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Oliver Platt
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Oliver Platt - what members say
review by from Notting Hill
great cast 15 September 2003
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excellent swashbuckling fun 20 November 2006
review by Cornetto from Lancashire, England
FLATLINERS 26 April 2007
Oliver Platt - filmography
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The Big C - Series 2 - Complete
(2012)
Starring: Oliver Platt
Director: Craig Zisk, Michael Lehmann, Michael Engler
Certificate: 
THE BIG C created by Darlene Hunt, directed by Bill Condon, follows Cathy Jamison, a reserved suburban wife and mother whose recent terminal cancer diagnosis forces her to dramatically shake up her life and find hope and humour, while managing her difficult but well-meaning husband. This collection ..read more »
 
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Please Give
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Catherine Keener, Amanda Peet, Thomas Ian Nicholas
Director: Nicole Holofcener
Certificate: 
Kate (Catherine Keener) and Alex (Oliver Platt) are a couple living in New York City who run a successful store specializing in vintage furniture. Kate and Alex have a teenage daughter, Abby (Sarah Steele) and their apartment is starting to feel a bit small for the three of them; Kate and Alex own ..read more »
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from 5,103 members
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2012
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Amanda Peet, John Cusack, Woody Harrelson
Director: Roland Emmerich
Certificate: 
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From Roland Emmerich, director of The Day After Tomorrow and Independence Day, comes the ultimate action-adventure film, exploding with groundbreaking special effects. As the world faces a catastrophe of apocalyptic proportions, cities collapse and continents crumble. 2012 brings an end to the ..read more »
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from 52,870 members
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2012 - Blu-ray
(2009)
Starring: Amanda Peet, John Cusack, Woody Harrelson
Director: Roland Emmerich
Certificate:
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From Roland Emmerich, director of The Day After Tomorrow and Independence Day, comes the ultimate action-adventure film, exploding with groundbreaking special effects. As the world faces a catastrophe of apocalyptic proportions, cities collapse and continents crumble. 2012 brings an end to the ..read more »
60%
from 22,320 members
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Year One
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Jack Black, Michael Cera, Olivia Wilde
Director: Harold Ramis
Certificate:
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When a couple of lazy hunter-gatherers (Black and Cera) are banished from their primitive village, they set off on an epic journey through the ancient world.
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from 23,969 members
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Year One - Blu-ray
(2009)
Starring: Jack Black, Michael Cera, Olivia Wilde
Director: Harold Ramis
Certificate:
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Jack Black and Michael Cera headline Harold Ramis's Biblical comedy about a pair of misfit hunter-gatherers who embark on a wild journey through the ancient world after being banished from their primitive village. Zed (Black) and Oh (Cera) may lack in the skills that their chieftain is looking for, ..read more »
49%
from 4,101 members
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Frost/Nixon
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Michael Sheen, Rebecca Hall, Toby Jones
Director: Ron Howard
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Oscar-winning director Ron Howard (Da Vinci Code, A Beautiful Mind) brings to the screen writer Peter Morgan's (The Queen, The Last King of Scotland) electrifying battle between Richard Nixon, the disgraced president with a legacy to save, and David Frost, a jet-setting television personality with ..read more »
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from 55,579 members
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Frost/Nixon - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: Michael Sheen, Rebecca Hall, Toby Jones
Director: Ron Howard
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Oscar-winning director Ron Howard (Da Vinci Code, A Beautiful Mind) brings to the screen writer Peter Morgan's (The Queen, The Last King of Scotland) electrifying battle between Richard Nixon, the disgraced president with a legacy to save, and David Frost, a jet-setting television personality with ..read more »
77%
from 8,009 members
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Martian Child
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: John Cusack, Joan Cusack, Amanda Peet
Director: Menno Meyjes
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Based on an award-winning short story by sci-fi luminary David Gerrold, Martian Child sees John Cusack as a recently widowed science fiction writer who forms an unlikely family with a close friend (Amanda Peet) and a young boy he adopts who claims to be from Mars. The new couple ignore some sage ..read more »
67%
from 9,369 members
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The Ice Harvest
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, Connie Nielsen
Director: Harlod Ramis
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In icebound Wichita, Kansas, it's Christmas Eve, and this year Charlie Arglist (John Cusack) just might have something to celebrate. Charlie, an attorney for the sleazy businesses of Wichita, and his unsavory associate, the steely Vic Cavanaugh (Billy Bob Thornton) have just successfully embezzled $..read more »
56%
from 7,325 members
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Casanova
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Heath Ledger, Sienna Miller, Jeremy Irons
Director: Lasse Hallstrom
Certificate:
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For the first time in his life, the legendary Casanova is about to meet his match when the alluring Francesca does the one thing the notorious lover of women never thought possible - refuse him. Through disguises, subterfuges and wit, Casanova manages to get closer and closer to Francesca... but ..read more »
58%
from 25,250 members
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Kinsey
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O'Donnell
Director: Bill Condon
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The life story of Alfred Kinsey, a man driven to uncover the most private secrets of the nation, and journey into the mystery of human behavior. In 1948, Kinsey irrevocably changed American culture and created a media sensation with his book "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male." Using the technique ..read more »
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from 15,229 members
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Huff - Season 1
(4 discs)
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Hank Azaria, Paget Brewster, Anton Yelchin
Director: none
Certificate: 
Set in Portland, Oregon, Huff centers on the life of 40-something good-guy psychiatrist Dr. Craig "Huff" Huffstodt (Hank Azaria) suffering from a midlife crisis. Huff's world includes his lovely but complicated wife, Beth (Paget Brewster), a teenage son named Byrd (Anton Yelchin) who is mature ..read more »
66%
from 1,847 member
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Pieces Of April
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Katie Holmes, Patricia Clarkson, Oliver Platt
Director: Peter Hedges
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Katie Holmes is outstanding as the title character in Peter Hedges' PIECES OF APRIL. Holmes stars as April Burns, the black sheep of her family who has left suburbia for a Lower East Side tenement. To reconnect with her mother Joy (Patricia Clarkson), and father Jim (Oliver Platt), she invites them ..read more »
62%
from 4,514 members
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Hope Springs
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Colin Firth, Minnie Driver, Heather Graham
Director: Mark Herman
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Based on the novel 'New Cardiff' by Charles Webb, this is the story of British artist, Colin Ware who is heartbroken after receiving a invitation to the wedding of Vera, the love of his life. Colin moves to a little town in New England called Hope in order to deal with his grief and soon he falls ..read more »
51%
from 8,667 members
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Liberty Stands Still
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Linda Fiorentino, Jonathan Scarfe, Wesley Snipes
Director: Kari Skogland
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Liberty Wallace (Linda Fiorentino), heiress and co-president of America's largest gun manufacturer is on the way to meet her lover at a theater. While passing through a public park, a series of events finds her chained to a hotdog car, the long-range laser sight of a gun aimed at her chest. The ..read more »
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from 1,106 member
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Don't Say A Word
(2001)
Starring: Michael Douglas, Sean Bean, Brittany Murphy
Director: Gary Fleder
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When psychiatrist Nathan Conrad discovers that his daughter has been kidnapped, the only way he can get her back is to pry critical information from the mind of a seriously disturbed teenager (Brittany Murphy) with a secret stuck deep in a blocked memory. The Conrads are the prototypical happy ..read more »
63%
from 6,142 members
Not currently released
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Ready to Rumble
(2000)
Starring: David Arquette, Oliver Platt
Director: Brian Robbins
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Gordie and Sean (David Arquette and Scott Caan), two best friends in Wyoming, go to see their favorite WCW wrestler at the local arena, but are shocked to discover that this is the night the evil promoter has picked for him to lose his belt. Determined to restore Jimmy 'The King' King (Oliver Platt)..read more »
68%
from 55 members
Currently unavailable
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Gun Shy
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Michael Weatherly, Jose Zuniga, Liam Neeson
Director: Eric Blakeney
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Writer-director Eric Blakeney tells the darkly comic tale of Charlie Mayough (Liam Neeson), an undercover DEA agent who narrowly escapes death at the hands of mobsters. He only wants to retire, but reluctantly agrees to close this last case. His stress leads him to group therapy, where he befriends ..read more »
50%
from 798 members
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Bicentennial Man
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Robin Williams, Sam Neill, Embeth Davidtz
Director: Chris Columbus
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Andrew Martin (Williams) is a household android whose intended function is thrown for a loop when he begins to feel genuine human emotions. Over the next two centuries the resulting dealings with his adopted family and new acquaintances provide the film with ample opportunities to raise important ..read more »
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from 5,308 members
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Simon Birch
(1999)
Starring: Joseph Mazzello, Oliver Platt, Ian Michael Smith
Director: Mark Steven Johnson
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Simon is the smallest kid in town but has always known that he was born to do something big while, at the same time, his best friend Joe is searching for the identity of his father. Together these two share the ups and downs that will forever bind them together.
68%
from 780 members
Not currently released
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Three to Tango
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: David Ramsey, Kelly Rowan, Patrick Van Horn
Director: Damon Santostefano
Certificate:
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Oscar Novak (Perry), an architect who is desperate to receive a ninety million dollar commission from a wealthy Chicago businessman, Charles Newman (McDermott), agrees to help him out with a personal problem. Newman, mistakenly convinced that Oscar is gay, asks him to spy on his mistress, Amy (..read more »
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from 5,950 members
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Lake Placid
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Bill Pullman, Bridget Fonda, Oliver Platt
Director: Steve Miner
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ALLY McBEAL creator David E. Kelley wrote and produced this smalltown horror comedy with equal parts laughs and gore. When scientists studying beavers in a Maine lake are killed by something mysterious in the water, an investigation reveals a very large crocodile with an insatiable appetite. The ..read more »
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from 5,105 members
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Bulworth
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Warren Beatty, Halle Berry, Don Cheadle
Director: Warren Beatty
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A surprisingly entertaining political comedy that features a funny and magnetic Beatty as the discouraged politician Bulworth, who has organized his own assassination but, after a three day bender of not sleeping, decides that he wants to live after all. He begins to tell the complete truth at all ..read more »
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from 1,666 member
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Dangerous Beauty
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Catherine McCormack, Rufus Sewell, Oliver Platt
Director: Marshall Herskovitz
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The sensuous true story of the woman who defied convention in 16th-century Venice. Catherine McCormack plays Veronica Franco who, under the knowing tutelage of her mother, becomes a courtesan to the rich and powerful. She'll pay a price. Veronica may have to turn away forever from the nobleman she ..read more »
68%
from 1,301 member
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The Impostors
(1998)
Starring: Oliver Platt, Stanley Tucci, Walker Jones
Director: Stanley Tucci
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Con artists and struggling actors Tucci and Platt, after insulting stage star Molina, find themselves as stowaways on a cruise ship, among whose passengers is the same Molina. For the rest of the voyage, they are forced into a series of impersonations - from crew members to wealthy passengers to ..read more »
56%
from 24 members
Currently unavailable
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Doctor Dolittle
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Ving Rhames, Eddie Murphy, Ossie Davis
Director: Betty Thomas
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Three features. In 'Doctor Dolittle', a remake of the 1967 Richard Fleischer film of the same name, an animal doctor whose patients bark, squeal, and meow finds that he can suddenly understand his patients, which upsets the practice. Eddie Murphy updates the role as a San Francisco doctor who as a ..read more »
58%
from 8,123 members
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A Time To Kill
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Matthew McConaughey, Samuel L. Jackson
Director: Joel Schumacher
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In a small southern town in the 1960s, a black man awaits trial for murdering the two rednecks who viciously raped his 10-year-old daughter. A young, idealistic white lawyer takes up the father's defense, and the incendiary case becomes a firestorm of racism and controversy, ripping the town apart. ..read more »
74%
from 8,706 members
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Executive Decision
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Kurt Russell, Halle Berry, John Leguizamo
Director: Stuart Baird
Certificate:
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A ruthless terrorist group are holding hostage the passengers on board a 747 airliner. Using an experimental docking aircraft, an elite team must make an air-to-air transfer to save four hundred lives in a gripping do-or-die mission.
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from 5,557 members
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Executive Power
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Kurt Russell, Steven Seagal, Halle Berry
Director: Stuart Baird
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While protecting the U.S. President, Secret Service agent Nick Sager helps him to cover up the death of a young girl who accidentally died during an adulterous encounter.
Some time later, a few weeks before the elections, the disillusioned ex-agent is approached by his former partner. After the ..read more »
28%
from 5 members
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The Infiltrator
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Oliver Platt, Arliss Howard, Tony Haygarth
Director: John Mackenzie
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An American journalist on assignment in Germany uncovers a neo-Nazi group linked to Nazi survivors of World War II. He goes undercover to expose the group and its leaders, who have been in hiding for nearly fifty years. Based on Yaron Svoray and Nick Taylor's "In Hitler's Shadow," a true story.
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from 89 members
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Funny Bones
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Jerry Lewis, Oliver Platt, Lee Evans
Director: Peter Chelsom
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Tommy Fawkes (Oliver Platt) is a struggling stand-up comedian who has tried for years to get out from under the shadow of his father, George Fawkes (Jerry Lewis), himself a famous humorist. Tommy finally scores a showcase spot at a major resort in Las Vegas, but when opening night rolls around, ..read more »
65%
from 863 members
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Indecent Proposal
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Robert Redford, Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson
Director: Adrian Lyne
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Longtime sweethearts David (Woody Harrelson), an architect, and Diana (Demi Moore), a real estate agent, find themselves on hard times when financial troubles bring them to the verge of losing their house, which David designed. Taking their last $5,000, they go to Vegas in hopes of multiplying ..read more »
62%
from 7,548 members
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The Three Musketeers
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Chris O'Donnell
Director: Stephen Herek
Certificate:
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The Musketeers, 16th Century defenders of the French monarch, have just been disbanded by the duplicitous Cardinal Richelieu. Now only three of them remain--Athos, Prothos and Aramis--to stand in the way of Richelieu who's plotting to overthrow the young King and assume the throne. Barely post-..read more »
67%
from 4,616 members
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The Temp
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Timothy Hutton, Lara Flynn Boyle, Faye Dunaway
Director: Tom Holland
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Peter Derns (Timothy Hutton), a recently divorced junior executive at a successful cookie company, decides to hire a temp when things at the office get too hairy. Enter Kris (Lara Flynn Boyle), the new secretary who seems to do no wrong. Peter is extremely grateful when Kris rescues him from some ..read more »
53%
from 144 members
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Benny and Joon
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Mary Stuart Masterson, Aidan Quinn
Director: Jeremiah S. Chechik
Certificate:
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Joon (Mary Stuart Masterson), a mentally disturbed young woman, lives with her older (and over-protective) brother, Benny (Aidan Quinn). He puts up with the untenable situation because of his love for her and his dislike of institutions. Just when their relationship reaches a point where things ..read more »
66%
from 13,311 members
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Beethoven
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Bonnie Hunt, Dean Jones, Oliver Platt
Director: Brian Levant
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Feeling that something is lacking in their lives, the family of suburbanite Charles Grodin adopts a stray St. Bernard puppy. The cute lite beast grows up to be the less-than-cute Beethoven, a sloppy, slobbery, oversized and extremely destructive animal. Beethoven also brings with him a lot of ..read more »
63%
from 3,676 members
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Midnight Sting
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: James Woods, Louis Gossett Jr., Oliver Platt
Director: Michael Ritchie
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Director Michael Ritchie turns in another crowd-pleasing sports picture with DIGGSTOWN, featuring James Woods as Gabriel Caine, a con artist who has just been released from prison. Based on a tip by his cellmate, Wolf Forrester (Randall "Tex" Cobb), Caine heads for Diggstown, Georgia, a small town ..read more »
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from 616 members
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Flatliners - Blu-ray
(1990)
Starring: Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon
Director: Joel Schumacher
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A tense thriller in which hot-shot medical students embark on a series of daring experiments to get a peek at the face of death. Stopping their hearts until the vital signs register as flat lines, they then revive the subject. The group doesn't count on bringing anything back from their near-death ..read more »
66%
from 1,784 member
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Flatliners
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon
Director: Joel Schumacher
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Despite its occasional lapses into silly self-consciousness, Flatliners is one of the most intriguing and well-constructed supernatural thrillers of the 1990s. A group of brilliant medical students decide to literally play with life and death. They put themselves in suspended animation, ..read more »
66%
from 10,347 members
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Married To The Mob
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Matthew Modine, Dean Stockwell, Michelle Pfeiffer
Director: Jonathan Demme
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Michelle Pfeiffer established herself as an adept actress with this colorful comedy from director Jonathan Demme (SOMETHING WILD, SILENCE OF THE LAMBS). The wife of Mafia hitman Frank "Cucumber" De Marco (Alec Baldwin), the irrepressibly brassy Angela (Pfeiffer) finds herself unhappy with their ..read more »
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from 742 members
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Oliver Platt facts
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