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Very Bad Things

How do you know if you’ve made the wrong decision? Most likely, it will be evident in what happens as a result. What do you do if you can’t back out of the choice made? Compound it with another choice that could go wrong too? Sure, why not? It can’t get much worse, can it? Yup, it can. Just ask Kyle Fisher (Jon Favreau) who is about to marry Laura Garrity (Cameron Diaz). His buddy Robert Boyd (Christian Slater) has organized a bachelor party for him in Las Vegas, replete with recreational drugs, gallons of booze and a stripper. The stripper winds up dead through some rather over-enthusiastic sex with Michael Berkow (Jeremy Piven). Robert convinces the others that the best thing to do is not dial 911, but to bury her out in the desert. When a hotel security guard investigates the hubbub, Robert deliberately murders him and convinces the others to bury both of the bodies in the desert and head home. Dear, dear…


Director:  Peter Berg
Writer:  Peter Berg
Cast:
Jon Favreau -  Kyle Fisher
Leland Orser -  Charles Moore
Cameron Diaz -  Laura Garrity
Christian Slater -  Robert Boyd
Rob Brownstein -  Man
Jeremy Piven -  Michael Berkow
Daniel Stern -  Adam Berkow
Jeanne Tripplehorn -  Lois Berkow
Joey Zimmerman -  Adam Berkow Jr.
Tyler Malinger -  Timmy Berkow
Carla Scott -  Tina
Russell B. McKenzie -  Security Guard
Pancho Demmings -  Cop
Blake Gibbons -  Suit
Angelo Di Mascio Jr. -  Clerk
Lawrence Pressman -  Mr. Fisher









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Wild Things

Suzie Toller (Neve Campbell) and Kelly Van Ryan (Denise Richards) concoct abuse by their guidance counselor Sam Lombardo (Matt Dillon). In court, they sabotage one another’s story when Suzie claims it was a setup. Kelly started it when she was spurned by Sam who was making the moves on her mom, Sandra (Theresa Russell). But that is only part of the plan. To what lengths would you go to get your hands on millions of dollars?


Director:  John McNaughton
Writer:  Stephen Peters
Cast:
Matt Dillon -  Sam Lombardo
Kevin Bacon -  Sgt. Ray Duquette
Neve Campbell -  Suzie Marie Toller
Denise Richards -  Kelly Lanier Van Ryan
Daphne Rubin-Vega -  Det. Gloria Perez
Bill Murray -  Kenneth Bowden
Theresa Russell -  Sandra Van Ryan
Robert Wagner -  Tom Baxter
Carrie Snodgress -  Ruby
Jeff Perry -  Det. Bryce Hunter
Cory Pendergast -  Jimmy ‘Jimbo’ Leach
Marc Macaulay -  Walter
Toi Svane -  Nicole Beach
Dennis Neal -  Art Maddox
Eduardo Yáñez -  Frankie Condo
Paulo Benedeti -  Kirk









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Practical Magic

You know how some folks always seem to suffer a degree of humiliation whenever a choice is involved? No, I don’t mean things like picking tomatoes at the grocery store. Usually it has to do with doing stuff. You get picked for the rude stuff but passed over for the cool stuff. Sally Owens (Sandra Bullock) know that feeling only too well and is bummed that it happens to her. All she wants is to be chosen for the phone tree. Her sister Gillian (Nicole Kidman) wants to help but Sally know that getting picked isn’t going to happen. About the only thing worse is that she turns up naked at school without her homework.


Director:  Griffin Dunne
Writer:  Alice Hoffman; Robin Swicord; Akiva Goldsman; Adam Brooks
Cast:
Sandra Bullock -  Sally Owens
Nicole Kidman -  Gillian Owens
Stockard Channing -  Frances Owens
Dianne Wiest -  Aunt Bridget ‘Jet’ Owens
Goran Visnjic -  Jimmy Angelov
Aidan Quinn -  Officer Gary Hallet
Evan Rachel Wood -  Kylie Owens
Alexandra Artrip -  Antonia Owens
Mark Feuerstein -  Michael
Caprice Benedetti -  Maria Owens
Annabella Price -  Lovelorn lady
Camilla Belle -  Young Sally Owens
Lora Anne Criswell -  Young Gillian Owens
Margo Martindale -  Linda Bennett
Chloe Webb -  Carla
Martha Gehman -  Patty









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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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Dog Park

There are times in your life when an opportunity presents itself and you know that if you handle it properly, all sorts of wonderful things will happen. But how do you proceed? Andy (Luke Wilson) is asked by Lorna (Natasha Henstridge) to crack her neck when she is felling morose and down, her muscles are tight and she is tired. He doesn’t know how but he figures he should try and pick her up. But when he gives her a line about coming back to his place or goes to hers, she’s disappointed and grumpy that it is the best he can come up with.


Director:  Bruce McCulloch
Writer:  Bruce McCulloch
Cast:
Natasha Henstridge -  Lorna
Luke Wilson -  Andy
Kathleen Robertson -  Cheryl
Janeane Garofalo -  Jeri
Bruce McCulloch -  Jeff
Kristin Lehman -  Keiran
Amie Carey -  Rachel
Gordon Currie -  Trevor
Harland Williams -  Callum
Mark McKinney -  Dr. Cavan, Dog Psychologist
Peter MacNeill -  Neighbor
Albert Schultz -  Male Dog Owner #2
Jerry Schaefer -  Norm
Zachary Bennett -  Dougie
Ron James -  Male Dog Owner
Diane Flacks -  Chirpy Dog Owner