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Basic Instinct - Unrated Collectors Edition (DVD)
(1992) Even better than Fatal Attraction, get the unrated version if you can. Features some of the hottest sex scenes this side of Last Tango and a plot Hitchcock would have loved. Sharon Stone is the greatest bisexual screen nympho of all time. And it is one helluva good story too.
Wall Street (DVD)
(1987) Charlie Sheen also gives a great performance in this movie that defines the excess of the eighties insider trading. Which of course was nothing compared to what went on 20 years later.
The American President (DVD)
(1995) Nice romance - Douglas plays a liberal President, somewhat like the one played so well by Martin Sheen on West Wing. He has compromised so much that he no longer stands for the things that got him elected in the first place. His wife passed away during his first term; enter Annette Benning to remind him not only of what it is to fall in love but also his responsibilty to represent the ideals that put him in the White House. How come our fictional Presidents - even Clancy's Jack Ryan, a conservative - are so much better than the choices we end up with in the real world? Why, out of 300 million people, is there not one Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, or Adams?
Wonder Boys (DVD)
(2000) The plot will have your head spinning with all the twists and turns. Watch a young Tobey Maguire, famous now as Spiderman.
Disclosure (DVD)
(1994) Demi Moore co-stars in this story of a man who sues for sexual harassment.
Romancing the Stone (DVD)
(1984) Vacuous yet entertaining, co-starring the sexy Kathleen Turner.
A Perfect Murder(DVD)
(1998) Hitchcock would have loved this, spouses taking turns trying to kill each other.
Falling Down(DVD)
(1993) Douglas plays an unemployed engineer who has always done the right thing his entire life - until one fateful day when events spin out of his control. Most critics hated this, but my question to them is this: How many of you caviar-munchers spent one day over a grill or in a muffler factory? Those of us who have, and especially those of us who used to make good money in technical careers, really identify with this character. Sad how it fits even better today than when released. Robert Duvall gives another great performance as a detective with a cast-iron bitch for a wife.
This film means a lot more to me, and probably a lot of others, today than it did when released. The current 2007-? recession is far worse than the early 90s that cost the first Bush his Presidency, and those of us thrown out of work or making 10-20% of what we used to can empathize with the Douglas character.
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