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Director TIM BURTON unleashes MARS ATTACKS!, a vicious, affectionate, brightly-colored homage to 1950s alien invasion movies. When a shiny silver flying saucer lands in the Nevada desert, a group of skull-faced Martians exit the gleaming craft. Although they claim to be peaceful, they promptly 'vaporize' a gathering of unfortunate Earthlings, kicking off a bizarre high-tech war with wild special effects. This studiously campy sci-fi spoof, based on a series of Topps bubble-gum cards, gleefully parodies not only schlock B-horror movies, but also overblown blockbusters such as INDEPENDENCE DAY. This subversive film is helped along by an all-star cast including JACK NICHOLSON in dual roles as both a clueless U.S. President (with First Lady GLENN CLOSE) and a Las Vegas sleazebag. The film follows the wacky WAR OF THE WORLD--like proceedings from the points of view of numerous colorful characters, from the inane U.S. Press Secretary (MARTIN SHORT) to a trailer-park family (LUKAS HAAS and SYLVIA SIDNEY), singer TOM JONES (as himself).Copyright 1996 Warner Brothers. All rights reserved.

Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson and Demi Moore star in Rob Reiner's unanimously acclaimed drama about the dangerous difference between following orders and following one's conscience. Cruise stars as a brash Navy lawyer who's teamed with a gung-ho litigator (Moore) in a politically explosive murder case. Charged with defending two Marines accused of killing a fellow soldier, they are confronted with complex issues of loyalty and honor, including its most sacred code and its most formidable warrior (Nicholson). Superbly directed with a trio of powerhouse performances and an outstanding supporting cast including Kevin Pollak, Kiefer Sutherland and Kevin Bacon.

Nominated for nine Academy Awards and winner of five, including the top categories of Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress and Best Adapted Screenplay. Randle Patrick McMurphy (multi-Oscar winner Jack Nicholson -- 'Something's Gotta Give,' 'As Good As It Gets') is a free-spirited, small-time convict who fakes being crazy so he can get transferred from the state penitentiary to what he thinks will be a more comfortable state mental hospital. But his contagious sense of delightful chaos clashes with the numbing routine of the hospital and the woman in charge of making sure nothing disrupts the sedate mood of the floor, Nurse Ratched (Oscar-winner Louise Fletcher -- 'Cruel Intentions,' '2 Days in the Valley'). Based on Ken Kesey's acclaimed bestseller. The superb cast also includes Emmy-winner Danny DeVito ('Big Fish,' 'L.A. Confidential'), Emmy-winner Christopher Lloyd (the 'Back to the Future' trilogy, 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit') and Brad Dourif (the 'Lord of the Rings' trilogy, 'Murder in the First').

All work and no play makes Academy Award-winner Jack Nicholson ('As Good As It Gets,' 'Batman'), the caretaker of an isolated resort, go way off the deep end, terrorizing his young son and wife Shelley Duvall ('Roxanne'). Master filmmaker Stanley Kubrick's ('Full Metal Jacket,' '2001: A Space Odyssey') visually haunting chiller, based on the bestseller by master-of-suspense Stephen King ('The Stand,' 'Carrie,' 'The Shawshank Redemption'), is an undeniable contemporary classic. Newsweek Magazine calls this 'the first epic horror film,' full of indelible images, and a signature role for Nicholson whose character was recently selected by AFI for its' 50 Greatest Villains. NO EDITING PERMITTED.

Roger Corman's haunting tale of mistaken identity gets the Elvira treatment as she lampoons the performances of Boris Karloff and Jack Nicholson.

Academy Award winners Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman star in the comedic drama The Bucket List, directed by Rob Reiner, a touching, no- holds-barred adventure that shows it s never too late to live life to its fullest. Carter and Edward found themselves sharing a hospital room with plenty of time to think about what might happen next and about how much of that was in their hands. For all their apparent differences, they soon discovered they had two very important things in common: an unrealized need to come to terms with who they were and the choices they d made, and a pressing desire to spend the time they had left doing everything they ever wanted to do.

Sentenced to hang in a backwater western town, horse thief Henry Moon (Jack Nicholson) is saved when frontierswoman Julia Tate (Mary Steenburgen) agrees to marry him. Taking advantage of the town law that prohibits the execution of married men, Moon follows Tate back to her ranch, planning all the while to escape at the first possible opportunity. But Tate insists that he honor his end of the bargain at work on the ranch. She has no intention of consummating the union, a fact that drives the hot-to-trot Moon up a wall. She puts him to work on the gold mine that she has on her property, while his old gang prepares to relieve the couple of their gold once it's on the surface. Jack Nicholson personally selected movie newcomer Mary Steenburgen for Goin' South. The film also features John Belushi in the role of a dyspeptic deputy.

Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson and Mark Wahlberg star in Martin Scorsese's new crime drama 'The Departed.' 'The Departed' is set in South Boston where the state police force is waging an all-out war to take down the city's top organized crime ring. The key is to end the reign of powerful mob boss Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson) from the inside. A young rookie, Billy Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio) is assigned to infiltrate Costello's mob. While Billy is working to gain Costello's trust, another young cop, Colin Sullivan (Matt Damon) is among a handful of elite officers whose mission is to bring Costello down. But what his superiors don't know is that Colin is working for Costello, keeping the crime boss one step ahead of the police. Each man becomes deeply consumed by his double life, gathering information about the plans and counter-plans of the operation he has penetrated. But when it becomes clear to both the gangsters and the police that they have a mole in their midst, Billy and Colin find themselves in constant danger of being caught-and each must race to uncover the identity of the other man in time to save himself.

As the leader of his fellow prisoners in a P.O.W. camp in Burma during World War II, Colonel Nicholson (ALEC GUINNESS) has resisted all efforts by its ruthless commander, Colonel Saito (SESSUE HAYAKAWA), to get his men to construct a bridge across a gorge of the strategic River Kwai. Yet, after coming to see it as a way to restore morale among his men, Nicholson capitulates and sets out to build the best bridge possible. As Nicholson becomes obsessed with the task, Shears (WILLIAM HOLDEN), an escaped American P.O.W., makes his way to Australia where, caught impersonating an officer, he's sent by British Major Warden (JACK HAWKINS) with a team of guerillas back to Burma to destroy the bridge.

Oscar winner Jack Nicholson ('As Good As it Gets,' 'A Few Good Men'), John Malkovich ('Being John Malkovich') and Oscar, Golden Globe and Emmy winner Vanessa Redgrave ('Mission: Impossible') star in this tense '50s crime drama. Based on the acclaimed novel by Swiss author Friedrich Durrenmatt. Co-starring Oscar-nominated Sam Shepard ('The Right Stuff'), Golden Globe nominee Robin Wright Penn ('Forrest Gump'), Costas Mandylor ('Picket Fences') and Harry Dean Stanton ('The Green Mile'). Directed by Oscar and Golden Globe nominee Sean Penn ('Dead Man Walking').

Laura Woolley appraises a beanie worn by Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest

Appraisal: Jack Nicholson's 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' Hat from Minneapolis Hour 1.