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Van Damme and his wife (Marnie Alton, who also played alongside Van Damme in Replicant) are currently having to travel so Van Damme can work. Their house is burgled and she is murdered in cold blood. There is a lack of evidence so the killer is found not guilty, so Van Damme kills him in the courthouse. From there on he must survive a brutal prison where he is made to fight for the wardens' pleasure. Can Van Damme survive all this with his cell mate, expose the prison for their atrocities and save them all from total annihilation?

Kevin Kline won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in this wildly popular comedy about an intricate diamond heist that's peppered with the comical antics of Jamie Lee Curtis and John Cleese.

The stuffy manager of lovely opera singer Vicki Cassel and her uncle, a classical conductor, is determined to close down the noisy nightclub that's next door to the Cassels' home. The club's owners--Steve, a handsome ladies man, Jeff, his clownish sidekick--hatch a plan to keep the club open. Steve arranges to meet--and woo--Vicki and then invite her and her uncle to the club. When Vicki's snobbish aunt and the manager discover that Vicki now favors popular music to the classics, they arrange to get the club closed. But that doesn't keep Steve and Jeff down. Instead they decide to put on a Broadway show if they can get a backer. They find their "angel" in Vicki's uncle who agrees to finance the show only if Vicki is the leading lady. But once again, Vicki's aunt and manager may be the spoiler in everyone's plans.

A young woman, Pursy (played by Scarlett Johansson), learns that her estranged mother has died in New Orleans. She returns to her mother's house to discover that it is inhabited by two men, one an aging alcoholic, Bobby Long (John Travolta).

After finding out that her 16-year-old daughter Jacey is pregnant, Jacey's well-meaning mother forces her to keep the birth a secret and give the baby up for adoption. But the day the social-services worker arrives to take him to his adoptive parents, Jacey decides to keep him, then agrees that her mother will raise him as her own son. A guidance counselor discovers Jacey's secret and tries to get her to enroll in a program for pregnant and parenting teens.

A couple of two-bit thieving brothers try and keep a promise to their dying father: stick together and become successful outlaws. Bambino reluctantly agrees to show younger Trinity the ropes, but their gentle demeanors tend to diminish their haul by repeatedly helping the selfsame family they initially held up. Fun ensues in town and at the local Spanish mission where they are taken for federal agents, mistakenly so identified by Trinity's young love interest, daughter of the aforementioned family.

Carl Kolchak is a newspaper reporter with an abrasive personality that has gotten him fired ten times from various big-city papers. Now he's reduced to reporting for a relatively small-time paper in Las Vegas. It's here he gets the story of his life. But will the local sheriff, or the D.A., or even his own boss, let him print it? He has an ally in the FBI agent brought in to investigate this strange case. It seems someone is biting the necks of young girls and draining their blood. Can this killer with supernormal powers really be a 70-year-old Romanian millionaire? Can he really be a vampire? And can an aging reporter do anything to stop him?

A Seattle household secretly cooperates with police in a case that links a family member to widespread arson.

George A. Romero does for vampires what he has already done for zombies: an intense and realistic treatment that follows the exploits of Martin, who claims to be 84 years old and who certainly drinks human blood. The boy arrives in Braddock, Pennsylvania to stay with his uncle, who promises to both save Martin's soul and then destroy him once he is finished, but Martin's loneliness finds other means of release.

In 1896, Jeff Webster sees the start of the Klondike gold rush as a golden opportunity to make a fortune in beef, and woe betide anyone standing in his way. He drives a cattle herd from Wyoming to Seattle, by ship to Skagway, and (after a delay caused by larcenous town boss Gannon) through the mountains to Dawson. There, he and his partner Ben Tatum get into the gold business themselves. Two lovely women fall for misanthropic Jeff, but he believes in every-man-for-himself, turning his back on growing lawlessness, until it finally strikes home.

John Leary, a professional horror host "Al Gory"; whose wife's death in a car accident has left him to care for his two young boys. Loving, but useless at the daily job of fathering, the onus falls on plucky Jack the Bear (Robert J. Steinmiller, Jr.) Leary's conscience, and a quantity of alcohol, leads him to denounce a neo-fascist candidate on his children's television program, and also to the kidnapping of youngest son Dylan (Miko Hughes) by a disturbed neo-Nazi supporter.

Set free after 30 years in prison, train robbers Harry and Archie discover that they have a lot of catching up to do in the 1980s. With a crooked cop and a myopic hitman hot on their trail, Harry and Archie make plans for their boldest, most explosive train heist ever.

When a soap opera writer (John Candy) bumps his head and wakes up in the midst of his own daytime serial, he writes himself into the storyline of a lifetime! Emma Samms and Mariel Hemingway co-star.

Mel Gibson and Danny Glover return as buddy cops Riggs and Murtaugh, with Joe Pesci riding comedy shotgun as chatterbox Leo. Murtaugh is still the family man. Riggs is still the gonzo loose cannon and--what's this?--family man. His will-he/won't he marriage to Cole is one of the new wrinkles in this powerhouse crowd-pleaser that also stars comedy favorite Chris Rock and international action star Jet Li. This sequel involves an action packed battle with a Chinese ganglord.

Set after the civil war, a man (Richard Gere) returns home several years after he was presumed dead. He arrives armed with ideas and vigor, and soon brings his town back to prosperity and turns his once bitter marriage (to Jodi Foster) into a passionate romance. Despite his many accomplishments, suspicions arise that Jack Sommersby may not be the man he says he is, after all.

"Miss Cast Away" (aka "Island Girl") is a mix of "There's Something About Mary" and "Scary Movie" crosses "Cast Away" with "Miss Congeniality." What happens when a plane-load of beauty contestants, on it's way to the Miss Galaxy Pageant, crash-lands on a deserted island? Pilots, Mike Saunders and Maximus Power learn how to survive with a bevvie of beautiful women -- of which none have ever even gone camping. Soon the castaways discover the ancient Noah's ark on the island. The lost ark is being guarded by an oversized prehistoric pig (Jurassic Pork). Noah is boarding apes (a la Planet of the Apes) and our survivors have got to stop his plan and use the ark to get off the island.

Two high schoolers are unprepared for the reality of parenthood when the girl becomes pregnant.

A sucessful mystery novelist (Tom Selleck) finds himself falling for a beautiful woman (Paulina Porizkova) accused of muder. He's convinced of her innocence until a series of bizarre and near-fatal accidents begin to change his mind.

Posing as a hangman, Mace Bishop (James Stewart) arrives in town with the intention of freeing a gang of outlaws, including his brother, Dee (Dean Martin), from the gallows. Mace urges his younger brother to give up crime. Sheriff July Johnson (George Kennedy) chases the brothers to Mexico. They join forces, however, against a group of Mexican bandits.

Return to the Bushwood Country Club in the crazy sequel to the 1980 hit! A self-made blue-collar millionaire (Jackie Mason) is snubbed by the snobs when he tries to join a ritzy country club as a favor to his social-climbing daughter. But he soon discovers that the only way to join the club is to buy it.

A drunken, down-on-his-luck adventurer is hired by a wealthy man and his beautiful wife to take them on a hunting expedition in the jungle. After a while, though, the guide begins to suspect that there's more to the expedition than just hunting.

The Pickles family are facing the biggest adventure to happen in any household - the birth of a new baby. As Stu and Didi Pickles struggle with the changes associated with the arrival of baby Dylan, big brother Tommy and his pals decide that the baby's antics are cramping their style and attempt to take him back to the "hop-sickle."

This is the story loosely based on Cleveland disc jockey Alan Freed, who introduced rock 'n' roll to teenage American radio audiences in the 1950s. Freed was a source of great controversy: criticized by conservatives for corrupting youth with the "devil's music"; hated by racists for promoting African American music for white consumption; persecuted by law enforcement officials and finally brought down by the "payola" scandals.