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Hugh Grant in his most memorable performance todate.
the movie's title refers to a radio telescope in a farmer's field in the outback town of Parkes, Australia. The Dish installation played a critical role in making it possible to bring live TV images of Neil Armstrong's first lunar steps to a worldwide audience of more than 600 million viewers. Geography and timing put Parkes in the ideal position on earth relative to the moon for receiving Apollo 11's signals. NASA collaborated with the Australians in to make it happen. But the true story brought out in this film is that the biggest TV show of the millennium almost didn't happen. Everything from local power failures in Parkes and a very rare wind storm on top of some attutudes at NASA made the Australians' part in broadcasting this event touch-and-go from the beginning.
Sam Neill in his most memorable performance as Cliff Buxton, the rock steady and competent chief scientist of The Dish. It is funny and heartwarming and essentially true.
Its the 70s, the main character is 15, she already feels like she's an alien in her own body, and her weird parents split. Her dad is an anal retentive psychology prof who has fallen in love with one of his students. Her mother is a clutter freek who really freeks when the split occurs. The daughter is Majandra Delfino of Roswell fame. The dad is Eugene Levy (bushy eyebrows, stiff) from . The mom is Linda Hamilton of fame.
In 1927, two French aviators take off from Paris to be the first to cross the Atlantic. Two weeks before Lindberg. They vanish. In 1999 Katie and her brother see the aviators. The flyers are doomed to repeat their flight over and over ever time the fog rolls in, unless Katie can help them finish their flight. Katie is 12, her dad was a test pilot killed in a test flight. Katie learns a lot about her dads nature and begins to come to grips with his death. Not a tear jerker but a wonderful story well worth seeing. Not interested in emotion? Don't bother.
I love ensembles. Lots of vignettes. Interesting. Funny. NY flavor.
British spoof from a where Miss Flora Poste (Kate Beckinsale of , , , ) finds herself orphaned and without means in the 1930s. Moving in with some half-savage relatives on a country farm, Flora is hardly daunted by their primitivism (as she might have been in a novel by Thomas Hardy) but instead takes charge and imposes hygiene, order, and good manners on the dirty, superstitious lot.
The Cuban boat lift leaves a young Marisa Tomei and Alfred Molina living in the Orange Bowl trying to start a new life in America. The Perez husband has spent 20 years in a Cuban jail - he was a plantation owner who destroyed his plantation. The young Tomei puts together a "family" - husband, child, grandfather to get to top of the sponsor list. The Perez husband has not heard from this wife, played by Anjelica Houston, in several years.
Bill Murray romantic fantasy about a wacky weatherman forced to relive one strange day over and over again, until he gets it right.
Robert Altman film - a mosaic film with crisscrossing lives. With:
Andie MacDowell of and
Bruce Davison of
Jack Lemmon of
Julianne Moore of and
Matthew Modine of
Anne Archer of
Jennifer Jason Leigh of and
Robert Downey Jr. of and
Madeleine Stowe of
Tim Robbins of and
Lily Tomlin of
Lori Singer of and
Funny Duddley Moore film I have laughed and laughed every time I see it. Worth a view. Some very very funny scenes.
I have seen this Robin Williams classic rated poorly. I believe its because it is classified as a comedy and it really isn't (exactly). Robin Williams plays THE car salesman who must sell 12 expensive cars in 1 day or loss his job (and lots of other things). High pressure. Wonderful performances by the supporting cast including Fran Drescher (the Nanny) and Tim Robbins ( and ) . Its riveting. Its bizarre. Watch it.
Nick Nolte and Martin Short in a stupid but funny film. Nolte's just out of prison, cashing his prison salary, when the bank is robbed and he is taken hostage by Short.
What can a young couple of likable, home-loving ghosts to do when a the New England home is taken over by trendy New Yorkers? They are simply not mean enough to scare them away. So they contract with a specialist in "bio-exorcism" to scare the family away. The teenage daughter is distinctly odd herself and forms a relationship with the dead couple. Funny. Those who commit suicide become bureaucrats in the afterlife. Generated a popular cartoon series based on the movie.
a lowly stable boy, Westley (Cary Elwes of ), pledges his love to the beautiful Buttercup (Robin Wright of and ), only to be abducted and reportedly killed by pirates while Buttercup is betrothed to the evil Prince Humperdinck. Even as Buttercup herself is kidnapped by a giant, a scheming criminal mastermind (Wallace Shawn), and a master Spanish swordsman (Mandy Patinkin), a mysterious masked pirate (could it be Westley?) follows in pursuit. As they sail toward the Cliffs of Insanity
virtually every famous fictional detective of the 1930s and 1940s congregate at the home of a mysterious fellow (Truman Capote) to try and solve the mystery of who's trying to kill them all. Peter Falk plays a very Bogart-like Sam Spade equivalent, James Coco is a Hercule Poirot wannabe, Peter Sellers does a Charlie Chan bit, David Niven and Maggie Smith are reflections of Nick and Nora
Wonderful version - Andy Griffith first major success in a stage play. Live broadcast from US Steel Hour.
The movie version with Don Knotts, Nick Adams and Myron McCormick.