Joe Somebody (
2001) | IMDb:
5.5
When underappreciated video specialist Joe Scheffer is brutally humiliated by office bully Mark McKinney in front of his daughter, Joe begins a quest for personal redemption. He proceeds by enduring a personal makeover and takes martial arts lessons from a B-action star. As news spreads of his rematch with Mark, Joe suddenly finds himself the center of attention, ascending the corporate ladder and growing in popularity.
Starring:
Tim Allen
,
Julie Bowen
,
Kelly Lynch
,
Greg Germann
,
Hayden Panettiere
,
Patrick Warburton
The Replacement Killers (
1998) | IMDb:
6.1
Hired assassin John Lee is asked by Chinatown crime boss Terence Wei to murder the young son of policeman Stan Zedkov. Lee has the boy in his sights, but his conscience gets the better of him, and he spares the child's life. Afraid that Wei will take revenge on his family in China, Lee seeks out expert forger Meg Coburn to obtain the passport he needs to get out of the country, but a band of replacement killers is soon on his trail.
Starring:
Chow Yun-fat
,
Mira Sorvino
,
Michael Rooker
,
Kenneth Tsang
,
Jürgen Prochnow
,
Til Schweiger
Johnny Handsome (
1989) | IMDb:
6.1
A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and paroled from prison. It appears that he has gone straight, but he is really planning his revenge on the man who killed his mentor and sent him to prison.
Starring:
Mickey Rourke
,
Ellen Barkin
,
Morgan Freeman
,
Forest Whitaker
,
Elizabeth McGovern
,
Lance Henriksen
Gung Ho (
1986) | IMDb:
6.3
When a western Pennsylvania auto plant is acquired by a Japanese company, brokering auto worker Hunt Stevenson faces the tricky challenge of mediating the assimilation of two clashing corporate cultures. At one end is the Japanese plant manager and the sycophant who is angling for his position. At the other, a number of disgruntled long-time union members struggle with the new exigencies of Japanese quality control.
Starring:
Michael Keaton
,
Gedde Watanabe
,
George Wendt
,
Mimi Rogers
,
John Turturro
,
Sō Yamamura
Cocoon (
1985) | IMDb:
6.7
When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigor.
Starring:
Steve Guttenberg
,
Tahnee Welch
,
Brian Dennehy
,
Don Ameche
,
Wilford Brimley
,
Hume Cronyn
Red Dawn (
1984) | IMDb:
6.3
It is the dawn of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers band together to defend their town—and their country—from invading Soviet forces.
Starring:
Patrick Swayze
,
Charlie Sheen
,
C. Thomas Howell
,
Lea Thompson
,
Darren Dalton
,
Jennifer Grey
Altered States (
1980) | IMDb:
6.9
A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans, he explores these altered states of consciousness and finds that memory, time, and perhaps reality itself are states of mind.