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10 Extraordinarily Excellent Movies For Your Amusement Delight

by Noel Smith

Some good information about some of the greatest films that you may have never heard of is right here. Scandalous - Featherbrained sham in regards to investigative Television journalist who runs afoul of a team of con artists as he tries to disentangle himself from a homicide charge. Cast includes Robert Hays, John Giegud, Pamela Stephenson, and Jim Dale. (94 minutes, 1984)

Rubin and Ed - Abnormal odyssey of 2 gentlemen on a mission to bury a deceased cat. Can they ever find the right spot? Glover once made a notorious appearance on David Letterman’s TV show playing the identical personality he does here. Cast includes Crispin Glover, Howard Hesseman, Karen Black, Michael Green, and Brittney Lewis.

No Down Payment - Topical suburban soap opera of entangling complications of few young married twosomes. Cast includes Joanne Woodward, Jeffrey Hunter, Sheree North, Tony Randall, Cameron Mitchell, Patricia Owens, Barbara Hurry, and Pat Hingle.

Gus - Football kicking mule named Gus catapults a last-place team to success; crooks try to abduct Gus with typical outcomes like dry pursuit in an anticipation thriller. Cast includes Edward Asner, Don Knotts, Gary Grimes, Tim Conway, Louise Williams, Dick Van Patten, and Dick Butkus.

The Seniors - 4 collegians open a counterfeit sex hospital, which mushrooms into a multi million dollar business. The movie is both stupid and sarcastic, with some benign nudity thrown in. Cast includes Jeffrey Byron, Gary Imhof, Dennis Quaid, Lou Richards, PrisciIla Barnes, Alan Reed, Edward Andrews, Robert Emhardl, and Alan Hewitt.

The Prestige - The setting is the early 1900’s in London. Magicians are of high status in the entertainment business. Robert Angler and Alfred Borden, once partners on stage, are now in an intense battle to be the best magician in London. They will go to any means to surpass the other.

Casino - Sam Rothstein has worked his way through the mafia ranks and now runs the casino that his Chicago outfit owns. When mafia strong arm Nicky Santoro arrives in town, Sam pleads with him to keep a low profile. Business is good, and his services aren’t really necessary. Nicky just can’t help himself, and he starts banging heads. Now Sam’s peace world gets turned completely upside down.

Mamma Mia - Sophie is about to get married. Her single mom has invited her two best lifetime friends to the wedding. Sophie has invited three men from her mothers past, eager to find her father, and have him walk her down the aisle. Old romances are reborn during the disorganized day before the wedding.

China Moon - Small-town cop Harris lusts after unhappily married Stowe in this moody film noir. A few nice twirls, although production is more than a tad similar to the better Body Heat. This is a directorial debut for Bailey, more commonly known as a top cinematographer. Cast includes Madeline Stowe, Charles Dance, Benicio Del Taro, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Roger Aaron Brown, and Patricia Healy.

The House of Yes - On a stormy day in 1983, a youthful gentleman brings his fiancee home to meet his bankrupt Washington, D.C, family, containing his crazy twin sis, Jackie-O, whose fantasies in Jacqueline Kennedy have lengthened to the point of reinacting the JFK assassination-with live bullets. Well made black comedy, based on the stage production by Wendy MacLeod. Cast includes Parker Posey, Josh Harnilton, Tori Spelling, Freddie Prinze, Jr., Genevieve Bujold, and Rachael Leigh Cook.

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