Short Cuts (
1993) | IMDb:
7.7
Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a boy with her car. Soon after walking away, the child lapses into a coma. While at the hospital, the boy's grandfather tells his son, Howard, about his past affairs. Meanwhile, a baker starts harassing the family when they fail to pick up the boy's birthday cake.
Starring:
Andie MacDowell
,
Bruce Davison
,
Jack Lemmon
,
Zane Cassidy
,
Julianne Moore
,
Matthew Modine
Directed by:
Robert Altman
The Player (
1992) | IMDb:
7.5
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?
Basket Case 2 (
1990) | IMDb:
5.4
Duane and his basket-bound mutant brother are taken in by a secret home for wayward freaks.
Starring:
Kevin Van Hentenryck
,
Annie Ross
,
Heather Rattray
,
Jason Evers
,
Kathryn Meisle
,
Ted Sorel
Directed by:
Frank Henenlotter
Throw Momma from the Train (
1987) | IMDb:
6.3
Larry Donner, an author with a cruel ex-wife, teaches a writing workshop in which one of his students, Owen, is fed up with his domineering mother. When Owen watches a Hitchcock classic that seems to mirror his own life, he decides to put the movie's plot into action and offers to kill Larry's ex-wife, if Larry promises to murder his mom. Before Larry gets a chance to react to the plan, it seems that Owen has already set things in motion.
Starring:
Danny DeVito
,
Billy Crystal
,
Kim Greist
,
Anne Ramsey
,
Kate Mulgrew
,
Branford Marsalis
Superman III (
1983) | IMDb:
5
Aiming to defeat the Man of Steel, wealthy executive Ross Webster hires bumbling but brilliant Gus Gorman to develop synthetic kryptonite, which yields some unexpected psychological effects. Between rekindling romance with his high school sweetheart and saving himself, Superman must contend with a powerful supercomputer.
Starring:
Christopher Reeve
,
Richard Pryor
,
Jackie Cooper
,
Marc McClure
,
Annette O'Toole
,
Annie Ross