Christmas with the Kranks (
2004) | IMDb:
5.4
When their only daughter Blair leaves the family nest, Luther and Nora Krank decide to book an island cruise to beat the yuletide blues and just skip the holidays. But their decision to boycott tradition has the whole neighborhood in an uproar, and when Blair calls on Christmas Eve to announce a surprise visit with her new fiancée, the Kranks have just twelve hours to perform a miracle and pull themselves and their neighbors together to throw the best celebration ever!
Starring:
Tim Allen
,
Jamie Lee Curtis
,
Dan Aykroyd
,
M. Emmet Walsh
,
Elizabeth Franz
,
Erik Per Sullivan
Thinner (
1996) | IMDb:
5.8
An obese lawyer finds himself growing "Thinner" when an old Romani man places a hex on him. Now the lawyer must call upon his friends in organized crime to help him persuade the old man to lift the curse. Time is running out for the desperate lawyer as he draws closer to his own death, and grows ever thinner.
Starring:
Robert John Burke
,
Michael Constantine
,
Lucinda Jenney
,
Kari Wuhrer
,
John Horton
,
Sam Freed
The Pallbearer (
1996) | IMDb:
5
Aspiring architect Tom Thompson is told by mysterious Ruth Abernathy that his best friend, "Bill," has taken his own life. Except that Tom has never met Bill and neither have his incredulous friends. So when Tom foolishly agrees to give the eulogy at Bill's funeral, it sets him on a collision course with Ruth -- who is revealed to be Bill's oversexed mother -- and Julie DeMarco, the longtime crush Tom hasn't seen since they were teens.
Starring:
David Schwimmer
,
Gwyneth Paltrow
,
Michael Rapaport
,
Toni Collette
,
Carol Kane
,
Michael Vartan
Sabrina (
1995) | IMDb:
6.3
Sabrina Fairchild, a chauffeur's daughter, grew up at the Long Island estate of the wealthy Larrabee family enchanted with their sparkling world of privilege and wealth, but she's especially enamored of younger son David, a charming playboy. After the once plain Sabrina returns from a sojourn in Paris transformed into a glamorous young woman, she at long last catches David's eye. In a calculated effort to manipulate David away from her and into a more financially advantageous marriage, formidable older brother Linus devises a plan to keep them apart.
School Ties (
1992) | IMDb:
6.9
When David Greene receives a football scholarship to a prestigious prep school in the 1950s, he feels pressure to hide the fact that he is Jewish from his classmates and teachers, fearing that they may be anti-Semitic. He quickly becomes the big man on campus thanks to his football skills, but when his Jewish background is discovered, his worst fears are realized and his friends turn on him with violent threats and public ridicule.
Starring:
Brendan Fraser
,
Matt Damon
,
Chris O'Donnell
,
Randall Batinkoff
,
Andrew Lowery
,
Cole Hauser
The Secret of My Success (
1987) | IMDb:
6.5
Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York, but once in New York, he learns that jobs - and girls - are hard to get. When Brantley visits his uncle, Howard Prescott, who runs a multi-million-dollar company, he is given a job in the company's mail room.
Starring:
Michael J. Fox
,
Helen Slater
,
Richard Jordan
,
Margaret Whitton
,
John Pankow
,
Christopher Murney