Movies In 1991
Director: Jerry Rees
Stars: Kim Basinger, Alec Baldwin, Robert Loggia
Rich playboy Charley Pearl meets Vicki Anderson singer at a nightclub in Las Vegas. But shes a gangsters-moll Bugsy Siegels and when he finds the two of them in bed he forces them to marry each other. Charley was going to marry his girlfriend but when she finds out about him and Vicki she leaves him. And Vicki doesnt seem to be his kind of woman at...
Director: Jill Rae Zurborg
Stars: Rhona Brody, Kathryn A. Mensik, Tammy Pescatelli
Phyllis Loden is an overweight shy nerd who is relentlessly picked on by the more popular girls. This years Slivis Slough Queen Beauty Pageant is fast approaching and Muffy Fairlane is a lock to win. However Muffy doesnt want any of her friends to come in last so she enters Phyllis in the pageant. The plan works and also provides the girls with some opportunities to embarrass Phyllis in front...
Director: Frank Henenlotter
Stars: Kevin Van Hentenryck, Annie Ross, Gil Roper
The saga of Times Square Freak Twins Duane and Belail Bradley takes its most bizarre twist yet. It all starts innocently enough when the Bradley boys join kindly doctor Granny Ruth and her family of unique individuals for a road trip through the deep South.. The occasion - Belails about to become a proud monster father - and no basket is big enough to hold this ungodly brood! But when a pair of...
Director: Alex Chandon
Stars: Julius Barnet, Carmel, Lotu
A group of people are having a barbecue party when two Krishnas appear at their doorstep both of which transform into hideous monsters and start killing everybody in gory ways. The survivors retreat to a friends house and realize there is something bigger going...
Director: Masami Ôbari
Stars: Matthew Bray, Jessica Calvello, Cory Carthew
Tomoru is an average student in Artificial City 5 of Earth 2292 but is bored with his life. Losing himself in VR dreams everynight to avoid the banality of his life he dreams of adventure and times gone by. Meanwhile the EDF Earth Defense Force have been picking up strange signals from deep in space and have come to recognise them as points in 3 dimensional space a literal schematic for...
Director: Jon Hess
Stars: Joseph Bologna, Dee Wallace, Richard Lynch
A giant alligator runs riot in a small town with a lake connected to a sewer/drainage system. Typical plot; nobody believes the sightings until lots of people have been...
Director: Skip Jones
Stars: Michael Bell, Joe Alaskey, John Byner
Opus the Penguin amoung his other problems always felt inadequate by his being aerodynamicly impaired. Together with Bill the Cat he tries doggedly to overcome that weakness all without success. It is only on Christmas Eve that Opus learns what worth his natural abilities...
Director: Mark Peploe
Stars: James Fox, Fanny Ardant, Paul McGann
A young boy facing impending surgery on his eyes to try to stave off blindness wanders his quiet London neighborhood. The only problem is he believes that a slasher is stalking blind...
Director: Mark Rydell
Stars: Bette Midler, James Caan, George Segal
With the help of the singer and dancer Dixie Leonhard US-Entertainer Eddie Sparks wants to bring some fun to the soldiers during World War II. Becoming a perfect team they tour from North Africa to the Pacific to act for the boys. Later they continue their work but when the author Silver gets involved into McCarthys campaign and is being fired by Eddie Dixie turns away from him...
Director: Rolf de Heer
Stars: Colin Friels, Miles Davis, Helen Buday
Traces the pilgrimage of John Anderson an average guy with a passion for jazz from his home in outback Western Australia to the jazz clubs of Paris to meet his idol jazz trumpeter Billy...
Director: Claude Whatham
Stars: Roger Daltrey, Chesney Hawkes, Sharon Duce
Buddy is an aspiring teenager who is a very good musician and has pressure to go further than his Dads teddy boy rocker days. However when his father is sent away for a year for covering up for criminal Des it puts further strain on the family relationship. When Terry is released things get steadily harder while Buddys career gets...
Director: Shozin Fukui
Stars: Haji Suzuki, Onn-chan, Kôji Ôtsubo
Pinocchio 964 lobotomised cyborg sex slave is thrown out onto the street by his owners because of his inability to maintain an erection. He is befriended by a criminally insane memory-wiped homeless girl. Meanwhile the corporate entity who manufactured and sold him plots to kill him because of his...
Director: Blake Edwards
Stars: Ellen Barkin, Jimmy Smits, JoBeth Williams
Steve Brooks is a sexist and the prototype macho. Unfortunately one day he is killed by one of his girlfriends. In heaven though there is no place for men like him and he is sent back to earth in the body of a woman so that he can see how women are treated by men like the one he once...
Director: Stewart Raffill
Stars: Kristy Swanson, William Ragsdale, Meshach Taylor
A young department store intern falls in love with a female store mannequin who is really a peasant girl fallen under a thousand year spell. She comes to life whenever he removes the cursed necklace from...
Director: Mick Jackson
Stars: Steve Martin, Victoria Tennant, Richard E. Grant
Harris K Telemacher is a wacky weekend weatherman for a local Los Angeles television station who is searching for meaning in his otherwise cliche ridden Los Angeles life. With the help of an insightful and talkative Freeway sign Harris embarks on a journey through Los Angeles in pursuit of Sarah an English reporter who has been sent to the City of Angels to research an article for the London...
Director: Simon Wincer
Stars: Mickey Rourke, Don Johnson, Chelsea Field
The tuff biker Harley and his no less tuff Cowboy friend Marlboro learn that an old friend of them will lose his bar because a bank wants to build a new complex there and demands 2.5 million dollars for a new contract in advance. Harley and Marlboro decide to help him by robbing the corrupt bank. Unfortunately they target the wrong safety transport and get hold of an amount of a new synthetic...
Director: Tom Mankiewicz
Stars: John Candy, Mariel Hemingway, Emma Samms
Jack is the head writer for a successful soap opera and hes sweet on the shows star lovely Laura. Its easy for everyone but Jack to see that shes playing him for a sap. But a conk on the head brings Jack some new insights - and some new powers. He finds himself in Ashford Falls site of his fictional soap opera -- and everything he writes comes true! Its a fantastic opportunity to get...
Director: Albert Brooks
Stars: Albert Brooks, Meryl Streep, Rip Torn
Yuppie Daniel Miller is killed in a car accident and goes to Judgment City a waiting room for the afterlife. During the day he must prove in a courtroom-style process that he successfully overcame his fears a hard task given the pitiful life we are shown; at night he falls in love with Julia the only other young person in town. Nights are a time of hedonistic pleasure since you can for...
Director: Ron Underwood
Stars: Billy Crystal, Jack Palance, Daniel Stern
Mitch is a middle aged big-city radio ads salesman. He and his friends Ed and Phil are having mid-life crisis. They decide the best birthday gift is to go on a two week holiday in the wild west driving cattle from New Mexico to Colorado. There they meet cowboy Curly who not only teaches them how to become real cowboys but also one or two other things about life in the open air of the...
Director: Bruce Beresford
Stars: Lothaire Bluteau, Aden Young, Sandrine Holt
In the 17th century a Jesuit priest and a young companion are escorted through the wilderness of Quebec by Algonquin Indians to find a distant mission in the dead of winter. The Jesuit experiences a spiritual journey while his young companion falls in love with the Algonquin chiefs beautiful daughter underneath the imposing and magnificent mountains. Dread and death follows them...
Director: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
Stars: Paige O'Hara, Robby Benson, Richard White
Belle is a girl who is dissatisfied with life in a small provincial French town constantly trying to fend off the misplaced affections of conceited Gaston. The Beast is a prince who was placed under a spell because he could not love. A wrong turn taken by Maurice Belles father causes the two to...
Director: Phil Nibbelink, Simon Wells
Stars: James Stewart, John Cleese, Amy Irving
Some time after the Mousekewitzs have settled in America they find that they are still having problems with the threat of cats. That makes them eager to try another home out in the west where they are promised that mice and cats live in peace. Unfortunately the one making this claim is an oily con artist named Cat R. Waul who is intent on his own sinister plan. Unaware of this the...
Director: Kai-Ming Lai
Stars: Fui-On Shing, Pauline Wong, Gloria Yip
The film starts off fairly sensibly as a Hong Kong cop called Tsu played by prolific character actor Shing Fui On who should be recognisable to fans from his appearances in “God of Gamblers†and “The Killer†and who usually plays villainous roles is brutally killed by a bunch of vicious thieves only to be revived by a bolt of lightening and a cat with glowing red...
Director: Ridley Scott
Stars: Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel
Louise is working in a fast food restaurant as a waitress and has some problems with her friend Jimmy who as a musician is always on the road. Thelma is married to Darryl who likes his wife to stay quiet in the kitchen so that he can watch football on TV. One day they decide to break out of their normal life and jump in the car and hit the road. Their journey however turns into a flight when...
Director: William A. Graham
Stars: Milla Jovovich, Brian Krause, Lisa Pelikan, Courtney Barilla, Garette Ratliff Henson, Emma James, Jackson Barton, Nana Coburn, Brian Blain, Peter Hehir, Alexander Petersons
Storyline: While the general theme of this film resembles The Blue Lagoon the film for which this is a sequel the basic plot is quite different. We open the film with a ship finding the craft with our original characters in it Richard and Emmeline dead and Paddy alive. Established in the first film the only word Paddy ever says is Richard so the crew assumes Richard is the infants...
Director: Dan Aykroyd
Stars: Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, Demi Moore, Valri Bromfield, Taylor Negron, Bertila Damas, Raymond J. Barry, Brian Doyle-Murray, John Wesley, Peter Aykroyd
Storyline: A financier [Chevy Chase] meets a spurned lover [Demi Moore] and agrees to take her to a business meeting. On the way there they run a stop sign in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere. They are arrested and taken to the local court. But all is not as it seems: the courthouse and the prison are a maze of zany booby- traps and deadly contraptions. The antics of the captured couple as...
Director: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams, Julia Roberts, Bob Hoskins, Maggie Smith, Caroline Goodall, Charlie Korsmo, Amber Scott, Laurel Cronin, Phil Collins
Storyline: Peter Pan Williams has grown up to be a cut-throat merger and acquisitions lawyer and is married to Wendys granddaughter. Captain Hook Hoffman kidnaps his children and Peter returns to Never Land with Tinkerbell Roberts. With the help of her and the Lost Boys he must remember how to be Peter Pan again in order to save his children by battling with Captain Hook once...
Director: Wes Craven
Stars: Brandon Quintin Adams, Everett McGill, Wendy Robie, A.J. Langer, Ving Rhames, Sean Whalen, Bill Cobbs, Kelly Jo Minter, Jeremy Roberts, Conni Marie Brazelton, Joshua Cox, John Hostetter, John Mahon, Teresa Velarde, George R. Parker
Storyline: The People Under the Stairs is the story of a young boy Fool from the ghetto and takes place on his 13th birthday. In an attempted burglary along with two others of the home of his familys evil landlords he becomes trapped inside their large suburban house and discovers the secret of the children that the insane brother and sister have been rearing under the...
Director: Todd Haynes
Stars: Edith Meeks, Millie White, Buck Smith, Anne Giotta, Lydia Lafleur, Ian Nemser, Rob LaBelle, Evan Dunsky, Marina Lutz, Barry Cassidy, Richard Anthony, Angela M. Schreiber, Justin Silverstein, Chris Singh, Edward Allen
Storyline: Three intercut stories about outsiders sex and violence. In Hero Richie at age 7 kills his father and flies away. After the event a documentary in cheesy lurid colors asks what Richie was like and what led up to the shooting. In the black and white Horror a scientist isolates the elixir of human sexuality drinks it and becomes a festering contagious murderer; a female...
Director: Kristine Peterson
Stars: John Calvin, Aimee Brooks, Christian Cousins, Joseph Cousins, William Dennis Hunt, Nina Axelrod, Leonardo DiCaprio, Don Keith Opper, Geoffrey Blake, José Luis Valansuela, Diana Bellamy, Katherine Cortez, Frances Bay
Storyline: In what appears to be a cross between Critters and The Towering Inferno the residents of a shoddy L.A. apartment block are chased up to the roof by hoards of the eponymous hairy...