Category: 1990s

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1990s / Drama / Romance

The Age of Innocence (1993)

Based on Edith Wharton’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of 1920, The Age of Innocence paints a rather unflattering portrait of a society repressed, where upbringing and social standing marked the actual difference between favor and failure among...

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1990s / Comedy / Thriller

Bullets Over Broadway (1994)

It’s the 1920s, the Jazz Age in New York.  Struggling intellectual playwright David Shayne (Cusack, The Grifters) finally has the chance to earn his first Broadway production, but to have the finances to see his dream...

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1990s / Action / Comedy / Fantasy / Romance

Heart Condition (1990)

Bob Hoskins plays bigoted cop Jack Moony, who spends much of his time becoming irate, eating the worst foods, chain-smoking, and swilling in booze.  It eventually leads to a stroke.  Moony is lucky enough...

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1990s / Action / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy

Super Mario Bros. (1993)

Since debuting in the video game “Donkey Kong” in 1981, Mario had become a celebrity, emblazoned on lunch boxes, pajamas, underwear, bedsheets, and starring in a couple of kids’ TV shows. Polls proclaimed Mario...

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1990s / Comedy / Musical

House Party (1990)

I suppose that target demographics count for a great deal when it comes to the entertainment value that a film like House Party provides, so take this review for what it’s worth.  At the time this...

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1990s / Comedy / Drama / Sports

A League of Their Own (1992)

As time goes on, my fondness for A League of Their Own grows, and only a waning voice in the back of my mind keeps me from giving it the vaunted 5-star rating.  Obviously, not everyone...

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1990s / Comedy / Drama / Mystery / Thriller

The Player (1992)

Tim Robbins (Cadillac Man, Tapeheads) plays hotshot Hollywood studio exec Griffin Mill, who believes that he may soon be on the outs with the studio now that they’ve hired another up-and-comer in Larry Levy (Gallagher, Sex...

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1990s / Mystery / Thriller

The Game (1997)

You have to concede at least a certain brilliance to any consciously manipulative film in which a man looks into the eyes of a puppet, only for the puppet (represented by a dummy, a...

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1990s / Comedy / Thriller

Payback (1999)

Two small time thieves named Val (Henry, Star Trek: Insurrection) and Porter (Gibson, Lethal Weapon 4) put the moves on a Chinese gang to steal $140,000.  They are supposed to split it evenly, but Val needs the money...