 Big 1988  PG, 104 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy / Drama / Fantasy / Romance
Director: Penny Marshall
Cast: Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins, Jared Rushton, Robert Loggia, John Heard, David Moscow, Jon Lovitz, Mercedes Ruehl, Rockets Redglare, Tracy Reiner, Josh Clark, Kimberlee M. Davis, Oliver Block, Allan Wasserman, Gary Howard Klar
Annie Spielberg (Steven's talented sister) co-wrote the good screenplay about 13-year-old Josh (David Moscow) who goes to a fortune-telling machine and makes a wish to be "big." Upon waking the next morning, Josh (now played by Tom Hanks) finds that his wish has come true, and he must now cope with the responsible world of adults until he can become a kid again. Tom Hanks is great and was nominated for an Oscar.
|  | |
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids 1989  PG, 86 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Joe Johnston
Cast: Rick Moranis, Matt Frewer, Marcia Strassman, Kristine Sutherland, Thomas Wilson Brown, Jared Rushton, Amy O'Neill, Lou Cutell, Robert Oliveri, Mark L. Taylor
While inventor Wayne Szalinski (Rick Moranis) is lecturing on his latest invention, neighborhood kids get caught by his molecule reducing machine and end up being only 1/4th inch tall.
| | |
Lady in White 1988  PG-13, 110 min.
Genre: Mystery / Thriller
Director: Frank LaLoggia
Cast: Lukas Haas, Len Cariou, Alex Rocco, Katherine Helmond, Jason Presson, Renata Vanni, Angelo Bertolini, Jared Rushton, Gregory Levinson, Joelle Jacobi, Lucy Lee Flippin, Tom Bower
One Halloween night, schoolboy Frankie (Lukas Haas) is locked in a classroom where he witnesses the reenactment of young Amanda's (Katherine Helmond) murder years ago. Then, he and Amanda's ghost work together to solve not only her murder but those of nine other children as well.
| | |
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.
| | |
Pet Sematary II 1992  R, 102 min.
Genre: Horror / Action / Thriller
Director: Mary Lambert
Cast: Edward Furlong, Jason McGuire, Clancy Brown, Anthony Edwards, Jared Rushton, Darlanne Fluegel, Robert Easton, Jason McGuire, Reid Binion, Sarah Trigger, Lisa Waltz, Jim Peck, Len Hunt, David Ratajczak, Lucius Houghton
After his mother, Renee (Darlanne Fluegel), is electrocuted and dies, teenager Jeff (Edward Furlong) and his father Chase (Anthony Edwards) move to Ludlow, Maine, where they hope to start life anew. Jeff hears stories about an Indian burial ground where pets come back to life and makes friends with Drew (Jason McGuire). When Drew's father Gus (Clancy Brown) kills Drew's dog Zowie, Jeff and Drew bury Zowie in the Indian burial ground. Zowie comes back to life and kills Gus. Now, Jeff, hoping for another life-after-death experience, thinks about how he can bring his mother back to life by burying her in the same burial ground .
| | |
| 1. Big (1988)
2. Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989)
3. Lady in White (1988)
4. Overboard (1987)
5. Pet Sematary II (1992)
In The News
|
