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Two former U. S. Presidents, hated rivals, join forces to expose the current, corrupt President at the risk of their lives. [more inside]
posted by Carillon on Sep 26, 2023 - 5 comments

Vada Sultenfuss (Anna Chlumsky) is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father (Dan Aykroyd) runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J. (Macaulay Culkin), her best friend, is "allergic to everything", and sticks with Vada despite her hangups. When Vada's father hires Shelly, and begins to fall for her, things take a turn to the worse... [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Sep 11, 2023 - 16 comments

[TRAILER] Daisy Werthan (Jessica Tandy), an elderly Jewish widow living in Atlanta, is determined to maintain her independence. However, when she crashes her car, her son, Boolie (Dan Aykroyd), arranges for her to have a chauffeur, an African-American driver named Hoke Colburn (Morgan Freeman). Daisy and Hoke's relationship gets off to a rocky start, but they gradually form a close friendship over the years, one that transcends racial prejudices and social conventions. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jan 18, 2023 - 0 comments

A businessman and his friends are captured by a sadistic judge and his equally odd family in a bizarre mansion in the backwoods. [more inside]
posted by Carillon on Nov 23, 2022 - 16 comments

Martin Blank is a professional assassin. He is sent on a mission to the Detroit suburb, Grosse Pointe, and, by coincidence, his ten-year high school reunion party is taking place there at the same time. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Nov 14, 2022 - 16 comments

When a single mom and her two kids arrive in a small town, they begin to discover their connection to the original Ghostbusters and the secret legacy their grandfather left behind. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Nov 21, 2021 - 12 comments

The equally-straight-laced and "by the book" nephew of Joe Friday must work with his more laid-back partner to solve a mystery. [more inside]
posted by rhizome on Sep 8, 2019 - 15 comments

Jake Blues, just out from prison, puts together his old band to save the Catholic home where he and brother Elwood were raised. [more inside]
posted by valkane on May 23, 2016 - 41 comments

A snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires. Driected by John Landis, starring Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Denholm Elliott, and Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy. [more inside]
posted by the man of twists and turns on Jan 1, 2015 - 18 comments

Complex but lighthearted thriller about computers and cryptography, government and espionage, secrets and deception and betrayal. [more inside]
posted by Etrigan on Sep 4, 2014 - 46 comments