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Bevis and Butt-head photo BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD DO AMERICA
The rude animated MTV characters make their first trip to the big screen in this wild and wooly comic adventure. Beavis (he's the guy in the Metallica T) and Butt-head (he's the guy with the AC/DC T) embark on a cross-country adventure when their TV set is stolen and they meet a sleazy redneck who offers them $10,000 to fly to Vegas to "do" his ex-wife. They naturally misconstrue "do" and get involved in some weird shenanigans.
Director: Mike Judge. Stars: Voices of Mike Judge, Robert Stack, Cloris Leachman, Eric Bogosian. CC, (MPAA rating: PG-13, 82 min.), Animated, 1996, Box office gross: $62.813 million, (Paramount 332503), No SRP, Priced for rental, Available: 6/10
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BREAKING THE WAVES
Poignant drama stars Emily Watson as a young woman whose passionate marriage to a handsome oil-rig worker is thrown upside down when he gets paralyzed in an accident. Believing that he will never make love to his wife again, the young man tells her to take other lovers, convincing her that it will help his recovery. Grand Jury Prize winner at last year's Cannes Film Festival. In pan-and-scan and letterbox versions.
Director: Lars Von Trier. Stars: Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgard. CC, (MPAA rating: R, 152 min.), Drama, 1996, Box office gross: $3.489 million, (Evergreen 15163), No SRP, Priced for rental, Available: 6/03
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GRIDLOCK'D
Tim Roth and Tupac Shakur star as junkies who decide that its time to get clean ... but can't seem to make it through the system to get help. After a friend overdoses, Stretch and Spoon go in search of salvation but instead get blamed for the death of a drug dealer. On the lam from the real murderers and the cops, they spend an afternoon dodging bullets and chaos, finally attempting to check into a rehab center but getting stuck in "the system." Plenty of urban comedy action.
Director: Vondie Curtis. Stars: Tim Roth, Tupac Shakur. CC, (MPAA rating: R, 91 min.), Action Comedy, 1997, Box office gross: $5.561 million, (PolyGram 054987), No SRP, Priced for rental, Available: 6/24
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IN LOVE AND WAR
Sandra Bullock and Chris O'Donnell star in this romance very loosely based on a love affair between Ernest Hemingway and medical aide Agnes von Kurowsky during World War I. Director Richard Attenborough tries here to make a picturesque drama that sweeps across the screen but the grandeur wears thin after awhile. For Bullock and O'Donnell fans only.
Director: Richard Attenborough. Stars: Sandra Bullock, Chris O'Donnell. CC, (MPAA rating: PG-13, 113 min.), Romantic Drama, 1996, Box office gross: $14.466 million, (New Line 4559), No SRP, Priced for rental, Available: 6/24
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Mars Attacks! photoMARS ATTACKS!
Tim Burton's inspired spoof of 1950s and 1960s sci-fi films will be a cult classic one day; its theatrical release was marred by its close proximity to "ID4." The plot is familiar by now: big- headed Martians land on Earth under the guise of goodwill and peace and start destroying everything and everyone in sight. Great performances by Jack Nicholson (as the President of the U.S.), Martin Short, Lukas Haas and Sylvia Sidney. A sure bet for an evening's enjoyment.
Director: Tim Burton. Stars: Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Pierce Brosnan, Danny DeVito, Martin Short, Lukas Haas and Sylvia Sidney CC, (MPAA rating: PG-13, 106 min.), Science Fiction, 1996, Box office gross: $37.754 million, (Warner Home Video 14480), No SRP, Priced for rental Available: 6/17
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MARVIN'S ROOMMarvin's Room photo
Meryl Streep and Diane Keaton play sisters, Lee and Bessie, whose lives have been divergent but who now come together in a time of trouble. Bessie's life has been one of the dutiful daughter, taking care of their bedridden father (Hume Cronyn). Lee is a single mother, raising a delinquent son (Leonardo DiCaprio). When Bessie is diagnosed with leukemia, she calls Lee and, after 20 year's separation, they reunite, causing sparks to fly but also discovering a new sense of family and discovery. A warm, heartfelt film.
Director: Jerry Zaks. Stars: Meryl Streep, Leonardo DiCaprio, Diane Keaton. CC, (MPAA rating: PG-13, 95 min.), Comedy-Drama, 1996, Box office gross: $12.115 million, (Miramax 10496), No SRP, Priced for rental, Available: 6/10
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MICHAEL
Michael photo John Travolta is intriguing here in this fairy tale comedy about a not so heavenly angel and his earthly antics. When a sleazy tabloid sends William Hurt, Andie Macdowell and Robert Pastorelli to investigate the report of an angel living in a farmhouse in Iowa, they get a heck of a lot more than they suspected: a real angel, though with razor stubble instead of a halo, takes them on a journey that touches their minds and spirits ... and will tickle your funnybone and warm your heart. A must-see.
Director: Nora Ephron. Stars: John Travolta, Andie Macdowell, William Hurt, Robert Pastorelli. CC, (MPAA rating: PG, 106 min.), Comedy, 1996, Box office gross: $92.215 million, (Warner Home Video 6303), No SRP, Priced for rental Available: 6/10
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MY FELLOW AMERICANS
My Fellow Americans photo James Garner and Jack Lemmon are grumpy, feuding ex-Presidents who are forced together to get to the bottom of a scandal brewing in the White House. The incumbent President, played by Dan Aykroyd, covers up a bribe by framing one of the former Chief Executives. And to make sure they don't talk, the two men are earmarked for an "accident." Unjustly implicated and dodging operatives bent on their destruction, the two ex-Presidents find out what the real America is all about. A gently funny tale.
Director: Peter Segal. Stars: Jack Lemmon, James Garner, Dan Aykroyd, Lauren Bacall. CC, (MPAA rating: PG-13, 96 min.), Comedy, 1996, Box office gross: $22.290 million, (Warner Home Video 14535), No SRP Priced for rental, Available: 6/17
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PEOPLE VS. LARRY FLYNT, THE
Larry Flynt photo Controversial biopic about the life of Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt and his legal battles against censorship. Woody Harrelson stars as the publisher of the outrageous and hugely successful magazine that opened new vistas in getting sexual material onto America's newsstands. But almost from the beginning, Flynt had to defend his right to publish against the likes of Jerry Falwell, culminating in a battle taken all the way to the Supreme Court. Co-stars Courtney Love as Flynt's wife, Althea. A stirring film by Milos Forman.
Director: Milos Forman. Stars: Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love. CC, (MPAA rating: R, 130 min.), Drama, 1996, Box office gross: $20.036 million, (Columbia TriStar 82453), No SRP, Priced for rental, Available: 6/3
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PEST, THE
Comedy about a manic Miami con man, the Pest, (John Leguizamo), who becomes a hunter's human prey. Lured into the cat-and-mouse game by the promise of $50,000 to pay off a debt to the Scottish mob, the Pest travels from Miami to a remote island and back again, keeping one step ahead of psychotic hunters. His true goal: get to his girlfriend's house in time for supper. A spoof of "The Most Dangerous Game" and its knock-offs, this is for Leguizamo fans only.
Director: Paul Miller. Stars: John Leguizamo, Jeffrey Jones. CC, (MPAA rating: PG-13, 85 min.), Comedy, 1997, Box office gross: $3.506 million, (Columbia TriStar 89373), No SRP, Priced for rental, Available: 6/17
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Scream photoSCREAM
Leave it to horrormeister Wes Craven ("Nightmare on Elm Street") to come up with this surprise success of a horror-thriller. This bloodfest is about a stalker who uses his love of scary movies to terrorize and kill his teenage victims; to survive, his targets have to follow movie rules: don't answer the door, don't have sex, don't hide in the closet, don't say "I'll be right back," and never, ever SCREAM. Stars Drew Barrymore, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette and Skeet Ulrich.
Director: Wes Craven. Stars: Drew Barrymore, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette. CC, (MPAA rating: R, 111 min.), Horror, 1996, Box office gross: $95.0 million, (Miramax 10499), No SRP, Priced for rental Available: 6/24
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Turbulence photoTURBULENCE
Thriller about a flight attendant who faces off against a serial killer who takes over a Los Angeles-bound 747 on a storm-battered Christmas Eve. When two criminals escape from the custody of federal marshals on a New York-to-Los Angeles flight, a bloody fight ensues and the only survivors are a psychotic killer (Ray Liotta) and a flight attendant (Lauren Holly). The resulting lethal cat-and-mouse game takes on larger proportions as the murderer wants to crash the jet in the middle of downtown Los Angeles.
Director: Robert Butler. Stars: Ray Liotta, Lauren Holly, Hector Elizondo. CC, (MPAA rating: R, 101 min.), Thriller, 1997, Box office gross: $11.491 million, (HBO 91387), No SRP, Priced for rental, Available: 6/24
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