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American Beauty (1999)

American Beauty (1999)

Fight Club (1999) On the Waterfront (1954 Dances with Wolves (1990) Apocalypse Now (1979 The House of the Spirits (1993) Scrooged The film was marketed with references to Ghostbusters which had been a great success four years earlier. In the USA, the tagline was, "Bill Murray is back among the ghosts, only this time, it's three against one." Plot[edit] Frank Cross (Bill Murray) is a cynical television programming executive. His ruthless concentration on his career has cost him his true love, Claire Phillips (Karen Allen). When Cross is given the task of heading up a live Christmas Eve broadcast of A Christmas Carol, his life begins to mirror the story he's producing. The Ghost of Christmas Past (David Johansen) appears as a New York City cab driver and takes Frank back to his childhood in 1955, to his late teens in 1968 when he had his first job at the TV station, to 1969 for his anniversary with Claire, and to 1971, the year in which he chose his job as "Frisbee the Dog" over her. After the second ghost's visit, Eliot Loudermilk, drunk and angry, storms the office with a shotgun and tries to murder Frank.

The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 15 Romantic Movies Men Should Love We are only into the sixth week of 2010, and we are about to get our third romantic comedy this weekend in the form of Garry Marshall's Valentine's Day. With the eponymous holiday coming up on Sunday, you can be sure that boyfriends around the world will be dragged to see the ensemble film. Come Monday, however, studio executives over at Warner Bros. won't be expecting said guys to be gushing about the film to their friends: they know who their target audience is, and it ain't the ones with dangly parts. It doesn't exactly come off as manly to admit to your friends that you cried a bit when the dreamboat finally admitted his everlasting love to the 30-something workaholic who always put her job before her love life. So what about romantic comedies that man can actually admit to seeing and owning without committing a man violation? The Princess Bride Yes, it is the story of true love between a girl and a farm boy who will wade through all forms of troubled waters to be with each other.

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