Jack Nicholson stars at his defiant best, playing a “bad ass” Navy warrant officer tasked with escorting a sailor (Randy Quaid) up the East Coast during winter’s bleak to serve an eight year sentence at Portsmouth Naval Prison for trying to steal $40 from the base commander wife’s polio donation can. Nicholson does his best [...]

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Politically charged and audacious police procedural pulls no punches in its chronicle of a New York police detective who unleashes a dizzying vendetta against the Chinese triad importing heroin and terrorizing New York’s Chinatown. Directed by Michael Cimino from a script written in tandem with Oliver Stone (based on the pulp novel by Robert Daley), [...]

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A teenager (Bud Cort) – who drives a hearse and is so disaffected by what he sees around him that he repeatedly fakes suicide to get the attention of his mother – has an affair with a spitfire seventy nine year old woman (Ruth Gordon) in this black comedy. Directed by Hal Ashby, written by [...]

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