Movies with Lynne Thigpen
Movies found: 10, viewing from 1 to 10
Tootsie
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Starring: Geena Davis, Bill Murray, Jessica Lange, Sydney Pollack, Dustin Hoffman, Doris Belack, Lynne Thigpen
Directors: Sydney Pollack
Country: USA
Year: 1982
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod
Michael Dorsey is desperate; he can't find a job. That is, until he gets a female role in a soap opera and becomes very famous. Of course, nobody knows that this new television star is a man... But, after a while, he falls in love with the leading actress of the series, and here is the big problem: how can he express his feelings, since she thinks that Michael is a woman?
Anger Management
Genres: Comedy, Romance
Starring: Adam Sandler, Allen Covert, Jonathan Loughran, Woody Harrelson, John Turturro, Jack Nicholson, Kevin Nealon
Directors: Peter Segal
Country: USA
Year: 2003
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
Dave Buznik is a hardworking businessman with a pacifistic nature that has often gotten the best of him. But a simple misunderstanding aboard an airplane quickly escalates into a legal nightmare for Dave. Now, the only way he can avoid jail time is to seek the help of a very unlikely anger management instructor known as Dr. Buddy Rydell. The good doctor's unorthodox methods border on unconventional and nearly psychotic, but may be the perfect antidote for Dave, who has been a stepping stone his entire life.
Running on Empty
Genres: Drama, Music
Starring: Marcia Jean Kurtz, Judd Hirsch, David Margulies, Christine Lahti, Steven Hill, Lynne Thigpen, River Phoenix
Directors: Sidney Lumet
Country: USA
Year: 1988
The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effort to hinder the government's Vietnam war campaign. Ever since then, the Popes have been on the run with the authorities never far behind. Today, their eldest son wants a life of his own although he is aware that would mean that his parents would either get caught or he will never see them again.
Naked in New York
Genres: Comedy, Romance
Starring: Ralph Macchio, Paul Guilfoyle, Eric Stoltz, Jill Clayburgh, David Johansen, Kathleen Turner, Timothy Dalton
Directors: Daniel Algrant
Country: USA
Year: 1993
Naked in New York begins in the car of grown up Jake, he is talking to us about his girlfriend, Joanne, (watch for the facial expressions) and to whom you can turn to for help while facing life ('your parents, nyaa, I don't think so'). From there it flashes back to his memories of his parents, college, house across from a squirrel infested peanut factory, best friend, writing career and Joanne.
The Warriors
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller
Starring: James Remar, Lynne Thigpen, Michael Beck, Dorsey Wright, Brian Tyler, David Harris, Tom McKitterick
Directors: Walter Hill
Country: USA
Year: 1979
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
In the night they run, in the night they hide, in the night they fight, fight for their lives. On the run and accused, alone and far from home the Warriors need the cover of night, and their wit and courage, to race against the tide of Armies that hunt for their skins. From the Bronx to Coney Island, they struggle for survival, to prove their innocence and redeem themselves once more as the Warriors, as the best.
Just Cause
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Horror
Starring: Blair Underwood, Scarlett Johansson, Kevin McCarthy, Ned Beatty, Sean Connery, Kate Capshaw, Laurence Fishburne
Directors: Arne Glimcher
Country: USA
Year: 1995
Bobby Earl is facing the electric chair for the murder of a young girl. Eight years after the crime he calls in Paul Armstrong, a professor of law, to help prove his innocence. Armstrong quickly uncovers some overlooked evidence to present to the local police, but they aren't interested - Bobby was their killer.
Lean on Me
Genres: Action, Drama
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Alan North, Ethan Phillips, Robert Guillaume, Regina Taylor, Beverly Todd, Sandra Reaves-Phillips
Directors: John G. Avildsen
Country: USA
Year: 1989
An arrogant and unorthodox teacher returns as principal to the idyllic high school from which he had earlier been fired to find it a den of drug abuse, gang violence, and urban despair. Eventually his successful but unorthodox methods lead to a clash with city officials that threatens to undo all his efforts. Based on a true story.
Random Hearts
Genres: Romance, Drama, Mystery
Starring: Dennis Haysbert, Harrison Ford, Paul Guilfoyle, Richard Jenkins, Dylan Baker, Charles S. Dutton, Kristin Scott Thomas
Directors: Sydney Pollack
Country: USA
Year: 1999
After the death of their loved ones in a tragic plane crash 'Harrison Ford' and Kristin Scott Thomas find each others keys in each others loved ones posessions and realize that they were having an affair and must figure out all the details.
The Insider
Genres: Thriller, Drama, Biography
Starring: Stephen Tobolowsky, Philip Baker Hall, Colm Feore, Bruce McGill, Al Pacino, Christopher Plummer, Gina Gershon
Directors: Michael Mann
Country: USA
Year: 1999
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
Balls-out "60 Minutes" producer Lowell Bergman sniffs a story when a former research biologist for Brown & Williamson, Jeff Wigand, won't talk to him. When the company leans hard on Wigand to honor a confidentiality agreement, he gets his back up. Trusting Bergman and despite a crumbling marriage, he goes on camera for a Mike Wallace interview and risks arrest for contempt of court. Westinghouse is negotiating to buy CBS, so CBS attorneys advise CBS News to shelve the interview and avoid a lawsuit. "60 Minutes" and CBS News bosses cave, Wigand's hung out to dry, Bergman is compromised, and the CEOs of Big Tobacco may get away with perjury. Ca...
Shaft
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller
Starring: Christian Bale, Samuel L. Jackson, Josef Sommer, Dan Hedaya, Jeffrey Wright, Pat Hingle, Daniel von Bargen
Directors: John Singleton
Country: Germany, USA
Year: 2000
Cool and deadly NYPD detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade, Jr. in a racially-motivated slaying. The eye witness disappears, Wade jumps bail for Switzerland, and Shaft is livid. Two years later, Wade returns to face trial, confident his father's money and influence (and racial politics) guarantee an innocent verdict. Shaft looks hard for the witness, so Wade wants someone to kill her. He turns to a ghetto drug king, Peoples Hernandez, who's willing to kill for money, use Wade as a route to rich drug customers, and shaft Shaft. Can Shaft find the witness, convince her to testify, and shepherd her through the hail of bullets that Peoples is ...