Funny Farm (
1988) | IMDb:
6.2
Sportswriter Andy Farmer moves with his schoolteacher wife Elizabeth to the country in order to write a novel in relative seclusion. Of course, seclusion is the last thing the Farmers find in the small, eccentric town, where disaster awaits them at every turn.
Starring:
Chevy Chase
,
Madolyn Smith Osborne
,
Kevin O'Morrison
,
Joseph Maher
,
Jack Gilpin
,
Caris Corfman
The World According to Garp (
1982) | IMDb:
7.1
A struggling young writer finds his life and work dominated by his unfaithful wife and his radical feminist mother, whose best-selling manifesto turns her into a cultural icon.
Starring:
Robin Williams
,
Mary Beth Hurt
,
Glenn Close
,
John Lithgow
,
Hume Cronyn
,
Jessica Tandy
Directed by:
George Roy Hill
Slap Shot (
1977) | IMDb:
7.3
To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging players whose job is to demolish the opposition.
Starring:
Paul Newman
,
Strother Martin
,
Michael Ontkean
,
Jennifer Warren
,
Lindsay Crouse
,
Jerry Houser
Directed by:
George Roy Hill
The Great Waldo Pepper (
1975) | IMDb:
6.7
A biplane pilot who had missed flying in WWI takes up barnstorming and later a movie career in his quest for the glory he had missed.
Starring:
Robert Redford
,
Bo Svenson
,
Bo Brundin
,
Susan Sarandon
,
Geoffrey Lewis
,
Edward Herrmann
The Sting (
1973) | IMDb:
8.3
A novice con man teams up with an acknowledged master to avenge the murder of a mutual friend by pulling off the ultimate big con and swindling a fortune from a big-time mobster.
Starring:
Paul Newman
,
Robert Redford
,
Robert Shaw
,
Charles Durning
,
Ray Walston
,
Eileen Brennan
Slaughterhouse-Five (
1972) | IMDb:
6.8
Billy Pilgrim, a veteran of the Second World War, finds himself mysteriously detached from time, so that he is able to travel, without being able to help it, from the days of his childhood to those of his peculiar life on a distant planet called Tralfamadore, passing through his bitter experience as a prisoner of war in the German city of Dresden, over which looms the inevitable shadow of an unspeakable tragedy.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (
1969) | IMDb:
8
As the west rapidly becomes civilized, a pair of outlaws in 1890s Wyoming find themselves pursued by a posse and decide to flee to South America in hopes of evading the law.
Starring:
Paul Newman
,
Robert Redford
,
Katharine Ross
,
Strother Martin
,
Henry Jones
,
Jeff Corey
Hawaii (
1966) | IMDb:
6.5
Abner Hale, a rigid and humorless New England missionary, marries the beautiful Jerusha Bromley and takes her to the exotic island kingdom of Hawaii, intent on converting the natives. But the clash between the two cultures is too great and instead of understanding there comes tragedy.
Starring:
Julie Andrews
,
Max von Sydow
,
Richard Harris
,
Gene Hackman
,
Carroll O'Connor
,
Jocelyne LaGarde