Sy Richardson
Symon Lionel Richardson (born June 4, 1941) is an American film and television actor. He made his film debut as the Fairy Godmother, in the 1977 American erotic musical comedy Cinderella. Richardson is perhaps best known as a regular in the films of Alex Cox, having appeared... Read full bio →
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Larry Crowne
After losing his job, a middle-aged man reinvents himself by going back to college.
Our Family Wedding
The weeks leading up to a young couple's wedding is comic and stressful, especially as their respective fathers try to lay to rest their feud.
The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning
When mischievous teenaged cousins Bo and Luke Duke are arrested, both boys are paroled to the care of their Uncle Jesse in Hazzard, sentenced to a summer of hard work. It's not long before the Duke boys learn of Boss Hogg's plans to foreclose on Uncle Jesse's farm.
Surviving Christmas
A wealthy executive, Drew Latham (Ben Affleck) has no close relationships and becomes nostalgic for his childhood home as Christmas approaches.
Human Nature
Human Nature is a profound comedy about the contrast between nature and civilization, desire and sexuality, culture and savageness. Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman follows his widely successful ‘Being John Malkovich with this film directed by Michel Gondry.
Extreme Honor
A highly decorated Navy Seal is forced out of retirement in order to save his son's life and bring justice to the man who destroyed his career.
The Glass Shield
Two cops become compelled to act against corruption and discrimination within their police precinct.
Posse
A group of mostly black infantrymen return from the Spanish-American War with a cache of gold. They travel to the West where their leader searches for the men who lynched his father.
To Sleep with Anger
An enigmatic drifter from the South comes to visit an old acquaintance who now lives in South-Central LA.
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.
Men at Work
Two of garbage men find the body of a city councilman in a trash can on their route. With help from a supervisor, the duo must solve the case and find the man's killer while hiding the body from the cops.
Catchfire
Jodie Foster, as the innocent witness to a brutal mod murder, and Dennis Hopper, as the ultimate hitman, pair up in the tense, sexually charged thriller. Forced to flee for her life, and pursued by both mob and FBI, Foster is subjected to a life of loneliness and fear. But what happens when the heat of the chase become the heat of passion?
Three Fugitives
A reformed bank robber is taken hostage by a desperate man during a bank hold up, but is forced to go on the run with his captor when they're both mistakenly thought to be in cahoots.
Mystery Train
Three stories are connected by a Memphis hotel and the spirit of Elvis Presley.
Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects
A Tokyo businessman (Hiroshi Hada), transferred to L.A, molests a teenage girl on a train. It turns out that the girl is the daughter of a vice cop. But in one of those plot twists that can only occur in the movies, the cop is assigned to find the businessman's own daughter who has been kidnapped and forced into a teen prostitution ring.
They Live
A drifter discovers a pair of sunglasses that allow him to wake up to the fact that aliens have taken over the Earth.
Tapeheads
The story of Ivan and Josh, two dimwitted ex-security guards who love music videos. Out of work, with no job prospects, they form a music video production company. They soon learn the ins and outs of the business in LA, and with some help from Mo Fuzz, they soon become hot property.
Colors
A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barrios of Los Angeles, where the gang culture is enforced by the colors the members wear.
Bad Dreams
Lone survivor Cynthia Weston of the Unity Fields cult's mass suicide wakes from a thirteen-year coma in a psychiatric ward, where other patients suddenly start dying under mysterious and gruesome circumstances.
Walker
William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'etat
Straight to Hell
A gang of bank robbers with a suitcase full of money go to the desert to hide out. After burying the loot, they find their way to a surreal town full of cowboys who drink an awful lot of coffee.
Sid and Nancy
A lacerating love story, 'Sid & Nancy' chronicles the brief, intense attachment of two of punk's most notorious poster children, Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious and his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen.
Repo Man
Young punk Otto becomes a repo man after helping to steal a car, and stumbles into a world of wackiness as a result.
My Brother's Wedding
A man who despises his upwardly mobile lawyer brother reluctantly agrees to be best man at his wedding.
Fairy Tales
On his twenty-first birthday, the Prince goes on a quest that takes him across the land searching for the one woman that gets him sexually excited, Princess Sleeping Beauty.
Petey Wheatstraw
Petey Wheatstraw is a candidate to become the devil's son-in-law. The storyline is a scaffolding on which Rudy Ray Moore's standup humor can be unfolded.
Cinderella
Navigates the misadventures of our heroine, who, via the help of her "fairy" godmother, is granted heightened sexual prowess to win over Prince Charming.