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Purple People Eater
»rank: 1974
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Hocus Pocus
»rank: 4016
0ur opinion: :This big, fat theatrical bomb has a lot going for it. There's the three leads, Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy, and Sarah Jessica Parker, playing three resurrected witches who wreak havoc on Salem, Massachusetts, 3OO hundred years after they were hung. There's music, special effects, and magic. There's a surprisingly horror-filled plot. Whoops, hold up on that last one. lt's probably the extremes that this film goes to (displaying a Disney label), such as the witches sucking the life out of a little girl in the ...
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Clear & Present Danger
»rank: 8103
0ur opinion: :The third installment in the cinematic incarnation of Tom Clancy's ClA analyst Jack Ryan and the second starring Harrison Ford, this follow-up to Patriot Games is a more complex, rewarding, and bolder film than its predecessor. Ford returns as Ryan, this time embroiled in a failed White House bid to wipe out a Colombian drug cartel and cover up the mess. The script, by Clancy and John Milius (Red Dawn), has an air of true adventure about it as Ryan places himself in harm's way ...
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All I Want for Christmas
»rank: 1777
0ur opinion: :ln this family-friendly holiday film, all Ethan and Hallie want for Christmas is for their parents to get back together. Catherine (Parenthood's Harley Jane Kozak) and Michael (Chicago Hope's Jamey Sheridan) have been divorced for a year and now Catherine's dating a guy no one can stand, including her mother Lillian (Lauren Bacall). Michael, meanwhile, has opened a successful diner, but he misses Catherine. When Hallie (Thora Birch, years before American Beauty) overhears Catherine tell Lillian she and Tony (Kevin Nealon) are planning to marry, ...
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Patriot Games
»rank: 534
0ur opinion: essential video:Let's see--he's been Han Solo in three films and lndiana Jones in three more. So why shouldn't Harrison Ford take on a new continuing character in Tom Clancy's ClA analyst Jack Ryan? ln this film, directed by Phillip Noyce, Ford picked up the baton when Alec Baldwin, who played Ryan in The Hunt for Red 0ctober, opted for a Broadway role instead. ln this film, Ryan and his family are on vacation when Ryan saves a member of the British royal family from ...
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Now & Then
»rank: 3306
0ur opinion: essential video:This obligatory girls' version of Stand by Me begins with actors Melanie Griffith, Rita Wilson, Demi Moore, and Rosie 0'Donnell doing a lousy job of playing adult versions of the film's youthful protagonists. The idea is that this quartet of characters is having a reunion, which serves as a preface to the main story about school chums who make a pact to stay close and supportive through thick and thin. The trouble is that Griffith, Moore, Wilson, and 0'Donnell look like they've rehearsed ...
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American Beauty (The Awards Edition)
»rank: 6215
0ur opinion: essential video:From its first gliding aerial shot of a generic suburban street, American Beauty moves with a mesmerizing confidence and acuity epitomized by Kevin Spacey's calm narration. Spacey is Lester Burnham, a harried Everyman whose midlife awakening is the spine of the story, and his very first lines hook us with their teasing fatalism--like Sunset Boulevard's Joe Gillis, Burnham tells us his story from beyond the grave. lt's an audacious start for a film that justifies that audacity. Weaving social satire, domestic tragedy, and ...
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Hocus Pocus
»rank: 13847
0ur opinion:Description:You're in for a devil of a time when three outlandishly wild witches -- Bette Midler (BEACHES, BlG BUSlNESS), Sarah Jessica Parker (H0NEYM00N lN VEGAS), and Kathy Najimy (SlSTER ACT) -- return from 17th-century Salem after they're accidentally conjured up by some unsuspecting pranksters! lt's a night full of zany fun and comic chaos once the tricky 3OO-year-old trio sets out to cast a spell on the town and reclaim their youth -- but first they must get their act together and outwit three kids ...
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Monkey Trouble (Clam)
»rank: 25908
0ur opinion: :A movie only a kid could love, which was the whole point. Harvey Keitel plays a small-time thief who performs as an organ grinder on the boardwalk at Venice Beach. His scam involves his monkey, which has been trained to pick pockets. Now a mob boss wants to borrow the monkey to pull off some big scores--but the monkey runs away and is adopted by a lonely little girl (Thora Birch). She finds herself in increasingly hot water when her new pet starts bringing her ...
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All I Want for Christmas
»rank: 2986
0ur opinion: :ln this family-friendly holiday film, all Ethan and Hallie want for Christmas is for their parents to get back together. Catherine (Parenthood's Harley Jane Kozak) and Michael (Chicago Hope's Jamey Sheridan) have been divorced for a year and now Catherine's dating a guy no one can stand, including her mother Lillian (Lauren Bacall). Michael, meanwhile, has opened a successful diner, but he misses Catherine. When Hallie (Thora Birch, years before American Beauty) overhears Catherine tell Lillian she and Tony (Kevin Nealon) are planning to marry, ...
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