Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)
Peter Sellers, who played the bumbling yet highly effective Inspector Clouseau, died on July 24, 1980, and to whom Trail of the Pink Panther, which was released 2.5 years after his death, would be dedicated....
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We Are Marshall (2006)
On the evening of November 14, 1970, an airplane crashed near an airport in West Virginia, killing all 75 passengers on board. Among the passengers were the majority of the Marshall University football team...
Cast Away (2000)
While finding many scenes of Cast Away to be fascinating, I must say that as a whole I was less than impressed with the end result. Tom Hanks gives an incredibly self-sacrificing performance, and is...
Jurassic Park III (2001)
In June 1998, Steven Spielberg announced he’d produce but not direct the third Jurassic Park feature. Halfway through The Lost World, Spielberg felt uninspired, as if slavishly cooking from a recipe. He had other...
Final Destination (2000)
Unlike most other films of its subgenre, this teen slasher pic actually has an original idea and thoughtful premise. It starts off with a class field trip to Paris that gets a boy named...
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...
Blast from the Past (1999)
A crashed plane is mistaken for a nuclear bomb explosion by an eccentric inventor and his family. In their attempts to get away before the world explodes, they go underground in their massive bomb...
Forces of Nature (1999)
For those who can’t get enough of that Out-of-Towners formula who have already seen Planes Trains and Automobiles, don’t worry. Forces of Nature is here to sate your appetite for madcap mayhem by hooking up two seemingly inseparable...
The Edge (1997)
A billionaire (Hopkins, Nixon) flies his supermodel wife (Macpherson, Batman & Robin) up to Alaska for a fashion shoot. While there the billionaire’s plane crashes in the middle of the deserted wilderness, leaving only the billionaire and the...