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The Great Gatsby
(1974)
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directed by
Jack Clayton
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Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Bruce Dern, Karen Black, Scott Wilson, Sam Waterston
This third film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic 1925 novel was one of the most hyped movies of the summer of 1974. Robert Redford stars as self-made millionaire Jay Gatsby, who uses his vast (and implicitly ill-gotten) fortune to buy his way into Long Island society. Most of all, Gatsby wants to win back the love of socialite Daisy ...
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Easy Rider
(1969)
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directed by
Dennis Hopper
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Antonio Mendoza, Phil Spector, Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson, Robert Walker, Jr., Luana Anders, Karen Black
Tossing wristwatches away, two bikers hit the road to find America in Dennis Hopper's anti-establishment classic. After a major cocaine sale to an L.A. connection (Phil Spector), free-wheeling potheads Billy (Hopper) and Wyatt, aka Captain America (Peter Fonda, who also produced), motor eastward to party at Mardi Gras before "retiring" to Florida ...
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Five Easy Pieces
(1970)
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directed by
Bob Rafelson
featuring
Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Lois Smith, Susan Anspach, Billy Green Bush, Helena Kallianiotes, Sally Struthers, Richard Stahl
A disaffected man seeks a sense of identity in one of the key films of Hollywood's 1970s New Wave. Once a promising pianist from a family of classical musicians, Bobby Eroica Dupea (Jack Nicholson, in his first major starring role) leads a blue-collar life as an oil rigger, living with needy waitress girlfriend Rayette (Karen Black) and bowling ...
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Nashville
(1975)
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directed by
Robert Altman
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Henry Gibson, Barbara Baxley, Ned Beatty, Karen Black, Ronee Blakely, Lily Tomlin, Keith Carradine, Geraldine Chaplin
Following 24 characters through 5 days in the country music capital, Robert Altman's 1975 epic presents a complexly textured portrayal (and critique) of American obsessions with celebrity and power. Among the various stars, aspirants, hangers-on, observers, and media folk are politically ambitious country icon Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson) and his ...
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House of 1000 Corpses
(2003)
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directed by
Rob Zombie
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Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon Zombie, Karen Black, Chris Hardwick
Taking his cue from such 1970s horror classics as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) and The Hills Have Eyes (1977), animated rocker Rob Zombie goes celluloid with the throwback shocker House of 1000 Corpses. Running low on gas as they travel the highways of America in search of the ultimate roadside attraction, a group of teens pull into Captain ...
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Trilogy of Terror
(1975)
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directed by
Dan Curtis
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Karen Black
In this made-for-TV horror showcase, Karen Black plays four separate roles in three successive tales written or based on the works of venerable genre writer Richard Matheson. In "Julie," Black portrays a prim college literature instructor who engages in a debauched affair with one of her students after he drugs, date-rapes, and blackmails her into ...
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Invaders from Mars
(1986)
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directed by
Tobe Hooper
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Karen Black, Hunter Carson, Timothy Bottoms, Laraine Newman, James Karen
Invaders from Mars, horror-film director Tobe Hooper's remake of the classic 1950's science fiction film, directed by William Cameron Menzies, centers on a young boy named David (Hunter Carson) who tries to stop an invasion of his town as aliens take over the minds of his parents George (Timothy Bottoms) and Ellen (Laraine Newman), his teachers ...
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Burnt Offerings
(1976)
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directed by
Dan Curtis
featuring
Karen Black, Oliver Reed, Burgess Meredith, Eileen Heckart, Lee Montgomery, Bette Davis
Dan Curtis, director of TV's Dark Shadows series, directed this eerie haunted-house thriller about a house which draws energy from its inhabitants and selects its own "keeper" from the family of Ben and Marian Rolf (Oliver Reed & Karen Black), who rent the strangely-affordable house one fateful summer then find themselves slowly succumbing to its ...
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Hostage
(1987)
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directed by
Hanro Mohr
featuring
Wings Hauser, Karen Black, Kevin McCarthy, Nancy Locke, Robert Whitehead
Tim Shaw (Kevin McCarthy) is a retired army officer enjoying the life of a farmer on a ranch in South Africa. When a plane bound for Nairobi is hijacked by Arab terrorists, he calls on military veterans to intervene on behalf of the airborne hostages. Karen Black and Wings Hauser co-star in this routine action thriller. Dan Pavlides, All Movie ...
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The Invisible Kid
(1988)
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directed by
Avery Crounse
featuring
Jay Underwood, Karen Black, Wally Ward, Chynna Phillips, Brother Theodore
This pre-teen comedy finds the studious Grover (Jay Underwood) using the notes of his late scientist father to complete a project. With unsolicited help from pigeon droppings, a substance is created that renders the consumer invisible for 30 minutes. The effectiveness decreases by five minutes with each dose, inexplicably expanding to 30 again on ...
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Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?
(1983)
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directed by
Henry Jaglom
featuring
Karen Black, Michael Emil, Michael Margotta, Frances Fisher
After a man (Michael Emil) and a woman (Karen Black) meet and begin to become romantically involved, his confirmed bachelorhood and her post-divorce trauma start to clash. As their interactions become more complex, and they move from one scenario to the next, they begin to learn more about one another. Director and writer Henry Jaglom used his non ...
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Born to Win
(1971)
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directed by
Ivan Passer
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George Segal, Karen Black, Paula Prentiss, Jay Fletcher, Hector Elizondo
Born to Win is the grimly ironic title of this jet-black comedy about heroin addicts. George Segal plays Jay Jay, an ex-hairdresser who struggles to support his expensive drug habit. To avoid arrest, Jay Jay turns "narc," informing on his fellow junkies. Eventually Jay Jay's sense of self-hatred threatens to overwhelm him. Also released as Born to ...
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Portnoy's Complaint
(1972)
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directed by
Ernest Lehman
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Richard Benjamin, Karen Black, Lee Grant, Jack Somack, Jeannie Berlin
Screenwriter Ernest Lehman, whose credits include the screenplays for North by Northwest, Sabrina, West Side Story, and The Sweet Smell of Success, made a less than distinguished debut as a director with this adaptation of Philip Roth's controversial novel about Alexander Portnoy (Richard Benjamin), a Jewish man who, during a session with his ...
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Out of the Dark
(1989)
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directed by
Michael Schroeder
featuring
Cameron Dye, Karen Black, Bud Cort, Lynn Danielson, Starr Andreeff
In this suspense thriller with a few humorous touches, an employee of a phone-sex service (Lynn Danielson) is being stalked by a clown-masked psychotic killer (Cameron Dye) who has already murdered a number of her colleagues. Yuri German, All Movie Guide
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Family Plot
(1976)
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directed by
Alfred Hitchcock
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Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris, William Devane, Ed Lauter
Alfred Hitchcock's final film was adapted from Victor Canning's novel The Rainbird Pattern by Ernest Lehman, who previously wrote the screenplay for Hitchcock's North by Northwest. Barbara Harris plays Blanche, a phony psychic, hired by wealthy Julia Rainbird (Cathleen Nesbitt) to trace the whereabouts of her nephew, who'd been given up for ...
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Twisted Justice
(1989)
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directed by
David Heavener
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David Heavener, Erik Estrada, Karen Black, Shannon Tweed, Jim Brown
In this futuristic actioner set in the year 2020, guns have become so illegal that even cops cannot use them to stop criminals. But officer James Tucker is a maverick and carries with him an enormous homemade revolver, which he uses to blow away bad-guys and psychotic criminals. His newest assignment is to find the evil Steelmore, who uses drugs ...
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The Day of the Locust
(1975)
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directed by
John Schlesinger
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Donald Sutherland, Karen Black, Burgess Meredith, William Atherton, Geraldine Page
The Day of the Locust is anything but a cheerful, light look at Hollywood in the '30s. It recreates both the town as well as the filmmaking world around which much of the town revolved with devastating accuracy. The movie tells the twin tales of talentless wannabe actress Faye Greener (Karen Black) and Homer Simpson (Donald Sutherland), a lovelorn ...
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Soulkeeper
(2001)
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directed by
Darin James Ferriola
featuring
Rod Rowland, Kevin Patrick Walls, Karen Black, Robert Davi, Michael Ironside
A pair of minor league crooks discover they're playing way out of their league when they have to face off against a legion of supernatural beasts in this tongue-in-cheek horror opus. Two low-level thieves think they've discovered a big score when they manage to steal a rare and ancient artifact that's long been held in a secret tomb. However, they ...
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The Squeeze
(1976)
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directed by
Antonio Margheriti
featuring
Lee Van Cleef, Karen Black, Edward Albert, Lionel Stander, Robert Alda
In this crime drama a safe cracker comes out of retirement to pull off one last caper. The Germans behind the theft are planning to steal $1 million; unbeknownst to the safe cracker, they are also planning to kill him afterward. As soon as he finds out, he begins plotting his revenge. Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
(2003)
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directed by
Kenneth Bowser
featuring
Dede Allen, Peter Bart, Andrew Cohen, Tony Bill, Karen Black
Based upon Peter Biskind's book of the same name, this BBC-produced documentary traces the rise of a generation of Hollywood filmmakers who briefly changed the face of movies with a more personal approach that pushed the boundaries of what was acceptable onscreen. Influenced by such European directors as Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, and ...
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Dixie Lanes
(1988)
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directed by
Don Cato
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Hoyt Axton, Karen Black, Art Hindle, John Vernon, Ruth Buzzi
This gentle comedy hearkens back to 1945, just after the war's end where a crazy small-town family awaits the return of one of their own. Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
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Invisible Dad
(1997)
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directed by
Fred Olen Ray
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Karen Black
A young inventor is tinkering with his latest creation when something goes wrong, and he turns his dad into a real-life invisible man. Now the boy must somehow find a way to get him back to normal. Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
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Firecracker
(2004)
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directed by
Steve Balderson
featuring
Mike Patton, Karen Black, Susan Traylor, Kathleen Wilhoite
A troubled young boy suffering at the hands of his abusive older brother seeks solace in the arms of a traveling burlesque circus singer in this surreal, true crime thriller that follows in the tradition of David Lynch's Blue Velvet and marks the acting debut of former Faith No More frontman Mike Patton. Jimmy (Jak Kendall) is a small-town dreamer ...
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Rubin and Ed
(1992)
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directed by
Trent Harris
featuring
Crispin Glover, Howard Hesseman, Karen Black, Michael Greene, Brittnew Lewis
Rubin & Ed is Trent Harris' off-the-wall buddy movie about two mismatched geeks on a quest to bury a frozen cat. Rubin Farr (Crispin Glover) is a shy, reclusive loner who lives in his mother's hotel. He'd much rather sit in his bedroom listening to Mahler, playing with his squeaky-mouse, than go outside. His mother has other plans, however, and ...
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It's Alive 3: Island of the Alive
(1987)
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directed by
Larry Cohen
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Michael Moriarty, Karen Black, Laurene Landon, Gerritt Graham, James Dixon
Better known as It's Alive III, Island of the Alive details the further exploits of the murderous mutant infants introduced in director Larry Cohen's It's Alive! (1974). Said infants are shipped off to a desert island, where they are completely cut off from civilization. The government intends to eliminate the penned-up infants, but Michael ...
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