Drama

1995

R

Plot: In this gritty independent drama, a shoe salesman whos sick of his going-nowhere life in Newark, New Jersey borrows $10,000 and bets it on a horse that hes been told cannot lose. The horse loses, and t ...

Romance

1993

PG

Plot: Johnny Depp was nominated for a Golden Globe for his astonishing performance in Benny & Joon, though the entire cast is equally impressive. Benny (Aidan Quinn) runs a small car repair sho ...

Comedy

1990

NR

Plot: Benny Hills World Tour: New York was the final television special before the death of the British comic. The show finds him employing his usual brand of silly antics and partially-clad bu ...

Comedy Drama

1996

PG13

Plot: In this film by director Francis Ford Coppola, Robin Williams stars as Jack, a boy who is growing normally, but at many times the normal rate. In a bizarre flashback, we see that he was born when his m ...

Comedy Drama

2003

PG13

Plot: An adolescent who is sorting out his new sexual feelings is less than comforted by the example of his immediate family in this coming-of-age comedy drama. Jack (Anton Yelchin) is a boy in ...

Crime

1991

R

Plot: The ruthless leader of a New York City drug syndicate battles to maintain his power and avoid imprisonment in this fast-moving action drama. While the films heroes are Scotty (Ice-T) and Nick (Judd Nel ...

Western

1999

R

Plot: John Cusack plays Myrl Redding, a horse trader who locks horns with a rancher who has callously mistreated two of his horses, as well as their handler, a Crow Indian. When the law gives Myrl no justice ...

Fantasy

1998

PG

Plot: Michael Keaton stars in this special-effects-heavy Christmas film about a boy who discovers, after his father dies in a car accident, that his dad is still alive in the form of a snowman. Unlike the ho ...

Comedy

2002

PG

Plot: Two low-level American crooks head to Australia, where they match wits with a kangaroo (who appears to have an intellectual edge on his pursuers) in this road comedy. Charlie Carbone (Jerry OConnell) i ...

Adventure

2004

NR

Plot: You just cant keep a good kangaroo down, and when a group of poachers attempts to kidnap Jackie Legs and make way for the U.S.A., Charlie, Louis, and Jessie must jump into action in this animated seque ...

Horror

2004

R

Plot: This Florida-lensed slasher silliness (not surprisingly produced by exploitation overlord Fred Olen Ray) is enlivened only slightly by posthumous cameos from John Carradine and Cameron Mitchell, as wel ...

Music [nf]

2000

PG13

Plot: Ramblin Jack Elliott, a self-styled folk musician, was an important transitional figure between Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan. This documentary serves as both a chronicle of his colorful li ...

Drama

2004

R

Plot: A young woman kept at arms length from the world finds it suddenly appearing on her doorstep in this drama. In the 1960s, Jack (Daniel Day-Lewis) was a political radical and environmental activi ...

Thriller

1979

NR

Plot: One of the better efforts from prolific cult director Jesus Franco, this Swiss-German horror film stars Klaus Kinski, in his final film for Franco, as the notorious Jack the Ripper. A respected doctor ...

Sports & Recreati

2004

NR

Plot: Experience legendary boxer Jack Johnsons remarkable struggle both in and out of the ring in documentary filmmaker Ken Burns two-part look at the career of one of the sports worlds most remarkabl ...

History [nf]

1993

NR

Plot: Who exactly was Jack the Ripper? More than a century after his reign of terror, how much do we truly know about this frightening creature? This documentary features readings from the murderers d ...