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 teen Mikey Walsh and his friends set off on a quest to find Pirate One-Eyed Willie's treasure in hopes of saving their homes from demolition.
Any Which Way You Can (
1980) | IMDb:
6.1
Philo takes part in a bare knuckle fight – as he does – to make more money than he can earn from his car repair business. He decides to retire, but when the Mafia come along and arrange another fight, he's 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