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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









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Ronin

The process of tracking someone is more of an art than a science. Figuring out where they are going and what they are doing is not a challenge for amateurs. Deidre (Natascha McElhone) and Sam (Robert De Niro) make it look easy but it could serve as a textbook example as the pose as tourists taking snapshots, having coffee at a local bistro and generally almost being in the way of their prey.


Director:  John Frankenheimer
Writer:  J.D. Zeik; David Mamet
Cast:
Robert De Niro -  Sam
Jean Reno -  Vincent
Natascha McElhone -  Deirdre
Stellan Skarsgård -  Gregor
Sean Bean -  Spence
Skipp Sudduth -  Larry
Michael Lonsdale -  Jean-Pierre
Jan Triska -  Dapper Gent
Jonathan Pryce -  Seamus O’Rourke
Ron Perkins -  Man with the Newspaper
Féodor Atkine -  Mikhi
Katarina Witt -  Natacha Kirilova
Bernard Bloch -  Sergi
Dominic Gugliametti -  Clown Ice Skater
Alan Beckworth -  Clown Ice Skater
Daniel Breton -  Sergi’s Accomplice









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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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I Still Know What You Did Last Summer

After the terror of IKWYDLS, Julie James (Jennifer Love Hewitt) stiffens her resolve and isn’t going to be a victim anymore. As usual, nobody believes her story, there is storm on the horizon, the holiday resort is emptying faster than fish catch from a seine and bodies are starting to pile up. But help is on the way through rough seas in the from of Ray Bronson (Freddie Prinze, Jr.) who doesn’t plan to take any prisoners. When she’s a captive and Ray finds them in the grave yard, there is a moment when you’re wondering whether the producers can wring another movie out of this. But that seems unlikely when Ben Willis (Muse Watson) drives a hook into his son’s chest and Julie decides to step up and finish off Ben with Ray’s pistol.


Director:  Danny Cannon
Writer:  Lois Duncan; Trey Callaway
Cast:
Jennifer Love Hewitt -  Julie James
Freddie Prinze Jr. -  Ray Bronson
Brandy -  Karla Wilson
Mekhi Phifer -  Tyrell
Muse Watson -  Ben Willis
Bill Cobbs -  Estes
Matthew Settle -  Will Benson
Jeffrey Combs -  Mr. Brooks
Jennifer Esposito -  Nancy
John Hawkes -  Dave
Ellerine! -  Olga
Benjamin Brown -  Darick The Dockhand
Red West -  Paulsen
Michael P. Byrne -  Thurston
Michael Bryan French -  Doctor
Dee Ann Helsel -  Nurse