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Magnolia

IMDB Rating: 8.00
53877 votes

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Magnolia is the study of nine lives in one day in San Fernando Valley, California. These nine lives all connect and revolve around the game show "What Do Kids Know?"(WDKK), where a team of three kids play against adults and everytime the show is on, there is a new team of adults and the kids remain; if they won the previous game. Earl Partridge (the late Jason Robards) produced "WDKK" when it was first on in the late 60s. He is dying of brain and lung cancer and is being taken care of by Phil Parma (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a male nurse. Linda, Earl's trophy wife (Julianne Moore) starts to fall in love with Earl for real, despite her cheating. Earl, rapidly dying on his bed, asks Phil to find his estranged son, Frank T.J. Mackey (Tom Cruise), who grew up hating Earl and now runs a seminar for single men, which teaches them how to seduce a woman and leave her... The host of "WDKK", Jimmy Gator (Philip Baker Hall), is also dying, but not as rapidly as Earl. He has a very rocky relationship with his daughter Claudia (Melora Waters), who sniffs crack 24/7 and accuses her father of sexually molesting her. Police Officer Jim (John C. Reilly) goes to Claudia's house after getting called about a disturbance. He falls in love with her right away... Stanley Specter (Jeremy Blackman) is a contestant on "WDKK", who is a genius and is being used by his father to make money. If Stanley and his team keep winning, they will set a record on the show and get tons of money. The record Stanley is trying to beat is the 1968 record set by Donnie Smith (William H. Macy), who had the exact same childhood when he was on the show and has now grown up to be a pathetic loser. He's been recently fired from his job, and is trying to find his way into happiness...
Actors
Frank T.J. MackeyTom Cruise
Sir Edmund William GodfreyPat Healy
Linda PartridgeJulianne Moore
Also posted in 1999, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (21)

Guinevere

IMDB Rating: 5.60
1142 votes

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Connie, an aging Bohemian photographer, meets mousy Harper, headed for Harvard Law from a high-powered San Francisco family, and immediately sees her beauty. He also guesses she has talent and invites her to be his pupil and share his bed. He's Alfred Stieglitz, she's Georgia O'Keefe, and he calls her his Guinevere. When she realizes she's the latest Guinevere in a string of ingenues, she bolts, only to return, sick of her family. She's blossoming, reading, learning, but hasn't yet taken her first photograph when he tells her they're going to L.A., broke, him drinking too much, to sell some photographs. On the trip, she finally snaps the shutter; so does her awe and dependence.
Actors
Harper SloaneSarah Polley
Connie FitzpatrickStephen Rea
Deborah SloaneJean Smart
Also posted in 1999, Drama, Romance | Comments (0)

An Ideal Husband

IMDB Rating: 6.70
6060 votes

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Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old, and, for him, takes the whole thing pretty seriously.
Actors
Lady Gertrude ChilternCate Blanchett
Miss Mabel ChilternMinnie Driver
Lord Arthur GoringRupert Everett
Also posted in 1999, Comedy, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (2)

Payback

IMDB Rating: 7.00
5 votes

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Porter is a small time but tough criminal, who's primary gig, is robbery. Now his friend Val Resnick needs $130,000 to pay back a criminal group known as "The Outfit". He tells Porter about some Asian couriers who carry $300,000, Porter agrees to it on the condition that they split the take. When they hit them, they discover that they only have $140,000, and Resnick says that, that's what they always carry. He pulls out a gun and shoots Porter in the back and leaves him to die. However, Porter manages to make it to a doctor, and get treated, when he recovers, he sets out to get Resnick and his share $70,000. He begins by approaching an associate of Resnick's. Porter then seeks out a prostitute named Rosie, whom he knew, she tells him where he can find Resnick, when he does he tells Resnick that he should go to his employers and ask them to give him back $70,000 of the money he gave them, Resnick says that's impossible but Porter "convinces" him to do it. Resnick then goes to his boss, Mr. Carter, who tells him that it's in their best interest to help Resnick deal with Porter. Carter orders one of his men to take Porter out but Porter's just too good for them. Resnick then asks his girlfriend who knows the people whom he and Porter stole the money from, and tells her to tell them where they can find him. When they do they are interrupted by two policemen, but they are crooked who are under the impression that Porter's going after $200,000-300,000 and are going to get it. Can Porter deal with all these people and still get his money.
Actors
James Coburn
PorterMel Gibson
Val ResnickGregg Henry
Also posted in 1999, Comedy, Crime, High IMDB rating, Short | Comments (0)

The Boondock Saints

IMDB Rating: 7.70
39856 votes

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Two Irish brothers accidentally killed mafia thugs. They turned themselves in and were released as heroes. They then see it as a calling by God and started knocking off mafia gang members one by one. Willem Dafoe plays the detective trying to figure out the killings, but the closer he was to catching the Irish brothers, the more he thinks the brothers are doing the right thing.
Actors
Paul SmeckerWillem Dafoe
Connor MacManusSean Patrick Flanery
Murphy MacManusNorman Reedus
Also posted in 1999, Action, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Eye of the Beholder

IMDB Rating: 4.40
7448 votes

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A nameless private eye (Ewan McGregor) shadows the same woman (who happens to be a serial killer of men) all over the U.S. for 10 + years, without her ever knowing and he strangely enough occasionally acts as her guardian angel.
Actors
Stephen WilsonEwan McGregor
Joanna ErisAshley Judd
Alexander LeonardPatrick Bergin
Also posted in 1999, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (8)

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

IMDB Rating: 7.40
20952 votes

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In Jersey City, an African American hit man follows "Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai." He lives alone, in simplicity with homing pigeons for company, calling himself Ghost Dog. His master, who saved his life eight years ago, is part of the local mob. When the boss' daughter witnesses one of Ghost Dog's hits, he becomes expendable. The first victims are his birds, and in response, Ghost Dog goes right at his attackers but does not want to harm his master or the young woman. On occasion, he talks with his best friend, a French-speaking Haitian who sells ice cream in the park, and with a child with whom he discusses books. Can he stay true to his code? And if he does, what is his fate?
Actors
Ghost DogForest Whitaker
LouieJohn Tormey
Sonny ValerioCliff Gorman
Also posted in 1999, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (6)

Prague Duet

IMDB Rating: 6.10
140 votes

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 Actors
Dr. Lauren GrahamGina Gershon
Jiri KolmarRade Serbedzija
Olivia WaltonPatricia Hodge
Also posted in 1998, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Merchants of Venus

IMDB Rating: 4.30
20 votes

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Alex Jakoff (Michael York) is a Russian immigrant looking for work in the USA when he finds a job as a stock boy in a sex-toy factory. The factory's elderly owner Mrs. Eppy (Nancy Fish) sees Alex as a nice, but lonely guy. So, she tries setting him up with her friend Catherine (Prunella Gee) an aging adult film star. Alex is smitten with Catherine on sight, but she is reluctant to commit to any relationship out of her profession. Meanwhile, when Eppy's business is threatened with being closed down, Alex decides to buy the place with money from his family whom are in the Russian mafia. But when the business fails anyway and his family of thugs want all their money back, Alex is forced to make some drastic decisions to stay alive.
Actors
Alex JakoffMichael York
Catherine Lucky McKayPrunella Gee
EppyNancy Fish
Also posted in 1998, Comedy | Comments (0)

Shadow Builder

IMDB Rating: 4.40
491 votes

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An evil Archbishop of the Catholic Church summons a demon to try and destroy the world. The summoners are killed, but the demon escapes to hunt down its needed victim. The victim soon turns out to be a child that has the potential to become a saint. After ravaging the town and turning its citizens upon themselves, the demon soon locates and captures his prey.
Actors
Jacob VasseyMichael Rooker
JenniferLeslie Hope
ShadowbuilderAndrew Jackson
Also posted in 1998, Horror | Comments (0)
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