The Fantasticks (
2000) | IMDb:
5.6
Widowers Amos and Ben plot to romantically unite Amos' daughter Luiss and Ben's son Matt by pretending to feud and forbidding the teens to associate, knowing they will resist their fathers' interference. As the two youngsters fall in love, the fathers plot to end the 'feud' by hiring a traveling showman to fake an abduction and allow Matt to 'rescue' Luisa.
Starring:
Joel Grey
,
Brad Sullivan
,
Joey McIntyre
,
Jean Louisa Kelly
,
Barnard Hughes
,
Jonathon Morris
Directed by:
Michael Ritchie
Produced by:
Richard Pagano
Canadian Bacon (
1995) | IMDb:
5.9
The U.S. President, low in the opinion polls, gets talked into raising his popularity by trying to start a cold war with Canada.
Directed by:
Michael Moore
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (
1993) | IMDb:
5.7
Deloris Van Cartier is again asked to don the nun's habit to help a run-down Catholic school, presided over by Mother Superior. And if trying to reach out to a class full of uninterested students wasn't bad enough, the sisters discover that the school is due to be closed by the unscrupulous chief of a local authority.
Starring:
Whoopi Goldberg
,
Kathy Najimy
,
Lauryn Hill
,
Sheryl Lee Ralph
,
Maggie Smith
,
Barnard Hughes
The Prince of Tides (
1991) | IMDb:
6.8
A troubled Southern man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her (and New York City) in the process.
Starring:
Nick Nolte
,
Barbra Streisand
,
Blythe Danner
,
Kate Nelligan
,
Jeroen Krabbé
,
Melinda Dillon
True Colors (
1991) | IMDb:
6.3
Two law school friends find themselves at odds when one becomes a Justice Department lawyer and the other goes into politics.
Starring:
John Cusack
,
James Spader
,
Imogen Stubbs
,
Mandy Patinkin
,
Richard Widmark
,
Dina Merrill
Guilty by Suspicion (
1991) | IMDb:
6.6
Owing to his alleged involvement with communist parties, film director David Merrill is forbidden from working in Hollywood. He decides to fight for his rights and faces numerous challenges.
Starring:
Robert De Niro
,
Annette Bening
,
George Wendt
,
Patricia Wettig
,
Sam Wanamaker
,
Luke Edwards
The Dream Team (
1989) | IMDb:
6.5
Four mental patients on a field trip in New York City must save their caring chaperone, who ends up being taken to a hospital in a coma after accidentally witnessing a murder, before the killers can find him and finish the job.
Starring:
Michael Keaton
,
Christopher Lloyd
,
Peter Boyle
,
Stephen Furst
,
Dennis Boutsikaris
,
Lorraine Bracco
Directed by:
Howard Zieff
Funny Farm (
1988) | IMDb:
6.2
Sportswriter Andy Farmer moves with his schoolteacher wife Elizabeth to the country in order to write a novel in relative seclusion. Of course, seclusion is the last thing the Farmers find in the small, eccentric town, where disaster awaits them at every turn.
Starring:
Chevy Chase
,
Madolyn Smith Osborne
,
Kevin O'Morrison
,
Joseph Maher
,
Jack Gilpin
,
Caris Corfman
The Untouchables (
1987) | IMDb:
7.8
Elliot Ness, an ambitious prohibition agent, is determined to take down Al Capone. In order to achieve this goal, he forms a group given the nickname “The Untouchables”.
Starring:
Kevin Costner
,
Sean Connery
,
Charles Martin Smith
,
Andy García
,
Robert De Niro
,
Richard Bradford
The Island (
1980) | IMDb:
5.3
David Nau leads a band of modern day pirates who raid yachts and sail boats of people on vacation in the Caribbean. When reporter Blair Maynard and his son arrive to investigate the mystery of the disappearing boats, Nau and his band of raiders decide to induct them into their tribe.
Starring:
Michael Caine
,
David Warner
,
Angela Punch McGregor
,
Frank Middlemass
,
Don Henderson
,
Dudley Sutton
Slap Shot (
1977) | IMDb:
7.3
To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging players whose job is to demolish the opposition.
Starring:
Paul Newman
,
Strother Martin
,
Michael Ontkean
,
Jennifer Warren
,
Lindsay Crouse
,
Jerry Houser
Directed by:
George Roy Hill
The Sting (
1973) | IMDb:
8.3
A novice con man teams up with an acknowledged master to avenge the murder of a mutual friend by pulling off the ultimate big con and swindling a fortune from a big-time mobster.
Starring:
Paul Newman
,
Robert Redford
,
Robert Shaw
,
Charles Durning
,
Ray Walston
,
Eileen Brennan