1998 movies

Jane Austen’s Mafia! (1998)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Mohr, Jay | Burke, Billy | Applegate, Christina | Gidley, Pamela | Dukakis, Olympia | Bridges, Lloyd | Fuchs, Jason | Viterelli, Joe | Lo Bianco, Tony | Hammond, Blake | Suriano, Philip | Pastore, Vincent | Nichols, Marisol | Susi, Carol Ann | Sierra, Gregory
Directors: Abrahams, Jim
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Young Vincenzo Cortino, son of a Sicilian postman, delivers a package for his father and accidentally sees something he should not see. In a donkey’s, well, he is smuggled out of town, where he tries to reach a ship headed for America. There, Vincenzo works his way up to the top of the Mafia. One day, his youngest son makes a mistake and has to leave town. A little later, he ends up as a casino boss in Las Vegas. But the heads of the other families want old Don Cortino out of the way. So, they shoot him 47 times and send a *very* attractive woman to distract his son from his casino work. Will he fall for her or will he return to Diane, who, by the way, had run for President successfully in the meantime?

Small Soldiers (1998)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Cross, David | Mohr, Jay | Wilson, Alexandra | Leary, Denis | Smith, Gregory | Miller, Dick | Dunst, Kirsten | Smith, Jacob | Bouck, Jonathan | Dunn, Kevin | Magnuson, Ann | Schaal, Wendy | Hartman, Phil | Hahn, Archie | Picardo, Robert
Directors: Dante, Joe
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Alan, son of a Toy Store owner, tries out some new action figures: The Commando Elite vs. The Gorgonites. What he does not know, is that both sets of toys were designed to move, talk and play back. The Commando Elite’s purpose is to destroy the Gorgonites. Unfortunately, the toy designer who was responsible for the programming, bought highly intelligent military computer chips that are usually used for steering missiles - and are able to learn. Now, the Commando Elite, led by Major Chip Hazard, is up to destroying the Gorgonites, led by peaceful Archer, who hide in Alan’s parent’s house. Now, a battle, in which the destructive ability of creative computer chips against creative computer chips with a different attitude comes to light, is about to begin.

Wedding Singer, The (1998)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Music | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Sandler, Adam | Barrymore, Drew | Taylor, Christine | Covert, Allen | Glave, Matthew | Albertini Dow, Ellen | Featherstone, Angela | Arquette, Alexis | Pickles, Christina | Thelen, Jodi | Sivero, Frank | McTavish, Patrick | Barnett, Gemini | Castellucci, Teddy | Razz, Randy
Directors: Coraci, Frank
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Robby is stood up at the altar by Linda, who decides that the prospect of marrying a guy who sings at wedding receptions doesn’t equal the attraction she felt when he was lead singer in a rock band. Robby finds consolation in his friendship with Julia, a waitress at the wedding receptions and bar mitzvahs where he performs. Julia asks Robby to help her plan her upcoming wedding to Glenn, who isn’t interested in the details of the ceremony. Robby learns that Glenn also isn’t totally interested in Julia and is marrying her because she “deserves it” after sticking with him for years and because he knows she’s not marrying him for his money, since she dated him back before he started pulling down the big bucks.

Return to Paradise (1998)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Vaughn, Vince | Heche, Anne | Phoenix, Joaquin | Conrad, David | Farmiga, Vera | Sandow, Nick | Pinkett Smith, Jada | Lee, Ming | de la Fuente, Joel | Chang, Richard | McCauley, James Michael | Friese, Brettanya | Yusoff, Deanna | Zayas, David | Wong, Amy
Directors: Ruben, Joseph
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Lewis, Sheriff and Tony are three American guys who meet and hang out one summer at the beach huts of Malaysia. There they enjoy the luxuries of women, rum and hashish. As the summer ends, Tony and Sheriff go back to New York, but Lewis decides to go to Borneo to help save the orangutan. But before he got the chance to leave, he was arrested for possession of the leftover hash and sentenced to death because he was considered to be trafficking. Two years go by and Sheriff and Tony are living their lives peacefully in The Big Apple when Lewis’ lawyer tells them the news: three years each if they both go, six years if one goes, Lewis’ death if neither go. Although they both do not want Lewis to die, they do not know him well enough to really want to sacrifice three years of their life to a Third-World prison. “Return to Paradise” watches Sheriff and Tony as they struggle to decide in the short period of time.

Hurlyburly (1998)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Penn, Sean | Spacey, Kevin | Wright Penn, Robin | Palminteri, Chazz | Shandling, Garry | Paquin, Anna | Ryan, Meg | Ranaudo, Gianna | Fabrizio, David | Vance, Kenny | Babich, Michaline | Corral Kendall, Elaine | Tay, Sharon | Somerville, Frank | Jimenez, Bob
Directors: Drazan, Anthony
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Hurly-burly is an adaptation of David Rabe’s well known play about the intersecting lives of several Hollywood players and wannabes who’s personal lives threaten to veer into a catastrophe more interesting than anything they’re peddling to the studios.

Replacement Killers, The (1998)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Chow, Yun-Fat | Sorvino, Mira | Rooker, Michael | Tsang, Kenneth | Prochnow, Jürgen | Schweiger, Til | Trejo, Danny | Collins Jr., Clifton | Gómez, Carlos | Medrano, Frank | Lee, Leo | Kilpatrick, Patrick | Kim, Randall Duk | Marton, Andrew J. | Coberly, Sydney
Directors: Fuqua, Antoine
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John Lee is a hitman who works for Chinese crime lord, Terence Wei. It seems that Joh is obligated to Mr. Wei and so far has done everything he was told to do. Now Mr. Wei wants John to get revenge on a police detective who killed his son. John was about to carry out the job but for some reason can’t do it. When Mr. Wei hears of this, he sends for some replacements. John now has to return to China to help his mother and sister whom Mr. Wei will now target because of his disobedience, but first he needs a passport. He needs find someone who can give him a passport who is not beholden to Mr. Wei. He is told of Meg Coburn, a small time documents forger. John goes to see her and was in the process of making his passport when some Wei’s people come in shooting. While John gets away, Meg is caught by the police but is released by the cop whom Mr. Wei has a beef with. John goes to her and still needing a passport, forces to go with him. Mr. Wei’s people finds them and was about to take care of them but John managed to escape. So now the two of them are not only hunted by Mr. Wei but also the police.

The Contract Killer (1998)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy
Countries: Hong Kong
Actors: Li, Jet | Tsang, Eric | Yam, Simon | Leung, Gigi | Sato, Keiji | Rapovski, Paul
Directors: Tung, Wei
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Financially troubled, a newbie hitman reluctantly takes the job of finding the plotted killer of a Japanese tycoon, but things complicate when the tycoon is killed and he is forced to ally with a misfortunate hitman to find the “King of the Hitman.”

Big Hit, The (1998)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Wahlberg, Mark | Phillips, Lou Diamond | Applegate, Christina | Brooks, Avery | Woodbine, Bokeem | Sabato Jr., Antonio | Chow, China | Kazan, Lainie | Gould, Elliott | Shimono, Sab | Dunne, Robin | Rochon, Lela | Smith, Danny | Peace, Joshua | Usher, David
Directors: Wong, Kirk
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Melvin Smiley, a successful young hitman, is living a normal all-day life for his jewish fiancé Pam, but kills for money in Paris’ organization. In addition, he has a relationship with a beauty from the neighbourhood and gets bothered by a pimply video store guy, because he did not return “King Kong Lives” for two weeks. He and his three teammates Cisco, Crunch and Vince one day decide to kidnap the daughter of super-rich businessman Jiro Nishi - off the record. What they do not know, is that Jiro just went completely bankrupt due to a successless movie production, and, even worse, that his daughter Keiko is the god-daughter of Paris, the boss of the kidnappers. He and his men are now searching for the kidnappers in order to grind them up properly. Meanwhile, handcuffed Keiko falls in love with killer Melvin while both preparing a kosher meal in order to satisfy Pam’s visiting parents, who are out of the house with Pam - with a body in the trunk.

Mighty Joe Young (1998)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Paxton, Bill | Theron, Charlize | Serbedzija, Rade | King, Regina | Firth, Peter | Andrews, Naveen | Paymer, David | Wisdom, Robert | Clemenson, Christian | Blake, Geoffrey | Pressman, Lawrence | Purl, Linda | Boorem, Mika | Buck, Cory | Georges, Liz
Directors: Underwood, Ron
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The movie opens with poachers attacking a group of gorillas. Animal preservationists fight the poachers, which ends with one gorilla and a young girl’s mother dead. In the melee, a particularly large gorilla baby attacks the head hunter and bites his thumb and forefinger off. The films immediately passes into the future and the young girl has grown up to be Charlize Theron and the gorilla has grown to be 15′ tall and weighs 2000 pounds. The two are best friends who play together. When poachers again appear, a representative (Bill Paxton) of a California wildlife refuge convinces her to transfer the gorilla she has named Joe Young to the refuge. Of course, once there the former hunter shows up seeking revenge. Terrorizing the gorilla without letting his human handlers know, the gorilla goes on a rampage across Los Angeles.

Siege, The (1998)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Washington, Denzel | Bening, Annette | Willis, Bruce | Shalhoub, Tony | Bouajila, Sami | Larby, Ahmed Ben | Mohamed, Mosleh | Pai, Lianna | Valley, Mark | Gwaltney, Jack | Proval, David | Reddick, Lance | Knaster, Jeremy | Hill, William | Mandvi, Aasif
Directors: Zwick, Edward
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After the abduction by the US military of an Islamic religious leader, New York City becomes the target of escalating terrorist attacks. Anthony Hubbard, the head of the FBI’s Counter-Intelligence Task Force in New York, teams up with CIA operative Elise Kraft to hunt down the terrorist cells responsible for the attacks. As the bombings continue, the US government responds by declaring martial law, sending US troops, led by Gen. Devereaux, into the streets of New York City.