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St. Elmo’s Fire

I’m a little obsessed with this movie. It may, in fact, be everything you need to know about the 80s.Essentially, this is The Breakfast Club Grow Up minus writer-director John Hughes, plus writer director

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Cool Hand Luke

“That’s the sound of the men they’re working on the chain gang.” Three performances stand as the purest defined enduring epitome of cool and they are all in trouble with the law in their

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The Longest Yard

“You mean we get to hit the guards?” Cool Hand Luke plays football minus the Jesus fixation. This one isn’t so much about the durability of the human spirit in the face of a

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Rollerball

“Ladies and Gentlemen our corporate anthem.” Remember Roller Derby. What the hell was going on there? It was like a step below wrestling in class and there was even that Raquel Welch movie Kansas

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10 Things I Hate about You

“I’m surprised that you’ve never been told before that you’re lovely and you’re perfect and that somebody wants you.” As someone who claims or pretends to have a reasonable grasp of film history, style

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Some Like It Hot

It’s hard to believe anyone could really mistake Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis in drag for woman with Marilyn Monroe within ear distance, but only top rank episodes of the Jerry Springer show provide

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Tootsie

One of the funniest things I have ever seen was Dustin Hoffman weeping uncontrollable as he recounted how he never truly understood the inner pain and torment of what it felt like to be

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Mrs. Doubtfire

Robin Williams in a dress how could it fail?  I’m not really sure but Christopher Columbus’ involvement is always a good start. “We have Robin Williams in a dress who needs a script?” At

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Reservoir Dogs

Reservoir Dogs hit the film community like a small nuclear bomb. I can’t remember a movie getting me so excited about what you could do with a little bit of money, some fine actors,

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True Romance

God I wish I had written this movie. The ultimate goal of a writer is to pen something snappy and cast himself as the hero, and Quentin Tarantino pulls it off in spades. So

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Pulp Fiction

The 1995 Academy Awards were a great dividing line in pop culture. Either you were a Pulp Fiction man or a Forrest Gump supporter. I have to admit that I still haven’t ventured into

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Road to Morocco

I have to admit that I pretty much have always felt that either Bing Crosby or Pat Boone was the whitest guy in the history of the world. To Bing’s credit he could actually

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