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Director 1939 - 2021

Jerry Ziesmer

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Jerry Ziesmer (May 31, 1939 – August 1, 2021) was an American assistant director, production manager and occasional actor. He is best known for his role as Jerry in the 1979 film Apocalypse Now in which he delivers the infamous line "terminate with extreme prejudice".

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Jerry Maguire

Jerry Maguire

Cameron Crowe 1996 2h 19m 6.9

Jerry Maguire used to be a typical sports agent: willing to do just about anything he could to get the biggest possible contracts for his clients, plus a nice commission for himself. Then, one day, he suddenly has second thoughts about what he's really doing.

Singles

Singles

Cameron Crowe 1992 1h 39m 6.7

Romance in the '90s is where you find it. But what do you do to make it happen in today's hilariously mixed-up Singles world?

Say Anything...

Say Anything...

Cameron Crowe 1989 1h 40m 7.5

To know Lloyd Dobler is to love him. Diane Court is about to know Lloyd Dobler.

Blue Thunder

Blue Thunder

John Badham 1983 1h 50m 7.2

Officer Frank Murphy, an experienced LAPD helicopter pilot, is given command of the advanced new "Blue Thunder" chopper. But he begins to wonder why the LAPD would need a helicopter so powerful and why it is such a secret.

Rocky II

Rocky II

Sylvester Stallone 1979 1h 59m 7.1

Rocky struggles in family life after his bout with Apollo Creed, while the embarrassed champ insistently goads him to accept a challenge for a rematch.

Apocalypse Now

Apocalypse Now

Francis Ford Coppola 1979 2h 27m 8.7

During the Vietnam War, the assigned mission of Captain Willard take him through some strange and seemingly impossible scenarios in the jungle of Vietnam. Little by little Willard forgets his mission’s purpose as he becomes more and more hallucinatory and starts to lose sense of reality.

The Bad News Bears Go to Japan

The Bad News Bears Go to Japan

John Berry 1978 1h 32m

A small time promotor/hustler takes the pint-sized baseball team to Japan for a match against the country's best little league baseball team which sparks off a series of adventures and mishaps the boys come into.

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