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Bill Pullman
William James "Bill" Pullman (born December 17, 1953) is an American film, television, and stage actor. Pullman made his film debut as the supporting role of Earl Mott in the 1986 film Ruthless People. He has since gone on to star in other films, including Spaceballs, Independence Day, Lost Highway, Casper and Scary Movie 4. He has starred in a number of plays and is also a Jury Member for Filmaka.
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Bill Pullman - news / articles
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Pullman stars in mango mania documentary -
14 July 2011
-Independence Day star Bill Pullman has become a mango expert thanks to a new fruit documentary he is part of.-The actor has been a fan of rare fruits for years and grows them in the orchard at his home in Los Angeles, and when he was approached to appear in documenta
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Pullman not sure if he'll be back as Independence Day president -
17 November 2009
-Movie president Bill Pullman is trying not to think about a rumoured Independence Day sequel - because he fears he won't be a part of it.-
-The actor played President Thomas J. Whitmore in the 1996 blockbuster and accepts the U.S. leader would only have been able to
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Movie wine buff Pullman has no sense of smell -
16 November 2009
-Actor Bill Pullman was an odd choice to play a wine expert in 2008 sleeper hit Bottle Shock - because a theatre accident cost him his sense of smell.-
-The Independence Day star admits he doesn't have a nose for good wine - because he can't tell whether a vintage is
Bill Pullman - what members say
review by A customer from Guildford
One of my favourites 18 March 2005
review by from liverpool
not so interesting 29 December 2004
review by williamsgwynfa from gwaenysgor in flintshire
superb......... 1 March 2007
Bill Pullman - filmography
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The Killer Inside Me - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Jessica Alba, Kate Hudson, Simon Baker
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Certificate: 
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Based on the novel by legendary pulp writer Jim Thompson, "The Killer Inside Me" tells the story of handsome, charming, unassuming small-town deputy sheriff Lou Ford, who has a bunch of problems. Women problems. Law-enforcement problems. And an ever-growing pile of murder victims in his west Texas ..read more »
 
58%
from 4,946 members
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The Killer Inside Me
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Jessica Alba, Kate Hudson, Simon Baker
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Certificate:
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Based on the novel by legendary pulp writer Jim Thompson, "The Killer Inside Me" tells the story of handsome, charming, unassuming small-town deputy sheriff Lou Ford, who has a bunch of problems. Women problems. Law-enforcement problems. And an ever-growing pile of murder victims in his west Texas ..read more »
57%
from 17,247 members
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Bottle Shock
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Alan Rickman, Chris Pine, Rachael Taylor
Director: Randall Miller
Certificate: 
In 1976, a small American winery bested the exalted French wines of the time and sent the wine industry into a tizzy--putting California wines on the map for good. Based on a true story, "Bottle Shock" chronicles the events leading up to the famous "Judgment of Paris" tastings, told through the ..read more »
64%
from 1,999 member
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Phoebe in Wonderland
(2008)
Starring: Felicity Huffman, Patricia Clarkson, Elle Fanning
Director: Daniel Barnz
Certificate: 
"Phoebe in Wonderland" is a whimsical tale of a young girl who can't seem to follow the rules. Perplexed by her inability to get along with the rule-obsessed world around her, Phoebe seeks enlightenment and comfort from her unconventional drama teacher, even as her brilliant but anguished mother ..read more »
76%
from 30 members
Currently unavailable
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Nobel Son
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Alan Rickman, Bryan Greenberg, Shawn Hatosy
Director: Randall Miller
Certificate:
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Barkley Michaelson is in a deep life rut. He's struggling to finish his PHD thesis when his father, the learned Eli Michaelson, wins the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Barkley and his mother, Sarah, a renowned forensic psychiatrist, now have the ill-fortune of living with a man-eating monster whose ..read more »
58%
from 315 members
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You Kill Me
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Dennis Farina, Ben Kingsley, Tea Leoni
Director: John Dahl
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Cinematic hit men are dual-edged characters who can easily slip into the role of hero or villain, making them an attractive proposition for directors looking to pack an emotional punch. YOU KILL ME stars Ben Kingsley (SEXY BEAST) as Frank Falenczyk, a hit man whose work for the Buffalo-based Mafia ..read more »
58%
from 5,479 members
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Alien Autopsy
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Declan Donnelly, Ant McPartlin, Bill Pullman
Director: Johnny Campbell
Certificate: 
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From the director of Shameless and Phoenix Nights comes the truth behind one of the biggest hoaxes the world has ever seen. In 1995 a piece of footage shook the world. With a bigger world-wide audience than Live Aid, a piece of top secret military film from Roswell in 1947 that showed and alien ..read more »
55%
from 26,969 members
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Revelations
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Bill Pullman, Natascha McElhone, Michael Massee
Director: Lesli Linka Glatter, David Semel
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The time of miracles is once again at hand in the six-hour epic event, Revelations. Bill Pullman (Independence Day) stars as Harvard professor Dr. Richard Massey, an astrophysicist who's certain that all worldly events can be explained by science. He is challenged by Sister Josepha Montafiore (..read more »
60%
from 1,066 member
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Dear Wendy
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Jamie Bell, Bill Pullman, Michael Angarano
Director: Thomas Vinterberg
Certificate:
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A young boy in a nameless, timeless American town establishes a gang of youthful misfits united in their love of guns and their code of honor.
51%
from 4,644 members
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Ignition
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Bill Pullman, Lena Olin, Peter Kent
Director: Yves Simoneau
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Federal Judge Faith Mattis (Lena Olin) finds herself in potential danger when she is handed a case involving corruption in the upper echelons of US military. Her ruling against these powerful men could decide the fate of the first US rocket into space in over 30 years, and suddenly she finds her ..read more »
49%
from 395 members
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Titan A.E.
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Nathan Lane, Drew Barrymore, Matt Damon
Director: Don Bluth, Gary Goldman
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Spectacular animation, combining two- and three-dimensional techniques with stunning special effects, is TITAN A.E.'s mark of distinction. Directors Don Bluth and Gary Goldman (ANASTASIA) make their first foray into science fiction with this film, which is the first U.S.-produced animated science ..read more »
63%
from 4,467 members
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The Guilty
(2000)
Starring: Bill Pullman, Devon Sawa, Gabrielle Anwar
Director: Anthony Walker
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Defense lawyer and all-around sleaze Callum Crane (Bill Pullman) has a nice wife (Joanne Whalley), two daughters by his wife's first marriage, and an obscenely perfect house. He also has a drinking problem and a penchant for sexual assault. The second proclivity is on ample display when Crane meets ..read more »
54%
from 224 members
Due for release on 18th June 2012
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Brokedown Palace
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Claire Danes, Kate Beckinsale, Bill Pullman
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
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Alice and Darlene are best friends who decide to celebrate their high school graduation with a trip to Thailand. There, they meet handsome Australian Nick Parks, who convinces them to travel to Hong Kong, but is actually using them to smuggle drugs. The two girls are sentenced to decades in prison, ..read more »
64%
from 1,794 member
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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 »
60%
from 5,105 members
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Spy Games
(1999)
Starring: Bill Pullman, Irene Jacob, Bruno Kirby
Director: Ilkka Jarvi-Laturi
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A romantic suspense-comedy about CIA agent Harry (Bill Pullman) and SVR agent Natasha (Irene Jacob) fighting to save the world, their lives and secret love in the post cold war Helsinki.
27%
from 7 members
Currently unavailable
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Zero Effect
(1998)
Starring: Bill Pullman, Ben Stiller, Ryan O'Neal
Director: Jake Kasdan
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Daryl Zero is a hero - but a hilariously dysfunctional one. A loner who's scared to go out socially, he only has his work, and a sharply-honed power of impartial observation, which has sealed his reputation as the world's most effective criminal investigator!
Zero and his fast-talking front man, ..read more »
73%
from 85 members
Currently unavailable
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Lost Highway - Blu-ray
(1997)
Starring: Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty
Director: David Lynch
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Director David Lynch ups the weird ante with this "psychological fugue." Fred Madison (Bill Pullman) is a jazz saxophonist who is married to the beautiful Renee (a brown-haired Patricia Arquette). After receiving menacing videotapes taken from inside their home, the couple begin to worry. Fred's ..read more »
40%
from 2 members
Not available for rental
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Lost Highway
(1997)
Starring: Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty
Director: David Lynch
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Director David Lynch ups the weird ante with this "psychological fugue." Fred Madison (Bill Pullman) is a jazz saxophonist who is married to the beautiful Renee (a brown-haired Patricia Arquette). After receiving menacing videotapes taken from inside their home, the couple begin to worry. Fred's ..read more »
68%
from 7,058 members
Not currently released
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Wrong, Mr.
(1996)
Starring: Ellen DeGeneres, Bill Pullman, Joan Cusack
Director: Nick Castle
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A single and lonely woman finds the seemingly perfect man to date, but soon regrets it when his deranged and possessive other personality emerges and worst still, she cannot convince anyone else of his Jekyll/Hyde true nature.
41%
from 6 members
Currently unavailable
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Independence Day
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Mary McDonnell
Director: Roland Emmerich
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With a $71 million budget and mind-blowing special effects, INDEPENDENCE DAY is a grand, high-tech throwback to such films of the 1950s as THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL and WAR OF THE WORLDS. Here, aliens, in numerous gargantuan spaceships, arrive without warning and hover over the world's most ..read more »
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from 39,263 members
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Independence Day - Blu-ray
(1996)
Starring: Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Mary McDonnell
Director: Roland Emmerich
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With a 71 million dollar budget and mind-blowing special effects, INDEPENDENCE DAY is a grand, high-tech throwback to such films of the 1950s as THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL and WAR OF THE WORLDS. Here, aliens, in numerous gargantuan spaceships, arrive without warning and hover over the world's ..read more »
75%
from 4,978 members
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While You Were Sleeping
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Bill Pullman, Peter Gallagher
Director: Jon Turteltaub
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This latter-day romantic screwball comedy stars Sandra Bullock as a love-starved subway toll booth operator, Lucy. Lucy pines for regular customer Peter Callaghan (Peter Gallagher), but the self-absorbed attorney pays her no heed. One day, Peter is beaten by a gang of thugs and tossed onto the ..read more »
68%
from 16,758 members
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Casper
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Cathy Moriarty, Bill Pullman, Christina Ricci
Director: Brad Silberling
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Casper the ghost was created in 1940 by Joe Orolio. This is the live-action/animated family feature film starring the friendly young spook. In it, greedy heiress Carrigan Crittenden (Cathy Moriarty) inherits the haunted Whipstaff Manor and discovers that the house contains a treasure, which is ..read more »
61%
from 5,807 members
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The Favor
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Harley Jane Kozak, Elizabeth McGovern, Bill Pullman
Director: Donald Petrie
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A happily-married woman with two children rediscovers a school romance during a high school reunion. Unable to experience the joys of passion herself she encourages her best friend to find out what her former sweetheart's really like in bed...
43%
from 60 members
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Wyatt Earp
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
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Epic biography about legendary cowboy Wyatt Earp. The film spans Earp's life, from his youth, when blood and gore made him deeply uncomfortable, to his role in the famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral, to his becoming a rigid, by-the-book sheriff. Also dramatized are Earp's relationships with his ..read more »
68%
from 4,772 members
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Wyatt Earp - HD
(1994)
Starring: Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
Certificate:
Watch now: £2.49
Epic biography about legendary cowboy Wyatt Earp. The film spans Earp's life, from his youth, when blood and gore made him deeply uncomfortable, to his role in the famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral, to his becoming a rigid, by-the-book sheriff. Also dramatized are Earp's relationships with his ..read more »
67%
from 108 members
Not currently released
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Wyatt Earp - Blu-ray
(1994)
Starring: Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
Certificate:
Watch now: £2.49
Epic biography about legendary cowboy Wyatt Earp. The film spans Earp's life, from his youth, when blood and gore made him deeply uncomfortable, to his role in the famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral, to his becoming a rigid, by-the-book sheriff. Also dramatized are Earp's relationships with his ..read more »
67%
from 951 members
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The Last Seduction
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Linda Fiorentino, Peter Berg, Bill Pullman
Director: John Dahl
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The director of "Red Rock West" delivers this unusual thriller about a femme fatale who absconds with her husband's drug money. Fiorentino is enchantingly wicked as the cold-blooded beauty who uses men like toys.
61%
from 4,698 members
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Malice
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Alec Baldwin, Nicole Kidman, Bill Pullman
Director: Harold Becker
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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 »
61%
from 2,095 members
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Sleepless In Seattle
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Meg Ryan, Tom Hanks, Bill Pullman
Director: Nora Ephron
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Sam Baldwin (Tom Hanks) is a good father and a successful architect, but also a lonely widower. One night his precocious 8-year-old son Jonah calls a late-night radio talk show seeking a cure for his father's despondency. When Sam hesitantly takes the phone and discloses the story of his magic-..read more »
67%
from 23,963 members
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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.
61%
from 2,035 members
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A League Of Their Own
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Garry Marshall, Geena Davis
Director: Penny Marshall
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The All-American Girls' Professional Baseball League was founded in 1943, when most of the men of baseball-playing age were far away in Europe and Asia fighting World War II. The league flourished until after World War II, when, with the men's return, the league was consigned to oblivion. Director ..read more »
67%
from 4,142 members
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Singles
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Matt Dillon, Bridget Fonda, Campbell Scott
Director: Cameron Crowe
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The Seattle music scene is the ideal backdrop for Cameron Crowe's chronicle of the lives of single twentysomethings in the 1990s. Linda (Kyra Sedgwick) and Steve (Campbell Scott) are both tired of the singles scene and meeting the wrong people. Just when they are each ready to give up and give in ..read more »
62%
from 2,852 members
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Liebestraum
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Kevin Anderson, Pamela Gidley, Bill Pullman
Director: Mike Figgis
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LIEBESTRAUM, directed by Mike Figgis, pays homage to the film noir tradition from its very first scene, a flashback in which a jazz record plays while a sexy platinum blonde and her lover are the victims of a grisly shooting. Back in the present, architect Nick Kaminsky (Kevin Anderson) arrives in ..read more »
49%
from 168 members
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Sibling Rivalry
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Kirstie Alley, Bill Pullman, Carrie Fisher
Director: Carl Reiner
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When Marjorie Turner decides to break out of her dreary existence she does it in a big way. Whilst having sex with a handsome stranger she finds herself in bed with the victim of a fatal heart attack. What else could go wrong?...
55%
from 236 members
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Brain Dead
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Bill Paxton, Bill Pullman, Patricia Charbonneau
Director: Adam Simon
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The Eunice Corporation is on the ground floor of an exciting industry--memory resculpting. It envisions nationwide clinics where anyone can lose the hang-ups of an unhappy childhood, a failed romance, or a botched career. At Eunice's "New You" outlets, a simple operation will give customers peace ..read more »
48%
from 465 members
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Spaceballs - Blu-ray
(1987)
Starring: Bill Pullman, John Candy, Daphne Zuniga
Director: Mel Brooks
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In this spoof of STAR WARS and a handful of other sci-fi flicks from the 1970s and '80s, space-bum-for-hire Lone Starr (Bill Pullman) and his half-dog/half-man sidekick, Barf (John Candy), must rescue a spoiled Druish princess (Daphne Zuniga) from the evil Lord Dark Helmet (Rick Moranis) in time to ..read more »
78%
from 9 members
Not available for rental
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Spaceballs
(1987)
Starring: Bill Pullman, John Candy, Daphne Zuniga
Director: Mel Brooks
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In this spoof of STAR WARS and a handful of other sci-fi flicks from the 1970s and '80s, space-bum-for-hire Lone Starr (Bill Pullman) and his half-dog/half-man sidekick, Barf (John Candy), must rescue a spoiled Druish princess (Daphne Zuniga) from the evil Lord Dark Helmet (Rick Moranis) in time to ..read more »
64%
from 9,092 members
Not currently released
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The Serpent And The Rainbow
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Bill Pullman, Cathy Tyson
Director: Wes Craven
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Based on the real-life experiences of Wade Davis, THE SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW is the story of a Harvard anthropologist (Bill Pullman) who takes an assignment from a wealthy pharmaceutical firm to investigate a 'miracle' drug found in a well-established religion in Haiti--voodoo. The drug is ..read more »
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from 1,279 member
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...medy. I'm not usually a big fan of Sandra Bullock, but she's good in this, and Bill Pullman is absolutely gorgeous. The pair have such great chemistry. This film won't f...
