The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019)
Zack Gottsagen is a young man with Down syndrome (also named Zak, no ‘c’) who is persistently trying to escape from his care facility in order to go meet his idol, a professional wrestler...
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Gifted (2017)
Set in small-town Florida, Chris Evans (Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Age of Ultron) stars as Frank Adler, the uncle and sole guardian of his late sister’s seven-year-old daughter, Mary (Grace, Independence Day: Resurgence), who he...
99 Homes (2014)
Set in 2010, Michael Shannon plays an opportunistic Orlando-based real estate agent named Richard ‘Rick’ Carver, who has gone from getting people into homes through sales to getting people out of homes through evictions,...
Jaws 3 (1983)
At the beginning of 1979, comedian Chevy Chase joked to a couple of junior execs at Universal Pictures, Thom Mount and Sean Daniels, that they should combine their two biggest recent successes and make,...
Because of Winn-Dixie (2005)
The formula isn’t hard to figure out: cute dog + cute kid = cute movie. It’s based on the young reader’s book of the same name by Kate DiCamillo, Because of Winn-Dixie may be...
The Distinguished Gentleman (1992)
The Distinguished Gentleman is one of those rare Eddie Murphy vehicles that has aged well, produced at a time when his superstardom was on the decline, during his critically dormant period between his last racy...
Out of Time (2003)
With the exception of Training Day, it’s generally a safe bet to avoid any vehicle in which Denzel Washington stars as a police officer. They usually rank as marginal entertainment (The Mighty Quinn, Devil in a...
The Devil’s Advocate (1997)
Kevin Lomax (Reeves) is a young and highly successful defense attorney in a small Florida town. His impressive 64-0 record catches the eye of a New York law firm, perhaps the most powerful firm in...
Body Heat (1981)
During a blistering heatwave, a small town Florida lawyer (Hurt, Broadcast News) picks up a well-to-do married woman (Turner, The Man with Two Brains) and begins a scorching affair hotter than the weather around them. Things get hotter...