Based upon a True Story: If you're looking for happy endings, this isn't your movie.  But if you're looking for laughs and comedy in errors, you'll love Dog Day Afternoon.  You see, these three guys go in to rob a bank, only as soon as the hold up starts, one decides he can't do it and leaves.  Now there are two.  So they empty the safe of its eleven hundred dollars...the bank had already transferred the funds early that day and this is just the beginning.  Al Pacino is at his comic best as the leader of the bank robbers, constantly insisting to the bank employees he has a plan as they start to help him get out of this mess.   The satire evolves through witty dialog and absurdity meshed with light drama and provides an entertaining evening on the couch. TOP

Monte Python is the eternal prankster and History of the World Part One is the troop's crowning achievement.  Python makes history fun by making fun of it through their trademark sight gags and 'roundabout dialog which can make the viewer dizzy. Rather than give it away, take an afternoon and prepare to laugh at everything from Moses and the 15, oops 10 commandments to the Roman Empire's reign.  Just don't use any of the answers on a history test! TOP

6 Degrees of Separation

1993: R
Starring: Stockard Channing, Will Smith, Donald Sutherland, Richard Masur, Anthony Michael Hall, Heather Graham
Director: Fred Schepisi
112 Minutes

Nicole Kidman shows us her comedic side, (and wins a Golden Globe® for Best Actress) in this dark comedy paralleling a real life murder situation.  Like Fargo, To Die For takes real events and puts a twist on them with Nicole playing the central narcissistic character who believes only people who are on TV count because who would want to watch anyone who didn't count.  Viciously funny, this movie illustrates the American public's fascination with the media, celebrity and ultimately our desire for justice, mob style. TOP

How do you get away with murder when your a big wig executive of a motion picture studio?  This is the storyline The Player addresses.  Half the fun of this movie is spotting all of the cameo appearances by Hollywood royalty, most of whom play themselves in this venomous look at the cutthroat culture that makes Hollywood what it is today.

Cameos By: Richard Anderson, Rene Auberjonois, Harry Belafonte, Shari Belafonte, Karen Black, Michael Bowen, Gary Busey, Robert Carradine, Charles Champlin, Cher, James Coburn, Cathy Lee Crosby, John Cusack, Brad Davis, Paul Dooley, Thereza Ellis, Peter Falk, Felicia Farr, Katarzyna Figura, Louise Fletcher, Dennis Franz, Teri Garr, Leeza Gibbons, Jeff Goldblum, Elliott Gould, Joel Grey, David Alan Grier, Buck Henry, Anjelica Huston, Kathy Ireland, Steve James, Maxine John-James, Sally Kellerman, Sally Kirkland, Jack Lemmon, Marlee Matlin, Andie MacDowell, Malcolm McDowell, Jayne Meadows, Martin Mull, Jennifer Nash, Nick Nolte, Alexandra Powers, Bert Remsen, Guy Remsen, Patricia Resnick, Burt Reynolds, Jack Riley, Mimi Rogers, Annie Ross, Alan Rudolph, Jill St. John, Susan Sarandon, Adam Simon, Rod Steiger, Joan Tewkesbury, Brian Tochi, Lily Tomlin, Robert Wagner, Ray Walston, Bruce Willis, Marvin Young, Scott Shaw, Patrick Swayze, Julia Roberts and Althea Gibson. TOP

This is our favorite Christopher Reeve film of all time.  Reeve plays a homosexual play write trying to steal a play by a once prominent play write (Michael Cain), but in so doing the two devise a plan to kill Cain's wife.  Only the local psychic keeps showing up.  This film twists and turns toward climax and a surprise ending.  Fast paced and riding on the strengths of great acting and a strong script, Death Trap will keep you mesmerized through the duration. TOP

Ever had neighbors you can't stand?  How about a whole apartment building full of them?  Paul and Mary are a married couple and Paul loses his job.  Then Mary gets raped by one of her neighbors, you see the entire building is full of swingers and this affronts Mary and Paul's morality.  When Paul accidentally kills the swinging rapist, they discover their neighbors are quite wealthy and that murder might be a way to solve two problems: create a better living environment and get rich at the same time.  Of course, you have to do something with the bodies...maybe open a restaurant?

Eating Raoul is funny and very sinister.  It's a terrific satire on life, neighbors, convenient morals and the quest for the American dream. TOP

Clouseau is a parody of the Agatha Christie  sensation, Poirot, solving crimes and aggravating the police with satirical humor and site gags that basically make fun of detective novels. Suspicious, blundering, with a pompous little mustache and a sometimes impenetrable accent, Clouseau was always one step behind everybody else in the room. The Pink Panther introduced Clouseau hot on the trail of a famous jewel thief (David Niven), who may be planning to make off with an expensive gem known as the Pink Panther. Set in a European ski resort, this bubbly comedy is a wonderful dose of '60s style, from the famous Henry Mancini theme music to the presence of two of Europe's top sex symbols of the era, Claudia Cardinale and Capucine.   TOP

If Heather's is about high school, Reality Bites is about life as a twenty-something in 1990's America.  Reality Bites is generation-X's view of the world (Gen X is people born between 1965 and 1974) where everything is full of confusion, handed down and  not much to get excited about. A world filled with a pop culture currency of bad music and poetry slams. A world where as the second lost generation members of this tiny group are over shadowed by their elders (Baby Boomers born between 1946 and 1964) or worse yet ascribed to the next big boom, Gen Y (1975-1993). If you're a Gen Xer, you'll get this movie; if not, it may be hard to relate. Watch for appearances by David Spade, Renee Zellweger, Kevin Pollak, Jeanne Triplehorn. TOP
 

A satire about the  pitfalls of believing your own hype. Kevin Bacon plays a high-minded would-be filmmaker whose student movie wins a prestigious national award and an invitation to Hollywood. Before he knows it, he is being wined and dined by agents, producers, and studio executives, who treat him like the new Orson Welles--until he starts making his first studio movie. Then he becomes bait for the piranha-like bottom-liners, who teach him the unfortunate lesson that the flavor of the week often gets eaten alive. TOP

1994: PG
Starring: Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Paul Newman, Charles Durning
Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
112 Minutes

The Coen Brothers Strike again in this salute to the fast-talking comedies of the '40s, we follow Norville Barnes (Tim Robbins) and his amazing rise to the top. But he's only a puppet for the evil Sidney J. Mussburger (Paul Newman), who wants the company for himself. TOP

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