Lenny and Amanda have an adopted son Max who turns out to be brilliant. Lenny becomes obsessed with finding Max's real parents because he believes that they too must be brilliant. When he finds that Linda Ash is Max' real mother, Lenny is disappointed. Linda is a prostitute and porn star. On top of that, she is quite possibly the dumbest person Lenny has ever met. Interwoven is a Greek chorus linking the story with the story of Oedipus.
Desperately short of food and driven by hunger, 17-year-old orphan Henry Young (Kevin Bacon) steals $5 from a post office and gets nabbed by the clerk. His sister is sent to an orphanage and he is sentenced to prison. Some time later, he is transferred to Alcatraz, America's most notorious prison. After a failed attempt to escape, Young is sent to solitary confinement which is supposed to last nineteen days. However, he spends three years alone in a cell with no window, no heating, no toilet and no furniture. After his release from solitary confinement, the mad Young is accused of murdering Rufus McCain (David Michael Sterling), the inmate who squealed on him, and is sentenced to death. With no chance to get acquitted, Young is defended by James Stamphill (Christian Slater), a rookie lawyer...
In the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future, by borrowing money from the local nobility to buy cattle to herd to market. When the money is stolen, Rob is forced into a Robin Hood lifestyle to defend his family and honour.
Just an ordinary day in Craig (Ice Cube) and his sidekick Smokey's (Chris Tucker) lives is featured. Smoking weed in their South Central neighborhood, drinking, resolving money problems with a nasty drug-dealer, looking for something to do... With some other odd characters hanging around, there is a pretty good chance for these two to be having their last Friday.
Thomas Callahan Jr. is kind of a dumb guy. His father gets married to woman who is actually trying to get him for his money by taking over his stocks and then put his brake pad company out of business. When Big Tom dies of a sudden stroke, it seems pretty good for Beverly and tommy's "brother". but Tommy and his buddy Richard are going to set out and keep Calahan auto parts in business. I have said too much.
The movie Kids is a view of a city kids world. You watch Telly, a unsupervised teen in the streets of New York taking advantage of innocent young girls not knowing he has HIV but one of the girls he slept with a year before does. In knowing this she runs the streets looking for him while he plans to deflower another young girl. And in the midst of all this, you see kids as young as 10 or 11 using drugs and alcohol with some of the older kids. Kids is basically a movie that warns you what the hell could be happening to your very own child.
The stunning Suzanne Stone (Nicole Kidman) is totally obsessed with her dream of becoming a celebrity of the silver screen and is determined to achieve her goal by any measures. Having married Larry Maretto (Matt Dillon), the most handsome guy in the small town of Little Hope, she decides to start climbing the TV ladder as a weather person at a local cable station. When her family-minded husband becomes an obstacle on the road to her fame, the cold-hearted Susan hatches a diabolical plot to get rid of him. She seduces a dim-witted high school student, Jimmy Emmett (Joaquin Phoenix), who has a crush on her, and manipulates him into killing her husband. Susan hopes that the murder case will become national news and make her known all over the world.
A group of five graduate student roommates in Iowa fall into a descent that leads to murder after an accidental meeting leads them to search out extremists in the local community.
Lucy is a lonely Chicago subway employee who's life consists of living with her cat, avoiding her landlord's boorish son, and nursing a hopeless crush on a handsome commuter who passes her booth every day. Whilst working the Christmas shift, she witnesses him being mugged and pushed off the platform, and manages to save his life - and is mistaken for his fiance at the hospital. She is duly embraced by the man's warm and welcoming family - except for his suspicious brother Jack, who is not convinced that she's the genuine article.
A young Japanese potter named Yō Hinomura (Mark Dacascos) finds himself kidnapped, hypnotized and trained as a merciless assassin for a secret powerful Chinese organization. Swift as lightning and elusive as a shadow, Yō seems to kill his targets ruthlessly; however, tears of regret he sheds after each assassination proclaim him a guilt-ridden solitary person who longs to be free but is doomed to serve the powerful evil forces. Nobody has seen the mysterious killer but unfortunately his murder of a yakuza boss is soon witnessed by Emu Hino (Julie Condra), an orphaned beautiful painter. Yō must kill the girl but they unexpectedly fall for each other...
They are complete opposites: one of them is a family man, and other is a bachelor who takes all occasions of such a free life: wealth, girls, cars... But these two guys (Martin Lawrence and Will Smith) are working together, they are policemen and should discover the way of stolen drugs. These dangerous meds are stolen from the police office and cost a round sum of 100 million bucks. Soon they find out that the man who had steel these drugs is none other then Cheki Kario's character whose band is one of the most dangerous and consists of the most unabashed guys. One of them gets killed by criminal colleagues which also begin to hunt down the only witness of the murder - a pretty call-girl Julie (Tea Leoni) whom our positive heroes begin to defend. Our guys - the bachelor and the family man - should trade places to succeed: to save the seductive witness and to catch the offenders.
Timothy hutton's hero named Charlie is to Paris, and his fiancee stays in Canada because she is afraid to travel by plane. Several days later he calls her by phone and tells that he loves her no more and had find another woman. Then it turns to be that the plane phobia is not so hard to overcome and Meg Ryan's Kate instantly jumps into one and heads to France. There (in the plain as yet) she meets a charming Frenchman who is a jewelry smuggler who stealthily places an expensive necklace into her handbag to pass it through the custom-house. When arrived, the bag disappears... and the things just get worse. But as the bag is stolen, Kate and Luc (Kevin Kline) should keep together...
When the summer came, Wabasha county fishermen were almost ready to use their fishing rods when the serious trouble appeared in their small town. Trouble's name was Maria and she was going to turn the local shop where they used to buy rods and baits into a fashionable restaurant. Max Goldman (Walter Matthau) finds Maria very attractive (Sophia Loren herself!), but he and his friend John Gustavson (Jack Lemmon) stand against her and her business weaving the different plots to stop her. Old grumblers should solve problems of their children at the same time.
Gene Watson (Johnny Depp) is an ordinary public accountant returning home from his ex-wife's funeral and is met by Mr Smith (Christopher Walken) and Ms. Jones (Roma Maffia) who kidnap his daughter (Courtney Chase) and give him a gun, six bullets, a name-tag that will give him access to anywhere in a specific hotel, and the itinerary of Governor Grant (Marsha Mason) and is informed that he must kill the Governor in 1 hour and 15 minutes or his daughter will die. The rest of the movie follows Mr. Watson as he desperately attempts to warn the Governor without the knowledge of the two and finds out that the conspiracy against her reaches all the way to those she trusts most.
Twelve outrageous guests. Four scandalous requests. And one lone bellhop, in his first day on the job, who's in for the wildest New year's Eve of his life.
This movie features the collaborative directorial efforts of four new filmmakers, each of whom directs a segment of this comedy. It's New Year's Eve at the Mon Signor Hotel, a former grand old Hollywood hotel, now fallen upon hard times. Often using physical comedy and sight gags, this movie chronicles the slapstick misadventures of Ted, the Bellhop. He's on his first night on the job, when he's asked to help out a coven of witches in the Honeymoon Suite. Things only get worse when he delivers ice to the wrong room and ends up in a domestic argument at a really bad time. Next, he foolishly agrees to watch a gangster's kids for him while he's away. Finally, he finishes off the night refereeing a ghastly wager.
Jumanji is a board game, magic and dangerous, as two teenagers found it out and buried Jumanji in distant 1869. Now the young descendant of the same family Alan Parrish (Adam Hann-Byrd, Robin Williams) digs the game out and begins to play it along with his mate Sarah (Laura Bell Bundy, Bonnie Hunt). Then the game makes it clear that it is really perilous as the boy flies away into the distant jungle. Later, other members of the family begin expirience the shock of using the game, they should try to return Alan Parrish from the magic depths of the game keeping in mind that all the monstrous entities which are bred by it will disappear in the only certain case: if the game will be won.
Dim-witted, overgrown kid Billy Madison (Adam Sandler) whiles away his time poolside, guzzling beer with his stupid buddies, Jack (Mark Beltzman) and Frank (Norm Macdonald), ogling sultry girls in nudie magazines and playing filthy pranks. The wealthy Brian Madison (Darren McGavin) informs his slacker son that he plans to pass the hotel business on to vice president Eric Gordon (Bradley Whitford). Billy is forced to return to school and pass all 12 grades within the course of twenty-four weeks in order to prove that he is competent to run the company.
The story of Mike Tyson. Form his early days as a 12 year old amateur with a powerful punch, to the undisputed title of "Heavyweight Champion of the World", and ultimately to his conviction for rape. The story of his turbulant life moves quickly, never focussing for long on anything in particular.
Frankie Lane is an action movie star, he has the bodyguard named Kit Lee. Nobody knows that Kit performs all the stunts in Frankie's films instead of his chicken protegee. But the moment of truth is drawing near: when they unintentionally crash the plans of mobsters headed by the notorious Doctor, Kit has to show all his Kung-Fu professionalism, and to take vengeance on Doctor, his longtime foe...
The affecting magical tale centers on Omri (Hal Scardino), a typical kid who is given many good presents for his ninth birthday. On the surface an old wooden cupboard and a miniature plastic Indian are of no value. However, just these nondescript gifts promise the boy a string of surprises and extraordinary adventures. Although Omri, like most kids, believes in miracles, he finds himself open-mouthed with astonishment when the Indian figure, locked in the cupboard, comes to life and turns out to be a 19th century Iroquois warrior named Little Bear (Litefoot). The little boy makes friends with him and learns some important lessons about friendship, tolerance, responsibility, and humaneness.
