Manufacturer: Entertainment in VideoStarring: Courteney Cox, David Arquette, David James Elliott, Carol Kane, Kimberley DaviesDirected By: Richard Benjamin
We Were Soldiers, based on the bestselling account of the battle of La Drang valley at the outset of the Vietnam War, is the latest Mel Gibson Braveheart-esque offering where plot and characterisation, rather than the men who lost their lives in the conflict, are the most serious casualties. The story follows Lt. Colonel Hal Moore (Gibson) and his platoon through a brief spell at ...
Manufacturer: Icon Home EntertainmentStarring: Mel Gibson, Madeleine Stowe, Greg Kinnear, Sam Elliott, Chris KleinDirected By: Randall Wallace
Manufacturer: Cinema ClubStarring: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott, Warren Oates, Harold RamisDirected By: Harold Ramis, Ivan Reitman
Decent, lighthearted and fully amusing slapstick is hard to come by these days, and 1993's Groundhog Day manages to also be genuinely wise about the human condition. All this and belly laughs too! Bill Murray stars as Phil, a bored, petulant news reporter, who is ordered to give his annual live report from Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania on February 2. Though desperate to get out of the ...
Manufacturer: 4 Front VideoStarring: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott, Stephen Tobolowsky, Brian Doyle-MurrayDirected By: Harold Ramis
The team behind Dumb and Dumber and There's Something About Mary--two really stupid, gross-out films that worked and were quite funny--also made King Pin, a really stupid, gross-out comedy that doesn't work and isn't funny at all. Woody Harrelson stars as a former bowling phenomenon with a hook for a hand, and Randy Quaid is an Amish farmer with a hidden talent for pins. The ...
Manufacturer: Entertainment in VideoStarring: Woody Harrelson, Randy Quaid, Bill Murray, Vanessa Angel, Chris ElliottDirected By: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home EntertainmentStarring: Daniel Stern, Gordon Hunt, Jim Wise, Chris Elliott, Larry MillerDirected By: Craig R. Maras, Declan Moran, James Hull, Mike Kunkel, Rick Del Carmen
There's Something About Mary is one of the funniest movies in years, recalling the days of the Zucker-Abraham-Zucker movies, in which (often tasteless) gags were piled on at a fierce rate. The difference is that co-writers and co-directors Bobby and Peter Farrelly have also crafted a credible story-line and even tossed in some genuine emotional content. The Farrelly brothers' first two ...
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home EntertainmentStarring: Ben Stiller, Cameron Diaz, Matt Dillon, Lee Evans, Chris ElliottDirected By: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
This controversial, 1974 drama exploits urban paranoia and presents vigilantism as cathartic release. But it is also a captivating, Everyman-ish story of a New Yorker who goes through a sea change after crime depletes his family and who runs foul of the law while taking it into his own hands. Charles Bronson stars as the vengeance-seeking urban warrior who goes on a punk-killing spree after his ...
Manufacturer: Paramount Home EntertainmentStarring: Charles Bronson, Hope Lange, Vincent Gardenia, Steven Keats, William RedfieldDirected By: Michael Winner
Eddie Murphy's remake of The Nutty Professor used the good professor's alter ego, Buddy Love, in much the same way that Jerry Lewis did in his brilliant original: a representation of the Id out of control that plays like an admission of the actor's off-screen sins. In the sequel, Murphy expands on his Klump family from the first film and makes them major characters. Consequently, his dark ...
Manufacturer: Universal StudiosStarring: Eddie Murphy, Janet Jackson, Larry Miller, John Ales, Richard GantDirected By: Peter Segal
