Reality Bites (1994)
Designed to have an underlying commentary about what it’s like to be 20-something in the mid-1990s, Reality Bites does contain a few insights, but not nearly enough to be able to lay its claim as...
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The MatchMaker (1997)
The MatchMaker is a very by-the-numbers rom-com (despite the tagline of it being a romantic comedy for people who don’t like them) that is only modestly successful for genre fans because it embraces the tried-and-true...
200 Cigarettes (1999)
200 Cigarettes is set on New Year’s Eve, 1981, in the East Village of NYC. Several young people are heading to a New Year’s Eve party with their problems and stories, many of them crossing...
Mystery Men (1999)
In a city of comical superheroes, its most prominent, Captain Amazing (Kinnear, As Good As It Gets), gets captured by its most feared villain, Casanova Frankenstein (Rush, Elizabeth). A fledgling crew of ineptitude band together to...
Clay Pigeons (1998)
Clay is setup by the husband of the woman he’s having an affair when hubby commits suicide and tries to make it look like Clay killed him. Clay wants no one to suspect so...
Permanent Midnight (1998)
An adaptation of Jerry Stahl’s autobiography, a Hollywood TV writer whose life comes crashing down after becoming addicted to heroin. A very impressive dramatic debut for comedian Stiller, and a well-crafted and directed film...
Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion (1997)
Two blonde airheads living in LA hear about their 10 year high school reunion in Tucson and set out on flaunting the success they never achieved in real life by making up stories of...
Cop Land (1997)
Crime and corruption invade the small New Jersey town of Garrison in the form of NYPD officers who have moved there to find a safe haven from the anxieties in the city. Stallone plays...
The Cable Guy (1996)
Ah, yes. The old Strangers on a Train formula. Unassuming good guy gets mixed up with a well-meaning but clinging psychotic who invades every aspect of his life and when told to go away determines to...