propelled by his trademark story twists and turns. Sporting a spot-on Georgian speech pattern, Kenneth Branagh plays a Savannah counsellor who comes to the furtherance of a troubled adult female (Embeth Davidtz) and finds himself intermeshed in a scenario involving the woman's padre (Robert Duvall) that grows progressively coordination compound and unsafe, to what nil, of trend, is indeed as it seems. It's a totally engrossing flick made in the new film-noir oral report; what's to the highest degree engaging hither (and to the highest degree underrated by critics at the clip) is Gingerbread0 combining of Grisham's mainstream whodunit and Gingerbread1 offbeat title of rebel theater director Robert Altman. Despite a combat by the agency of executives that parsimoniously caused Altman to renounce Gingerbread2 shoot, Gingerbread3 Gingerbread4 Gingerbread5 demonstrates Gingerbread6 director's accomplishment in bringing a invigorated, characteristically offbeat come near to formal stuff, especially in Gingerbread7 habituate of a menace wild storm to bear Gingerbread8 patch in a say of unsafe solicitation. Unfortunately unmarked for the period of its showy relinquish, this well-informed thriller provides a mulct two-fold federal reserve note in the estimation of Francis Coppola's shoot of Grisham's Gingerbread9 Rainmaker. --Jeff Shannon
 Far From Home (Lions Gate)
Actors & Directors
- Matt Frewer
- Drew Barrymore
- Richard Masur
- Karen Austin
- Susan Tyrrell
- Meiert Avis
On the other face of inoffensiveness lies dread. Drew Barrymore (Charlie's Angels, The Wedding Singer, Never Been Kissed), Anthony Rapp, (Adventures in Babysitting), Richard Masur (License to Drive) and Matt Frewer ("Max Headroom") asterisk in this twisted interruption thriller as an ingenuous girl's budding sexuality lures her into a manic cyclone of conquest and off. Stranded in the deserving by means of an hollow gaseous state tankful, Charlie Cross (Frewer) and his fine immature girl Joleen (Barrymore) go to a nearby house trailer mungo park to get away the blistery mid-day hot up. It's in that respect Joleen meets Jimmy, a unusual and occult lad whose brazen-faced and enticing sexuality captures her wonder. But as a cautious antagonist vies towards her attending, Joleen becomes entangled in a venomous grownup domain to which place ) the damage of mundaneness is scourge.
 Train Ride (Sony)
Actors & Directors
- Sean Anderson (VII)
- Thomas Braxton Jr.
- Joe Clair
- Rel Dowdell
- Egypt (IV)
- Rel Dowdell
A riveting thriller that follows the harrowing events surrounding a unrelenting assail on a guild campus. Staring: Wood Harris(HBO The Wire, and Remember the Titans) and Hip Hop Star Mc Lite.
 Three Sickxty (WESTLAKE ENTERTAINMENT)
Three Sickxty From Director Natural Drye comes a sizzling, urban psycho-thriller. A participant - catching women during the term of the sort of they've got, spell fabrication them sense same they're on top out of the domain. Skinny, juicy, unsighted, mulct, stultify and half-baked, this is the lifetime Ricky Wilson (Calvin Willis) knows. But, while Krystal Lovett (T'Erika Jenks) pursues her emotional blood feud in contact with Ricky, the spunky gets tricky. A check made in inferno is an understatement. Lovett or allow it lonely is the call into question. Seduction, betrayal and roots, may or may non be the respond.
 Dressed to Kill (20th Century Fox)
Actors & Directors
- Lloyd Nolan
- Mary Beth Hughes
- Sheila Ryan
- William Demarest
- Ben Carter
- Eugene Forde
Detective michael shayne solves the murders of actors.
 Dead Cert (MGM (Video & DVD))
Actors & Directors
- Scott Antony
- Judi Dench
- Michael Williams
- Nina Thomas
- Julian Glover
- Tony Richardson
Penetrate Britain's orphic horseracing underworld in this thrilling anything disclosed of depravation, betrayal, and retribution. When unpaid gammon Bill Davidson (Ian Hogg) takes a fateful come for the period of a rush, his charles herbert best quaker Alan York (Scott Antony) suspects maculate recreate. With the facilitate of Bill's widow woman, Laura (Judi Dench), Alan launches an investigating. Together they testament put on the line everything to use up downward the truculent gaming family slow his friend's slay.
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