Category Archives: 1997

RocketMan

IMDB Rating: 5.10
2433 votes

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Fred Z. Randall is geeky and obnoxious spacecraft designer, who gets the chance to make his dream come true and travel to Mars as a member of the first manned flight there.
Actors
Fred Z. RandallHarland Williams
Julie FordJessica Lundy
'Wild Bill' OverbeckWilliam Sadler
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The Ugly

IMDB Rating: 6.40
1078 votes

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Simon is a confessed serial killer who spent the last five years in a mental hospital because of his state. Dr.Karen Shoemaker wants to get through to him and starts visiting him in the hospital, and his previous life comes to us in flashbacks.
Actors
Simon CartwrightPaolo Rotondo
Dr. MarloweRoy Ward
PhillipPaul Glover
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Bottom Live 3: Hooligan’s Island

IMDB Rating: 7.60
230 votes

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Filmed in Bristol during their '97 stage tour, Adrian Edmondson and Rik Mayall again adopt their characters of Eddie and Richie from the television series "Bottom", this time being stranded on a desert island with no food, and even worse, no booze or pornography to keep them occupied. Things get even worse during the second act when they discover that a French visitor has left a large nuclear device on the island during the night to conduct weapons testing in the pacific.
Actors
Edward HitlerAdrian Edmondson
Richard RichardRik Mayall
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Anna Karenina

IMDB Rating: 5.90
1464 votes

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Anna is a young and elegant wife of Mr. Karenin, who is wealthy and old. She meets the handsome Count Vronsky. Anna and Vronsky fall in love with each other, and he comes to be with her in St. Petersburg. They are very happy together and make a great looking couple, but soon their happiness gets under social pressures. Anna is hopelessly begging Mr. Karenin for a divorce, but he wants to keep the mother of their child. She has another baby born from her lover Vronsky. Conflict between her untamed desires and painful reality causes her a depression...
Actors
Anna KareninaSophie Marceau
VronskySean Bean
LevinAlfred Molina
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Boogie Nights

IMDB Rating: 7.70
45529 votes

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Everyone's born with one special thing, and Eddie Adams uses his humongous "asset" to take the world of film pornography by storm. Things get ugly though when success leads to drugs and ruin. Will Dirk clean up and get back on top? Will Amber see her son? Will Rollergirl ever take off her skates?!
Actors
Maurice T. RodriguezLuis Guzmán
Jack HornerBurt Reynolds
Amber Waves/MaggieJulianne Moore
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Breakdown

IMDB Rating: 6.20
16 votes

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Jeff and Amy Taylor are moving to California and must drive across the country. When they find themselves stranded in the middle of a desert with hardly anyone or anything around, their trip comes to a sudden halt. Amy had taken a ride with a friendly trucker to a small diner to call for help, but after a long time, Jeff becomes worried. He finds that no one in the diner has seen or heard from his wife. When he finds the trucker who gave Amy the ride, the trucker swears he has never seen her. Now Jeff must attempt to find his wife, who has been kidnapped and is being held for ransom. But who can he trust?
Actors
Jeffrey 'Jeff' TaylorKurt Russell
Warren 'Red' Barr, Gang Truck DriverJ.T. Walsh
Amy TaylorKathleen Quinlan
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The Odyssey

IMDB Rating: 6.70
2434 votes

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This lavish small-screen adaptation of Homer's ancient epic—replete with exotic Maltese and Turkish locations, state-of-the-art special effects, and many bronzed muscles gleaming with sweat—chronicles the voyage home of a Trojan hero, Odysseus King of Ithaca, and includes many more scenes of his faithful, beautiful wife Penelope dodging leering suitors at home than Homer ever composed!
Actors
OdysseusArmand Assante
PenelopeGreta Scacchi
AthenaIsabella Rossellini
Also posted in Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Wishmaster

IMDB Rating: 5.00
4417 votes

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In ancient Persia, an evil creature called the Djinn wreaks havoc on a local kingdom before being sealed inside a stone - a fire opal. Centuries later, the stone, encased in a statue, is discovered when the statue is broken apart in a loading accident. A young gemologist, Alexandra Amberson, examines the jewel to appraise it. But she unwittingly awakes the horrible Djinn inside. Soon the Djinn is loose on the streets, twisting people's wishes and and killing them so he can steal their souls. Eventually the Djinn disguises himself as an elegant man-about-town, Nathaniel Demarest. In both human & Djinn form, he pursues Alexandra to trick her into making three wishes, to enable his unholy legions to conquer the Earth...
Actors
Alexandra AmbersonTammy Lauren
The Djinn/Nathaniel DemerestAndrew Divoff
Raymond BeaumontRobert Englund
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A Life Less Ordinary

IMDB Rating: 6.30
12924 votes

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Ewan McGregor stars as a cleaning man in L.A. who takes his boss's daughter hostage after being fired and replaced by a robot. Two "angels" who are in charge of human relationships on earth, offer some unsolicited help to bring this unlikely couple together. The "angels" are so successful that the daughter soon turns on her father in order to save her captor.
Actors
Robert LewisEwan McGregor
Celine NavilleCameron Diaz
O'ReillyHolly Hunter
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Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

IMDB Rating: 7.10
52506 votes

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Austin Powers (Myers) is a 60's spy who is cryonically frozen and released in the 1990's. The world is a very different place for Powers. Unfortuantly for Austin, everyone is no longer sex-mad. Although he may be in a different decade, his mission is still the same. He has teamed up with Vanessa Kensington (Hurley) to stop the evil Dr. Evil (Myers), who was also frozen in the past. Dr. Evil stole a nuclear weapon and is demanding a payment of (when he realises its the 90's) 100 billion dollars. Can Austin Powers stop this madman? or will he caught up with Evil's henchman, with names like Alotta Fagina and Random Task? Only time will tell!
Actors
Austin Powers/Dr. EvilMike Myers
Vanessa KensingtonElizabeth Hurley
Basil ExpositionMichael York
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