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The Best Movies Of 1995
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Just a list of good movies that came out in the year 1995. I realize some say 1996, but I made sure to check other sources, and they actually did come out in 1995.


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Movie: Dead Presidents ( 1995 )
A Vietnam vet adjusts to life after the war while trying to support his family, but the chance of a better life may involve crime and bloodshed.
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Movie: The Scarlet Letter ( 1995 )
An affair between a young woman and a pastor has disastrous consequences.
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Movie: Total Eclipse ( 1995 )
Young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lifestyle.
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Movie: Nick of Time ( 1995 )
An unimpressive, every-day man is forced into a situation where he is told to kill a politician to save his kidnapped daughter.
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Movie: Rumble in the Bronx ( 1995 )
A young man visiting and helping his uncle in New York City finds himself forced to fight a street gang and the mob with his martial art skills.
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Movie: Nixon ( 1996 )
A biographical story of former U.S. President Richard Nixon, from his days as a young boy, to his eventual Presidency, which ended in shame.
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Movie: Nine Months ( 1995 )
When he finds out his longtime girlfriend is pregnant, a commitment-phobe realizes he might have to change his lifestyle for better or much, much worse.
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Movie: Money Train ( 1995 )
A vengeful New York City transit cop decides to steal a trainload of subway fares. His foster brother, a fellow cop, tries to protect him.
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Movie: How to Make an American Quilt ( 1995 )
Bride-to-be Finn Dodd hears tales of romance and sorrow from her elders as they construct a quilt.
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Movie: Waiting to Exhale ( 1995 )
This story based on the best selling novel by Terry McMillan follows the lives of four African-American women as they try to deal with their very lives. Friendship becomes the strongest bond between these women as men, careers, and families take them in different directions. Often light-hearted this movie speaks about some of the problems and struggles the modern women face in today's world.
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Movie: Screamers ( 1996 )
Soldiers attempting to negotiate the end to a long-running war discover the robots they built to assassinate enemy combatants have gained sentience and are plotting against both sides.
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Movie: The Doom Generation ( 1995 )
Jordan White and Amy Blue, two troubled teens, pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier Red. Together, the threesome embark on a sex and violence-filled journey through an America of psychos and quickiemarts.
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Movie: Vampire in Brooklyn ( 1995 )
A ship sails into Brooklyn with all its crew dead. But something gets off and the killing continues on land. The vampire is looking for a specific woman - half-human, half-vampire. Rita's the cop detective investigating the many killings.
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Movie: Living in Oblivion ( 1995 )
This ultimate tribute to all independent filmmakers takes place during one day on the set of a non-budget movie.
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Movie: Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight ( 1995 )
High-level demons collect low-level demons as warriors in attempt to obtain a key containing the blood of Christ. The key is guarded by immortal warriors called Demon Knights.
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Movie: Othello ( 1996 )
The Moorish General Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his Lieutenant Michael Cassio, when in reality, it is all part of the scheme of a bitter Ensign named Iago.
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Movie: Tom and Huck ( 1995 )
Two best friends witness a murder and embark on a series of adventures in order to prove the innocence of the man wrongly accused of the crime.
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Movie: Sudden Death ( 1995 )
A former fireman takes on a group of terrorists holding the Vice President and others hostage during the seventh game of the NHL Stanley Cup finals.
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Movie: Kiss of Death ( 1995 )
A reformed convict goes undercover with the help of an angry detective to ensnare a psychotic mobster.
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Movie: Tales from the Hood ( 1995 )
A funeral director tells four strange tales of horror with an African American focus to three drug dealers he traps in his place of business.
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Movie: Fair Game ( 1995 )
Max Kirkpatrick is a cop who protects Kate McQuean, a civil law attorney, from a renegade KGB team out to terminate her.
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Movie: Just Cause ( 1995 )
A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a young black man condemned to death for the horrific murder of a child.
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Movie: Canadian Bacon ( 1995 )
The U.S. President, low in the opinion polls, gets talked into raising his popularity by trying to start a cold war against Canada.
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Movie: Live Nude Girls ( 1995 )
Georgina throws a sleepover party for her friend Jamie, a moderately successful actress, on the night of Jamie's fiancée's bachelor party. Jill, Jamie, Marcy, Rachel, and Georgina have been friends since childhood, and as the evening progresses they talk about a variety of topics: Georgina's heterosexual fantasies and her uncertainties about Chris, her live-in lover; Jamie's doubts and insecurities about marriage; and all of their attitudes toward sex and sexual fantasies.
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Movie: Smoke ( 1995 )
A Brooklyn smoke shop is the center of neighborhood activity, and the stories of its customers.
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Movie: Heavy ( 1996 )
The life of an overweight, unhappy cook is changed after a kind, beautiful college drop-out comes to work as a waitress at his and his mother's road-side restaurant.
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Movie: Richard III ( 1995 )
The classic Shakespearean play about the murderously scheming 15th-century king is reimagined in an alternative setting of 1930s England as clouds of fascism gather.
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Movie: Senior Trip ( 1995 )
While on detention, a group of misfits and slackers have to write a letter to the President explaining what is wrong with the education system. There is only one problem, the President loves it! Hence, the group must travel to Washington to meet the Main Man.
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Movie: Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead ( 1995 )
Five different criminals face imminent death after botching a job quite badly.
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Movie: Leprechaun 3 ( 1995 )
An evil leprechaun finds himself in Las Vegas, where he proceeds to cause mischief by killing people, granting twisted wishes, and infecting a young man with his green blood.
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Movie: Home for the Holidays ( 1995 )
After losing her job, making out with her soon-to-be former boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson faces spending the holiday with her family.
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Movie: Devil in a Blue Dress ( 1995 )
An African-American man is hired to find a woman, and gets mixed up in a murderous political scandal.
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Movie: Safe ( 1995 )
An affluent and unexceptional homemaker in the suburbs develops multiple chemical sensitivity.
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Movie: Forget Paris ( 1995 )
Mickey Gordon is a basketball referee who travels to France to bury his father. Ellen Andrews, an American living in Paris, works for the airline Mickey flies on. They meet and fall in love, but their relationship goes through many difficult patches. The story is told in flashback by their friends at a restaurant waiting for them to arrive.
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Movie: Circle of Friends ( 1995 )
'Circle Of Friends' is set in 1950's Ireland. The movie focuses on Benny Hogan and her best friend, Eve Malone. The story centers around Benny and Eve as they enter student life at University College, Dublin. Here Benny and Eve reunite with their childhood friend, the ice-cool Nan Mahon, the 'college belle'. They also encounter the handsome and charming Jack Foley, whom Benny quickly falls for.
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Movie: Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh ( 1995 )
The Candyman arrives in New Orleans and sets his sights on a young woman whose family was ruined by the immortal killer years before.
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Movie: The Cure ( 1995 )
Erik, a loner, finds a friend in Dexter, an eleven-year-old boy with AIDS. They vow to find a cure for AIDS together and save Dexter's life in an eventful summer.
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Movie: Tall Tale ( 1995 )
A young boy draws on the inspiration of legendary western characters to find the strength to fight an evil land baron in the old west who wants to steal his family's farm and destroy their idyllic community. When Daniel Hackett sees his father Jonas gravely wounded by the villainous Stiles, his first urge is for his family to flee the danger, and give up their life on a farm which Daniel has come to despise anyway. Going alone to a lake to try to decide what to do, he falls asleep on a boat and wakes to find himself in the wild west, in the company of such "tall tale" legends as Pecos Bill, Paul Bunyan, John Henry, and Calamity Jane. Together, they battle the same villains Daniel is facing in his "real" world.
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Movie: Clockers ( 1995 )
Young drug pushers in the projects of Brooklyn live hard dangerous lives, trapped between their drug bosses and the detectives out to stop them.
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Movie: Something to Talk About ( 1995 )
Grace Bichon, who is managing her father Wyly King's riding-stable, discovers that her husband, Eddie, deceives her with another woman. After confronting him in the middle of the night on the streets of their small home town, she decides to stay at her sister Emma Rae's house for a while to make up her mind. Breaking out of her everyday life, she starts to question everyone's authority, especially Wyly's, thus causing a stir in her parents' marriage, too.
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Movie: Restoration ( 1996 )
The exiled royal physician to King Charles II devotes himself to helping Londoners suffering from the plague, and in the process falls in love with an equally poor woman.
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Movie: Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home ( 1995 )
Teenager Jesse becomes reunited with Willy two years after the whale's jump to freedom as the teenager tries to rescue the killer whale and other orcas from an oil spill.
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Movie: Boys on the Side ( 1995 )
Jane is a night club singer, out of work. Robin is a quirky real estate agent looking for a ride-share to accompany her to California. Her advertisement is answered by Jane, who at first was uncertain about her. A stop in Pittsburgh picks up a third, Holly, escaping a violent and drug-dealing partner. Girls on the road, reaching understanding, respect, and care for each other. But this trio is different - Jane a lesbian, Robin suffering with AIDS, Holly running from her past, seeking one-night stands and a good man.
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Movie: 3 Ninjas Knuckle Up ( 1995 )
In this movie Rocky, Colt and TumTum must battle an evil wealthy toxic waste dumper in order to save a local Indian tribe and their friend Jo. The 3 Ninjas must help find Jo's father and find a secret disk that contains evidence that could stop the toxic landfill that is destroying the Indian community. However the town is owned by the rich man and he controls the police and even the mayor. They must fight a motorcycle gang and renegade cowboys in this non-stop ninja adventure.
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Movie: The Mangler ( 1995 )
A laundry-folding machine has been possessed by a demon, causing it to develop homicidal tendencies.
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Movie: Operation Dumbo Drop ( 1995 )
During the Vietnam War, a village that American forces are using to spy on the Ho Chi Minh Trail has its sacred elephant killed by the North Vietnamese Army because they were cooperating with the Americans. The villagers need an elephant for a ceremony that will occur within the week. Captain Sam Cahill, an easygoing man who is heading home, and his hotheaded replacement Captain TC Doyle scrounge up another elephant with the help of sneaky supply chief warrant officer David Poole, luckless farmboy Lawrence Farley, and short-timer Harvey Ashford, and transport it across South Vietnam to get it to the village on time, running into all sorts of transport problems, personality conflicts, and an NVA squad that wants the Americans out of the village.
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Movie: Angus ( 1995 )
A miserable fat teenager secretly has a crush on the class beauty, ends up becoming the surprising participant to dance with her at a high school dance, meaning he's got to get his act together with the help of his best friend.
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Movie: Bye Bye Love ( 1995 )
This is a story about the breakup of the family. In particular, it focuses on the lifestyle of three divorced men. The film is presented from their perspective and it reveals their relationship with their children, ex-wives, girl friends, male friendships, and their identities as divorced men. In addition to dealing with divorce, the film touches on spousal loss and young adult homelessness. The film can be considered a social commentary that is both comical and emotional.
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Movie: Hideaway ( 1995 )
Hatch gets a special resuscitative medicine after "dying" in a car accident. His wife and daughter only get minor injuries. He gets strange nightmares such as killing a teen girl. Is it just dreams?
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Movie: Jury Duty ( 1995 )
When jobless Tommy Collins discovers that sequestered jurors earn free room and board as well as $5-a-day, he gets himself assigned to a jury in a murder trial. Once there, he does everything he can to prolong the trial and deliberations and make the sequestration more comfortable for himself.
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Movie: The Addiction ( 1995 )
A New York philosophy grad student turns into a vampire after getting bitten by one, and then tries to come to terms with her new lifestyle and frequent craving for human blood.
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Movie: Mad Love ( 1995 )
The high-school student Matt Leland lives with his twin brother and sister and his father in a house by the lake. When the teenager Casey Roberts moves to the house on the other side of the lake, Matt snoops into her room with his telescope. They meet each other and soon they fall in love with each other. One day, Matt is taking a test at school and Casey activates the fire alarm to stop the test. She is suspended and her father decides to check her into a psychiatric institution. However Matt breaks her out of the hospital. They travel in Matt's car and have lots of fun until the day Matt discovers that Casey has bipolar disorder with periods of depression and periods of elevated mood. When she tries to commit suicide, Matt realizes that she needs specialized help.
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Movie: Theodore Rex ( 1995 )
In an alternate futuristic society, a tough female police detective is paired with a talking dinosaur to find the killer of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals leading them to a mad scientist bent on creating a new Armageddon.
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Movie: The Last Supper ( 1996 )
A group of idealistic, but frustrated, liberals succumb to the temptation of murdering rightwing pundits for their political beliefs.
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Movie: Party Girl ( 1995 )
A 20-something, irresponsible party girl is bailed out of jail by her librarian godmother. To repay the loan, she starts working at the library and gradually turns her life around.
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Movie: The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain ( 1995 )
When an English cartographer must tell a Welsh village that their mountain is only a hill, the offended community sets out to change that.
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Movie: Glory Daze ( 1996 )
With college graduation pending, the old gang tries to avoid the inevitability of breaking up and going forward with their lives.
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Movie: The Pebble and the Penguin ( 1995 )
A lovable but introverted penguin named Hubie plans to present his betrothal pebble to the bird of his dreams.
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Movie: Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog ( 1995 )
Teenage Angus adopts a stray dog and names him Yellow. Several days later, while traveling along the coast of British Columbia with Angus' father, John, the boy and dog become stranded when turbulent waters capsize their boat. Angus's parents relentlessly badger rescue teams. Angus, schooled by his father in wilderness survival skills, and assisted by the intelligent Yellow Dog, tries to attract rescuers.
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Movie: Houseguest ( 1995 )
In hot water with the mob over an unpaid debt, a con man poses as a family friend in an affluent Pennsylvania suburb.
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Movie: Rumpelstiltskin ( 1995 )
In the 1400s, Rumpelstiltskin is imprisoned inside a small jade figurine. In modern-day Los Angeles, the recently widowed wife of a police officer, with baby in tow, finds her way into a witch's shop and purchases a certain figurine, resulting in the cackling beast being freed and demanding possession of the baby.
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Movie: Bushwhacked ( 1995 )
On the run from authorities, a sleazy courier poses as a scout leader on a camping trip. But he has no idea what he's in for when he has to lead a group of kids.
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Movie: White Man's Burden ( 1995 )
In an alternative America where African-Americans and White Americans have reversed cultural roles, a white factory worker kidnaps a black factory owner for dismissing him over perceived disdain.
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Movie: Stonewall ( 1995 )
A group of homosexual people try to live with dignity and self-respect while events build to the opening battle in the major gay rights movement.
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Movie: Top Dog ( 1995 )
With his cop companion shot and killed by terrorists, Reno The Dog pairs up with tough cop Jake in thwarting the criminal organization.
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Movie: A Close Shave ( 1995 )
Wallace's whirlwind romance with the owner of the local wool shop puts his head in a spin; Gromit is framed for sheep-rustling in a fiendish criminal plot.
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Movie: Three Wishes ( 1995 )
In an unexplained act of charity, Jeanne Holman, picks up an injured, apparent tramp and takes him home to care for him little realizing who he was, or the effect he would have on her life and those of her family.
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Movie: Two Much ( 1995 )
A young gallerist is in love with two sisters at the same time. In order to solve the problem he decides to invent his own twin-brother.
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Movie: Piranha ( 1995 )
The private investigator Maggie McNamara from Lyon Investigation is hired by the wealthy J.R. Randolph to find his niece that has disappeared with her boyfriend. Maggie seeks out the lonely environmentalist Paul Grogan to help her to look for the teenager. They head to an abandoned army facility and Maggie decides to drain the pools to see whether the body of the girl is there. They are assaulted by a woman with a crowbar but they subdue her. However she escapes and soon they learn that the woman is Dr. Leticia Baines, who is researching a hybrid species of piranha that is capable to survive in fresh and sea waters for military purpose. Further, Maggie has release the piranhas on the river and they are heading to the Lost River Lake Resort. Maggie and Paul inform the corrupt local Sheriff but Randolph tells him to lock them up since he does not want to jeopardize the party he has promoted to his resort.
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Movie: The Face on the Milk Carton ( 1995 )
A teenage girl sees a photograph of herself one day in the school cafeteria - on a Missing Persons column on the side of a milk carton. But her beloved parents would never kidnap anyone and there's a deeper mystery ahead.
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Movie: The Jerky Boys ( 1995 )
When two unemployed telephone pranksters decide to use their vocal "talents" to impersonate a Chicago mob boss and curry favor with organized crime in New York, the trouble begins. It isn't long before Johnny and Kamal (the "Jerky Boys" of crank call fame) are wanted by the local mafia, the police, and their neighbor.
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Movie: Miami Rhapsody ( 1995 )
Gwyn begins doubting her "yes" to Matt's wedding proposal, when she hears about her parents' and brother's adultery.
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Movie: The Amazing Panda Adventure ( 1995 )
A young American boy visiting in China helps his zoologist father rescue a panda cub from unscrupulous poachers while his panda reserve is threatened with closure from officious bureaucrats.
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Movie: The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving ( 1995 )
When a sudden shortage of water threatens all life in the great valley, The gang of young dinosaur must cooperate with a group of bullies to make a risky journey outside the valley and find the cause.
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Movie: Born to Be Wild ( 1995 )
Rick Heller is a juvenile delinquent who keeps getting himself into trouble. To keep him out of trouble his mother puts him to work cleaning the cage of a gorilla named Katie which she is teaching to communicate through the use of sign language. When the owner of the gorilla takes her back to become a flea market freak Rick takes it upon himself to break Katie out and take her on an adventureous journey to get her out of the country.
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Movie: Stuart Saves His Family ( 1995 )
A self-help advocate struggles to put his dysfunctional family in its place.
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Movie: Funny Bones ( 1995 )
An unsuccessful comedian uncovers a family secret and learns the true price of letting inherent talent shine.
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Movie: Gordy ( 1995 )
A talking pig named Gordy becomes involved in a quest to save his family from the slaughterhouse.
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Movie: Malicious ( 1995 )
After a brief encounter with a beautiful stranger, a college athlete gets more than he bargained for when she becomes obsessed, stopping at nothing to destroy his life.
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Movie: Bad Company ( 1995 )
Nelson Crowe is a CIA operative under the thumb of the Company for a disputed delivery of $50,000 in gold. They blackmail him into working for the Grimes Organization, which is set up as a private company for hire, to blackmail prominent individuals. Crowe, working with Margaret Wells (another former Covert Operations operative), blackmails and bribes a State Supreme Court judge, but the deal sours. One of Crowe's co-workers, Tod Stapp, discovers Crowe's current CIA involvement in a plot to overthrow Grimes, and blackmails him to be cut in on the deal. More blackmail occurs as Wells manipulates Crowe to kill Grimes, then the CIA uses that discovery to blackmail Wells into killing Crowe. Who can you trust???
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Movie: Magic in the Water ( 1995 )
Radio psychologist Jack Black takes his children Joshua and Ashley on a 'vacation' to a lake in British Columbia. While he grinds away at work the children discover that the famous local lake monster "Orky" may not be just a gimmick to attract tourists after all. In fact, Orky may enable them to get closer to their workaholic dad, and help stop local polluters who are dumping toxic waste into Orky's home.
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Movie: Slam Dunk Ernest ( 1995 )
Ernest P. Worrell becomes a basketball star after an angel bearing an uncanny resemblance to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar gives him a pair of magic sneakers.
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Movie: Rent-a-Kid ( 1995 )
Harry Habert, owner of a rent office has an original idea: To rent baby's from a nearby orphanage to the local families. He rents the Ward sibling, 2 boys and a girl, to his first customers.
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Movie: Pie in the Sky ( 1996 )
A whimsical saga of a young man whose two life-consuming passions are unraveling traffic gridlock and an avant-garde dancer. A romantic comedy.
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Movie: The Cart Boy ( 1995 )
Two mall security guards confront the mysterious "Cart Boy" who has been stealing shopping carts from the mall's parking lot.
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Movie: Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long ( 1995 )
A look at the life and career of controversial Louisiana governor Huey Long, whose nickname was "The Kingfish."
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Movie: Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain ( 1995 )
Moving from the big city (LA) to a backwater town is always difficult, but especially for the one doing the moving. After her dad's death, Beth Easton and her mother, Kate, move to the house left to the family by a deceased aunt. Kate meets up with several old friends, but Beth has none. Slowly, however, she makes friends, despite the lack of a nearby mall or anything else to do. Soon she meets up with two boys fighting ... except one isn't a boy, but a girl. The girl, Jody, is shunned by her peers as a "bad kid." As the film progresses, we see Jody as the apparent victim of a bad relationship between her own widowed mother and Ray, a man who, like everybody else, grew up in the town. Somehow, Beth sees that Jody isn't all that bad; "she just needs a friend." Beth sticks by her, even when Jody is blamed for almost killing Beth. Jody has a dream, though, a dream of finding lost gold in Bear Mountain, left there by a legendary woman named Molly Morgan. Jody has a map, and she has a "condo" in the mountain near the entrance to a series of caves & tunnels leading to the supposed gold. On the first day of summer, Jody and Beth find the cave where the gold supposedly is hidden. The movie continues digging deeper into Jody's life through Beth's eyes. Although the legend of Bear Mountain is the prime motivator of several incidents, it's Jody's relationship to Ray, her mother, Beth, and the rest of the townspeople that provides the focus of the movie.
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Movie: Jeffrey ( 1995 )
Jeffrey, a young gay man in New York, decides that sex is too much and decides to become celibate. He immediately meets the man of his dreams and must decide whether or not love is worth the danger of a boyfriend dying.
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Movie: The Crossing Guard ( 1995 )
Freddy Gale is a seedy jeweller who has sworn to kill the drunk driver who killed his little girl.
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Movie: Fluke ( 1995 )
After a man dies in a car crash, he is reincarnated as a dog and attempts to reconnect with his family.
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Movie: A Kid in King Arthur's Court ( 1995 )
A Little League player is sent back into medieval times where he is given the task of saving Camelot.
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Movie: Problem Child 3: Junior in Love ( 1995 )
Junior Healy is back as a preteen, and he falls in love with a girl from school.
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Movie: The Tie That Binds ( 1995 )
John Netherwood and his wife Leann are fugitives who are both wanted for murder. They have a young daughter named Janie. John and Leann are in the process of robbing a house when the two residents of the house show up. John kills the two residents and heads back to the car with Leann - only to discover the police waiting for them. John and Leann get away after a cop shoots John, and Janie is placed up for adoption. Janie is soon adopted by southern California carpenter Russell Clifton and his wife Dana - and what they don't know is that they're in for the fight of their lives. John and Leann are trying to locate Janie and will stop at nothing to find her, even if it means killing whoever is in their way. When John and Leann discover that Janie was adopted by Russell and Dana, they plot to kill Russell and Dana and take Janie, but one thing they don't expect is for Russell and Dana to fight back with all they've got, because Russell and Dana are willing to do whatever it takes to hold on to the new daughter that they have grown to love.
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Movie: A Pyromaniac's Love Story ( 1995 )
A pastry boy and the son of a hair-piece mogul become involved in an arson scandal. Sergio is offered a bribe in exchange for taking the blame for the fire that destroys his workplace. Garet, the real arsonist, is apalled that someone else would try to take credit for his act of love. Before long, Sergio and Garet become entangled in a zany love-quadrangle involving Hattie and Stephanie.
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Movie: The Spirit of Christmas ( 1995 )
A heart warming tale of four children trying to decide which to cheer for: Jesus, or Santa. It almost makes one wonder what Brian Boitano would do in this situation. In the end, though, they decide that Christmas isn't a time for settling old scores, Christmas is about one thing: presents.