Angels in the Outfield (
1994) | IMDb:
6.2
Roger is a foster child whose irresponsible father promises to get his act together when Roger's favourite baseball team, the California Angels, wins the pennant. The problem is that the Angels are in last place, so Roger prays for help to turn the team around. Sure enough, his prayers are answered in the form of angel Al.
Starring:
Danny Glover
,
Brenda Fricker
,
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
,
Christopher Lloyd
,
Tony Danza
,
Ben Johnson
Major League (
1989) | IMDb:
7.2
When Rachel Phelps inherits the Cleveland Indians from her deceased husband, she's determined to move the team to a warmer climate—but only a losing season will make that possible, which should be easy given the misfits she's hired. Rachel is sure her dream will come true, but she underestimates their will to succeed.
Starring:
Tom Berenger
,
Charlie Sheen
,
Corbin Bernsen
,
Margaret Whitton
,
James Gammon
,
Rene Russo
Moon Over Parador (
1988) | IMDb:
6
Little known actor, Jack Noah, is working on location in the dictatorship of Parador at the time the dictator dies. The dictator's right hand man, Roberto, makes Jack an offer he cannot refuse.. to play the dictator. Jack's acting skills fool the masses but not close friends and employees of the dictator.
Starring:
Richard Dreyfuss
,
Raúl Juliá
,
Sônia Braga
,
Jonathan Winters
,
Sammy Davis Jr.
,
Michael Greene
Stand by Me (
1986) | IMDb:
8.1
After learning that a boy their age has been accidentally killed near their rural homes, four Oregon boys decide to go see the body. On the way, Gordie, Vern, Chris and Teddy encounter a mean junk man and a marsh full of leeches, as they also learn more about one another and their very different home lives. Just a lark at first, the boys' adventure evolves into a defining event in their lives.
Starring:
Wil Wheaton
,
River Phoenix
,
Jerry O'Connell
,
Corey Feldman
,
Kiefer Sutherland
,
Casey Siemaszko
Tempest (
1982) | IMDb:
6.4
A sobering mid-life crisis fuels dissatisfaction in Philip Dimitrius, to the extent where the successful architect trades his marriage and career in for a spiritual exile on a remote Greek island where he hopes to conjure meaning into his life - trying the patience of his new girlfriend and angst-ridden teenage daughter.
Starring:
John Cassavetes
,
Gena Rowlands
,
Susan Sarandon
,
Vittorio Gassman
,
Raúl Juliá
,
Molly Ringwald
Capricorn One (
1977) | IMDb:
6.8
In order to protect the reputation of the American space program, a team of NASA administrators turn the first Mars mission into a phony Mars landing. Under threat of harm to their families the astronauts play their part in the deception on a staged set in a deserted military base. But once the real ship returns to Earth and burns up on re-entry, the astronauts become liabilities. Now, with the help of a crusading reporter, they must battle a sinister conspiracy that will stop at nothing to keep the truth hidden.
Starring:
Elliott Gould
,
James Brolin
,
Brenda Vaccaro
,
Sam Waterston
,
O.J. Simpson
,
Hal Holbrook
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (
1975) | IMDb:
8.7
A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.
Starring:
Jack Nicholson
,
Louise Fletcher
,
Danny DeVito
,
William Redfield
,
Scatman Crothers
,
Brad Dourif