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1. Three brothers, who had planned on taking over the family chicken restaurant, are taken by surprise when their father (Jim Haynie) announces that he's selling the restaurant and retiring. All three must now figure out what to do with their lives, while dealing with their father's sudden death, and their mother subsequently dating an old friend (Levon Helm).
2. Jim Haynie and Sam Shepard are farmers Arlon and Gil, who are both going through rough financial times. Gil has pretty much given up hope on having a successful farm, so his wife Jewell must be the strong one and hold the family together while trying to keep the farm going.
3. Sam Shepard and Fred Ward are on opposing sides of an Indian dispute. Shepard, as FBI agent Frank Coutelle, arrives in South Dakota with his young partner to investigate a mysterious string of murders on an Indian reservation. While Frank participates in the FBI's coverup, his partner delves for the truth.
4. Fred Ward and Pamela Reed play news anchors following the story of a folk-singer-turned-politician who is running for the US Senate with a very crooked campaign.
5. Pamela Reed plays Belle, a woman two men want to fight over, and Dennis Quaid plays one of a group of outlaws with the James-Younger gang in this 1980 western.
6. Arlis Sweeney (Dennis Quaid) works filling vending machines and Scott Wilson is his employee, Elliot. Arlis meets and falls for a young woman named Kay, whose haunting connection to his past is that his father killed her parents and brother when she was a baby.
7. Scott Wilson and Harry Shearer are in this movie about a missing Mexican heiress. Since the girl has bad luck, a psychologist suggests sending someone who also has bad luck to help find her. Her father sends one of his accountants, who seems to fit the bill, along with a detective, and the hunt is on.
8. Mike Michaelson (Harry Shearer) interviews Christof (Ed Harris) about his television show which involves a young man who unknowingly is having his entire life filmed. All of the people in his life, including his parents and spouse, are actors playing a part, but eventually the young man starts to suspect the truth and plans a getaway.
9. Ed Harris plays Patsy Cline's husband, and David Clennon her manager Randy Hughes, in this biopic of the country singer's music career and tragic death.
10. In what award-winning movie from the early 80's, that also starred Scott Glenn, Barbara Hershey, Veronica Cartwright, Mary Jo Deschanel and Donald Moffat, did all of these people appear?
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