“The Karate Kid” is a very entertaining and inspirational film, starring Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita. Both of them do a great acting job in this film. The karate scenes are also terrific.
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“Catch Me If You Can” is the very funny and amazing true story of Frank Abignale, Jr., a young man who cleverly cheats banks out of some four million dollars by age 19 by forging checks and posing as an airline pilot, a doctor, and a lawyer. Leonardo DiCaprio does a great acting job as Frank, as does Tom Hanks as Carl Henratty, an FBI agent and bank fraud specialist who catches onto Frank’s crimes and goes after him.
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“Bronco Billy” is a thoroughly entertaining film directed by and starring Clint Eastwood. The storyline and acting are both quite good. I also think the film tells an important lesson about life, which is to strive to become the person you want to be, regardless of your upbringing or past experiences.
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“Alice” is a very thought-provoking fantasy film directed by Woody Allen and starring Mia Farrow. The story is very entertaining and the acting is quite good, particuarly Mia’s role. “Alice” is much like many of Woody’s later, more serious films, though it still contains a great deal of humor.
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“The World According to Garp” is an unusual 1978 novel by John Irving which was made into a film, released in 1982. The movie stars Robin Williams, Glenn Close, Mary Beth Hurt, and John Lithgow. The acting is quite good and the story is very intriguing and thought-provoking, although somewhat bizarre.
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“My Fair Lady” is a wonderful film adaptation of a long-running Broadway musical. The movie stars Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolitle, a poor flower girl from London in 1913 who wants speech lessons and Rex Harrison as Prof. Henry Higgins, her instructor. The film features many great songs, which are also featured in the play, including “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly?”, “I Could Have Danced All Night”, and “On the Street Where You Live”.
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“Splash” is a very funny and entertaining romantic comedy starring Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah, who plays the role of a mermaid. Although the plot is pretty ridiculous, the acting is quite good. John Candy also has a funny role as Freddie, the rather perverted brother of Allen (Hanks), who works for Penthouse magazine.
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“Back to the Future Part III” is the third and final installment of the Back to the Future series. Like the other two films, it stars Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd. This film also stars Mary Steenburgen as Clara Clayton, the Doc’s love interests whom he meets in 1885.
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A great Texas-size entertainment that brings a whole era and the great social transformation from cattle ranching to rags-to-riches oil drilling to life on a beautiful canvas.
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“Giant” is the “Gone With the Wind” of Texas- This would also be James Dean’s third and last film. A few days after concluding his scenes, even when the shooting was still continuing, Dean would be killed in that famous car accident.
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“Good Neighbor Sam” is a very funny movie from the mid-sixties about an advertising executive named Sam Bissell, played by Jack Lemmon, known by everyone at his firm as a wholesome family man. Things get out of hand for Sam when he gets a visit from wife’s friend Janet Lagerlorf (Romy Schneider), who stands to inherit a fortune if she can prove that she’s happily married. She’s in the process of divorcing her husband and finds she must pretend she’s married to Sam in order to fool her snoopy cousins.
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“Hairspray” is a very funny nostalgic comedy which pokes fun at the young generation of the early ’60s as well as the prejudice and uptight nature of their parents’ generation. While being funny overall, the movie also has a more serious side in regards to integration. The acting is very good, particularly that of Ricky Lake as Tracy Turnblad as well as Divine in his two roles (Tracy’s mother and Arvin Hodgepile) and Joann Havrilla as Prudence Pingleton, the hysterical, racist mother of Penny, Tracy’s best friend.
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“Take the Money and Run” is a hilarious slapstick comedy starring, written and directed by Woody Allen, who plays a bungaling petty thief. The film is a mockumentary (mock documentary) which pokes fun at crime documentaries. The movie is very much in line with many other early Woody Allen films.
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“Young Frankenstein” is one of my favorite Mel Brooks films. It’s classic comedy which pokes fun at old horror films, Frankenstein in particular. Peter Boyle is fantastic as Frankenstein’s monster, as is Gene Wilder as Frederick Frankenstein (pronounced fronk-en-steen), Victor’s grandson.
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“Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home” is my favorite Star Trek film. This one is very funny, since the crew goes back in time to 1986 (the year the movie was made) and find they must adapt to our society. The movie also has a strong environmental theme.
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“Honeymoon in Vegas” is a very funny romantic comedy starring Nicolas Cage, Sarah Jessica Parker, and James Caan. The movie also contains some breathtaking scenes of Hawaii as well as Las Vegas at night.
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Or, “Reservoir Dogs (1992)” meets “Memento (2000)”.
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“High Anxiety” is a hilarious Mel Brooks film which spoofs several mystery and suspense films, in particular those of Alfred Hitchcock. The story is hilarious, as is the comedic acting. Mel Brooks plays Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke, a successful psychiatrist who’s been appointed to head the Psychosomatic Institute for the Very, Very Nervous in Los Angeles. Cloris Leachman is also great as the psychotic Nurse Diesel, as is Harvey Korman as a crazy doctor at the institute and Howard Morris as Professor Littloldman, Richard’s mentor, who cures him of his “high anxiety” – extreme fear of heights.
