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Originally a newspaper reporter, Burgess Meredith came to the screen in 1936, repeating his stage role in Winterset, a part written for him by Maxwell Anderson. Meredith has had a long and varied film career, playing everything from George in Of... more
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Cast: Jack Lemmon Sophia Loren
Tags: Buddy Film Comedy Odd Couple Film
Length: 100min
In this sequel to the surprise hit Grumpy Old Men, life goes on much as it usually does in Wabasha County, Minnesota, with the only notable differences being that John Gustafson (Jack Lemmon) and Max Goldman (Walter Matthau) are getting along all...
Cast: Walter Matthau Ann-Margret
Tags: Buddy Film Comedy Odd Couple Film
Length: 105min
This cheerful holiday comedy, a surprise box office smash, featured a generous dollop of raunchy, crude humor and was greatly elevated by the presence of masterful performers in the lead roles. Jack Lemmon is John Gustafson, an ice-fishing Minnesota...
Full Moon in Blue Water (1988)
Cast: Teri Garr
Tags: Comedy Drama Psychological Drama
Length: 96min
Written by playwright Bill Bozzone, Full Moon in Blue Water stars Gene Hackman as Floyd, the owner of a small bar in a coastal Texas town. Floyd's emotional baggage is awesome: he has never recovered from the death of his wife, he is saddled with his...
Cast: Woody Allen Jean-Luc Godard William Shakespeare
Length: 110min
Two highly talented and innovative directors -- filmdom's Jean-Luc Godard and the theatre world's Peter Sellars -- join forces in this unusual (to say the least) slant on Shakespeare's +King Lear. This offbeat adaptation gives the viewer a postmodern...
Cast: Robert De Niro Robert Duvall Charles Durning
Tags: Police Detective Film Religious Drama Psychological Drama Crime Drama Drama
Length: 108min
Adapted by John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion from Dunne's novel, True Confessions uses the still-unsolved "Black Dahlia" murder as the foundation for a devastating attack on big-city corruption -- in which it appears that many of the perpetrators...
Tags: Melodrama Drama Sports Drama
Length: 105min
Touted upon its release as the finale of the Rocky saga, this fifth entry in the long-running series of sports dramas reunites star Sylvester Stallone with John G. Avildsen, director of the Oscar-winning original. Stallone is Rocky Balboa, suffering...
Tags: Drama Science Fiction
Length: 101min
This futuristic adventure stars Lee Majors as a former racing champ who reassembles his old Porsche and drives to California in a world where cars have been outlawed by the powers that be. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide
Tags: Sports Drama Drama Melodrama
Length: 99min
Sylvester Stallone returns to the character which made him famous in this wildly successful sequel. Rocky III starts with the Italian Stallion so famous that his likeness is everywhere, including pinball machines. Fame and complacency soon cause...
Tags: Action Thriller Spy Film Adventure Drama
Length: 101min
In this complex spy caper, Nicole (Genevieve Bujold) is a Canadian broadcast journalist working on assignment in the former U.S.S.R. She is there to cover a visit by the Canadian prime minister, but along the way she discovers an unethical...
Cast: Sylvester Stallone Burgess Meredith
Tags: Drama Sports Drama
Length: 119min
By concentrating on character development with this first of several sequels to his Oscar-winning smash Rocky (1976), writer/director Sylvester Stallone earned critical praise that would desert him with the boxing saga's shallower subsequent chapters....
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