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In the Army Now
(1994)
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Cyrus Yavneh, Daniel Petrie, Jr.
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Pauly Shore, Andy Dick, Lori Petty, David Alan Grier, Esai Morales
Comedian Pauly Shore goes to boot camp in this comedy adventure set in Chad. It was filmed on location in the California and Arizona deserts. Shore is cast as Bones, a dreamer who wants to open his own stereo shop with his best friend Jack. To earn the cash, Bones talks Jack into joining the Army reserves. In boot camp, they are trained as water ...
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Rocket Gibraltar
(1988)
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Daniel Petrie
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Burt Lancaster, Suzy Amis, Patricia Clarkson, Frances Conroy, Sinéad Cusack, John Glover, Bill Pullman, Macaulay Culkin
On the occasion of wealthy patriarch Burt Lancaster's 77th birthday, his Long Island home is invaded by well-meaning family members. Lancaster is bored by the well-meaning interference of his grown children, but he thrives on the company of his grandchildren, especially 5-year-old Macaulay Culkin (in a terrific pre-star performance). To the kids, ...
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A Raisin in the Sun
(1961)
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Daniel Petrie
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Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee, Diana Sands, Ivan Dixon
While this original movie version of Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning play may have dated somewhat, it was groundbreaking when first released in 1961, and a wealth of future plays, films, and TV productions have taken their lead from this socially conscious drama about a struggling African-American family. Lena Younger (Claudia McNeil) is a ...
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Six Pack
(1982)
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Daniel Petrie
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Kenny Rogers, Diane Lane, Erin Gray, Barry Corbin, Terry Kiser
When a retired stock car driver, Brewster Baker (Kenny Rogers), meets up with a group of orphans intent on dismantling his car, he takes them under his wing and sets them to work helping him return to the racing scene. Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide
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Fort Apache, the Bronx
(1981)
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Daniel Petrie
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Paul Newman, Ed Asner, Ken Wahl, Danny Aiello, Rachel Ticotin
Paul Newman stars as an essentially decent cop patrolling that decimated, drug-and-gang-ridden borough known on the city maps as the Bronx, but known to its denizens as "Fort Apache". While Newman tries to hold on to his basic humanity and to treat even the sorriest of the people on his beat with dignity, he can't do much to convince his superiors ...
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The Dollmaker
(1984)
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Daniel Petrie
Jane Fonda stars in this made-for-TV movie, which uses the backdrop of World War II and urbanization to tell the story of one woman's fight to keep her family together. Gertie Nevels (Fonda), the wife of a Kentucky sharecropper, wants nothing more than to one day own her own farm. Thriftily hiding her savings from husband Clovis (Levon Helm), she ...
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Toy Soldiers
(1991)
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Daniel Petrie, Jr.
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Sean Astin, Wil Wheaton, Keith Coogan, Andrew Divoff, Louis Gossett, Jr.
Dead Poets Society and Die Hard bash heads in this action drama set in a Northeastern prep school. The film opens as a crazed Central American terrorist, Luis Cali (Andrew Divoff), goes on a shooting spree, attempting to gain his drug baron father's release from extradition to the United States. The following sequence introduces some malcontented ...
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Cocoon: The Return
(1988)
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Daniel Petrie
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Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, Jack Gilford, Steve Guttenberg, Maureen Stapleton
Cocoon 2: The Return, like most sequels, relies a bit too heavily on one's familiarity with the first film. Without dwelling too long on Cocoon #1, we can observe that it ended with a group of senior citizens heading for the distant planet of Antarea, hoping to find a new, rewarding and elongated life. Cocoon 2 picks up the action five years later ...
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Wild Iris
(2001)
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Daniel Petrie
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Gena Rowlands, Laura Linney, Emile Hirsch, Fred Ward, Lee Tergesen
A woman tries to make sense of her relationship with her mother -- who also happens to be her boss and landlady -- in this dramatic comedy. Iris (Laura Linney) has never had an especially warm relationship with her mother Min (Gena Rowlands), but after her husband committed suicide, Iris was emotionally shattered and had nowhere to go, so Min ...
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Dead Silence
(1997)
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Daniel Petrie, Jr.
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Charles Martin Smith, James Garner, Marlee Matlin
A tense hostage situation erupts when three escaped convicts commandeer a school bus full of deaf children and take them and their courageous teacher (Marlee Matlin) to an abandoned slaughterhouse to negotiate with the cops. No sooner are the crooks and their captives inside the plant than it is surrounded by policemen. An FBI unit led by John ...
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Lassie
(1994)
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Daniel Petrie
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Tom Guiry, Helen Slater, Jon Tenney, Brittany Boyd, Frederic Forrest
The story of an intelligent, heroic collie and his young owner, previously featured in numerous films and a successful 1950s television series, was updated for the 1990s in this family feature. This time, Lassie is determined to help a cynical city boy named Matt (Thomas Guiry), who turns even more resentful when his family relocates to a small ...
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Square Dance
(1987)
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Daniel Petrie
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Jason Robards, Jr., Jane Alexander, Winona Ryder, Rob Lowe, Deborah Richter
Gemma (Winona Ryder) is a young teen raised by her crusty grandfather Dillard (Jason Robards) in this drama of a young woman's coming of age. When she goes to the city to spend the summer with her estranged mother Juanella (Jane Alexander), she falls for Rory (Rob Lowe), a rural rube of less-than-average intelligence, but her only true friend in a ...
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Eleanor and Franklin: The Early Years
(1976)
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Daniel Petrie
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Edward Herrmann, Jane Alexander, Linda Kelsey, Rosemary Murphy, Linda Purl
The winner of 11 Emmy awards, the made-for-TV Eleanor and Franklin stars Edward Herrmann as Franklin D. Roosevelt and Jane Alexander as Eleanor Roosevelt. The film traces the first four decades of the lives of cousins Franklin and Eleanor, beginning with their marriage in 1905. Conflicts loom in the form of FDR's domineering mother (Rosemary ...
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Moon of the Wolf
(1972)
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Daniel Petrie
Filmed for television, this story concerns a series of killings in the Louisiana bayou. The sheriff on the case believes that a werewolf is behind the murders. The film was adapted from a book by Leslie H. Whitten. John Bush, All Movie Guide
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The Execution of Raymond Graham
(1985)
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Daniel Petrie
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Jeff Fahey, Philip Sterling, Kate Reid
Jeff Fahey plays Raymond Graham, who for five years has lived on Death Row, awaiting execution for the murder of a store clerk. Having given up on any further legal delays, Graham wearily awaits the fatal injection. Joining the condemned man in his death watch are Graham's family and attorney, a crowd of anti-capital punishment demonstrators, and ...
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The Betsy
(1978)
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Daniel Petrie
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Laurence Olivier, Robert Duvall, Katharine Ross, Tommy Lee Jones, Jane Alexander
Based on the novel by Harold Robbins, this is the story of Loren Hardeman, Sr., a Midwestern automobile manufacturer (Lord Olivier) who pins his future on The Betsy, a "wonder car" named after his daughter (Kathleen Beller). The Betsy is designed to last practically forever, which doesn't rest well with the "planned obscolence" mindset of the auto ...
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The Neptune Factor
(1973)
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Daniel Petrie
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Ed McGibbon, Ben Gazzara, Yvette Mimieux, Walter Pidgeon, Ernest Borgnine, Chris Wiggens, Donnelly Rhodes
A research facility becomes a death trap, and only an untested Navy vessel can save the day in this adventure drama. A team of scientists led by Hal Hamilton (Michael J. Reynolds) is studying marine life in an underwater research station called Sealab. Shortly before the Sealab crew are scheduled to return to the surface, a massive underwater ...
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Framed
(2003)
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Daniel Petrie, Jr.
A remake of the 1992 British film of the same name, the made-for-cable Framed begins as New York cop Mike Santini (Rob Lowe) is vacationing with his family in the Bahamas. By chance, Santini spots another "tourist": Eddie Meyers (Sam Neill), a high-profile fugitive mobster and a key player in a major money-laundering scheme. Once Santini collars ...
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Kissinger and Nixon
(1995)
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Daniel Petrie
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Ron Silver, Beau Bridges, Matt Frewer, Ron White, George Takei
Walter Isaacson's book Kissinger: A Biography served as the basis for this made-for-television movie about the famed political leader. Beau Bridges stars as President Richard Nixon and Ron Silver portrays Henry Kissinger, Nixon's national security advisor. The adaptation shows how Kissinger worked to try and end the Vietnam crisis while Nixon ...
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Half a Lifetime
(1986)
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Daniel Petrie
Produced for Canadian television, Half a Lifetime stars David Carradine, Gary Busey, Nick Mancuso and Saul Rubinek. The story is set at a table where the four leads indulge in a high-stakes poker game. We soon learn that this table is where these overgrown "boys" have frittered away most of their lives. What begins as a friendly game of cards ends ...
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Buster and Billie
(1974)
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Daniel Petrie
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Dell C. Payne, J.B. Joiner, Jan-Michael Vincent, Joan Goodfellow, Pamela Sue Martin, Clifton James, Robert Englund
In this coming-of-age movie from 1974 that mines the same territory as Summer of '42 and Class of '44, Joan Goodfellow plays Billie, an obliging blonde more than willing to dispense sexual favors for a group of horny high schoolers in rural Georgia of 1948. The only member of the high school group that doesn't seek out Billie is Buster (Jan ...
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My Name is Bill W.
(1989)
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Daniel Petrie
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James Garner, James Woods
My Name Is Bill W reunited the stars of the highly acclaimed 1986 TV movie The Promise: James Garner and James Woods. This time Woods has the bigger role as the real-life Bill Wilson, who comes marching home from World War One with a "little" liquor problem. He drinks steadily throughout the Prohibition Era, but Wilson's habit doesn't catch up ...
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The Gun and the Pulpit
(1974)
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Daniel Petrie
Former evangelist Marjorie Gortner had a brief flurry of activity as an actor in the early 1970s. Gun and the Pulpit was a made-for-TV movie designed as the pilot for a potential Gortner series. Marjoe plays a gunslinger who disguises himself as a preacher to escape a false murder charge. He finds that his somewhat direct proselytizing technique- ...
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Sybil
(1976)
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directed by
Daniel Petrie
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Sally Field, Joanne Woodward, Martine Bartlett, William Prince, Jane Hoffman
The multiple award-winning made-for-TV movie Sybil was based on the book by Flora Rheta Schreiber. Sally Field won an Emmy for her portrayal of the title character, a substitute teacher in New York who has developed multiple personality disorder. As a coping mechanism to deal with the abuse she suffered at the hands of her mother, Hattie (Martine ...
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