Annie Golden

Julie Kavner

Dan Aykroyd

Tim Blake Nelson

Single mom Dottie Ingels sells cosmetics in a department store, but she dreams of being a comedian. When she inherits some money, she takes the chance and moves with her two daughters, Erica and Opal, to New York to perform in small bars. Soon her agent, Arnold Moss, makes her famous, but while she travels all over the USA, the girls stay home lonely.—Tom Zoerner

This Is My Life

This Is My Life (1992)

Jake Steinfeld

Christopher Lloyd

Diane Lane

Composed of three short segments, National Lampoon's anthology satirizes everything from personal growth films, glamorous soap operas, and exciting police stories. Starting with "Growing Yourself", a confused family man goes to great lengths to find a new meaning in life, and raise his four children. In "Success Wanters", the ambitious college graduate, Dominique Corsaire, is bent on succeeding in life, working her way up the career ladder as a stripper, a mistress, and a margarine company owner. Then, in "Municipalians", inexperienced LAPD policeman, Officer Brent Falcone, teams up with the cynical veteran, Stan Nagurski, on the hunt for the inept serial killer, Samuel Starkman.—Nick Riganas

Movie Madness

Movie Madness (1982)

Michael Caine

Sally Field

Steve Guttenberg

Sean Stein (Michael Caine) is a successful British-born novelist with eight books to his name and a mansion in Beverly Hills, California. However, after a divorce and a palimony suit, Sean is giving over half his income to his former lovers and decides to swear off women, believing they have only loved him for his money. Sean plans to move to Kuwait where women have no rights, but first goes to a charity fundraiser for an aerospace museum. There, armed thieves seize the party guests, have them strip naked, tie them up to each other, and steal their possessions. Sean is bound to commercial artist Daisy Morgan (Sally Field) and is immediately smitten with her because of the concern she shows for him during the robbery. Daisy has been dating self-absorbed, childish attorney Marty Caesar (Steve Guttenburg), who is reluctant to make a commitment to her and always puts work ahead of her.After police free the hostages, Marty goes overseas on a business trip to handle a crisis for his client, CalCor. Meanwhile, Sean Stein obtains the address for Daisy's home in Silverlake and drops by to tell her that he wants to go out with her. Daisy replies that she has a boyfriend, but nonetheless agrees to go out with him. Sean lies, telling Daisy that he is broke and suggesting that if her boyfriend is rich, she should not waste her time on him. Daisy, who is behind on all her bills and just borrowed money from Marty for the rent, also lies, saying that money means nothing to her. Sean tells Daisy that he is a writer but has never sold anything, so he gave up writing. However, Sean is impressed by Daisy's paintings. Sean kisses Daisy and asks her to have sex with him. She replies that she does not make love before the first date, but the two quickly end up in bed together before going to dinner. After sex, Sean invites Daisy to move in with him, but she declines, saying he is moving too quickly.Over the next few days, Sean and Daisy spend time visiting art galleries, going to the beach, and enjoying each other's company. However, when they walk past a book store where Sean's latest novel, The Importance of Being Dead, is on display in the front window, he diverts her attention before she can see it. Daisy goes to her father, tennis club owner "Ace" Morgan (Jackie Cooper), asking to borrow money and tells him about Sean. Ace advises her to get back with Marty since he has money and offers security. Daisy asks to see some of Sean's writing and he gives her the manuscript to The Not Nice Nuns, which only sold 200,000 copies. Daisy is impressed by the novel, saying that it is good storytelling, but is not ready to send to a publisher. She offers some editing notes to improve it, but Sean is offended, blurting out that it has already been published, then quickly covers by staunchly refusing to change a word.Sean meets with his lawyer, Jay Bass, and declares that he is madly in love with Daisy. Sean knows it is true love because Daisy thinks he is broke, but loves him anyway. He intends to bring her to his mansion and tell her the truth. However, Marty Caesar returns from his overseas business trip during which he was held hostage for several days. That experience changed Marty, who now plans to represent people in need rather than big corporations. Marty asks Daisy to marry him, but she does not respond.Sean arrives to pick up Daisy for their date, but hears Marty in the shower. Daisy tells him that she is getting back together with Marty. A devastated Sean trashes his mansion and resumes plans to move to Kuwait. Meanwhile, Daisy plans to give up her rental home to move in with Marty. However, as she is packing, she notices a newspaper feature on novelist Sean Stein. Angry at being deceived, Daisy gets Sean's address and confronts him at his mansion. The writer explains that he had to make sure she loved him for him and not his money. Daisy says she was considering moving in with him, but now she can never trust him. Sean wants to know if she considered moving in with him before or after she read the newspaper article. She lies and says it was before.Sean and Daisy reunite. Daisy breaks up with Marty, then flies to Lake Tahoe, Nevada, with Sean to be married. However, at the urging of his lawyer, Jay Bass (Peter Boyle), Sean asks Daisy to sign a prenuptial agreement. She believes it is an unromantic thing to do on the eve of a wedding, but agrees to sign it nonetheless. Afterward, she loses her enthusiasm for getting married and plays the slot machines to clear her head, but ends up winning a $2 million jackpot. Sean returns from jogging and announces he has decided they do not need a prenuptial agreement after all. However, now that Daisy has money, she thinks they do need one. The two argue, and Daisy confesses that she only considered coming back to him after reading the newspaper article.Marty arrives in Lake Tahoe and finds Daisy and Sean arguing. Daisy points out that Marty is richer than Sean, yet he never asked her to sign a prenup. Sean storms out while Daisy and Marty resume their relationship. Back in Los Angeles, Daisy throws a party to celebrate winning the jackpot. Marty proposes to her in front of all the guests, but Daisy walks off without a word. She later explains that she does not want to marry Marty because he is "egotistical, insensitive, and immature." Marty observes that those qualities never bothered her before, but Daisy replies that she has changed. She should have never taken Marty's gifts under the guise of love, and offers him $50,000 to make up for what he spent on her. Marty accepts the money.Back in Los Angeles, a disturbed Sean spots a prostitute who earlier robbed him. He decides to avenge himself against women in general by bringing the streetwalker to his home and robbing her. She turns out to be a transvestite. Suddenly, Daisy suddenly bursts in and wants to marry him again, throwing all of her remaining cash at him. The prostitute picks up his gun and sees the pile of cash, but generously says: "I'll only take cab fare."The film ends with Sean and Daisy tied up in the nude as when they first met, having been robbed of all the money and stripped of all their clothing by the crazy transvestite prostitute. Nevertheless, Daisy admits to Sean that she is indeed a "money grubber," but she still wants to marry him. Sean accepts her proposal.

Surrender

Surrender (1987)

William Hickey

Debra Winger

Clint Howard

Mickey Gordon is a basketball referee who travels to France to bury his father. Ellen Andrews, an American living in Paris, works for the airline Mickey flies on. They meet and fall in love, but their relationship goes through many difficult patches. The story is told in flashback by their friends at a restaurant waiting for them to arrive.—Philip Apps

Forget Paris

Forget Paris (1995)

Lisa Marie

James Toback

Alec Baldwin

Alice Tate, married for 16 years and the mother of two, finds herself falling for handsome sax player Joe. Stricken with a backache, she consults Dr. Yang, an Asian herbalist who realizes that her problems are not related to her back, but in her mind and heart. Dr. Yang's magical herbs give Alice wondrous powers that take her out of her well-established rut.—Carl Seiler

Alice

Alice (1990)

Ernest Borgnine

Kimberly Guerrero

Suzi Regan

Michael Boloni, a simple farmer living on his family farm, refuses to sell his family's plot of land to a developer. With the help of Lydia, a woman whose family once worked Boloni's farm, Michael makes a stand to keep his cherished land.

Barn Red

Barn Red (2004)

Curtis Armstrong

Julie Hagerty

Jeff Marx wants to study medicine and become a physician. However, his grades are far from enough to get him into an American medical school. But instead he gets a chance to study medicine abroad, in a small Latin American dictatorship, governed by Ramon Madera, who falls in love with Jeff's girlfriend, also a medical student.—Mattias Thuresson

Bad Medicine

Bad Medicine (1985)

Viggo Mortensen

Liev Schreiber

Summer, 1969: men on the moon, and Woodstock happening near the cabin where the Kantrowitz family stays every summer. The camp's a Jewish fish-bowl. Marty's there weekends; he repairs TVs in Brooklyn. He's square and decent. His wife Pearl and his mother camp with Alison (she's 14) and their younger son. Pearl got pregnant at 17 and feels she missed her youth. While Alison experiences her first date, first kiss, first period, and stealing off to Woodstock with the lifeguard, Pearl has her own sexual awakening with "the blouse man," a peddler who sells at the camp. They too go to Woodstock. Marty confronts Pearl about the affair; she and he have to decide what to do next.—

A Walk on the Moon

A Walk on the Moon (1999)

John Turturro

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Hannah, Holly, and Lee are adult sisters from a show business family, their boozy actress mother who still believes she's an ingénue that can attract any man she wants, despite still being married to the girls' father, Evan. Hannah, on her second marriage to a man named Elliot, a financial advisor, is the success of the family, taking a break from her acting career to raise her children. Everyone turns to her for advice, while she never talks to others about what she needs or feels. Her first husband, Mickey, is a comedy show writer and hypochondriac, who is going through a crisis as he mistakenly believes he will die soon without a clear belief, as a non-practicing Jew, of what will happen to him in the afterlife. Single Holly is the insecure flaky sister, a struggling and thus continually unemployed actress, who has just started a catering business with her actress friend April, in order to do something constructive with her life. In her own security, Hannah even set up Holly and Mickey together following her own break-up with Mickey, Holly and Mickey's sole date which arguably was the worst night in both their lives. Holly turns to Hannah for everything in her life, including money, despite feeling Hannah overly judgmental about her failures. It's during a catering job that Holly and April meet David, an architect, who seems interested in both of them. Holly's insecurities may threaten her potential relationship with David and friendship with April. Lee, who collects unemployment, is metaphorically the family's piece of clay waiting for the right artist to mold her. She has long lived with artist Frederick, who has contempt for everyone except her, and as such relies on her for whatever his connection to the outside world. This already complex collective becomes even more complex when Elliot contemplates telling Lee that he has fallen in love with her. His attraction to her is as much feeling unneeded by Hannah, who he does not want to hurt regardless of what he decides to do with respect to Lee.—Huggo

Hannah and Her Sisters

Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)

Tom Hanks

Hank Azaria

Dan Castellaneta

Homer adopts a pig who's run away from Krusty Burger after Krusty tried to have him slaughtered, naming the pig "Spider Pig." At the same time, the lake is protected after the audience sinks the barge Green Day is on with garbage after they mention the environment. Meanwhile, Spider Pig's waste has filled up a silo in just 2 days, apparently with Homer's help. Homer can't get to the dump quickly so dumps the silo in the lake, polluting it. Russ Cargill, the villainous boss of the EPA, gives Arnold Schwarzenegger, president of the USA, 5 options and forces him to choose 4 (which is, unfortunately, to destroy Springfield) and put a dome over Springfield to prevent evacuation. Homer, however, has escaped, along with his family. Can he stop the evil Cargill from annihilating his hometown, and his family, who have been forced to return to Springfield?—movieguy3

The Simpsons Movie

The Simpsons Movie (2007)

Whoopi Goldberg

Frank Welker

Matthew Broderick

The events of The Lion King from Timon's and Pumbaa's points of view. The story of how they met and how they became best friends while having difficulties and obstacles in their lives. They rely on each other to get through the toughest of times.—RECB3

The Lion King 1½

The Lion King 1½ (2004)

William H. Macy

Wallace Shawn

Seth Green

A man reminisces about his youth, growing up in the 1930s and '40s in New York. We see and hear stories of himself, his parents, neighbours and friends and local celebrities. The common denominator in all the stories and in the overarching plot is the presence of the radio--it brought music, news, stories, escape, and comfort, made stars of everyday people, and was often the glue in families and relationships.—grantss

Radio Days

Radio Days (1987)

Eddie Murphy

John Leguizamo

Paul Giamatti

Dr. John Dolittle has the world in his hands: A beautiful wife at his side, two adorable daughters and a career that could not go better. One night, he nearly runs over a dog with his car. The dog yells "bonehead" and disappears. From then on, his childhood ability is back: To communicate with animals. Unfortunately, the word of Dolittle's ability is spreading quickly. Soon, many animals from rat to horse flock to his place to get medical advice. But his colleagues suspect he's going mad, and as the clinic Dolittle used to work for is about to being taken over for a huge amount of money, many decisions have to be made. Believe him? Put him into a mental institution? Sell the clinic? But also his family is close to breaking apart. Until a circus tiger falls seriously ill.—Julian Reischl

Doctor Dolittle

Doctor Dolittle (1998)

Jennifer Connelly

Hugh M. Hefner

Rebecca Romijn

With a natural photogenic poise and a vivaciously innocent risqué flair, there never was a pinup model like Bettie Page. Through Page's own words and interviews with her closest associates, we explore her extraordinary life growing up in a troubled childhood until she found a wild career as the Queen of the Pin-up Girls. In doing so, Page would challenge the paranoid sexual repression of the 1950s with uncommon grace until she walked away at the peak of her career. We also follow her quiet troubled later years struggling with unhappy marriages and mental illness that threaten to consume her even as she found a higher faith. Despite those challenges, Page's popularity would rise again in a more accepting time to become a celebrated icon of fearless sexuality and beauty.—Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)

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