Damn Good Movie Memories

A movie filled with merry mixups like an extended episode of Three's Company, as a carefree bachelor (Dean Martin) attempts to help his best friend (Eli Wallach) with his marriage troubles.  Co-starring Stella Stevens and Anne Jackson. 

In order to get out of her contract with a sleazy manager, a popular country singer (Dolly Parton) must turn a New York City cabbie (Sylvester Stallone) into a decent singer for a one-time performance.  Co-starring Richard Farnsworth, Ron Leibman and Tim Thomerson.  Directed by Bob Clark.

A timeless film about the meaning of life and finding happiness, as a group of plane crash survivors find themselves deep within the Himalayan mountains which hides the mythical valley of Shangri-La. Starring Ronald Colman and Jane Wyatt.  Directed by Frank Capra. 

Based on David Baldacci's novel, a master jewel thief (Clint Eastwood) finds himself caught in a murder conspiracy involving the President of the United States (Gene Hackman).  Co-starring Ed Harris, Laura Linney, Scott Glenn, Dennis Haysbert, Judy Davis and E.G. Marshall.  Directed by Clint Eastwood.

A baseball fanatic (William Bendix) with an irrational hatred of umpires decides to become an umpire himself when he can't find a steady job. Co-starring Una Merkel and William Frawley.  Directed by Lloyd Bacon.

A lovable loser (Frank Whaley) finds himself locked in a Target store overnight with the girl of his dreams (Jennifer Connelly).  Screenplay written by John Hughes.

A disgraced ex-ballplayer (Lloyd Nolan) gets a chance at redemption when he's hired to manage and rebuild the struggling Brooklyn Dodgers. Co-starring Carole Landis, William Frawley and Robert Armstrong.

A Philadelphia detective (Harrison Ford) discovers a murder conspiracy within his department and hides out in Amish country in order protect his witness. Co-starring Kelly McGillis, Lukas Haas, Josef Sommer and Danny Glover. 

An aging hit-man (Charles Bronson) decides to take on a younger protégé (Jan-Michael Vincent) in this action-thriller.  Directed by Michael Winner.

The first (and often forgotten) werewolf film produced by the Universal monster series.  Henry Hull stars as a botanist bitten by a creature while researching in Tibet and...yeah, you know the rest.  Co-starring Walter Oland and Valerie Hobson.

Cameron Crowe's love-letter back to the music he grew up on. A teenage journalist gets an opportunity to go on the road with an up-and-coming rock band in the early 1970s.  Starring Kate Hudson, Billy Crudup, Frances McDormand, Jason Lee, Patrick Fugit, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Zooey Deschanel, Anna Paquin and Fairuza Balk. This is a cross-over episode with our friends from the Growin' Up Rock Pod...

Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn star as best friends who crash weddings as their main hobby.  Co-starring Rachel McAdams, Isla Fisher, Christopher Walken, Jane Seymour and Bradley Cooper.

An American crime reporter (Joel McCrea) is reassigned to Europe shortly before WWII and discovers a spy ring.  Co-starring Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders and Robert Benchley.  Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Kathleen Turner stars as a Chicago private investigator hired by a teenage girl (Angela Goethals) to find the person who killed her father. Co-starring Jay O. Sanders, Charles Durning and Wayne Knight.

Ida Lupino stars in this film noir as a woman who discovers her new husband (Stephen McNally) married her only to take over the mill she inherited from her father.  Co-starring Howard Duff and Peggy Dow.

John Carpenter's groundbreaking reimagining of the 1951 sci-fi horror classic The Thing From Another World about a group of researchers in Antarctica who are terrorized by a shapeshifting beast. Starring Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David, T.K. Carter and Richard Masur.

In this sequel to The Absent Minded Professor, Fred MacMurray returns to create another life-changing substance called "Flubbergas", which can be used to manipulate the weather.  Co-starring Nancy Olson, Keenan Wynn, Ed Wynn, Tommy Kirk, Leon Ames and Paul Lynde.

Nobody wants to go to summer school...until now! Mark Harmon stars as a high school teacher forced to teach summer school for a group of misfit teens at risk of flunking out. Co-starring Kirstie Alley, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Robin Thomas, Dean Cameron, Gary Riley, Kelly Jo Minter, Shawnee Smith and Richard Horvitz.  Directed by Carl Reiner.

The Disney animated version covering the classic Lewis Carroll story of a young girl who discovers a magical world filled with unusual characters like the Mad Hatter, Tweedledee & Tweedledum, Cheshire Cat, White Rabbit, Queen of Hearts and others.  Featuring the voices of Kathryn Beaumont, Ed Wynn, Sterling Holloway, Richard Haydn, Jerry Colonna and Verna Felton.

One of the best sequels of all-time as Superman (Christopher Reeve) must fight off three super-villains from Krypton to save the world.  We cover both versions of the film directed by Richard Lester and Richard Donner.  Co-starring Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder, Terence Stamp, Sarah Douglas, Jack O'Halloran, Ned Beatty, Jackie Cooper, and Marlon Brando (in Donner's version).

A young inventor (Wesley Eure) who works for a home-security company creates a robotic watchdog to curtail the crime wave in his city.  Co-starring Valerie Bertinelli, Conrad Bain, Red Buttons, Chuck McCann and Jim Backus.  Produced by Hanna-Barbera.

A has-been 80s pop star (Hugh Grant) is tasked with writing a song for a popular new artist and finds help from an unexpected source (Drew Barrymore).  Co-starring Brad Garrett, Kristen Johnston and Haley Bennett.

The film noir classic featuring the stunning Rita Hayworth as the title character and Glenn Ford as the small-time gambler who can't resist her. Co-starring George Macready and Joseph Calleia.

"Do it...do it." Based on the 1970s buddy cop TV series, Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson assume the roles of the two detectives tasked with taking down a drug kingpin (Vince Vaughn).  Co-starring Snoop Dogg, Jason Bateman, Fred Williamson, Carmen Electra, Amy Smart and Chris Penn.

A film noir starring Alan Ladd as a U.S. postal inspector hired to investigate the murder of a fellow inspector.  Co-starring Jack Webb and Harry Morgan of "Dragnet" fame and Phyllis Calvert.