Lone Hero (DVD)
A headstrong loner (Lou Diamond Phillips) heads into a sleepy western town on his chopper and terrorizes the outpost`s residents. One member of the town (Sean Patrick Flannery) stands up to the bully biker and a showdown of good versus evil takes place on streets of the very western town the two are fighting over. This HBO feature film combines the western and the biker picture in this tongue-in-cheek action romp.R"
Director: Ken Sanzel
ACTORS: Lou Diamond Phillips, Sean Patrick Flannery, Robert Forster, Tanya Allen
The Hunted (DVD) Full Frame Echoing Francis Ford Coppola`s APOCALYPSE NOW, William Friedkin`s THE HUNTED opens with a close-up of the protagonist, Aaron Hallam (Benicio Del Toro), a Special Ops soldier who is witnessing atrocities in Kosovo. His battle...
Echoing Francis Ford Coppola`s APOCALYPSE NOW, William Friedkin`s THE HUNTED opens with a close-up of the protagonist, Aaron Hallam (Benicio Del Toro), a Special Ops soldier who is witnessing atrocities in Kosovo. His battle stress soon turns him into a killing machine, as he murders hunters in the Oregon woods. Meanwhile, L.T. Bonham (Tommy Lee Jones) is living a solitary existence in the Pacific Northwest, rescuing wolves and living off the land. The Feds lure Bonham out of retirement, since he was responsible for training Hallam--and might be the only person alive who can stop him.
Combining elements of RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD, in which Richard Crenna played the only man who could stop the battle-fatigued Sylvester Stallone, with THE PARK IS MINE, in which Jones played a Vietnam veteran who took over Central Park and booby-trapped it, THE HUNTED is an exciting chase film that is infused with a compelling streak of humanity amid all the blood and gore. Del Toro and Jones are both excellent, conveying a father-and-son-like relationship that is filled with intrigue. Johnny Cash`s talk-rendition of Bob Dylan`s Highway 61 opens and closes the film with gusto.
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Director: William Friedkin
ACTORS: Tommy Lee Jones, Benicio Del Toro, Leslie Stefanson, Connie Nielsen, Jenna Boyd
Fierce Creatures (DVD) Keep Case; Subtitled English This reunion of the cast of A FISH CALLED WANDA is not a sequel, but features the trademark humor of John Cleese, Kevin Kline, and Jamie Lee Curtis, including Kline`s genius double performance as an aging m...
This reunion of the cast of A FISH CALLED WANDA is not a sequel, but features the trademark humor of John Cleese, Kevin Kline, and Jamie Lee Curtis, including Kline`s genius double performance as an aging media mogul and his buffoon of a son. A riotous and scatterbrained story of frantic English zoo keeper (John Cleese) whose demesne is threatened by a tightfisted down sizing Australian media mogul, Vince McCain (Kevin Kline). A visit by the mogul`s bumbling son, Rod McCain (Kevin Kline again) prompts a rash of changes at the zoo, including the order that the animals be made more fierce. In an effort to attract a huge parade of visitors the corporate moguls want to create a theme park atmosphere with only violent animals on display. In protest, the liberal zoo keepers fight back in a hilarious effort to prove the ferocious temperament of animals like the meerkat, deemed the piranhas of the desert. When Willa Weston (Jamie Lee Curtis), a hard-nosed marketing genius, is sent to the zoo to look after the operation she is forced to look after Rod, as he creates marketing mayhem, with false celebrity sponsors, Disneyland-like costumes for the zoo keepers and advertisements run amok. As Willa spends more time around the downtrodden zoo keepers and their fearless leader, she realizes that the McCain empire must be stopped, coming up with a delirious plan to quell the media moguls and take back the zoo.
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Director: Robert M. Young|Fred Schepisi
ACTORS: John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin, Ronnie Corbett
Dot and the Kangaroo (DVD)
Dot, the small daughter of a settler, wanders into the forest and gets lost. She meets a friendly kangaroo who takes her on a fabulous journey.G"
Kiss Them For Me (DVD)
This hilarious romantic comedy follows a crew of Naval servicemen who have just landed in San Francisco. While their commander (Cary Grant) struggles to contain his men, they continue to seek out fun and love in every corner of the San Francisco streets.NR"
Director: Stanley Donen
ACTORS: Cary Grant, Werner Klemperer, Jayne Mansfield, Leif Erickson, Ray Walston
