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Earthquake
September 22, 1998
Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California.
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Logan's Run
September 22, 1998
Live it up today, your time is up tomorrow. In the Year of the City 2274, humans forsake the ravaged outer environment by living in a vast, bubbled metropolis. There, computerized servo-mechanisms provide all needs and everyone can pursue endless hedonism. Endless, that is, until Lastday. That's when anyone who's 30 must submit to Carrousel, a soaring, spinning trip to eternity and supposed rebirth.
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My Man Godfrey
September 17, 1998
A scatterbrained socialite hires a vagrant as a family butler - but there's more to Godfrey than meets the eye.
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Hush
September 16, 1998
An intricate, intense thriller about a young bride (Paltrow) who becomes the emotional pawn of her controlling mother-in-law (Lange). (Sony)
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American Graffiti
September 15, 1998
A couple of high school grads spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.
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Dead Alive
September 15, 1998
On a quiet street, in a small town, pure evil has come to stay. An innocent young man forced to care for his domineering mother finds the task a whole lot more demanding after she's bitten by the cursed Sumatran rat monkey. Passing the point of death, Vera sucks friends and family into her gruesome existence among the living dead and Lionel is sent spiraling into a ghoulish nightmare. Now a crazed zombie, she soon infects enough people to make it difficult for Lionel, still the faithful son, to keep the neighbors from suspecting that something is terribly wrong. (Lion's Gate)
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Rumble Fish
September 9, 1998
Rusty James (Dillon) has been failing in his attempts to to live up to his older brother - The Motorcycle Boy's (Rourke) reputation. He returns from California to try to pass some his knowledge of life to his little brother.
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Lionheart
September 8, 1998
An Ex-French Soldier (Jean-Claude Van Damme) begins participating in underground street fights in order to make money for his brother's family.
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sex, lies, and videotape
September 8, 1998
Written in eight days on a trip to Los Angeles by first-time feature director Stephen Soderbergh, and shot in five weeks on a meager $1.2 million budget, the film tells the story of Graham (James Spader), who visits old friend John (Peter Gallager), and engages John's wife (Andie McDowell), and her sister (Laura San Giacomo) in his unique method of overcoming his unusual sexual dysfunction.
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Barney's Great Adventure
September 1, 1998
Mom and dad dump son Cody, daughter Abby, her best friend Marcella and a baby on the farm with Grandpa and Grandma. Purple dinosaur Barney soon appears to entertain kids, and when a large colorful egg deposited on a farm by a shooting star is accidentally carted off, Barney and kids start their chase for it.
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Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson
September 1, 1998
A cynical Buffalo Bill hires Sitting Bull to exploit him and add his credibility to the distorted view of history presented in his Wild West Show.
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Class Act
September 1, 1998
A valedictorian and a juvenile delinquent have their school records switched and begin to be treated like the other.
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Cuba
September 1, 1998
A British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train General Batista's Army against Castro's guerrillas while he also romances a former lover now married to an unscrupulous plantation owner.
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The Indian Runner
September 1, 1998
A Vietnam vet comes home to his small town and finds himself in conflict with rules that his brother has vowed to uphold.
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The Offence
September 1, 1998
A burnt-out British police detective finally snaps whilst interrogating a suspected child molester.
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She's So Lovely
September 1, 1998
After being released from a psychiatric institution, a man tries to redeem himself in the eyes of his now-ex wife from the events that led up to his incarceration.
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The Naked Kiss
August 26, 1998
Kelly's path towards happiness is thrown amiss when she witnesses a shocking event, which threatens not just her happiness, but her mental health as well.
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2001: A Space Odyssey
August 25, 1998
2001: A Space Odyssey is a countdown to tomorrow, a road map to human destiny, a quest for the infinite. To begin his voyage into the future, Kubrick visits our prehistoric ape-ancestry past, then leaps millenia (via one of the most mind-blowing jump cuts ever conceived) into colonized space, and ultimately whisks astronaut Bowman (Dullea) into uncharted realms of space, perhaps even into immortality. "Open the pod bay doors, HAL." Let the awe and mystery of a journey unlike any other begin. (Warner Bros.)
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2010
August 25, 1998
A joint U.S.-Soviet expedition is sent to Jupiter to glean what happened to the Discovery.
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New Jack City
August 25, 1998
Drug tycoon Nino Brown (Wesley Snipes) and his gang, the Cash Money Brothers, have rapidly risen to the top of the New York City narcotics trade. Under Nino's heartless leadership, the drug operation has grown into a multimillion-dollar empire. Scotty (Ice-T) and Nick (Judd Nelson), two police officers who know their way around the streets of Harlem, aim to bring Nino and his cohorts down. To do so, though, they'll have to play by Nino's rules and go undercover. [Warner Bros.]
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Ridicule
August 25, 1998
To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.
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Rocky IV
August 25, 1998
Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) proudly holds the world heavyweight boxing championship, but a new challenger has stepped forward: Drago (Dolph Lundgren), a six-foot-four, 261-pound fighter who has the backing of the Soviet Union. This time, Rocky's training regimen takes him to icy Siberia, where he prepares for a globally televised match in the heart of Moscow. But nothing can truly prepare him for what he's about to face - a powerfully charged fight to the finish, in which he must defend not only himself, but also the honor of his country! [MGM]
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Zombie
August 25, 1998
Strangers searching for a young woman's missing father arrive at a tropical island where a doctor desperately seeks the cause and cure of a recent epidemic of the undead.
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The Frighteners
August 18, 1998
After a tragic car accident kills his wife, a man discovers he can communicate with the dead to con people. However, when a demonic spirit appears, he may be the only one who can stop it from killing the living and the dead.
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Joe Kidd
August 18, 1998
An ex-bounty hunter reluctantly helps a wealthy landowner and his henchmen track down a Mexican revolutionary leader.
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Swimming with Sharks
August 18, 1998
A young, naive Hollywood studio assistant finally turns the tables on his incredibly abusive producer boss.
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Oliver!
August 11, 1998
After being sold to a mortician, young orphan Oliver Twist runs away and meets a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor.
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Peggy Sue Got Married
August 11, 1998
Peggy Sue (Kathleen Turner) faints at a high school reunion. When she wakes up, she finds herself in her own past, just before she finished school.
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The Doom Generation
August 4, 1998
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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Life with Father
August 4, 1998
A financier from New York City rules his numerous family, consisting of his wife and his four sons, with the meticulousness of a bookkeeper.
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Palmetto
August 4, 1998
Woody Harrelson plays a small-timer suckered into a fake kidnapping plot and facing hard time if he can't untangle a mystery involving three women (Shue, Gershon, Sevigny), false identities, cold corpses and assorted clues framing him. (Warner Home Video)
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Legal Eagles
July 29, 1998
A New York district attorney works and flirts with his adversary and her kooky artist client, who is on trial for a murder she didn't commit.
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Dark City
July 28, 1998
Alex Proyas directs this futuristic thriller about a man (Sewell) waking up to find he is wanted for brutal murders he doesn't remember. Haunted by mysterious beings who stop time and alter reality, he seeks to unravel the riddle of his identity. [New Line]
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For a Few Dollars More
July 28, 1998
Two bounty hunters with the same intentions team up to track down a Western outlaw.
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The Great Train Robbery
July 28, 1998
Also known as "The First Great Train Robbery." In Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a moving train.
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Stone Cold
July 28, 1998
A tough Alabama cop is blackmailed by the FBI into going undercover in a violent Mississippi biker gang.
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Midnight Run
July 22, 1998
Bounty hunter Jack Walsh (De Niro) is offered $100,000 from a bail bondsman to capture fugitive accountant Jonathan "the Duke" Mardukas (Grodin) and bring him to Los Angeles in time for his trial date. Walsh must avoid a rival bounty hunter, the FBI, and the mob to earn his payday.
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An American Werewolf in Paris
July 21, 1998
On the loose in Europe, three wild college grads from America bring their "Daredevil Tour" to Paris in search of some serious fun. There, Andy (Scott) falls for the beautiful and mysterious woman of his dreams (Delpy). The only problem is ... when the moon is full, Andy's dream girl turns into a total nightmare! (Buena Vista)
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The Beguiled
July 21, 1998
While imprisoned in a Confederate girls' boarding school, an injured Union soldier cons his way into each of the lonely women's hearts, causing them to turn on each other, and eventually, on him.
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Bird on a Wire
July 21, 1998
An old flame discovers her ex-boyfriend from the past is a relocated FBI informant out to stop the bad guys.
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Do the Right Thing
July 21, 1998
Set on the hottest day of the summer, the film examines various personal, social and economic issues through the eyes of an ensemble of neighborhood characters on a Bedford Stuyvesant block in Brooklyn.
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Mad Max
July 21, 1998
Max Rockatansky (Mel Gibson), an Australian policeman, sets out to avenge his wife and son.
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Man of a Thousand Faces
July 21, 1998
The life and career of vaudevillian and silent screen horror star Lon Chaney, including his contentious relationship with his neurotic wife and his premature death.
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Reality Bites
July 21, 1998
A documentary filmmaker and her fellow Gen X graduates face life after college, looking for work and love in Houston.
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Streets of Fire
July 21, 1998
A mercenary is hired to rescue his ex-girlfriend, a singer who has been kidnapped by a motorcycle gang.
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Swingers
July 21, 1998
Set in the back streets and sometimes hidden clubs of Hollywood, Swingers is an ensemble comedy about five guys, all in their twenties, all coping with the mysteries of life and women. (Miramax Films)
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Walking Tall
July 21, 1998
Based on the life of Tennessee sheriff Buford Pusser whom almost single-handily cleaned up his small town of crime and corruption, but at a personal cost of his family life and nearly his own life.
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The Silence of the Lambs
July 15, 1998
In pursuit of one serial killer, ambitious FBI student Clarice Starling (Foster) is forced to enlist the aid of another notorious killer, the incarcerated ex-psychiatrist known as "Hannibal the Cannibal" Lecter (Hopkins).
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Boyz n the Hood
July 14, 1998
Tre Styles (Cuba Gooding Jr.), is a teen caught between the steady, forceful guidance of his father, Furious (Laurence Fishburne), and the inescapable violence of his South Central Los Angeles neighborhood.
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Sands of Iwo Jima
July 14, 1998
A dramatization of the World War II Battle of Iwo Jima.
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Sphere
July 14, 1998
A new dimension in thrills in the deep-water, deep-suspense sci-fi adventure centered on a spacecraft that plunged into the Pacific -- 300 years ago. (Warner Bros.)
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Ticks
July 14, 1998
A group of troubled teenagers are led by social workers on a California wilderness retreat, not knowing that the woods they are camping in have become infested by mutated, blood-sucking ticks.
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In the Name of the Father
July 8, 1998
Academy Award winner Daniel Day-Lewis gives an impassioned performance in this riveting drama that mirrors one man's 15-year struggle and ultimate triumph over a terrible injustice. [Universal Studios]
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The Boxer
July 7, 1998
Star-crossed lovers (Lewis, Watson) are torn between unquestioning loyalty to the ties of tradition and the passion they share in this film set in 1990s Belfast, torn apart by years of religious conflict and IRA violence.
(Universal)
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Far and Away
July 1, 1998
In 1892, Joseph Donelly (Cruise), a poor tenant farmer, is determined to bring justice to an oppressive landlord. Instead, he finds himself accompanying the landlord's daughter, Shannon (Kidman), to America in a quest for land. (Universal Pictures)
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Thief
July 1, 1998
Becoming closer to his dream of leading a normal life, a professional safecracker agrees to do a job for the mafia, who have other plans for him.
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The Basketball Diaries
June 30, 1998
An adapation of Jim Carroll's memoirs of his decent from basketball star to heroin addict while in high school.
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Dazed and Confused
June 30, 1998
A period ensemble piece about a group of Texas teenagers on the last day of high school and the night that follows in 1976.
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Fiddler on the Roof
June 30, 1998
In prerevolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant contends with marrying off three of his daughters while growing anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village.
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The Freshman
June 30, 1998
An N.Y.C. film school student (Matthew Broderick) accepts a job with a local mobster who resembles a famous cinema godfather and who takes the young man under his wing, after demanding total loyalty.
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The Great Outdoors
June 30, 1998
A Chicago man's hope for a peaceful family vacation in the woods is shattered when the annoying in-laws drop in.
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The Grifters
June 30, 1998
When small-time cheat Roy Dillon (Cusack) winds up in the hospital following an unsuccessful scam, it sets up a confrontation between his estranged mother Lilly (Huston) and sexy girlfriend Myra (Bening). Both Lilly and Myra are ruthless confidence artists playing the con game in a league far above Roy ... and always looking for their next victim. The question soon becomes who's conning who as Roy finds himself caught in a complicated web of passion and mistrust. (Miramax)
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Maniac
June 30, 1998
A psychotic man, troubled by his childhood abuse, loose in New York City, kills young women and takes their scalps as his trophies. Will he find the perfect woman in a photographer, and end his killing spree?
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Metropolis (re-release)
June 30, 1998
Possibly the crowning achievement of silent cinema, Fritz Lang's 1927 blockbuster fuses the frenetic storytelling of twenties pulp fiction with Lang's personal fascination with the darker side of human nature. (Kino International)
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Sgt. Bilko
June 30, 1998
Sgt. Bilko is in charge of the Motor Pool at an Army base. He's also a good-natured con man, providing gambling facilities for the soldiers on base. When an old enemy from his past shows up to inspect his records and steal away his fianceé, Sgt. Bilko has to put his skills to creative use...
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Opening Night
June 29, 1998
An actress suffers an emotional uproar in her personal life after a fan dies trying to see her.
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Uncle Buck
June 29, 1998
Bachelor and all round slob, Buck, babysits his brother's rebellious teenage daughter and her cute younger brother and sister.
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A Woman Under the Influence
June 29, 1998
Mabel, a wife and mother, is loved by her husband Nick but her mental illness proves to be a problem in the marriage.
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
June 26, 1998
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
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Angel Heart
June 23, 1998
A private investigator is hired by a man who calls himself Louis Cyphre to track down a singer named Johnny Favorite. But the investigation takes an unexpected and somber turn.
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American Pop
June 19, 1998
The story of four generations of a Russian Jewish immigrant family of musicians whose careers parallel the history of American popular music in the 20th century.
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From Dusk Till Dawn
June 16, 1998
George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino star as the Gecko brothers -- two dangerous outlaws on a wild crime spree. After kidnapping a father (Keitel) and his two kids (Lewis), the Geckos head south to a seedy Mexican bar to hide out in safety. But when they face the bar's truly notorious clientele, they're forced to team up with their hostages in order to make it out alive. (Dimension)
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Highlander: The Final Dimension
June 16, 1998
Deceived that he had won the Prize, Connor MacLeod awakens from a peaceful life when an entombed immortal magician comes seeking the Highlander.
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Airport '77
June 15, 1998
Art thieves hijack a 747, hit fog and crash into the ocean, trapping them and the passengers under one hundred feet of water.
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The Front Page
June 15, 1998
As a tabloid newspaper editor tries to prevent his top reporter from retiring, an escaped death row convict shows up at the office trying to convey his innocence.
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Tank
June 15, 1998
Sergeant Major Zack arrives at a new army base with his wife, son and Sherman tank. One night at a bar he "stops" a pimp/deputy from beating a girl. The corrupt sheriff uses Zack's son for revenge and Zack uses his tank.
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Love Affair
June 12, 1998
A French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship. They arrange to reunite six months later, after he has had a chance to earn a decent living.
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The Tango Lesson
June 9, 1998
A filmmaker (Sally Potter), dissatisfied wth her latest screenplay, stumbles upon the tango and an Argentinian tango dancer (Pablo Veron) living in Paris. Fascinated by both, she places herself under Pablo's tutelage, striking a deal — if Pablo will make her a tango dancer, she will let him star in her next film. He accomplishes his side of the bargain when they perform in a show, but her attempt to make a film with Pablo in Buenos Aires exposes the complexities at the heart of the story — how do you follow when your instinct is to lead? [Sony Pictures Classics]
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Beauty and the Beast (re-release)
June 2, 1998
Jean Cocteau's 1946 classic, newly restored to its original glorious black and white splendor. (Film Forum)
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A Bronx Tale
May 27, 1998
A young man grows up with his loyalties torn between his father and the mob boss who runs the streets.
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Carlito's Way
May 26, 1998
A Puerto Rican former convict, just released from prison, pledges to stay away from drugs and violence despite the pressure around him and lead on to a better life outside of N.Y.C.
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The Chamber
May 26, 1998
O'Donnell stars as idealistic young attorney Adam Hall who takes on the death row clemency case of his onetime Klansman grandfather, Sam Cayhall (Hackman). With just 28 days before the execution, Adam sets out to retrace the events leading to the crime for which Sam was convicted. As the impending death sentence looms closer, Adam works quickly to uncover the family's history for any hidden clues. In a white-knuckle series of twists and turns, Adam discovers deceptions and dark secrets that ultimately lead him to the startling truth. (Universal Pictures)
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Deconstructing Harry
May 26, 1998
This film revolves around the problems of a New York writer's creative and erotic life.
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The Getaway
May 26, 1998
An ex-con (Alex Baldwin) and his devoted wife must flee from danger when a heist doesn't go according to plan.
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The House of the Seven Gables
May 26, 1998
Fighting over an inheritance, one Pyncheon brother frames the other for murder.
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The Last Boy Scout
May 26, 1998
An LAPD detective's protected female witness is murdered, prompting him and the victim's boyfriend to investigate the crime that leads to a corrupt politician and a crooked football team owner.
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Lifeforce
May 26, 1998
A race of space vampires arrives in London and infects the populace, beginning an apocalyptic descent into chaos.
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My Girl
May 26, 1998
A young girl, on the threshold of her teen years, finds her life turning upside down, when she is accompanied by an unlikely friend.
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The Night Flier
May 26, 1998
A reporter is on the trail of a vampiric murderer who travels by plane.
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Sea of Love
May 26, 1998
A detective investigating a series of murders becomes involved with a woman who may be the culprit.
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The Sweet Hereafter
May 26, 1998
On a winter's day, in the small rural community of Sam Dent, British Columbia, a school bus inexplicably crashes into a frozen lake, taking the lives of fourteen children and injuring many others. Shortly thereafter, Mitchell Stephens (Holm), a big city lawyer, comes to the community with promises to compensate its citizens for their loss. (Fine Line Films)
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Twins
May 26, 1998
An ambitious genetic experiment takes the wrong turn when two twins - who look nothing alike - are born and then separated. Years later, the unlikely siblings meet: Julius, a highly educated but sheltered giant with a big heart, and Vincent, a pint-sized hustler with an insatiable lust for women and money. With girlfriends in tow and a hitman on their tail, the newfound brothers set off on a wild, cross-country misadventure to find their mother - but end up finding out more about themselves. (Universal Studios)
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As Good as It Gets
May 19, 1998
An unusual friendship develops between three people in New York City: a single mother working as a waitress (Hunt), a writer with obsessive-compulsive disorder (Nicholson), and his neighbor, a gay artist (Kinnear).
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Grosse Pointe Blank
May 19, 1998
In this black comedy, a philosophical hit man (Cusack) reluctantly accepts an assignment in Detroit which coincides with his 10-year high school reunion in the upscale suburb of Grosse Point, Michigan.
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L.A. Story
May 19, 1998
A TV meteorologist (Steve Martin) is fired after taking the weekend off and his relationship with his long-time girlfriend quickly goes south. With everything looking glum, he unexpectedly meets a British journalist (Victoria Tennant) on assignment in Los Angeles and falls instantly in love. Thinking he has little chance with her, though, and in desperation he starts a relationship with a ditzy younger woman (Sarah Jessica Parker) who introduces him to the wonders of rollerskating and colonics. All the while he longs for the journalist.
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Pulp Fiction
May 19, 1998
Several inter-locking stories of crime and intrigue form a temporal mosaic set in the Los Angeles underworld.
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Starship Troopers
May 19, 1998
From the bridge of the Fleet Battlestation Ticonderoga, with its sweeping galactic views, to the desolate terrain of planet Klendathu, teeming with shrieking, fire-spitting, brain-sucking special effects creatures, acclaimed director Paul Verhoven crafts a dazzling epic based on Robert A. Heinlein's classic sci-fi adventure. Courageous soldiers travel to the distant and desolate Klendathu system for the ultimate showdown between the species. (Sony)
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Brewster's Millions
May 12, 1998
A minor league baseball player (Richard Pryor) has to spend thirty million dollars in thirty days, in order to inherit three hundred million dollars. However, he's not allowed to tell anyone about the deal.
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King Kong vs. Godzilla
May 12, 1998
A pharmaceutical company captures King Kong and brings him to Japan, where he escapes from captivity and battles a recently released Godzilla.
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Sixteen Candles
May 6, 1998
Nothing seems to be going right for Samantha (Ringwald) on her sixteenth birthday. Her family forgets her birthday, she's in love with the school jock who doesn't seem to know she exists and the school nerd won't leave her alone.
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