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Filmography
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I Could Never Be Your Woman (2006)
This movie follows
a mother (Pfeiffer) who falls for a younger man (Rudd) while her
daughter (Ronan) falls in love for the first time. Ullman plays
Mother Nature, who messes with their fates.
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Chasing Montana
(2006)
Two
doctors - a father and his daughter (Pfeiffer) go on a
vacation to Montana, which becomes a poignant and at
times amusing voyage of self discovery.
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Legendary Women On Film (2005)
Ten films with some of
Hollywood's most popular actresses are collected in
LEGENDARY WOMEN ON FILM. Included are MESMERIZED, LOVERS
AND LIARS, HOME TOWN STORY, TWO WOMEN, CHOICES, KILL
CRUISE, GINGER IN THE MORNING, MAYBE I'LL COME HOME IN
THE SPRING, POWER PASSION AND MURDER, and CALLIE AND
SON. See individual titles for details.
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Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
(2003)
Romance and Animation
1 hr. 25 min.
This movie follows one of the many adventures of the
famous Arabian sailor, Sinbad (Pitt) (which isn't one of
the seven great voyages documented elsewhere). The
adventure starts when Eris (Pfeiffer), the goddess of
Chaos, steals the "Book of Peace", and frames
Sinbad for the crime. Setting out to prove his innocence
(and save the life of his best friend, Proteus the
Shapeshifter, voiced by Fiennes), Sinbad travels to the
realm that Eris resides in, where he is challenged by
terrifying monsters which include a giant scorpion, a
giant serpent and the Roc, a 40-foot-tall bird made of
ice and snow. Even if Sinbad can defeat all of these
monsters, he also has to deal with the effects of Eris'
golden "Apple of Discord", which has the
ability to turn friends into enemies when thrown in
their midst. Zeta-Jones plays Marina, Proteus'
girlfriend, who stows away on Sinbad's ship to make sure
that he fulfills his mission.
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White Oleander (2002)
Drama
1 hr. 49 min.
White Oleander chronicles the life of Astrid (Alison
Lohman), a young teenager who journeys through a series
of foster homes after her mother (Michelle Pfeiffer)
goes to prison for committing a crime of passion. Set
adrift in the world, Astrid struggles to become her own
person while coming to terms with the challenges of
living life on her own.
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I Am Sam (2001)
Drama
2 hrs. 13 min.
Sam Dawson (Sean Penn) is a mentally-challenged
father raising his daughter Lucy (Dakota Fanning) with
the help of an extraordinary group of friends. As Lucy
turns seven and begins to intellectually surpass her
father, their close bond is threatened when their
situation comes to the attention of a social worker who
wants Lucy placed in foster care. Faced with a seemingly
unwinnable case, Sam vows to fight the legal system and
forms an unlikely alliance with Rita Harrison (Michelle
Pfeiffer), a high-powered, self-absorbed attorney who
takes his case pro bona as a challenge from her
colleagues. Together they struggle to convince the
system that Sam deserves to get his daughter back and,
in the process, fuse a bond that results in a unique
testament to the power of unconditional love.
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What Lies Beneath (2000)
Thriller
This Hitchcock-type suspense/thriller from director
Robert Zemeckis (FORREST GUMP, CONTACT, BACK TO THE
FUTURE) casts Harrison Ford as Dr. Norman Spencer and
Michelle Pfeiffer as his wife, Claire. Dr. Norman and
Claire are a quiet, loving couple living in the hills of
Vermont. Until Claire begins to see and hear what
appears to be a ghost of a young woman in their home.
Claire's life makes a turn for the worse as she obsesses
with finding out who and why this ghost is haunting her.
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The Deep End of the Ocean (1999)
Drama
2 hrs. 28 min.
In the middle of a crowded hotel lobby Beth
Cappadora looks away for a moment - and what happens in
that moment is every parent's nightmare - when her
three-year-old son Ben disappears.
THE DEEP END OF THE OCEAN portrays the joyful and
wrenching experiences of Beth and her husband Pat when
Ben mysteriously and miraculously reappears nine years
later, at the age of twelve, a happily adopted child
with no memory of his real parents or of his troubled
teenage brother Vincent.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)
Comedy and Drama
1 hr. 55 min.
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 Story of Us (1999)
Comedy, Drama and
Romance
Told in an engaging collage of direct camera
confessionals, flashbacks, roundtable discussions, and
montages, Rob Reiner's THE STORY OF US, a sweet romantic
comedy featuring solid performances by Bruce Willis and
Michelle Pfeiffer, examines the difficulty of preserving
marriage in America and the dual lives married couples
often must endure. The "us" are Ben and Katie
Jordan (Willis and Pfeiffer), a professional, and by all
appearances happily married, suburban couple with two
well-adjusted children, Erin and Josh; the
"story," however, is that their marriage is
actually crumbling at an alarming rate, a truth they
endeavor to hide from their loving kids. Luckily, they
can postpone the admission of dissolution because of the
children’s departure to summer camp, with the
possibility that things will work out in the ensuing
months. However, as time passes, tempers flare, Ben
moves out, Katie meets a charming divorcé at a cooking
class, and, as the inevitable return of Erin and Josh
closes to a week, there is no apparent hope of
resolution. Will the two be forced to present their kids
with an awful fact of life, or can they rediscover their
passion for each other and renew their love?
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The Prince of Egypt (1998)
Kids/Family and
Musical/Performing Arts
1 hr. 30 min.
A full-length, animated musical version of the story
of Moses. After being raised as the son of a Pharoah,
Moses learns that he is a Hebrew and must accept his
destiny as the leader of his people. Moses' brother
Rameses refuses to let the Hebrews go, and brings down
the wrath of God upon Egypt. A triumph of animated
storytelling and colorful design. Academy Award Winner:
Best Song, "When You Believe."
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A Thousand Acres (1997)
Drama
A THOUSAND ACRES, director Jocelyn Moorhouse's
screen adaptation of Jane Smiley's Pulitzer
Prize-winning novel, finds skeins of KING LEAR-like
conflict running through the bedrock of a midwestern
family. Jason Robards stars as Larry Cook, a powerful,
stoic Iowa farmer who decides to retire and split his
1,000 acres of land among his three daughters. His two
eldest daughters, Rose (Michelle Pfeiffer) and Ginny
(Jessica Lange), live and work on the farm and happily
accept the lucrative agreement, while the youngest,
Larry's favorite, Caroline (Jennifer Jason Leigh), has
abandoned farming life for a law career in Des Moines
and refuses to take part in the deal. Initially, Larry
is consumed with rage and shuts out Caroline while Rose
and Ginny go about running the farm with their dutiful
but greedy husbands. However, as Larry begins to lose
touch with his farming life, he loses touch with
reality, and his painful descent into madness leaves him
bitterly opposed to his daughters' ways of running the
farm. Paranoid and disillusioned, he decides to sue Rose
and Ginny with Caroline's help in an effort to regain
his patriarchal control. The lawsuit divides the family
forever, leaving Rose and Ginny to suffer alone while
realizing painful memories from their childhood. As Rose
and Ginny discover their own individual strengths in the
face of adversity, they learn how to survive on their
own, without the protection of the farm and the
suffocating presence of their father. Moorhouse's film
is an epic tale of loss and redemption that highlights
strong and earthy performances from Pfeiffer and Lange.
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One Fine Day (1996)
Comedy
1 hr. 45 min.
Melanie Parker is a career-minded architect/Super
Mom, taking on the demands of single parenting in New
York City. Meanwhile, Jack Taylor is a hard-driving
newspaper columnist/every-other-weekend Dad, challenging
the improprieties of City Hall. Having been let down in
the past, she has almost given up on men, except for the
adorable five-year old who calls her Mommy; and he
thinks that women are just fine... as long as they keep
their emotional distance. When they are inadvertently
thrown together for one chaotic day, the only thing they
have in common are identical cellular phones. The last
thing they need is to get involved with each other's
lives, jobs and kids. The last thing they expect is to
feel an attraction. But the next thing they know,
they're falling in love.
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To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
(1996)
Drama
Two years after the death of his wife Gillian
(Michelle Pfeiffer) in a boating accident, grieving
widower David (Peter Gallagher) discovers that his
obsession with her has alienated his sensitive teenage
daughter Rachel (Claire Danes) and caused him to lose
touch with reality. He learns, with the help of
Gillian's ghost, to relinquish the past and mend his
relationships with her other survivors. This sensitive
examination of grieving and loss, filmed on Nantucket,
was co-written by David E. Kelley, creator of ALLY
MCBEAL.
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Up Close and Personal (1996)
Drama
Aspiring on-air reporter Tally Atwater (Michelle
Pfieffer) may be lovely and ambitious, but she lacks
talent. That changes, however, after Warren Justice
(Robert Redford), a former White House correspondent
turned Miami news director, discovers her. As he
carefully guides her career to new heights, Warren and
Tally become increasingly attracted to each other, and
begin a romance. Soon, a star is born in Tally, who
rises through the ranks of network news - while Warren's
once-stellar career sinks into the depths of mediocrity.
Furthermore, Tally's ascension takes her away from her
lover/mentor, when she is forced to relocate to
Philadelphia. Tally struggles to stay afloat at her new
assignment while dodging jabs from Marcia McGrath (Stockard
Channing), a veteran warhorse reporter who jealously
protects her position as number one. Finally Warren
turns up to inspire Tally and the two partners begin a
new career together. However, on a routine assignment in
a Philadelphia prison Tally and her cameraman are taken
hostage in a prison riot and forced to endure hours of
intense violence.Tally bravely covers the groundbreaking
story from within the walls of the collapsing prison as
Warren looks on from outside, guiding her through her
first national broadcast. This incredible act of bravery
leads to Tally's eagerily anticipated advancement to a
national network newscaster position and the
continuation of the dynamic duo's rise to fame.
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Dangerous Minds (1995)
Drama
A Marine officer leaves her military career behind
to become an inner-city English teacher. With a style
all her own she gets her class of tough-as-nails kids to
trust her and to believe in themselves. This true-life
drama is based on "My Posse Don't Do
Homework," a novel by educator LouAnne Johnson.
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Wolf (1994)
Suspense/Horror
When a mild-mannered, middle-aged book editor gets
bitten by a wolf, it gives him a shot of confidence over
younger colleagues, highly tuned senses and a few new
lycanthropic appetites. Like a clever "New
Yorker" cartoon, this urbane horror film satirizes
middle age in New York's cutthroat social and business
worlds.
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The Age of Innocence (1993)
Drama
Set in 1870s New York, Martin Scorsese’s THE AGE
OF INNOCENCE examines the tyranny of tradition and
family heritage--and the tragic consequences of breaking
society's unspoken rules. Newland Archer (Daniel
Day-Lewis), an upstanding gentleman and partner in a
lucrative and conservative law firm, is engaged to the
perfect society woman, the pretty and polished May
Welland (Winona Ryder). They are hoping to push forward
their wedding date when Newland meets Countess Ellen
Olenska (Michelle Pfeiffer), May's beautiful,
cosmopolitan, and scandal-ridden cousin. Ellen, who has
resided in Europe and cultivated a more permissive
continental sensibility, believes she's found a kindred
spirit in Newland. Slowly the two fall in love, and
Ellen entices Newland with the vision of a life not
ruled by the rigid guidelines of New York's stuffy upper
crust. But May represents all the temptations and
benefits of wealth, position, and propriety. Newland
must make the painful choice between a passionate life
with Ellen and a placid, safe life with May--the life he
was born and raised to lead. In adapting the classic
novel by Edith Wharton, Scorsese meticulously
reconstructs the elegant world of mid-19th-century
Manhattan, using an onslaught of materialistic
vices--including an endless barrage of sumptuous
foods--to capture the elite world even more
fastidiously.
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Batman Returns (1992)
Science
Fiction/Fantasy
2 hrs. 06 min.
Set at Christmastime, Gotham City and its holiday
celebrations are under siege by the Penguin and a group
of circus freaks.
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Love Field (1992)
Drama
A hairdresser who models herself after Jackie
Kennedy travels to Washington after the death of JFK. On
the bus, she discovers some unsettling things about a
man and a girl he claims is his daughter and realizes
she must take action. Academy Award Nominations: Best
Actress--Michelle Pfeiffer.
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Frankie and Johnny (1991)
Comedy
In this adaptation of Terrence McNally's play,
Johnny (Al Pacino), an ex-con turned short order cook,
woos Frankie (Michelle Pfeiffer), a reluctant plain jane
waitress. Set in a dingy Manhattan diner, the story
revolves around Johnny's eager, won't-stop-at-anything
attempt to draw the embittered, recalcitrant Frankie out
of her shell. As the two loners inch closer to love, we
learn about their past: how Johnny landed in prison and
what soured Frankie on men and relationships.
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The Russia House (1991)
Drama
Sean Connery and Michelle Pfieffer ignite the screen
in this enchanting adaptation of John Le Carre's
suspenseful espionage drama. Connery portrays Barley
Blair -- a lonely, middle aged, hard-drinking, London
publisher -- who has a love for all things Russian.
While in Russia, Barley captures the attention of a
daring Russian scientist (Klaus Maria Brandauer), who
attempts to send him a top secret manuscript disclosing
the secrets of Russian military defense, which, if
published in the West could alter the global balance of
power. However, the manuscript falls into the hands of
the British C.I.A., and they coerce Blair into traveling
to the Soviet Union to find out the identity of the
manuscript's author and the validity behind the secret
military codes. Reluctantly, Blair arrives in the cold
landscape, hoping to complete his mission and leave as
soon as possible. But his contact turns out to be Katya
(Michelle Pfieffer), a sensitive and beautiful Russian
editor, and Blair soon falls deeply in love with her.
Realizing she is an unwitting pawn in a deadly game, he
does everything he can to protect her, and his empty
life is once again filled with meaning. Set against the
vivid backdrop of Russia's most beautiful cities, this
thriller explores the tension filled years during and
after Glasnost as Russia struggled to gain power and
shed their previous political reputation. Featuring a
fine ensemble cast including: director Ken Russell, Roy
Scheider, and James Fox.
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The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989)
Drama
Brothers Jack and Frank Baker are cocktail lounge
piano players whose career has hit a sour note. They
need a little charm and sex appeal to liven up their act
- what they get is Susie Diamond, a beautiful, but
hard-talking, chain-smoking singer. Academy Award
Nominations: 3, including Best Actress--Michelle
Pfeiffer, Best Original Score.
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Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
Drama
119 min.
Based on the infamous novel LES LIASONS DANGEREUSES
by Choderlos de Laclos and the subsequent Christopher
Hampton play, set in pre-revolutionary France, a cunning
Marquise (Glenn Close) and a seductive Vicomte (John
Malkovich) mastermind a cruel and complicated game of
romantic manipulation. Set against the backdrop of
high--society baroque boudoirs, filled with deceitful
lovers and cunning sexual gamesmanship the Marquise and
the Vicomte agree to a competition involving a virginal
young bride (Uma Thurman) and a faithful wife (Michele
Pfieffer). When the Vicomte successfully seduces the
virtous and faithful wife they unexpectantly fall in
love, breaking the rules of the inhuman Marquise's
clever parlor game with vengeful results.
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Married to the Mob (1988)
Comedy and
Crime/Gangster
Michelle Pfeiffer established herself as an adept
actress with this colorful comedy from director Jonathan
Demme (SOMETHING WILD, SILENCE OF THE LAMBS). The wife
of Mafia hitman Frank "Cucumber" De Marco
(Alec Baldwin), the irrepressibly brassy Angela
(Pfeiffer) finds herself unhappy with their shady
lifestyle, and wants out. When Frank is murdered by mob
boss Tony "The Tiger" Russo (Dean Stockwell),
she uses the opportunity to move to New York, get a job
and go straight. But as soon as she thinks she's out,
Tony wants her as his next mistress. Tony's jealous wife
(Mercedes Ruehl) threatens to kill her, and a
master-of-disguise FBI agent (Mathew Modine) follows her
every move, and then falls in love with her. Through all
the colorful insanity, Demme keeps the action on target,
and the emphasis on quirky characters. A game supporting
cast includes: Joann Cusack, Oliver Platt, Tracey
Walter, and Jamaican singer Sister Carol. Chris Isaak,
Todd Solondz, "Grampa" Al Lewis, and David
Johansen are some of the many cameos. Pricelessly gaudy
costume designs and a spontaneous sense of fun help make
this one of the classic comedies of the 1980's.
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Tequila Sunrise (1988)
Drama
A former drug dealer trying to leave the business
once and for all comes up against his best friend, a
narcotics cop. Also caught in the net of suspicion is
the beautiful restaurant owner with whom they're both in
love. Academy Award Nominations: Best Cinematography.
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Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)
Comedy
In this irreverent spoof of late-night television,
humorous sketches mock varying forms of the media and
other 1980s phonemena. Excruciatingly funny sketches
include B.B. King making a public plea for "Blacks
Without Soul," featuring the insipid talents of Don
"No Soul" Simmons (David Alan Grier), as well
as wacky spoofs of 1950s black-and-white films,
including "Son of the Invisible Man," starring
Ed Begley Jr. as the batty son who firmly believes he is
as invisible as his father--except that everyone can see
him--and "2 I.D.s," starring Rosanna Arquette
and Steve Guttenberg as yuppies on a disastrous blind
date. Everything from tabloid vignettes, 1950s sci-fi
films, late-night porn, and infomercials are spoofed in
this star-studded collection of skits.
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Power, Passion and Murder (1987)
Drama
Set in a frenetic, shallow Hollywood of the '30s,
this early Pfeiffer starrer is the story of a rising
young starlet whose affair with a powerful studio boss
ruins her and forces him to make the most difficult
choice of his life.
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The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
Comedy
Based on John Updike's best-seller, this comic
battle of the sexes is coupled with supernatural
thriller overtones. Three beautiful unmarried residents
of a small New England town seem to have conjured up
"Mr. Right." But just who is this rich,
eccentric and charismatic stranger?
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Sweet Liberty (1986)
Comedy
A history professor's life and peaceful college town
are turned upside down when a film company arrives to
make a movie out of his best-selling book on the
American Revolution.
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Into the Night (1985)
Comedy
INTO THE NIGHT is a moody adventure/thriller
starring Jeff Goldblum as Ed Orkin, a guy smack in the
middle of a midlife crisis: He can't sleep, he loathes
his job, and he's just discovered his wife in bed with
another man. So he takes off to the airport, hoping to
flee Los Angeles for anyplace interesting. But while
he's glumly trying to figure out just where to go,
excitement unexpectedly comes his way in the form of a
beautiful woman (Michelle Pfieffer) who leaps into his
car with six stolen emeralds in her possession--and
bands of thugs chasing her for the loot. Suddenly life
doesn't seem so boring anymore. John Landis's charming
film features, as usual, a wide array of director and
celebrity cameos.
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Ladyhawke (1985)
Science
Fiction/Fantasy
A haunting adventure fantasy about a pair of cursed
lovers who are transformed into animal shapes during
alternate periods of the day. Broderick, who provides
comic relief, is appealing as the couple's young friend,
and ultimately, their rescuer. Academy Award
Nominations: 2, including Best Sound, Best Sound Effects
Editing.
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Scarface (1983)
Drama and
Crime/Gangster
Brian De Palma's blood-and-sun-drenched saga of a
Cuban deportee’s rise to the top of Miami's cocaine
business has become something of a popular classic since
its release; it's been referenced in rap songs and
subsequent gangster movies and quoted the world over.
Despite this lovefest with the dialogue, the film’s
brutal violence and lack of positive characters still
make it controversial and disliked by certain critics.
Al Pacino stars as Tony Montana, whose intelligence,
guts, and ambition help him skyrocket from dishwasher to
the top of a criminal empire but whose eventual paranoia
and incestuous desire for his kid sister (Mary Elizabeth
Mastrantonio) prove his undoing. Michelle Pfeiffer plays
Tony’s neglected coke-addicted trophy wife, and Steven
Bauer is his concerned friend. F. Murray Abraham, Robert
Loggia, and Paul Shenar are some of Tony’s sleazy
business partners and potential killers. Oliver Stone
wrote the expletive-packed screenplay, based on Howard
Hawks’s 1932 version--which was ostensibly about Al
Capone and starred Paul Muni and George Raft. The synth-heavy
Giorgio Moroder score expertly evokes the drug-fueled
decadence of 1980s Miami, and De Palma provides several
of his elaborate set pieces, including a horrific
showstopper in a motel room with a chain saw.
RERELEASE: September 19th, 2003 (New York, Los Angeles,
Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Detroit,
Dallas, Miami and San Francisco)
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Grease 2 (1982)
Musical/Performing
Arts
It's the early 1960s, and new Brit in town Michael
Carrington (Maxwell Caulfield) has just arrived at
Rydell High School. Michael, a bookish, sappy
milquetoast, immediately becomes smitten with Stephanie
Zinone (Michelle Pfeiffer), the gorgeous leader of the
Pink Ladies, the hippest clique of chicks at Rydell --
who only date the way-cool T-Birds. So if Michael wants
to win Stephanie's heart, he'll have to transform
himself from a geek to a greaser. Will his plan work?
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Callie and Son (1981)
Drama
Years after giving up her son for adoption, a
wealthy married woman uses her husband's power and
influence to find him. Made for television.
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Falling in Love Again (1981)
Drama
A married man on a trip to New York suddenly comes
to realize that "you can't go home again" as
he flashes back to his glory days in a Bronx high school
and his beautiful WASPy girlfriend.
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The Hollywood Knights (1980)
Comedy
Mutrux's crude cult classic answer to AMERICAN
GRAFITTI and ANIMAL HOUSE follows the comic exploits of
the Hollywood Knights, a rowdy, prank-happy car club,
and their screwball leader Newbomb Turk (Wuhl). When a
group of Beverly Hills preppies decide to run the déclassé
pranksters out of town by closing down their hang-out--Tubby's
Drive-in--the 'Knights (featuring a young Danza and
Pfeiffer) unleash a chaotic string of practical jokes in
retaliation, culminating in a hell-raising Halloween
free-for-all. Long enjoying cable TV-fed cult status,
the film's video release was held up for years due to
music rights.
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