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The Best Movies Of 1998
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A list of movies that came out in 1998.


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Movie: Les Misérables ( 1998 )
Valjean, a former criminal, has atoned for his past and now finds himself in the midst of the French Revolution, avoiding a law-obsessed policeman hell-bent on capturing him.
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Movie: Addams Family Reunion ( 1998 )
The Addams Family goes on a search for their relatives.
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Movie: The Interview ( 1998 )
A duel between a suspected murderer and a detective pressed by people who want results. But whose skin is really wanted.
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Movie: 54 ( 1998 )
The famous 1970s New York City nightclub seen and told through the eyes of a young employee.
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Movie: Disturbing Behavior ( 1998 )
The new kid in Cradle Bay, Washington stumbles across something sinister about the town's method of transforming its unruly teens into upstanding citizens.
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Movie: The Object of My Affection ( 1998 )
George and Nina seem like the perfect couple. They share a cozy Brooklyn apartment, a taste for tuna casserole dinners, and a devotion to ballroom dancing. They love each other. There's only one hitch: George is gay. And when Nina announces she's pregnant, things get especially complicated. Vince - Nina's overbearing boyfriend and the baby's father-wants marriage. Nina wants independence. George will do anything for a little unqualified affection, but is he ready to become an unwed surrogate dad?
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Movie: The Last Days of Disco ( 1998 )
Story of two female Manhattan book editors fresh out of college, both finding love and themselves while frequenting the local disco.
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Movie: The Big Hit ( 1998 )
Socially anxious hitman Melvin Smiley, an expert in his lucrative field, goes on a job and falls in love with his kidnapping victim, turning his world upside down.
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Movie: The Idiots ( 1998 )
The group of people gather at the house in Copenhagen suburb to break all the limitations and to bring out the "inner idiot" in themselves.
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Movie: Cine sunt? ( 1998 )
A Secret Agent loses his memory after falling from a crashing helicopter. He is then chased by several other agency operatives, but he has no idea why.
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Movie: Mercury Rising ( 1998 )
Shadowy elements in the NSA target a nine-year old autistic savant for death when he is able to decipher a top secret code.
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Movie: Belly ( 1998 )
A pair of violent Men have spiritual awakenings.
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Movie: The Red Violin ( 1998 )
A perfect red-colored violin inspires passion, making its way through three centuries over several owners and countries, eventually ending up at an auction where it may find a new owner.
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Movie: Simon Birch ( 1998 )
A young boy with stunted growth is convinced that God has a great purpose for him.
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Movie: Primary Colors ( 1998 )
A man joins the political campaign of a smooth-operator candidate for President of the United States of America.
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Movie: The Replacement Killers ( 1998 )
A troubled hitman seeks aid from a forger to help him get papers to China. However, the drug lord has hired replacements to finish the job, and kill the hitman.
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Movie: Jack Frost ( 1998 )
A father who can't keep his promises, dies in a car accident. One year later, he returns as a snowman, who has the final chance to put things right with his son, before he is gone forever.
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Movie: Playing by Heart ( 1999 )
Eleven articulate people work through affairs of the heart in Los Angeles.
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Movie: SLC Punk! ( 1998 )
In the early 1980s Stevo and Heroin Bob are the only two dedicated punks in conservative Salt Lake City.
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Movie: Slums of Beverly Hills ( 1998 )
In 1976, a lower-middle-class teenager struggles to cope living with her neurotic family of nomads on the outskirts of Beverly Hills.
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Movie: A Civil Action ( 1999 )
A tenacious lawyer takes on a case involving a major company responsible for causing several people to be diagnosed with leukemia due to the town's water supply being contaminated, at the risk of bankrupting his firm and career.
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Movie: Beloved ( 1998 )
Based on the book by Toni Morrison, in which a slave is visited by the spirit of a mysterious young woman
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Movie: Dead Man on Campus ( 1998 )
Two college roommates go out and party, resulting in bad grades. They learn of the clause that says, "If your roommate dies, you get an A," and decide to find someone who is on the verge, so to speak, to move in with them.
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Movie: Hard Rain ( 1998 )
The nephew of an armored-truck driver tries to prevent three million dollars from being taken by a local rival gang during a catastrophic flooding caused by a severe storm.
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Movie: High Art ( 1998 )
A young female intern at a small magazine company becomes involved with a drug-addicted lesbian photographer, both of whom seek to exploit each other for their respective careers, while slowly falling in love with each other.
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Movie: Phantoms ( 1998 )
One hundred fifty dead, and three hundred fifty missing in the tiny mountain town of Snowfield, Colorado, and that's only the beginning.
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Movie: Pecker ( 1998 )
A Baltimore sandwich shop employee becomes an overnight sensation when a photographer's photos he's taken of his weird family become the latest rage in the art world.
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Movie: Madeline ( 1998 )
Horrified at the prospect of her beloved school being sold, a young French girl uses her wit and craftiness to attempt to save it, making an unlikely new friend in the process.
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Movie: Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World ( 1998 )
Pocahontas sets off on a journey to England with Meeko, Flit, and Percy. Hearing rumors of John Smith's death, Pocahontas tries to prevent war and battle.
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Movie: Celebrity ( 1998 )
The fortunes of a husband and wife differ drastically after they divorce.
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Movie: Halloweentown ( 1998 )
After learning she is a witch, a girl helps save a town full of other supernatural creatures.
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Movie: Casper Meets Wendy ( 1998 )
Casper, a ghost, teams up with Wendy, a witch, against an evil warlock.
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Movie: New Rose Hotel ( 1999 )
Two businessmen are hired to steal secrets from a rival, and decide to use a beautiful, but volatile call girl to do so.
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Movie: The Substitute 2: School's Out ( 1998 )
A mercenary masquerades as a teacher in order to enter a tough urban school and wreak his revenge upon his brother's killer.
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Movie: Black Dog ( 1998 )
Ex-truck driver Jack Crews (Patrick Swayze) has just been released from prison for vehicular manslaughter after losing control and hitting a stranded motorist. His family is in danger of losing their house, so he takes a job from his boss driving a truck up from Atlanta "off the books". Little does he know, the trailer is loaded with illegal artillery, and Red (Meat Loaf) is hell bent on hijacking it. Jack teams up with Earl (Randy Travis) to deliver the load and save his family.
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Movie: Mafia! ( 1998 )
Takeoff on the Godfather with the son of a mafia king taking over for his dying father
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Movie: My Giant ( 1998 )
Billy Crystal plays a Hollywood agent who stumbles upon Max, a giant living in Romania, and tries to get him into the movies.
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Movie: Bulworth ( 1998 )
Senator Jay Bulworth is facing speculation-induced financial ruin, so he puts out a contract on his own life in order to collect a large, new insurance policy for his family. Living each moment on borrowed time, he suddenly begins spouting raw, unfiltered--and sometimes offensive in word but satirical in spirit -- thoughts to shocked audiences and handlers in the speech of hip-hop music and culture. His newfound uninhibitedness and new relationship with Nina carry him on a journey of political and spiritual renewal.
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Movie: Billboard Dad ( 1998 )
Twin girls advertise their single father on a Santa Monica Billboard.
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Movie: Woo ( 1998 )
Gorgeous and extravert Woo meets insecure and straight-laced law clerk Tim at a blind date.
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Movie: All I Wanna Do ( 1998 )
In the 1960s, a group of friends at an all girls school learn that their school is going to be combined with a nearby all boys school. They concoct a plan to save their school while dealing with everyday problems along the way.
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Movie: Milo ( 1998 )
Four young grade-school girls witness the murder of one of their classmates during what they thought was just an innocent game. The killer is a strange young boy named Milo Jeeder. Sixteen years later, the four survivors of the event re-unite under happier circumstances in the same town where it happened. They believe that Milo drowned in a river shortly after the murder, but soon learn that the demonic killer Milo has also returned, still a young boy, unchanged even after almost two decades.
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Movie: Strangeland ( 1998 )
In a teen chat room, Genevieve Gage, the teenager daughter of detective Mike Gage is invited to a blind date by the cool Capt Howdy. The guy is indeed a pierced a schizophrenic sick and sadistic maniac, and he kidnaps Genevieve and her friend Tiana Moore. He submits the girls and other adolescents to tortures. When the body of Tiana is found, Mike hunts Capt Howdy and puts him in jail first and then he is sent to a mental institution. Four years later, Capt Howdy is considered rehabilitated and released from the asylum, against the will of the local population. After an incident, Capt Howdy abducts Genevieve again, and Mike promises to kill him.
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Movie: The Mighty ( 1998 )
Two young boys, both social outcasts in their small town, form an unlikely friendship.
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Movie: Senseless ( 1998 )
A student gets his senses enhanced by an experimental drug. But abuse is not an option.
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Movie: Hush ( 1998 )
Newlyweds move to the family thoroughbred horse ranch, where the husband's obsessive mother resolves to get rid of her new daughter-in-law.
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Movie: Smoke Signals ( 1998 )
Young Indian man Thomas is a nerd in his reservation, wearing oversize glasses and telling everyone stories no-one wants to hear. His parents died in a fire in 1976, and Thomas was saved by Arnold. Arnold soon left his family (and his tough son Victor), and Victor hasn't seen his father for 10 years. When Victor hears Arnold has died, Thomas offers him funding for the trip to get Arnold's remains, but only if Thomas can also go with him. Thomas and Victor hit the road.
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Movie: 3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain ( 1998 )
Three young boys, Rocky, Colt and Tum Tum together with their neighbor girl, computer whiz Amanda are visiting Mega Mountain amusement park when it is invaded by an army of ninjas led by evil Medusa, who wants to take over the park and hold the owners for ransom. Kids and retired TV star Dave Dragon, who made his farewell appearance at the park at the time the ninjas appeared, have to break Medusa's vicious plans.
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Movie: The Newton Boys ( 1998 )
The story of the Newton gang, the most successful bank robbers in history, owing to their good planning and minimal violence.
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Movie: Another Day in Paradise ( 1999 )
In the hope of a big score, two junkie couples team up to commit various drug robberies which go disastrously wrong leading to dissent, violence and murder.
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Movie: Paulie ( 1998 )
A talking parrot named Paulie recounts his travels to look for his original owner to a Russian janitor who helps him to the end of his journey.
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Movie: Major League: Back to the Minors ( 1998 )
Gus Cantrell is a major league pitcher in the twilight of his career. He contacted by Roger Dorn, General Manager of the Minnesota Twins, and offered the role of managing the Buzz, the Twins' AAA team. Cantrell accepts but regrets it almost immediately. The Buzz is a dysfunctional no-hoper team, with an odd assortment of characters. However, Cantrell quickly sets about forging them into a winning team.
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Movie: Return to Paradise ( 1998 )
Two friends must choose whether to help a third friend who was arrested in Malaysia for drug possession.
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Movie: Palmetto ( 1998 )
A recently released ex-con gets involved in a fake kidnapping scheme that turns very real.
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Movie: Wicked ( 1998 )
14-year-old Ellie Christianson wants to make her father Ben her love partner. And when her mother Karen turns up dead, Ellie has a good opportunity.
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Movie: How Stella Got Her Groove Back ( 1998 )
Stella is a highly successful, forty-something San Francisco stock broker who is persuaded by her colorful New York girlfriend Delilah to take a well deserved, first-class vacation to Jamaica. As she soaks in the beauty of the island, she encounters a strapping, young islander, Winston Shakespeare. His pursuits for her turn into a hot and steamy romance that forces Stella to take personal inventory of her life and try to find a balance between her desire for love and companionship, and the responsibilities of mother and corporate executive.
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Movie: Chairman of the Board ( 1998 )
A surfer becomes the head of a major company.
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Movie: Nick Fury: Agent of Shield ( 1998 )
Agent Nick Fury is asked to fight the menace of Hydra after exiling himself in the Yukon since the end of the Cold War.
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Movie: The Rugrats Movie ( 1998 )
The babies gets lost in the forest after Tommy Pickles gets a new baby brother.
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Movie: Dance with Me ( 1998 )
Rafael comes to Houston from Cuba to work at John's dance studio. He meets Ruby, a cute dance instructor there. Chemistry? Will John know he's Rafael's dad?
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Movie: Hideous Kinky ( 1999 )
Hideous Kinky is the story of two sisters (seven and five years old) traveling with their hippie mother from London to Morocco. They encounter many adventures, new experiences, and interesting culture as they tag along on their mother's search for freedom and love. It is told through the eyes of the youngest girl, and we learn her observations on life, Mum, and determined sister, Bea.
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Movie: Fifteen and Pregnant ( 1998 )
When 15-year-old Tina becomes pregnant, her parents must grapple not only with their own current marital crisis, but also their opposing views on adoption.
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Movie: Home Fries ( 1998 )
Pregnant Sally unknowingly falls for the stepson of the deceased father of her baby and has to deal with his homicidal family.
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Movie: Permanent Midnight ( 1999 )
A comedy writer struggles to overcome his addiction to heroin.
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Movie: Still Crazy ( 1998 )
"Strange Fruit" had everything that makes a legendary rockband: Money, Fame, Success, Groupies, a Singer who died of drugs and even a divine ending, when lightning struck the stage during an open-air. Twenty years later, all band members are minding their own businesses, the idea of a band reunion is brought up by, well, public request. Tony, the former keyboard player, sets out only to find his former friends working as a roofer, a gardener and a hotel clerk. They all became rather everyday people, married or still single, they definitely are not wild and crazy anymore. But with the help of former manager Karen, who is still dreaming of Brian, the apparently deceased lead guitarist, they all, old, fat and wrinkled as they are, try to catch that spirit again.
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Movie: One True Thing ( 1998 )
When a tough New Yorker's mother is stricken with a serious illness, she is forced to quit her job and her relationship with her boyfriend to take care of her, finding out a lot of things she didn't know about her mother and father and her life along the way.
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Movie: Zero Effect ( 1998 )
The world's greatest detective Daryl Zero aided by his associate Steve Arlo investigates a complex and mysterious case of blackmail and missing keys for shady tycoon Gregory Stark who is less than forthcoming about what is really happening!
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Movie: The Patriot ( 1998 )
A respected doctor must race against time to find a cure for a lethal virus, unleashed by a paramilitary militia leader.
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Movie: Living Out Loud ( 1998 )
Judith Nelson quit her medical studies to marry. Years later, her husband, a physician, divorces her to be with another doctor. Deeply frustrated, she now lives alone in her luxury apartment in New York, looking for a new meaning for her life. Pat Francato, the janitor and lift-boy, has a troubled life himself: Gambling debts and the tragic death of his daughter took away all his spirit. One day, he and Judith meet in the right mood and a fragile friendship starts to grow. They can help each other to get on their feet again. But one false move could destroy everything they built so carefully.
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Movie: Overnight Delivery ( 1998 )
A man suspects his girlfriend of being unfaithful. So he sends her a letter, but then finds out that he was wrong. He has twenty-four hours to stop the package, prevent a disaster, and fall in love. The only problem is the delivery man will not stop until the package has been delivered.
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Movie: Croupier ( 1998 )
An aspiring writer is hired as a croupier at a casino, where he realizes that his life as a croupier would make a great novel.
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Movie: Meet the Deedles ( 1998 )
Two surfers end up as Yellowstone park rangers and have to stop a former ranger who is out for revenge.
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Movie: Clay Pigeons ( 1998 )
After hearing that his wife sleeps with Clay, Earl kills himself, making it look like Clay shot him. She doesn't like it when Clay sees another woman instead. Bodies start piling up.
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Movie: Desperate Measures ( 1998 )
Frank Conner is an honest police officer who desperately needs to save his son's life. However, after losing all hope, he finds out that a criminal Peter McCabe in jail is his only savior.
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Movie: Holy Man ( 1998 )
Eddie Murphy stars as an over-the-top television evangelist who finds a way to turn television home shopping into a religious experience, and takes America by storm.
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Movie: Legionnaire ( 1998 )
Alain is a boxer in 1925 Marseille, France. When he doesn't take the dive paid to take by a mob boss, he has to split. He joins the Foreign Legion and is sent to Morocco. He makes 3 friends and they watch each other's backs.
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Movie: The Prophecy II ( 1998 )
Gabriel returns to try to destroy the human race he despises so much, with the help of a suicidal teen and the opposition of the angel Danyael.
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Movie: The Rat Pack ( 1998 )
The public and private lives of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. and Peter Lawford.
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Movie: Rear Window ( 1998 )
Modern remake of Rear Window in which the lead character is paralyzed and lives in a high-tech home filled with assistive technology.
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Movie: I'll Be Home for Christmas ( 1998 )
A college student faces an impossible journey when he is left stranded in the desert, thousands of miles from home, with no money and only a few days left until Christmas.
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Movie: Why Do Fools Fall in Love ( 1998 )
Three women each claim to be the widow of 1950s doo-wop singer Frankie Lymon, claiming legal rights to his estate.
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Movie: The Dentist 2 ( 1998 )
Dr. Caine, the murdering dentist from the original movie, has escaped from the mental hospital where he has been since being caught. Hoping to resume a normal life, he makes his way to a quiet Midwestern town under a false name and takes on the responsibilities of the town dentist Things are starting to look up for Caine, until the day when he catches his new love in the arms of someone else. Just as in the first movie, this sends him back over the edge and into another homicidal rampage, with his unfortunate patients bearing the brunt of his hostility.
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Movie: Safe Men ( 1998 )
Two untalented singers are mistaken for a pair of major league safe crackers in Providence, Rhode Island. The two are pressed into service by the local hoodlums and quickly find themselves in conflict with their professional colleagues. Romantic interest is added by the daughter of the underworld leader who won't date the men she knows are gangsters.
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Movie: Knock Off ( 1998 )
A fashion designer who must join forces with a C.I.A. agent to combat terrorism.
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Movie: Homegrown ( 1998 )
Life is good for Jack, Carter and Harlan, three inept ne'r-do-wells who help run master dope-grower Malcoms flourishing marijuana plantation somewhere in northern California. But then Malcom is suddenly bumped off by a mysterious assailant, after a moment of panic, the naive trio decide to take over the business themselves. However, their lazy days on the dope farm have ill prepared them for the high-stakes game of finding buyers for millions of dollars of contraband. As they plunge into a shadowy new world of duplicity, double-dealing and danger, they soon find that they have gotten in way, way over their heads. But driven on by increasing greed and paranoia, it's too late to back out.
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Movie: Your Friends & Neighbors ( 1998 )
Unhappy couples fall apart and hop into other beds with other people.
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Movie: The Odd Couple II ( 1998 )
It has been seventeen years now since Oscar and Felix saw each other for the last time. Oscar is living in Florida, Felix in New York. One day, Oscar is called by his son Brucey who invites him to his wedding to Felix' daughter Hannah next Sunday in California. Oscar and Felix meet again at Los Angeles International Airport and take a rental car in order to go to San Malina for the wedding. The trip develops into an odyssey, starting with Oscar forgetting Felix' suitcase at the Budget station, going over to the complete loss of the directions (and the car), several difficulties with the police, a dead person, a toupee, underwear and revenge-hungry Cowboys and ending up with Felix meeting the "one and only" woman. But the wedding has to be reached on time.
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Movie: Free Money ( 1998 )
A prison warden, with a nasty habit of killing escapees, has teen twin daughters claiming to be pregnant. Their boyfriends marry them. The husbands' only way out of hell is to rob the money train.
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Movie: Krippendorf's Tribe ( 1998 )
An anthropologist creates a fictitious lost New Guinea tribe using his family members to cover-up for his mis-use of grant moneys.
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Movie: Curse of the Puppet Master ( 1998 )
A scientist attempts to master the art of transferring people's souls into puppets.
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Movie: Edge of Seventeen ( 2000 )
A teenager copes with his sexuality on the last day of school in 1984. It shows him coping with being gay and being with friends.
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Movie: Hurlyburly ( 1998 )
Hollywood movers and shakers dissect their own personal lives when everything seems to clash together.
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Movie: Music from Another Room ( 1998 )
Music From Another Room is a romantic comedy that follows the exploits of Danny, a young man who grew up believing he was destined to marry the girl he helped deliver as a five year old boy when his mother's best friend went into emergency labor. Twenty-five years later, Danny returns to his hometown and finds the irresistible Anna Swan but she finds it easy to resist him since she is already engaged to dreamboat Eric, a very practical match. In pursuit of Anna, Danny finds himself entangled with each of the eccentric Swans including blind, sheltered Nina, cynical sister Karen, big brother Bill and dramatic mother Grace as he fights to prove that fate should never be messed with and passion should never be practical.
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Movie: Phantasm IV: Oblivion ( 1998 )
Mike travels through time and dimensions to find the Tall Man's origins.
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Movie: Air Bud: Golden Receiver ( 1998 )
Story of a golden retriever who can play football.
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Movie: Slappy and the Stinkers ( 1998 )
Five 2nd-grade kids who don't follow strict rules by their school principal Brinway are dubbed "Stinkers" by him. On the class visit to an aquarium the Stinkers decide that a sea lion called Slappy doesn't feel too good there, "free" him, and plant him into Brinway's hot-tub.
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Movie: Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror ( 1998 )
Six college students on a road trip take a wrong turn and end up trapped in a strangely deserted rural town inhabited by a murdeous cult of children.
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Movie: A Cool, Dry Place ( 1998 )
A single father balances his work as an attorney with the care of his five-year-old son and his work as a high school basketball coach in rural Kansas, where he moved after his wife abandoned him in Chicago. Just as he starts to develop a new relationship with a veterinarian's assistant, his ex-wife suddenly reappears and wants to re-assert herself in her husband and son's life. On top of the romantic conflict, he is also suddenly presented with the opportunity of a lifetime to join a major firm in Dallas.
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Movie: The Impostors ( 1998 )
In an attempt to resurrect the slapstick comedy of Laurel and Hardy or The Marx Brothers, Stanley Tucci and Oliver Platt team-up as two out-of-work actors who accidentally stowaway on a ship to hide from a drunken, belligerent lead actor who has sworn to kill them for belittling his talents. Of course, the lead actor end up on the ship as well. Also, a madman (Tony Shalhoub) plots the destruction of the ship and Steve Buscemi is a depressed, suicidal lounge singer named Happy Frank.
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Movie: Kissing a Fool ( 1998 )
Max is a popular local sports broadcaster and his marriage with attractive Sam is already set up. Max is not sure he wants Sam to be his wife and offers his best friend Jay a test: Jay will try to seduce Sam and if he fails Max will have enough trust in Sam to go on with a marriage. Jay refuses, but soon they become professionally connected with Sam.