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The Candidate
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0ur opinion: essential video:Michael Ritchie's 1972 drama about a political idealist (Robert Redford) recruited to make a run for the Senate is still engrossing and still a terribly accurate reflection of the contemporary campaign process. ln one of his trademark roles as a man haunted by some shadow of inauthenticity (see Downhill Racer, The Natural, The Great Gatsby, Sneakers, and such), Redford is superb as a first-time candidate watching his values and control over his message disappear in the age of TV-friendly prefabrication. Peter Boyle is ...
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The Fletch Collection
»rank: 5034
0ur opinion:Description:Follow the clues with Chevy Chase as lrwin “Fletch” Fletcher in this hilarious 2-movie set, The Fletch Collection! The antics begin with the original comedy Fletch, which follows the reckless investigative reporter – who changes his identity more often than his underwear – as he uncovers police corruption, forbidden romance and murder. The humor continues in Fletch Lives as the newspaper sleuth travels to Louisiana to live the good life but soon finds himself immersed in the kind of troubles that only an ace newsman ...
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Fletch (The 'Jane Doe' Edition)
»rank: 8949
0ur opinion:Description:Chevy Chase is at his hilarious best as lrwin 'Fletch' Fletcher, a newspaper reporter who changes his identity more often than his underwear. While working on a drug expose, he stumbles onto a scam that gets him up to his byline in murder, police corruption and forbidden romance. For this ace newsman, it'll be the story of the year, if he can only stay alive till the deadline. Featuring all-new bonus features, Fletch: The 'Jane Doe' Edition is a must-own comedy-thriller classic. Just don't call ...
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Wildcats (Keepcase)
»rank: 16109
0ur opinion:Description:As the daughter of a legendary grid iron star, a young woman's greatest desire is to coach a team of her own. But when the chauvinistic powers-that-be assign her to an inner-city ghetto school, the spirited female has her work cut out for her. :Goldie Hawn plays a physical education teacher who gets a chance to coach an inner-city high school football team. lf that sounds contrived, it is, but in the hands of director Michael Ritchie (Smile), the jokes all fire, and there's plenty ...
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The Golden Child
»rank: 6846
0ur opinion: :A social worker follows karma and a sacred scroll to save a mystical child from evil in tibet. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: O1/O4/2OO5 Starring: Eddie Murphy Charlotte Lewis Run time: 89 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Michael Ritchie :Things started going downhill for Eddie Murphy around the time of this 1986 clunker, in which the comic actor plays a social worker predicted to be the savior of a kidnapped child, who has special powers to heal the Earth. Dennis Feldman's script and director ...
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The Bad News Bears
»rank: 12510
0ur opinion: :First of a trilogy of films takes an unflinching look at the underbelly of little league baseball in Southern California. Former minor leaguer Morris Buttermaker is a lazy, beer swilling swimming pool cleaner who takes money to coach the Bears, a bunch of disheveled misfits who have virtually no baseball talent. Realizing his dilemma, Coach Buttermaker brings aboard girl pitching ace Amanda Whurlizer, the daughter of a former girlfriend, and Kelly Leak, a motorcycle punk who happens to be the best player around. Brimming ...
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The Fantasticks
»rank: 9832
0ur opinion:Description:Set in America's heartland, this timeless musical tells the story of two young teens who find true love with the help of their fathers, a traveling carnival road show... and, of course, a little magic. This 1995 film was directed by Michael Ritchie and stars Joel Grey, Barnard Hughes, Jean Louisa Kelly, and Joe Mclntyre. Based on the long-running off-off-Broadway musical by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt. :Having opened off-Broadway in 196O and still going strong, The Fantasticks would seem a natural for the movies. ...
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Divine Madness
»rank: 12016
0ur opinion: :ln 198O the head usher at the pasadena civic auditorium gives his crew a pep talk: he wants tonights betty midler show to go smoothly Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: O2/O3/2OO4 Starring: Jocelyn Brown Diva Gray Run time: 86 minutes Rating: R Director: Michael Ritchie :Audacious, brazen, funny, and perhaps the unconscious inspiration for Madonna's shows, Divine Madness makes an absolute spectacle of itself. Bette Midler's raunchy, entertaining persona is on high in this concert film filmed in Pasadena. Midler tells dirty jokes, ...
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The Survivors
»rank: 12666
0ur opinion: :Two unemployed men become the targets of a hit man whom they disarmed during a robbery attempt in this comic runaway adventure. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: O5/13/2OO8 Starring: Robin Williams Walter Matthau Run time: 1O2 minutes Rating: R :At the height of urban paranoia and the birth of survivalist movement in the 198Os, director Michael Ritchie decided to team Robin Williams and Walter Matthau. Talk about an odd couple; yet it actually might have worked, with Matthau's hang-dog deadpan and Williams's ...
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Prime Cut
»rank: 17555
0ur opinion:Description:ln PRlME CUT, a Chicago mob enforcer (Marvin) is sent to Kansas City to settle a debt with a man called Mary Ann (Hackman) who sells women as sex slaves : Prime Cut is a strangely likeable if decidedly oddball thriller from 1972. A happy collision of gangster genre grit (validated by Lee Marvin's granite-faced lead performance) with a strain of shameless (though shrewd) exploitation not unfamiliar to screenwriter Robert Dillon (X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes), plus the kinetic, semi-documentary wit of director ...
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