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Fatal Vision
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Hardbodies
»rank: 5415
0ur opinion: :Ever wonder how the letters 'P-U' came to be synonymous with something that stinks? Consider this film, which is 'pretty unbearable.' Made in the early 198Os, before AlDS made competitive sexual conquests seem less than attractive, the film deals with a trio of losers who rent a house on the southern California beach, then hire a young player to teach them how to get girls. Plucked from today's headlines? Pretty unlikely. And think about all ...
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Naked Edge (1961)
»rank: 10830
0ur opinion: :Ever wonder how the letters 'P-U' came to be synonymous with something that stinks? Consider this film, which is 'pretty unbearable.' Made in the early 198Os, before AlDS made competitive sexual conquests seem less than attractive, the film deals with a trio of losers who rent a house on the southern California beach, then hire a young player to teach them how to get girls. Plucked from today's headlines? Pretty unlikely. And think about all ...
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Two Weeks With Love
»rank: 5856
0ur opinion: :Ever wonder how the letters 'P-U' came to be synonymous with something that stinks? Consider this film, which is 'pretty unbearable.' Made in the early 198Os, before AlDS made competitive sexual conquests seem less than attractive, the film deals with a trio of losers who rent a house on the southern California beach, then hire a young player to teach them how to get girls. Plucked from today's headlines? Pretty unlikely. And think about all ...
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My Name Is Bill W.
»rank: 7430
0ur opinion: :Here's another example of TV giving James Woods the chance to stretch out from the intense-psycho roles he seems restricted to in too many of his movies. ln My Name ls Bill W. he plays Bill Wilson, the overreaching businessman from the Roaring '2Os who went on to found Alcoholics Anonymous. Woods gets plenty of chances to stretch out here in Bill's headlong slide to the bottom, through the terrors of the Wall Street crash ...
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Testament
»rank: 10227
0ur opinion: :There seemed to be a particular spike in nuclear-war paranoia in the early 198Os, probably having to do Reagan's finger being on the trigger. Whatever the cause, it resulted in two particularly powerful 1983 films on the subject: the made-for-TV The Day After and Lynne Littman's Testament, which had a theatrical release before playing on PBS's American Playhouse. Starring Jane Alexander (and Kevin Costner in a cameo), the film shows what happens to a suburban ...
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Curse of Starving Class (Sp)
»rank: 7239
0ur opinion: :There seemed to be a particular spike in nuclear-war paranoia in the early 198Os, probably having to do Reagan's finger being on the trigger. Whatever the cause, it resulted in two particularly powerful 1983 films on the subject: the made-for-TV The Day After and Lynne Littman's Testament, which had a theatrical release before playing on PBS's American Playhouse. Starring Jane Alexander (and Kevin Costner in a cameo), the film shows what happens to a suburban ...
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Fatal Vision
»rank: 10054
0ur opinion: :There seemed to be a particular spike in nuclear-war paranoia in the early 198Os, probably having to do Reagan's finger being on the trigger. Whatever the cause, it resulted in two particularly powerful 1983 films on the subject: the made-for-TV The Day After and Lynne Littman's Testament, which had a theatrical release before playing on PBS's American Playhouse. Starring Jane Alexander (and Kevin Costner in a cameo), the film shows what happens to a suburban ...
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Roots 6
»rank: 9293
0ur opinion: essential video:From the moment the young Kunta Kinte (LeVar Burton) is stolen from his life and ancestral home in 18th-century Africa and brought under inhumane conditions to be auctioned as a slave in America, a line is begun that leads from this most shameful chapter in U.S. history to the 2Oth-century author Alex Haley, a Kinte descendant. The late Haley's acclaimed book Roots was adapted into this six-volume television miniseries, which was a widely ...
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Splendor in the Grass
»rank: 11876
0ur opinion: essential video:Elia Kazan's pedal-to-the-metal approach to psychosexual melodrama paid off handsomely when he had layered material by Tennessee Williams or John Steinbeck to work with. The very raw material here is an original by hot-blooded playwright William lnge, about a pair of teenagers in the American Midwest in the 192Os whose lives are ruined by the repressive sexual climate of the period. The girl, played by Natalie Wood, is literally driven batty by her ...
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