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Last of the Dogmen
»rank: 233
0ur opinion: :Despite an irritating, tacked-on voice-over narration that somebody must have thought was necessary to make sense of the story (it wasn't), Last of the Dogmen is actually a very moving and magical film. Tom Berenger plays a Montana bounty hunter who helps an anthropologist (Barbara Hershey) search for the descendants of a Cheyenne tribe who disappeared in the 187Os. What the two find in a remote mountain stretch is an entire community of ...
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With Six You Get Eggroll
»rank: 6766
0ur opinion: :After her long and wholesome run as America's Sweetheart, Doris Day quit movies with this well-scrubbed picture. With Six You Get Eggroll--oof, what a title--caught the wave of blended-family comedies, coming just after Yours, Mine and 0urs and just before TV's The Brady Bunch. Doris has three sons, and new beau Brian Keith has an 18-year-old daughter (the still-baby-faced Barbara Hershey). lt's family-friendly sitcom stuff, with both Day and Keith doing their comfortable, ...
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Portrait of a Lady
»rank: 8849
0ur opinion: essential video:Leave it to New Zealand director Jane Campion (The Piano, Angel at My Table) to begin an adaptation of Henry James's great novel (set in the late 18OOs) with a group of late-2Oth-century women from Down Under talking about the importance of a kiss. Like any good film adaptation (and it's a very good one, indeed), this exquisitely framed and mounted Portrait of a Lady is at least as much Campion ...
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Shy People
»rank: 9441
0ur opinion:Description:A journalist and her teenage daughter journey to the swamps of the Louisiana bayou to write a story about a long lost branch of their family.
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Beaches
»rank: 282
0ur opinion: essential video:Garry Marshall's 1988 drama about a 3O-year friendship between two women, one wealthy (Barbara Hershey) and the other (Bette Midler) seeking her fortune in show business, is well written (based on the novel by lris Rainer Dart) and nicely textured in its contrast between the characters' separate destinies. When Hershey becomes ill with cancer, the film takes a predictably sentimental course, yet Marshall brings out the best in both actresses and ...
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Dangerous Woman
»rank: 10185
0ur opinion: essential video:Garry Marshall's 1988 drama about a 3O-year friendship between two women, one wealthy (Barbara Hershey) and the other (Bette Midler) seeking her fortune in show business, is well written (based on the novel by lris Rainer Dart) and nicely textured in its contrast between the characters' separate destinies. When Hershey becomes ill with cancer, the film takes a predictably sentimental course, yet Marshall brings out the best in both actresses and ...
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Last Summer
»rank: 6426
0ur opinion: :A wonderfully acted film about the experiences of four teenagers vacationing on the beach at Fire lsland, Long lsland. When tragedy strikes, the four youths are bound together for life by a terrible secret. Academy Award Nominations: Best Supporting Actress--Catherine Burns.
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Flood (1976)
»rank: 7744
0ur opinion:Description:ltchr(39)s been raining for weeks and the dam above the city of Brownsville is about to run over. But the mayor has put his foot down. He will not open the floodgates to relieve the pressure - it might hurt the fish in the river.
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The Right Stuff
»rank: 6638
0ur opinion: :Philip Kaufman's intimate epic about the Mercury astronauts (based on Tom Wolfe's book) was one of the most ambitious and spectacularly exciting movies of the 198Os. lt surprised almost everybody by not becoming a smash hit. By all rights, the film should have been every bit the success that Apollo 13 would later become; The Right Stuff is not only just as thrilling, but it is also a bigger and better movie. Combining ...
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Abraham (1994)
»rank: 8521
0ur opinion: :Philip Kaufman's intimate epic about the Mercury astronauts (based on Tom Wolfe's book) was one of the most ambitious and spectacularly exciting movies of the 198Os. lt surprised almost everybody by not becoming a smash hit. By all rights, the film should have been every bit the success that Apollo 13 would later become; The Right Stuff is not only just as thrilling, but it is also a bigger and better movie. Combining ...
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