LIST: Part 3 of 7 of plot.list
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MV: Enchantment
PL: Uncle Rollo finally retires to the house he was brought up in. Lost in
PL: thoughts of his lost love, Lark, he does not want to be disturbed in his
PL: last days. However, the appearance of his niece and the subsequent romance
PL: between her and Lark's nephew causes him to reevaluate his life and offer
PL: some advice so the young couple don't make the same mistake he did, all
PL: those years ago.
BY: Mark Harding <cc...@uk.ac.bath.ss1>
GE: Melodrama
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MV: Enid Is Sleeping
PL: Enid is horrible, her husband and younger sister are having an
PL: affair. When Enid walks in on them 'enjoying' themselves, she is
PL: furious. A fight develops and Enid is hit over the head with a heavy
PL: object. One disaster after another ensues, as they attempt to make
PL: Enid's death look like an accident.
BY: Rob Hartill <Robert....@cm.cf.ac.uk>
GE: Comedy Black
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MV: Eve of Destruction
PL: Eve is a robot, modelled on "her" creator. Eve's armoury includes a
PL: nuclear bomb, which for unexplained reasons is on-board during Eve's
PL: testing. When things go wrong during the tests, Eve is lost in the big
PL: city. Enter the rescue team, which includes the real (human) Eve. They
PL: must find and disarm her before she goes "bang". Eve is programmed to
PL: protect herself at all costs, so when she runs into a problem, she
PL: resorts to her super strength; hence the destruction.
BY: Rob Hartill <Robert....@cm.cf.ac.uk>
GE: Action Sci-Fi
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MV: Excalibur
PL: The myth of King Arthur brought once again to the screen. Uthur
PL: Pendragon is given the mystical sword Excalibur by the wizard Merlyn.
PL: At his death Uthur buries the sword into a stone, and the next man that
PL: can pull it out will be King of England. Years later Arthur, Uthur's
PL: bastard son draws Excalibur and becomes king. Guided by Merlyn, Arthur
PL: marries Guenivere and gathers the Knights of the Round Table. Arthur's
PL: evil half-sister Morgana sires a son with him, who may prove his downfall.
BY: Greg Bole <bo...@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
GE: Fantasy
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MV: Exorcist, The
PL: Beatty's novelization of a real case of possession that happened in a
PL: Washington Suburb (Mt. Ranier, MD) puts Regan, an adolescent girl,
PL: Living with her mother in Georgetown in Washington, into a more and more
PL: difficult situation. She exhibits strange symptoms, including levitation
PL: and great strength. When all medical possibilities are exhausted, her
PL: mother is sent to a priest who is also a psychiatrist. He becomes
PL: convinced that Regan is possessed and he and a second priest experienced
PL: in exorcism try to drive the spirit from Regan before she dies. Very
PL: graphic for it's time.
BY: John L. Vogel <JVO...@nhqvax.hq.nasa.gov>
GE: Horror
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MV: F/X
PL: A movies special effects man is hired by a government agency
PL: to help stage the assassination of a well known gangster.
PL: When the agency double cross him, he uses his special effects to
PL: trap the gangster and the corrupt agents.
BY: Rob Hartill <Robert....@cm.cf.ac.uk>
GE: Action Crime
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MV: Fabulous Baker Boys, The
PL: Frank and Jack Baker are professional musicians who play small clubs.
PL: They play smaltzy music and have never needed a day job. Times are
PL: changing and dates are becoming more difficult to get so they interview
PL: female singers. They finally decide on Susie Diamond, a former 'escort'
PL: who needs some refinement, but the act begins to take off again. While
PL: the act is now successful, both Frank and Jack have problems with their
PL: life on the road. Susie becomes the agent that makes them re-evaluate
PL: where they are going, and how honest they have been with each other.
BY: John L. Vogel <JVO...@nhqvax.hq.nasa.gov>
GE: Drama Romance
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MV: Falling Down
PL: William (D-FENS) just wants to get home to see his daughter on her birthday.
PL: Unfortunately, nothing seems to be going right for him. First there's
PL: the traffic jam, then the unhelpful Korean shopkeeper who "doesn't give
PL: change". D-FENS begins to crack and starts to fight back against the every
PL: day "injustices" he encounters on his journey home. The film has a story
PL: running in parallel about a desk-bound cop who is about to retire. He's
PL: retiring for his wife's sake, and obviously isn't happy about it. The cop
PL: tracks down D-FENS and in the final scene.....
BY: Rob Hartill <Robert....@cm.cf.ac.uk>
GE: Crime Thriller
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MV: Falling Down
PL: A divorced engineer for the defense industry gets stuck in L.A. traffic
PL: and finally snaps. He gets out of his car and begins a walk through
PL: central L.A., where he encounters various levels of harassment, which
PL: he learns to deal with by acquiring weapons along the way. His actions
PL: attract the attention of a retiring cop, and he gets involved with the
PL: case, following the engineer's path toward Venice, where his daughter is
PL: having a birthday party.
BY: Ed Sutton <esu...@bnr.ca>
GE: Drama Action
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MV: Family Plot
PL: Fake medium Madam Blanche and her taxi driver boyfriend make a living from
PL: her phoney powers. They are hired by an aging widow, Julia Rainbird to find
PL: her nephew who was given away for adoption many years earlier following a
PL: family scandal. Meanwhile, an extremely clever couple are behind a series of
PL: kidnappings in the San Francisco area. The two couples path's cross and
PL: chaos results in Hitchcock's last film.
BY: Colin Needham <c...@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
GE: Thriller Comedy
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MV: Fantasia
PL: Various classical music works are illustrated, some abstractly, some
PL: humorously, and some dramatically. A wide range of artistic styles is
BY: Jon Reeves <ree...@zk3.dec.com>
GE: Animated Musical
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MV: Fantasia
PL: Animation done to classical music by Bach, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky
PL: and others.
BY: Tim Pickett <que...@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au>
GE: Animated
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MV: Far and Away
PL: A young man (Cruise) leaves Ireland with his landlord's daughter (Kidman)
PL: after some trouble with her father, and they dream of owning land at
PL: the big giveaway in Oklahoma ca. 1893. When they get to the new land,
PL: they find jobs and begin saving money. The man becomes a local barehands
PL: boxer, and rides in glory until he is beaten, then his employers steal
PL: all the couple's money and they must fight off starvation in the winter,
PL: and try to keep their dream of owning land alive. Meanwhile, the woman's
PL: parents find out where she has gone and have come to America to find her
PL: and take her back.
BY: Ed Sutton <esu...@bnr.ca>
GE: Drama Romance
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MV: Farmer's Wife, The (1928)
PL: Farmer Sweetland is a lonely old widower. He is determined to marry again
PL: and he enlists the help of his housekeeper Minta to pick a wife from the
PL: local single women.
BY: Colin Needham <c...@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
GE: Comedy Silent
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MV: Fatal Attraction (1987)
PL: Happily married New York lawyer Dan Callagher has an affair with his
PL: business partner Alex, and the two enjoy a love weekend while Dan's wife
PL: and kid are away. But Alex will not let go of him, and she will stop at
PL: nothing to have him for herself. Just how far will she go to get what she
PL: wants?.
BY: Sami Al-Taher <sm...@ukc.ac.uk>
GE: Thriller
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MV: Father Goose
PL: During World War II South Sea beachcomber Walter Eckland is persuaded to
PL: spy on planes passing over his island. He gets more than he bargained for
PL: as schoolteacher Catherine Frenau arrives on the run from the Japanese with
PL: her pupils in tow!
BY: Colin Needham <c...@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
GE: Comedy
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MV: Father's Revenge, A (TV)
PL: German terrorists kidnap the crew of an aeroplane as they leave the airport.
PL: The terrorists demand the release of two of their colleagues, who are to
PL: be extradited to the USA. The father of one of the stewardesses decides
PL: he can no longer wait for diplomacy, and so flies out to Germany. There,
PL: frustration leads him to hire a former SAS counter-terrorism expert.
PL: Together they hunt down the terrorists.
BY: Rob Hartill <Robert....@cm.cf.ac.uk>
GE: Thriller
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MV: Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish, The
PL: A farce, Hoskins plays a photographer who specializes in religious
PL: pictures who searches for a model for Jesus. He does a favor for
PL: a friend and finds himself doing a voice track for a porno movie with
PL: Natasha Richardson. Hoskins finds his model for Jesus in Jeff Goldblum and
PL: a romantic triangle begins in which Goldblum finds adoring crowds believing
PL: him to be Jesus and then begins to believe it himself.
BY: John L. Vogel <JVO...@nhqvax.hq.nasa.gov>
GE: Comedy Farce
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MV: Ferris Bueller's Day Off
PL: Ferris is a street-wise kid who knows all the tricks. Today he decides
PL: to take the day off school. When Ferris takes the day off, so must his
PL: best friends, Cameron and Sloane. Cameron is reluctantly persuaded to
PL: borrow his father's Ferrari (which is never used). And together they
PL: hatch a plan to get Sloane out of class. Suspicious principal Ed Rooney
PL: knows all about Ferris, but can never catch him. Ferris' sister Jeanie
PL: is also frustrated that Ferris always gets away with his tricks and she
PL: doesn't. Furthermore, Ferris is an 'angel' in his parents eyes. It's
PL: Ferris' day off, he's out to enjoy himself, and he does!.
BY: Rob Hartill <Robert....@cm.cf.ac.uk>
GE: Comedy
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MV: Few Good Men, A
PL: Defence lawyers, Kaffee (maverick) and Galloway (dutiful) are assigned
PL: the case of defending two US soldiers, accused of murdering a fellow
PL: soldier who was deemed to have 'broken the code'. Kaffee and Galloway
PL: soon run into a brick wall (Jessup), who sees himself as a military
PL: 'untouchable.' The accused claim they were obeying orders (Jessup's), and
PL: that the death was an accident.
BY: Rob Hartill <Robert....@cm.cf.ac.uk>
GE: Courtroom Drama
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MV: Field of Dreams
PL: Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella hears a voice in his corn field tell
PL: him, "If you build it, he will come." He interprets this
PL: message as an instruction to build a baseball field on his farm,
PL: upon which appear the ghosts of Shoeless Joe Jackson and the
PL: other seven Chicago White Sox players banned from the game for
PL: throwing the 1919 World Series. When the voices continue, Ray
PL: seeks out a reclusive author to help him understand the meaning
PL: of the messages and the purpose for his field.
BY: Scott Renshaw <as....@forsythe.stanford.edu>
GE: Fantasy Drama Baseball
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MV: Final Analysis
PL: Barr is a psychiatrist who falls in love with the sister of one of his
PL: clients. She's beautiful and married (to a gangster). She hates her
PL: husband but is unable to escape from him. To avoid spoilers, someone dies,
PL: but who did what and why ?
BY: Rob Hartill <Robert....@cm.cf.ac.uk>
GE: Thriller
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MV: Final Analysis
PL: A psychiatrist (Gere) has an affair with his patient's sister (Basinger)
PL: who is married to a Greek mobster (Roberts). The mobster is a tyrant over
PL: his wife. The psychiatrist wants her to get a divorce, but she is
PL: afraid of what her husband would do. She has a medical condition that
PL: becomes apparent when she drinks. One night she drinks anyway and
PL: attacks her husband. The psychiatrist uses his professional pull to try
PL: and help her out of the consequences of her actions, but becomes uncertain
PL: if she is telling him the truth.
BY: Ed Sutton <esu...@bnr.ca>
GE: Drama Romance
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MV: Fire and Ice (1987)
PL: Animation. A civilized people living in the frozen north is to be the
PL: latest victim of uncivilized tribemen from the south, lead by a magician.
PL: The princess is kidnapped and a masked man involves himself in her
PL: rescue. In this animation, the women wear very little, The men are drawn
PL: as bare chested Tarzan types.
BY: John L. Vogel <JVO...@nhqvax.hq.nasa.gov>
GE: Fantasy
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MV: Fire! Trapped on the 37th Floor (TV)
PL: Susan and Paul are working late on the 37th floor of a LA sky-scraper.
PL: Also in the building are the cleaning staff, security and some engineers
PL: installing sprinklers. Right on cue, as the water is switched off so that
PL: work on the sprinklers can continue, a fire starts on one of the lower
PL: floors (15?). The title says it all.
BY: Rob Hartill <Robert....@cm.cf.ac.uk>
GE: Disaster
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MV: Firm, The
PL: Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to
PL: sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he
PL: doesn't refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him, he is
PL: totally oblivious to the more sinister side of his company.
PL: Then, two Associates are murdered. The FBI contact him, asking him for
PL: information and suddenly his life is ruined. He has a choice - work with
PL: the FBI, or stay with the Firm. Either way he will lose his life as he
PL: knows it. Mitch figures the only way out is to follow his own plan...
BY: Mark Harding <cc...@uk.ac.bath.ss1>
GE: Drama
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MV: Firm, The
PL: Mitch is a much sought after young graduate of law school. When he's made
PL: an excellent offer by a small law firm in Memphis, he and his wife
PL: Abby, are elated. Very soon Mitch becomes worried about "The Firm's"
PL: clients, and is approached by the FBI who are investigating their Mafia
PL: connections.
BY: Rob Hartill <Robert....@cm.cf.ac.uk>
GE: Thriller
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MV: First Nudie Musical, The
PL: The son of famous studio owner is forced to make porno films to keep the
PL: bankrupt studio from being made into a shopping center. In an attempt to
PL: get back on the high ground he makes a nudie musical. He makes a bet
PL: with the debtors who wish to take ownership of the studio, that if they
PL: finance the musical and he can't complete it within two weeks, they
PL: can foreclose.
BY: Ed Sutton <esu...@bnr.ca>
GE: Musical Comedy
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MV: Fish Called Wanda, A
PL: Sexy American diamonds lover Wanda and her boyfriend Otto are in England to
PL: plot alongside George and Ken the robbery of a diamond collection. Wanda
PL: and Otto want the stolen diamonds for themselves, and inform the police
PL: about George not knowing that he has already moved the diamonds to another
PL: secret place. Wanda thinks the best way to find out is by getting close
PL: to George's lawyer - Archie Leach.
BY: Sami Al-Taher <sm...@ukc.ac.uk>
GE: Comedy
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MV: Fisher King, The
PL: A talk DJ (Bridges) inadvertently convinces a psycho to blow away
PL: restaurant patrons and himself when the psycho calls in for advice.
PL: After three years of wallowing in his remorse, he is attacked and almost
PL: set on fire, but a crazy street person (Williams) rescues him. The DJ
PL: finds out the transient is on a mission to find the holy grail, and
PL: tries to repay his kindness with money, but the transient has more
PL: hands-on assistance in mind, and tries to convince the DJ to help him
PL: get the grail.
BY: Ed Sutton <esu...@bnr.ca>
GE: Comedy Drama Surreal
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MV: Flatliners
PL: Medical students begin to explore the realm of near death experiences,
PL: hoping for insights. Each has their heart stopped and is revived. They
PL: begin having flashes of walking nightmares from their childhood,
PL: reflecting sins they committed or had committed against them. The
PL: experiences continue to intensify, and they begin to be physically beaten
PL: by their visions as they try and go deeper into the death experience to
PL: find a cure.
BY: John L. Vogel <JVO...@nhqvax.hq.nasa.gov>
GE: Horror Thriller
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MV: Flesh Gordon
PL: A parody of the serial _Flash Gordon_ with a strong sexual campy flavor.
PL: Not only is there nudity any time there is any excuse for it, but many of
PL: the scenes are staged as closely as possible to the old serial shots. Many
PL: of the scenes are only funny if you've seen the original. Quite outrageous.
BY: John L. Vogel <JVO...@nhqvax.hq.nasa.gov>
GE: Comedy Parody Sexual
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MV: Fletch
PL: Fletch is an ace reporter. While working on a story on Drug sales, he is
PL: approached by Alan Stanwyck who wants Fletch to murder him to save him
PL: from a lingering cancer death. Fletch begins to nose around and finds
PL: irregularities in Stanwyck's past and Underhill's Visa Number.
BY: John L. Vogel <JVO...@nhqvax.hq.nasa.gov>
GE: Mystery Comedy
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MV: Flight of the Navigator
PL: A 12 year old boy goes missing in 1978, only to reappear once more
PL: in 1986. In the eight years that have passed, David hasn't aged.
PL: It is no coincidence that at the time David 'comes back', a flying
PL: saucer is found, entangled in electricity cables.
BY: Rob Hartill <Robert....@cm.cf.ac.uk>
GE: Sci-Fi Adventure
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MV: For Better, For Worse (1954)
PL: A honeymooning couple become entangled in a plot to recover plates for
PL: counterfeiting US dollars. SHE thinks she's just retired from a
PL: government 'dirty jobs' department, but her superiors have other ideas.
PL: HE thinks she's a retired travel agent. Set in Spain, there's a constant
PL: flow of visual jokes, mainly at the expense of a group of incompetent
PL: thieves who are in hot pursuit of the plates. Many of the jokes are
PL: predictable, but there's enough to keep almost everyone amused.
BY: Rob Hartill <Robert....@cm.cf.ac.uk>
GE: Comedy
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MV: Forbidden Planet
PL: When Adams and his crew are sent to investigate the silence from a planet
PL: inhabited by scientists, he finds all but two have died. Dr. Morbius and
PL: his daughter Altaira have somehow survived a hideous monster which
PL: roams the planet. Unknown to Adams, Morbius has made a discovery, and
PL: has no intention of sharing it (or his daughter!) with anyone.
BY: Rob Hartill <Robert....@cm.cf.ac.uk>
GE: Sci-Fi Space
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MV: Foreign Correspondent
PL: Johnny Jones is an action reporter on a New York newspaper. The editor
PL: appoints him European correspondent because he is fed up with the dry,
PL: reports he currently gets. Jones' first assignment is to get the inside
PL: story on a secret treaty agreed between two European countries by the
PL: famous diplomat, Mr. Van Meer. However things don't go to plan and Jones
PL: enlists the help of a young woman to help track down a group of spies.
BY: Colin Needham <c...@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
GE: Thriller Spy
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MV: Fortress (1993)
PL: A futuristic prison movie. Protagonist and wife are nabbed at a
PL: future US emigration point with an illegal baby during population
PL: control. The resulting prison experience is the subject of the movie.
PL: The prison is a futuristic one run by a private corporation bent
PL: on mind control in various ways.
BY: Mark Allyn <al...@netcom.com>
GE: Prison Horror
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MV: Fountainhead, The
PL: Individualistic and idealistic architect Howard Roark is expelled from
PL: college because his designs fail to fit with existing architectural
PL: thinking. He seems unemployable but finally lands a job with like-minded
PL: Henry Cameron, however within a few years Cameron drinks himself to
PL: death, warning Roark that the same fate awaits unless he compromises his
PL: ideals. Roark is determined to retain his artistic integrity at all costs.
BY: Colin Needham <c...@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
GE: Drama
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MV: Fourth Man, The
PL: An alcoholic writer begins having visions apparently warning him of
PL: impending danger. After he delivers a lecture, he begins an affair
PL: with a woman from the audience. The visions intensify, however, and
PL: begin to threaten his relationship with the woman, since it may be
PL: her the visions are warning against.
BY: Ed Sutton <esu...@bnr.ca>
GE: Thriller
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MV: Fourth Protocol, The
PL: Caine plays the British agent with the task of preventing
PL: the Russians detonating a nuclear explosion next to an
PL: American base in the UK. The Russians hoping this will shatter
PL: the 'special relationship' between the two countries.
BY: Rob Hartill <Robert....@cm.cf.ac.uk>
GE: Spy Thriller
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MV: Frankenhooker
PL: A medical school dropout loses his fiancee in a tragic lawnmower incident,
PL: and decides to bring her back. Unfortunately, he was only able to save
PL: her head, so he goes to the red light district in the city and lures
PL: prostitutes into a hotel room so he can get parts for his girlfriend.
BY: Ed Sutton <esu...@bnr.ca>
GE: Comedy Horror
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MV: Frantic (1988)
PL: A doctor and his wife go to Paris for a medical conference. While napping,
PL: his wife disappears. His lack of language, and the odd way she disappeared
PL: makes it nearly impossible for him to find any official help in his search
PL: as he enters the punk/drug culture to find out what has happened to her.
BY: John L. Vogel <JVO...@nhqvax.hq.nasa.gov>
GE: Mystery Thriller
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MV: Fraternity Vacation
PL: A nerd gains the friendship of two of his frat brothers when his dad
PL: offers them his condo for the week in Palm Springs, and also offers the
PL: fraternity a hot tub and jacuzzi if they can help his son find a girl.
PL: They meet two guys from a rival fraternity, and make a bet on who
PL: can nail the Designated Babe first.
BY: Ed Sutton <esu...@bnr.ca>
GE: Comedy Romance
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MV: French Connection, The
PL: Popeye Doyle and Buddy Russo get wind of a big shipment of Heroin and
PL: begin a tail of the suspects, and their French Connection, two french
PL: nationals who are the european link. As money troubles begin for the hoods
PL: they decide to kill Popeye and Buddy to give them enough room to bring in
PL: the Heroin. A combination of police procedural and action/car chase.
BY: John L. Vogel <JVO...@nhqvax.hq.nasa.gov>
GE: Crime Action
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MV: Frenzy (1972)
PL: London is terrorised by a vicious sex killer known as the neck tie
PL: murderer. Following the brutal slaying of his ex-wife, down-on-his-luck
PL: Richard Blaney is suspected by the police of being the killer. He goes on
PL: the run, determined to prove his innocence.
BY: Colin Needham <c...@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
GE: Thriller Serial_Killer
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MV: Freshman, The (1990)
PL: Clark Kellogg is a young man starting his first year at film
PL: school in New York City. After a small time crook steals all
PL: his belongings, Clark meets Carmine "Jimmy the Toucan" Sabatini,
PL: an "importer" bearing a startling resemblance to a certain
PL: cinematic godfather. When Sabatini makes Clark an offer he
PL: can't refuse, he finds himself caught up in a caper involving
PL: endangered species and fine dining.
BY: Scott Renshaw <as....@forsythe.stanford.edu>
GE: Comedy
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MV: From Beyond
PL: Scientists create a resonator to stimulate the pineal gland (sixth
PL: sense), and open up a door to a parallel (and hostile) universe.
PL: Based on a story by H. P. Lovecraft.
BY: Ed Sutton <esu...@bnr.ca>
GE: Horror
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MV: From Russia with Love
PL: Evil crime cartel SPECTRE seeks revenge for the death of its operative
PL: Dr No and sets a trap to lure British agent James Bond to his death.
PL: The bait is a Soviet encryption machine called a Lektor, which the British
PL: Secret Service are desperate to get hold of.
BY: Dave Jenkins <david....@smallworld.co.uk>
GE: Spy Action Bond
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MV: Frozen Terror
PL: A woman loses her lover in a tragic car crash that decapitates him. The
PL: same day the woman's daughter drowns her brother. The woman spends a
PL: year in an asylum, and when she gets out she moves in with her dead
PL: lover's blind brother, where she keeps something secret in the icebox.
PL: The brother becomes curious about her movements and begins investigating.
BY: Ed Sutton <esu...@bnr.ca>
GE: Horror
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MV: Fugitive, The (1993)
PL: Eminent surgeon, Dr. Richard Kimble, is arrested and charged with the murder
PL: of his wife, despite his insistence that a one-armed intruder had committed
PL: the crime. When an accident involving his prison bus sets him free, Kimble
PL: must use his wits to solve the mystery and find the man who killed his wife.
PL: Hot on his trail, however, is an equally crafty US Marshall, who will stop
PL: at nothing until Kimble is behind bars.
BY: Alexander Lum <aj_...@postoffice.utas.edu.au>
GE: Action Thriller
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MV: Full Metal Jacket
PL: A two-segment look at the effect of the military mindset and war
PL: itself on Vietnam era Marines. The first half follows a group
PL: of recruits in basic training under the command of the punishing
PL: Sgt. Hartman. The second half shows one of those recruits,
PL: Joker, covering the war as a correspondent for Stars and
PL: Stripes, focusing on the Tet offensive.
BY: Scott Renshaw <as....@forsythe.stanford.edu>
GE: War Drama
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MV: Fun and Fancy Free
PL: Disney version of fairy tale "Jack and the Beanstalk", featuring
PL: Mickey, Donald and Goofy in the main roles. Also contains another
PL: short film, re-released as "Bongo"
BY: Tim Pickett <que...@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au>
GE: Animated Childrens
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MV: Funeral in Berlin
PL: Colonel Stok, a Soviet intelligence officer responsible for
PL: security at the Berlin Wall, appears to want to defect but the
PL: evidence is contradictory. Stok wants the British to handle his
PL: defection and asks for one of their agents, Harry Palmer, to smuggle
PL: him out of East Germany.
BY: Dave Jenkins <david....@smallworld.co.uk>
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MV: Gambit
PL: Harry Dean has a plan to pull off a major robbery and needs
PL: Nicole as a gambit and windowdressing. He outlines his
PL: ideas about his perfect crime in a dream sequence and then
PL: meets Nicole, and nothing goes quite right again.
BY: John L. Vogel <JVO...@nhqvax.hq.nasa.gov>
GE: Comedy Crime Caper
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MV: Ghost (1990)
PL: Sam and Molly are a very happy couple and deeply in love. Walking back to
PL: their new apartment after a night out at the theatre, they encounter
PL: a thief in a dark alley, and Sam is murdered. He finds himself
PL: trapped as a ghost and realises that his death was no accident.
PL: He must warn Molly about the danger that she is in. But as a ghost he can
PL: not be seen or heard by the living, and so he trys to communicate with
PL: Molly through Oda Mae Brown, a psychic who didn't even realise
PL: that her powers were real.
BY: Sami Al-Taher <sm...@ukc.ac.uk>
GE: Romance Thriller Comedy
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MV: Ghostbusters
PL: Three odd-ball scientists get kicked out of their cushy positions
PL: at a university in New York City where they studied the occult. They
PL: decide to set up shop in an old firehouse and become Ghostbusters,
PL: trapping pesky ghosts, spirits, haunts, and poltergeists for money.
PL: They wise-crack their way through the city, and stumble upon a gateway
PL: to another dimension, one which will release untold evil upon the city.
PL: The Ghostbusters are called on to save the Big Apple.
BY: Greg Bole <bo...@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
GE: Comedy
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MV: Giant
PL: Texan rancher Bick Benedict visits a Maryland farm to buy a prize horse.
PL: Whilst there he meets and falls in love with the owner's daughter Leslie,
PL: they are married immediately and return to his ranch. The story of their
PL: family and its rivalry with cowboy and (later oil tycoon) Jett Rink unfolds
PL: across two generations.
BY: Colin Needham <c...@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
GE: Drama
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MV: Glengarry Glen Ross
PL: Times are tough in a Chicago real-estate office; the salesmen
PL: (Shelley Levene, Ricky Roma, Dave Moss, and George Aaronow) are
PL: given a strong incentive by Blake to succeed in a sales
PL: contest. The prizes? First prize is a Cadillac Eldorado,
PL: second prize is a set of steak knives, third prize is the sack!
PL: There is no room for losers in this dramatically masculine
PL: world; only "closers" will get the good sales leads. There is a
PL: lot of pressure to succeed, so a robbery is committed which has
PL: unforseen consequences for all the characters.
BY: Patrick Dominick <p...@ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au>
GE: Drama
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MV: God Told Me To
PL: A rash of mass murders in NYC has the detective stumped. When asked why,
PL: all the perpetrators say "God told me to," then kill themselves.
BY: Ed Sutton <esu...@bnr.ca>
GE: Suspense Horror Sci-Fi
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MV: Godfather, The
PL: Don Vito Corleone is the head of a New York Mafia "family". Problems
PL: arise when a gangster supported by another Mafia family, Lettieri,
PL: announces his intentions to start selling drugs all over New York.
PL: Don Vito hates the idea of drugs, and his quite happy with the
PL: gambling/protection etc. that make him money, so an attempt is made on
PL: his life. Lettieri then kidnaps one of Don Vitos advisors, and tries
PL: to make him force Don Vitos son to agree to sell drugs, but the plan
PL: goes wrong when Lettieri finds out that Don Vito is still alive.
BY: Colin Tinto <col...@spider.co.uk>
GE: Crime Mafia
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MV: Goldfinger
PL: The Bank of England has discovered that someone is stockpiling vast
PL: quantities of gold and suspects international bullion dealer Auric
PL: Goldfinger of being involved. The Bank requests that British agent
PL: James Bond be sent to investigate. Bond soon uncovers an audacious
PL: plan to commit "the crime of the century" and bring economic chaos
PL: to the West.
BY: Dave Jenkins <david....@smallworld.co.uk>
GE: Spy Action Bond
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MV: GoodFellas
PL: Henry Hill is a small time gangster, who takes part in a robbery with
PL: Jimmy Conway and Tommy De Vito, two other gangsters who have set their
PL: sights a bit higher. His two partners kill off everyone else involved
PL: in the robbery, and slowly start to climb up through the hierarchy of
PL: the Mob. Henry, however, is badly affected by his partners success,
PL: but will he stoop low enough to bring about the downfall of Jimmy and
PL: Tommy ?
BY: Colin Tinto <col...@spider.co.uk>
GE: Crime
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MV: Gotcha!
PL: Jonathan plays a game called Gotcha in which he hunts and is hunted by
PL: other students with paint guns. After a big win, he goes off for a
PL: vacation in Germany where he meets the sexy Sasha who says she is only
PL: interested in him because he is a virgin. She takes him with her to East
PL: Germany where they are separated and he has to escape back to the west on
PL: his own, all the while being trailed by East German spies. He arrives home
PL: only to find the game is still going on, and a canister of film is in his
PL: backpack. Then Sasha re-appears.
BY: John L. Vogel <JVO...@nhqvax.hq.nasa.gov>
GE: Action Spy
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MV: Graduate, The
PL: Benjamin is home from school, having graduated with honors from college
PL: with no idea of what to do with his life. Mrs. Robinson, a close family
PL: friend old enough to be his mother, removes her clothes and tells him
PL: that she's 'available'. The same evening Mr. Robinson advises Ben to
PL: take what opportunities come up, because he'll never be 21 again. As he
PL: begins the affair, he finds that it fills his time, but depresses him.
PL: Under pressure from his parents and Mr. Robinson, he agrees to take out
PL: the daughter, Elaine Robinson. Mrs. Robinson becomes furious and Ben
PL: finds himself very attracted to Elaine. Everything explodes and Elaine
PL: returns to school. Ben follows her having decided to marry her, though,
PL: "She doesn't really like me very much." As he begins to make progress
PL: with Elaine, her parents descend and arrange a hasty marriage to another
PL: boy. Ben follows again to disrupt the wedding and win Elaine.
BY: John L. Vogel <JVO...@nhqvax.hq.nasa.gov>
GE: Drama, Romance
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MV: Grand Hotel
PL: The interlinked stories of several guests staying at the Grand Hotel in
PL: Berlin: a down-and-out Baron operates as a jewel thief; a popular dancer
PL: is bored with her fame; a dying office clerk wants to experience some of
PL: life's luxuries; a businessman tries to save his factory with a big deal;
PL: and a young secretary tries to get ahead in the world.
BY: Colin Needham <c...@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
GE: Drama
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MV: Great Race, The
PL: Professional daredevil and white-suited hero, The Great Leslie,
PL: convinces turn-of-the-century auto makers that a race from New York
PL: to Paris (westward across America, the Bering Straight and Russia)
PL: will help to promote automobile sales. Leslie's arch-rival, the
PL: mustached and black-attired Professor Fate vows to beat Leslie to
PL: the finish line in a car of Fate's own invention.
PL: The Blake Edwards style of slapstick and song originated with this
PL: movie. A dedication to Laurel and Hardy appears at the beginning
PL: of the film. Edwards' tribute to Stan and Ollie can be seen most
PL: clearly in the interaction between Professor Fate and his cohort
PL: Max, as well as in the operatic Pottsdorf pie fight.
BY: Jeanne Baker <jba...@erim.org>
GE: Musical Comedy
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MV: Green Card
PL: George Faure is a Frenchman who has been offered a job in the U.S. But
PL: in order to get the job he must obtain a work permit - green card, and
PL: the easiest way is to marry an America. Bronte Parrish is a New Yorker
PL: who is a keen horticulturalist and just found the perfect flat with its
PL: own greenhouse. Unfortunately the flat is for married couples only.
PL: A marriage of convenience seems the ideal solution to both problems. To
PL: convince the immigration officers they are married for love, they must
PL: move in with each other. As the mismatched couple attempt to cope with
PL: life together, they start to fall in love.
BY: Sami Al-Taher <sm...@ukc.ac.uk>
GE: Romantic Comedy
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MV: Grifters, The
PL: Lily works for a bookie, placing bets to change the odds at the track.
PL: When her son is hospitalized after an unsuccessful con job and resultant
PL: beating, she finds that even an absentee parent has feelings for her
PL: child. This causes her own job to go wrong as well. Each of them faces
PL: the down side of the grift.
BY: John L. Vogel <JVO...@nhqvax.hq.nasa.gov>
GE: Crime Drama
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MV: Grim Reaper, The
PL: Tourists take a boat to a remote island, where they find that most of
PL: the people have disappeared, and something is stalking them. They find
PL: a hidden room in the big mansion on a hill, and an ancient diary, which
PL: gives them clues to the source of the terror.
BY: Ed Sutton <esu...@bnr.ca>
GE: Horror
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MV: Groundhog Day
PL: A weather man is reluctantly sent to cover a story about
PL: a weather forecasting "rat" (as he calls it). This is his
PL: fourth year on the story, and he makes no effort to hide his
PL: frustration. On awaking the 'following' day he discovers that
PL: it's Groundhog Day again, and again, and again. First he uses
PL: this to his advantage, then comes the realisation that he is
PL: doomed to spend the rest of eternity in the same place, seeing
PL: the same people do the same thing EVERY day.
BY: Rob Hartill <Robert....@cm.cf.ac.uk>
GE: Comedy
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MV: Hand That Rocks the Cradle, The
PL: Peyton Flanders seemed to be the perfect nanny, but secretly she was
PL: out to wreck the lives of the family she was supposed to be helping.
PL: Before becoming the nanny, Peyton had a miscarriage, and blamed it
PL: on Claire (the mother). Claire suspects nothing, having never met
PL: Peyton before.
BY: Rob Hartill <Robert....@cm.cf.ac.uk>
GE: Thriller
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MV: Hard to Die
PL: Five buxom and scantily clad women are left alone to take inventory at
PL: a lingerie company. The janitor is kind of spooky, and there are rumors
PL: about him being involved in a tragic incident a few years back, and he's
PL: giving them the heebie-jeebies. They accidentally open a mysterious
PL: package and something other-worldly escapes, and they must fend for their
PL: lives.
BY: Ed Sutton <esu...@bnr.ca>
GE: Comedy Horror Action
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MV: Harry and the Hendersons
PL: Returning from a hunting trip in the forest, the Henderson family's car
PL: hits an animal in the road. At first they fear it was a man, but when they
PL: examine the "body" they find it's a "bigfoot". They think it's dead so
PL: they decide to take it home (there could be some money in this..). As you
PL: guessed, "it" isn't dead. Far from being the ferocious monster they fear
PL: "Harry" to be, he's a friendly giant. In their attempts to keep Harry a
PL: secret, the Henderson's have to hide him from the authorities and a man,
PL: who has made it his goal in life, to catch a "bigfoot".
BY: Rob Hartill <Robert....@cm.cf.ac.uk>
GE: Comedy
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MV: Hatchet for the Honeymoon
PL: The owner of a design house busies himself murdering the new brides
PL: who have modelled his bridal fashions. When he decides to murder his
PL: wife, she becomes the ghost that wouldn't leave.
BY: Ed Sutton <esu...@bnr.ca>
GE: Horror
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MV: Haunting of Morella, The
PL: A witch is put to death in Colonial America, leaving her husband and
PL: infant daughter behind. Seventeen years later, the daughter has grown
PL: up and stands to inherit money set up by her mother's family. Now that
PL: the stage is set, the mother wants to return to life by taking over her
PL: daughter's body.
BY: Ed Sutton <esu...@bnr.ca>
GE: Horror
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MV: Heaven Can Wait (1978)
PL: Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl
PL: when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him
PL: to heaven only to discover that he wasn't ready to die, and that his body
PL: has been cremated. A new body must be found, and that of a recently
PL: murdered millionaire is chosen. His wife and accountant, the murderers,
PL: are confused by this development, as he buys the L.A. Rams in order to
PL: once again quarterback them into the superbowl.
BY: John L. Vogel <JVO...@nhqvax.hq.nasa.gov>
GE: Comedy
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MV: Hell Comes to Frogtown
PL: 'Hell' is the name of the hero of the story. He's a prisoner of the
PL: women who now run the USA after a nuclear/biological war. Results of the
PL: war are that mutants have evolved, and the human race is in danger of
PL: extinction due to infertility. Hell is given the task of helping in the
PL: rescue of a group of fertile women from the harem of the mutant leader
PL: (resembling a frog). Hell cannot escape since he has a bomb attached to
PL: his private parts which will detonate if he strays more than a few hundred
PL: yards from his guard.
BY: Rob Hartill <Robert....@cm.cf.ac.uk>
GE: Comedy Action Adult
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MV: Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth
PL: Pinhead is stuck in a block after the Big Confrontation in "Hellbound,"
PL: The block containing Pinhead and the puzzle cube is bought by a young
PL: playboy as sculpture. Pinhead busies himself escaping by getting the
PL: playboy to lure victims to his presence so he can use their blood. Once
PL: free, he seeks to destroy the puzzle cube so he need never return to
PL: Hell, but a female reporter is investigating the grisly murders and
PL: stands in his way.
BY: Ed Sutton <esu...@bnr.ca>
GE: Horror
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MV: Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
PL: Henry likes to kill people, in different ways each time.
PL: Henry shares an apartment with Otis. When Otis' sister
PL: comes to stay, we see both sides of Henry; the "guy-next-door"
PL: and the mass murderer. Low budget movie, with some graphic
PL: murder scenes.
BY: Rob Hartill <Robert....@cm.cf.ac.uk>
GE: Crime Murder
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MV: Hidden, The
PL: An alien is on the run in America. To get his kicks, it kills anything
PL: that gets in its way, and uses the body as a new hiding place. This alien
PL: has a goal in life; power. Hotly pursued by a good-guy alien (who's
PL: borrowed the body of a dead FBI agent), lots of innocent people die in
PL: the chase.
BY: Rob Hartill <Robert....@cm.cf.ac.uk>
GE: Horror Sci-Fi
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MV: High Anxiety
PL: Dr. Richard Thornhill arrives as new administrator of the
PL: Psychoneurotic Institute for the Very, VERY Nervous to discover
PL: some suspicious goings-on. When he's framed for murder, Dr.
PL: Thornhill must confront his own psychiatric condition, "high
PL: anxiety," in order to clear his name. An homage to the films of
PL: Alfred Hitchcock; contains many parodies of famous Hitchcock
PL: scenes from THE BIRDS, PSYCHO, and VERTIGO.
BY: Scott Renshaw <as....@forsythe.stanford.edu>
GE: Comedy Spoof
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MV: High Heels (1991)
PL: A girl's mother returns after 15 years to find her daughter has married
PL: one of her (the mother's) old boyfriends. They try to mend their
PL: broken mother/daughter relationship and deal with their common lover.
BY: Ed Sutton <esu...@bnr.ca>
GE: Drama
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MV: Highlander
PL: Born in the Highlands of Scotland in 1518, Connor Macleod is immortal.
PL: When he is wounded in battle but does not die, he is banished from his
PL: village. He meets another like himself, Ramirez, who teaches him
PL: swordsmanship--the only way to kill another immortal is to take his
PL: head--and the ways of the immortals. Modern-day New York is the
PL: location of "The Gathering," where Connor and the few remaining
PL: immortals must battle to the last for "The Prize."
BY: Jeff Hansen <j...@umich.edu>
GE: Adventure Fantasy
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MV: Hook (1991)
PL: Peter Pan (Williams) has grown up to be a cut-throat merger and
PL: acquisitions lawyer, and is married to Wendy's granddaughter. Captain
PL: Hook (Hoffman) kidnaps his children, and Peter returns to Never Land with
PL: Tinkerbell (Roberts). With the help of her and the Lost Boys, he must
PL: remember how to be Peter Pan again in order to save his children by
PL: battling with Captain Hook once again.
BY: Ed Sutton <esu...@bnr.ca>
GE: Comedy Action Musical
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MV: Hope and Glory
PL: A semiautobiographical project by John Boorman about a nine year old boy
PL: called Bill as he grows up in London during the blitz of World War 2.
PL: For a young boy, this time in history was more of an adventure, a total
PL: upheaval of order, restrictions and discipline. The liberating effect
PL: of the war on the women left behind. And the joy when Hitler blows up
PL: your school.
BY: Colin Tinto <col...@spider.co.uk>
GE: Comedy Drama War
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MV: Hospital, The
PL: Herbert Block is head of surgery in a major teaching hospital. His wife
PL: has left him, he is impotent and his children have both disowned him.
PL: He is toying with the idea of suicide when patients begin dying, not
PL: from complications, but from the erroneous treatments the Hospital is
PL: giving them. People in the wrong beds are given wrong medicines, sent to
PL: operating theatres for incorrect surgery, and found in waiting rooms dead
PL: of natural causes. Barbara Drummond has come to take her comatose father
PL: back to the Souix reservation where he operates a clinic and they each
PL: reach out to each other for emotional support, as a shadowy figure stalks
PL: the patients and staff of the hospital.
BY: John L. Vogel <JVO...@nhqvax.hq.nasa.gov>
GE: Mystery
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MV: Hot Shots! Part Deux
PL: Topper Harley is found to be working as an odd-job-man in a monastery.
PL: The CIA want him to lead a rescue mission into Iraq, to rescue the last
PL: rescue team, who went in to rescue the last rescue team who... who went in
PL: to rescue hostages left behind after Desert Storm. The president is
PL: Tug Benson, who also likes to be in on the action.
PL: Basically, it's a send-up of all the big shoot-em-up Rambo/Robocop/T2/
PL: Commando type movies.
BY: Rob Hartill <Robert....@cm.cf.ac.uk>
GE: Comedy Spoof
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MV: Hot Spot, The (1990)
PL: A loner (Johnson) drives into a small Texas town and gets himself a job
PL: at the used car place. Being an opportunist, he checks out the bank for
PL: security and begins setting fires around town in order to set up an
PL: eventual heist. The boss' wife (Madsen) wishes to use him for her own
PL: purposes, and begins attempting to manipulate him. He resists, however,
PL: as he finds himself falling in love with the accountant (Connelly) at
PL: work, who has her own problem to work out.
BY: Ed Sutton <esu...@bnr.ca>
GE: Drama Romance
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MV: Housesitter
PL: Con artist Goldie moves into Steve's empty house without his knowledge,
PL: and begins setting up house posing as his new wife.
BY: Ed Sutton <esu...@bnr.ca>
GE: Comedy Romance
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MV: Housesitter
PL: Davis builds his dream house and presents it to Becky with a proposal of
PL: marriage. She turns him down. He leaves the house, still with a ribbon
PL: running around it and returns to the city, terribly smitten with Becky. He
PL: meets Gwen who has an interesting relationship with the truth. He spends
PL: the night with her, but leaves while she is sleeping. She takes his
PL: description of the house, searches it out, and moves in. The residents of
PL: Davis' home town become curious and she invents a marriage, a courtship,
PL: and and an entire history. Davis' parents meet Gwen and are immediately
PL: taken with her. By the time Davis finds out what has happened, 2 things
PL: have happened, the whole town thinks he's married, and Becky tells him that
PL: Gwen has made her see him in a whole new light. Gwen and Davis agree that
PL: she can pretend to be his wife and get free rent while Davis works on Becky
PL: until they can announce a divorce. The trouble is that no one in the town
PL: wants them to separate and keep trying to help them reconcile.
BY: John L. Vogel <JVO...@nhqvax.hq.nasa.gov>
GE: Romance Comedy
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MV: Howards End
PL: Two sisters have encounters with a wealthy family. The younger sister
PL: (Carter) is rejected by the son of the wealthy family. The older sister
PL: (Thompson) becomes a good friend of the wealthy mother, whose most
PL: cherished possession is their cottage at Howard's End, and wishes
PL: fervently that Thompson could live there, as they are kindred spirits.
PL: Over the course of years, the older sister marries into the wealthy
PL: family, and the family tries to keep her from taking possession of
PL: Howard's End.
BY: Ed Sutton <esu...@bnr.ca>
GE: Drama
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MV: Hunt for Red October, The
PL: Based on the Best Selling novel by Tom Clancy this film tells the story
PL: of Captain Marko Ramius, the skipper of the Soviet Union's newest nuclear
PL: sub. Jack Ryan of the CIA gets involved in a tense, tangled hunt for
PL: this sub, when Ramius defects, taking the "Red October" with him. The
PL: story is an action packed techno-thriller.
BY: Greg Bole <bo...@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
GE: Action Thriller
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MV: I Confess
PL: Otto Kellar and his wife Alma work as caretaker and housekeeper at a
PL: Catholic church in Quebec. Whilst robbing a house where he sometimes works
PL: as a gardener, Otto is caught and kills the owner. Racked with guilt he
PL: heads back to the church where Father Michael Logan is working late. Otto
PL: confesses his crime, but when the police begin to suspect Father Logan he
PL: cannot reveal what he has been told in the confession.
BY: Colin Needham <c...@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
GE: Thriller
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MV: I Love You to Death
PL: Joey works with Rosalie in their pizza parlor. She is convinced that he
PL: works all of the time for them and her world dissolves when she finds that
PL: he has been fooling around for years. Being Catholic, divorce is
PL: out of the question, so she and her mother and her best friend decide to
PL: kill him. Hopelessly incompetent as killers, they hire incompetent
PL: professionals as they beat, poison, and shoot Joey who remains oblivious
PL: to their attempts.
BY: John L. Vogel <JVO...@nhqvax.hq.nasa.gov>
GE: Comedy
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MV: I'm Dangerous Tonight (TV)
PL: An ancient Egyptian cloth with a curse accidentally finds its way
PL: into the possession of a young woman. She decides to make a dress from
PL: the cloth. Whomever wears this cloth/dress comes under it's spell; all
PL: inhibitions and moral responsibilities are lost.
BY: Rob Hartill <Robert....@cm.cf.ac.uk>
GE: Horror
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MV: Imitation of Life (1959)
PL: In 1947 at Coney Island, down-on-her-luck actress Lora Meredith and her
PL: young daughter Susie meet coloured Annie Jackson and her daughter Sarah
PL: Jane. Annie is desperate for a place to live and offers to work as Lora's
PL: maid for food and lodging. Lora's luck begins to change as a result of
PL: their meeting and their two stories unfold across the years. However,
PL: Annie's problems start when Sarah Jane tries to pass as white.
BY: Colin Needham <c...@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
GE: Drama Romance
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MV: In the Line of Fire
PL: Veteran Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan is a man haunted
PL: by his failure to save President Kennedy while serving
PL: protection detail in Dallas. Thirty years later, a man calling
PL: himself "Booth" threatens the life of the current President,
PL: forcing Horrigan to come back to protection detail to confront
PL: the ghosts from his past.
BY: Scott Renshaw <as....@forsythe.stanford.edu>
GE: Suspense Action
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MV: In-Laws, The
PL: In preparation for his daughter's wedding, dentist Sheldon
PL: Kornpett meets Vince Ricardo, the groom's father. Vince, a
PL: manic fellow who claims to be a government agent, then proceeds
PL: to drag Sheldon into a series of chases and misadventures from
PL: New York to Central America.
BY: Scott Renshaw <as....@forsythe.stanford.edu>
GE: Comedy
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MV: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
PL: Renowned archeologist and expert in the occult, Dr. Indiana Jones, returns
PL: for the 3rd and final Indy film. Teaming up with his father, Indiana
PL: sets out to try and find the Holy Grail. Once again, the Nazis are after
PL: the same prize, and try to foil Indianas plans.
BY: Colin Tinto <col...@spider.co.uk>
GE: Adventure
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MV: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
PL: Renowned archeologist and expert in the occult, Dr. Indiana Jones, is
PL: back in action in the 2nd Indy film. He teams up with a night club
PL: singer and a 12 year old named Short Round. They end up in an
PL: Indian village, where the people believe evil spirits have taken their
PL: children away after a sacred stone was stolen. Indiana agrees to try
PL: and retrieve the stone for the villagers.
BY: Colin Tinto <col...@spider.co.uk>
GE: Adventure
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MV: Innerspace
PL: Lt. Tuck Pendelton, an American pilot, takes part in an experiment where
PL: he is miniaturised inside a submarine-like craft and is to be injected
PL: into a rabbit. The bad guys try to steal him, and the machine, while he
PL: is miniaturised, and eventually he ends up inside Jack Putter, a
PL: hypochondriac. This film borrows ideas from the classic "Fantastic
PL: Voyage" and Steve Martins "All of Me".
BY: Colin Tinto <col...@spider.co.uk>
GE: Comedy Fantasy
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MV: Innocent Blood
PL: Marie has two appetites, sex and blood. Her career as a vampire is going
PL: along fine until two problems come up, she is interrupted while feeding on
PL: Sal (the shark) Macelli and she begins to develope a relationship with the
PL: policeman who has been trying to put Sal away. Sal wakes up in the morgue
PL: very confused and very thirsty. He goes back to his old haunts and begins
PL: to create an organized crime family of vampires while Marie and her
PL: policeman lover hunt him.
BY: John L. Vogel <JVO...@nhqvax.hq.nasa.gov>
GE: Horror Comedy Romance
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MV: Insignificance
PL: Four 1950's cultural icons (Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe,
PL: Joe DiMaggio and Senator Joseph MacCarthy) who conceivably could
PL: have met and probably didn't, fictionally do in this modern fable
PL: of post-WWII America. Visually intriguing, the film has a fluid
PL: progression of flash-backs and flash-forwards centering on the
PL: fictional Einstein's current observations, childhood memories
PL: and apprehensions for the future.
BY: Jeanne Baker <jba...@erim.org>
GE: Fantasy-Drama
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MV: Intruder (1993)
PL: The ex-boyfriend of a check-out girl at a supermarket returns at closing
PL: time to make trouble. They quarrel and the boyfriend is ejected from the
PL: store. After they lock the building up to take inventory, the employees
PL: start dying off, and the survivors must eventually find a way to escape
PL: with their lives.
BY: Ed Sutton <esu...@bnr.ca>
GE: Horror Comedy
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MV: Intruders (1992) (TV)
PL: All over the world, people report they've been visited
PL: by aliens, taken aboard spaceships and medically examined.
PL: The authorities appear to know all about these visits but
PL: won't acknowledge it publicly. This film focuses on two
PL: 'victims' who struggle to live normal lives, but the aliens
PL: keep coming back. All is explained (perhaps ?) at the end.
BY: Rob Hartill <Robert....@cm.cf.ac.uk>
GE: Sci-Fi
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MV: Ipcress File, The
PL: A number of leading Western scientists have been kidnapped
PL: only to reappear a fews days later. Unfortunately, each scientist has
PL: been brain washed and is now completely useless. The British send their
PL: agent, Harry Palmer, to investigate. Palmer is surprised to be selected
PL: for such a mission (considering his past) and believes he has been chosen
PL: because he is expendable.
BY: Dave Jenkins <david....@smallworld.co.uk>
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MV: It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
PL: After a long prison sentence Smiler Grogan is heading at high speed to a
PL: California park where he hid $350,000 from a job 15 years previously. He
PL: accidentally careers over a cliff in view of four cars whose occupants
PL: go down to help. The dying Grogan gives details of where the money is
PL: buried and when the witnesses fail to agree on sharing the cash, a crazy
PL: chase develops across the state.
BY: Colin Needham <c...@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
GE: Comedy