Movie Releases by Genre
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Splendor
September 17, 1999
Veronica (Robertson) falls for two guys she meets at a party -- witty and intellectual rock critic Abel (Shaech) and passionate punk drummer Zed (Keeslar) -- and the three of them attempt to live together while adjusting to life in their unconventional relationship.
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Blue Streak
September 17, 1999
Martin Lawrence plays a jewel thief who impersonates a police officer and teams with an unsuspecting rookie partner (Wilson) in order to recover a diamond he once hid in the police station's ventilation system.
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Sugar Town
September 17, 1999
The film explores, in authentic detail, the Los Angeles music scene -- a treacherous world where people on every rung of the ladder exploit each other in pursuit of fame and success. (USA Films)
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Taxman
September 17, 1999
New York State Tax Investigator Al Benjamin (Pantoliano) infiltrates the Russian community of Brighton Beach, New York, to track down the con man who is running a tax fraud scheme.
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Black Cat, White Cat
September 10, 1999
The film centers around a group of gypsies who live on the banks of the Danube River. (USA Films)
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Love Stinks
September 10, 1999
Boy meets girl, boy gets girl ... and then can't get rid of her no matter how hard he tries. (Independent Artists)
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I Woke Up Early the Day I Died
September 3, 1999
Overcoming a nurse, and dressing in her clothes, a madman escapes from Hope Sanitarium. The film is quintessential Ed Wood with a modern twist - no dialogue, only atmospheric sounds, alternating bursts of laughter and screams, and a wonderful soundtrack. (Cinnequanon Pictures)
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Outside Providence
September 1, 1999
Timothy Dunphy, (aka. "Dunph," "Dildo") has a broken home, a three-legged dog and a full-blown attraction to trouble. After crashing into a parked police car, his father (Baldwin) packs him off to prep school -- where he's out of place, outclassed and seriously outnumbered. Now he's about to show everyone that even he can get a piece of class. (Miramax)
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Chill Factor
September 1, 1999
Ten years after a military operation named ?Elvis? goes wrong, a volatile weapon is entrusted to an ice cream truck driver (Gooding) and a drifter (Ulrich) who are determined to keep it cold and out of the wrong hands.
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The Muse
August 27, 1999
Stephen Phillips (Brooks) is a veteran screenwriter who has lost his edge. Fellow screenwriter with recent successes (Bridges) refers him to the mythical "Zeus's Daughter" Sarah (Stone), a professional muse whom he pays and showers with gifts for her to inspire his writing of can't-miss scripts.
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Dudley Do-Right
August 27, 1999
Follows the hilarious exploits of the dedicated but hapless young Canadian Mountie (Frasier). (Universal Pictures)
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The Very Thought of You
August 27, 1999
Three lifelong friends independently meet and fall in love with the same woman.
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Teaching Mrs. Tingle
August 20, 1999
All her life Leigh Ann Watson (Holmes) has done the right thing. Her only ticket out of town is the one scholarship that goes to her school's top student. All she needs is an "A" in history. There's just one problem: Mrs. Tingle, the history teacher who for 20 years has terrorized the students of Grandsboro High. (Dimension Films)
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Mickey Blue Eyes
August 20, 1999
After discovering the shady identity of his girlfriend's father, an English art-house auctioneer (Grant) finds himself inadvertently laundering money through his auction house, becoming an accessory to murder, and having to pass himself off as the notorious Mickey Blue Eyes. (Castle Rock Entertainment)
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Better Than Chocolate
August 13, 1999
Maggie, 19, works at a lesbian/LGBT bookstore. Her mom's getting divorced and has invited herself to stay with Maggie. Maggie hasn't told her, she's lesbian. Her new girlfriend moves in as well.
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Bowfinger
August 13, 1999
Bobby Bowfinger, a nearly bankrupt aspiring movie producer-director, is about to take one last shot at fame and fortune. Desperate to hit the big time, the hapless dreamer recruits a motley crew of aspiring misfits, including an eager nerd, an ambitious ingenue and an overthe-hill diva. With their help, Bowfinger embarks on a radical, ingenious scheme to trick the biggest name in movies into becoming the star of his ultra-low budget film. (Universal Pictures)
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Detroit Rock City
August 13, 1999
It's 1978, and four teenagers are determined to conquer any obstacles to join the ranks of the KISS Army at the big KISS concert.
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The Iron Giant
August 6, 1999
A giant metal machine falls to Earth in 1950s Maine, frightening townspeople. However, the robot befriends a nine-year-old boy named Hogarth who must save it from the predjudices of the townspeople and from a government agent intent on destroying the robot.
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Mystery Men
August 6, 1999
By day, they're a bunch of losers, but by night, they're the Mystery Men...a rag team of superhero wannabes who emerge from the darkness to fight the evil madman Cassanova Frankenstein and his disco-dancing henchmen. [Universal Pictures]
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The Acid House
August 6, 1999
A surreal triptych adapted by "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh from his acclaimed collection of short stories. Combining a vicious sense of humor with hard-talking drama, the film reaches into the hearts and minds of the chemical generation, casting a dark and unholy light into the hidden corners of the human psyche. (Zeitgeist Films)
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Dick
August 4, 1999
After taking a wrong turn on a White House tour, teens Betsy Jobs (Dunst) and Arlene Lorenzo (Williams) stumble across a room packed full of presidential secrets. To find out exactly what the girls know, "Tricky Dick" Nixon (Hedaya) himself appoints them as official White House dog walkers. Suddenly and accidentally, the two girls are swept up in the political intrigue of the world's most famous break-in: Watergate. [Columbia Tristar]
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Runaway Bride
July 30, 1999
In a last-ditch effort to save his tarnished career, a big-city reporter (Gere) chases a scoop about a mercurial, small-town girl (Roberts) known as the Runaway Bride due to her habit of leaving her grooms-to-be at the altar.
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Inspector Gadget
July 23, 1999
Matthew Broderick plays a bumbling detective in this film based on the animated television series.
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Drop Dead Gorgeous
July 23, 1999
A wickedly colorful, twisted comedy, Drop Dead Gorgeous probes the heart of a small Minnesota town where a fictional teen beauty pageant has unleashed a fury of very unladylike behavior. (New Line Cinema)
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Lake Placid
July 16, 1999
Its placid waters complement the pristine Maine wilderness it borders. This tranquil setting is probably the last place you'd expect a gruesome fatality. But then it's also the last place you?d expect to find a 30-foot, narrow-snouted, multi-toothed, reptilian of the species Crocodylus. An eating machine more commonly known as a crocodile. (20th Century Fox)
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The Wood
July 16, 1999
Three young men at a wedding remember their experience growing up together in the 1980's in Inglewood, CA.
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Muppets from Space
July 14, 1999
Gonzo is contacted by his alien family through his breakfast cereal. But when the men in black kidnap him, it's up to Kermit and the gang to rescue Gonzo and help him reunite with his long-lost family.
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American Pie
July 9, 1999
Four high school friends enter into a pact to lose their virginity before graduation, encountering apple pies and other embarrassing speedbumps along the way.
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Wild Wild West
June 30, 1999
A retro epic that mixes witty science fiction with hip-hop savoir-faire -- all set against a Western background. (Warner Bros.)
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South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut
June 30, 1999
A cinematic version of the popular animated television series.
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The Dinner Game
June 25, 1999
A group of friends holds a competition each week to see who can bring the most idiotic guests to dinner.
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Big Daddy
June 25, 1999
When his girlfriend (Adams) dumps him because he's not committed to having a family, an out-of-luck would-be lawyer (Sandler) adopts a 6-year-old boy in the hopes of winning her back.
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An Ideal Husband
June 18, 1999
An adaptation of Oscar Wilde's romantic social satire. (Miramax)
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Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
June 11, 1999
Austin (Myers) must time travel back to the Swinging Sixties, regain his mojo and save the world from destruction. (New Line Cinema)
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Notting Hill
May 28, 1999
Anna Scott (Roberts) is the world's most famous movie star. William Thacker (Grant) owns a travel bookstore. When Anna and William's paths unexpectedly cross in the eclectic neighborhood of Notting Hill, romance is the last thing on their minds. This charming romantic comedy proves that love can spring from even the most unlikely of circumstances. (Universal Pictures)
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
May 14, 1999
Shakespeare's classic romantic comedy set in 19th century Tuscany.
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Tea with Mussolini
May 14, 1999
A coming-of-age tale about an illegitimate child who struggles to assert his independence and find his way into a life of art, taken from the autobiography of Franco Zeffirelli. (MGM)
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The Mummy
May 7, 1999
A full-scale re-imagining of Universal Pictures' seminal 1932 film, The Mummy is a rousing, suspenseful and horrifying epic about an expedition of treasure-seeking explorers in the Sahara Desert in 1925. [Universal Pictures]
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Idle Hands
April 30, 1999
Anton Tobias (Sawa) wakes up Halloween morning to discover-after watching some TV and perusing the contents of the fridge, oblivious to the pool of blood on the floor-that his parents have been turned into a couple of headless Halloween decorations. After hanging out with his equally irresponsible friends, Mick (Green) and Pnub (Henson), Anton discovers that his right hand has a very bloodthirsty mind of its own, and it's hell-bent on wreaking deadly havoc with or without him. [Sony]
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Election
April 23, 1999
This satirical comedy uses a high school election as the backdrop to take an uncommon look at ambition, morality, desire, love and the lies we never cease telling ourselves. [Paramount Pictures]
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Pushing Tin
April 23, 1999
An intense rivalry develops between two air traffic controllers (Cusack, Thornton) that threatens both their careers and marriages.
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Lost & Found
April 23, 1999
A comedy about finding your true love at any price, even if it involves a little dognapping along the way. (Warner Bros.)
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SLC Punk!
April 16, 1999
To grow up in America is to, at one point or another, rebel against the world around you. If you're Stevo (Lillard) and you live in Reagan-era Salt Lake City, then, well...you just have to rebel a little bit harder. To this recent grad, the world is his enemy, anarchy his religion, and the Ramones, The Specials and the Dead Kennedys his muses. As he takes us on a guided tour of his life, we meet all sorts of punks, poseurs, mods, freaks and a few others best described as indescribable. Stevo's ex-hippie father sees his lifestyle as a rite of passage and urges him to attend Harvard Law School like himself. Not to sell out to the system, but to buy in. For Stevo, underneath the mohawk haircuts, earrings and leather, the idea, painfully, has some merit. The question becomes; how do you stay hard-core and still hope for a life beyond? [Sony Pictures Clasics]
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Life
April 16, 1999
Spanning sixty years, this is the story of two friends who are wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison at a Mississippi penitentiary.
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Never Been Kissed
April 9, 1999
A Chicago newspaper reporter (Barrymore) who goes undercover at a high school to research an article gets the chance to relive her teen years. (20th Century Fox)
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Go
April 9, 1999
Set over a 24-hour period in L.A. and Las Vegas, this unconventionally structured comedy is told from the decidedly off-center perspectives of three parties involved in the outrageous events that surround a botched drug deal. (Columbia TriStar)
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Shuang long hui
April 9, 1999
Two long lost twins (Chan) -- one a gangster from Hong Kong and the other a classical pianist from New York -- are in the same city at the same time, unbeknownst to each other, leading to a series of comedic instances of mistaken identity.
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Metroland
April 9, 1999
Based on the novel by Julian Barnes, Chris (Bale) starts recalling his bohemian Parisian life in the late 1960s after his old friend Toni comes for a surprise visit. It makes him question everything about his life even if he should have married his wife Marion (Watson) and settled down in the suburbs of London.
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Cookie's Fortune
April 2, 1999
The death of a widow in a small Mississippi town leads to mystery.
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The Out-of-Towners
April 2, 1999
In this remake of Neil Simon's 1970 comedy, a couple visits New York City for a job interview and find themselves in a series of disastrous situations.
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10 Things I Hate About You
March 31, 1999
A re-telling of Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew," set in a modern-day Seattle high school.
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Edtv
March 26, 1999
A satirical look at America's obsession for "reality" television.
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Ravenous
March 19, 1999
Set during the Mexican-American War, this is the story of a group of American soldiers that are trapped in the Sierras in the midst of a terrible blizzard when one of the soldiers (Carlyle) snaps and becomes a cannibalistic maniac.
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Forces of Nature
March 19, 1999
A man (Affleck) is on his way home to Savannah for his wedding when an eccentric young woman (Bullock) falls into his life.
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Baby Geniuses
March 12, 1999
Two doctors (Turner and Lloyd) set out to dominate the world once they discover they can crack the code to a secret baby language.
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With Friends Like These...
March 12, 1999
What happens when you're an actor and you get a secret audition with Martin Scorcese? If you're Johnny (Robert Costanzo), who makes a living playing television hit men and corrupt cops, this could be your big break. But when his struggling actor friends Dorian (Jon Tenney), Steve (Adam Arkin) and Armand (David Strathairn) find out about the audition, there's no telling how far they'll go to see Scorcese and keep it a secret from Jimmy.
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Analyze This
March 5, 1999
When a mob boss (De Niro) suddenly starts to have panic attacks, he enlists the help of a reluctant psychiatrist (Crystal).
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Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
March 5, 1999
In this wild comedy of errors, a group of London friends find themselves deep in debt to an unsavory underworld figure.
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20 Dates
February 26, 1999
In this look at the world of dating, director Myles Berkowitz films 20 of his own dates.
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The Other Sister
February 26, 1999
A young mentally-challenged woman (Lewis) moves out from her mother's house and falls in love with a young man similarly challenged (Ribisi).
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200 Cigarettes
February 26, 1999
It's New Year's Eve 1981, and a wild assortment of comic characters are looking for romance in NYC's rollicking East Village. Can a poser, a hunk, a teeny bopper, a gabby cabbie, a cute klutz, and a bevy of too-cool-to-cope artists find love before the stroke of midnight? [Paramount]
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Office Space
February 19, 1999
A comedy about the angst of suburban twenty-somethings in modern office life.
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Jawbreaker
February 19, 1999
Courtney Shane (McGowan), Julie Freeman (Gayheart), Marcie Fox (Benz), and Liz Purr (Roldan) are all best friends. They are at the height of their popularity when an innocent birthday prank accidentally kills Liz, the sweetest member of the clique. During their panicked attempt to cover up the murder, the class nerd, Fern Mayo (Greer), stumbles upon them. In order to keep Fern quiet Courtney offers to make her popular, and the results are a dark, comical Faustian tale of corruption, redemption and makeover madness! [Sony]
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My Favorite Martian
February 12, 1999
A Martian lands on Earth and makes friends with a reporter.
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Blast from the Past
February 12, 1999
A romantic comedy about the fallout of falling in love. At its center are two children of the Nuclear Age -- one a savvy, cynical, modern L.A. woman; the other an innocent, naïve young man cocooned since 1962 in a bomb shelter. (New Line)
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Simply Irresistible
February 5, 1999
A young department store manager (Flannery) finds himself falling in love against his will with a woman (Gellar) who has recently inherited a restaurant and whom he thinks may have strange magical powers.
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She's All That
January 29, 1999
Stung when his bombshell girlfriend abruptly dumps him, big man on campus Zack Siler (Freddy Prinze Jr.) bets a classmate that he can quickly turn any girl into the prom queen. After an amazing makeover, the school's biggest nerd, Laney Boggs (Rachel Leigh Cook), is transformed from a nobody to a knockout. Zack falls hard and when Laney find out about his deception, he must fight to win her heart.
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Playing by Heart
January 22, 1999
Eleven articulate people work through affairs of the heart in Los Angeles.
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Varsity Blues
January 15, 1999
In West Texas, where high school football is life, two quarterbacks compete for attention from their fans, their family and their coach.
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Stepmom
December 25, 1998
This tearjerker centers on the relationship between a divorced mother (Sarandon) and the new woman in her ex-husband's life (Roberts).
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Patch Adams
December 25, 1998
Robin Williams is Patch Adams - a doctor who believes in laughter as medicine and will do just about anything to make his patients laugh - even if it means risking his own career. (Universal)
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The Theory of Flight
December 23, 1998
A dreamer who aspires to human flight is assigned public service after one of his attempts off a public building. This leads him to meeting a young woman, who is dying of motor neuron disease. The strong-willed woman admits her wish to be de-flowered before her death. The man, struggling to maintain his relationship with his girlfriend, declines but offers to help pay for a gigolo to do the deed. The following events play off the inherent comedy and drama of the circumstances.
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You've Got Mail
December 18, 1998
A romantic comedy set in the age of e-mail.
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Rushmore
December 11, 1998
Max Fischer, a tenth grade scholarship student at Rushmore Academy, falls in love with Rosemary Cross, a widowed elementary school teacher, but his friendship with Herman Blume, an unhappy, wealthy industrialist, suffers when Blume falls for Miss Cross as well.
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Jack Frost
December 11, 1998
A father who can't keep his promises, dies in a car accident. One year later, he returns as a snowman, who has the final chance to put things right with his son, before he is gone forever.
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Shakespeare in Love
December 11, 1998
Shakespeare in Love is a romantic comedy for the 1990s set in the 1590s. It imaginatively unfolds the witty, sexy and timeless tale behind the creation of the greatest love story ever told. (Miramax Films)
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Little Voice
December 4, 1998
A magical musical comedy about the power and perils of expression. (Miramax Films)
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Home Fries
November 25, 1998
A romantic comedy about two brothers after the same woman?more or less! One wants to marry her. One wants to murder her. (Warner Bros.)
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Babe: Pig in the City
November 25, 1998
This sequel takes the three musketeers, Babe, Ferdy and Mrs. Hoggett, on a crusade into the midst of a large city where despite incredible obstacles, they're able to turn enemies into friends, raise enough money to save the farm and combine the two worlds into one. Once again, it's Babe's kind and steady heart that achieves miracles. [Universal]
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Very Bad Things
November 25, 1998
The grim misadventures of a group of friends in Las Vegas for a bachelor party.
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A Bug's Life
November 25, 1998
The story of an ant named Flik who is searching for better ways to be a bug.
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Celebrity
November 20, 1998
Woody Allen examines America's fascination with fame and glamour.
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Waking Ned Devine
November 20, 1998
From the land where fairy tales were born comes a disarmingly original comic fable about the true meaning of fortune. (Fox Searchlight)
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The Rugrats Movie
November 20, 1998
The babies gets lost in the forest after Tommy Pickles gets a new baby brother.
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The Waterboy
November 6, 1998
Just an oddball mama's boy from the back bayous of Louisiana, Bobby Boucher (Sandler) never wanted anything more than to quench the thirst of the dehydrated athletes who treat him like dirt! But when Coach Klein (Winkler) makes the call that allows Bobby to finally stand up for himself, it unleashes a torrent of bottled-up frustration ... and exposes a talent for tackling that transforms him from a meek "water distribution engineer" into the hardest hitter ever to roam the gridiron! (Buena Vista Entertainment)
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Living Out Loud
October 30, 1998
Holly Hunter stars as a middle-aged divorcee who rediscovers life's possibilities in this offbeat dramedy. (New Line Cinema)
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Pleasantville
October 23, 1998
In Gary Ross' daring modern fairy tale Pleasantville, an entire fictional town is granted a chance to experience the comedies, and dangers of real life. In this fantastical adventure, two late 20th Century teenagers (Maguire, Witherspoon) accidentally bring living color to a mysterious suburb trapped in a black-and-white 50's utopia -- and set off a revolution. (New Line Cinema)
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Orgazmo
October 23, 1998
It's a comedy of a young Mormon's encounter with the porn industry. Joe Young (Parker) goes to spread the Word of God door-to-door, as Mormons do, and finds himself sharing the Word with some porn stars. When security starts hassling him he defends himself with some martial-arts moves that get the film director's attention. Soon, he's taking part in a porn flick in order to raise some money so he can marry his fiancée back in Utah, and the rest is his transformation into Captain Orgazmo. (OrgazmoDVD.com)
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Bride of Chucky
October 16, 1998
Chucky, the John-Gruden-looking doll possessed by a serial killer, discovers the perfect mate to kill and revive into the body of another doll.
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Practical Magic
October 16, 1998
Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman are modern witches looking for love and happiness in this spunky and spellbinding comedy/romance. (Warner Bros.)
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Happiness
October 16, 1998
A series of intertwining love stories, stories of connections missed and made between people, how people always struggle to make a connection, and to what degree they succeed or don't. (Good Machine Releasing)
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Holy Man
October 9, 1998
Eddie Murphy stars as G, an outrageous, self-styled inspirational guru with a knack for showing up where he isn't exactly wanted. (Buena Vista Entertainment)
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A Night at the Roxbury
October 2, 1998
Chris Kattan and Will Ferrell reprise their roles as Steve and Doug Butabi, two pathetic brothers who try to work their way onto the list of one of Hollywood's hippest nightclubs.
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Antz
October 2, 1998
When one ant becomes disenfranchised from the totalitarian work regime of his colony, he adventures off to lands unknown.
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Pecker
September 25, 1998
A Baltimore sandwich shop employee becomes an overnight sensation when photographs he's taken of his weird family become the latest rage in the art world. (Warner Home Video)
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Clay Pigeons
September 25, 1998
Lester Long (Vaughn) has a firm handshake, a ready smile, and some strange ideas about friendship in this 90's noir. As dead bodies start piling up in a small Montana town, Lester burrows his way into Clay's (Phoenix) life and plays a twisted game of shifted blame and double-cross.
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Rush Hour
September 18, 1998
The fastest hands in the East meet the biggest mouth in the West when legendary martial arts daredevil Jackie Chan teams with comedic powerhouse Chris Tucker.
(New Line Cinema)
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Simon Birch
September 11, 1998
Even though Simon Birch is the smallest kid in town, deep down he knows that he was born to do something big. He's on a constant search to discover his destiny, but somehow manages to find nothing but trouble. (Buena Vista Pictures)
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Next Stop Wonderland
August 21, 1998
A lighthearted story about a man and a woman who seem destined to be together and the hilarious chain of accidents that seem determined to keep them apart! (Miramax)
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Dead Man on Campus
August 21, 1998
Tom Everett Scott and Mark-Paul Gosselaar play new roommates Josh and Cooper. Josh is the studious type, Cooper's the nothing-succeeds-like-excess guy--a lifestyle that rubs off on Josh and soon has both in danger of
flunking out. But there's a catch: a clause in the schools charter awards A's to students who suffer the trauma of a roommate's suicide. So Josh and Cooper set out to find a suicidal roomie who is, uh, Most Likely To Succeed.
(Paramount Pictures)
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