One of the key movies of the 1970s, when exciting, groundbreaking, personal films were still being made in Hollywood, Milos Forman's One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest emphasised the humanistic story at the heart of Ken Kesey's more hallucinogenic novel. Jack Nicholson was born to play the part of Randle Patrick McMurphy, the rebellious inmate of a psychiatric hospital who fights back against ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield, Sydney Lassick, Brad DourifDirected By: Milos Forman
Not the egregious foul it seemed to be in cinemas, Disney's Hercules (1997) stands up as an entertaining spritzer of an animated feature. The continual peppering of in-jokes and cultural references becomes less irksome on the small screen. That there is no majesty or awe invested in the beloved Greek legends also seems less of an error. Also on the plus side is the bounciest Alan Menken ...
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Home VideoStarring: Tate Donovan, Susan Egan, James Woods, Josh Keaton, Roger BartDirected By: John Musker, Ron Clements
Danny DeVito's adaptation of the Roald Dahl book for children is mostly just fine, helped along quite a bit by the charming performance of Mara Wilson (Mrs Doubtfire) as the eponymous young Matilda, a brilliant girl neglected by her stupid, self-involved parents (DeVito and Rhea Perlman). Ignored at home, Matilda escapes into a world of reading, exercising her mind so much she develops ...
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home EntertainmentStarring: Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Mara Wilson, Embeth Davidtz, Pam FerrisDirected By: Danny DeVito
Manufacturer: Touchstone Home VideoStarring: Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Judge Reinhold, Helen Slater, Anita MorrisDirected By: Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker, David Zucker
In 1984 Romancing the Stone was a huge hit for director Robert Zemeckis (who later went on to make Forrest Gump, Contact and Castaway among others) thanks in no small part to the winning team of Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, and Danny DeVito. The chemistry between all three stars is infectious, but Turner steals the show from the guys, playing a pushy romance ...
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home EntertainmentStarring: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Zack Norman, Alfonso ArauDirected By: Lewis Teague, Robert Zemeckis
Sophia Coppola's alternately dreamy and unsettling film about five suburban sisters who all mysteriously kill themselves (the voice-over tells you as much in the first five minutes) casts a witchy spell that lingers like drugstore perfume on a hot day. Beautifully adapted from Jeffrey Eugenides' icily perfect novel (perhaps the best, if not only, work of fiction narrated exclusively in the ...
Manufacturer: Pathe DistributionStarring: Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett, James Woods, Kathleen Turner, Michael ParéDirected By: Sofia Coppola
It's enlightening to view Tim Burton's Mars Attacks! as his twisted satire of the blockbuster film Independence Day, which was released earlier the same year, although the movies were in production simultaneously. Burton's eye-popping, schlock tribute to 1950s UFO movies actually plays better on video than it did in cinemas. The idea of invading aliens ray-gunning the big-name movie ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Jack Nicholson, Pierce Brosnan, Sarah Jessica Parker, Annette Bening, Glenn CloseDirected By: Tim Burton
In a time when it seems that every other movie makes some claim to being a film noir, LA Confidential is the real thing--a gritty, sordid tale of sex, scandal, betrayal and corruption of all sorts (police, political, press--and, of course, very personal) in 1940s Hollywood. The Oscar-winning screenplay is actually based on several titles in James Ellroy's series of chronological ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kim Basinger, James CromwellDirected By: Curtis Hanson
Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito are reunited for a third time to fabulous effect in The War of the Roses. This is a dark, disturbing comedy of marital trauma and revenge, which couldn't be more different from their sunnier outings in Romancing the Stone and The Jewel of the Nile. Douglas and Turner, in career-best performances, are the materialistic, ...
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home EntertainmentStarring: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Marianne Sägebrecht, Sean AstinDirected By: Danny DeVito
