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1. (1987) This comedy/action movie is about pirates, fencing, giants, and true love. You can take a stroll through the Fire Swamp with Wesley and Buttercup, 'as you wish'.
2. (1991) When his twin sister tries to kill herself, again, this southern teacher/football coach travels to New York to try to help. While spending long hours with his sister's New York psychiatrist, trying to determine what drives his sister, he uncovers horrors from their past that keep him from being whole. Of course a wonderful romance develops between the man and the psychiatrist but he does eventually go back to his wife to rebuild his life.
3. (1964) This WW2 comedy tells the story of a man who has been coerced into becoming a plane spotter for the Australian navy. Sparks soon fly when he ends up having to house a very proper French diplomat's daughter, and the school girls in her charge, who are fleeing from the Japanese. But not to worry, before too long 'Goody Two Shoes' and 'The Filthy Beast' manage to work out most of their differences.
4. (1948)Hitchcock has always been one of my favourite directors. This movie tells the tale of two prep school friends who murder a third student, partly for the thrill and partly as an intellectual experiment. Then they entertain family, friends, and their favourite professor while the body is still hidden in the apartment, to see if they can handle the stress.
5. (1984) This action movie finds a romance novelist journeying to Colombia to deliver a treasure map to save her sister's life. Unfortunately several people are after the map, and she gets drawn into the kind of adventure she has only written about before. Michael Douglas plays the hero of the story, although he's not quite as perfect as the heroes that she invents. It all works out in the end though, and they sail away down the streets of New York.
6. (1977) This action/adventure took place a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. A princess, a budding Jedi, and a smuggler with his giant hairy friend band together with the rebel alliance to save the universe. I've already said more than I need to!
7. (1983) This drama tells the story of a bunch of college friends reuniting for the funeral of a friend who'd committed suicide. Radicals in their college days, the friends had all 'sold out', most of them becoming very successful when they opted back into society. It also had one of the best soundtracks I've ever heard.
8. (1988) There aren't many 'Chick Flicks' in my collection, but this one is definitely in there. This movie is about a thirty year old friendship between two girls, from very different backgrounds, who meet on a beach in Atlantic City. The movie traces them through their successes and failures, marriages and divorces, and ends with one of them dying young, leaving her daughter in the custody of the other.
9. (1944) Cary Grant stars in this comedy in which he discovers, on his wedding day, that his 2 dear, beloved aunts are making a hobby out of poisoning lonely old gentlemen and burying them in their basement. Things heat up a little when Grant's criminal brother shows up with his plastic surgeon friend, looking for a place to lay low while he acquires a new face.
10. (2000) A cocky, chauvinistic ad executive is mildly electrocuted and finds himself blessed with the ability to hear what women are thinking. At first he uses this ability to further his own ends by scoring points with his daughter, scoring with the local waitress, and manipulating his new boss out of her job. But then he starts to really take a look at the people he's using, and finds himself caring. Too bad more men can't read womens' minds!
11. (2001) This movie tells the tale of a recently split couple who have to pretend to be nice to each other to promote the release of the movie they made just before they split. But the eccentric director isn't letting anyone see the movie just yet, and the studio's publicity department has their hands full keeping that information away from the press. Fortunately the actions of the estranged couple, her new boyfriend and her sister who waits on her hand and foot are titillating enough to hold everyone's attention.
12. (2000) She bullied him into hiring her, she bullied him into taking the case, but together they brought a huge corporation to its knees. This tale is a true story of contaminated ground water, the people who were poisoned by it, and how the Pacific Gas and Electric Company were forced to pay for all the damage that they'd done.
13. (1989) An archaeologist and his bookish dad go on a search for the Holy Grail, encountering treachery, Nazis, and ancient knights along the way.
14. (1984) After being kicked out of the university where they pulled comfortable paychecks, three friends go into the paranormal business, just in time to save their city from a ghostly invasion of mammoth proportions. They succeed of course, after turning the Staypuft Marshmallow Man into goo.
15. (1995) After almost being killed by a psychotic killer that she helped put in jail Dr. Helen Hudson, former criminal profiler, becomes housebound, a victim of agoraphobia. This does not stop her from being stalked again, by a serial killer who gets his kicks out of copying the methods of past killers.
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