True Crime (
1999) | IMDb:
6.6
Boozer, skirt chaser, careless father. You could create your own list of reporter Steve Everett's faults but there's no time. A San Quentin Death Row prisoner is slated to die at midnight – a man Everett has suddenly realized is innocent.
Starring:
Clint Eastwood
,
Isaiah Washington
,
LisaGay Hamilton
,
James Woods
,
Denis Leary
,
Bernard Hill
Sommersby (
1993) | IMDb:
6.2
Set in the South just after the US Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm without her husband, believed killed in battle. By all accounts, Jack Sommersby was not a pleasant man, thus when he suddenly returns, Laurel has mixed emotions. It appears that Jack has changed a great deal, leading some people to believe that this is not actually Jack but an imposter. Laurel herself is unsure, but willing to take the man into her home, and perhaps later into her heart.
Starring:
Jodie Foster
,
Richard Gere
,
Bill Pullman
,
James Earl Jones
,
Lanny Flaherty
,
William Windom
Uncle Buck (
1989) | IMDb:
7.1
Buck Russell, a lovable but slovenly bachelor, suddenly becomes the temporary caretaker of his nephew and nieces after a family emergency. His freewheeling attitude soon causes tension with his older niece Tia, loyal girlfriend Chanice and just about everyone else who crosses his path.
Starring:
John Candy
,
Jean Louisa Kelly
,
Gaby Hoffmann
,
Macaulay Culkin
,
Amy Madigan
,
Elaine Bromka
She's Having a Baby (
1988) | IMDb:
5.9
Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the full reality of marriage and all that it (and their parents) expect from them. Do they want babies? Their parents certainly want them to. Is married life all that there is? Things certainly aren't helped by Jake's friend Davis, who always seems to turn up just in time to put a spanner in the works.
Starring:
Kevin Bacon
,
Elizabeth McGovern
,
Alec Baldwin
,
William Windom
,
Holland Taylor
,
Cathryn Damon
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (
1987) | IMDb:
7.6
An irritable marketing executive, Neal Page, is heading home to Chicago for Thanksgiving when a number of delays force him to travel with a well meaning but overbearing shower curtain ring salesman, Del Griffith.
Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night (
1987) | IMDb:
6.2
Pinocchio and his friends, a glow worm and a marionette, search for a magic music box, putting them in danger from the evil Scalawag and the Emperor of the Night.
Directed by:
Hal Sutherland
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (
1971) | IMDb:
6.3
The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a spacecraft. Intrigued by their intelligence, humans use them for research - until the apes attempt to escape.
Starring:
Roddy McDowall
,
Kim Hunter
,
Bradford Dillman
,
Natalie Trundy
,
Eric Braeden
,
William Windom
Directed by:
Don Taylor
The Detective (
1968) | IMDb:
6.5
Police detective Joe Leland investigates the murder of a gay man.
To Kill a Mockingbird (
1962) | IMDb:
8.3
Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected lawyer, defends a black man named Tom Robinson against fabricated rape charges, the trial and tangent events expose the children to evils of racism and stereotyping.