Category Archives: 1991

Night on Earth

IMDB Rating: 7.50
6168 votes

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A collection of five stories involving cab drivers in five different cities. Los Angeles - A talent agent for the movies discovers her cab driver would be perfect to cast, but the cabbie is reluctant to give up her solid cab driver's career. New York - An immigrant cab driver is continually lost in a city and culture he doesn't understand. Paris - A blind girl takes a ride with a cab driver from the Ivory Coast and they talk about life and blindness. Rome - A gregarious cabbie picks up an ailing man and virtually talks him to death. Helsinki - an industrial worker gets laid off and he and his compatriots discuss the bleakness and unfairness of love and life and death.
Actors
Victoria SnellingGena Rowlands
CorkyWinona Ryder
Rock ManagerLisanne Falk
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The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear

IMDB Rating: 6.40
11434 votes

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Lt. Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) loves a mystery. Why are we here? Is there life after sex? Yes, Drebin tackles the big issues--and the biggest of all is how to stop devious Quentin Hapsburg's (Robert Goulet) plan to destroy the environment! Returning with Leslie Nielsen are Priscilla Presley as Jane, the woman who can melt a cheese sandwich from 20 paces; George Kennedy as the intrepid Capt. Ed Hocken; and O.J. Simpson, the man so famous a beverage is named after him, as hard-luck cop Nordberg. The gang's all here. And so are the laughs.
Actors
Lt. Frank DrebinLeslie Nielsen
Jane SpencerPriscilla Presley
Captain Ed HockenGeorge Kennedy
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King Ralph

IMDB Rating: 4.80
3441 votes

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When an accident obliterates the British royal family and most of its branches, a desperate geneological search discovers the next king: Ralph, a sleazy American lounge singer. Can Ralph measure up to the job, even with the help of loyal aristocrat Willingham?
Actors
Ralph JonesJohn Goodman
Sir Cedric WillinghamPeter O'Toole
Lord Percival GravesJohn Hurt
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Hot Shots!

IMDB Rating: 6.30
16352 votes

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Topper Harley, a top gun fighter pilot, is recalled to serve on the SS Essess. Topper's mission is to destroy Saddam Hussein's nuclear plants. Unfortunately, Topper is psychologically imbalanced and is sure to crack under pressure.
Actors
Lt. Topper HarleyCharlie Sheen
Lt. Kent GregoryCary Elwes
Ramada ThompsonValeria Golino
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Backdraft

IMDB Rating: 6.50
17650 votes

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As a child Brian McCafferty watched his firefighter father die. Years later he joins his brother, Steven in the force by becoming a rookie firefighter. There is a history of conflict between the two brothers that is heated up by working together. With this background, a series of suspicious fires are set, each made to kill a specific person. After becoming frightened at a fire, Brian pulls strings to get into an investigative office and finds that he is now not putting out the arsonist's fires, but trying to track him down.
Actors
Stephen 'Bull' McCaffrey/Dennis McCaffreyKurt Russell
Brian McCaffreyWilliam Baldwin
Donald 'Shadow' RimgaleRobert De Niro
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The Addams Family

IMDB Rating: 6.40
13202 votes

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The Addams step out of Charles Addams' cartoons. They live with all of the trappings of the macabre (including a detached hand for a servant) and are quite wealthy. Added to this mix is a crooked accountant and his loan shark and a plot to slip in the shark's son into the family as their long lost Uncle Fester. Can the false Fester find his way into the vault before he is discovered?
Actors
Morticia AddamsAnjelica Huston
Gomez AddamsRaul Julia
Uncle Fester/Gordon CravenChristopher Lloyd
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Thelma & Louise

IMDB Rating: 7.20
20504 votes

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Whilst on a short weekend getaway, Louise shoots a man who had tried to rape Thelma. Due to the incriminating circumstances, they make a run for it but are soon followed closely by the authorities including a local policeman who is sympathetic to their plight. The federal authorities, however, have less compassion and thus a cross country chase ensues for the two fugitives. Along the way, both women rediscover the strength of their friendship and suprising aspects of their personalities and self-strengths in the trying times.
Actors
Louise Elizabeth SawyerSusan Sarandon
Thelma Yvonne DickinsonGeena Davis
Investigator Hal SlocumbHarvey Keitel
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The Silence of the Lambs

IMDB Rating: 8.60
105280 votes

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A psychopath known as Buffalo Bill is kidnapping and murdering young women across the midwest. Believing it takes one to know one, the F.B.I. sends Agent Clarice Starling (Foster) to interview a demented prisoner who may provide psychological insight and clues to the killer's actions. The prisoner is psychiatrist, Dr. Hannibal Lector (Hopkins), a brilliant, murderous cannibal who will only help Starling if she feeds his morbid curiosity with details about her own complicated life. This twisted relationship forces Starling not only to confront her psychological demons, but leads her to face with a demented, heinous killer, an incarceration of evil so powerful, that she may not have the courage -- or strength -- to stop him!
Actors
Clarice StarlingJodie Foster
Dr. Hannibal LecterAnthony Hopkins
Jack CrawfordScott Glenn
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Hook

IMDB Rating: 5.80
22996 votes

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Peter Pan (Williams) has grown up to be a cut-throat merger and acquisitions lawyer, and is married to Wendy's granddaughter. Captain Hook (Hoffman) kidnaps his children, and Peter returns to Never Land with Tinkerbell (Roberts). With the help of her and the Lost Boys, he must remember how to be Peter Pan again in order to save his children by battling with Captain Hook once again.
Actors
Gwyneth Paltrow
Glenn Close
Capt. James S. HookDustin Hoffman
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Life Stinks

IMDB Rating: 4.90
1659 votes

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A rich businessman makes a bet he can survive on the streets of a rough Los Angeles neighborhood for 30 days completely penniless. During his stay he discovers another side of life and falls in love with with a homeless woman.
Actors
MollyLesley Ann Warren
Vance CrasswellJeffrey Tambor
PritchardStuart Pankin
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