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Bruce Dern - what members say
review by TheHoodedMan from Nottingham
Strangely Moving 8 July 2006
review by from Blackpool
Purile, Tasteless... completely magnificent!!!! 12 October 2005
review by from Rutland, England
Hanks' best film! 22 June 2004
Bruce Dern - filmography
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Inside Out
(2011)
Starring: Paul Levesque, Michael Rapaport, Parker Posey
Director: Artie Mandelberg
Certificate: 
For the last thirteen years AJ has been behind bars. Now released, AJ wants nothing more than to start a small business and live a life free of crime. Unfortunately, within hours of leaving prison, Jack involves AJ in an accidental shooting leaving a man dead. When Jack's father, local mob boss Dr. ..read more »
 
55%
from 4 members
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Twixt
(2011)
Starring: Val Kilmer, Bruce Dern, Elle Fanning
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
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A writer with a declining career arrives in a small town as part of his book tour and gets caught up in a murder mystery involving a young girl. That night in a dream, he is approached by a mysterious young ghost named V. He's unsure of her connection to the murder in the town, but is grateful for ..read more »
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from 1 member
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Choose
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Jason Good, Katheryn Winnick, Nicholas Tucci
Director: Marcus Graves
Certificate: 
The peace and tranquillity of an idyllic, suburban city is suddenly broken. Behind a picket fence and manicured lawn, teenager Sara awakens, startled as a rush of cold air gently pushes her bedroom door open. Across the hall her parents' bedroom door lays ajar ad as her eyes adjust to the darkness ..read more »
53%
from 967 members
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The Hole - Blu-ray
(2009)
Starring: Chris Massoglia, Nathan Gamble, Teri Polo
Director: Joe Dante
Certificate:
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A pair of brothers stumble upon a mysterious hole in their basement that leads to the darkest corridors of their fears and nightmares.
61%
from 3,832 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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The Hole
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Chris Massoglia, Nathan Gamble, Teri Polo
Director: Joe Dante
Certificate: 
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A pair of brothers stumble upon a mysterious hole in their basement that leads to the darkest corridors of their fears and nightmares.
66%
from 10,583 members
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The Cake Eaters
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Thomas Cavanagh, Bruce Dern
Director: Mary Stuart Masterson
Certificate:
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Two dysfunctional families are thrown together by the return of one family's prodigal son, forcing the clans' members to battle old ghosts and work through emotional issues as they search for love at any cost.
51%
from 1,004 member
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The Hard Easy
(2005)
Starring: Henry Thomas, David Boreanaz, Vera Farmiga
Director: Ari Ryan
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Two separate teams of jewel thieves, one low-rent and one upscale, both desperate, converge on the same score at the exact same time, and a simple job turns out very complicated and very bloody.
45%
from 8 members
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Madison
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: James Caviezel, Jake Lloyd, Mary McCormack
Director: William Bindley
Certificate: 
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In its heyday, Madison, Indiana was a thriving port on the Ohio River. But by 1971, hard times and unemployment are driving the locals away. The city's one claim to fame is its participation in hydroplane boat racing, a dream kept alive by Jim McCormick (Jim Caviezel) and the team of the Miss ..read more »
52%
from 966 members
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Down in the Valley
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Bruce Dern, Evan Rachel Wood, Edward Norton
Director: David Jacobson
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Director David Jacobsen's DOWN IN THE VALLEY plays like a romantic, operatic lament for the disappearing cinematic and real-life icon: the American cowboy. Many of the elements that would fuse, say, a classic John Wayne character are present in Edward Norton's (PRIMAL FEAR, 25TH HOUR) character, ..read more »
59%
from 4,985 members
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Monster
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Charlize Theron, Christina Ricci, Bruce Dern
Director: Patty Jenkins
Certificate: 
Charlize Theron delivers a knockout, cast-against-type performance in this gritty drama, based on the true story of Aileen Wuornos, a down and out prostitute who was sentenced to death after killing six men between 1989 and 1990. Christina Ricci co-stars as Selby Wall, a lesbian runaway who forms a ..read more »
66%
from 38,424 members
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The Glass House
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Leelee Sobieski, Diane Lane, Trevor Morgan
Director: Daniel Sackheim
Certificate:
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THE GLASS HOUSE, director Daniel Sackheim's sleek neo-noir thriller, is a modern Hansel and Gretel story with elements borrowed from HAMLET, set in California. As it opens, Ruby (Leelee Sobieski) watches unflinchingly while her friends cover their eyes from the horrors of a slasher movie. She deals ..read more »
60%
from 1,045 member
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All The Pretty Horses
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Matt Damon, Penelope Cruz, Henry Thomas
Director: Billy Bob Thornton
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Billy Bob Thornton's ALL THE PRETTY HORSES is about John Grady Cole (Matt Damon), a young rancher growing up just after WWII. After his mother sells the family ranch, John convinces his best friend, Lacey Rawlins (Henry Thomas), to accompany him to Mexico, where ranching is still a big part of life...read more »
57%
from 1,674 member
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The Haunting
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Liam Neeson, Catherine Zeta Jones, Lili Taylor
Director: Jan De Bont
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Hill House was built one hundred and thirty years ago and is filled with tales of tragedy but has the house really been left uninhabited? A century later Dr David Morrow brings three people to Hill House and soon the ghosts of the past manifest themselves in terrifying visitations. Was this the ..read more »
54%
from 3,570 members
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Hard Time - The Premonition
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Charles Durning, Bruce Dern
Director: David S. Cass Sr.
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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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Last Man Standing
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Bruce Willis, Christopher Walken, Bruce Dern
Director: Walter Hill
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The traditions of the western and the gangster film meet head-on in this dark crime drama. Jericho is a small town in Texas that in the 1920s looks much like it did in the 1860s, except that two violent gangs of rival bootleggers have driven away nearly all of the citizens not involved in the booze ..read more »
62%
from 7,041 members
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Wild Bill
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Ellen Barkin, John Hurt
Director: Walter Hill
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Director Walter Hill's WILD BILL is a film biography of legendary outlaw James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok (Jeff Bridges). The story covers the major events that shaped the gunman's life, including his work as a Kansas lawman, his stint in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show, and his part-time ..read more »
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from 1,166 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 »
66%
from 1,677 member
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Midnight Sting
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: James Woods, Louis Gossett Jr., Oliver Platt
Director: Michael Ritchie
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Director Michael Ritchie turns in another crowd-pleasing sports picture with DIGGSTOWN, featuring James Woods as Gabriel Caine, a con artist who has just been released from prison. Based on a tip by his cellmate, Wolf Forrester (Randall "Tex" Cobb), Caine heads for Diggstown, Georgia, a small town ..read more »
71%
from 616 members
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Carolina Skeletons
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Louis Gossett Jr., Bruce Dern, Melissa Leo
Director: John Erman
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After a long time in the army, an Afro-American soldier returns to his hometown, where years ago, his brother was exucuted for the murder of two white girls. He believes his brother was innocent and sets out to prove it. But there are some people in town who will stop at nothing to keep their ..read more »
58%
from 15 members
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The Burbs
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Carrie Fisher, Rick Ducommun
Director: Joe Dante
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Tom Hanks portrays suburbanite Ray Peterson, whose plans for a peaceful vacation are disturbed by a creepy new family on the block, in this outrageous suspense-comedy directed by Joe Dante.
To the disappointment of his wife Carol (Carrie Fisher), Ray decides to spend a relaxing week at home, and ..read more »
66%
from 7,461 members
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The Big Town
(1987)
Starring: Matt Dillon, Diane Lane, Tommy Lee Jones
Director: Ben Bolt
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A country boy with a knack for throwing dice goes to Chicago to try his luck. He's on a winning streak until he falls in love with a married fan-dancer whose husband is a high roller and a killer. The boy soon finds himself rolling for the lady and his life.
37%
from 9 members
Not available for rental
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Tattoo
(1981)
Starring: Bruce Dern, Maud Adams, Leonard Frey
Director: Bob Brooks
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Troubled tattoo artist Karl Kinsky (Bruce Dern) develops an obsessive fascination with Maddy (Maud Adams) when hired to paint temporary tattoos on a group of models for a photo shoot.
56%
from 16 members
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The Driver
(1978)
Starring: Ryan O'Neal, Bruce Dern, Isabelle Adjani
Director: Walter Hill
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Ryan O'Neal stars as THE DRIVER, a conniving and talented getaway driver, and Bruce Dern as the corrupt police detective obsessed with capturing him. With breathtaking car chases and a terrific climax, this is a simple and thrilling cat and mouse game. The two single-minded characters, with ..read more »
65%
from 1,299 member
Not currently released
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Coming Home
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern
Director: Hal Ashby
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When Sally Hyde's (Jane Fonda) husband, a ramrod-straight marine captain, Bob Hyde (Bruce Dern), is sent to Vietnam, she leaves the isolated world of the officer's quarters and begins volunteer social work at the veterans hospital. There her unthinking support of the war and her blindness to its ..read more »
69%
from 700 members
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Family Plot
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Bruce Dern, Karen Black, William Devane
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Hitchcock's diabolically funny and exciting movie about a search for a missing heir proved to be his final film. Starring Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris, William Devane, and Karen Black, Family Plot is the story of a cabbie (Dern) and a psychic (Harris) who team up to find a dead man who's not really ..read more »
59%
from 1,217 member
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Smile
(1975)
Starring: Bruce Dern, Barbara Feldon, Michael Kidd
Director: Michael Ritchie
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Michael Ritchie’s SMILE is a satirical, behind-the-scenes look at a California teenage beauty pageant, which also exposes American middle-class mores. The competitors (who seem to favor political maneuvering and backstabbing over talent and poise) provide only part of the story, since the members ..read more »
56%
from 15 members
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Posse
(1975)
Starring: David Canary, Alfonso Arau, Beth Brickell
Director: Kirk Douglas
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A publicity-hungry U.S. Marshal doesn't just hunt down and capture fugitives, he makes sure a photographer is around to record his crime-fighting exploits and bolster his political aspirations. In POSSE the lawman soon discovers that fame may be fleeting when he sets his sights on his No. 1 target: ..read more »
50%
from 12 members
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The Great Gatsby
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Bruce Dern
Director: Jack Clayton
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This third film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic 1925 novel was one of the most hyped movies of the summer of 1974. Robert Redford stars as self-made millionaire Jay Gatsby, who uses his vast (and implicitly ill-gotten) fortune to buy his way into Long Island society. Most of all, Gatsby ..read more »
63%
from 2,105 members
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The King Of Marvin Gardens
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Ellen Burstyn
Director: Bob Rafelson
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Dreams die hard in wintry Atlantic City in Bob Rafelson's downbeat character drama. Depressive deejay David Staebler (Jack Nicholson) tends to his grandfather as he philosophizes on late-night Philadelphia talk radio. When his huckster older brother Jason (Bruce Dern) calls out of the blue one day, ..read more »
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from 498 members
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The Cowboys - HD
(1972)
Starring: John Wayne, Roscoe Lee Browne, Bruce Dern
Director: Mark Rydell
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After his cowhands desert him for a nearby gold rush, aging, leather-tough rancher Will Anderson (John Wayne) resorts to hiring 11 schoolboys to help him on a 400-mile cattle run. Setting off with the boys and an eloquent but equally tough black cook (Roscoe Lee Browne), Anderson must get his ..read more »
65%
from 22 members
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The Cowboys
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: John Wayne, Roscoe Lee Browne, Bruce Dern
Director: Mark Rydell
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John Wayne had brawled bare-knuckle gunned down desperadoes, fought jungle wars and piloted the skies. But The Cowboys gave him one of the most juiciest as a leather-tough rancher who, deserted by his regular help, hires 11 greenhorn schoolboys for a cattle drive across 400 treacherous miles.
When ..read more »
69%
from 1,003 member
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Silent Running
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Jesse Vint
Director: Douglas Trumbull
Certificate: 
Bruce Dern stars as the caretaker of a greenhouse located on a group of space stations that are sent into orbit. The Earth has been stripped clean of foliage, and the greenhouse contains the last remaining greenery from the planet. Dern's staff includes three human beings and a trio of endearing ..read more »
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from 6,255 members
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Silent Running - Blu-ray
(1972)
Starring: Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Jesse Vint
Director: Douglas Trumbull
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Bruce Dern stars as the caretaker of a greenhouse located on a group of space stations that are sent into orbit. The Earth has been stripped clean of foliage, and the greenhouse contains the last remaining greenery from the planet. Dern's staff includes three human beings and a trio of endearing ..read more »
72%
from 23 members
Not available for rental
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The Cowboys - Blu-ray
(1972)
Starring: John Wayne, Roscoe Lee Browne, Bruce Dern
Director: Mark Rydell
Certificate:
After his cowhands desert him for a nearby gold rush, aging, leather-tough rancher Will Anderson (John Wayne) resorts to hiring 11 schoolboys to help him on a 400-mile cattle run. Setting off with the boys and an eloquent but equally tough black cook (Roscoe Lee Browne), Anderson must get his ..read more »
67%
from 139 members
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Drive, He Said
(1971)
Starring: William Tepper, Karen Black, Bruce Dern
Director: Jack Nicholson
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Hector is a star basketball player for the College basketball team he plays for, the Leopards. His girlfriend, Olive, doesn't know whether to stay with him or leave him. And his friend, Gabriel, who may have dropped out from school and become a protestor, wants desperately not to get drafted for ..read more »
45%
from 9 members
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Bloody Mama
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Shelley Winters, Pat Hingle, Robert DeNiro
Director: Roger Corman
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Director Roger Corman pulls no punches in this sordid (and true) saga of Kate "Ma" Barker and her sons, brutal criminals who terrorized America in the 1920s and '30s. At Ma's command they rob and murder, but when they kidnap a local politician (Pat Hingle), he turns into the father figure they ..read more »
47%
from 427 members
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Support Your Local Sheriff
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: James Garner, Walter Brennan, Jack Elam
Director: Burt Kennedy
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Director Burt Kennedy's Western is a bawdy, all-out parody that skewers every cliche the genre has to offer. There's Jason McCullough (James Garner), the sharpshooting stranger passing through town who becomes sheriff; the Danbys, a villainous gang who terrorises the entire community; Prudy Perkins ..read more »
69%
from 622 members
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Castle Keep
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Peter Falk, Patrick O'Neal
Director: Sydney Pollack
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Sydney Pollack directs this dramatic allegory about an American military squadron seeking refuge in a castle in the Ardennes Forest during the final days of World War II. When the soldiers get a little too comfortable in their new environment, they spark a conflict with its owner over the castle ..read more »
50%
from 329 members
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They Shoot Horses Don't They?
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Jane Fonda, Gig Young, Michael Sarrazin
Director: Sydney Pollack
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A total of nine Academy Award nominations went to this wildly acclaimed, allegorical drama set amongst the contestants in a marathon dance contest during the Great Depression. Gig Young stars as Rocky, the obnoxious emcee for a dance marathon that offers prize money of $1,500, a small fortune ..read more »
66%
from 1,711 member
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Hang 'Em High
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Ed Begley, Inger Stevens, Pat Hingle
Director: Ted Post
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The first spaghetti western made in America (sans Leone) and Eastwood's first star vehicle made outside Europe. Eastwood's innocent cowboy miraculously survives his own hanging and then treks across the frontier to bring his hangmen to justice. Highly entertaining, featuring in small parts Dern, ..read more »
69%
from 5,145 members
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Psych-Out
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Dean Stockwell, Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern
Director: Richard Rush
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A look at the psychedelic world of the 1960's flower children. Jenny is a 17-year-old deaf runaway who stumbles into that world as she searches for her brother who is being pursued by hoods. A low-budget psychedelic cult classic from 1968 offers trippy visuals, acid-tinged soundtracks, and the ..read more »
49%
from 195 members
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The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre
(1967)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, ason Robards, George Segal
Director: Roger Corman
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Schlockmeister Roger Corman produced this graphically violent chronicle of the Chicago gangster wars of the 1920s and the events that lead to the bloody title showdown between rival mobsters Al Capone (Jason Robards) and Bugs Moran (Ralph Meeker) that marked a brutal end to a terrifying era. Fred ..read more »
61%
from 206 members
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Will Penny
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Charlton Heston, Joan Hackett, Donald Pleasence
Director: Tom Gries
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Cowboy, Will Penny, stops over at the home of Catherine, wife of an Oregon farmer. Catherine is attracted to Will and although Will is attracted to Catherine, he behaves like a perfect gentleman...
64%
from 276 members
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Rebel Rousers
(1967)
Starring: Cameron Mitchell, Diane Ladd, Jack Nicholson
Director: Martin B. Cohen
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A gang of lawless, unapologetically hedonistic bikers terrorises the countryside, staging a race in which a kidnapped pregnant woman is offered as a trophy. Gritty fare typical of the underground biker films of the early New Hollywood. Shot in 1967, REBEL ROUSERS also features Jack Nicholson as a ..read more »
67%
from 4 members
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Marnie
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Diane Baker
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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This thriller, based on a best-selling novel by Wilson Graham, revolves around Marnie (Tippi Hedren), a pathological liar and compulsive thief who is befriended by her latest victim, Mark Rutland (Sean Connery). Despite his sincere love, dashing looks, and wealth, some deep-seated neurosis makes ..read more »
69%
from 3,726 members
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Milwaukee Minnesota
on DVD
Starring: Troy Garity, Alison Folland, Bruce Dern
Director: Allan Mindel
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Albert is a championship ice fisherman, but his fortunes begin to change when his mother is killed. Tuey, her brother Stan, and travelling salesman Jerry James are new in town, and all see a financial opportunity in the vulnerable fisherman.
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from 1,777 member
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