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William Atherton Movies
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Genres:
Action
Starring:
Drew Fuller,
Ethan Embry,
William Devane,
William Atherton,
Whitney Able,
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Genres:
Comedy
Thriller
Starring:
William Atherton,
Joanne Baron,
Gil Bellows,
Bob Bledsoe,
Brent Briscoe,
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This movie is a perfect example of how bad writing can make good actors
look inept. The writing is downright laughable. Most of the lines would
make even hardened soap opera fans squirm, I suspect. Despite that,
there's a kernel of a decent movie here. Some rewrites and a change in
lead actors would have helped a lot.I think the director was aiming for film noir, but ended up ...
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Genres:
Action
Adventure
Drama
Romance
Western
Starring:
Casper Van Dien,
Bruce Boxleitner,
Ernest Borgnine,
Jeff Kober,
Jack Noseworthy,
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The railroad is coming and not all people want to sell their ranch to
make way for the new rail line. The local officials working for the
railroad are violently encouraging the families to sell their ranches
at the railroad's price. A railroad official from Chicago has come to
help speed matters up, but in a non-violent manner.Ernest Borgnine is one of the ranchers who are refu...
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Genres:
Horror
Sci-Fi
Starring:
William Atherton,
Erin Gray,
James DeBello,
Kristen Renton,
Dan Badarau,
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This was written while watching the world premier of "Ghouls".The opening scene shows disciples performing some kind of satanic
hokey-pokey beneath poor animations of flying ghosties. I smell
disappointment.Fight hateful clouds with firearms! The guns prove to be more effective
when the spirits morph into Halloween costumes.A cursed Romanian village! Here we meet the creepy brother Vla...
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Genres:
Action
Crime
Thriller
Starring:
Nick Annunziata,
William Atherton,
Thomas Beaumont,
Michael Bellisario,
Drew Brilakis,
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Kush doesn't fire. I don't if it's because I'm tired of low budget
movies trying to rip off Hollywood movies or if Kush is weak on it's
own merits. I agree with other reviewers that this was an attempt to
cash in on Alpha Dog with Timberlake. Funny poop about it is Alpha Dog
wasn't a movie worth ripping off. It was a so-so Hollywood movie
itself. I rente...
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Genres:
Action
Comedy
Crime
Fantasy
News
Starring:
Craig Shoemaker,
Lee Abbott,
Franklyn Ajaye,
Michelle Alexandria,
Sharon Amos,
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This is a nice movie to watch in a double bill with "Super High Me". In
fact, much of the stand-up comedy Doug Benson does in that movie is
here, including stuff that was left in the cutting room of that film.So this is a "Pot-U-Mentary". By that I mean there are a series of
clips from "weed-friendly" stand-up comedians intertwined with a story
about a square-head party crashed by ...
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Genres:
Crime
Drama
Thriller
Starring:
Blythe Auffarth,
Daniel Manche,
Blanche Baker,
Grant Show,
Graham Patrick Martin,
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This is an excellent film and therefore in some ways it is a pleasure
to watch, but anyone who has seen it will know that it's effectiveness
in fact makes it almost unbearable to watch.The story revolves around two girls who have recently been orphaned and
are sent to live with their aunt who has three young sons. She is a
middle aged woman obsessed with feminine purity who see...
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Genres:
Action
Adventure
Thriller
Starring:
Steven Seagal,
Matthew Davis,
Takao Ôsawa,
Eddie George,
William Atherton,
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I've watched many Seagal movies and his latest ones in the past 4 years
or so have really been downers. Although they were fun to watch because
you could always get your kicks out of the cheap acting, unrealistic
gun battles and pathetic plot. I rented this movies looking forward to
laughing more than paying attention. However, I must say, I was quite
surprised because this mov...
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Genres:
Horror
Mystery
Sci-Fi
Thriller
Starring:
Olivia Hussey,
William Atherton,
Sean Young,
Mark Margolis,
Larry Fessenden,
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I first became aware of the film Headspace back in early 2006 after
reading a featured article in Fangoria, one of my favorite horror mags.
The article was interesting, as they usually are, but what enticed me
most about this little, independent gem was the insanely original
storyline, which we'll get to shortly. I was also attracted to the
filmmakers themselves and the pro...
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Genres:
Comedy
Starring:
Leslie Appleyard,
William Atherton,
Justin Berfield,
Ryan Bittle,
Gary Blumsack,
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Genres:
Action
Adventure
Drama
History
War
Starring:
Ken Watanabe,
Tom Cruise,
William Atherton,
Chad Lindberg,
Ray Godshall Sr.,
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After my third viewing, I can finally admit that this film has me. I
enjoyed it during its theatrical run, enjoyed it more the second time
around, and now, I can only say that I love it. The cast is exemplary.
Tom Cruise is so good in this film that it is very often easy to forget
he is Tom Cruise. Easily his most powerful role and best performance
since Jerry Maguire. Ken Wata...
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Genres:
Action
Crime
Fantasy
Mystery
Thriller
Starring:
Kirsten Dunst,
Eric Mabius,
Fred Ward,
Jodi Lyn O'Keefe,
William Atherton,
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The Crow: Salvation (2000) is better than what I expected. Although the
straight-to-video feel is apparent during the action scenes, Salvation is a
really good sequel in the Crow series. Let me tell you, it's a lot better
than City of Angels, which (in my opinion) just didn't capture the feel of
the first Crow film. Anyway, the story this time around is
this:Lauren Randall (Jod...
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Genres:
Drama
Thriller
Starring:
John Travolta,
Dustin Hoffman,
Mia Kirshner,
Alan Alda,
Robert Prosky,
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Dustin Hoffman plays a disgraced former newsman named Max Brackett, who
inadvertently stumbles into the story that could rejuvenate his career:
security guard Sam Baily (John Travolta), who's miserable over being
laid off, has tried to talk to his former boss (Blythe Danner) at
gunpoint, and ended up taking hostages. Brackett proceeds to manipulate
the course of events - an...
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Genres:
Comedy
Starring:
William Atherton,
Denise Dowse,
Dara Tomanovich,
Kevin West,
Kylie Minogue,
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Admittedly, the scene where Bud & Doyle inhale laughing gas ala Dennis
Hopper in "Blue Velvet" is the funniest spoof I've ever seen in a movie!!
All in all, this was a fun, feel good movie, and yes, Pauly Shore does get
VERY annoying at times, but hey, this is all just for fun. Shakespeare it
ain't, but if you're in the mood for a fun, feel-good movie to watch on a
lazy weeken...
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Genres:
Crime
Drama
Mystery
Romance
Thriller
Starring:
Julia Roberts,
Denzel Washington,
Sam Shepard,
John Heard,
Tony Goldwyn,
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Based on John Grisham's best-selling novel.Darby Shaw (Julia Roberts) is a law student at Tulane who writes her
own theory about who arranged for the assassination of two Supreme
Court justices and why. The unfortunate thing is, her theory is right
on the money, and once it starts circulating it results in a number of
deaths. Investigative reporter Gray Grantham (Denzel Washing...
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Genres:
Comedy
Crime
Starring:
Sylvester Stallone,
Ornella Muti,
Don Ameche,
Peter Riegert,
Tim Curry,
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This got some of the best reviews of any recent Stallone film, and after
seeing it, I understand why. It's an absolutely hilarious, wonderful
movie
that shows one of Sly's best performances, and a great supporting cast.
It
was a long time before I got around to seeing it, but man, am I glad I
did.
I haven't laughed this much in a long time. And to those of you who jump<...
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Genres:
Action
Thriller
Crime
Starring:
Bruce Willis,
Bonnie Bedelia,
William Atherton,
William Sadler,
Reginald VelJohnson,
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For those who argue that Die Hard 2 is a desperate re-hash of the
original... So what? I didn't expect a companion piece like The Godfather
Part II. Die Hard was about a really cool guy in a really bad situation,
and the result was probably the greatest action movie ever made. Die Hard 2
achieves status on its own just by being about the same thing. When so many
movies want ...
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Genres:
Horror
Western
Starring:
James Earl Jones,
Brad Dourif,
Will Hare,
Marc McClure,
Michelle Joyner,
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Genres:
Action
Crime
Thriller
Starring:
Bruce Willis,
Alan Rickman,
Bonnie Bedelia,
Alexander Godunov,
Reginald VelJohnson,
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"Die Hard" is the prototype type for the modern action film. Since it's
also one of the best action films ever made, that happens to be a very
good
thing. "Die Hard" is lean, mean, and doesn't contain a single second of
wasted screen time. The direction, the action, the story, the acting . . .
every aspect of this film comes close to big-budget action movie
perfection.
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Genres:
Action
Crime
Thriller
Starring:
Richard Gere,
Kim Basinger,
Jeroen Krabbé,
George Dzundza,
Gary Basaraba,
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Richard Gere is a Chicago cop on the vengeance trail as he follows his
partner's killers to New Orleans to settle his own personal score. The
film moves at a brisk pace as Gere and a Cajun sexpot flee through the
Louisiana bayous from a murderous crime lord who wants his baby doll
back and to destroy the Chicago detective who would avenge his
partner's murder. Gere an...
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Genres:
Comedy
Romance
Sci-Fi
Starring:
Val Kilmer,
Gabriel Jarret,
Michelle Meyrink,
William Atherton,
Jon Gries,
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Siskel and Ebert once ran a special show entitled "Movies I'm
Embarrassed to Admit I Liked." I suppose that if I composed such a list
of guilty pleasures, this one would be one of them . . . but upon
reflection, it's really a lot better than that. Fifteen year-old
science prodigy Mitch (Gabe Jarret) is recruited by ambitious college
professor Jerry Hathaway (William Ath...
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Genres:
Comedy
Fantasy
Adventure
Mystery
Starring:
Bill Murray,
Dan Aykroyd,
Sigourney Weaver,
Harold Ramis,
Rick Moranis,
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What's that you say? Ghostbusters, one of the most financially
successful and over-hyped comedies of the eighties, underrated? Yes.
Precicely because it was so over-hyped and made so much money, there
has been a stigma attached to this film identifying it as a childish FX
piece, when it is nothing of the sort. Most of the lines people
remember("He slimed me," "OK. So? She&...
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Genres:
Drama
Thriller
Starring:
Donald Sutherland,
Karen Black,
Burgess Meredith,
William Atherton,
Geraldine Page,
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I don't quite understand the comments from the viewers who found this film
boring. I've been lucky enough to see it on the big screen several times at
revival houses, and each time I was blown away. Day of the Locust is a dark,
compelling, amusing, bitter epic that's really more about America itself as
filtered through the lens of Hollywood at its first creative height, in the
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Genres:
Adventure
Crime
Drama
Starring:
Goldie Hawn,
Ben Johnson,
Michael Sacks,
William Atherton,
Gregory Walcott,
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Critics at the time were impressed by this new director, Steven Spielberg,
who had previously directed Dennis Weaver in that spooky TV movie "Duel",
but they were really impressed with Goldie Hawn, still mainly known as the
blonde nitwit from "Laugh-In". She had been quite respectable in
"Butterflies Are Free" in 1972, but she turned in a beautifully nuanced
performance in this...
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