Scrooged (
1988) | IMDb:
6.9
Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life. But after firing a staff member on Christmas Eve, Frank is visited by a series of ghosts who give him a chance to re-evaluate his actions and right the wrongs of his past.
Starring:
Bill Murray
,
Karen Allen
,
John Forsythe
,
John Glover
,
Bobcat Goldthwait
,
David Johansen
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
The Goonies (
1985) | IMDb:
7.7
Young teenager Mikey Walsh finds an old treasure map in his father's attic. Hoping to save their homes from demolition, Mikey and his friends Data, Chunk, and Mouth set off on a quest to find the secret stash of Pirate One-Eyed Willie.
Any Which Way You Can (
1980) | IMDb:
6.1
Philo takes part in a bare knuckle fight - as he does - to make some more money than he can earn from his car repair business. He decides to retire from fighting, but when the Mafia come along and arrange another fight, he is pushed into it. A motorcycle gang and an orangutan called Clyde all add to the 'fun'.
Starring:
Clint Eastwood
,
Sondra Locke
,
Geoffrey Lewis
,
William Smith
,
Harry Guardino
,
Ruth Gordon
Produced by:
Fritz Manes
Fun with Dick and Jane (
1977) | IMDb:
6.4
When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.
Up the Sandbox (
1972) | IMDb:
5.7
Bored with day-to-day life in New York City and neglected by her husband, a young wife and mother slips into increasingly outrageous fantasies: her mother breaking into the apartment, an explorer's demonstration of tribal fertility music at a party causing strange transformations, and joining terrorists to plant explosives in the Statue of Liberty.
Directed by:
Irvin Kershner