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The
Pink Panther (2006)
In this new Inspector Clouseau
adventure, the incompetent French detective (Martin) investigates
the murder of the nation's soccer team coach while also looking
into the disappearance of the famous Pink Panther diamond, the
national treasure of the nation of Lugash.
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Jiminy
Glick in La La Wood (2005)
Jiminy Glick (Martin Short), an
entertainment critic for a television station in Butte, Montana,
arrives at the Toronto Film Festival, a complete unknown, intent
on finding fame among the rich, famous and fabulous. His dreams of
becoming the most celebrated and renowned star interviewer are
realized when he is granted an exclusive with elusive young
megastar Ben DiCarlo (Corey Pearson). This catapults Jiminy from
obscurity to being the most talked about guy in town. Filmmakers
and studio executives want to schmooze him and every actor wants
to be interviewed by him, including fading Hollywood star Miranda
Coolidge (Elizabeth Perkins). When Miranda is later found dead in
Jiminy's bed, he thinks he is to blame and suddenly gets embroiled
in a murder mystery whodunit complete with sex, scandal, rappers
and glamorous celebrities.
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De-Lovely
(2004)
"De-lovely" is an
original musical portrait of American composer Cole Porter filled
with his unforgettable songs. In the film, Porter is looking back
on his life as if it was one of his spectacular stage shows, with
the people and events of his life becoming the actors and action
onstage. Through legendary hits like “Night and Day,”
“It’s De-lovely,” and “In the Still of the Night,”
Porter’s elegant, excessive past comes to light – including
his deeply complicated relationship with his wife and muse, Linda
Lee Porter. Directed by Academy Award®-winner Irwin Winkler from
a script by Jay Cocks and starring Oscar®-winner Kevin Kline,
Ashley Judd, and Jonathan Pryce in addition to some of today’s
biggest rock and pop music stars, "De-lovely" is a
celebration of Porter’s music as well as an exploration of the
artist’s journey and the undying power of love.
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The
Emperor's Club (2002)
Based on the short story "The
Palace Thief" by Ethan Canin, Kevin Kline stars as William
Hundert, a passionate and principled Classics professor who finds
his tightly-controlled world shaken and inexorably altered when a
new student, Sedgewick Bell (Emile Hirsch), walks into his
classroom. What begins as a fierce battle of wills gives way to a
close student-teacher relationship, but results in a life lesson
for Hundert that will still haunt him a quarter of a century
later.
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Orange
County (2002)
A smart high school student with
his heart set on going to Stanford is horrified when his guidance
counselor accidentally sends the wrong transcript with his college
application. He spends the rest of the film trying to prove that
he's actually a good student with a terrific grade point average.
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Life
as a House (2001)
George Monroe (Kevin Kline) is a
middle-aged architect who is confronted with life-changing news
and seizes the opportunity to begin living on his own terms. In
the process of changing himself, those he was previously alienated
from, including his ex-wife (Kristin Scott Thomas) and troubled
teenage son (Hayden Christensen), begin gravitating back to him,
only to find their own lives affected in the most unexpected ways.
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The
Anniversary Party (2001)
Taking place over the course of
one night, The Anniversary Party is a serio-comic, sometimes
scathing inspection of a group of friends. Joe and Sally Therrian
have a party to celebrate several important junctures in their
marriage: their sixth anniversary, their decision to start a
family and their reconciliation after a yearlong separation. They
have invited their closest friends, their past and current
temptations, and (to avoid a lawsuit) their contentious neighbors.
An unexpected gift sends the party spiraling out of control and
unleashes an explosion of painful confessions. The celebration
becomes a scorching dissection of a marriage on the brink.
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The
Road to El Dorado (2000)
Tulio and Miguel, a pair of
two-bit con men, believe they have found their path to fortune and
glory when they win a map to El Dorado, the legendary City of
Gold. There's only one problem they've wound up locked in the brig
on a ship of the Spanish explorer Cortes. After a daring escape,
with the help of a clever war horse named Altivo, they manage to
stumble onto El Dorado only to find their troubles are just
beginning. The High Priest Tzekel-Kan proclaims them to be gods,
plotting to use their fortuitous arrival to take power from the
Chief. To sustain the ruse and get the gold, Tulio and Miguel must
enlist the aid of the beautiful native Chel, who matches them
con-for-con. But time is running out, and even as they fulfill
their dreams of gold, their friendship and the very fate of El
Dorado hang in the balance.
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Wild
Wild West (1999)
Barry Sonnenfeld is reunited with
his MEN IN BLACK star Will Smith in this gadget-soaked romp based
(loosely) on the 1960s television show. WILD WILD WEST supplies
many impressive visuals (thanks to brilliant production designer
Bo Welch) and some hearty laughs. Will Smith is James West, a
Civil War hero and U.S. marshal inclined to shoot first and ask
questions later. His partner is the wacky inventor and
pseudointellectual Artemus Gordon (Kevin Kline). The team is
created when the world’s leading scientists are kidnapped by a
diabolical madman named Dr. Arliss Loveless (Kenneth Branagh), and
President Ulysses S. Grant (also played by Kevin Kline) wants his
two best men on the job. Loveless’s machines have the creepy fun
feeling of EDWARD SCISSORHANDS (Welch again)--many of them have a
spider motif--and Artemus Gordon rivals him with his own fun
inventions. An odd but enjoyable blend of science fiction and
old-school Western, WILD WILD WEST is packed with cool images and
slick action sequences.
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A
Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)
It all begins when Hermia and
Lysander flee deep into the forest to escape Hermia's father,
Egeus, who wishes Hermia to marry Demetrius. Demetrius himself
bicycles into the woods to follow his true love Hermia. Demetrius
is soon followed by yet another desperate lover: Helena, who
adores Demetrius but finds her affections dreadfully unrequited.
Crashing and flailing, and falling into mud puddles, the foursome
find themselves near the secret home of the fairies, where water
nymphs and satyrs party into the night at the fairy bars and
cafes. Chaos ensues when the trickster Puck (Stanley Tucci)
administers a secret love potion-causing the lovers to
mix-and-match with outrageous results. Meanwhile, a band of actors
come to the same woods to put on a play-a play that is interrupted
when its star actor Bottom becomes a strange pawn in the love
battles between Oberon, King of the Fairies, and Titania his
Queen.
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The
Big Chill (1998)
A re-release of the 1983 classic.
The gathering of old college friends for a funeral brings out
their real personalities.
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The
Ice Storm (1997)
Its 1973 in New Canaan,
Connecticut, and Ben and Elena Hood are feeling the destabilizing
winds of change and moral quandary blow through their wealthy
suburb. As Ben carries on a discreet affair with neighbor Janey
Carver, his teenage kids explore their own sexual boundaries--all
against the cultural backdrop of Watergate, mind-altering drugs,
and the fashion excess of the seventies. The night an ice storm
sweeps into town, the delicate web of emotions and honor which
binds these people is tested to its breaking point.
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In
& Out (1997)
Howard Brackett's high school
English students are astonished. Is it really true that their
favorite high school teacher may be gay? But hey, he can't be gay;
he's about to get married! Then again, he also teaches the drama
class and boy, does he love those Barbra Streisand records... It
all happened to Howard faster than you could say Don't Ask, Don't
Tell. One of his former students became a Hollywood superstar, and
clumsily called Howard's sexuality into question--on the Academy
Awards telecast, no less. Instantly Howard's tranquil life in
Greenleaf, Indiana has turned upside down. Greenleaf has now
become the scene of a media-feeding frenzy with Howard as bait.
Peter Malloy, a slick and aggressive TV reporter, is determined to
move in for the kill and get Howard to speak the truth. Meanwhile,
Howard is only days away from his wedding to Emily Montgomery, the
fiancee he's managed to hold at bay a full three years.
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Fierce
Creatures (1997)
This reunion of the cast of A FISH
CALLED WANDA is not a sequel, but features the trademark humor of
John Cleese, Kevin Kline, and Jamie Lee Curtis, including Kline's
genius double performance as an aging media mogul and his buffoon
of a son. A riotous and scatterbrained story of frantic English
zoo keeper (John Cleese) whose demesne is threatened by a
tightfisted down sizing Australian media mogul, Vince McCain
(Kevin Kline). A visit by the mogul's bumbling son, Rod McCain
(Kevin Kline again) prompts a rash of changes at the zoo,
including the order that the animals be made more fierce. In an
effort to attract a huge parade of visitors the corporate moguls
want to create a theme park atmosphere with only violent animals
on display. In protest, the liberal zoo keepers fight back in a
hilarious effort to prove the ferocious temperament of animals
like the meerkat, deemed the "piranhas of the desert."
When Willa Weston (Jamie Lee Curtis), a hard-nosed marketing
genius, is sent to the zoo to look after the operation she is
forced to look after Rod, as he creates marketing mayhem, with
false celebrity sponsors, Disneyland-like costumes for the zoo
keepers and advertisements run amok. As Willa spends more time
around the downtrodden zoo keepers and their fearless leader, she
realizes that the McCain empire must be stopped, coming up with a
delirious plan to quell the media moguls and take back the zoo.
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Looking
for Richard (1996)
Moving from New York's streets to
London's reconstructed Globe Theater, and talking with everyone
from strangers encountered by chance to scholars and celebrated
actors, Al Pacino serves as the voluble, mercurial center of a
film that interweaves commentary on Shakespeare with analysis of,
rehearsals for, and key segments from, a film version of Richard
III.
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French
Kiss (1995)
A woman with a phobia about flying
gets caught up with a shady French smuggler while flying to Paris
to retrieve her wayward fiance. Director Lawrence Kasdan's first
stab at romantic comedy.
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Princess
Caraboo (1994)
The true story of an exotic woman
with a mysterious past who may or may not be a princess. Her
arrival in a British village in 1817 caused quite a stir in the
British aristocracy. A delightful fairy-tale comedy, and touching
family entertainment.
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Dave
(1993)
A presidential look-alike finds
himself in the oval office "filling in" for the
president who has fallen ill. Lacking the political savvy of the
real president, "Dave" proceeds to govern the country
with a refreshingly straight-forward approach. Academy Award
Nominations: Best (Original) Screenplay.
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Chaplin
(1992)
Biographical film on Charlie
Chaplin: from his impoverished youth in London through the
formative years of film and his emergence in Hollywood's Golden
Age, up until his acceptance, late in life, of a special Academy
Award.
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Consenting
Adults (1992)
Richard and Priscilla Parker
(Kevin Kline and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) are an ordinary
suburban couple whose lives are invaded and rocked by their
fast-living, secret-bearing, new neighbors, Eddy and Kay Otis
(played by Kevin Spacey and Rebecca Miller) in this psychological
thriller with intriguing plot twists. The film is rife with themes
of paranoid mayhem, manipulation and deception. Spacey, in one of
his first feature roles, gives a showy but charismatic performance
as the evil neighbor, creating a smooth and charming surface
appeal worthy of an Alfred Hitchcock villain.
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Stories
to Remember - Merlin and the Dragons (1991)
Actor Kevin Kline narrates this
story of young Arthur who doesn't understand why pulling a sword
from a stone qualifies him for kingship. Old Merlin tells him a
story of his childhood, when he first learned to trust in himself:
a story about fighting dragons, clashing armies, and a young boy's
prophetic dreams. Merlin's story inspires young Arthur with
confidence.
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Grand
Canyon (1991)
Director Lawrence Kasdan's GRAND
CANYON is an introspective tale of the unlikely friendship of two
men from different worlds brought together when one (Kevin Kline)
finds himself in jeopardy in the other's (Danny Glover) rough
neighborhood. Other characters from disparate Los Angeles origins
(including Steve Martin, Alfre Woodard, and Mary-Louise Parker)
also cross paths in this soul-searching lament of modern social
conflicts.
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Soapdish
(1991)
Jealousy and intrigue, on and off
the set of a popular daytime soap opera. Celeste Talbert (Sally
Field) is the neurotic diva of "The Sun Also Sets," but
her popularity with the show's fans does not extend to her
relationships with her envious co-stars. Sultry Montana Moorehead
(Cathy Moriarty) has set her eyes on the soap's top spot, and she
even offers to sleep with the show's nervous young producer if
he'll have Celeste written off the program. In a moment of
inspiration, the horny executive decides to bring Talbert's hated
ex-lover, Jeffrey Anderson (Kevin Kline), back onto the series,
with the hope of driving the fragile star to an early retirement.
The fact that Anderson's character was decapitated in an earlier
episode is seen as a difficult, but not insurmountable, obstacle.
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I Love
You to Death (1990)
Based on an incredible true story,
Lawrence Kasdan's film tells the tale of a woman out to murder her
cheating husband... who proves to be invincible. Married
chauvinist Joey Boca (Kevin Kline) can't stop sleeping with other
women. When his humdrum wife Rosalie (Tracey Ullman) finally
realizes what's going on, she's decidedly unhappy. Goaded by her
mother-in-law Nadja, Rosalie decides that there's only one logical
solution to this problem: kill Joey. But this seemingly simple
task turns into a major problem, as Joey unwittingly survives
attempt after attempt on his life by Rosalie, Nadja, Rosalie's
secret admirer Devo, and two intelligence-free hitmen. Will anyone
succeed in ridding the world of the invincible Joey Boca? Or will
he and Rosalie reconcile instead?
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The
January Man (1989)
An underrated film penned by Oscar
winner (Moonstruck) John Patrick Shanley about a modern day
Sherlock Holmes asked by his policeman brother to discover a
serial killer's identity before he strikes again. His romance with
the Mayor's daughter has a touch of poetry that lifts the film
above formula.
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A Fish
Called Wanda (1988)
In A FISH CALLED WANDA, veteran
director Charles Crichton and scriptwriter-star John Cleese create
a dazzling quilt from various strands of English and American
comedy. The plot, in which four disparate characters attempt a
daring heist, comes from Ealing caper comedies, such as
Crichton’s own THE LAVENDER HILL MOB. Cleese and Michael Palin,
as the hit man with a stutter and a love of animals, come from the
anarchic tradition of Monty Python. The movie pays savage tribute
to another Ealing comedy, THE LADYKILLERS, as Palin attempts to
kill a witness to the gang’s getaway. The glamorous con woman
(Jamie Lee Curtis) is from Preston Sturges’s great comedy THE
LADY EVE, while Kevin Kline provides his own unique feverish comic
intensity.
But, in the midst of this breathless comedy, something else
happens. The barrister, Archie Leach (Cleese), who is defending
one of the gang, is jolted out of his tight-laced British
existence by Curtis’s life force. And Curtis--like Barbara
Stanwyck in THE LADY EVE--falls into her own trap: falling in love
with the man she’s conning. The 78-year-old Crichton never
before had such rich material. He times everything in this
brilliant comedy with the precision of a Swiss watch.
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Cry
Freedom (1987)
This is the retelling of the life
of South African anti-apartheid activist Stephen Biko as seen
through the eyes of his friend, liberal white newspaper editor
Donald Woods. Academy Award Nominations: 3, including Best
Supporting Actor--Denzel Washington.
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Violets
Are Blue (1986)
A touching, bittersweet love story
of two high school sweethearts who go their own separate ways only
to meet once again by a chance reunion and find that their
feelings for each other are still as strong as before although one
of them is now married.
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Silverado
(1985)
As the result of a chance meeting,
four cowboys on horseback are drawn together to defeat a corrupt
frontier sheriff and his vicious posse. An enjoyable high-spirited
western. Starring Kevin Kline, Danny Glover, Brain Dennehy and
Rosanna Arquette, and written and directed by Lawrence Kasdan (THE
ACCIDENTAL TOURIST). Academy Award Nominations: Best Sound, Best
Original Score.
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The
Big Chill (1983)
Seven members of a close-knit
college group of friends are reunited fifteen years later after
the eighth commits suicide. The funeral and reception lead to an
extended weekend for all as they decide to spend time together
pondering the recent events. Amidst a barrage of Motown classics,
the members each offer little tidbits about their current lives
while reminiscing about the past. In college, the absent and
recently deceased Alex was the biggest and brightest star of the
bunch but never seemed to get anywhere after being set loose in
the real world. The slow acknowledgement that their champion never
materialized leads the group in ever widening circles of thought.
Discussions of their past lives and current bring about the
realization that each has changed so much while remaining
remarkably similar. Despite the tragic circumstances, the group
disperses with renewed friendships and a newfound appreciation for
life.
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The
Pirates of Penzance (1983)
This Broadway version of the
classic Gilbert & Sullivan musical comedy features almost the
entire original cast. An honest young man is forced into piracy by
a cruel twist of fate, but ultimately manages to return to the
right side of the law, and win the girl of his dreams.
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Sophie's
Choice (1982)
Faithfully adapted from Willian
Styron’s best-selling novel, Alan J. Pakula’s handsome
production charts the course of an eccentric and intense love
triangle in 1947 Brooklyn, New York. Meryl Streep won an Academy
Award for her carefully nuanced performance and perfect accent as
Sophie, a Polish survivor of WWII concentration camps who harbors
a devastating secret. The film is told through the eyes of
aspiring Southern author Stingo (Emmy-nominated Peter MacNichol of
TV's ALLY MCBEAL) who moves to New York and strikes a friendship
with Sophie and her boyfriend Nathan--played by Kevin Kline in his
debut screen role.
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