Archive for January, 1996
Fan, The
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| Taglines: | 1: All baseball fans have a favorite player. This one has a favorite target. 2: Baseball’s $40 million man has always treated the game like a matter of life and death. This time, it really is. 3: Fear strikes. |
| Plot Summary: | Three-times MVP baseball player Bobby Rayburn joins San Fransisco Giants, and obsessive fan, whose profession is selling hunting knives, Gil Renard is excited over that. But Rayburn plays the worst season of his career and Renard tries to do everything to help him, but goes too far. |
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Glimmer Man, The
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| Taglines: | 1: Two good cops. One bad situation. |
| Plot Summary: | Jack Cole is a soft spoken, mystical, new age New York cop with a checkered past. He is transferred to Los Angeles to help Los Angeles cop Jim Campbell solve a series of brutal murders in which the victims are crucified. The murders that have happened since Jack arrived in Los Angeles just don’t sit right with him. When the killer, known as the “Family Man”, kills Ellen DunLeavy, who happens to be Jack’s ex wife and the mother of his two kids, and Ellen’s husband Andrew DunLeavy, it becomes personal - especially when Jack’s prints are found on Ellen’s body. Jack meets with his military mentor Smith, not knowing that Smith is in cahoots with local crime boss Frank Deverell. |
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Sgt. Bilko
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| Plot Summary: | This movie is a remake of the hit series which starred, Phil Silvers as Sgt. Bilko. In this movie, Bilko is played by Steve Martin. Bilko tuns the motor pool and has all sorts of scams going on like gambling, renting out military vehicles, and so on, which are all violations. However, his commanding officer, Colonel Hall overlooks them, cause he is more concerned about his future, cause a lot of bases are being closed, and the inspector, Major Thorn was on the verge of doing that. But when he heard that Bilko was on the base, he turned into a mad dog. It seems that Thorn was a “thorn” in Bilko’s side many years ago but through a series of misunderstandings, Thorn was accused of carrying out or being the brains behind one of Bilko’s schemes, he would be sent to Greenland and his career has not gone as he hoped it would and now wants revenge on Bilko. |
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White Squall
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| Taglines: | 1: The Adventure Of a Lifetime Turns Into the Ultimate Challenge of Survival! 2: The strongest force in nature is the will to survive. |
| Plot Summary: | A true story about a group of American teenage boys who crew a school sailing ship to gain experience, discipline, or whatever their parents feel they lack. The voyage is a true adventure for them all but it has its downs as well as ups. |
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Striptease
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| Taglines: | 1: A comedy in the last place you expect to find one. 2: It ain’t “Showgirls”…then again, it ain’t “Snow White” either!. 3: Some People Get Into Trouble No Matter What They WEAR. |
| Plot Summary: | Erin Grant loses care and custody of her daughter when she’s divorced from her husband Darrell, a small-time thief. Struggling for money, she is a dancer at a nightclub, where one night Congressman Dilbeck (in disguise) attacks another member of the audience. A spectator, who recognizes Dilbeck and is fond of Erin, offers to get back her daughter by blackmailing Dilbeck. Things do not work out as planned, though. |
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Independence Day
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| Taglines: | 1: Don’t make plans for August. 2: EARTH Take a good look. It could be your last. 3: Enjoy The Superbowl. It May Be Your Last (Superbowl Promo) 4: On July 2, 1996, the aliens came. On July 3, 1996, the aliens saw and struck. On Independence Day 1996, the human race will CONQUER! 5: On July 2nd, they arrive. On July 3rd, they strike. On July 4th, we fight back. 6: The question of whether or not we are alone in the universe has been answered. 7: THESE extraterrestrials don’t want to phone home…They want OUR home. 8: They only want one thing… DESTRUCTION! 9: WARNING! Your next stop may not be there. 10: We’ve always believed we weren’t alone. Pretty soon, we’ll wish we were. |
| Plot Summary: | On July 2nd, communications systems worldwide are sent into chaos by a strange atmospheric interference. It is soon learned by the military that a number of enormous objects are on a collision course with Earth. At first thought to be meteors, they are later revealed to be gigantic spacecraft, piloted by a mysterious alien species. After attempts to communicate with the aliens go nowhere, David Levinson, an ex-scientist turned cable technician, discovers that the aliens are going to attack major points around the globe in less than a day. On July 3rd, the aliens all but obliterate New York, Los Angeles, and Washington. The survivors set out in convoys towards Area 51, a strange government testing ground where it is rumored the military has a captured alien spacecraft of their own. The survivors devise a plan to fight back against the enslaving aliens, and July 4th becomes the day humanity will fight for its freedom. July 4th is their Independence Day… |
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From Dusk Till Dawn
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| Taglines: | 1: From Quentin Tarantino. From Robert Rodriguez. From Dusk Till Dawn 2: How far can Too Far go? 3: One night is all that stands between them and freedom. But it’s going to be a hell of a night. 4: The Showdown is on 5: Vampires. No Interviews. |
| Plot Summary: | The Gecko brothers are fugitives, and are on the run after a very interesting bank robbery. They kidnap the Fuller family, and drive to a Mexican bar to meet with other on-the-run criminals. It turns out the crooks in the bar are vampires, and if the Gecko brothers and the Fuller family can survive from dusk until dawn, the “crooks” will let em’ go. Directed by Robert Rodriguez Screenplay by Quentin Tarentino |
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Last Man Standing
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| Taglines: | 1: If you lived in this town, you’d be dead by now. 2: In a town with no justice, there is only one law… Every man for himself. 3: There are two sides to every war. And John Smith is on both of them. |
| Plot Summary: | John Smith is an amoral gunslinger in the days of Prohibition. On the lam from his latest (unspecified) exploits, he happens upon the town of Jericho, Texas. Actually, calling Jericho a town would be too generous—it has become more like a ghost town, since two warring gangs have ‘driven off all the decent folk.’ Smith sees this as an opportunity to play both sides off against each other, earning himself a nice piece of change as a hired gun. Despite his strictly avowed mercenary intentions, he finds himself risking his life for his, albeit skewed, sense of honor…. |
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Eraser
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| Taglines: | 1: He will erase your past to protect your future. |
| Plot Summary: | John Kruger is a U.S. marshal who is assigned to protect Lee Cullen, who works for the Cyrez Corporation, a company that manufactures top secret weapons for the military. Lee knows about a scam going on within Cyrez Corporation, and the man behind it is determined to silence Lee, because without Lee, the FBI has no case against the Cyrez Corporation. After taking Lee to New York City to hide her, John discovers that his friend, U.S. Marshal Robert Deguerin, is the mastermind behind the scam! |
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