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Jodie Foster
Jodie Foster is undoubtedly one of the greatest child stars of all time: she’d made nearly 50 film and television appearances before going to college. Born 19th November 1962, Foster began acting in commercials at just 3 years old. Her breakthrough role was playing the preteen prostitute Iris in the 1976 film Taxi Driver, which earned her an Academy Award nomination for the Best Supporting Actress.
Foster’s film debut was in the 1970 TV movie Menace on the Mountain and several years later she starred as Tallulah in Bugsy Malone in 1976. As a child, Foster made a number of Disney movies, including Napoleon and Samantha (1972) and One Little Indian (1973), and continued to star in Disney films into her early teens.
Foster went on to win an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1989 for playing a rape survivor in The Accused. She was again nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award in 1991, when she starred in The Silence Of The Lambs as Clarice Starling, a role which she is mostly associated with. Foster received her fourth Academy Award nomination for playing a backwoods hermit in Nell (1994) and other notable films include Maverick (1994), Contact (1997), Panic Room (2002), Flightplan (2005), Inside Man (2006), The Brave One (2007) and Nim's Island (2008).
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Foster: 'Fame is like sticking pins in your eyes' -
7 July 2011
-Former child star Jodie Foster is relieved her celebrity status has died down since she first broke into Hollywood, likening fame to "sticking pins in your eyes".-The 48-year-old actress started her onscreen career aged just three, and found fame with her Oscar-nomin
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Foster fought for arm-cutting scene -
18 March 2011
-Jodie Foster fought to keep an arm-cutting scene in her new movie The Beaver when financiers felt the gruesome moment would turn off cinemagoers. -
-The actress reveals the scene had been a pivotal part of the script since long before she was attached to star and dir
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Foster defends Gibson again at Beaver screening -
17 March 2011
-Jodie Foster took time out of a special screening of her new film The Beaver to ask moviegoers to "appreciate" Mel Gibson's performance onscreen instead of concentrating on his personal troubles.-
-The Silence of the Lambs star directs her old pal in the film, which
Jodie Foster - what members say
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I Agree - some spoilers below 2 June 2004
review by from Bury St. Edmunds, England
Absolutely Amazing 28 August 2004
review by zoffo from Dunfermline, Scotland
A overlooked classic 4 November 2005
Jodie Foster - filmography
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R.I.P.D.
(2013)
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Jeff Bridges, Jodie Foster
Director: Robert Schwentke
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A recently slain cop joins a team of undead police officers working for the Rest in Peace Department and tries to find the man who murdered him. Based on the comic by Peter M. Lenkov.
 
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Carnage
(2011)
Starring: Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz
Director: Roman Polanski
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Based on the acclaimed play ‘God of Carnage’ by Yasmina Reza, and directed by legendary auteur Roman Polanski, Carnage pits power couple Nancy (Academy Award-winner Kate Winslet (Mildred Pierce, The Reader) and Alan Cowan (Academy Award-winner Christoph Waltz (Water for Elephants, Inglourious ..read more »
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Due for release on 18th June 2012
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Carnage - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz
Director: Roman Polanski
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Based on the acclaimed play ‘God of Carnage’ by Yasmina Reza, and directed by legendary auteur Roman Polanski, Carnage pits power couple Nancy (Academy Award-winner Kate Winslet (Mildred Pierce, The Reader) and Alan Cowan (Academy Award-winner Christoph Waltz (Water for Elephants, Inglourious ..read more »
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from 42 members
Due for release on 18th June 2012
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Nim's Island
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Abigail Breslin, Jodie Foster, Gerard Butler
Director: Jennifer Flackett, Mark Levin
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Anything can happen on Nim's Island, a magical place ruled by a young girl's imagination. It is an existence that mirrors that of her favorite literary character, Alex Rover--the world's greatest adventurer. But Alexandra, the author of the Rover books, leads a reclusive life in the big city. ..read more »
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The Brave One - HD
(2007)
Starring: Jane Adams, Terence Howard, Naveen Andrews
Director: Neil Jordan
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Oscar winners Jodie Foster and Neil Jordan team up for this tense thriller about a woman who takes the law into her own hands. After her fiancé is killed and she is left for dead, Erica Bain (Foster) stalks the criminals who changed her life forever.
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The Brave One
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Jodie Foster, Terrence Howard, Naveen Andrews
Director: Neil Jordan
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Oscar winners Jodie Foster and Neil Jordan team up for this tense thriller about a woman who takes the law into her own hands. After her fiancé is killed and she is left for dead, Erica Bain (Foster) stalks the criminals who changed her life forever.
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The Brave One - Blu-ray
(2007)
Starring: Jane Adams, Terence Howard, Naveen Andrews
Director: Neil Jordan
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Oscar winners Jodie Foster and Neil Jordan team up for this tense thriller about a woman who takes the law into her own hands. After her fiancé is killed and she is left for dead, Erica Bain (Foster) stalks the criminals who changed her life forever.
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Inside Man - Blu-ray
(2006)
Starring: Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster
Director: Spike Lee
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Inside Man is the story of a tough cop, Detective Frazier (Denzel Washington), who matches wits with a clever bank robber, Dalton (Clive Owen), in a tense hostage drama. As the dangerous cat-and-mouse game unfolds, a wild card emerges: Madaline (Jodie Foster), a power broker with a hidden agenda, ..read more »
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Inside Man
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster
Director: Spike Lee
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Inside Man is the story of a tough cop, Detective Frazier (Denzel Washington), who matches wits with a clever bank robber, Dalton (Clive Owen), in a tense hostage drama. As the dangerous cat-and-mouse game unfolds, a wild card emerges: Madaline (Jodie Foster), a power broker with a hidden agenda, ..read more »
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Inside Man - HD
(2006)
Starring: Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster
Director: Spike Lee
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In the tense thriller INSIDE MAN, a bank robbery leads to a number of people being taken hostage and it's up to NYPD hostage negotiators Detectives Keith Frazier and Bill Mitchell to secure their release. The detectives are sent to the scene with orders to contact the ringleader of the gang, Dalton ..read more »
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Flightplan
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Erika Christensen
Director: Robert Schwentke
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After 2002's Panic Room, Jodie Foster took a three year break before deciding to take another leading role in a major motion picture. Three years is a lifetime in Hollywood, but Foster is one of the few stars who can afford to take such a lengthy hiatus from the industry and still command major ..read more »
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Flightplan - Blu-ray
(2005)
Starring: Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Sean Bean
Director: Robert Schwentke
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After 2002's Panic Room, Jodie Foster took a three year break before deciding to take another leading role in a major motion picture. Three years is a lifetime in Hollywood, but Foster is one of the few stars who can afford to take such a lengthy hiatus from the industry and still command major ..read more »
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A Very Long Engagement
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Ticky Holgado
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
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This World War I mystery finds limitless beauty in the nostalgia of loss. Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, whose whimsical AMELIE riveted audiences, A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT also stars Audrey Tautou--the 21st century's Audrey Hepburn--in the stubbornly emotional role of a widow in denial. Here she is ..read more »
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Panic Room
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Ann Magnuson, Patrick Bauchau, Ian Buchanan
Director: David Fincher
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As David Fincher's PANIC ROOM begins, recently divorced Meg Altman (Jodie Foster) halfheartedly tours through an old New York City townhouse with her restless young daughter, Sarah (Kristen Stewart). Using money from her divorce settlement, the unhappy mother decides to buy the spacious home. The ..read more »
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Anna And The King
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Jodie Foster, Chow Yun-Fat, Bai Ling
Director: Andrew Tennant
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Based on the diary writings of English widow Anna Leonowens, who journeyed to Siam in 1862 to tutor the children of King Mongkut, this is a grand, epic motion picture that recalls the Hollywood days of yore (see 1946's ANNA AND THE KING OF SIAM and 1956's THE KING AND I for earlier screen ..read more »
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from 2,531 members
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Contact
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, James Woods
Director: Robert Zemeckis
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Devoted astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway undertakes an emotional and spiritual journey after receiving the message she's waited for all her life-a mysterious signal beamed in from alien beings, who pass along instructions for building and piloting a craft that will presumably survive the passage from ..read more »
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Contact - Blu-ray
(1997)
Starring: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, James Woods
Director: Robert Zemeckis
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Devoted astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway undertakes an emotional and spiritual journey after receiving the message she's waited for all her life--a mysterious signal beamed in from alien beings, who pass along instructions for building and piloting a craft that will presumably survive the passage from ..read more »
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Home for the Holidays
(1995)
Starring: Holly Hunter, Robert Downey Jnr.
Director: Jodie Foster
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It's Thanksgiving, so you know what that means -- dinner with your family, for better or for worse. But Claudia Larson's woes begin right before she flies home: she loses her job, and her teenage daughter swears she will lose her virginity while Claudia is away. And when she arrives at her parents' ..read more »
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Nell
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Jodie Foster, Liam Neeson, Natasha Richardson
Director: Michael Apted
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A woman is brought to civilization after spending her life in the wilds in this drama. Dr. Jerome Lovell (Liam Neeson) happens upon a shack deep in the woods, where he discovers a strange woman who appears to be about 30, speaking an incomprehensible language. The woman, named Nell (Jodie Foster), ..read more »
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Maverick
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Jodie Foster, Mel Gibson, James Garner
Director: Richard Donner
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An updating of the classic Western TV series "Maverick," this comic oater finds our fast-talking, hard-gambling hero surviving many adventures while trying to come up with enough money to play in a high-stakes poker game. Penned by William Goldman with music by Randy Newman. Academy Award ..read more »
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Sommersby
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Jodie Foster, Richard Gere, James Earl Jones
Director: Jon Amiel
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A man returning home after six years in the Civil War struggles to reconstruct his life and marriage. His idyllic hopes are shattered when he is accused of not being who he claims. Based on the French film THE RETURN OF MARTIN GUERRE.
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Shadows And Fog
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Fred Gwynne, Julie Kavner, Madonna
Director: Woody Allen
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Woody Allen's black-and-white curiosity piece is a mixture of influences -- from German silent film expressionism to Franz Kafka's nightmare worlds to the contemporary fables of Wim Wenders. Woody Allen plays the nebbish clerk Kleinman (in a throwback to his characters from Sleeper and Love and ..read more »
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Silence Of The Lambs
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster, Scott Glenn
Director: Jonathan Demme
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An evil serial killer who skins his female victims is on the loose. FBI agent, Clarice Starling is assigned to the case. Desperate for any leads she seeks the help of psychiatrist-turned-psychopath, Dr Hannibal Lecter..... Winner of 5 Oscars. Based on the novel by Thomas Harris.
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Little Man Tate
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Debi Mazar, Celia Weston, Alex Lee
Director: Jodie Foster
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Seven-year-old genius Fred is desperate to fit in with other kids. Recognizing his talents, his mom (and best friend) Dede enrolls him in a school for gifted children, where Fred befriends a teacher who offers him opportunities his mother cannot. Dede must choose between possibly losing her son or ..read more »
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Silence Of The Lambs - Blu-ray
(1991)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster, Scott Glenn
Director: Jonathan Demme
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An evil serial killer who skins his female victims is on the loose. FBI agent, Clarice Starling is assigned to the case. Desperate for any leads she seeks the help of psychiatrist-turned-psychopath, Dr Hannibal Lecter..... Winner of 5 Oscars. Based on the novel by Thomas Harris.
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Catchfire
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Jodie Foster, Dennis Hopper, Dean Stockwell
Director: Alan Smithee
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Ann Benton (Jodie Foster) is a self-possessed artist who stumbles across a mob hit in progress. She manages to escape and report the crime to the police but recognises Mafia soldier John Luponi (Dean Stockwell) at the station and takes off, becoming a fugitive. Meanwhile, mob boss Lino Avoca (..read more »
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The Accused
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Jodie Foster, Kelly McGillis, Bernie Coulson
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
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Based on a real-life 1983 incident, The Accused tells the story of Sarah Tobias (Jodie Foster), a working-class party girl who likes to live it up with her friends and flirt hard with the guys. After a fight with her boyfriend, she heads to a local bar to cool down -- and after a few drinks, plus ..read more »
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Five Corners
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Jodie Foster, Tim Robbins, Todd Graff
Director: Tony Bill
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The Bronx, 1964. Linda is beautiful tough and terrified. The psychotic rapist she helped convict and jail is out, and looking for her. She and two eccentric friends are soon plunged into a shattering ordeal of urban cat and mouse that will cut a path of death and destruction across the ashes.
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The Hotel New Hampshire
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Jodie Foster, Beau Bridges, Nastassja Kinski
Director: Tony Richardson
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British director Tony Richardson takes on John Irving's picaresque black comedy about an eccentric and unusually peripatetic family in a film starring Rob Lowe as John Berry, the family's oldest son. John's father, Win (Beau Bridges), is obsessed with hotels, so he buys a run-down seminary in New ..read more »
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Mesmerised
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Jodie Foster, John Lithgow, Harry Andrews
Director: Michael Laughlin
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An 18-year-old orphan is trapped in an arranged marriage to a cruel middle-aged man. While she initially hoped for a better life, she soon realised that she wants out of the arrangement. When he turns up murdered, she is the prime suspect, arousing the ire of a nation. Based on the true story of ..read more »
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Blood of Others
(1984)
Starring: Jodie Foster, Michael Ontkean, Sam Neill
Director: Claude Chabrol
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WWII. In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann, who will do anything to gain her affection.
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Foxes
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Jodie Foster, Cherie Currie, Marilyn Kagan
Director: Adrian Lyne
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FOXES, director Adrian Lyne's first feature, is set in Los Angeles. It centres on Jeanie (Jodie Foster) and her teenage friends Annie (Cherie Currie), Madge (Marilyn Kagan), and Dierdre (Kandice Stroh), who spend more time with each other--often sleeping in Jeanie's bedroom--than they do with their ..read more »
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Candleshoe
(1977)
Starring: David Niven, Jodie Foster, Helen Hayes
Director: Norman Tokar
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Casey Brown (Jodie Foster), a street-wise L.A. kid, joins with a con man (Leo McKern) to cheat Lady St. Edmund (Helen Hayes) whom they believe possesses buried treasure. Casey poses the woman's long-lost granddaughter, but soon finds that life in the mansion isn't what she had expected. This film ..read more »
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Taxi Driver
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Martin Scorsese's intense film, a hallmark of 1970s filmmaking, graphically depicts the tragic consequences of urban alienation when a New York City taxi driver goes on a murderous rampage against the pitiable denizens inhabiting the city's underbelly. For psychotic, pistol-packing Vietnam vet ..read more »
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Taxi Driver - Blu-ray
(1976)
Starring: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Martin Scorsese's intense film, a hallmark of 1970s filmmaking, graphically depicts the tragic consequences of urban alienation when a New York City taxi driver goes on a murderous rampage against the pitiable denizens inhabiting the city's underbelly. For psychotic, pistol-packing Vietnam vet ..read more »
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Bugsy Malone - Blu-ray
(1976)
Starring: Scott Baio, Jodie Foster, John Cassini
Director: Alan Parker
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In this unique mobster movie, Scott Baio heads up a prepubescent cast as the title character, a child gangster determined to rule over New York City. Instead of throwing fists or bullets, the Prohibition-era kiddie mobsters sling confections at one another. When Bugsy learns that a rival gang has ..read more »
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Bugsy Malone
(1976)
Starring: Scott Baio, Jodie Foster, John Cassini
Director: Alan Parker
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In this unique mobster movie, Scott Baio heads up a prepubescent cast as the title character, a child gangster determined to rule over New York City. Instead of throwing fists or bullets, the Prohibition-era kiddie mobsters sling confections at one another. When Bugsy learns that a rival gang has ..read more »
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Bugsy Malone - Sing-Along Edition
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Jodie Foster, John Cassini, Scott Baio
Director: Alan Parker
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In this unique mobster movie, Scott Baio heads up a prepubescent cast as the title character, a child gangster determined to rule over New York City. Instead of throwing fists or bullets, the Prohibition-era kiddie mobsters sling confections at one another. When Bugsy learns that a rival gang has ..read more »
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