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Captain Ron

Captain Ron (1992) more movies like this

directed by Thom Eberhardt
featuring Kurt Russell, Martin Short, Mary Kay Place, Benjamin Salisbury, Meadow Sisto

After he inherits a yacht, Chicago businessman Martin totes his family to the Caribbean to claim it. Not having any skill at boating, he hires long-haired, one-eyed low-life Captain Ron, to pilot the heap to Miami. During the journey, the somewhat inept sailor frequently loses his way while becoming a hit with everyone in the family--except Martin ...

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The Big Chill

The Big Chill (1983) more movies like this

directed by Lawrence Kasdan
featuring Kevin Kline, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt, JoBeth Williams, Tom Berenger, Mary Kay Place, Meg Tilly

Embraced by the Baby Boomer generation and spawning countless imitators, the sophomore film of writer-director Lawrence Kasdan was a successful comedy-drama with a best selling soundtrack of Motown hits. Kevin Kline and Glenn Close star as Harold and Sarah Cooper, a couple whose marital troubles are put on hold while they host an unhappy reunion ...

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Being John Malkovich

Being John Malkovich (1999) more movies like this

directed by Spike Jonze
featuring John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, John Malkovich, Orson Bean, Mary Kay Place

Would you pay money to journey into the mind of the star of Con Air, The Killing Fields, and In The Line of Fire? Puppeteer Craig Schwartz (John Cusack) is having money problems, so he takes a temporary job as a file clerk on the seventh-and-a-half floor of a large office building. One day, while rummaging behind a cabinet, he finds a small door ...

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The Rainmaker

The Rainmaker (1997) more movies like this

directed by Francis Ford Coppola
featuring Matt Damon, Claire Danes, Jon Voight, Mary Kay Place, Mickey Rourke

Francis Ford Coppola is both scripter and director of this drama adapted from the John Grisham novel about broke, inexperienced Memphis law-school graduate Rudy Baylor (Matt Damon), ready to take any job he can find. Signing on with slimy Bruiser Stone (Mickey Rourke), he learns ambulance-chasing tactics from Bruiser's leg man Deck Schifflet ...

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Modern Problems

Modern Problems (1981) more movies like this

directed by Ken Shapiro
featuring Chevy Chase, Patti D'Arbanville, Mary Kay Place, Nell Carter, Brian Doyle-Murray

An air-traffic controller (Chevy Chase) is having the worst luck: first his girlfriend leaves him, and then he experiences a nuclear disaster. His life begins to pick up after he realizes that the radiation fallout has given him magical telekinetic powers. He decides to settle a few scores with his new-found power. John Bush, All Movie Guide

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Smooth Talk

Smooth Talk (1985) more movies like this

directed by Joyce Chopra
featuring Treat Williams, Laura Dern, Mary Kay Place, Levon Helm, Sarah Inglis, Elizabeth Berridge

Produced for PBS' American Playhouse series, Smooth Talk was given a brief theatrical release before its "official" February 9, 1987 TV debut. Laura Dern plays a teenager anxious to experience the pleasures of sexual contact. Left alone in the family summer cottage when her mother (Mary Kay Place), father (Levon Helm) and sister (Elizabeth ...

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New York, New York

New York, New York (1977) more movies like this

directed by Martin Scorsese
featuring Liza Minnelli, Robert De Niro, Lionel Stander, Barry Primus, Mary Kay Place

Martin Scorsese combined the splashy atmosphere of the old studio musical with an unromanticized marriage story in his valentine to Hollywood and the Big Band era. On V-J Day 1945, newly minted civilian saxophonist Jimmy Doyle (Robert De Niro) meets USO singer Francine Evans (Liza Minnelli) at a dance, but she rebuffs every advance that he makes. ...

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Pecker

Pecker (1998) more movies like this

directed by John Waters
featuring Edward Furlong, Christina Ricci, Mary Kay Place, Martha Plimpton, Brendan Sexton, Jr.

John Waters wrote and directed this $6.5 million satire on the Manhattan art world, a rags-to-riches comedy about 18-year-old amateur photographer Pecker (so named because he pecks at his food). Pecker (Edward Furlong) is a blue-collar kid who works in a Baltimore sandwich shop and takes snapshots of family, friends, and customers. His mom, Joyce ...

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Citizen Ruth

Citizen Ruth (1996) more movies like this

directed by Alexander Payne
featuring Laura Dern, Swoosie Kurtz, Kurtwood Smith, Mary Kay Place, Kelly Preston

The divisive issue of abortion is at the center of Citizen Ruth, a political satire that attempts to subject both pro-choice and pro-life forces to equal ridicule. Laura Dern portrays Ruth Stoops, an irresponsible, unemployed woman who's addicted to inhaling household chemicals and has becomes pregnant, for the fifth time. After she is arrested ...

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My Very Best Friend

My Very Best Friend (1997) more movies like this

directed by Joyce Chopra
featuring Jaclyn Smith, Jill Eikenberry, Tom Irwin, Tom Mason, Mary Kay Place

In this sudsy made-for-television drama, long-buried resentments, jealousy and other negative emotions re-emerge when a fashion model and an old friend are reunited. Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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Silver City (2004) more movies like this

directed by John Sayles
featuring Danny Huston, Maria Bello, Billy Zane, Chris Cooper, Richard Dreyfuss, Daryl Hannah, Kris Kristofferson, Mary Kay Place, Miguel Ferrer, Thora Birch

Celebrated writer and director John Sayles turns his eye to politics in America in this drama. The son of respected Colorado politician Senator Jud Pilager (Michael Murphy), Dicky Pilager (Chris Cooper) is a charming but half-bright man with a bad habit of mangling the English language and a decided lack of political correctness. Dicky is also in ...

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Waltz Across Texas (1983) more movies like this

directed by Ernest Day
featuring Anne Archer, Terry Jastrow, Noah Beery, Jr., Mary Kay Place, Josh Taylor

In this easily predictable romantic comedy, Gail (Anne Archer) is a no-nonsense geologist from the East Coast and John (Terry Jastrow) is a down-home, intuitive Texan whose expertise lies in guessing where petroleum is located -- Gail, as a geologist, is not in the habit of guessing. As the two meet and work together on a wildcat well in Texas, ...

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A Woman's A Helluva Thing (2001) more movies like this

directed by Karen Leigh Hopkins
featuring Angus MacFadyen, Penelope Ann Miller, Ann-Margret, Kathryn Harrold, Mary Kay Place

A comedy detailing the war of the sexes with some new twists, this film stars Angus MacFadyen as Houston Blackett, a men's magazine owner whose mother suddenly dies in the Rocky Mountains. His mother has evidently left the estate not to her estranged son, but to her lover, a local girl named Zane (Penelope Ann Miller). Houston is aghast at the ...

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Manny & Lo (1996) more movies like this

directed by Lisa Krueger
featuring Dean Silvers, Scarlett Johansson, Aleksa Palladino, Mary Kay Place, Glenn Fitzgerald, Angie Phillips

The debut feature from writer/director Lisa Krueger stars Scarlett Johansson and Aleksa Palladino as the titular Manny and Lo, orphaned teenaged sisters who avoid foster homes by living on the run, stealing food, and sleeping in random model homes. Older sister Lo is the rude, bossy, incompetent leader, and younger sister Manny is her thoughtful, ...

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Crazy from the Heart (1991) more movies like this

directed by Thomas Schlamme
featuring Christine Lahti, Rubén Blades, William Russ, Mary Kay Place, Tommy Muniz

In this frothy romantic comedy set in a small Texas town, a never-married high school principal starts a scandal when she falls in love with the handsome school janitor. Unfortunately, he is Mexican and she Anglo. The local community frowns on such relationships and ultimately, their new love seems doomed. This film was made especially for cable ...

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Nailed (2001) more movies like this

directed by Joel Silverman
featuring Harvey Keitel, Brad Rowe, Rachel Blanchard, Mary Kay Place, Dash Mihok

A man struggling to do the right thing for his child finds himself at odds with his family in this emotional drama. Tony Romano (Harvey Keitel) runs a successful clothing company in New York City; eager to share his good fortune with his family, Tony's daughter and younger son both have important positions in the firm, while his wife Fern (Mary ...

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Samantha (1992) more movies like this

directed by Stephen LaRocque
featuring Martha Plimpton, Dermot Mulroney, Hector Elizondo, Mary Kay Place, Ione Skye

When an adopted 21-year-old finds that she was adopted, she forsakes her adopted parents and goes on a crazed hunt to discover her real parents. When at last she finds them, she is disappointed to discover that they are very empty and shallow people; her adoptive parents earn a new respect in her eyes. All Movie Guide

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Lonesome Jim (2006) more movies like this

directed by Steve Buscemi
featuring Casey Affleck, Liv Tyler, Mary Kay Place, Seymour Cassel, Kevin Corrigan

A less than auspicious homecoming for an introspective artist sets the stage for this low-key comedy drama directed by Steve Buscemi. Jim (Casey Affleck) is a chronically glum aspiring novelist who, after a failed two-year sojourn in New York City, has returned home to his parents' home in Goshen, IN. Jim's folks, Don (Seymour Cassel) and Sally ...

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Indecent Seduction (1996) more movies like this

directed by Alan Metzger
featuring Alyson Hannigan, Mac Davis, Nicholle Tom, Gary Cole, Mary Kay Place

Based on a true story, the made-for-TV For My Daughter's Honor concerns a torrid sexual relationship between 14-year-old Oklahoma high schooler Amy Dustin (Nicholle Tom) and the school's popular football coach Pete Nash (Gary Cole), who so far as the rest of the community is concerned is an above-reproach family man. Even allowing for the ...

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