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1. (1992) Tom Hanks starred with Geena Davis in the terrific film about the first female, professional baseball team. Hanks' performance as the team's heavy-drinking manager, who learns to appreciate the fact that girls can play ball after all, is the best part of the movie.
2. (1982) Geena Davis had a small role to Dustin Hoffman's starring role in this film about an actor with a reputation for being difficult. Unable to find work, he dresses like a woman, auditions for, and lands a role in a soap opera. Things get interesting when he falls in love with the female lead of the show, who doesn't have any idea that he's really a man.
3. (2003) Dustin Hoffman plays a lawyer and John Cusack a juror with his own private agenda, in this court room drama based on a best-selling novel by John Grisham. Along with his girlfriend, Cusack does a marvelous job of manipulating a jury in a case brought against a major gun manufacturer.
4. (1997) John Cusack is a professional hit man who happens to have a job to do in his old neighbourhood at the same time as his high school's tenth reunion. Dan Aykroyd plays another hit man who keeps trying to get Cusack to help him establish an Assassin's Union.
5. 1989) Dan Aykroyd is the dutiful son who hires Morgan Freeman to be his mother's chauffeur, when it becomes evident that she can no longer drive herself. At first she is resistant, but Freeman's character gently wears her down, and the friendship that develops over the 20 years that he looks after her is heart-warming, to say the least.
6. (2003) Morgan Freeman stars with Jim Carrey in this funny movie about a man who complains to God just once too often, and soon finds himself taking on God's job. It's wonderful at first, as he arranges everything to suit his own needs, but soon falls apart when he realizes that he's got other people to look after too.
7. (1995) Jim Carrey and Tommy Lee Jones starred as The Riddler, and Two Face, two evil, costumed criminals who are out to defeat the Caped Crusader in Gotham City.
8. (1993) Tommy Lee Jones plays a U.S. Federal Marshall, hot on the trail of Harrison Ford, a doctor who was wrongfully convicted of killing his wife, in this movie based on an old television show. While en route to prison, Ford is able to escape because of a train crash, and sets out to find the one-armed man who killed his wife, with single-minded determination.
9. (2003) Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett are two LAPD detectives who each have second careers outside of the force. They are called in to investigate the murder of an up and coming Rap group, while being investigated themselves by a corrupt cop with a bone to pick, and trying to juggle their outside interests.
10. (2001) Josh Hartnett and Ben Affleck play boyhood friends who both grow up to be pilots during the Second World War. Unfortunately they both fall in love with the same woman, which makes things a bit strained, until the Japanese attack brings America into the war.
11. (1999) Ben Affleck is a young man on his way to his wedding when a seagull flies into the engine of the plane he needs to take to get there. He hitches a ride with the beautiful, but mysterious Sarah Lewis, played by Sandra Bullock, but the trip is anything but uneventful. Before long he's beginning to wonder if he's marrying the right woman after all.
12. (2000) Sandra Bullock is a toughened FBI agent, who can spit and wrestle with the best of them. Michael Caine is the beauty consultant that has to get her ready to compete in a beauty pageant. Not that she really wants to compete in a beauty pageant, but someone has to go undercover to investigate the bomb threats, and of all the available agents, she's the one that looks the best in an evening gown.
13. (2000) Michael Caine is the prudish doctor in charge of the asylum which houses the infamous Marquis de Sade. Kate Winslet is a laundress at the asylum who helps the Marquis smuggle his risqué plays out to the waiting world where they are eagerly awaited, despite Caine's best efforts to suppress the writings.
14. (1997) Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio played star-crossed lovers in this romantic fiction that was set on the doomed maiden voyage of that enormous ship.
15. (2002) Leonardo starred with Tom Hanks in a movie that was loosely based upon the life of Frank Abagnale, one of the greatest con men ever, and the FBI agent who pursued him relentlessly.
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