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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: Mighty Joe Young ( 1998 )
A legendary fifteen-foot tall mountain gorilla named Joe is taken to an animal sanctuary in California by a zoologist and a young woman whom he grew up with. A poacher from the past returns to seek vengeance on him.
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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: The Rugrats Movie ( 1998 )
The babies gets lost in the forest after Tommy Pickles gets a new baby brother.
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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: Jerry and Tom ( 1998 )
Tom and Jerry are two hit men, they work by day at a third-rate second-hand car dealership. Tom is a veteran and Jerry is a novice in their business, and their attitude toward their profession differs a lot. It shows when Tom is required to kill his old friend Karl.
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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: 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: Great Expectations ( 1998 )
Modernization of Charles Dickens' classic story finds the hapless Finn as a painter in New York City pursuing his unrequited and haughty childhood love.
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Movie: Dark Harbor ( 1999 )
A couple, trying to get the last ferry to their island, help a young drifter out of the rain with a ride. They later meet him again and invite him home. The much younger wife spends time with the drifter. Twists follow.
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Movie: Apt Pupil ( 1998 )
A boy blackmails his neighbor after suspecting him to be a Nazi war criminal.
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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: Buffalo '66 ( 1998 )
After being released from prison, Billy is set to visit his parents with his wife, whom he does not actually have. This provokes Billy to act out, as he kidnaps a girl and forces her to act as his wife for the visit.
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Movie: Almost Heroes ( 1998 )
A road comedy about 2 guys whose mission is to beat Lewis and Clark.
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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: 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: 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: Ringu ( 1998 )
A reporter and her ex-husband investigate a cursed video tape that is rumored to kill the viewer seven days after watching it.
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Movie: Psycho ( 1998 )
A young female embezzler arrives at the Bates Motel, which has terrible secrets of its own.
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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: 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: Billboard Dad ( 1998 )
Twin girls advertise their single father on a Santa Monica Billboard.
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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: Party Monster ( 1999 )
Documentary film exploring the rise of Club Kid legend Michael Alig and his fall in 1996 when he murdered his drug dealer/roommate Angel Melendez.
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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: 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: Quest for Camelot ( 1998 )
An adventurous girl, a young blind hermit, and a goofy two-headed dragon race to find the lost sword Excalibur to save King Arthur and Camelot from disaster.
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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: 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: 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: Dangerous Beauty ( 1998 )
A Venetian courtesan becomes a hero to her city, but later becomes the target of an inquisition by the Church for witchcraft.
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Movie: The Horse Whisperer ( 1998 )
Teenager Grace MacLean (Scarlett Johansson) is riding her horse and is hit by a truck. To help heal her troubled and injured daughter, and horse, the mother, Annie MacLean (Dame Kristin Scott Thomas), takes them to Montana to recuperate at the ranch of Tom Booker (Robert Redford), a "horse whisperer", a horse healer of mystical talents. Annie proceeds to fall in love with him, as well.
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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: 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: Blues Brothers 2000 ( 1998 )
Elwood must reunite the old band, with a few new members, and go on another "Mission from God."
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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 Last Broadcast ( 1998 )
A film crew ventures into the forest in search of the mythical 'Jersey Devil'.
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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: 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: Velvet Goldmine ( 1998 )
In 1984, British journalist Arthur Stuart investigates the career of 1970s glam superstar Brian Slade, who was heavily influenced in his early years by hard-living and rebellious American singer Curt Wild.
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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: 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: 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: Desert Blue ( 1998 )
An academic obsessed with "roadside attractions" and his tv-star daughter finally discover the world's largest ice cream cone, the centerpiece for an old gold-rush town struggling to stay on the map. They end up staying longer than expected because of an accident that spilled an unknown cola ingredient all over the highway. They spend the next few days with the various residents of the town which include a teenage girl who loves to blow things up and a boy trying to keep alive his fathers dream of building a beachside resort in the middle of the desert.
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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: 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: 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: 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: Mafia! ( 1998 )
Takeoff on the Godfather with the son of a mafia king taking over for his dying father
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Movie: Sometimes They Come Back... for More ( 1998 )
On a arctic circle radio shack, an ancient evil lurks, ready to strike at a psychologist, an army man and their collective forces.
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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: 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: 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: 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: Safe House ( 1998 )
A psychological thriller. Mace Sowell, an ex-intelligence operative whose past government activities catches up with him, faces his own mortality, in the shape of the on-set of Alzheimer's disease. Holding the electronic key to secret information which implicates a Presidential front-runner, Mace struggles for his life while battling the debilitating effects of the disease.
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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: Simon Birch ( 1998 )
A young boy with stunted growth is convinced that God has a great purpose for him.
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Babe: Pig in the City ( 1998 )
Babe, fresh from his victory in the sheepherding contest, returns to Farmer Hoggett's farm, but after Farmer Hoggett is injured and unable to work, Babe has to go to the big city to save the farm.
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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: Jerry Seinfeld: 'I'm Telling You for the Last Time' ( 1998 )
Live from New York City, Jerry Seinfeld, aided and abetted by a host of friends and fellow comedians, performs his 1998 Emmy-nominated performance on Broadway.
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Movie: Permanent Midnight ( 1999 )
A comedy writer struggles to overcome his addiction to heroin while putting his professional and personal life in danger.
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Movie: Air Bud: Golden Receiver ( 1998 )
Story of a golden retriever who can play football.
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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: 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: 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: 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: John Leguizamo: Freak (TV Special 1998) ( 1998 )
John Leguizamo's semi-falsified, one-man stand-up performance as...himself. This is his autobiographical story, about his life growing up, and his journey to try to be accepted by his father. We see this story through a bizarre myriad of characters and situations, which include the eccentric Uncle Sandy, the Fat Boy Called Bitch (John's little brother, Poochie), his m...Read all
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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: 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: Phantasm IV: Oblivion ( 1998 )
Mike travels through time and dimensions to find the Tall Man's origins.
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Movie: The Godson ( 1998 )
After the death of his older brother, Giuseppe "The Guppy" Calzone (Kevin McDonald) becomes head of the Calzone Mob Family. His aging father (Dom DeLuise) knows his son is not cut out for the job, so he sends him to "Mafia University." The head of a rival Mafia Family (Rodney Dangerfield) sees this an opportunity to strike and bring the Calzone Family to its knees. Surrounded by danger, double-crossing and pasta, THE GODSON proves that some wise guys just aren't so smart.
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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: 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: 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: Brink! ( 1998 )
Andy "Brink" Brinker and his in-line skating crew--Peter, Jordy, and Gabriella--who call themselves "Soul-Skaters" (which means they skate for the fun of it, and not for the money), clash with a group of sponsored skaters, Team X-Bladz--led by Val--with whom they attend high school in southern California. When Brink discovers his family is in financial trouble, he goes against the wishes of his parents and his friends and joins Team X-Bladz. Brink tries to lead a double life but will be able to pull it off?
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Movie: Gods and Monsters ( 1998 )
The last days of Frankenstein (1931) Director James Whale are explored.
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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: 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: 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: 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: The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock ( 1998 )
Grandpa tells Littlefoot about their mythical hero called the Lone Dinosaur. Sarah gets two little lively cousins to take care of. Later, the kids accidentally chip the lucky Saurus Rock, and need to fix it before the bad luck hits.
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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: 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: Waking Ned Devine ( 1998 )
When a lottery winner dies of shock, his fellow townsfolk attempt to claim the money.
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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: A Murder of Crows ( 1999 )
A disbarred lawyer takes credit for a late friend's book, which becomes a smash hit but the tables turn on him sooner than he suspected.
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Movie: Barney's Great Adventure ( 1998 )
Mom and dad dump son Cody, daughter Abby, her best friend Marcella and a baby on the farm with Grandpa and Grandma. Purple dinosaur Barney soon appears to entertain kids, and when a large colorful egg deposited on a farm by a shooting star is accidentally carted off, Barney and kids start their chase for it.
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Movie: Celebrity ( 1998 )
The fortunes of a husband and wife differ drastically after they divorce.
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Movie: Ernest in the Army ( 1998 )
Ernest joins the Army reserves so he can drive the bigrigs, but ends up being sent into combat!
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Movie: Ringmaster ( 1998 )
Jerry Springer stars as more or less himself, the host of a raunchy, controversial and popular Los Angeles talk show which features everyday people with problems and who frequently vent their problems on the air. A new group of guests are flown in for one show who include white trailer trash from Sarasota FL; Connie, whose current husband has cheated on her with her nymphomaniac teenage daughter, Angel, for which Connie has gotten revenge by having sex with Angel's fiance; and from Detroit, black trash Starletta, whose boyfriend, Damone, has slept with all of her girlfriends. Soon the paths of all of these parties cross which leads to more sex, arguments, physical violence, and Jerry sweating out just another day.
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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: 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: 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: Hurlyburly ( 1998 )
Hollywood movers and shakers dissect their own personal lives when everything seems to clash together.
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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: Life in the Fast Lane ( 1998 )
Black comedy about an obsessive street graffiti artist, who falls obsessively in love with a frustrated artist he meets. Unfortunately, rather than trying to meet with her in a conventional way, he decides to mail himself to her with the help of a pet shop owner. Unfortunately, when he arrives, she is with another man, who immediately makes love to her against the box. Then when they decide to open the box, they stab scissors into the box, killing the man. The action then follows that the spirit of the graffiti artist can now communicate only with the artist and, fearfully, she decides she has to get rid of the body.