THE WHOLE NINE YARDS (2000)

 




















Directed by: Jonathan Lynn
Starring: Bruce Willis, Matthew Perry, Amanda Peet, Natasha Henstridge, Michael Clarke Duncan, Kevin Pollak, Rosanna Arquette, Harland Williams, Stephanie Biddle

99 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, nudity)

PLOT:
A struggling dentist's life is turned upside down when a famous gangster moves in next door, and his wife convinces him to inform a notorious mob boss about the gangster's whereabouts.

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THE EX (2006)

 




















Directed by: Jesse Peretz
Starring: Zach Braff, Amanda Peet, Jason Bateman, Charles Grodin, Donal Logue, Mia Farrow, Amy Poehler, Amy Adams, Fred Armisen, Lucian Maisel, Paul Rudd, Josh Charles, Marin Hinkle, Romany Malco, Yul Vazquez

92 minutes
(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations)

PLOT:
In Manhattan, Sofia's an attorney and Tom's a cook who has a hard time holding a job. When their first child is born, they agree that she'll be a full-time mom and he'll get a promotion. When he gets fired, he takes a job in Ohio working at the ad agency where her father is assistant director. Tom's assigned to report to Chip, a competitive, hard-driving guy who's in a wheelchair and who's Sofia's ex-boyfriend from high school. Chip still carries a torch for her, so he connives to make Tom's work life miserable. As Tom's frustrations mount, it may be that Sofia will take Chip's side. Is Tom doomed to fail yet again?

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SHOCK CORRIDOR (1963)

 




















Directed by: Samuel Fuller
Starring: Peter Breck, Constance Towers, Gene Evans, James Best, Hari Rhodes, Larry Tucker, Paul Dubov, Chuck Roberson, Bill Zuckert, Philip Ahn

101 minutes
(NR - adult language, adult themes, adult situations)

PLOT:
Bent on winning a Pulitzer Prize, a journalist commits himself to a mental institution to solve a strange and unclear murder.

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VAMPYR (1932)

 




















Directed by: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Starring: Nicolas de Gunzburg, Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel, Sybille Schmitz, Jan Hieronimko, Henriette Gerard, Albert Bras, N. Babanini, Jane Mora, Georges Boidin

73 minutes
(NR - adult themes)
Country of origin: Germany

PLOT:
A drifter obsessed with the supernatural stumbles upon an inn from which a series of strange events lead him to a manor where a severely ill adolescent girl is slowly becoming a vampire.

REVIEW:

OUR MISS BROOKS (1956)

 




















Directed by: Al Lewis
Starring: Eve Arden, Gale Gordon, Don Porter, Robert Rockwell, Jane Morgan, Richard Crenna, Nick Adams, Leonard Smith, Gloria McMillan, Joseph Kearns, William Newell, Philip Van Zandt, Marjorie Bennett, Joseph Forte, June Blair

85 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
Miss Brooks teaches English at Madison High, rents a room from Mrs. Davis, gets rides to school with student Walter, fights with Principal Conklin and tries to snag shy biology teacher Boynton.

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THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT (2010)

 




















Directed by: Lisa Cholodenko
Starring: Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Mia Wasikowska, Josh Hutcherson, Yaya DaCosta, Eddie Hassell, Zosia Mamet, Kunal Sharma, James Macdonald

107 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, nudity, some drug use)

PLOT:
Two children conceived by artificial insemination bring their biological father into their non-traditional family life.

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GREAT GUY (1936)

 




















Directed by: John G. Blystone
Starring: James Cagney, Mae Clarke, James Burke, Edward Brophy, Henry Kolker, Bernadene Hayes, Edward McNamara, Robert Gleckler, Joe Sawyer, Edward Gargan, Matty Fain, Mary Gordon, Wallis Clark, Douglas Wood

66 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
It's the New York Department of Weights and Measures vs. a systematic effort to cheat the public by giving them less product than they pay for, organized by crooked city alderman Marty Cavanaugh, who put the last chief deputy inspector in the hospital. The new man, pugnacious Johnny Cave, steps on the toes of influential merchants and gets increasing pressure, both political and strong-arm, to desist. Will the luck (if not the pluck) of the Irish pull him through?

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