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Mikhail Baryshnikov made his film debut in this lightweight but entertaining drama about the relationship between a renowned ballerina (Anne Bancroft) and the woman (Shirley MacLaine) who had trained with her but had given up dance to become a wife, mother, and teacher. Between MacLaine's envy over her friend's career and the attention her own ballerina daughter (Leslie Browne) is getting, ...

Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Starring: Anne Bancroft, Shirley MacLaine, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Leslie Browne, Tom Skerritt
Directed By: Herbert Ross

Manufacturer: Hallmark
Starring: Matthew Modine, Claire Bloom, Judith Ivey, James Earl Jones, Jerry O'Connell
Directed By: John Kent Harrison

Manufacturer: Good Times Home Video
Starring: Ellen Burstyn, Tom Skerritt, Gordon Pinsent, Jennifer McKinney, Donna Dobrijevic
Directed By: Allan King

Black comedies don't come much blacker than this cult favorite from 1972, and they don't come much funnier, either. It seemed that director Hal Ashby was the perfect choice to mine a mother lode of eccentricity from the original script by Colin Higgins, about the unlikely romance between a death-obsessed 19-year-old named Harold (Bud Cort) and a life-loving 79-year-old widow named Maude (Ruth ...

Manufacturer: Paramount
Starring: Harvey Brumfield, Eric Christmas, Bud Cort, Cyril Cusack, Gordon Devol

An ex-con and his girlfriend embark on a bank-robbing spree and give the money they steal to farmers who are about to lose their farms.

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Veronica Cartwright, Gus Corrado, Hal Fishman, Bill Henderson, Golden Henning
Directed By: Robert Wise

The opening and closing moments of Robert (Forrest Gump) Zemeckis's Contact astonish viewers with the sort of breathtaking conceptual imagery one hardly ever sees in movies these day--each is an expression of the heroine's lifelong quest (both spiritual and scientific) to explore the meaning of human existence through contact with extraterrestrial life. The movie begins by soaring ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, Jena Malone, David Morse, Geoffrey Blake
Directed By: Robert Zemeckis

Not half-bad, this lightly engaging, potboiler romance concerns an ice skater (Lynn-Holly Johnson) who loses her vision in an accident but goes on to excel on the ice with the support of the guy (Robby Benson) who loves her. When she takes up with some rich schmuck, however, intertwining problems in her work and in love throw a shadow over everything. Nice performances, nice skating--the whole ...

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Starring: Lynn-Holly Johnson, Robby Benson, Colleen Dewhurst, Tom Skerritt, Jennifer Warren
Directed By: Donald Wrye

Ten Day Millionaires/ The Battle of San Fransisco Bay/ A Gun is Not A Gentleman

Manufacturer: The Video Late Show
Starring: Carroll O'Connor, Ronald Reagan, Dabney Coleman, Tom Skerritt

The Dead Zone is based on a novel by Stephen King, directed by David Cronenberg (Scanners, The Fly) and produced by Debra Hill (Halloween, The Fog). Such a trio of horror vets would be expected to come up with an evening of shocks and gore, but The Dead Zone is a surprise. While it has great atmospheric eeriness and undeniably scary moments, The Dead ...

Manufacturer: Paramount
Starring: Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt, Herbert Lom, Anthony Zerbe
Directed By: David Cronenberg

Manufacturer: MGM (Warner)
Starring: William Holden, Ryan O'Neal, Karl Malden, Lynn Carlin, Tom Skerritt
Directed By: Blake Edwards