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Fast Times at Ridgemont High

IMDB Rating: 7.10
22141 votes

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Follows a group of high school students growing up in southern California, based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe. Stacy Hamilton and Mark Ratner are looking for a love interest, and are helped along by their older classmates, Linda Barrett and Mike Damone, respectively. The center of the film is held by Jeff Spicoli, a perpetually stoned surfer dude who faces off with the resolute Mr. Hand, who is convinced that everyone is on dope.
Actors
Jeff SpicoliSean Penn
Brad HamiltonJudge Reinhold
Mike DamoneRobert Romanus
Also posted in 1982, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Candyman

IMDB Rating: 6.30
8874 votes

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Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen) is writing a paper on urban legends when she hears about the Candyman (Tony Todd), who was once an ex-slave-turned-artist name Daniel Robitaille, who had an affair his client's daughter. Robitaille's right hand was sawn off, he was covered in honey, and stung to death by bees. If anyone says the word "Candyman" five times in a mirror, he'll appear behind that person, a bloody hook as a replacement for his hand, and kill him. A series of unsolved murders is happening in the Cabrini Green projects and Helen is using this to help with her paper. The residents say the Candyman is to blame, but Helen doesn't believe it. Until she meets the man with a hook for a hand. Now, he's begun to murder her friends and no one believes her. Can Helen clear her name and stop the Canydman from killing anyone else?
Actors
Helen LyleVirginia Madsen
The Candyman/Daniel RobitailleTony Todd
Trevor LyleXander Berkeley
Also posted in 1992, Drama, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)

A Walk to Remember

IMDB Rating: 6.90
18906 votes

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Each spring in the little port town of Beaufort, North Carolina, Landon Carter remembers his senior year at Beaufort High and Jamie Sullivan, the girl who changed his life. Serious and conservative, Jamie was as far from cool as she could possibly be, and didn't care. Landon hung with the in-crowd an aimless, moody, reckless guy who breezed through school on looks and bravado and had no plans, no future and no faith in himself. When a prank goes terribly wrong landing a kid in the hospital, Landon is assigned to tutor a young student on the weekends and participate in the Drama Club's spring play. Clearly in over his head with both assignments, Landon is forced to ask Jamie for help. Soon, against his own expectations and the scorn of his friends, Landon finds himself falling in love with this outwardly plain girl who possesses a passion for life he never imagined possible.
Actors
Daryl Hannah
Shane West
Mandy Moore
Also posted in 2002, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Last Orders

IMDB Rating: 7.20
1831 votes

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1989, South London. Jack, an ebullient butcher, has died, and his last orders are to cast his ashes off the Margate Pier. His wife of 50 years, Amy, stays home, with the excuse of a visit to their mentally-disabled daughter. Jack's three closest friends, Ray, Vic, and Lenny - along with Jack's son Vince - head for Margate. Each has memories of Jack and of friendships, family, and conflicts. It's Vince's relationship with his dad that's the most complex, and Ray's long friendship with both Jack and Amy that holds things together. The last orders - to go to Margate and strew the ashes - become an invitation to recall what's done, what's left, and what's important.
Actors
Jack DoddsMichael Caine
Vic TuckerTom Courtenay
Lenny 'Len'David Hemmings
Also posted in 2001, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

The Shipping News

IMDB Rating: 6.70
11409 votes

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An inksetter in New York, Quoyle returns to his family's longtime home, a small fishing town in Newfoundland, with his young daughter, after a traumatizing experience with her mother, Petal, who sold her to an illegal adoption agency. Though Quoyle has had little success thus far in life, his shipping news column in the newspaper "The Gammy Bird" finds an audience, and his experiences in the town change his life. Then he meets the widow Wavey...
Actors
QuoyleKevin Spacey
Wavey ProwseJulianne Moore
Agnis HammJudi Dench
Also posted in 2001, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (2)

Up in Smoke

IMDB Rating: 6.40
6461 votes

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Two directionless musicans, a Chicano guitarist (Cheech Marin) and a White drummer (Tommy Chong), meet up in a chance encounter and embark on a series of odd adventures, including being the unwitting partcipants of a bizarre marijuana smuggling plot.
Actors
Pedro De PacasCheech Marin
Anthony 'Man' StonerTommy Chong
Arnold StonerStrother Martin
Also posted in 1978, Comedy, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)
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