Ransom (1996)
1996 Ron Howard thriller with Mel Gibson as a wealthy father whose kidnapped son demands a different kind of response. Ransom is Ron Howard's 1996 American thriller.
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New JerseySleepers (1996)
1996 Barry Levinson drama with Robert De Niro, Brad Pitt, Kevin Bacon. Hell's Kitchen friends face their abusers in court.
New JerseyA Shock to the System (1990)
Michael Caine as an executive who discovers he can kill his way to the top and nobody will notice. A Shock to the System is the Jan Egleson-directed dark comedy adapted from Simon Brett's 1984 novel of the same title.
New JerseyMeet Joe Black (1998)
Brest's 1998 three-hour fantasy drama. Anthony Hopkins plays William Parrish, a media mogul approaching his sixty-fifth birthday.
New JerseyPresumed Innocent (1990)
Pakula's 1990 legal thriller. Harrison Ford as compromised prosecutor accused of murder.
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New JerseyMen in Black (1997)
Ed Solomon wrote, loosely adapted from Lowell Cunningham's Aircel/Malibu comic. The film made approximately five hundred and ninety million dollars worldwide on a ninety million dollar budget.
CaliforniaIndependence Day (1996)
Dean Devlin co-wrote with Emmerich. The film established Will Smith as the dominant summer blockbuster star of the late 1990s, set up Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin's career-long partnership producing disaster spectacles, and refined the destruction-of-iconic-landmarks visual template that subsequent…
British ColumbiaHighlander (1986)
Highlander is one of the strangest mainstream studio films of the 1980s and one of the most influential fantasy films of the decade. Clancy Brown plays the Kurgan, the giant Mongol-Russian immortal who killed Ramirez and has spent four hundred…
New JerseyYou’ve Got Mail (1998) Review
Nora Ephron had been one of the most accomplished American romantic comedy writers and directors of the late twentieth century. The play had been previously adapted as The Shop Around the Corner in 1940 starring James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan,…
ChicagoGoodfellas (1990) Review
Liotta, De Niro, Pesci, Bracco. Seen it twice across multiple decades.
CaliforniaLive Free or Die Hard (2007) Review
The film is held back from a 9.5 or 10 by the studio's decision to cut the theatrical release to PG-13 and by the inevitable franchise-fatigue cost of being the fourth entry. Olyphant's Thomas Gabriel is the franchise's third great…