 | Jakob the Liar [Read More ...]
Description: The inspiration for the 1999 Robin Williams comedy Jakob the Liar didn't come from Roberto Begnini's acclaimed tragifarce Life Is Beautiful; it's a remake of a 1976 German film. Curiously enough, the original wasn't so much a comedy as a wistful, sad drama of the human spirit bu... |
 | Club Paradise [Read More ...]
Description: Robin Williams went through a period in the mid '80s when he looked like he'd turned into the next Richard Pryor: yet another brilliant standup comic neutered by the script mills of the Hollywood studios. Indeed, Williams seems almost like a spectator in this film, reacting to a ... |
 | THE TRAIL-LEWIS & CLARK EXPEDITION [Read More ...]
Description: THE LEWIS & CLARK EXPEDITION is a complete story with a beginning, middle and end. We begin the story on Meriwether Lewis's front porch at Locust Hill outside Charlottesville and follow him all the way to the mouth of the Columbia River. Many little gems are also cast into this ... |
 | Waiting for the Light [Read More ...]
Description: "Jesus hits like an atom bomb," or so claims the spirited gospel tune that opens this inspired tale of practical jokes and providence during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The criminally underused Teri Garr is marvelous as the single mom who moves her irrepressibly theatrical Aunti... |
 | Dead Poets Society [Read More ...]
Description: Robin Williams stars as an English teacher who doesn't fit into the conservative prep school where he teaches, but whose charisma and love of poetry inspires several boys to revive a secret society with a bohemian bent. The script is well meaning but a little trite, though direct... |
 | Poltergeist [Read More ...]
Description: What a combo! Tobe Hooper, the director of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, teamed up with family-oriented producer Steven Spielberg to make Poltergeist. The film is about a haunted suburban tract home in a development very much like the Arizona one in which Spielberg was raised. (Be... |
![]() | Dead Poets Society [Read More ...]
Description: Robin Williams stars as an English teacher who doesn't fit into the conservative prep school where he teaches, but whose charisma and love of poetry inspires several boys to revive a secret society with a bohemian bent. The script is well meaning but a little trite, though direct... |
 | Mo Better Blues [Read More ...]
Description: With Mo' Better Blues, the story of a young trumpeter's rise to jazz-world stardom, Spike Lee set out to counter Clint Eastwood's cliché-ridden biopic of Charlie Parker in Bird. But the final product, a slick, glossy drama (with hip-hop jazz provided by Gangstarr no less), is ju... |
![]() | When Husbands Cheat [Read More ...]
When Husbands Cheat:This is an excellent and entertaining movie that I had seen on Lifetime. I ordered the VHS tape from Amazon and received it within a week in perfect condition. I have since ordered other Lifetime DVD's and got the same results, quick delivery and perfect condition. |
![]() | Forrest Gump [Read More ...]
Description: The Academy Award winner for Best Picture, Best Director Robert Zemeckis, and Best Actor Tom Hanks, this unlikely story of a slow-witted but good-hearted man somehow at the center of the pivotal events of the 20th century is a funny and heartwarming epic. Hanks plays the title ch... |
![]() | Barbra Streisand - One Voice [Read More ...]
Review: Barbra Streisand:Barbra Joan Streisand is terrific live! Great Show. Well worth it.
'People' love to see Barbra Streisand Live:
$92,457,062 Barbra Streisand Concerts --10-4-2006 to 11-20-2006 - 20 North American shows - about 300,000 tickets sold, plus an additional 9 Worldwide s... |
 | Moscow on the Hudson [Read More ...]
Description: Robin Williams in his fuzzy, sensitive mode with bittersweet touches plays a musician in a Russian circus who gets talked into defecting by a pal and does so (though the pal bails on him at the last minute)--in the middle of Bloomingdale's. A great concept, to be sure, but writer... |
![]() | Jonathan Winters - On The Ledge [Read More ...]
Review: Semi-entertaining TV Special From the King of Improv:"Jonathan Winters On the Ledge" is a TV special Jonathan made in 1987. Completely improvised, this choppy, poorly directed special co-stars Robin Williams, Milton Berle, Mort Sahl, Michael Richards, Lee Meriwether, Phyllis Dill... |
 | Cellular [Read More ...]
Description: Just when you think it's getting silly, Cellular serves up another tantalizing twist. In the time-honored tradition of Sorry, Wrong Number and Wait Until Dark, Kim Basinger is well-cast as a resourceful damsel-in-distress who thwarts her kidnappers by connecting with a n'er-do-we... |
 | Nine Months [Read More ...]
Description: This film represents Hugh Grant's first big bid at Hollywood stardom, on the heels of the success of Four Weddings and a Funeral. But he stumbled twice: first with this mundane comedy, then by being arrested after soliciting a prostitute near downtown Hollywood, the week before t... |
 | Comic Relief 3 [Read More ...]
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 | The Best of Times [Read More ...]
Description: This shaggy-dog fable barely drew fleas when it arrived in the winter of 1986. Now critics refer to it as a winning, offbeat classic. What took 'em so long? Probably the fact that director Roger Spottiswoode (Tomorrow Never Dies) and screenwriter Ron Shelton (Bull Durham) were ch... |
 | Survivors [Read More ...]
Description: At the height of urban paranoia and the birth of survivalist movement in the 1980s, director Michael Ritchie decided to team Robin Williams and Walter Matthau. Talk about an odd couple; yet it actually might have worked, with Matthau's hang-dog deadpan and Williams's manic energy... |
 | Comic Relief V [Read More ...]
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 | Forrest Gump [Read More ...]
Description: The Academy Award winner for Best Picture, Best Director Robert Zemeckis, and Best Actor Tom Hanks, this unlikely story of a slow-witted but good-hearted man somehow at the center of the pivotal events of the 20th century is a funny and heartwarming epic. Hanks plays the title ch... |
