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Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) more movies like this

directed by Amy Heckerling
featuring Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Robert Romanus, Brian Backer, Phoebe Cates, Ray Walston

Amy Heckerling's adaptation of Cameron Crowe's Fast Times at Ridgemont High is often considered one of the finest films of a disreputable genre (the teen sex comedy), and kick-started the careers of many future stars. The center of this ensemble film is Jennifer Jason Leigh as Stacy Hamilton. She is a young, innocent high-school student who, as ...

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Gremlins

Gremlins (1984) more movies like this

directed by Joe Dante
featuring Zach Galligan, Hoyt Axton, Frances Lee McCain, Phoebe Cates, Polly Holliday

"Don't expose him to bright light. Don't ever get him wet. And don't ever, ever feed him after midnight." This sage advice is ignored midway through Gremlins, with devastating results. This comic Joe Dante effort is set in a Norman Rockwell-esque small town at Christmastime. Seeking a unique gift for his son an erstwhile inventor (Hoyt Axton) ...

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Drop Dead Fred

Drop Dead Fred (1991) more movies like this

directed by Ate de Jong
featuring Phoebe Cates, Rik Mayall, Marsha Mason, Tim Matheson, Carrie Fisher

Phoebe Cates stars in this bizarre comedy that wants to be the kind of stylish comic fable the likes of Tim Burton's Beetlejuice and Pee-wee's Big Adventure but ends up looking like a shabby burlesque about schizophrenia. Cates is Elizabeth, who has recently separated from her philandering husband Charles (Tim Matheson) and moved back home with ...

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Shag

Shag (1989) more movies like this

directed by Zelda Barron
featuring Phoebe Cates, Scott Coffey, Bridget Fonda, Annabeth Gish, Page Hannah

Shag is a beach flick set in 1963. The years have passed, but the old Where the Boys Are formula holds firm: Four attractive young lasses head for the surf and sand of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, looking for guys. Phoebe Cates is about to be married, so her three pals seek out a final affair d'amour on her behalf before she is lost to the world ...

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Gremlins 2: The New Batch

Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) more movies like this

directed by Joe Dante
featuring Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, John Glover, Robert Prosky, Robert Picardo

Where the original Gremlins was a horror film spiked with comedy, Gremlins 2: The New Batch is essentially a black comedy, with a couple of horrifying touches. As the film starts, the fantastical trinket shop in Chinatown, which sold the Mogwai in the first film, is demolished by a crazed multi-media businessman called Daniel Clamp (John Glover). ...

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Date with an Angel

Date with an Angel (1987) more movies like this

directed by Tom McLoughlin
featuring Michael E. Knight, Phoebe Cates, Emmanuelle Béart, David Dukes, Phil Brock

In this romantic comedy fantasy, an angel (Emmanuelle Beart) with a heavenly body falls into the swimming pool of Jim Sanders (Michael E. Knight). Hung over from his bachelor party, his encounter with the angel has Jim questioning his upcoming marriage to Patty (Phoebe Cates), the daughter of a wealthy cosmetics mogul (David Dukes). After he helps ...

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Princess Caraboo

Princess Caraboo (1994) more movies like this

directed by Michael Austin
featuring Phoebe Cates, Jim Broadbent, Wendy Hughes, Kevin Kline, John Lithgow, Stephen Rea

Loosely based on an actual incident, this family-friendly British comedy is also a sly satire of class consciousness. Phoebe Cates stars as a woman who appears in the English countryside of 1817 wearing exotic garb and speaking gibberish. Delivered to a nearby manor, the mystery woman is sheltered by the Worralls (Wendy Hughes and Jim Broadbent), ...

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The Heart of Dixie

The Heart of Dixie (1989) more movies like this

directed by Martin Davidson
featuring Ally Sheedy, Virginia Madsen, Phoebe Cates, Treat Williams, Don Michael Paul

Set at a Southern college during the 1950s, three co-eds (Ally Sheedy, Virginia Madsen and Phoebe Cates) re-assess their values in light of the burgeoning civil rights movement. Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide

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Bright Lights, Big City

Bright Lights, Big City (1988) more movies like this

directed by James Bridges
featuring Michael J. Fox, Kiefer Sutherland, Phoebe Cates, Swoosie Kurtz, Frances Sternhagen

Michael J. Fox once more makes a courageous effort to shed his nice-guy image in Bright Lights, Big City. Fox plays an impressionable Kansan who comes to the Big Apple to take a job at a major magazine. It isn't long before he falls into the twin traps of drug and alcohol abuse. His only hope for redemption is in the hands of Vicky (Tracy Pollan), ...

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Private School

Private School (1983) more movies like this

directed by Noel Black
featuring Phoebe Cates, Betsy Russell, Matthew Modine, Michael Zorek, Fran Ryan

Three of the hallmarks of education in America -- nudity, teenage sex, and big, destructive gags -- are on plentiful display in this teen comedy. Christine (Phoebe Cates), a student at an exclusive all-girls private school, is in love with Jim (Matthew Modine), who attends an academy for boys nearby. Christine's archrival Jordan (Betsy Russell) ...

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Paradise (1982) more movies like this

directed by Stuart Gillard
featuring Willie Aames, Phoebe Cates, Richard Curnock, Tuvia Tavi, Neil Vipond

A "The Blue Lagoon" set in the Sahara Desert, this romantic adventure is set at the turn of century and chronicles the story of two beautiful teens who end up traveling alone from Bagdad to Damascus after their respective parents are killed by a the henchmen of a sheik who wants the girl for himself. During their travels the youths learn about ...

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Bodies, Rest & Motion (1993) more movies like this

directed by Michael Steinberg
featuring Phoebe Cates, Bridget Fonda, Tim Roth, Eric Stoltz

Michael Steinberg, co-director of The Waterdance, made his solo directorial debut with the Gen-X character study Bodies, Rest & Motion. Written by Roger Hedden, based on his own play, the film's title refers to Newton's First Law of Motion, which states essentially that a body at rest or in motion will remain in that state until acted upon by an ...

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Scratch the Surface (1997) more movies like this

directed by Tara Fitzpatrick
featuring Brooke Shields, Phoebe Cates, Whitney Houston, Pam Gidley, Lisanne Falk

Scratch the Surface is former teen model turned documentary filmmaker Tara Fitzpatrick's examination of experiences in the fashion industry, and those of her friends and family. Fitzpatrick interviews her mother, aunt, and grandmother, and her sister Tracy Fitzpatrick, all of whom were models. She interviews her contemporaries, Phoebe Cates and ...

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