 Annie 1982  PG, 128 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: John Huston
Cast: Carol Burnett, Albert Finney, Aileen Quinn, Bernadette Peters, Ann Reinking, Tim Curry, Lu Leonard, Geoffrey Holder, Edward Herrmann, Meredith Salenger
This is the movie version of the popular Broadway musical in which a young red-headed orphan and her dog find a new life with a gruff millionaire. Carol Burnett provides good entertainment as the gin-slugging director of the orphan home.
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The Betsy 1978  R, 125 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Harold Robbins' The Betsy
Director: Daniel Petrie
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Robert Duvall, Katharine Ross, Tommy Lee Jones, Jane Alexander, Lesley-Anne Down, Joseph Wiseman, Kathleen Beller, Edward Herrmann, Paul Rudd
As retirement nears, an auto tycoon's family vies for power in the boardroom and at home.
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Better Living 1998  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Max Mayer
Cast: Olympia Dukakis, Roy Scheider, Edward Herrmann, Deborah Hedwall, Catherine Corpeny, Wendy Hoopes, James Villemaire, Phyllis Somerville, Scott Cohen, Jamie Gonzalez
When Tom (Roy Scheider) arrives home after a 15 year absence, he finds his nutty wife, Nora (Olympia Dukakis), digging a hole in the back yard. Tom takes the project one step further: this hole will be a family shelter, and their three grown daughters are assigned to help store canned goods for the future.
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Big Business 1988  PG, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jim Abrahams
Cast: Bette Midler, Lily Tomlin, Fred Ward, Edward Herrmann, Michele Placido, Barry Primus, Michael Gross, Deborah Rush, Nicolas Coster, Joe Grifasi
Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin and Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin are two sets of twins who get swapped at birth and, throughout the film, end up just missing each other. This could have been a better film with such talented stars. 2 User Reviews
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| | Anonymous 03/04/2008 | | I LOVE THIS MOVIE. IT IS TOO CUTE!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| | 01/18/2007 | | GREAT |
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Born Yesterday 1993 PG, 101 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Luis Mandoki
Cast: Melanie Griffith, Don Johnson, John Goodman, Edward Herrmann, Max Perlich, Michael Ensign, Ted Raimi, Fred Dalton Thompson, Benjamin C. Bradlee, Sally Quinn
This is a remake of the classic 1950 hit starring Judy Holliday. This time around, Melanie Griffith takes on the role of the delightful Billie Dawn. When she appears a little too dizzy to help her real estate tycoon lover, a tutor (Don Johnson) is hired to enlighten her. Watch the earlier version.
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The Cat's Meow 2001  PG-13, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Edward Herrmann, Eddie Izzard, Cary Elwes, Joanna Lumley, Jennifer Tilly, Claudia Harrison, Victor Slezak, Ronan Vibert, James Laurenson, Chiara Schoras, Claudie Blakley
Based on true events, this is a good fictionalized version of the scandal surrounding the death of producer Tom Ince (Cary Elwes) aboard William Randolph Hearst's (Edward Herrmann) yacht during a fancy gathering of celebrities hosted by Hearst and his mistress, Marion Davies (Kirsten Dunst). A scenario is presented of what may have occurred as the Hollywood elite are shown in their real colors.
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Compromising Positions 1985 R, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Frank Perry
Cast: Susan Sarandon, Raul Julia, Mary Beth Hurt, Edward Herrmann, Judith Ivey, Anne DeSalvo, Josh Mostel, Joe Mantegna, Joan Allen, Deborah Rush
Susan Isaacs wrote the screenplay for this film based on her novel of the same name. When a skirt-chasing dentist is murdered in New York, a local homemaker turns amateur sleuth. Some pretty good (black) humor keeps this from being a bomb.
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Critical Care 1997 R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Sidney Lumet
Cast: James Spader, Kyra Sedgwick, Helen Mirren, Margo Martindale, Jeffrey Wright, Wallace Shawn, Anne Bancroft, Albert Brooks, Philip Bosco, Edward Herrmann
Set in a hospital's intensive care unit where ethics have hit an all-time low, Dr. Werner Ernst (James Spader) deals with life and death as he decides between the hospital's callous world and a cry for humanitarian help.
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The Day of the Dolphin 1973 PG, 104 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mike Nichols
Cast: George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Paul Sorvino, Fritz Weaver, Jon Korkes, Edward Herrmann, John Dehner
A marine biologist, Dr. Jake Terrell (George C. Scott), trains dolphins to talk. His dolphins are stolen, and Terrell learns they are to be used in a plot to assassinate the President of the United States.
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Don't Drink the Water 1994 TV, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Michael J. Fox, Woody Allen, Mayim Bialik, Julie Kavner, Dom DeLuise, Edward Herrmann, Josef Sommer, Rosemary Murphy, Austin Pendleton, Robert(2) Stanton, Ed Herlihy, Ed Van Nuys
This is the TV adaptation of Woody Allen's 1960s Broadway comedy of an American family–the Hollanders (Woody Allen, Mayim Bailik, and Julie Kavner)–on vacation that is accused of spying while behind the Iron Curtain in the early 1960s. They take refuge in the American Embassy that is being run by the absent ambassador's worthless son Axel McGee (Michael J. Fox). Dated situations but still with funny moments. Previously filmed in 1969.
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 Double Take 2001  PG-13, 88 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: George Gallo
Cast: Orlando Jones, Eddie Griffin, Gary Grubbs, Daniel Roebuck, Sterling Macer Jr., Benny Nieves, Garcelle Beauvais, Andrea Navedo, Edward Herrmann, Shawn Elliott
When Daryl Chase (Orlando Jones) is framed for murder and wanted by both the FBI and a Mexican drug cartel, he takes Freddy Tiffany's (Eddie Griffin) passport as his means of escape. Too late, Daryl learns that Teddy is also a wanted man.
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Eleanor and Franklin 1976  TV, 210 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Daniel Petrie
Cast: Jane Alexander, Edward Herrmann, Rosemary Murphy, Pamela Franklin, Mackenzie Phillips, Lilia Skala, Ed Flanders, Linda Purl, Lindsay Crouse, David Huffman, Helen Kleeb, Peggy McCay, Anna Lee, Irene Tedrow, Linda Kelsey
The story of Eleanor and Franklin D. Roosevelt (Jane Alexander and Edward Herrmann) from Franklin's youth to his election to the presidency is based on Joseph P. Lash's Pulitzer Prize-winning book. Told in flashback while Eleanor prepares for Franklin's funeral, scenes include their lives growing up as cousins and then their marriage. Problems in the marriage are reflected on–including Franklin's domineering mother Sara (Rosemary Murphy) and his affair with Lucy Mercer (Linda Kelsey)–and good times are remembered as well. This made-for-TV spectacular won 11 Emmys, including Outstanding Special and Best Director, as well as one for Rosemary Murphy. A sequel that covers the presidential years follows.
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Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years 1977 TV, 150 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Daniel Petrie
Cast: Jane Alexander, Edward Herrmann, Rosemary Murphy, Walter McGinn, Blair Brown, David Healy, Peggy McCay, Donald Moffat, Mark Harmon, John Beal, Priscilla Pointer, Toni Damay, Barbara Conrad, Morgan Farley, Anna Lee
This sequel has most of the same cast and is every bit as good as the first one. It covers FDR's and Eleanor's (Edward Herrmann and Jane Alexander) years in the White House from 1933 to 1945. Told in flashback as Eleanor attends Franklin's funeral, the stories include Eleanor working for social reform, coming to the aid of polio-stricken Franklin, and learning how to deal with Franklin's domineering mother Sara (Rosemary Murphy). The stories also reflect on FDR pulling the country out of the Depression and his "Day of Infamy" speech in which he declares war on Japan. This sequel received Emmys for Best Director and Outstanding Special.
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The Emperor's Club 2002 PG-13, 109 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Hoffman
Cast: Kevin Kline, Emile Hirsch, Embeth Davidtz, Patrick Dempsey, Steven Culp, Rob Morrow, Edward Herrmann, Harris Yulin, Joel Gretsch, Paul Dano
Based on Ethan Canin's short story, "The Palace Thief," this plot revolves around the once-stormy relationship between a Classics teacher and his young student. Today, more than 25 years later, the now-retired teacher, William Hundert (Kevin Kline) and the student, Sedgewick Bell (Emile Hirsch), who is currently a CEO for a major corporation, reunite. Old problems rise to the surface.
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Factory Girl 2006 R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George Hickenlooper
Cast: Sienna Miller, Guy Pearce, Jimmy Fallon, Hayden Christensen, Mena Suvari, Shawn Hatosy, Illeana Douglas, Jack Huston, Armin Amiri, Tara Summers, Beth Grant, James Naughton, Edward Herrmann, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Don Novello
Debutante Edie Sedgwick (Sienna Miller) drops out of college in 1965 and heads to New York hoping to escape a past filled with family tragedies. She meets young Andy Warhol (Guy Pearce) who tells her he will make her a star and features her in a series of art films. Edie gains stardom–only to find problems dealing with success, losing her grip on reality, and spiraling down into the world of drug and alcohol abuse.
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A Foreign Field 1993 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Charles Sturridge
Cast: Alec Guinness, Leo McKern, Lauren Bacall, Geraldine Chaplin, Edward Herrmann, John Randolph, Jeanne Moreau, Dorothy Grumbar, Michelle Gheleyns-Hue, Cateline Alteirac
Fifty years after D-Day, British (Alec Guinness and Leo McKern) and American (John Randolph) veterans return to Normandy where they encounter each other while staying at the same hotel. Recalled memories turn animosity into friendship as past secrets are revealed.
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 The Great Gatsby 1974 PG, 146 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jack Clayton
Cast: Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Bruce Dern, Karen Black, Sam Waterston, Howard Da Silva, Edward Herrmann, Patsy Kensit, Scott Wilson, Lois Chiles
In this version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, Robert Redford takes on the role of Jay Gatsby who loves Daisy Buchanan (Mia Farrow) and believes that, if he is successful enough in business, Daisy will reciprocate his love.
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The Great Waldo Pepper 1975 PG, 108 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: George Roy Hill
Cast: Robert Redford, Bo Svenson, Bo Brundin, Susan Sarandon, Geoffrey Lewis, Edward Herrmann, Philip Bruns, Roderick Cook, Margot Kidder, Scott Newman
Barnstorming pilot Waldo Pepper (Robert Redford) really wishes he was back in World War I flying missions against the Germans. As an ex-war ace, he dreams of his dogfights in a bygone era.
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Intolerable Cruelty 2003 PG-13, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance / Drama
Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Cast: George Clooney, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Geoffrey Rush, Cedric the Entertainer, Edward Herrmann, Richard Jenkins, Billy Bob Thornton, Julia Duffy, Jonathan Hadary, Paul Adelstein, Tom Aldredge, Stacey Travis, Jack Kyle, Judith Drake, Irwin Keyes
When top-notch divorce lawyer Miles Massey (George Clooney) represented Marilyn Rexroth's (Catherine Zeta-Jones) philandering husband, Rex (Edward Herrmann), in their divorce, Rex came out the winner. Now, looking to recoup her losses, gold-digger Marilyn approaches Miles and asks him for a prenuptial agreement before her next marriage to wealthy, Texas oil man Howard D. Doyle (Billy Bob Thornton). Marilyn has plans to invalidate the prenuptial agreement and grab off Howard's assets. When Miles realizes what she has planned, he is mesmerized by her predatory powers and is drawn into his own, off-beat romance with her.
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A Little Sex 1982 R, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Bruce Paltrow
Cast: Tim Matheson, Kate Capshaw, Edward Herrmann, John Glover, Joan Copeland, Wallace Shawn, Bill Smitrovich, Susanna Dalton, Wendie Malick, Ronald Maccone
This inane story is about a husband (Tim Matheson) who just cannot seem to understand that marriage vows are serious, and cheating on one's wife is NOT part of the picture.
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 The Lost Boys 1987 R, 97 min.
Genre: Fantasy / Horror / Thriller / Comedy
Director: Joel Schumacher
Cast: Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Dianne Wiest, Barnard Hughes, Edward Herrmann, Kiefer Sutherland, Jami Gertz, Corey Feldman, Jamison Newlander, Brooke McCarter, Billy Wirth, Alex Winter, Nori Morgan, Chance Michael Corbitt, Alexander Bacon Chapman
Michael (Jason Patric) and Sam's (Corey Haim) family moves from Iowa to Santa Carla, California, where Michael immediately gets involved with a gang of vampires. When Sam notes something strange is going on, he gets help from his friends to retrieve Michael from the vampires' clutches.
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The Man with One Red Shoe 1985 PG, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy / Thriller
Director: Stan Dragoti
Cast: Tom Hanks, Dabney Coleman, Lori Singer, Charles Durning, Carrie Fisher, Edward Herrmann, James Belushi, Gerrit Graham, David Ogden Stiers, Irving Metzman, Tom Noonan, David L. Lander, Ritch Brinkley, Frank Hamilton, Dortha Duckworth
A CIA chief, Ross (Charles Durning), struggles for control, and rival chief Cooper (Dabney Coleman) stands in his way. Ross devises a scheme in which he randomly picks out a man with one red shoe, concert violinist Richard (Tom Hanks), and tells Cooper that the man is suspected of being a super-agent and that Cooper should keep a close eye on him. Cooper brings in Maddy (Lori Singer) to seduce Richard, and Richard falls in love with her–all of which leads to even more complications.
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Mrs. Soffel 1984 PG-13, 113 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Gillian Armstrong
Cast: Diane Keaton, Mel Gibson, Matthew Modine, Edward Herrmann, Jennifer Dundas, Trini Alvarado, Terry O'Quinn, Danny Corkill, Harley Cross, Pippa Pearthree
Taking place around the beginning of the 19th century, this film deals with the role of women. Mrs. Soffel (Diane Keaton) is a prison warden's wife who reads the Bible to her husband's convicts. Two prisoners (Mel Gibson and Matthew Modine) play on her sympathy, and she aids them in their escape.
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My Boyfriend's Back 1993 PG-13, 84 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Bob Balaban
Cast: Andrew Lowery, Traci Lind, Danny Zorn, Edward Herrmann, Mary Beth Hurt, Austin Pendleton, Jay O. Sanders, Libby Villari, Matthew Fox, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Johnny (Andrew Lowery) has loved Missy McCloud (Traci Lind), the most beautiful and popular girl in high school, since the first grade. But, being shy, he hasn't had the courage to ask her out. With the prom coming up, Johnny is about to ask her when he gets killed. Even this doesn't stop him, and he rises from the dead and takes her out. She even likes him more now that he is dead. Strange, but fun.
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The North Avenue Irregulars 1979 G, 99 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Bruce Bilson
Cast: Edward Herrmann, Barbara Harris, Susan Clark, Karen Valentine, Cloris Leachman, Patsy Kelly, Douglas Fowley, Alan Hale Jr., Ruth Buzzi, Michael Constantine
A minister and his group of church ladies clean up their town after racketeers set up their illegal business. Disney.
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Overboard 1987  PG, 112 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Garry Marshall
Cast: Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Edward Herrmann, Katherine Helmond, Mike Hagerty, Roddy McDowall, Jared Rushton, Frank Campanella, Harvey Miller, Hector Elizondo
The premise for this so-soer is that a wealthy woman falls off her yacht and survives–with amnesia. It does not work as well as it could.
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The Paper Chase 1973  PG, 111 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: James Bridges
Cast: Timothy Bottoms, John Houseman, Lindsay Wagner, Graham Beckel, Edward Herrmann, James Naughton, David Clennon, Lenny Baker, Craig Richard Nelson, Blair Brown, Robert Lydiard, Regina Baff, Irma Hurley, Bill Moher, Richard Whelan
Things are bad enough for struggling graduate student James T. Hart (Timothy Bottoms) attending Harvard Law School. However, his troubles are compounded when he falls in love with Susan (Lindsay Wagner) who just happens to be the daughter of his demanding law professor, Charles W. Kingsfield, Jr. (John Houseman). Houseman received an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor.
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The Purple Rose of Cairo 1985 PG, 82 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, Danny Aiello, Dianne Wiest, Van Johnson, Zoe Caldwell, John Wood, Milo O'Shea, Michael Tucker, Edward Herrmann
A movie hero (Jeff Daniels) stops action and steps out of a film and into the life of a bored housewife (Mia Farrow).
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Reds 1981 PG, 200 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Warren Beatty
Cast: Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Gene Hackman, Edward Herrmann, Maureen Stapleton, Jerzy Kosinski, Paul Sorvino, M. Emmet Walsh, Ian Wolfe, Nicolas Coster, Bessie Love, MacIntyre Dixon, Pat Starr, George Plimpton
This movie tells the story of the Russian Revolution and mixes in the love story of John and Louise (Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton) who are swept up in the momentum of change. Academy Awards were received by Warren Beatty for his directing and Maureen Stapleton for Best Supporting Actress. Nominations included Best Picture, Actor (Beatty), Actress (Keaton), and Supporting Actor (Jack Nicholson).
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Relative Strangers 2006 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Greg Glienna
Cast: Ron Livingston, Neve Campbell, Danny DeVito, Kathy Bates, Edward Herrmann, Christine Baranski, Bob Odenkirk, Ed Begley Jr., Martin Mull, Beverly D'Angelo, Debbi Morgan, Michael McKean, Tracey Walter
Staid, upper-class psychologist Dr. Richard Clayton (Ron Livingston) learns that he is adopted and sets out to find his birth parents. He is successful, but they turn out to be the unrefined and crude Agnes and Frank Menure (Kathy Bates and Danny DeVito), and Richard's orderly life takes a nightmarish turn. 1 User Review
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| | Laughed My Ass off | dmorey 02/10/2007 | | Really funny. Danny Devito is great. I really liked this film, a tiotal surprise. |
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Richie Rich 1994 PG, 95 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy
Director: Donald Petrie
Cast: Macaulay Culkin, John Larroquette, Edward Herrmann, Jonathan Hyde, Christine Ebersole, Michael McShane, Stephi Lineburg, Chelcie Ross, Mariangela Pino, Joel Robinson, Jonathan Hilario, Reggie Jackson, Claudia Schiffer, Wanda Christine, Ben Stein
Twelve-year-old Richie (Macaulay Culkin) is the richest kid in the world and has every toy he ever wanted, but he has no friends. Richie loves his parents, Richard and Regina (Edward Herrmann and Christine Ebersole), who hire Reggie Jackson to coach him, but Richie wants friends his own age to play with. Meanwhile, Lawrence Van Dough (John Larroquette), who works for Richie's dad, is plotting to kill Richard and Regina in order to become C.E.O. of the company. Now, Richie–with help from butler Cadbury (Jonathan Hyde), Prof. Keenbean (Michael McShane), and some kids his own age–puts together a plan to foil Van Dough's plot and save Richard and Regina.
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Vendetta 1999 R, 117 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Nicholas Meyer
Cast: Christopher Walken, Clancy Brown, Bruce Davison, Joaquim de Almeida, Edward Herrmann, Kenneth Welsh, Luke Askew, Richard Libertini, Andrea Di Stefano, Joel Gordon, Chris Benson, Wayne Robson, Pierrino Mascarino, Daragh O'Malley, Richard Blackburn
In the 1890s, cotton exporter James Houston (Christopher Walken) masterminds a plot to take over the New Orleans docks. When police chief David Hennessy (Clancy Brown) stands in the way, he is killed. As a result of the homicide, Sicilian immigrants who work on the New Orleans docks are rounded up for questioning. Eventually, nine go on trial, but all are acquitted. However, the populace does not agree with the verdicts, and a series of lynchings result. This made-for-HBO film is based on a true story.
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| 1. Annie (1982)
2. The Betsy (1978)
aka: Harold Robbins' The Betsy
3. Better Living (1998)
4. Big Business (1988)
5. Born Yesterday (1993)
6. The Cat's Meow (2001)
7. Compromising Positions (1985)
8. Critical Care (1997)
9. The Day of the Dolphin (1973)
10. Don't Drink the Water (1994)
11. Double Take (2001)
12. Eleanor and Franklin (1976)
13. Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years (1977)
14. The Emperor's Club (2002)
15. Factory Girl (2006)
16. A Foreign Field (1993)
17. The Great Gatsby (1974)
18. The Great Waldo Pepper (1975)
19. Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
20. A Little Sex (1982)
21. The Lost Boys (1987)
22. The Man with One Red Shoe (1985)
23. Mrs. Soffel (1984)
24. My Boyfriend's Back (1993)
25. The North Avenue Irregulars (1979)
26. Overboard (1987)
27. The Paper Chase (1973)
28. The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
29. Reds (1981)
30. Relative Strangers (2006)
31. Richie Rich (1994)
32. Vendetta (1999)
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