The Legend of Bagger Vance (
2000) | IMDb:
6.7
World War I has left golfer Rannulph Junuh a poker-playing alcoholic, his perfect swing gone. Now, however, he needs to get it back to play in a tournament to save the financially ravaged golf course of a long-ago sweetheart. Help arrives in the form of mysterious caddy Bagger Vance.
Starring:
Matt Damon
,
Will Smith
,
Charlize Theron
,
Bruce McGill
,
Joel Gretsch
,
J. Michael Moncrief
The Scout (
1994) | IMDb:
5.4
When his star recruit botches a Major League Baseball debut, humiliated talent scout Al Percolo gets banished to rural Mexico, where he finds a potential gold mine in the arm of young phenom Steve Nebraska. Soon, the New York Yankees put a $55 million contract on the table—provided a psychiatrist can affirm Nebraska's mental stability.
Starring:
Albert Brooks
,
Brendan Fraser
,
Dianne Wiest
,
Anne Twomey
,
Lane Smith
,
Michael Rapaport
The Distinguished Gentleman (
1992) | IMDb:
5.9
A Florida con man uses the recent death of the long time Congressman from his district, who he just happens to share a last name with, to get elected to his version of paradise, the U.S. Congress, where the money flows from lobbyists.
Starring:
Eddie Murphy
,
Lane Smith
,
Sheryl Lee Ralph
,
Joe Don Baker
,
Victoria Rowell
,
Grant Shaud
The Mighty Ducks (
1992) | IMDb:
6.5
After reckless young lawyer Gordon Bombay gets arrested for drunk driving, he must coach a kids hockey team for his community service. Gordon has experience on the ice, but isn't eager to return to hockey, a point hit home by his tense dealings with his own former coach, Jack Reilly. The reluctant Gordon eventually grows to appreciate his team, which includes promising young Charlie Conway, and leads them to take on Reilly's tough players.
My Cousin Vinny (
1992) | IMDb:
7.6
Two carefree pals from Brooklyn traveling through rural Alabama on their way back to college are mistakenly arrested, and charged with murder. Fortunately, one of them has a cousin who's a lawyer - Vincent Gambini, a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who just passed his bar exam after his sixth try. When he arrives with his leather-clad girlfriend, to try his first case, it's a real shock - for him and the Deep South!
Air America (
1990) | IMDb:
5.8
Air America was the CIA's private airline operating in Laos during the Vietnam War, running anything and everything from soldiers to foodstuffs for local villagers. After losing his pilot's license, Billy Covington is recruited, and ends up in the middle of a bunch of lunatic pilots, gun-running by his friend Gene Ryack, and opium smuggling by his own superiors.
Starring:
Mel Gibson
,
Robert Downey Jr.
,
Nancy Travis
,
Ken Jenkins
,
David Marshall Grant
,
Lane Smith
Prison (
1987) | IMDb:
5.8
After Charles Forsyth was sent to the electric chair for a crime he didn't commit, he forever haunts the prison where he was executed. Flash forward several years when the prison is reopened, under the control of its new warden Eaton Sharpe, a former security guard who framed Charlie. When prisoners are ordered to break down the wall to the execution room, they unknowingly release the angry spirit of Charles Forsyth, a powerful being distributing his murderous rage to all, leading up to the Warden himself.
Starring:
Viggo Mortensen
,
Chelsea Field
,
Lane Smith
,
Lincoln Kilpatrick
,
Tom Everett
,
Ivan Kane
Native Son (
1986) | IMDb:
6
In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally kills the teenage daughter of the couple and then tries to cover it up.
Starring:
Victor Love
,
Matt Dillon
,
Elizabeth McGovern
,
Geraldine Page
,
Oprah Winfrey
,
Akosua Busia
Directed by:
Jerrold Freedman
Places in the Heart (
1984) | IMDb:
7.4
In 1935 rural Texas, recently widowed Edna Spaulding struggles to survive with two small children, a farm to run, and very little money in the bank - not to mention a deadly tornado and the unwelcome presence of the Ku Klux Klan. Edna is aided by her beautician sister, Margaret; a blind boarder, Mr. Will; and a would-be thief, Moze, who decides to teach Edna how to plant and harvest cotton.
Directed by:
Robert Benton
Red Dawn (
1984) | IMDb:
6.3
It is the dawn of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers band together to defend their town—and their country—from invading Soviet forces.
Starring:
Patrick Swayze
,
Charlie Sheen
,
C. Thomas Howell
,
Lea Thompson
,
Darren Dalton
,
Jennifer Grey
Frances (
1982) | IMDb:
7.2
The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.
Starring:
Jessica Lange
,
Sam Shepard
,
Kim Stanley
,
Bart Burns
,
Christopher Pennock
,
James Karen
Prince of the City (
1981) | IMDb:
7.4
New York City detective Daniel Ciello agrees to help the United States Department of Justice help eliminate corruption in the police department, as long as he will not have to turn in any close friends. In doing so, Ciello uncovers a conspiracy within the force to smuggle drugs to street informants.
Starring:
Treat Williams
,
Jerry Orbach
,
Richard Foronjy
,
Don Billett
,
Kenny Marino
,
Carmine Caridi
Directed by:
Sidney Lumet
Network (
1976) | IMDb:
8.1
When veteran anchorman Howard Beale is forced to retire his 25-year post because of his age, he announces to viewers that he will kill himself during his farewell broadcast. Network executives rethink their decision when his fanatical tirade results in a spike in ratings.
Starring:
Peter Finch
,
Faye Dunaway
,
William Holden
,
Robert Duvall
,
Beatrice Straight
,
Wesley Addy
Rooster Cogburn (
1975) | IMDb:
6.8
After a band of drunken thugs overruns a small Indian Nation town, killing Reverend Goodnight and raping the women folk, Eula Goodnight enlists the aid of US Marshal Cogburn to hunt them down and bring her father's killers to justice.
Starring:
John Wayne
,
Katharine Hepburn
,
Anthony Zerbe
,
Richard Jordan
,
John McIntire
,
Paul Koslo
The Last American Hero (
1973) | IMDb:
6.4
A young hell raiser quits his moonshine business and tries to become the best NASCAR racer the south has ever seen. Loosely based on the true story of NASCAR driver Junior Johnson.
Starring:
Jeff Bridges
,
Valerie Perrine
,
Geraldine Fitzgerald
,
Ned Beatty
,
Gary Busey
,
Lane Smith