This "To Ma'am with Love" is much more an escapist popcorn movie than the inner-city document its marketing suggested. Michelle Pfeiffer plays real-life former Marine Louanne Johnson, a high school English teacher who meets resistance from kids and administration alike at a tough urban school in Northern California. Pfeiffer is good and her character's overall development even survives various ...

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm
Starring: Michelle Pfeiffer, George Dzundza, Courtney B. Vance, Robin Bartlett, Beatrice Winde
Directed By: John N. Smith

In Jacob's Ladder, Vietnam veteran Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins) thinks he is going insane. Or worse. When his nightmares begin spilling into his waking hours, Jacob believes he is experiencing the after-effects of a powerful drug tested on him during Vietnam. Or perhaps his post-traumatic stress disorder is worse than most. Whatever is happening to him, it's not good. Director Adrian Lyne ...

Manufacturer: 4 Front Video
Starring: Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peña, Danny Aiello, Matt Craven, Pruitt Taylor Vince
Directed By: Adrian Lyne

Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video
Starring: Ross Kemp, Steve McFadden, Barbara Windsor, Anna Barkan, Paul Bradley (VI)
Directed By: Chris Miller (XIII), Rob Evans, Paul Wroblewski, Philip Casson, Bill Gilmour

Manufacturer: Pathe Distribution
Starring: Robert De Niro, Greg Kinnear, Rebecca Romijn, Cameron Bright, Merwin Mondesir
Directed By: Nick Hamm

Manufacturer: Adv Films
Starring: Megumi Ogata, Megumi Hayashibara, Kotono Mitsuishi, Spike Spencer, Allison Keith
Directed By: Hiroyuki Ishidô, Kazuya Tsurumaki, Keiichi Sugiyama, Masahiko Ôtsuka, Masayuki

Manufacturer: Adv Films
Starring: Megumi Ogata, Megumi Hayashibara, Kotono Mitsuishi, Spike Spencer, Allison Keith
Directed By: Hiroyuki Ishidô, Kazuya Tsurumaki, Keiichi Sugiyama, Masahiko Ôtsuka, Masayuki

Manufacturer: Abbey Home Media
Starring: Cam Clarke, Barry Gordon, Rob Paulsen, Renae Jacobs, Jim Cummings

After a career slump that plagued him through most of the 1980s, Al Pacino made a stellar comeback in this taut 1989 thriller, playing a weary New York police detective who falls in love with the woman (Ellen Barkin) who is the prime suspect in the murder case he's investigating. Expertly written by Richard Price and directed by Harold Becker, the story is designed to keep its central characters ...

Manufacturer: 4 Front Video
Starring: Al Pacino, Ellen Barkin, John Goodman, Michael Rooker, William Hickey
Directed By: Harold Becker

Frequently given short shrift as soft porn (which it is) and as mindless (which it isn't), director Adrian Lyne's follow-up to Flashdance (insert own joke here) is a thoughtful, smutty film about a bad sexual relationship. It follows the two-month affair between Elizabeth, an art-gallery dealer, and John, a Wall Street executive. The relationship spirals downward into raunchier sex (filmed, ...

Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Starring: Mickey Rourke, Kim Basinger, Margaret Whitton, David Margulies, Christine Baranski
Directed By: Adrian Lyne

For better or worse, David Mamet's hit play Sexual Perversity in Chicago is watered down into this romantic comedy about a couple (played by Rob Lowe and Demi Moore) who get together and then fall apart due to Lowe's character's inability to commit. Jim Belushi is on hand as the gratuitously swinish best friend who looks at women as meat, and Elizabeth Perkins is entertainingly arch as ...

Manufacturer: 4 Front Video
Starring: Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, James Belushi, Elizabeth Perkins, George DiCenzo
Directed By: Edward Zwick