Richard Portnow Movie Rankings
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3.4535
After high school graduation Lloyd finally gets the courage to ask out valedictorian Diane Court. However, her dad worries she is spending too much time on a summer romance and not focusing enough on her college aspirations and tries to break up the relationship. ... more about Say Anything...
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3.2150
Playwright Barton Fink is hired to write a new wrestling movie. Disgusted with the movie capital of the world, LA, Fink acquires an acute case of writers block . The harder he tries the easier he is distracted by the strange and unusual mishaps going on around him. ... more about Barton Fink
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3.0819
Woody Allen's sentimental reminiscence about the golden age of radio. A series of vignettes involving radio personalities is intertwined with the life of a working class family in Rockaway Beach, NY circa 1942. ... more about Radio Days
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3.0640
A film about two homicide detectives' desperate hunt for a serial killer who justifies his crimes as absolution for the world's ignorance of the Seven Deadly Sins. ... more about Se7en
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2.9558
A new Disc Jockey is shipped from Crete to Vietnam to bring humor to Armed Forces Radio. He turns the studio on it's ear and becomes wildly popular with the troops but runs afoul of the middle management who think he isn't G.I. enough. ... more about Good Morning
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2.9095
A father tries to deal with letting his little girl get married. He is not prepared or equip to handle a son-in-law, wedding preparations and the spiraling cost. ... more about Father of the Bride
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2.9026
Based on Howard Stern's autobiography the film depicts the story of how through his insane anticts and off-the-wall interviews he became the most famous shock-jock in the country. ... more about Private Parts
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2.7288
Bored Roberta spots a regular personal ad in the paper titled 'Desperately Seeking Susan'. She heads off to New York, following one of the ads, and finds Susan. ... more about Desperately Seeking Susan
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2.7156
Sam Baily, upset over losing his job, takes a natural history museum hostage. Max Brackett, journalist, is in the museum when this occurs, and gets the scoop. The story spreads nation wide, and soon it is all anyone talks about. ... more about Mad City
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2.7035
The big-screen version of Hunter S. Thompson's seminal psychedelic classic about his road trip across Western America as he and his large Samoan lawyer searched desperately for the "American dream"... ... more about Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
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2.6916
Sister Act is about a Reno lounge singer named Deloris Van Carter who witnesses her mobster boyfriend killing an employer. She is then hidden in a convent under a witness protection program. ... more about Sister Act
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2.6705
A drama based on the longest Mafia trial in U.S. history, mobster Jack DiNorscio (Diesel), faced with a series of charges, decides to stand trial instead of ratting out his family and associates. ... more about Find Me Guilty
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2.6238
Ruby Weaver has man trouble: she tries to fix them, so she's stuck herself with a string of losers. Her current lover, Sam Deed, seems different: he's sweet, tender, just in from Dubuque. ... more about Happy Accidents
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2.6147
John Kimble is a tough city cop who's been on the trail of drug dealer Cullen Crisp for years. He finally tracks Crisp down but it seems the only person that can testify against him is his ex-wife. ... more about Kindergarten Cop
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2.6040
One step short of larceny, the aluminum siding salesmen in this movie sell their wares, compete with each other, and engage in a lot of great dialog. Tin Men focuses on the rivalry between BB Babowsky and Ernest Tilley. ... more about Tin Men
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2.6036
This movie is about four people who die in a bus crash and have to take care of some stuff they didn't before they died. At the same moment they died, a baby is born. They are stuck to him forever. ... more about Heart and Souls
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2.3869
Obsessed by the world of pool, Johnny (Mars Callahan) could be one of the best. But his mentor and "trainer" Joe (Chazz Palminteri), a shady hustler who decides how and who Johnny plays, is holding him back from his dream. ... more about Poolhall Junkies
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2.3333
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". ... more about For the Boys
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2.0115
Valerie is a juror in the trail of a mob boss. When her young son's life is threatened, she has no option other than to see that justice isn't done. ... more about Trial by Jury
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1.9634
Alex (Erik Palladino) is the film student forced by his college professor to stop making Jackie Chan "homage" films and make "something from the heart" in order to graduate. ... more about Road Kill
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1.9289
Julius and Vincent Benedict are the results of an experiment that would allow for the perfect child. Julius was planned and grows to athletic proportions. Vincent is an accident and is somewhat smaller in stature. ... more about Twins
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1.8340
Ben Archer is not happy. His mother, Sandy, has just met a man, and it looks like things are pretty serious. Driven by a fear of abandonment, Ben tries anything and everything to ruin the "love bubble" which surrounds his mom. ... more about Man of the House
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1.7949
Investigative reporter Rowena Price (Halle Berry) poses as a temp in the office of executive Harrison Hill (Bruce Willis) whom she suspects involvement in the murder of her friend. After infiltrating Hill’s office she flirts with him online. ... more about Perfect Stranger
Not Available on DVD
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1.7911
An American war hero attempts suicide and ends up in Chattahoochee State Mental Hospital. But he realise that doctors in hospital are humiliating patients. ... more about Chattahoochee
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1.7879
Cuba, December 1958: The professional gambler Jack visits Havana to organize a big Poker game. On the ship he meets Roberta and falls in love with her. ... more about Havana
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1.4916
Four young grade-school girls witness the murder of one of their classmates during what they thought was just an innocent game. The killer is a strange young boy named Milo Jeeder. ... more about Milo
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1.4776
Lee Umstetter is a lifer at San Quentin prison and a multiple suicide attempter. Eventually, another prisoner suggests reading to find something better to do with his time. ... more about Weeds
Not Available on DVD
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1.4200
Willis Embry, who is a phsychologist in a jail, was left by his girl-friend. He has no time to be sad about it because an old man, who is very ill, tells him something about a robbery and the millions of dollars hidden somewhere. ... more about There Goes the Neighborhood
Not Available on DVD
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1.3226
Martin works at the local radio station, which just hired a new scriptwriter with a reputation for great drama, Pedro Carmichael. Martin's aunt Julia, not related by blood, returns home after many years away and Martin falls for her. ... more about Tune in Tomorrow...
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1.2739
After the daughter of a prominent businessman is brutally murdered, high profile defense attorney Kitt Devereux takes the case of the accused murderer, rising rapper Bobby Medina. ... more about Shadow of Doubt
33
1.2420
Kathy and Carmen are two young women from Los Angeles, with nothing in common, who are forced to shack up together along with Carmen's young son in a run-down trailer deep in the California Mojave desert to be close to their boyfriends who are serving ... more about Across the Moon
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1.1868
A very succesful stock broker is called to court to testify against a mob boss who was into some inside trading. They hide him because of death threats. He gets caught in a gun battle and has to flee. He ends up hiding out as a student in a high school. ... more about Hiding Out
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1.1835
The Hollowheads are a strange, futuristic family that live in a Jetsons type world complete with many cool gadgets. ... more about Meet the Hollowheads
37
1.0776
5 people are being held hostage in a convenience store for 36 days. One of the demands of the hostage takers is that all TV-stations should broadcast the entire situation live. ... more about S.F.W.
38
1.0593
A young, female filmmaker looks through her camera for an object to film. She wants to film the private live of an ordinary person and starts following Guy. ... more about Guy
Not Available on DVD
39
0.2630
His ex-wife asks the unsuccessful gambler and inventor Harrison for a small favor: to get her a parcel from a friend's apartment - without telling him what's in it. ... more about Squeeze
Not Available on DVD
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Down-and-out lounge singer Johnny Slade is hired by a mystery man to open a hot new club, the catch being he's given a new--and terrible--song to sing each night. ... more about Johnny Slade's Greatest Hits
Not Available on DVD
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Ambitious young woman wants to get into TV news. She borrows a small camera from a friend and obtains incriminating pictures that two former East German spies are after. ... more about Lipstick Camera
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"Made in Brooklyn" is a seamless story compilation comprised of four short films. The picture captures the essence of Brooklyn, its people, hangouts, smells, life, irony and the comedy of a bunch of "wise guys. ... more about Made in Brooklyn
Not Available on DVD
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Based on actual events and shot on the freezing cold streets of Chicago for $60,000, Under The City follows the attempted redemption of Nate Mayott (played by Australian newcomer Dean Rabaiov), a semi-reformed, thirty year-old, ex-con with a dark past ... more about Under the City
Not Available on DVD
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A comedy about two Italian families from different sides of the tracks. What can go wrong, does go wrong, in this comedy about an Italian-American wedding. ... more about Tony N' Tina's Wedding
Not Available on DVD
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Zoe Clairmont, star of the hit TV show "Sweet Angels", is being stalked by her ex-boyfriend, so she hires Night Eyes Security guard Will to protect her. ... more about Night Eyes Three
Not Available on DVD
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