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Rip Torn - news / articles
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Torn writing memoir to rebuild reputation -
13 February 2011
-Embattled actor Rip Torn is writing his autobiography in a bid to show fans he's more than just the alcoholic he's been portrayed as in the press.-
-The Men In Black star, 80, embarked on a career in Hollywood after graduating from Texas A&M University, landing r
Rip Torn - what members say
review by A customer from tyrone, ireland
Great show, Great characters 7 October 2004
review by A customer from NEWCASTLE
THE GROOVY GREEKS! 23 June 2004
review by from London
Crude but funny 2 September 2004
Rip Torn - filmography
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Men In Black 3 - Blu-ray
(2012)
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Jemaine Clement
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Certificate: 
Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, and director Barry Sonnenfeld return to the kooky world of the top-secret government agents who protect our planet from hostile aliens in this third entry of the Men in Black film series. This will be the first film in the franchise to be presented in 3D. FLIGHT OF THE ..read more »
 
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Men In Black 3
(2011)
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Jemaine Clement
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
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Agent J time-jumps back to the 1960's, where an alien with its sights on the younger version of Agent K poses a threat to the future of the MIB organization -- and humankind's very existence.
79%
from 150 members
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Happy Tears
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Demi Moore, Parker Posey, Rip Torn
Director: Mitchell Lichtenstein
Certificate: 
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Jayne and Laura are about to take on the first man they just might not be able to handle: their seventy-something-year-old father Joe. Dutiful daughters returning to the house they grew up in, Jayne and Laura are forced to take a closer look at their own not-so-perfect lives while dodging childhood ..read more »
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from 360 members
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American Cowslip
(2009)
Starring: Rip Torn, Bruce Dern, Diane Ladd
Director: Mark David
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Trapped in small-town California USA, Ethan Inglebrink is searching for the perfect moment in a life that is running out of time. And the odds are against him. Ethan is an agoraphobic, drug addict obsessed with his garden. Ethan's neighbor, landlord and maniacal high school football coach Trevor O'..read more »
56%
from 3 members
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August
(2008)
Starring: Josh Hartnett, Naomie Harris, Adam Scott
Director: Austin Chick
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"August" follows Tom Sterling as an aggressive, young dot-com entrepreneur who fights to keep his start-up company afloat. Tom finds himself on a personal and professional downward spiral as he struggles to reunite with girlfriend, Sarrah, regain control of his company from his apathetic investor ..read more »
50%
from 657 members
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Bee Movie - HD
(2007)
Starring: Jerry Seinfeld, Renee Zellweger, Robert Duvall
Director: Steve Hickner, Simon J. Smith
Certificate: 
After a nine year hiatus, comedy maestro Jerry Seinfeld (SEINFELD) returns to our screens with the sweet-natured comedy BEE MOVIE. In it, he voices Barry B. Benson, a young bee who refuses to accept his fate as just another faceless worker in a colony of millions. Despite being warned never to ..read more »
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from 60 members
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Bee Movie
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Jerry Seinfeld, Renee Zellweger, Robert Duvall
Director: Steve Hickner, Simon J. Smith
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Barry B. Benson (Seinfeld), a bee who has just graduated from college, is disillusioned at his lone career choice: making honey. On a special trip outside the hive, Barry's life is saved by Vanessa (Zellweger), a florist in New York City. As their relationship blossoms, he discovers humans actually ..read more »
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from 38,533 members
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Marie-Antoinette
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Rip Torn
Director: Sofia Coppola
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Oscar winner Sofia Coppola brings to life a fresh interpretation of the life of France's legendary teenage Queen MARIE ANTOINETTE. Kirsten Dunst plays the naive and beautiful Marie Antoinette, who is betrothed to King Louis XVI at the tender age of 14, entering an opulent French court which is ..read more »
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from 19,830 members
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The Sisters
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Erika Christensen, Elizabeth Banks, Maria Bello
Director: Arthur Allan Seidelman
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Bello plays Marcia, one of three sisters around whom the story is based. The film opens with Marcia and Olga (Mary Stuart Masterson) preparing a birthday surprise for their younger sister, Irene (Erika Christensen). There are deep seated, clearly longstanding rifts opening up between Marcia and her ..read more »
47%
from 588 members
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Yours, Mine And Ours
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Rene Russo, Linda Hunt
Director: Raja Gosnell
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Based on a film from 1968 (that starred Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda), this is a family comedy about two large families who come together to create total chaos. Helen (Renee Russo) is the free-spirited mother of ten, including six adopted children. Meanwhile, Admiral Frank Beardsley (Dennis Quaid) ..read more »
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from 8,221 members
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Eulogy
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Hank Azaria, Debra Winger, Kelly Preston
Director: Michael Clancy
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A black comedy that follows three generations of a family, who come together for the funeral of the patriarch - unveiling a litany of family secrets and covert relationships.
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from 3,590 members
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Love Object
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Desmond Harrington, Melissa Sagemiller, Rip Torn
Director: Robert Parigi
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LOVE OBJECT is the deeply disturbing story of a man and his anatomically correct sex doll. Kenneth (Desmond Harrington) is the star technical writer at a soulless Los Angeles firm. He is robotic and repressed until a colleague shows him a picture of Nikki, a $10,000 sex doll. It's love at first ..read more »
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from 362 members
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Men In Black 2 - Blu-ray
(2002)
Starring: Will Smith, David Cross, Tommy Lee Jones
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
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Reuniting director Barry Sonnenfeld with most of the original film's cast, MEN IN BLACK II picks up with alien-monitoring secret agent Jay (Will Smith) in a rut. Weary of the isolated life of an MIB operative, Jay continually fires new partners until MIB director Zed (Rip Torn) teams him up with ..read more »
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from 113 members
Due for release on 4th June 2012
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Men In Black 2
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Will Smith, David Cross, Tommy Lee Jones
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Certificate:
Reuniting director Barry Sonnenfeld with most of the original film's cast, MEN IN BLACK II picks up with alien-monitoring secret agent Jay (Will Smith) in a rut. Weary of the isolated life of an MIB operative, Jay continually fires new partners until MIB director Zed (Rip Torn) teams him up with ..read more »
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from 27,997 members
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Freddy Got Fingered
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Tom Green, Rip Torn, Marisa Coughlan
Director: Tom Green
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Self-made celebrity and outlaw of gross-out comedy, Tom Green (of MTV's TOM GREEN SHOW) makes the leap to the big screen with the outrageous semi-autobiographical FREDDY GOT FINGERED. Starring as Gord Brody, a slacker fast-approaching 30, yet still living in his father's basement, Green is his ..read more »
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from 4,007 members
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The Larry Sanders Show
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Garry Shandling, Rip Torn, Janeane Garofalo
Director: Judd Apatow, Dennis Erdman
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This collection features seven episodes of Garry Shandling's popular comedy series set around a fictional TV talk show. Guest stars include: Dana Carvey, Billy Crystal, Alec and Daniel Baldwin, Robin Williams, Henry Winkler, Courteney Cox, David Letterman, and others. Episodes include: "The Guest ..read more »
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from 1,501 member
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The Insider
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Al Pacino, Russell Crowe, Christopher Plummer
Director: Michael Mann
Certificate:
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Based on the article The Man Who Knew Too Much, THE INSIDER depicts the true story of Jeffrey Wigand (Russell Crowe), a successful scientist who is fired from the Brown & Williamson tobacco company for objecting to certain lab tests. He signs a confidentiality agreement to ease the company's ..read more »
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from 16,271 members
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Senseless
(1998)
Starring: Marlon Wayans, David Spade, Matthew Lillard
Director: Penelope Spheeris
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Perpetually poor Darryl Witherspoon, is destined to lose his dream Wall Street job to Scott Thorpe, a wealthy snob... until Darryl volunteers for a high-paying scientific experiment that gives him superhuman senses - and the competetive edge he needs!
But when the side-effects start, he finds his ..read more »
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from 68 members
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Trial And Error
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Michael Richards, Jeff Daniels, Charlize Theron
Director: Jonathan Lynn
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Richard has arranged a bachelor party for his friend Charles but only days before the wedding Charles has to leave town and go to a small desert town in order to deal with a family legal matter. Richard, however, decides to take the party to his friend and proceeds to get him extremely drunk. The ..read more »
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from 164 members
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Hercules
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: James Woods, Danny De Vito, Tate Donovan
Director: Ron Clements, John Musker
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Disney's animation team dipped into the rich well of ancient mythology for this musical comedy. The son of Greek gods Zeus (voice of Rip Torn) and Hera (Samantha Eggar), Hercules (voice of Josh Keaton) is stolen as a boy by the minions of Hades (voice of James Woods), lord of the underworld. Forced ..read more »
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from 10,745 members
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Men In Black - Blu-ray
(1997)
Starring: Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Fiorentino
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
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In the 1950s a super-secret government agency was formed to monitor and police the activities of extraterrestrial aliens on the planet Earth. Some 40 years later a founding father of the agency, Agent Kay (Tommy Lee Jones), finds himself with a new smart-mouthed partner fresh from the NYPD who is ..read more »
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from 3,218 members
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Men In Black
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Fiorentino
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Certificate:
In the 1950s a super-secret government agency was formed to monitor and police the activities of extraterrestrial aliens on the planet Earth. Some 40 years later a founding father of the agency, Agent Kay (Tommy Lee Jones), finds himself with a new smart-mouthed partner fresh from the NYPD who is ..read more »
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from 38,103 members
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Canadian Bacon
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: John Candy, Alan Alda, Rhea Perlman
Director: Michael Moore
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In this wacky satire on the cold war mentality, the president of the United States and an arms manufacturer find it in their best economic interests to plant rumours of a potential nuclear attack--by Canada. Then, following a border incident at a hockey tournament, a patriotic sheriff and his ..read more »
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from 1,534 member
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Down Periscope
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Lauren Holly, Rob Schneider, Harry Dean Stanton
Director: David S. Ward
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FRASIER's Kelsey Grammer stars as inept Navy Lieutenant Tom Dodge, in this nautical slapstick comedy. He has been given one last chance to clean up his poor record but thanks to his nemesis, Admiral Graham (Bruce Dern), he is assigned the leadership of The Stingray, a rusty, creaky wreck of a ..read more »
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from 1,677 member
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Heart Of A Child
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Ann Jillian, Michelle Greene, Rip Torn
Director: Sandor Stern
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Ann Jillian stars in this made-for-TV drama about two women who must face difficult decisions about their newborn infants. The film also stars Michele Green, Bruce Greenwood, and Rip Torn.
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from 49 members
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Dolly Dearest
(1992)
Starring: Denise Crosby, Sam Bottoms, Rip Torn
Director: Maria Lease
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An American family moves to Mexico to fabricate dolls, but their toy factory happens to be next to a Satan grave and the toys come into possession of an old, malicious spirit.
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from 4 members
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Fires Of Kuwait
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Rip Torn
Director: David Douglas
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Firestorm in the desert: the terrible legacy of the Gulf War -- 607 oil wells burning out of control, ignited by the retreating Iraqi troops. Firefighters from 10 countries answered Kuwait's cry for help. Supported by more than 10,000 people from 40 nations, they battled and won. A 1992 Academy ..read more »
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from 69 members
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Another Pair Of Aces
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Joan Severance
Director: Bill Bixby
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Texas Ranger 'Rip' Metcalf teams up again with wily safecracker Billy Roy Barker in an attempt to clear his friend, Captain Jack Parsons of a murder charge. They uncover a web of political corruption, police rivalry and old-fashioned Texas justice....
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from 53 members
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Nadine
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Kim Basinger, Jeff Bridges, Rip Torn
Director: Robert Benton
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When Nadine accidentally comes into possession of property map worth millions, Vernon (Bridges), her financially strapped husband, comes up with a plan to make a killing. Unfortunately so does BufordPope (Rip Torn), an unscrupulous businessman who'll stop at nothing to get the map. So as Vernon's ..read more »
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from 64 members
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The Telephone
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Whoopi Goldberg, Severn Darden, Elliott Gould
Director: Rip Torn
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An eccentric, out-of-work actress, disconnected from reality, ignores the threatening calls from her many creditors, choosing instead to amuse herself with the telephone. But her quiet and whimsical evening turns into a circus - one with a crazy grand finale.
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from 27 members
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Summer Rental
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: John Candy, Rip Torn, Richard Crenna
Director: Carl Reiner
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An overworked air traffic controller takes a well earned seaside holiday. He soon discovers that with his wife, three kids, a dog and the inflated ego of a devious tycoon to cope with, relaxation is the last thing he's likely to get!
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from 751 members
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Flashpoint
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Kris Kristofferson, Treat Williams, Rip Torn
Director: William Tannen
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Kennedy was assassinated. The evidence was buried, and someone big wants to keep it that way. Until two men stumble on a secret kept for 20 years... a secret which threatens to bury them.
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from 105 members
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City Heat
(1984)
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Jane Alexander, Madeline Kahn
Director: Richard Benjamin
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Kansas City 1930's. Prohibition rules and the mobs run the streets. Clint Eastwood is hard-nosed Lt. Speer, a cop with an unhealthy disrespect for Private Investigators who do things their own way. Burt Reynolds is Mike Murphy, a P.I. who does what he likes and doesn't mind letting Speer know it.
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from 924 members
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The Beastmaster
(1982)
Starring: Marc Singer, Tanya Roberts, Rip Torn
Director: Don Coscarelli
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A heroic slave girl and a barbarian warrior face the intimidating dangers of a wild and primitive world, including a race of cannibalistic Bat-Men, and a battle against a fiendish cult and it's demonic leader.
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from 1,536 member
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The Seduction of Joe Tynan
(1979)
Starring: Alan Alda, Meryl Streep, Barbara Harris
Director: Jerry Schatzberg
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Rising politician Joe ... Full DescriptionTynan (Alda) is having serious difficulty juggling his career and his family. In particular, he is experiencing a growing number of problems with his loving, neglected wife. An affair with beautiful lobbyist Karen Traynor (Meryl Streep) further ..read more »
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The Man Who Fell to Earth
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: David Bowie, Rip Torn, Candy Clark
Director: Nicolas Roeg
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In Nicolas Roeg's sci-fi tale based on the novel by Walter Tevis, a humanoid alien from a dried-up husk of a planet falls to Earth in a spaceship--and later falls again metaphorically through alcohol abuse and the manipulations of a hostile culture. Arriving as a secret ambassador from a dying ..read more »
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from 3,102 members
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The Man Who Fell to Earth - Blu-ray
(1976)
Starring: David Bowie, Rip Torn, Candy Clark
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Certificate:
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In Nicolas Roeg's sci-fi tale based on the novel by Walter Tevis, a humanoid alien from a dried-up husk of a planet falls to Earth in a spaceship--and later falls again metaphorically through alcohol abuse and the manipulations of a hostile culture. Arriving as a secret ambassador from a dying ..read more »
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You're a Big Boy Now
(1966)
Starring: Elizabeth Hartman, Geraldine Page, Peter Kastner
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
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A man strives to free himself from his strict moral upbringing, meeting a man-hating actress and a girl who tries to seduce him, as well as having to deal with his landlady along the way. Comedy, starring Peter Kastner, Elizabeth Hartman, Geraldine Page and Julie Harris
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Atlanta Murders
on DVD
Starring: Calvin Levels, Morgan Freeman, James Earl Jones
Director: John Erman
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A ex-cop turned reporter investigates the death of a doctor and uncovers medical evidence that links him to the murder of 29 young black men in the area. He realises that it is up to him to track down the murderer, and enlists the help of some old friends for back-up. Based on real events.
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Rip Torn facts
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...kick, a brilliant portrayal of a self-centred 'full-of-himself' idiot. Finally, Rip Torn is Arthur, the show's no-nonsense producer, who rules the roost with an iron ha...
