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Remember the outfit Cher wore to the Oscars when she won an Academy Award for her performance in this 1987 film? Ay-yi-yi. The actress' more retiring character in this infectious comedy leaps several psychological hurdles just giving her hair a permanent. But then the original screenplay by John Patrick Shanley (Joe Versus the Volcano) is a wonderful, gently satirical tale of an ...

Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Cher, Nicolas Cage, Olympia Dukakis, Danny Aiello, Vincent Gardenia
Directed By: Norman Jewison

An earnest and at times overblown story of a music teacher's impact on those around him, Mr. Holland's Opus is at times a genuinely touching drama in the vein of It's a Wonderful Life. Richard Dreyfuss (Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind) plays an aspiring composer and musician who takes a job teaching music at a local high school to save money while he composes ...

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Glenne Headly, Jay Thomas, Olympia Dukakis, William H. Macy
Directed By: Stephen Herek

An aged mother buys a hotrod and goes on a cross-country journey of self-discovery in Australia, before mustering up the courage to face her estranged daughter.

Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
Starring: Olympia Dukakis, Sigrid Thornton, Derek Fowlds, Bill Kerr, Steve Bisley
Directed By: George Miller

This cute, 1989 comedy directed by Amy Heckerling (Fast Times at Ridgemont High) helped keep John Travolta busy during some fallow years and extended America's then-love affair with Bruce Willis, whose voice is the only part of him that appears. Kirstie Alley costars as an unwed mother in search of a suitable man to become her baby's father. Travolta is a cab driver who doesn't match her ...

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Starring: John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Olympia Dukakis, George Segal, Abe Vigoda
Directed By: Amy Heckerling

Creepy slasher flick featuring Margot Kidder (Superman) as a psychotic twin with a brand new set of knives. Now with its own cult following, Sisters was the film that put director Brian De Palma (Carrie, The Fury, Dressed to Kill) on the map. A reporter witnesses the murder of a young man inside a neighboring apartment. When the body doesn't turn up, the reporter does some ...

Manufacturer: Homevision
Starring: Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning, William Finley, Lisle Wilson
Directed By: Brian De Palma

Based on Robert Harling's play, this comedy-drama directed by Herbert Ross (The Turning Point) follows several years in the lives of women who regularly see one another at a beauty shop in their small Louisiana town. The story deepens as Julia Roberts, playing a serious diabetic and the daughter of Sally Field, goes downhill in her health. But as an ensemble piece, this is one of those ...

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Olympia Dukakis, Sally Field, Julia Roberts, Daryl Hannah
Directed By: Herbert Ross

Manufacturer: Turner Home Entertainment
Starring: Jane Fonda, Justine Bateman, Olympia Dukakis, Jasmine Guy, Talia Shire
Directed By: Barbara Kopple, Chris Harty, Judy Korin, Sylvia Morales

Perennial Oscar(r) nominee Judi Dench shakes off the dust of period pieces to play a sassy widow looking to recapture a little of the excitement of her youth: she was the star saxophone player of a World War II-era all-girl dance band. Yanking her instrument from mothballs, she starts blowing the old standards as a street musician, much to the horror of her cultured children (they prefer ...

Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Starring: Judi Dench, Ian Holm, Leslie Caron, Olympia Dukakis, Cleo Laine
Directed By: Gillies MacKinnon

Mira Sorvino won an Oscar for her performance as a bubbleheaded hooker and porn star who happens to be the mother of a bright young boy adopted by a Manhattan couple (Woody Allen and Helena Bonham Carter). The story finds Allen's sportswriter character becoming curious about the identity of his son's biological mom, and he strikes up a relationship with her without revealing why. This 27th feature ...

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
Starring: F. Murray Abraham, Claire Bloom, Helena Bonham Carter, Olympia Dukakis, Karin Haidorfer

Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
Starring: Marlo Thomas, Elaine May, Jeannie Berlin, Olympia Dukakis, Peter Falk
Directed By: Sandra Seacat