Pat Hingle
Martin Patterson "Pat" Hingle (July 19, 1924 – January 3, 2009) was an American actor.Hingle was traditionally known for playing judges, police officers, and other authority figures. He was a guest star on the early NBC legal drama Justice, based on case histories of the Legal... Read full bio →
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Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
#1 NASCAR driver Ricky Bobby (Ferrell) stays atop the heap thanks to a pact with his best friend and teammate, Cal Naughton, Jr. (Reilly). But when a French Formula One driver (Cohen), makes his way up the ladder, Ricky Bobby's talent and devotion are put to the test.
Road to Redemption
A couple come into contact with stolen mob money, gamble it away, and end up on the run from gangsters.
Shaft
A remake of the 1971 Blaxploitation classic. Samuel L. Jackson played in Richard Roundtree’s roll as John Shaft – the dark-skinned super-cop Afro-American hero who only follows his own rules.
Muppets from Space
Gonzo is contacted by his alien family through his breakfast cereal. He is kidnapped and it's up to Kermit and the gang to rescue Gonzo and help reunite him with his long-lost family.
Batman & Robin
The fourth Batman film is even more colorful and dazzling than the previous and totally rejects the comic book style. The dynamic duo Batman and Robin are enhanced to a trio with Batgirl as they fight Poison Ivy and Mr. Freeze. With so many characters how ever will we follow!
A Thousand Acres
A THOUSAND ACRES is a drama about an American family who meets with tragedy on their land. It is the story of a father, his daughters, and their husbands, and their passion to subdue the history of their land and its stories.
Larger Than Life
Motivational Speaker Jack Corcoran is determined to get his career off the ground, but the biggest gigs he can get are the ones nobody wants. One day, he receives a telegram that his circus clown father has passed away and left a "huge" inheritance: an elephant that was his father's pride and joy.
Bastard Out of Carolina
Difficult tale of poor, struggling South Carolinian mother & daughter, who each face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.
Truman
Though considered unqualified, Harry S. Truman becomes the 33rd president following the April 1945 death of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The Quick and the Dead
Set in the Old West, a woman seeks revenge on the man who killed her father.
Batman Forever
The third part of the Batman movie series looses the direction from Tim Burton to new director Joel Schumacher. It also lost the gloomy atmosphere and the visual aspect of the comic. Besides the directors changing Batman would also change from Michael Keaton to Val Kilmer in a fight against Two-Face and the Riddler.
Lightning Jack
Lightning Jack Kane is an Australian outlaw in the wild west. During a bungled bank robbery he picks up mute Ben Doyle as a hostage. The two become good friends, with Jack teaching Ben how to rob banks, while they plan Jack's last heist.
Batman Returns
Batman Returns and the dark hero must up against two villains; the Penguin and Catwoman who both want to cause chaos to Gotham City. Yet while Catwoman is fighting Batman, her alter ego Selina Kyle is in love with his alter ego Bruce Wayne.
The Grifters
Based on the pulp novel by Jim Thompson, this neo-noir film tells the story of Lilly Dillon, a long-time female con artist who begins to rethink her life when her son Roy, also a grifter, suffers an almost-fatal injury when he is beaten after a failed scam.
Batman
Batman finds himself up against a new enemy in the Joker, who is spreading fear and chaos on the streets of Gotham. Batman has to face not only his enemy, but the person who created his dark persona and reconcile his desire to combat evil with his desire for a normal life and romance.
The Land Before Time
An orphaned brontosaurus named Littlefoot sets off in search of the legendary Great Valley. A land of lush vegetation where the dinosaurs can thrive and live in peace. Along the way he meets four other young dinosaurs, each onea different species, and they encounter several obstacles as they learn to worktogether in order to survive.
Baby Boom
The life of super-yuppie J.C. is thrown into turmoil when she inherits a baby from a distant relative.
Maximum Overdrive
When a comet passes close to the earth, machines all over the world come alive and go on homicidal rampages. A group of people at a desolate truck stop are held hostage by a gang of homicidal 18-wheelers. The frightened people set out to defeat the killer machines ... or be killed by them.
The Falcon and the Snowman
The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.
Brewster's Millions
A minor league baseball player has to waste $30m in 30 days in order to inherit $300m; however he's not allowed to tell anyone about the $300m deal.
Gringo mojado
A comical story of a scatter brained hero who is invited to his Pa's funeral. Never having known his father but still suspecting foul play, he travels to Mexico to learn the truth with hilarious results.
Sudden Impact
When a young rape victim takes justice into her own hands and becomes a serial killer, it's up to Dirty Harry Callahan, on suspension from the SFPD, to bring her to justice.
Going Berserk
A clumsy chauffeur is hypnotized by a cult to kill the father of his fiancée, a congressman who's suing the cult for fraud, and encounters several weird characters during the days leading up to his wedding.
Running Scared
It's 1961. Two servicemen smuggle a box of military gear to USA. Leroy tries out a military camera and accidentally takes a picture of some military facilities. Army finds one of the pictures and thinks they're communist spies.
Norma Rae
Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the difficult, and possibly dangerous, struggle to unionize her factory.
The Gauntlet
Phoenix cop Ben Shockley is well on his way to becoming a derelict when he is assigned to transport a witness named Gus Mally from Vegas. Mally turns out to be a belligerent prostitute with mob ties and incriminating information regarding a high-placed figure.
Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo
An airplane carrying coffee beans from South America has some unpleasant stowaways: a hoard of tarantulas which overcome the pilots as the airplane is flying over an orange-producing town in California. The airplane crashes, and the unlucky inhabitants of the town release the poisonous spiders into their midst.
The Super Cops
Two New York City cops. Greenberg and Hantz fought the system, became detectives and were known on the streets as "Batman and Robin".
WUSA
A radio station in the Deep South becomes the focal point of a right-wing conspiracy.
Bloody Mama
Hang 'Em High
The hanging was the best show in town. But they made two mistakes. They hung the wrong man and they didn't finish the job.
Certain Honorable Men
The protégé of a powerful congressman discovers his boss's corruption.
Nevada Smith
Nevada Smith is the young son of an Indian American mother and European-American father. When his father is killed by three men over gold, Nevada sets out to find them and kill them. The boy is taken in by a gun merchant. The gun merchant shows him how to shoot and to shoot on time and correct.
Invitation to a Gunfighter
In New Mexico, a Confederate veteran returns home to find his fiancée married to a Union soldier, his Yankee neighbors rallied against him and his property sold by the local banker who then hires a gunman to kill him.
Splendor in the Grass
A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.
The Strange One
A military school student develops a destructive power over his fellow cadets.
No Down Paymen
In California, four couples who have bought houses near one another face problems, alcoholism, racism, promiscuity, and discrimination against lack of education, until a tragic event forces them to reassess their lives.
On the Waterfront
On the Waterfront is a social criticism gangster film from director Elia Kazan, about an ex-boxer, who is part of the corruption of the trade unions for the men working on the waterfront in New York. A film about mob violence that won eight Academy Awards.