cmvgor
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_To break a logjam:_
Both jim2 and shirleydorisdf have posed questions, and then have not responded when answers were offered. They may or may not return to close or continue their subjects. Meanwhile, I'll pose a question, and I promise I _will_ respond to answers.
*Name the movie:*
80s. Stressful police work in a high-crime precinct.
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> {quote:title=RainingViolets101 wrote:}{quote}
> _ it sounds like Running On Empty with River Phoenix
> and Martha Plympton...
RV101;
You nailed it. The board's yours if you like.
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Negative re Six Loves. A family of four; parents and two boys.
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I'll try one. May go down quite easy.
Name a film in which the school-age boys in the central family must remember these rules:
1. Remember what your name is here.
2. Don't go to school on the day they take class pictures.
3. "We're in a hurry," is code for, "They've caught up with us. We have to run again."
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Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil ??
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*A River Runs Through It*
THE SEVEN SAMURAI or THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
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I think I'm onto that one, and it may be one of the few that have come up lately that I've actually
seen. But I'll stack arms for a while and see if somebody else comes up with it.
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pastman is correct; *Mike's Murder* (1984) came between two bigger films in Debra Winger's
timeline, and it had some of those problems that happen when Studio trumps Director. I have a copy on order (VHS; seems no DVDs are available), and I hope to be able to post a synopsis for
TCM soon. What it probably needs and deserves is a reissued "Director's Cut". No way of finding out if that is likely to happen.
It's yours, pastman. (By the way, when did you solve it?)
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*9.* This film was one of the early ones to show unschooled outsiders such incidents as dealers fighting over a "corner" (drug sales venue), and higher-ranking dealers handing out real and fearful
consequences to those apposing them. Since then, other stories such as *Traffic* (2000), the
Cable series The Wire and 2007's *American Gangster* have escalated the picture: Actual turf
wars, corruption of law enforcement and courts, and abrupt assassination of rivals. This earlier film, recording one outsider's observations at the edge of the industry, is innocent of those insights.
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*The Wild Bunch*
LA FEMME NIKITA or POINT OF NO RETURN
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Lily Tomlin
has a running guest-star role on Desperate Housewives, playing the sister of the _other_ actress who played President Bartlett's secretary on The West Wing:
Kathryn Jooston.
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Rogers' death -- plane crash. Dean's death -- car crash. Arbuckle's death -- heart attack per imdb. I don't get it.
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Left-handed? Color-blind? Lactose intolerant? Reared by relatives other than their parents? Tortured by the heartbreak of psoriasis?
Ambidextrous, or howeverthehell that's spelled?
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*8.* Aside from the star, the other big name in the cast was a well-respected Black actor, now deceased, who played such varied roles as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Justice Thurgood Marshall and Huck Finn's friend Jim. In this film, he gives a solid performance as a doped-out but
connected music producer.
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*7.* The star has long been acknowledged as a talanted actress, but she gained a reputation for
being "difficult". Also has a history of turning down roles that then went to other actresses who
garnered acclaim. One brought in an Oscar nomination for the lady who got the role.
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*6.* This film is in the TCM lists, but I don't remember ever having seen it in the schedule. The site for the movie has only the bare bones info -- cast, year of issue, etc. It's sitting there waiting for someone to log on and write a synopsis.
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*5.* The star plays a young woman who is starting a business career, working at a bank. When first seen on the job she is teller at a drive-through window. Later she is seen taking and considering loan applications, evidently having risen in the ranks. Not a member of the drug scene
herself, she met the murder victim when he was her tennis instructor. They had been lovers for a while, and his death was a blow to her. She starts an amateur investigation into his death, and her movements and observations help introduce the audience to the underside of the LA drug scene. This action also puts her at risk herself. A young man who had been partner with her late boyfriend seeks her out for help, being on the run himself. This is the person who dies violently while she is cringing behind a locked door.
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*The Last Hurrah* ??
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Negative re *Panic*, but that's a good one. A favorite of mine due to the very young Al Pacino.
*4.* This movie was a disappointment when first issued. Withdrawn from distribution; editing;
new music from a brand-name composer. Then it was re-issued after the star had a hit movie
come out. Still a powerful story.
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*3.* The film's violence does not take place on camera. The main character (and the audience) see mostly aftermath -- bloodstained walls at a crime scene, etc. But, in one tense passage, a
second violent murder takes place just the other side of a closed door.
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Negative re *Scarface*.
*2.* A young man steals something from people who _don't_ report such thefts to the police.
Those who suffered the loss avenge themselves.
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*1.* 1980s. A brutal murder among members of what had come to be called the "drug culture".
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British Title *License To Kill* (1965). USA title The Second Best Secret Agent In The Whole Wide World. USA prints carry the theme song (same title) as performed by Sammy Davis, Jr. A sequel, *Where The Bullets Fly*, came out in '66. And I found mention of _another_ sequel, *Somebody Stole Our Russian Spy*. I'll let than one languish.
The one person who got the right answer contacted me through private mail (I think the "Rat Pack"
clue clicked there), but decided to let others continue to work on it. I was feeling neglected, but now I think I'm feeling old. Similar experiences with titles such as *Gumshoe* and *Chance Meeting* give the impression that not many are around who remember the same premiers that I do.
Thread's open. If no one has posed a new question by sundown, I'll try another.
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*25*
"Damn it, Waldo, you've been eating sardines again!"
name the movie
in Games and Trivia
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> {quote:title=visualfeast wrote:}{quote}
> is it FORT APACHE THE BRONX?
vf;
Correct. I think it helped that this film had some similarites to TV's Hill Street Blues, which was popular at that time.-- Riotous roll calls, a persistant, fleetfooted purse snatcher, etc. It also had Paul Newman, Edward Asner and Ken Wahl.
Thread's yours. There may be some question posers playing catch-up.