SLEEPERS
How about watching a film that most people
have never heard of, but is worth watching. I call
them Sleepers, so look for them at your local store if
you're tired of the same old/same old. Tell 'em Larry
sent you.
American
Nightmare
(1983) (low budget canadian r-rated slasher whodunit, nicely
done)
Barbarosa
(1982) (neat western-like film with
Willie Nelson & Gary Busey)
Big Fish
(2003) (do you believe your parents stories about them when
they were growing up?)
The
Brady Bunch Movie
(1995) (watch this movie only if you hated
the show but watched it when you were a kid...funny stuff)
Defending
Your Life
(1991) (Meryl Streep & Albert Brooks
comedy about life after death)
The
Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish
(1991) (twisted comedy with Jeff Goldblum)
Ffolkes
(1980) (as called "North Sea Hijack" change
of pace film for Roger Moore)
House
of Games
(1987) (crafty mystery with lots of right
hooks)
Jim Henson's
The Storyteller
(1988) (not a movie, but a short-lived 9 episode TV series)
The
Kingdom
(1994) (4+ hour Danish foreign
horror/thriller about a haunted hospital)
Little Dorrit
(1988) (very long mystery/drama but very
satisfying)
Lone
Star
(1996) (nicely done drama/mystery)
Strictly
Ballroom
(1992) (Rocky type of film with neat
twists, even if you don't like dancing)
Taking
of Pelham 123
(1974) (train hijacking drama with Robert
Shaw & Walter Matthau)
This
Man Must Die
(1969) (French foreign film with Alfred
Hitchcock flavor)