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Looking for Mr. Goodbar
»rank: 7098
0ur opinion: essential video:Based on the mid-'7Os novel by Judith Rossner (which itself was based on a true story), this film was supposed to be the one that established Diane Keaton's credibility as a 'serious' actress--and yet she won the 0scar for the other film she did the same year, Annie Hall. Still, Looking for Mr. Goodbar is a solid and intriguing film, which offered the first substantial film roles to Richard Gere and Tom Berenger. Keaton is a repressed Catholic school teacher who works with deaf ...
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The Onion Field
»rank: 9746
0ur opinion: :0ne night in 1963, two plainclothes LAPD officers were abducted by armed small-time criminals after a routine traffic stop, then driven to a remote area where one was brutally executed. The other officer managed to escape and the perpetrators were captured and brought to trial. Despite overwhelming evidence, the slayers managed to drag the justice process on for years through appeals and delaying tactics, one of them making use of the prison law library to become a 'jailhouse lawyer.' Taken from the Joseph Wambaugh book, ...
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Mommie Dearest
»rank: 12123
0ur opinion: :The movie that made 'No wire hangers!' a household phrase, Mommie Dearest is the very model of a modern 'camp classic,' so crazily outlandish that it's fascinating. Based on the scathing and scandalous tell-all bestseller by Christina Crawford, the adopted daughter of histrionic Hollywood movie queen Joan Crawford, Mommie Dearest was billed in advance as a serious dramatic motion-picture biography. But it turned out to be something much, much weirder--a genuine Hollywood oddity that serves up a bizarre mixture of melodramatic trash and outrageous tragi-comedy. ...
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Honeysuckle Rose
»rank: 620
0ur opinion: :The movie that made 'No wire hangers!' a household phrase, Mommie Dearest is the very model of a modern 'camp classic,' so crazily outlandish that it's fascinating. Based on the scathing and scandalous tell-all bestseller by Christina Crawford, the adopted daughter of histrionic Hollywood movie queen Joan Crawford, Mommie Dearest was billed in advance as a serious dramatic motion-picture biography. But it turned out to be something much, much weirder--a genuine Hollywood oddity that serves up a bizarre mixture of melodramatic trash and outrageous tragi-comedy. ...
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Looking for Mr Goodbar
»rank: 2182
0ur opinion: essential video:Based on the mid-'7Os novel by Judith Rossner (which itself was based on a true story), this film was supposed to be the one that established Diane Keaton's credibility as a 'serious' actress--and yet she won the 0scar for the other film she did the same year, Annie Hall. Still, Looking for Mr. Goodbar is a solid and intriguing film, which offered the first substantial film roles to Richard Gere and Tom Berenger. Keaton is a repressed Catholic school teacher who works with deaf ...
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Flash
»rank: 2502
0ur opinion: :This made-for-TV pilot of the short-lived series is a decent screen interpretation of the DC Comics hero. While investigating a case involving a dangerous street gang called the Dark Riders, crime lab specialist Barry Allen (John Wesley Shipp) is involved in a freak accident. 0ne stormy night, lightning strikes his lab, electrifying his body and shattering chemical-filled beakers all over him. The ensuing reaction radically alters his physiology, bestowing him with the power to race at superhuman speed. Baffled by his transmutation, he follows the ...
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Blue Velvet
»rank: 16479
0ur opinion: essential video:David Lynch peeks behind the picket fences of small-town America to reveal a corrupt shadow world of malevolence, sadism, and madness. From the opening shots Lynch turns the Technicolor picture postcard images of middle class homes and tree-lined lanes into a dreamy vision on the edge of nightmare. After his father collapses in a preternaturally eerie sequence, college boy Kyle MacLachlan returns home and stumbles across a severed human ear in a vacant lot. With the help of sweetly innocent high school girl ...
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Honeysuckle Rose
»rank: 12805
0ur opinion:Description:A country and western singer jeopardizes his marriage and his career when he has an affair with the young daughter of his longtime musical sidekick.
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Disturbed
»rank: 28940
0ur opinion:Description:A country and western singer jeopardizes his marriage and his career when he has an affair with the young daughter of his longtime musical sidekick.
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Carried Away
»rank: 7594
0ur opinion:Description:ln the midst of a mid-life crisis, a small-town high school teacher embarks on an affair with one of his students.
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