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Filmography
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Played (2007)
An examination of the malevolent
London underworld with it's despicable criminal underground. Ray
(Mick Rossi) just finished an eight year prison sentence after
getting set up. Now he is back on the streets to settle the score.
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Alpha Numeric (2006)
When Tea Baker, a beautiful, young
investigative reporter for the New York Times cracks a worldwide
human trafficking ring based in Moscow , she becomes both target
and suspect, trapped between the ruthless agenda of the Russian
Mafiya and the handsome male Interpol Agent to whom she's
attracted but whose motives she distrusts. Tea's investigation
leads her right into the hands of a sadistic Mafiya ringleader,
Nicolai Miltov. It also calls out of retirement her own Father
whom she discovers is, in truth, a retired first class assassin
for Interpol.
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Coin Locker Babies (2006)
Based on the novel by Japanese
author Ryu Murakami, this surrealist film follows the lives of two
abandoned infants found in train station lockers. The unrelated
babies are raised as brothers in an orphanage but eventually
embark on a bizarre quest to find their birth mothers.
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The Poison Rose (2006)
a broken down private eye must go
back to the city he ran from to solve a case and face his demons.
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Dark Matter (2006)
Based on actual events, a Chinese
university student responds violently when his chances for a Nobel
Prize are dashed by school politics.
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Deja Vu (2006)
An ATF agent travels back in time
to save a woman from being murdered, falling in love with her
during the process.
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Moscow Zero (2006)
In "Moscow Zero," Kilmer
plays the head of a group of Moscovites who live in the city's
underground. Silverstone plays Lyuba, another underground dweller;
Gallo's character leads a rescue team in search of a Russian
anthropologist who's disappeared beneath the underground system.
They discover an eerie multilevel system of caves and catacombs.
The $10 million psychological horror will begin shooting in
December in Moscow, Spain and the UK.
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The Ten Commandments (2006)
Robert Iscove
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Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang
(2005)
Comedy
A petty thief (Downey) posing as an actor is
brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition
and finds himself in the middle of a murder
investigation along with his high school dream
girl (Monaghan) and a detective (Kilmer) who's
been training him for his upcoming role.
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Mindhunters (2005)
Action/Adventure,
Thriller and Crime/Gangster
1 hr. 46 min. On a remote island, the FBI has a
training program for their psychological profiling
division, called "Mindhunters", used to
track down serial killers. The training goes
horribly wrong, however, when a group of seven young
agents discover that one of them is a serial killer,
and is setting about slaying the others. Can the few
that are left figure out who the killer is in time?
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Alexander (2004)
Action/Adventure
2 hrs. 56 min. Alexander The Great was a
relentless conqueror who by the age of 32 had
amassed the greatest empire the world had ever seen.
Past and present collide to form the puzzle of the
protagonist, a tapestry of triumphs and tragedies in
which childhood memories and Alexander's rise to
power unfold side by side with the later day
expansion of his empire, its gradual decline and
ultimate downfall. From his youth, fueled by dreams
of glory and adventure, to his lonely and mysterious
death as a ruler of a vast state, from the
tumultuous relationship with his parents - a
powerful king and a queen determined to put her
child on the throne at any cost, including murder -
to the rousing "band of brothers" bond
with his closest companions and vast army, as they
fought from the sun-scorched battlefields of the
Persian Empire across the snow-peaked mountains of
India, the film chronicles Alexander's journey to
become a living legend. For as Virgil wrote,
"Fortune favors the bold." And no king or
emperor, either before or after, ever achieved such
fortune, or indeed was so bold, as Alexander the
Great.
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Blind Horizon (2004)
Thriller
As a man, Frank (Kilmer), suffering from amnesia
after getting shot in a the desert near a small New
Mexico town tries to piece together the remnants of
his memory, helped by one of the hospital's nurses
(Smart) and a woman, Chloe (Campbell), who claims to
be his wife, he starts to think that he might have
been involved with a dangerous plot. Contacting the
county's sheriff (Shepard), who's been keeping an
eye on the suspicious amnesiac anyway, Frank tells
him that he suspects he was involved with a plot to
assassinate the President of the United States.
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Spartan (2004)
Thriller
1 hr. 46 min. Robert Scott is a career military
officer working in a highly secretive special
operations force. A man hardened by years of brutal
service, he is respected by his peers and elders in
the world of espionage. When Scott is recruited to
find Laura Newton, the daughter of a high-ranking
government official, he is paired with novice
Curtis, who becomes his protיgי. Working
with a special task force comprised of Presidential
Advisors, the Secret Service, FBI and CIA, Scott and
Derek stumble upon a white slavery ring, which may
have some connection to Laura's disappearance. As
the story unfolds, the straightforward
search-and-rescue mission becomes complicated by the
political ambitions of those in high places--like
Stoddard, a political operative who may know more
than he's telling about the clandestine
circumstances surrounding Laura's abduction. Scott
and Curtis are at the brink of tracking Laura's
whereabouts when the mission comes to an abrupt
conclusion, with the m! edia issuing reports of the
girl's death. Scott returns to the quiet life of
landowner in a rural location and awaits his next
assignment in relative peace. But Curtis can't rest.
In his naivetי, he seeks out Scott to confide
his belief that Laura is in fact alive. If she is,
their continued unofficial investigation will put
them as well as Laura at the center of a dangerous
conspiracy that reaches the highest levels.
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Stateside (2004)
Drama
1 hr. 36 min. A rebellious teenager on leave
from the Marines falls in love with a female
musician, but the relationship is threatened when
she develops a mental illness.
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Masked and Anonymous (2003)
Comedy and Drama
1 hr. 52 min. Set somewhere, sometime in an
unnamed country, torn by civil war with unclear
battle lines, impresario Uncle Sweetheart is
scheming to find a headliner for a benefit concert.
The purpose of the concert is unclear and the
charity that the profits go to is its promoter's
pockets. Nina Veronica is the veteran TV producer
whose job it is to make sure that the concert is an
international spectacle--yet her task is impossible
to achieve. And when Uncle Sweetheart manages to get
the iconic cult star Jack Fate released from prison
to perform, the stage is set for tumult.
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The Missing (2003)
Drama and Western
2 hrs. 10 min. Set in New Mexico in 1886, a
father (Jones) returns home to his daughter Maggie (Blanchett)
to try to make peace decades after abandoning her to
go live with the Apaches, only to find that she has
no forgiveness or affection to give him. When her
daughter, Lily (Wood), is kidnapped by a band of
outlaw Army deserters (who also murdered Maggie's
companion Brake, played by Eckhart) led by a
mysterious Apache shaman (Schweig), however, the
estranged duo teams up to rescue Lily.
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Wonderland (2003)
Drama and
Crime/Gangster
1 hr. 46 min. This is the true story of how porn
star John Holmes (Kilmer) and his teenage girlfriend
(Bosworth) became involved with a quadruple homicide
that happened at a house on Wonderland Avenue in the
Laurel Canyon neighborhood of Los Angeles in 1981.
Rising to fame in the late 1960s and 1970s, Holmes
became addicted to cocaine in 1978, which soon led
him to be unable to function in porn films the way
he used to, which led him to turn to drug running
and theft to support his growing drug habit, often
working for a drug kinpin who went by the name of
Eddie Nash. Eventually owing Nash a fortune, Holmes
reportedly got the idea of planning a robbery of
Nash's own home, which nabbed cash and jewelry worth
over $250,000. The problem, however... is that Nash
reportedly figured out who was behind the crime, and
forced Holmes to finger his accomplices, who were
then murdered at the house on Wonderland Avenue on
July 1st, 1981.
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Hard Cash (2002)
An all-star cast
graces the screen in the riveting action caper HARD
CASH, a fast-paced adventure film from the producers
of the popular films TICKER and REPLICANT. Christian
Slater (HEATHERS, GLEAMING THE CUBE) and Val Kilmer
(THE DOORS, BATMAN FOREVER) show off their action
hero capabilities in this story of high crime, grand
heists, and narrow escapes. Spectacular explosions
add to the fun.
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The Salton Sea (2002)
Thriller
1 hr. 44 min. After the murder of his beloved
wife, a man (Val Kilmer) in search of redemption is
set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems.
On his journey, he befriends slacker Jimmy "The
Finn" (Peter Sarsgaard), becomes involved in
rescuing his neighbor Colette (Deborah Kara Unger)
from her own demons, and gets entangled in a web of
deceit full of unexpected twists and turns.
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Pollock (2000)
Drama
1 hr. 57 min. Based on the biography JACKSON
POLLOCK: AN AMERICAN SAGA by Steven Naifeh and
Gregory White Smith, the film POLLOCK tells the
story of this artist, a leader of abstract
expressionist painting whose work is one of the
cornerstones of the modern art movement. Pollock's
technique--of throwing, drizzling, and splattering
strings of paint from the brush to the canvas--had
almost nothing to do with the effect he created. His
painting was instead about the process itself, a
form of performance art. A serious alcoholic who was
married to Lee Krasner, another influential artist
in the modern movement, Pollack's rise to art world
fame over the last 15 years of his life is
illustrated in an insightful, detailed fashion in
this film.
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Red Planet (2000)
Science
Fiction/Fantasy and Thriller
In the future, pollution and overpopulation are
making the Earth uninhabitable. Humanity's only hope
is to colonize the planet Mars by using algae to
produce oxygen, but when the algae mysteriously
disappear, a group of astronauts are sent to Mars on
a mission to learn why. The spaceship, led by
Commander Kate Bowman (Carrie-Anne Moss), is
preparing to land when a sudden emergency forces her
to crash-land on the planet without supplies or
equipment. The survivors, including systems engineer
Gallagher (Val Kilmer) and scientists Burchenal (Tom
Sizemore) and Pettengil (Simon Baker), have to
figure out how to return to their ship while also
learning the truth about the missing algae. As if
things weren't bad enough, they have to avoid AMEE,
the ship's malfunctioning robot who is trying to
kill them all.
RED PLANET is an exciting science fiction thriller
based on scientific facts, including theoretical
notions on how to "terraform" Mars to
become inhabitable. The film also provides
information about the nuts and bolts of basic space
travel. Kilmer and company avoid science fiction
clichיs to make their Martian adventures more
believable, creating a saga of survival under
incredible conditions.
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At First Sight (1999)
Drama and Romance
Amy (Sorvino) is a fast-paced Manhattan
architect who falls for the the masseur at a resort
where she is trying to relax. Virgil has been blind
since the age of three, and is cared for by his
loving sister. Amy takes Virgil to New York, to his
sister's objections, in order for him to receive a
radical new treatment which will restore his sight.
Though the surgery is successful, Virgil's added
sense creates a whole new set of problems for him,
straining his relationship with Amy. When disease
once again threatens his vision, important decisions
must be made, which will affect Virgil and Amy
forever.
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Joe The King (1999)
Drama
A sensitive, uncompromising portrait of a
resilient young boy trying to navigate the
loneliness and confusion of adolescence and the
harsh circumstances of his dysfunctional family life
in a small blue collar town in upstate New York
during the 1970s. Whaley's first directorial effort
shows his inexperience at various moments, but it is
this exact lack of expertise that lifts the film
above standard coming-of-age fare into a realm of
honesty that most major motion pictures never
attain. The fact that the friends he recruited to
help fill integral roles just so happen to be Kilmer,
Hawke, and Leguizamo didn't hurt matters either.
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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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The Saint (1997)
Action/Adventure
Simon Templar (Val Kilmer), AKA The Saint,
realizes his skill for trickery during his childhood
in a Far East orphanage. He uses his natural born
gifts, including a penchant for bizarre and
effective disguises, to obtain things for people
which they can not obtain themselves. When he is
hired by a Russian crime boss (Rade Serbedzija,
BEFORE THE RAIN) to use his chameleon-like abilities
to lift the secrets of cold fusion from Oxford-based
scientist Emma Russell (Elizabeth Shue), he has
little idea he might fall in love with his
victim--or be double-crossed by his snakelike
employer. Based on the character created by author
Leslie Chateris, which spawned dozens of novels and
a popular 1960s British television series starring
Roger Moore.
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The Ghost and the Darkness
(1996)
Based on a true
story, THE GHOST AND THE DARKNESS takes place in
Africa during the late 1890s and concerns two
ferocious lions who killed 130 railroad construction
workers in only two months. A pair of courageous
men, no-nonsense engineer John Patterson (Val Kilmer)
and rugged hunter Charles Remington (Michael
Douglas), set out to shoot the creatures, known as
the Ghost and the Darkness. Making their task even
harder is the two animals un-lionlike behavior--they
kill in tandem, attack in the daylight, and show no
fear of anything. Soon the hunters become the
hunted....
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The Island of Dr. Moreau
(1996)
Suspense/Horror
Marlon Brando stars as the scientist in the
third adaptation of the H.G. Wells classic. The
archetypal mad scientist, the good doctor has been
conducting a number of experiments in his remote
island kingdom, producing a race of genetic mutants
both man and beast in his quest to produce a
superior creature. The mutants treat Moreau as a
virtual god, carrying out his orders with blind
obedience. To deal with the few rebels, the
scientist has embedded electrodes under their skin
through which he can induce a degree of pain
sufficient for his purpose. A plane crash-lands on
the island, and the only survivor, U.N. negotiator
Edward Douglas (David Thewlis), is taken to Moreau's
compound by the doctor's demented assistant,
Montgomery (Val Kilmer), where he's soon imprisoned.
Shocked by Moreau's experiments, Douglas desperately
seeks escape but is badly outnumbered by the army of
mutants. At length, the creatures discover how to
remove the controlling devices from their bodies and
attempt a rebellion, but it soon becomes clear that
their collective intelligence was not increased by
their physical transformation. This film became an
instant camp classic, the result of a troubled
production on which John Frankenheimer replaced the
original director after only a day of shooting. The
fine camerawork of veteran William Fraker stands out
above all else.
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Batman Forever (1995)
Action/Adventure
and Science Fiction/Fantasy
2 hrs. 01 min. Gotham City is once again under
siege, this time by the mind-controlling Riddler and
the diabolical Harvey Two-Face. The Caped Crusader
cleans up with the help of his new side-kick Robin
in this effects-laden thrill ride.
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Heat (1995)
Drama and
Crime/Gangster
Robert De Niro and Al Pacino are finally
together on screen in this riveting story about an
intense rivalry between expert thief Neil McCauley
(De Niro) and volatile cop Vincent Hanna (Pacino).
McCauley will stop at nothing to do what he does
best and neither will Hanna, even though it means
destroying everything around them, including the
people they love. With a solid supporting cast that
includes Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, Ashley Judd, and
Natalie Portman, HEAT is a truly epic crime story.
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Wings of Courage (1995)
Romance
0 hrs. 40 min. An Imax story of two legendary
French aviation pioneers, Jean Mermoz and Antoine de
St. Exupery. Having heard of Henri Guillaumet's
flying exploits and needing another young pilot to
cover the Santiago de Chile/Buenos Aires route, the
two famous airmen recruit Henri to fly for them.
Henri has two passions in life: flying and his
devoted and trusting wife, Noכlle. The night
before Henri's first mail delivery, Mermoz tells him
that the route he will be flying is a treacherous
run across the Andes Cordillera range, where the
mountains peak at 21,000 feet.
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The Real McCoy (1993)
Action/Adventure
A reformed master cat burglar is blackmailed
into pulling off just one last bank heist with an
eager but inexperienced partner-in-crime.
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Tombstone (1993)
Western
Arizona, 1879. Legendary Dodge City marshall
Wyatt Earp, his wife Mattie and his brothers Virgil
and Morgan just rode into Tombstone. These veteran
frontiersmen hope to open a small business and
settle into a quiet life. But they get more than
they bargained for: Tombstone is a lawless
municipality inhabited by a bunch of carousing
locals. To make matters worse, the entire village is
victimized by a gang of infamous outlaws. Wyatt,
Virgil and Morgan may be the only formidable force
around to confront them head-on.
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True Romance (1993)
Action/Adventure
and Crime/Gangster
When inexperienced call girl Alabama Whitman
(Patricia Arquette) is paid to seduce
comic-book-nerd and Elvis fanatic Clarence Worley
(Christian Slater), she doesn’t expect to fall for
him. But these two lost souls seem to be made for
each other and quickly pledge their love, marrying
at Detroit's city hall. Clarence discovers some
newfound bravado and attempts to retrieve
Alabama’s possessions from her pimp, Drexl (Gary
Oldman), who isn’t exactly eager to let Alabama
go. Fleeing Drexl's apartment, Clarence not only
leaves a trail of bodies, but also inadvertently
mistakes a suitcase of uncut cocaine for one with
his wife’s clothing, and the chase is on. The
unlikely newlyweds head for Los Angeles hoping to
sell the cocaine and make enough money to leave the
country. Unfortunately, they also have to contend
with the mob, yuppie drug dealers and the police.
Michael Rapaport is amusing as Clarence’s best
friend who lives with Floyd, a stoner played by Brad
Pitt. A sedate Dennis Hopper appears as Clarence’s
father, who ultimately faces off with mob boss
Vincenzo Coccotti (Christopher Walken). Director
Tony Scott (CRIMSON TIDE, ENEMY OF THE STATE) does
justice to the violence and quirkiness of Quentin
Tarantino’s second feature film script.
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Thunderheart (1992)
Drama
Agent Ray Levoi (Val Kilmer) buried his Native
American heritage with the body of his drunken
father. Raised by his white mother and stepfather,
he becomes a gung-ho federal agent who never
questions the authority of the U.S. government. Then
Levoi finds himself in a real-life version of
"cowboys and Indians" when the FBI moves
onto a South Dakota reservation to apprehend a
fugitive. Once in the community, the agent uncovers
a plot to frame American Indian activists. With the
help of an Indian sheriff and shaman (Graham
Greene), he learns to accept a long-denied part of
himself and to fight for his people. Created after
the success of DANCES WITH WOLVES and LAST OF THE
MOHICANS, director Michael Apted's film takes the
buddy-cop genre and uses it to explore the sordid
politics of reservation life in the United States.
The film was released just weeks after Apted's
documentary INCIDENT AT OGLALA, which examines the
unjust imprisonment of Indian activist Leonard
Peltier. Together the two films form a powerful plea
for recognition of the mistreatment of Native
Americans.
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The Doors (1991)
Drama
Covers the period from 1965-1971; Produced and
released in 1991.
Val Kilmer stars as Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone's
electrifying profile of the Doors, which takes the
group from its inception to its demise with the
death of the "Lizard King" in a Paris
hotel room in 1971. In the early days of the group's
formation, Morrison is at his most benign; he's just
a guy hanging out at the beach writing poetry. But
soon the Doors' fame begins to spread--with Morrison
as the focus of attention. Capable of an eerily
correct vocal imitation of Morrison, Kilmer makes
manifest the talent and charisma, as well as the
confusion and despair, of the complex man who was
the focal point of the group. As Morrisson's drug
consumption and erratic behavior increase
exponentially, the rest of the band--Ray Manzarek
(Kyle McLachalan), John Densmore (Kevin Dillon), and
Robby Krieger (Frank Whaley)--begins to grow tired
of his late arrivals, the increasing number of
cancellations, and the drunken recording sessions
requiring infinite retakes. But no one can help
Morrison as he spirals downward into an inferno of
drugs, alcohol, public obscenity, and depression,
bringing the music to an untimely close.
Stone's intimate familiarity with SoCal in the 1960s
provides the film with a high degree of surface
verisimilitude, though the film is as much a tribute
to the enduring power of the Doors' music as it is a
cautionary tale about the perils of both celebrity
and substance abuse.
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Kill Me Again (1990)
Drama
The double crosses begin early when Fay knocks
out her boyfriend and runs off with the money they
stole from the Mob. She hires Jack to fake her
death, but when Fay skips out on him too, he pursues
her, setting himself up against the law, her
ex-boyfriend and the Mob.
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Gore Vidal's Billy the Kid
(1989)
Western
A study in the evolution of an outlaw, Billy
starts out as an innocent youth, but upon witnessing
the murder of his friend and mentor, he plunges into
a life of crime, intent on avenging the death -
until he is betrayed.
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Willow (1988)
Science
Fiction/Fantasy
Based on a story by STAR WARS creator George
Lucas, WILLOW is director Ron Howard's fantasy world
of medieval adventure. WILLOW stars Val Kilmer as
Madmartigan, a swashbuckling warrior, and Warwick
Davis as the title character. In a mythical kingdom,
the evil sorceress Queen Bavmorda (Jean Marsh) plots
to kill all infants so that the newborn princess,
Elora, will never take over the throne. But a
midwife sets the baby adrift in a river, and she is
rescued by Willow, a farmer in Nelwyn, a peaceful
village of trolls, fairies, and little folk. Willow
and Madmartigan begin a quest to deliver the baby
from evil while being chased by Queen Bavmorda’s
daughter, Sorsha (Joanne Whalley), sent to bring the
baby back to Nockmaar. Director Howard benefited
from his affiliation with George Lucas on the
film--Lucas’s company, Industrial Light and Magic,
contributed the Oscar-nominated special effects.
Lucas, the executive producer of WILLOW, went on to
create a series of books based on the world of
WILLOW, the SHADOW WAR series.
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The Man Who Broke 1000 Chains
(1987)
Action/Adventure
He was an innocent man sentenced to a Georgia
chain gang. His two escapes astounded the nation. A
fictional story that foretells the real-life events
that became front page news in 1987 when convicted
felon, Vincent Pelliccia, was caught by police 41
years after his escape from a Virginia chain gang.
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Murders in the Rue Morgue
(1986)
Action/Adventure
A retired master detective secretly works to
solve a seemingly senseless murder with only a clump
of hair and a straight razor as clues. A rendering
of the classic Edgar Allan Poe tale.
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Top Gun (1986)
Action/Adventure
and Drama
1 hr. 40 min. A young recruit aspires to become
the top fighter pilot in the prestigious naval
training school he attends.
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Real Genius (1985)
Comedy
1 hr. 48 min. A group of exceptionally bright
students are unwittingly involved in the development
of a military weapon.
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Top Secret! (1984)
Comedy
Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker--of AIRPLANE! and
NAKED GUN fame--wrote and directed this
genre-hopping slapstick juggernaut which lampoons
World War II spy films and Elvis movies, making many
other satirical stops along the way. East Germany is
planning a cultural festival, and invites
rock-and-roll singer Nick Rivers (Val Kilmer) (but
only after Leonard Bernstein can't make it). The
festival, however is a mere distraction so that the
Germans can launch a secret attack on a submarine
fleet without being detected. Nick soon finds
himself involved with the French resistance,
encountering slapstick gags and film parodies every
time he turns around.
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