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Charles Durning
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review by williamsgwynfa from gwaenysgor
superb....................... 9 May 2009
Charles Durning - filmography
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Local Color
(2009)
Starring: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Trevor Morgan, Ron Perlman
Director: George Gallo
Certificate: 
A successful artist looks back with loving memories on the summer of his defining year, 1974. He befriends an elderly alcoholic genius painter who has turned his back not only on art, but on life. The two form what appears to be a tenuous relationship at first, between a student and master. The ..read more »
 
44%
from 5 members
Currently unavailable
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iMurders
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Gabrielle Anwar, William Forsythe, Tony Todd
Director: Robbie Bryan
Certificate: 
From the producers of the cult hit, Jerome Bixby's The Man From Earth, comes a horror thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat until the very end.
When the members of an online social networking website are brutally murdered in succession, one person's past holds the key to the ..read more »
38%
from 173 members
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Deal
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Charles Durning, Bret Harrison
Director: Gil Cates Jr.
Certificate:
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Tommy Vinson is an ex-gambler who quit the game of Texas Hold'em over 30 years ago after missing a family emergency and swearing to his wife, Helen, "never again." Tommy tries to be content with his luggage business but while watching a poker tournament on television, he sees someone who reminds ..read more »
57%
from 686 members
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Good Dick
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Martin Starr, Jason Ritter, Mark Webber
Director: Marianna Palka
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A solitary and troubled woman (Marianna Palka) slinks into an independent video store to check out the latest in erotic offerings, catching the eye of one of the shop clerks (Jason Ritter) from the moment she steps in. Taking it upon himself to break down her emotional barriers, the eccentric and ..read more »
52%
from 1,193 member
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Break
(2008)
Starring: Frank Krueger, Sarah Thompson, Chad Everett
Director: Marc Clebanoff
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"Break" is a stylistic noir drama about an introverted hit man named Frank who is contracted to carry out an unusual job. When the city's crime boss, known only as "The Man", discovers that he's terminally ill, he enlists Frank to carry out his own assassination. "The Man", however, is selfish and ..read more »
10%
from 1 member
Currently unavailable
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Kinky Killers
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Charles Durning, Beverly Lynne, Brooke Lewis
Director: George Lekovic
Certificate: 
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Through a series of horrific murders, the occult, biblical prophecy and sex clash in a melee of gore and mystery, with psychiatrists, attorneys, homicide detectives and rock stars all being suspects.
29%
from 500 members
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Stephen King's Desperation
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Tom Skerritt, Steven Weber, Annabeth Gish
Director: Mick Garris
Certificate:
Unsuspecting travelers take a detour to terror when they're arrested by a small-town sheriff and jailed in a desolate town whose streets are littered with the dead bodies of local residents. The captives manage to escape, only to discover that Desperation, Nevada, is more than just a town gone ..read more »
58%
from 1,558 member
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Dirty Deeds
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Milo Ventimiglia, Lacey Chabert, Charles Durning
Director: David Kendal
Certificate: 
An American Pie-style teen comedy in which a high school senior tries to become the first student to complete the coveted "10 Dirty Deeds"...an outrageous series of challenges that must be completed between dusk and dawn on the Friday night of Homecoming weekend.
56%
from 2,822 members
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O Brother, Where Art Thou?
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Holly Hunter, Michael Badalucco, Wayne Duvall
Director: Joel Coen
Certificate:
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In the Depression-era deep South, three escapees from a Mississippi prison chain gang: Everett Ulysses McGill, sweet and simple Delmar, and the perpetually angry Pete, embark on the adventure of a lifetime as they set out to pursue their freedom and return to their homes. With nothing to lose and ..read more »
71%
from 34,641 members
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State And Main
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Alec Baldwin, Philip Seymour Hoffman, William H. Macy
Director: David Mamet
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In the screwball comedy STATE AND MAIN, writer-director David Mamet reveals that the only thing more corrupt than Hollywood moviemaking is a small American town that is willing to stoop to any level to be a part of it. Marshalling an all-star ensemble, Mamet chronicles a movie production's arrival ..read more »
58%
from 3,004 members
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The Last Producer
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Ann-Margret, Benjamin Bratt
Director: Burt Reynolds
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Burt Reynolds directs and stars in this expose of the decidedly unglamourous machinations of behind-the-scenes Hollywood filmmaking. Sonny Wexler (Reynolds) is an old-style producer trying to recapture some of the success and respect he commanded in the past. His hope for one more shot at the big ..read more »
39%
from 56 members
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Justice
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: James Belushi, Charles Durning, JoBeth Williams
Director: Joakim Ersgard
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A mole who has lived undercover for years is anxious to smash an organised crime syndicate even if it means going to jail. When he eventually earns the respect of the Chicago crime lord he thinks it's only a matter of time....
39%
from 47 members
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Hard Time - The Premonition
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Charles Durning, Bruce Dern
Director: David S. Cass Sr.
Certificate:
Burt Reynolds returns as Logan McQueen, the hardest and most fearless cop in Florida. At the end of 'Hard Time', Logan had loyally offered to take the fall on behalf of his partner Duffy (Durning), a move which has now esconsed him behind bars with the very criminals he helped put there! When a ..read more »
54%
from 27 members
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Hard Time
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Charles Durning, Robert Loggia
Director: Burt Reynolds
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Detectives, Logan McQueen and Charles Duffy stumble onto a drugs deal and decide to intervene. Logan chases the thugs having just snatched a bag full of drug money that belongs to notorious drug baron, Conrad Martin. After the mysterious shooting of one of the thugs and the disappearance of some of ..read more »
45%
from 61 members
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Shelter
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Charles Durning, Linden Ashby, Peter Onorati
Director: Scott Paulin
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Government corruption makes strange bedfellows when a straight-arrow Treasury Agent partners with a weapons-trading Greek Mafioso for protection from his agency colleagues, all of whom are on the take and aiming to bump the Mafioso off. Add to the mix the Mafioso's lovely wife, and soon there's no ..read more »
45%
from 74 members
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One Fine Day
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: George Clooney, Michelle Pfeiffer, Charles Durning
Director: Michael Hoffman
Certificate: 
Melanie Parker (Pfeiffer) is juggling single parenthood with a career as an architect. Jack Taylor (Clooney) is a commitment-shy newspaper columnist who only has his daughter every other weekend. When their kids miss a school field trip, Melanie and Jack agree to take shifts babysitting for the day,..read more »
62%
from 10,350 members
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I.Q.
(1995)
Starring: Meg Ryan, Tim Robbins, Walter Matthau
Director: Fred Schepisi
Certificate: 
On a sunny afternoon in Princeton, New Jersey, of the 1950s, love strikes in the oddest way: Albert Einstein's niece Catherine (Meg Ryan), and her uptight fiance James (Stephen Fry), stop at a gas station for car repairs, and when dim-witted grease monkey Ed Walters (Tim Robbins) appears, he falls ..read more »
57%
from 2,555 members
Not currently released
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The Last Supper
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Cameron Diaz, Annabeth Gish, Ron Eldard
Director: Stacy Title
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A tongue-in-cheek examination of both sides of the political spectrum, this black comedy follows the culinary exploits of a group of liberal graduate students who invite right-wingers to dinner to pick their brains--literally, as it turns out. After each dinner, the guest of honor is murdered and ..read more »
63%
from 1,215 member
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The Music Of Chance
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Mandy Patinkin, James Spader, Joel Grey
Director: Philip Haas
Certificate:
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A man on a yearlong road trip across the U.S. teams up with a young card shark against two rich amateurs in a game of poker that seems to represent the opportunity of a lifetime. But things don't turn out quite as planned for the partners when, after losing all their money, they find themselves at ..read more »
64%
from 409 members
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Cat Chaser
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Kelly McGillis, Peter Weller, Charles Durning
Director: Abel Ferrara
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An American veteran is running a hotel in Miami where he meets a former Dominican Republic general's wife and begins an affair. Unwittingly, he is tricked into helping a group of people rip the general off.
43%
from 163 members
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Dick Tracy
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Warren Beatty, Madonna, Charlie Korsmo
Director: Warren Beatty
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Once again, director Beatty assembles an all-star cast. Dick Tracy, America's top crimestopper, goes up against a mob of colourful gangsters in this rich production. Academy Award Nominations: 7, including Best Supporting Actor--Al Pacino. Academy Awards: 3, including Best Makeup, Best Art ..read more »
51%
from 2,698 members
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Brenda Starr
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Brooke Shields, Timothy Dalton, Charles Durning
Director: Robert Ellis Miller
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The exciting premise of BRENDA STARR is based around a comic strip character and her 'director', who have a mutual distrust for each other. When Brenda comes to life, she realises that Mike doesn't appreciate her and sets off round the world in search of better storylines.
40%
from 92 members
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Cop
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: James Woods, Lesley Ann Warren, Charles Durning
Director: James B. Harris
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An explosive detective is driven to catch a serial killer who has already committed fifteen grisly murders. Unfortunately for the detective, the police department wants no part of his offbeat tactics. So he's in this one alone and unrestrained - unfortunately for the killer.
59%
from 468 members
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Tough Guys
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, Charles Durning
Director: Jeff Kanew
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Action comedy tale of two legendary bank robbers who are released on parole after their thirty year imprisonment. Together they face the 1980's as they plan a daring train heist, eagerly pursued by a stubborn old cop and a myopic hitman...
66%
from 668 members
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Big Trouble
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Beverly D'Angelo
Director: John Cassavetes
Certificate:
A troubled production history notwithstanding, BIG TROUBLE remains a lighthearted updating of the classic film noir DOUBLE INDEMNITY. Alan Arkin stars as Leonard Hoffman, an insurance salesman and father of triplets. When it becomes apparent that his dream of sending his three sons to Yale is ..read more »
42%
from 120 members
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Death of a Salesman
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Charles Durning, Dustin Hoffman, Kate Reid
Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Certificate:
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Volker Schlondorff's tragic film is an outstanding stage production of Arthur Miller's 1949 Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Dustin Hoffman recreates his Broadway role of Willy Loman, a tired, emotionally bankrupt salesman. The award-winning cast also features John Malkovich as Willy's son, Biff.
62%
from 1,064 member
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The Man With One Red Shoe
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Tom Hanks, James Belushi, Lori Singer
Director: Stan Dragoti
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The life of an eccentric violinist is turned upside down when he is mistaken for a C.I.A. agent.In the midst of an internal power struggle at the CIA, Ross (Durning), chief of one branch of the agency, plays a trick on Cooper (Coleman), chief of a rival branch. Ross picks out a random innocent--a ..read more »
56%
from 1,054 member
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Stick
(1985)
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Candice Bergen, George Segal
Director: Burt Reynolds
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Ernest (Stick) Stickley returns from prison, and very soon he gets involved with his old friend in a drug-running deal that goes sour. Hired by a rich investor, he tries to walk the line, but trouble follows him throughout as he tries to collect a debt and make up for lost time with his daughter. ..read more »
80%
from 2 members
Currently unavailable
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Two Of A Kind
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Charles Durning
Director: John Herzfeld
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After striking box office gold in "GREASE," John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John got together five years later for this romantic comedy. God throws his hands up at the foolishness of humanity and orders the race be destroyed by a second flood. A group of bleeding-heart angels strike a deal with him:..read more »
51%
from 306 members
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Working
(1982)
Starring: Barry Bostwick, Rita Moreno, James Taylor
Director: Kirk Browning, Stephen Schwartz
Certificate: 
This musical adaptation of the Studs Terkel book examines the average worker's viewpoint...showing that he or she is anything but average. Based on a series of interviews with real working people - construction workers, waitresses, firemen, secretaries and cleaning women, Working is both an ..read more »
15%
from 4 members
Currently unavailable
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Tootsie
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr
Director: Sydney Pollack
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When theatrical mastermind Michael Dorsey (Dustin Hoffman) finds himself blacklisted by just about every producer in the acting business, he decides to thwart the entertainment industry by disguising himself as an older woman and auditioning for a daytime soap opera. Dorsey arrives for the audition ..read more »
68%
from 9,213 members
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The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Dolly Parton, Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise
Director: Colin Higgins
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Reynolds is the local sheriff who is more interested in keeping the town's most popular business open than carrying out the letter of the law. Parton is the whorehouse madame who also happens to hold the sheriff's interest. Academy Award Nominations: Best Supporting Actor--Charles Durning.
69%
from 1,404 member
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Dark Night Of The Scarecrow
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Ivy Jones, Ed Call, Richard McKenzie
Director: Frank De Felitta
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Misguided townsfolk, blinded by bias and fear, mistakenly kill a mentally retarded man after someone accuses him of raping the young girl he had befriended. Shortly thereafter the entire town is beset by a supernatural terror.
58%
from 19 members
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True Confessions
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Cyril Cusack
Director: Ulu Grosbard
Certificate:
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In Los Angeles, circa 1940, an embittered, once-corrupt cop named Tom Spellacy (Duvall) is investigating two murders: that of a priest found dead in a whorehouse, and that of a mutilated woman in a park. As he searches for the culprits, Spellacy uncovers an immense web of corruption, involving ..read more »
53%
from 527 members
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Sharky's Machine
(1981)
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Rachel Ward, Henry Silva
Director: Burt Reynolds
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Someone, it would appear, has taken over the underworld activities of Atlanta, Georgia - Drugs, call-girls, political pay-offs and murder - and a new kingpin is calling all the shots. Undercover cop Tom Sharky (Burt Reynolds) knows him only as 'The Ace'.
The trouble is that Sharky, once the best, ..read more »
55%
from 46 members
Currently unavailable
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The Final Countdown
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, Katharine Ross
Director: Don Taylor
Certificate:
When the US aircraft carrier Nimitz collides with an unnatural storm, the crew are transported from the present to Pearl Harbour - December 6th, 1941. Captain Kirk Douglas must decide whether to interfere with the past and stop the Japanese Fleet attacking the US base or let history run its course...
63%
from 1,035 member
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The Fury
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, John Cassavetes, Carrie Snodgress
Director: Brian De Palma
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In THE FURY, former government agent Peter Sandza (Kirk Douglas) searches for his son (Andrew Stevens), kidnapped by a secret agency hoping to exploit the young man's telekinetic powers for their own ends. Meanwhile a young woman, Gillian (Amy Irving), begins to display her own psychic abilities ..read more »
57%
from 754 members
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Twilight's Last Gleaming
(1977)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Charles Durning
Director: Robert Aldrich
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A renegade USAF general, Lawrence Dell, escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo near Montana and threatens to provoke World War 3 unless the President reveals details of a secret meeting held just after the start of the Vietnam War between Dell and the then President's most ..read more »
67%
from 8 members
Currently unavailable
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Breakheart Pass
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Charles Bronson, Ben Johnson, Richard Crenna
Director: Tom Gries
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A muscular Western featuring the fisticuffs of Bronson. In 1870, the soldiers at an Army outpost in Utah are supposedly suffering from a diphtheria epidemic. A train heads toward the fort filled with soldiers, medical supplies and Bronson, an undercover agent posing as an arrested criminal. There, ..read more »
61%
from 369 members
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Dog Day Afternoon
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Al Pacino, Charles Durning, James Broderick
Director: Sidney Lumet
Certificate:
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On the blistering afternoon of August 22, 1972, two optimistic losers attempt to rob a Brooklyn bank-the frantic master-mind Sonny (Academy Award-winner Al Pacino, 'Scent of a Woman,' 'Carlito's Way'), and his slow-witted buddy Sal (John Cazale, 'The Godfather,' 'The Deer Hunter'). But then the ..read more »
72%
from 13,633 members
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The Sting - Blu-ray
(1973)
Starring: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw
Director: George Roy Hill
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Hoping that box-office lighting might strike twice, George Roy Hill again joined forces with Paul Newman and Robert Redford, who star as con men Henry Gondorff and Johnny Hooker in THE STING. In the Chicago of the 1930s, Johnny's partner, Luther (Robert Earl Jones), is fatally wounded by a victim ..read more »
86%
from 8 members
Not available for rental
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Sisters
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Margot Kidder, Charles Durning, Jennifer Salt
Director: Brian De Palma
Certificate:
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The story of Siamese twins who are surgically separated with homicidal results. One is mad, one is sane and you never know which one you're with.....
59%
from 328 members
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The Sting
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw
Director: George Roy Hill
Certificate:
Hoping that box-office lighting might strike twice, George Roy Hill again joined forces with Paul Newman and Robert Redford, who star as con men Henry Gondorff and Johnny Hooker in THE STING. In the Chicago of the 1930s, Johnny's partner, Luther (Robert Earl Jones), is fatally wounded by a victim ..read more »
76%
from 12,482 members
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Hi, Mom!
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Robert De Niro, Charles Durning, Allen Garfield
Director: Brian De Palma
Certificate:
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John Rubin, a Vietnam Vet, returns to New York where he rents a rundown flat in the Greenwich Village. There he begins to film the people in their apartments across the street from him.
49%
from 294 members
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...st ditch attempt to revive Jefferson’s career, his incompetent agent (played by Charles Durning) stumbles upon the perfect role - a prestigious run as King Lear at a theatre i...
