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After Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, residents of California descend into a wild panic, afraid that they might be the next target. Among them are Wild Bill Kelso (John Belushi), a crazed National Guard pilot; Sgt. Frank Tree (Dan Aykroyd), a patriotic, straight-laced tank crew commander; Ward Douglas (Ned Beatty), a civilian willing to help with the American war effort at any cost; and Maj. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell (Robert Stack), who tries his hardest to maintain sanity amid the chaos. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Feb 2, 2023 - 8 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

A minor league baseball player has to spend thirty million dollars in thirty days in order to inherit three hundred million dollars. There's a catch however: he's not allowed to tell anyone about the deal. [more inside]
posted by Ten Cold Hot Dogs on Apr 7, 2018 - 6 comments

A glowing green orb - which embodies ultimate evil - terrorizes a young girl with an anthology of bizarre and fantastic stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror. [more inside]
posted by MoonOrb on Apr 4, 2018 - 29 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

An 8-year old troublemaker must protect his home from a pair of burglars when he is accidentally left home alone by his family during Christmas vacation. [more inside]
posted by the man of twists and turns on Dec 7, 2015 - 9 comments

A high-strung marketing executive must struggle to travel home for Thanksgiving with an obnoxious slob of a shower curtain ring salesman as his only companion. Starring Steve Martin and John Candy, written and directed by John Hughes. [more inside]
posted by the man of twists and turns on Nov 27, 2014 - 14 comments

T.hanksgiving Movie Club An Oscar nominated, 80s take on The Little Mermaid with Daryl Hannah, Eugene Levy, John Candy, and a fresh-faced Tom Hanks with Ron Howard directing. Mermaid rescues boy. Mermaid falls in love with man.  [more inside]
posted by Ik ben afgesneden on Nov 24, 2014 - 2 comments