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Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Starring: Martin Sheen, Mariclare Costello, Ned Beatty, Gary Busey, Matt Clark
Directed By: Lamont Johnson

A much-loved cult favorite often overlooked by the mainstream, Trust is a hip, witty film that stretches the definition of a "romantic comedy." Hal Hartley's quirky, minimalist masterpiece--miles ahead of such later attempts as Amateur and Henry Fool--comes from the same school of offbeat character studies that launched better-known directors Jonathan Demme (Married to the ...

Manufacturer: Republic Pictures
Starring: Adrienne Shelly, Martin Donovan, Merritt Nelson, John MacKay, Edie Falco
Directed By: Hal Hartley

True to its Sega video-game roots, this futuristic 60-minute movie includes a lot of yelling, crashing, and exploding on the way to saving the world. Sonic and his sidekicks are determined to thwart a plan that would turn their Land of the Sky into the equivalent of The Land of Darkness, which lurks beneath the surface (and is obviously the former planet Earth). So they plow through to the ...

Manufacturer: Adv Films
Starring: Martin Burke, Masami Kikuchi, Lainie Frasier, Hekiru Shiina, Yasunori Matsumoto
Directed By: Kazunori Ikegami

At first glance, a musical period comedy-drama about Gilbert and Sullivan seems an odd fit for British filmmaker Mike Leigh, who made his name with searing, intense contemporary dramas such as Secrets and Lies and Career Girls. What could the Victorian world of two composers (of "light opera," no less) have to offer a filmmaker who specializes in the world of modern-day middle class ...

Manufacturer: Polygram USA Video
Starring: Allan Corduner, Dexter Fletcher, Sukie Smith, Roger Heathcott, Wendy Nottingham
Directed By: Mike Leigh

Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Starring: Randolph Mantooth, Edie Adams, Neville Brand, Delta Burke, John Carradine
Directed By: Sidney Hayers

In this quartet of friendship stories, the first two focus on the relationship between the blue octopus and his best friend Henry the penguin. When Henry's cousin from the Frozen North comes to town, Oswald feels left out as the birds bond over mackerel and polka. In the next story, he faces every child's fear when Henry decides to move north with his cousin. But unlike real life, Henry has a ...

Manufacturer: Paramount
Starring: Fred Savage, Michael McKean, Gary Martin, Eddie Deezen, Crystal Scales

Springfield Rifle is among the quirkiest of 1950s Westerns, provocatively original in mood, plot, and characterization--but also, more or less simultaneously, a bit of a mess. Gary Cooper plays a Southern-born Union officer fighting the Civil War far from conventional battlegrounds. Somewhere out West, a band of jayhawkers is selling cavalry horses to the Yankees, then stealing them to ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Gary Cooper, Phyllis Thaxter, David Brian, Paul Kelly, Lon Chaney Jr.
Directed By: André De Toth

"Ultrahip, surreal, violent and sexy. This year's Blue Velvet" (American Film) Ellen Barkin, Jodie Foster and Gabrielle Byrne in a white-hot mystery tale of sexual intrigue. Year: 1987 Director: Mary Lambert Starring: Ellen Barkin, Gabriel Byrne, Julian Sands

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Ellen Barkin, Gabriel Byrne, Julian Sands, Isabella Rossellini, Martin Sheen
Directed By: Mary Lambert

Manufacturer: Lions Gate/Trimark Home Ent.
Starring: Martin Forbes, Gary Forbes, Ulrike Kriener, Heiner Lauterbach, Narcisa Kukavica
Directed By: Gloria Behrens

Rock historians and hard-core Buddy Holly fans can and do take issue with director Steve Rash's 1978 biopic of the Lubbock, Texas, rocker's life: the script liberally juggles details from Holly's brief but blazing career, replacing producer Norman Petty and Holly's original bassist and drummer with fictionalized composite characters. Yet the core of the film, and the reason it's definitely worth a ...

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Starring: Gary Busey, Don Stroud, Charles Martin Smith, Conrad Janis, William Jordan
Directed By: Steve Rash