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  • The Family Man on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Nicolas Cage,  Tea Leoni,  Don Cheadle
    Director: Brett Ratner
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Nicolas Cage stars as Jack Campbell, a career-driven workaholic who has everything: an exciting job, a Ferarri, a closetful of Zegna suits, and the attention of any woman he wants. His life changes when, after working a full day on Christmas Eve, he intervenes in a convenience store holdup. The ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 6,689 members
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  • Malice on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Alec Baldwin,  Nicole Kidman,  Bill Pullman
    Director: Harold Becker
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When a brilliant surgeon is accused of savage medical malpractice by his beautiful patient, it's not certain whether he's a competent physician or a malicious monster in this plot-twisting "quadruple indemnity." MALICE is a stylish and sexy thriller, with fine acting from Alec Baldwin and Nicole ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 1,778 member
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  • Chances Are on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Cybill Shepherd,  Mary Stuart Masterson,  Robert Downey Jr
    Director: Emile Ardolino
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A young woman's perfect marriage is shattered when her husband dies unexpectedly. Fortunately, he is recycled back to Earth as a newborn. 23 years later, and flooded with former-life memories, he meets his wife, falls for his daughter and confronts his best friend...
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 791 members
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  • Target on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Gene Hackman,  Matt Dillon,  Herbert Berghof
    Director: Arthur Penn
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Gene Hackman and Matt Dillon star as father and son in this unique blend of family relationships and international intrigue. Walter Lloyd (Hackman) is a simple businessman raising his normal family in a Texas suburb. He and his wife, Donna, love each other very much. Walter and his son, however, do ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 289 members
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  • Witness on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Harrison Ford,  Kelly McGillis,  Danny Glover
    Director: Peter Weir
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    After an Amish boy witnesses police corruption in a Philadelphia train station, a hardened cop takes him and his widowed mother back to their quiet Amish community. There, hiding from his crooked superiors, he is witness to a simpler and seductively innocent world. Academy Award Nominations: 8, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 7,199 members
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  • D.A.R.Y.L. on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Mary Beth Hurt,  Michael McKean,  Kathryn Walker
    Director: Simon Wincer
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A family takes in a young orphaned boy, only to discover that he is actually a sophisticated mechanical device for whom the U.S. Military has evil plans. The family must fool the Government, in order to save his life.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 1,338 member
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  • Iceman on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Timothy Hutton,  John Lone,  Lindsay Crouse
    Director: Fred Schepisi
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A team of Artic researchers find a 40,000 year-old man frozen in ice and bring him back to life. Anthropologist Stanley Shephard (Hutton) wants to befriend the Iceman (Lone) and learn about the man's past; Dr. Diane Brady (Crouse) and her surgical team want to discover the secret that will allow ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 57% from 26 members
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  • Silkwood on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Meryl Streep,  Kurt Russell,  Cher
    Director: Mike Nichols
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Mike Nichols's film is based on the tragic true story of Karen Silkwood, an employee of an Oklahoma plutonium plant who tries to raise public awareness about dangerous conditions at the site. Meryl Streep stars as the title character. The movie received five Academy Award nominations, including ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 1,359 member
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  • Rollover (1981)
    Starring: Jane Fonda,  Kris Kristofferson,  Hume Cronyn
    Director: Alan J. Pakula
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A political-romantic thriller by Alan J. Pakula and replete with favorite themes of large-scale conspiracy and paranoia, ROLLOVER is perfectly in tune with the director's previous work, although this time set in the world of international high finance. Jane Fonda, who appeared in Pakula's KLUTE as ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 38% from 6 members
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  • Closely Observed Trains on DVD (1966)
    Starring: Vaclav Neckar,  Josef Sommer
    Director: Jiri Menzel
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    From the heyday of Czech New Wave cinema, Jiri Menzel's CLOSELY OBSERVED TRAINS tells the affectionately filmed tale of innocent railway apprentice Milos, in German-occupied Czechoslovakia and his own preoccupation with losing his virginity. Naively oblivious to the events around him, he gets ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 1,196 member
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  • The Elephant King
    Starring: Tate Ellington,  Jonno Roberts,  Florence Faivre
    Director: Seth Grossman
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    "The Elephant King" is a provocative and stirring story of two American brothers, Oliver and Jake Hunt, adrift in an exotic world they don't fully understand. When a domineering mother dispatches her young, introverted son Oliver off to Thailand to do everything he can to lure his reckless, older ..read more »
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  • Witness to Watch Now (1985)
    Starring: Harrison Ford,  Kelly McGillis,  Josef Sommer
    Director: Peter Weir
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
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    Run time: 112 minutes
    When a young Amish woman and her son get caught up in the murder of an undercover narcotics agent, their saviour turns out to be hardened Philadelphia detective John Book. Harrison Ford is sensational as Book, the cop who runs head-on into the non-violent world of a Pennsylvania Amish community. ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 77% from 11 members
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Josef Sommer facts

5 most recent films

The Family Man - 3.5 stars
The Next Best Thing - 2.5 stars
Shaft - 3.0 stars
Malice - 3.0 stars
Chances Are - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Witness - 3.5 stars
Closely Observed Trains - 3.5 stars
The Family Man - 3.5 stars
Silkwood - 3.5 stars
Chances Are - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Rollover - 2.0 stars
Iceman - 3.0 stars
The Elephant King - 3.0 stars
Dracula's Widow - 1.5 stars
The Next Best Thing - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Danny Glover - 3 times - show films
William Francis - 2 times - show films
Jan Rubes - 2 times - show films
Harrison Ford - 2 times - show films
Lukas Haas - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Peter Weir - 2 times - show films
Jiri Menzel - 1 times - show films
John Schlesinger - 1 times - show films
Brett Ratner - 1 times - show films
Harold Becker - 1 times - show films