 Beaches 1988   PG, 123 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Garry Marshall
Cast: Bette Midler, Barbara Hershey, John Heard, Spalding Gray, Lainie Kazan, Joe Grifasi, James Read, Grace Johnston, Bo Sabato, Marcie Leeds
Two lifelong friends (Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey) reunite when one of them is threatened with a fatal illness. Terrific music includes "Wind Beneath My Wings" and "Under the Boardwalk." 1 User Review
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| | taco 10/19/2009 | | There isn't one bad thing i could say about this movie. Everytime i watch it, it not only makes me cry but it makes me work even harder in wanting to fulfill my dreams in the dancing and music industry. The only thing that is stopping me is where to get noticed. One thing is for sure my children will grow up loving BEtte Midler as much as I do. You are such an inspiration. Keep up the great work as you have done in the past. Your work will not got frogotten, espesially in my family. |
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 Chicken Little 2005 G, 77 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy
Director: Mark Dindal
Cast: Zach Braff, Garry Marshall, Don Knotts, Patrick Stewart, Amy Sedaris, Steve Zahn, Joan Cusack, Wallace Shawn, Harry Shearer, Fred Willard, Catherine O'Hara, Patrick Warburton
One year ago, Chicken Little (voice of Zach Braff) caused panic in his Oakey Oaks community when he told everyone that a piece of the sky landed on his head. Matters have quieted down, but now Chicken Little gets hit on the head again–this time by a piece of a spaceship–and he is afraid to tell even his own dad, Buck Cluck (voice of Garry Marshall). But, it isn't long before Chicken Little and his friends are involved in an intergalactic war to save the world.
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Dear God 1996  PG, 112 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Garry Marshall
Cast: Greg Kinnear, Laurie Metcalf, Tim Conway, Hector Elizondo, Rue McClanahan, Maria Pitillo, Jon Seda, Roscoe Lee Browne, Anna Maria Horsford, Kathleen Marshall, Donal Logue, Felix Pire, Isadora O'Boto, Sam McMurray, Nancy Marchand
When it is discovered that postal employee Tom (Greg Kinnear) has taken it upon himself to answer letters written to God, Santa Claus, and the Easter Bunny, he gets fame and notoriety from the press but is charged by authorities with mail fraud.
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Exit to Eden 1994  R, 113 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Garry Marshall
Cast: Dan Aykroyd, Rosie O'Donnell, Dana Delany, Paul Mercurio, Hector Elizondo, Iman, Stuart Wilson, Donna Dixon, Rosemary Forsyth, John Schneider
Eden is a private resort where the staff aims to fulfill sexual fantasies. While there is no disputing that this film has sex, what it is lacking is full use of the comedic talent at hand. However, the time viewing will not be entirely wasted as Rosie O'Donnell and Dan Aykroyd do not disappoint.
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The Flamingo Kid 1984  PG-13, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Garry Marshall
Cast: Matt Dillon, Richard Crenna, Jessica Walter, Hector Elizondo, Molly McCarthy, Martha Gehman, John Turturro, Frank Campanella, Joe Grifasi, Marisa Tomei, Carole Davis, Janet Jones, Brian McNamara, Fisher Stevens, Leon
When a Brooklyn youth, Jeffrey Willis (Matt Dillon), takes a summer job at a New York beach resort, he is confronted with a glamorous world of which he had no knowledge and must make choices that will affect his life. Among the influences is wealthy car salesman Phil Brody (Richard Crenna) who tries to help Jeffrey. Jeffrey is very impressed by Brody's lifestyle and reputation as a gin rummy champion. Meanwhile, Jeffrey's father Arthur (Hector Elizondo) is upset when Jeffrey takes on airs while enjoying his new lifestyle.
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Frankie and Johnny 1991  R, 118 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Garry Marshall
Cast: Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Hector Elizondo, Nathan Lane, Kate Nelligan, Jane Morris, Greg Lewis, Glenn Plummer, Harvey Miller, K Callan, Al Fann, Ele Keates
Based on Terrence McNally's great play, this movie adaptation is about the romance of cynical waitress Frankie (Michelle Pfeiffer) and just-released-from-prison short-order cook Johnny (Al Pacino). 1 User Review
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| | More than the sum of its parts | 1fatts 10/28/2007 | There are reasons this film should not work. It does not transfer well from its theatrical origins: there are "speeches" that are too clearly "speeches"; too many characters are stereotypical "New York menagerie of mankind." The ending is cornball by anyone's standards.
And yet the film DOES work, by and large. Credit to a really good cast and a more quiet control of tone and pacing than one generally expects from Garry Marshall. True, Michelle Pfeiffer is too pretty for the part, but she projects a quiet, sad emptiness which is convincing, even moving, and forms the center of the piece. And, true, Al Pacino can't quite pull off an optimistic innocent, but he is genuinely likable, and you pull for him.
We are ready to extend our suspension of disbelief a little farther than we might usually do because these are characters we care for, people who have not had an easy time of it and could use a break; and we are willing to gloss over the sit-com slickness of some of it to allow them the break. We would really like them to have a shot at doing better.
. . . and it helps if you like Clair de lune. |
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 Georgia Rule 2007 R, 113 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy / Romance
Director: Garry Marshall
Cast: Jane Fonda, Lindsay Lohan, Felicity Huffman, Dermot Mulroney, Garrett Hedlund, Cary Elwes, Hector Elizondo, Dylan MacLaughlin, Zachary Gordon, Laurie Metcalf, Tereza Stanislav, Fred Applegate, Rance Howard
Seventeen-year-old Rachel (Lindsay Lohan) has rebelled one too many times, and now her alcoholic mother, Lilly (Felicity Huffman), leaves San Francisco and takes her spoiled daughter to grandmother Georgia's (Jane Fonda) home in the Mormon town of Hull, Idaho, to spend the summer. Although Georgia lays down her "Georgia Rules" to enforce good behavior, Rachel still manages to shake up the townsfolk but, in the process, learns compassion and understanding for her mother and grandmother.
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Keeping Up with the Steins 2006 PG-13, 85 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Scott Marshall
Cast: Jami Gertz, Daryl Hannah, Garry Marshall, Jeremy Piven, Doris Roberts, Daryl Sabara, Cheryl Hines, Richard Benjamin, Marc John Jefferies, Tom Hines, Carter Jenkins, Sandra Taylor, Miranda Cosgrove, Larry Miller
As his bar mitzvah nears, 13-year-old Benjamin Fiedler (Jami Gertz) is not thrilled that over-the-top party plans are the order of the day. Then Benjamin's ponytailed grandfather (Garry Marshall) shows up early with his air-head girlfriend (Daryl Hannah), and problems in the dysfunctional family rise to the fore as the difference in lifestyles between Benjamin's business-oriented father (Jeremy Piven) and his free-spirited grandfather cause a rift. Can Benjamin reunite his relatives in time for the bar mitzvah?
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A League of Their Own 1992 PG, 124 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy
Director: Penny Marshall
Cast: Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Lori Petty, Madonna, Rosie O'Donnell, Megan Cavanagh, Tracy Reiner, David Strathairn, Garry Marshall, Bill Pullman, Tea Leoni, Jon Lovitz, Bitty Schram, Don S. Davis, Ann Cusack
During World War II, the All-American Girls' Professional Baseball League was formed to make up for the dearth of men playing the sport. This is the story of one team in the league, the Rockford Peaches, and centers on Oregon sisters Dottie and Kit (Geena Davis and Lori Petty) who come to Chicago to play ball. Other players who also make the team include Mae Mordabito (Madonna), Doris Murphy (Rosie O'Donnell), and Marla Hooch (Megan Cavanagh). The team's owner (Garry Marshall) picks ex-baseball star Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks), who ruined his career with alcoholism, as the manager. Training begins, Dugan stops drinking, and the underdog team works hard and gains success.
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The Long Ride Home 2001 PG-13, 90 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Robert Marcarelli
Cast: Randy Travis, Eric Roberts, Ernest Borgnine, Garry Marshall, Stella Stevens, Paul Tinder, Jerry Doyle, Alec Medlock, Sam Dolan, Vaughn Taylor
Jack (Randy Travis) survived the Civil War, but can he survive the posse that is on his trail? After a drunken man takes him for a notorious gunslinger, Jack kills the man in self defense and is now on the run. Will justice prevail? Will the real gunslinger show up? Is that Ernest Borgnine as the head of the posse?
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Lost in America 1985  R, 91 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Albert Brooks
Cast: Albert Brooks, Julie Hagerty, Garry Marshall, Art Frankel, Tom Tarpey, Maggie Roswell, Ernie Brown, Michael Greene
When an advertisement executive doesn't get the promotion he has been waiting for all his life, he and his wife decide to take their life savings, buy a motor home, and roam the country. Some very funny scenes in this movie evolve as their dream of escaping reality becomes a nightmare.
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 Never Been Kissed 1999 PG-13, 107 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Raja Gosnell
Cast: Drew Barrymore, Molly Shannon, David Arquette, Michael Vartan, John C. Reilly, Garry Marshall, Leelee Sobieski, Jeremy Jordan, Marley Shelton, Sarah DeVincentis
Josie Geller (Drew Barrymore) is now a 25-year-old newspaper copy editor, but she never got over the stress of her high-school years–UNTIL she is given an assignment to go undercover and pose as a high-school student. Through the experience of returning to her past, she finally repairs her teen psyche.
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Nothing in Common 1986 PG, 118 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Garry Marshall
Cast: Jackie Gleason, Tom Hanks, Eva Marie Saint, Bess Armstrong, Hector Elizondo, Barry Corbin, Sela Ward, John Kapelos, Tracy Reiner, Dan Castellaneta
This film combines insight and comedy into a difficult situation. After a long marriage, a son's parents are divorcing because they have nothing in common–except for the son from whom they both expect attention.
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 The Other Sister 1999  PG-13, 130 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Garry Marshall
Cast: Juliette Lewis, Diane Keaton, Tom Skerritt, Giovanni Ribisi, Poppy Montgomery, Sarah Paulson, Linda Thorson, Joe Flanigan, Juliet Mills, Hector Elizondo
The Tate Family–perfectionist mom Elizabeth (Diane Keaton), dad Radley (Tom Skerritt), mentally challenged sister Carla (Juliette Lewis), and workaholic lesbian sister Heather (Sarah Paulson)–goes into a crisis mode when 24-year-old Carla returns from a specialized boarding school in pursuit of a life of her own. She attends a vocational school where she meets and falls for Danny as her family disagrees about Carla's potential as a mentally handicapped person.
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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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 Pretty Woman 1990 R, 119 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Garry Marshall
Cast: Richard Gere, Julia Roberts, Ralph Bellamy, Laura San Giacomo, Jason Alexander, Alex Hyde-White, Amy Yasbeck, Elinor Donahue, Hector Elizondo, Hank Azaria, Nancy Locke, Judith Baldwin, Jason Randal, Bill Applebaum, Tracy Bjork
Ruthless businessman Edward Lewis (Richard Gere) picks up streetwalker Vivian Ward (Julia Roberts) for a one-night stand, which turns out to be an entire week when he decides to use her as his partner for a number of business dinners. Like Cinderella, her transformation is a combination of new clothes–from Rodeo Drive shops–and her own natural appealing personality. Roberts received an Oscar nomination.
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 The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement 2004 G, 115 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy / Romance
Director: Garry Marshall
Cast: Anne Hathaway, Julie Andrews, Hector Elizondo, John Rhys-Davies, Heather Matarazzo, Chris Pine, Callum Blue, Kathleen Marshall, Tom Poston, Joel McCrary, Kim Thompson, Raven-Symone, Sean O'Bryan, Caroline Goodall, Larry Miller
In this sequel to "The Princess Diaries," Mia (Anne Hathaway) is now turning 21, has finished college, and her grandmother Queen Clarisse Renaldi (Julie Andrews) is preparing to step down and relinquish the throne of Genovia to Mia. There is one problem: Genovia law requires that their queen be married. Now, Mia is given 30 days in which to find a husband. Will it be the charming Andrew (Callum Blue), or will Mia choose dashing Nicholas (Chris Pine) who has had his eye on the throne?
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 The Princess Diaries 2001 G, 115 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy / Romance
Director: Garry Marshall
Cast: Julie Andrews, Anne Hathaway, Hector Elizondo, Heather Matarazzo, Mandy Moore, Caroline Goodall, Robert Schwartzman, Erik von Detten, Sean O'Bryan, Sandra Oh, Patrick Flueger, Kathleen Marshall, Mindy Burbano, Kimleigh Smith, Beth Anne Garrison
Gangly 15-year-old Mia Thermopolis (Anne Hathaway) and her best friend Lilly (Heather Matarazzo) are high school misfits, but Mia has her eye on cute Josh (Erik von Detten). Mia's grandmother, Queen Clarisse Renaldi (Julie Andrews), comes to town and informs Mia that she is the real-life Princess of Genovia, which is a small European nation between France and Spain. Queen Clarisse begins the difficult task of tutoring Mia in social graces to prepare her for her place on the throne, and Clarisse's security chief Joe (Hector Elizondo) also provides assistance in readying Mia for her position of royalty. Now, Mia must decide whether to leave the U.S. to take over her new role or stay in San Francisco.
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Psych-Out 1968   N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Richard Rush
Cast: Susan Strasberg, Dean Stockwell, Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Adam Roarke, Max Julien, Henry Jaglom, Linda Gaye Scott, Ken Scott, Garry Marshall
This film gets its "1/2 star" rating only because it is an EARLY Jack Nicholson film. However, the plot is weak and involves a deaf girl (Susan Strasberg) searching for her brother among the 1960's "hippies" of San Francisco. Of course, some of those who were part of that culture may enjoy it. 1 User Review
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Race to Witch Mountain 2009 PG, 99 min.
Genre: Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Comedy
Director: Andy Fickman
Cast: Dwayne Johnson, AnnaSophia Robb, Alexander Ludwig, Carla Gugino, Ciaran Hinds, Tom Everett Scott, Chris Marquette, Billy Brown, Garry Marshall, Kim Richards, Ike Eisenmann, Cheech Marin, Tom Woodruff Jr., John Duff, Bob Koherr
Once a mob runner, Jack Bruno (Dwayne Johnson) is now happy to be out of the business and driving a cab in Las Vegas. One day, teenagers Sara (AnnaSophia Robb) and Seth (Alexander Ludwig) appear in the back seat of Jack's taxi, give him a big wad of cash, and ask to be driven to the desert. Jack thinks there is something peculiar about Sara and Seth but takes the money and sets out on the trek. It turns out that Sara and Seth are space aliens trying to reach Witch Mountain where their space ship awaits. But, the trip will not be easy and will involve black cars chasing them with government agents, led by Henry Burke (Ciaran Hinds), and even an alien assassin in hot pursuit.
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 Raising Helen 2004 PG-13, 119 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Garry Marshall
Cast: Kate Hudson, John Corbett, Joan Cusack, Hayden Panettiere, Spencer Breslin, Abigail Breslin, Helen Mirren, Sakina Jaffrey, Kevin Kilner, Felicity Huffman, Sean O'Bryan, Amber Valletta
Helen Harris (Kate Hudson) takes over the guardianship of her sister's three children and finds that, despite having to change her nightclub lifestyle, family is what really matters.
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 Runaway Bride 1999 PG, 116 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Garry Marshall
Cast: Julia Roberts, Richard Gere, Joan Cusack, Hector Elizondo, Rita Wilson, Paul Dooley, Christopher Meloni, Reg Rogers, Yul Vazquez, Jean Schertler, Donal Logue, Jane Morris, Lisa Roberts Gillan, Tom Hines, Kathleen Marshall
When New York columnist Ike Graham (Richard Gere) publishes a story about a bride who gets skittish at the altar and has left grooms standing in her wake the real "bride" Maggie Carpenter (Julia Roberts) sends Ike's editor a scathing letter that results in Ike getting fired. Ike heads for Maggie's hometown hoping to write about her next wedding fiasco. What he doesn't count on is falling in love with Maggie himself.
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Soapdish 1991 PG-13, 96 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Michael Hoffman
Cast: Sally Field, Kevin Kline, Robert Downey Jr., Cathy Moriarty, Whoopi Goldberg, Elisabeth Shue, Carrie Fisher, Garry Marshall, Teri Hatcher, Kathy Najimy, Arne Nannestad, Paul Johansson, Sheila Kelley, Leeza Biggons, John Tesh
This movie is a parody of personal lives of soap opera stars' personal lives. Leading lady Celeste Talbut (Sally Field), "Soap Queen," has problems keeping her professional status and living in the real world. This film works in pointing out the large egos of stars who work in the relatively unimportant field of daytime soap operas.
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The Twilight of the Golds 1997 PG-13, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ross Kagan Marks
Cast: Garry Marshall, Faye Dunaway, Jill Bernstein, Mark Shunkey, Jennifer Beals, Brendan Fraser, Jon Tenney, Sean O'Bryan, John Schlesinger, Rosie O'Donnell
Phyllis Gold (Faye Dunaway) has a genetic test performed on her unborn child and discovers that he will be predisposed to homosexuality. Her problem: whether or not to undergo an abortion.
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Young Doctors in Love 1982 R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Garry Marshall
Cast: Michael McKean, Sean Young, Harry Dean Stanton, Patrick Macnee, Hector Elizondo, Dabney Coleman, Pamela Reed, Taylor Negron, Saul Rubinek, Ted McGinley
This satire on a string of hospital soap operas features gags that might fill a half-hour sitcom, but it fails as a feature-length production.
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| 1. Beaches (1988)
2. Chicken Little (2005)
3. Dear God (1996)
4. Exit to Eden (1994)
5. The Flamingo Kid (1984)
6. Frankie and Johnny (1991)
7. Georgia Rule (2007)
8. Keeping Up with the Steins (2006)
9. A League of Their Own (1992)
10. The Long Ride Home (2001)
11. Lost in America (1985)
12. Never Been Kissed (1999)
13. Nothing in Common (1986)
14. The Other Sister (1999)
15. Overboard (1987)
16. Pretty Woman (1990)
17. The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004)
18. The Princess Diaries (2001)
19. Psych-Out (1968)
20. Race to Witch Mountain (2009)
21. Raising Helen (2004)
22. Runaway Bride (1999)
23. Soapdish (1991)
24. The Twilight of the Golds (1997)
25. Young Doctors in Love (1982)
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