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Sleepless in Seattle

How is your intuition? Mine is amazing. For some things it works like a charm. For other stuff, it is a dud. Jonah Baldwin (Ross Malinger) calls into a late night talk radio show looking for a new mother. His widowed father Sam (Tom Hanks) ends up on the phone laying bare his feeling for his wife. As a result the mail pours in and Jonah pulls out a letter from Annie (Meg Ryan) in Baltimore and refuses to give up until Sam agrees to meet her.


Director:  Nora Ephron
Writer:  Jeff Arch; Nora Ephron; David S. Ward; Arch Rival
Cast:
Tom Hanks -  Sam Baldwin
Meg Ryan -  Annie Reed
Bill Pullman -  Walter
Ross Malinger -  Jonah Baldwin
Rosie O’Donnell -  Becky
Gaby Hoffmann -  Jessica
Victor Garber -  Greg
Rita Wilson -  Suzy
Barbara Garrick -  Victoria
Carey Lowell -  Maggie Abbott Baldwin
David Hyde Pierce -  Dennis Reed
Dana Ivey -  Claire Bennett
Rob Reiner -  Jay
Tom Riis Farrell -  Rob
Le Clanché du Rand -  Barbara Reed
Kevin O’Morrison -  Cliff Reed









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K-911

I’ve never had a dog. People who have one tell me there is a lot to do to maintain their health and well-being. But I don’t think that is the whole story. Dooley (James Belushi) has been teamed up with Jerry Lee (Mac) for about 10 years now and he brushes the dog’s teeth (but no flossing), gives his breath spray and cleans out his ears. Is this really part of the ritual? I sure hope not.


Director:  Charles Kanganis; Charles T. Kanganis
Writer:  Steven Siegel; Scott Myers; Gary Scott Thompson
Cast:
James Belushi -  Dooley
Christine Tucci -  Welles
James Handy -  Captain Byers
Wade Williams -  Devon
J.J. Johnston -  Fat Tommy
Joe Palese -  Officer Perry
Scotch Ellis Loring -  Phil Cage
Vincent Castellanos -  Harry Stripe
Timo Flloko -  Johnson
Joe Sabatino -  Counterman
Ron Yuan -  Jackie Hammonds
Susanna Puisto -  Girl in Park
Denise Y. Dowse -  Dr. Perkins
Marla Frees -  Nurse
Nadja Pionilla -  Terri









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Carolina Moon

Wasn’t it one of the Wolfe boys who said that you can’t go home again? I suppose it is true in an abstract sense since all places and those returning are not the same as time passes. You can go back but you shouldn’t expect things to be the same as when you left. Tory Bodeen (Claire Forlani) is back to stay in her small home town but she’s not expecting much to be different when she left. Via a psychic vision, she knew where to find the body of her best friend Hope who had been murdered, the first of a string that continues every year on the same day. Her father had been the principal suspect when he was paid off to skip town. Folks are not too welcoming when she begins to open up her small shop on main street. But a few are able to move beyond the gossip. Cade Lavelle (Oliver Hudson) is still goofy over her and his sister Faith (Josie Davis) proves to be a fountain of support that Tory (and Faith) finds surprising.


Director:  Stephen Tolkin
Writer:  Stephen Tolkin; Nora Roberts
Cast:
Claire Forlani -  Victoria ‘Tory’ Bodeen
Oliver Hudson -  Cade Lavelle
Josie Davis -  Faith Lavelle
Jonathan Scarfe -  Dwight Collier
Chad Willett -  Wade Mooney
Jacqueline Bisset -  Margaret Lavelle
Shaun Johnston -  Han Bodeen
Greg Lawson -  Police Chief Carl Russ
Maureen Rooney -  Sari Bodeen
Kailin See -  Sherry Bellows
Shae Keebler -  Young Hope Lavelle / Young Faith Lavelle
Gabrielle Casha -  Young Tory Bodeen
Brieanna Moench -  Lissy
Kade Phillips -  Young Cade
Connor Robinson -  Young Wade
Taison Gelinas -  Young Dwight









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U.S. Marshals

I don’t know how many days it took to film, how many people were involved, what sort of complexity it took to place the cameras, how often they had to do it to get it right or who did the actual stunt. I just sit there open-mouthed when United States Marshall Sam Gerard (Tommy Lee Jones) opens that roof door to see Mark Roberts/Mark Warren/Mark Sheridan (Wesley Snipes) standing on the edge of the roof facing towards the street and says he can’t be arrested because of what he knows. Mark Whatever then leans out, tumbles off the edge of the roof, swings down attached to some rope and swings out and over the street to the rail yards and lands on the roof of the station and leaps onto a train car leaving for elsewhere. My little heart goes pitty-pat every time.


Director:  Stuart Baird
Writer:  Roy Huggins; John Pogue
Cast:
Tommy Lee Jones -  Samuel Gerard
Wesley Snipes -  Mark J. Sheridan/Mark Warren/Mark Roberts
Robert Downey Jr. -  John Royce
Joe Pantoliano -  Cosmo Renfro
Daniel Roebuck -  Bobby Biggs
Tom Wood -  Noah Woodrow Newman
LaTanya Richardson -  Savannah Cooper
Irène Jacob -  Marie Bineaux
Kate Nelligan -  Catherine Walsh
Patrick Malahide -  Bertram Lamb
Rick Snyder -  Frank Barrows
Michael Paul Chan -  Xian Chen
Johnny Lee Davenport -  Marshal Henry
Donald Li -  Det. Kim









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From Dusk Till Dawn

Seth and Richie Gecko (George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino respectively) have just wandered into the wrong bar to meet a local rounder, after crossing the border with the kidnapped family of Jacob Fuller (Harvey Keitel) and his two children, Kate (Juliette Lewis) and Scott (Ernest Liu). It soon becomes apparent that maybe they made a mistake but they’re not the type to back away from anything. However, they have second thoughts when Richie looks at Seth through a bullet hole in his hand. But now is not the time so out comes the duct tape and he wraps it up.


Director:  Robert Rodriguez
Writer:  Robert Kurtzman; Quentin Tarantino
Cast:
Harvey Keitel -  Jacob Fuller
George Clooney -  Seth Gecko
Quentin Tarantino -  Richard Gecko
Juliette Lewis -  Kate Fuller
Ernest Liu -  Scott Fuller
Salma Hayek -  Santanico Pandemonium
Cheech Marin -  Border Guard/Chet Pussy/Carlos
Danny Trejo -  Razor Charlie
Tom Savini -  Sex Machine
Fred Williamson -  Frost
Michael Parks -  Texas Ranger Earl McGraw
Brenda Hillhouse -  Hostage Gloria
John Saxon -  FBI Agent Stanley Chase
Marc Lawrence -  Old Timer Motel Owner
Kelly Preston -  Newscaster Kelly Houge
John Hawkes -  Pete Bottoms