Outrageous Fortune (1987)
Although the subgenre had been around almost as long as talkies were, Outrageous Fortune is notable for being the first “buddy comedy” from Hollywood to boast two female actors as the stars. There are...
Tagged: Peter Coyote
E.T.: The Extraterrestrial (1982)
E.T.: The Extraterrestrial starts in a forest outside a California suburb. An alien spacecraft lands, and several extraterrestrials emerge, gathering flora samples. Suspicious humans arrive, the aliens escape, leaving one behind. He hides in...
Jagged Edge (1985)
In San Francisco, a rich heiress and her maid are found murdered, leaving the husband everything, including the accusation for the killings. That man is Jack Forrester (Bridges, Starman), whose marriage allowed him to rise...
Resurrecting the Champ (2007)
With a convincing rasping wheeze, Samuel L. Jackson (Home of the Brave, Snakes on a Plane) shows off that he has range beyond playing a bad-ass with Resurrecting the Champ, a well-acted but rather formulaic story...
A Walk to Remember (2002)
Raise the number of stars by one if you are female and another two if you are under 16. This is yet another example of filmmaking by emotion over substance that makes my salty...
Random Hearts (1999)
A plane crashes on the way to Miami, killing everyone on board. The spouses of a DC Internal Affairs cop (Ford) and a New Hampshire congresswoman (Thomas) are among the victims. It turns out that they...
Erin Brockovich (2000)
Based on a true story. Erin Brockovich (Roberts) is a struggling mother of three who bulldozes her way into working for a small law firm, and uncovers a possible coverup involving a powerful multi-billion dollar...
Sphere (1998)
Michael Crichton began writing “Sphere” in 1969 as a conceptual follow-up idea after his best-selling novel, “The Andromeda Strain”. He liked sci-fi stories where aliens wouldn’t resemble humans in any way. Whereas “The Andromeda...