Bigfoot: The Unforgettable Encounter 1994  PG, 86 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Corey Michael Eubanks
Cast: Matt McCoy, Zachery Ty Bryan, David Rasche, Clint Howard, JoJo Adams, Crystal Chappell, Rance Howard, Neal Matarazzo, Janice Lynde, Dennis Singletary, Alan Wilder, Clay M. Lilley
For all the wrong reasons, tycoon Chaz Frederick (David Rasche) offers $1,000,000 for the capture of Bigfoot. But, in the meantime, 11-year-old Cody (Zachery Ty Bryan) got lost in the woods, Bigfoot saved him from a bear attack, and now they are friends. So, Cody does what any upstanding boy would do: he tries to ensure Bigfoot's freedom. Ranger Nick Clifton (Matt McCoy) steps in and supports an effort that would relocate Bigfoot to a wildlife sanctuary.
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A Crack in the Floor 2000   R, 90 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Sean Stanek, Corby Timbrook
Cast: Mario Lopez, Gary Busey, Bo Hopkins, Rance Howard, Roger Hewlett, Tracy Scoggins, Justine Priestley, Daisy McCrackin, Bentley Mitchum, David Naughton, Frank Collison, Bill Erwin
As a boy, Jeremiah watched his mother's (Tracy Scoggins) rape and murder. Since then, Jeremiah (Roger Hewlett) has lived alone in the mountains and allowed nobody to enter his world. Then, a group of college students out for a weekend of hiking and pot smoking wanders into Jeremiah's cabin, and Jeremiah dispenses of his unwanted guests, one-by-one, with a variety of weapons ranging from knife, to animal trap, to pick axe.
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Creator 1985  R, 108 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Ivan Passer
Cast: Peter O'Toole, Mariel Hemingway, Vincent Spano, Virginia Madsen, David Ogden Stiers, John Dehner, Karen Kopins, Kenneth Tigar, Ian Wolfe, Rance Howard
A Nobel Prize-winning biology professor, Doctor Harry Wolper (Peter O'Toole), is obsessed with the possibility of cloning his dead wife, Lucy (Karen Kopins), who died 30 years ago. To accomplish this feat, he gathers two assistants: an impressionable graduate student, Boris (Vincent Spano), and the eccentric undergraduate, Meli (Mariel Hemingway).
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Drillbit Taylor 2008 PG-13, 102 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Steven Brill
Cast: Owen Wilson, Leslie Mann, Troy Gentile, Nate Hartley, David Dorfman, Danny McBride, Josh Peck, Alex Frost, Stephen Root, Rance Howard, Casey Boersma, Dylan Boersma, Jareb Dauplaise, Ian Roberts, Lisa Ann Walter
High-school freshmen Emmit (David Dorfman), Ryan (Troy Gentile), and Wade (Nate Hartley) are picked on by a bully, Filkins (Alex Frost). To solve their problem, they hire a bodyguard, AWOL homeless soldier Drillbit Taylor (Owen Wilson), who–unknown to Emmit, Ryan, and Wade–is a scam artist planning to steal from the kids' parents. But, as Drillbit gets to know them, he begins to like the boys. He also meets English teacher Lisa (Leslie Mann) who he really likes. Now, Drillbit is learning that it isn't the money; instead, it is friendships that really matter in life.
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An Eye for an Eye 1966 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Western
aka: Talion
Director: Michael D. Moore
Cast: Robert Lansing, Patrick Wayne, Slim Pickens, Gloria Talbott, Paul Fix, Strother Martin, Henry Wills, Jerry Gatling, Rance Howard, Clint Howard, Herman Hack, George Sowards
Two handicapped bounty hunters Talion and Benny Wallace (Robert Lansing and Patrick Wayne)–one crippled, the other blind–join forces to track down the vicious killer who has double-crossed them and murdered one of the hunter's family members.
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Far and Away 1992  PG-13, 140 min.
Genre: Drama / Adventure / Romance
Director: Ron Howard
Cast: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Thomas Gibson, Robert Prosky, Barbara Babcock, Colm Meaney, Rance Howard, Clint Howard, Cyril Cusack, Michelle Johnson, Eileen Pollock, Douglas Gillison, Wayne Grace, Niall Toibin, Jared Harris
Spectacular scenery of Ireland forms the early backdrop of this film about Irish immigrants who come to America in the late 1800s in search of land. Tenant farmer Joseph Donnelly (Tom Cruise) is working in western Ireland when his father is killed during a protest against ruthless landowner Daniel Christie (Robert Prosky). Joseph seeks vengeance, but Daniel's daughter Shannon (Nicole Kidman) stabs Joseph. While he is recovering, Shannon convinces Joseph to join her on a trip to America to acquire land during the Oklahoma land rush. Shannon and Joseph set out on the voyage but encounter obstacles along the way. They finally arrive in Oklahoma and have fallen in love, but Shannon's father is now following them with plans to take Shannon back home to Ireland.
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Fearless 1993 R, 122 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Peter Weir
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Isabella Rossellini, Rosie Perez, Tom Hulce, John Turturro, Benicio Del Toro, Deirdre O'Connell, Rance Howard, John de Lancie, Spencer Vrooman, Daniel Cerny, Eve Roberts
The shock of a near-death experience affects the psyche of Max Klein (Jeff Bridges), and the only person he seems able to relate to is Carla Rodrigo (Rosie Perez) who was also in the same accident.
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Forced to Kill 1993 R, 93 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Russell Solberg
Cast: Corey Michael Eubanks, Michael Ironside, Rance Howard, Don Swayze, Mickey Jones, Clint Howard, Kari Whitman, Carl Ciarfalio, Cynthia J. Blessington, Alan Gelfant, Brian Avery, Cole S. McKay, Al Wyatt Jr.
Sheriff Wilson (Michael Ironside) kidnaps Johnny (Corey Michael Eubanks) and trains him to fight in an illegal bare-fisted boxing tournament that Wilson runs.
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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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Grand Theft Auto 1977 PG, 89 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Ron Howard
Cast: Ron Howard, Nancy Morgan, Peter Isacksen, Marion Ross, Barry Cahill, Elizabeth Rogers, Rance Howard, Paul Linke, Clint Howard, Don Steele, James Ritz, Hoke Howell
In this film, Ron Howard's directorial debut, Sam (Ron Howard) elopes with an heiress (Nancy Morgan) in her father's (Barry Cahill) Rolls Royce. Before long, her family and others are in hot pursuit.
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Gung Ho 1986  PG-13, 112 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Ron Howard
Cast: Michael Keaton, Gedde Watanabe, George Wendt, Mimi Rogers, John Turturro, Clint Howard, Rance Howard, Sab Shimono, Rick Overton, So Yamamura
This likable comedy highlights the differences in Japanese and American cultures. Hunt Stevenson (Michael Keaton) attempts to save his hometown by pleading with the Japanese to open an automobile plant. The Japanese finally do, and the plant workers must now adapt to the Japanese style of management.
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas 2000 PG, 102 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy / Drama / Fantasy
aka: Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Director: Ron Howard
Cast: Jim Carrey, Taylor Momsen, Anthony Hopkins, Jeffrey Tambor, Christine Baranski, Bill Irwin, Molly Shannon, Jeremy Howard, T.J. Thyne, Lacey Kohl, Clint Howard, Josh Ryan Evans, Rance Howard, Mindy Sterling, Rachel Winfree
Anthony Hopkins narrates this remake of the Dr. Seuss classic cartoon story based on the 1957 book. Jim Carrey stars as that despicable villain, the Grinch, who observes the residents of Whoville preparing to celebrate Christmas and plots to steal all the holiday celebration from them. But, young Cindy Lou Who (Taylor Momsen) sees goodness in the Grinch, tries to make friends with him, and melts his heart with kindness.
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Huckleberry Finn 1975 TV, 78 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Robert Totten
Cast: Ron Howard, Antonio Fargas, Jack Elam, Merle Haggard, Donny Most, Royal Dano, Dee Carroll, Rance Howard, Clint Howard, Jean Howard
This is a pretty good version of the Mark Twain classic tale. The Howard family plays many of the parts as Ron is Huck in this TV production. Fargas is the runaway slave Jim, as Huck and Jim raft down the Mississippi River. Most of the social bite of Twain's story is missing.
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The Lonely Guy 1984 R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Arthur Hiller
Cast: Steve Martin, Charles Grodin, Judith Ivey, Steve Lawrence, Robyn Douglass, Merv Griffin, Joyce Brothers, Julie Payne, Rance Howard, Erik Holland
Larry Hubbard is a writer who comes home one day to find his lover in bed with another man. He becomes the "Lonely Guy" and begins to write a book to help others as lonely as he is.
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Love Letters 1983 R, 98 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: My Love Letters
Passion Play
Director: Amy Holden Jones
Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis, James Keach, Amy Madigan, Matt Clark, Sally Kirkland, Rance Howard, Bud Cort, Bonnie Bartlett, Brian Wood, Phil Coccioletti, Larry Cedar
When Anna Winter (Jamie Lee Curtis) finds letters from a secret lover among her late mother's belongings, she begins her own illicit love affair with a married man.
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Miracle at Sage Creek 2005 PG, 81 min.
Genre: Family / Western
Director: James Intveld
Cast: David Carradine, Tim Abell, Irene Bedard, Wes Studi, Daniel Quinn, Sarah Aldrich, Darian Weiss, Masam Holden, Buck Taylor, Rance Howard, Wyatt Turner, Tanya Turner, Michael Parks, Martin Kove
Set in the Old West, this is the tale of two families, one led by Ike (David Carradine) who is at odds with neighbor John (Tim Abel) because John married a Sioux Indian. It was a Sioux who had killed Ike's wife years before, and the grudge against the Sioux continues. But, events require that the two families work together for survival in this family-oriented Western.
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 The Missing 2003 R, 138 min.
Genre: Drama / Adventure / Thriller / Western
Director: Ron Howard
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Cate Blanchett, Evan Rachel Wood, Eric Schweig, Jenna Boyd, Aaron Eckhart, Val Kilmer, Sergio Calderon, Jay Tavare, Steve Reevis, Rance Howard, Simon Baker
In 1885, Samuel (Tommy Lee Jones) returns to his home in New Mexico after a 20-year absence and finds that his daughter, Maggie (Cate Blanchett), needs him to track down Army deserters–led by an Aztec mystic, Chidin (Eric Schweig)–who have kidnapped Maggie's daughter. Father and daughter unite as they pursue Chidin in hopes of finding the young girl before she is sold to a prostitution ring across the border in Mexico.
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 The Music Man 1962  N/R, 151 min.
Genre: Family / Musical / Comedy / Romance
Director: Morton DaCosta
Cast: Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, Hermione Gingold, Paul Ford, Pert Kelton, Ron Howard, Charles(2) Lane, Mary Wickes, Rance Howard, Timmy Everett, Susan Luckey, Harry Hickox, William Fawcett, Percy Helton
Professor Harold Hill (Robert Preston) arrives in River City, Iowa, around 1900. He plans to work a scam on the citizens by forming a boys' marching band, but he falls in love with Marion (Shirley Jones) the librarian and changes his tune. Great Meredith Willson songs include "Seventy-Six Trombones," "Ya Got Trouble," "Gary, Indiana," "Till There Was You," "Marian the Librarian," and "Wells Fargo Wagon." An Oscar was awarded for Best Musical Score, and there were five nominations, including Best Picture.
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The Red Pony 1973 TV, 102 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Robert Totten
Cast: Henry Fonda, Ben Johnson, Maureen O'Hara, Lieux Dressler, Jack Elam, Clint Howard, Richard Jaeckel, Rance Howard, Julian Rivero, Victor Sen Yung
Pretty good TV remake of the John Steinbeck story about the stern father (Henry Fonda) and his son (Clint Howard) in the early 1900s. A pony for the boy is a way to demonstrate the father's love, which is hard for him to express in words.
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Scandal Sheet 1985 TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: David Lowell Rich
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Lauren Hutton, Pamela Reed, Robert Urich, Bobby DiCicco, Trey Wilson, Frances McDormand, Peter Jurasik, Penelope Windust, Rance Howard
Harold Fallen (Burt Lancaster) is the ruthless publisher of a tabloid, and now he is after Ben (Robert Urich)–an actor with an alcohol problem who is trying to make a comeback. Lancaster is very good as the despicable newspaperman.
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The Sender 1997 R, 98 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Richard Pepin
Cast: Michael Madsen, Robert Vaughn, R. Lee Ermey, Dyan Cannon, Shelli Lether, Steven Williams, Brian Bloom, Josh Clark, Erica Everage, Carlos Lauchu, Rance Howard, Richard Kuhlman, Arminae Austen, Francis Fallon, Ramsey Krull
An American fighter squadron encounters an alien spaceship in the Bermuda Triangle, and one plane is shot down. About 30 years later the plane is recovered, but government authorities do not allow the pilot's son, Dallas (Michael Madsen), to see it. Meanwhile, Dallas' daughter, Lisa (Erica Everage), is contacted by an alien woman (Shelli Lether) who teaches Lisa to use her psychic powers. Lisa is then captured by government agents who want to use her psychic abilities to help in future space flights. Dallas must now attempt to get his daughter back–with the help of the alien.
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Sergeant Bilko 1996 PG, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jonathan Lynn
Cast: Steve Martin, Dan Aykroyd, Phil Hartman, Glenne Headly, Max Casella, Daryl Mitchell, Eric Edwards, Chris Rock, Rance Howard, Dan Ferro, Austin Pendleton
"Sergeant Bilko" is reincarnated from the 1960s' TV series. In this film version, starring Steve Martin in the title role, Major Thorn (Phil Hartman) is Bilko's nemesis as he plots revenge for being bilked over a boxing match 15 years ago.
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Skyward 1980 TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ron Howard
Cast: Bette Davis, Howard Hesseman, Marion Ross, Clu Gulager, Ben Marley, Lisa Whelchel, Suzy Gilstrap, Jana Hall, Mark Wheeler, Rance Howard
Billie (Bette Davis), a retired barnstormer, is a flight instructor at a small Texas airport. When wheelchair-bound Julie (Suzy Gilstrap), shows up with a desire to fulfill her dreams of flying, Billie, over the objections of Julie's family and friends, agrees to take on the training of the girl. Made for TV.
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 The Toolbox Murders 2004 R, 95 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Tobe Hooper
Cast: Angela Bettis, Brent Roam, Juliet Landau, Rance Howard, Marco Rodriguez, Sara Downing, Greg Travis, Adam Gierasch, Christopher Doyle, Adam Weisman, Alan Polonsky
In this loose remake of the 1978 film with the same name, Nell and Steven (Angela Bettis and Brent Roam) move into a cheap apartment complex that is sorely in need of repair, and most of the inhabitants appear to be strange. When a series of gruesome murders–accomplished by the use of toolbox hardware (hammers, saws, etc.)– begins, Nell tries to find out what is going on.
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Traveller 1997 R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jack N. Green
Cast: Bill Paxton, Julianna Margulies, Mark Wahlberg, James Gammon, Luke Askew, Nikki Deloach, Vincent Chase, Michael Shaner, Danielle Keaton, Rance Howard
"Traveller" refers to an Irish clan of con men who traverse the Southern states of America. In this story, Bokky (Bill Paxton) and Pat (Mark Wahlberg) go on the road, working their various scams. Along the way, Bokky falls for Jean (Julianna Margulies), and when her daughter needs money for an operation, Bokky and Pat devise a complicated scam with a balding and fat Bimbo (Vincent Chase) as the intended mark.
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Universal Soldier 1992 R, 104 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Sci-Fi
Director: Roland Emmerich
Cast: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren, Ally Walker, Ed O'Ross, Jerry Orbach, Leon Rippy, Drew Snyder, Rance Howard, Tico Wells, Ralf Moeller, Robert Tebor, Gene Davis, Tommy "Tiny" Lister, Simon Rhee, Eric Norris
Body parts of deceased soldiers Luc Deveraux and Andrew Scott from the Vietnam War are used to construct androids GR44 and GR13 (Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren). When TV reporter Veronica Roberts (Ally Walker) unravels the story, memories come back, and the two androids remember that they were once mortal enemies.
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Where Truth Lies 1996 R, 92 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: William H. Molina
Cast: John Savage, Kim Cattrall, Malcolm McDowell, Candice Daly, Eric Pierpoint, Sam J. Jones, Denis Forest, David St. James, Timothy Patrick Quill, Rance Howard, Barry Lee Pearl, Jean Speegle Howard
Now here's a bizarre film. A psychiatrist, Dr. Ian Lazarre (John Savage), sinks into depression and drinking after his wife's death in an alcohol-related car accident, though he has remarried to a woman who looks just like his dead wife. He is talked into going to a rehab center that specializes in using experimental drugs. But the head of the institution, Dr. Renquist (Malcolm McDowell), is out to get Ian; in fact, Renquist murdered Ian's first wife–and staged the car accident–out of jealousy and now intends to take care of Ian.
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The Wild Country 1971 G, 100 min.
Genre: Family
aka: The Newcomers
Director: Robert Totten
Cast: Steve Forrest, Vera Miles, Jack Elam, Ron Howard, Frank DeKova, Morgan Woodward, Clint Howard, Dub Taylor, Karl Swenson, Rance Howard
This Disney film involves the Tanner family relocating from Pittsburgh to the Wyoming wilderness where they face tornadoes, fire, a fight for water rights, and other adversities. All ends well.
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The 'burbs 1989 PG, 101 min.
Genre: Comedy / Action / Horror
Director: Joe Dante
Cast: Tom Hanks, Rick Ducommun, Carrie Fisher, Bruce Dern, Corey Feldman, Wendy Schaal, Henry Gibson, Gale Gordon, Dick Miller, Brother Theodore, Courtney Gains, Robert Picardo, Rance Howard, Franklyn Ajaye, Cory Danziger
Ray and Carol Peterson (Tom Hanks and Carrie Fisher) spend what they had hoped would be a quiet week in their suburban home when Ray notices that new neighbors, the Klopeks (Henry Gibson, Brother Theodore, and Courtney Gains), are behaving strangely. Ray and his best friend Art (Rick Ducommun), along with other neighbors, pry into the Klopeks' activities and suspect that gruesome activities are being carried out by the Klopeks.
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| 1. Bigfoot: The Unforgettable Encounter (1994)
2. A Crack in the Floor (2000)
3. Creator (1985)
4. Drillbit Taylor (2008)
5. Eat My Dust! (1976)
6. Ed and His Dead Mother (1993)
7. An Eye for an Eye (1966)
aka: Talion
8. Far and Away (1992)
9. Fearless (1993)
10. Forced to Kill (1993)
11. Georgia Rule (2007)
12. Grand Theft Auto (1977)
13. Gung Ho (1986)
14. How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
aka: Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas
15. Huckleberry Finn (1975)
16. The Lonely Guy (1984)
17. Love Letters (1983)
aka: My Love Letters
aka: Passion Play
18. Miracle at Sage Creek (2005)
19. The Missing (2003)
20. The Music Man (1962)
21. The Red Pony (1973)
22. Scandal Sheet (1985)
23. The Sender (1997)
24. Sergeant Bilko (1996)
25. Skyward (1980)
26. The Toolbox Murders (2004)
27. Traveller (1997)
28. Universal Soldier (1992)
29. Where Truth Lies (1996)
30. The Wild Country (1971)
aka: The Newcomers
31. The 'burbs (1989)
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