A man with an important business meeting finds himself having to take care of the carpool for the neighborhood school children when his wife gets sick. Stopping to get donuts for the kids, things go even more awry when he finds himself a victim of a robbery. However, the situation only gets worse as a desperate man who had been contemplating a bank robbery robs the robbers and takes the man and the kids hostage in their van as his truck is blocked by an armored car. The thing then proceeds into a comedic chase movie. The father finds his kids don't really respect him and they react better to the robber. The end result is everyone gets a lifestyle change, including the original store owner.

The Promise

1996

French

♡ 5

95%

parent child relationship

troubled teen

undocumented immigrant

Jean-Pierre Dardenne Director

Katarzyna Chrzanowska as

Jérémie Renier as Igor

Alain Holtgen as Le postier

Jean-Paul Dermont as Muller

Igor, aged 15, and his father Roger deal in housing and peddling illicit labor in the outlying districts of Liege, Belgium. Scams, lies and swindling rule their lives. When one of his father’s illegal workers gets injured on the job and asks Igor to promise to take care of his wife and baby, Igor finds himself at a crossroad. He wants to keep the promise, but the price would be to betray his father.

Daylight

1996

English

6.0

♡ 90

29%

Rob Cohen Director

Jo Anderson as Bloom

Dan Hedaya as Frank Kraft

Sylvester Stallone as Kit Latura

Barry Newman as Norman Bassett

Viggo Mortensen as Roy Nord

A group of armed robbers fleeing the police head for the New Jersey Tunnel and run right into trucks transporting toxic waste. The spectacular explosion that follows results in both ends of the tunnel collapsing and the handful of people who survived the explosion are now in peril. Kit Latura is the only man with the skill and knowledge to lead the band of survivors out of the tunnel before the structure collapses.

The People vs. Larry Flynt

1996

English

7.3

♡ 22

88%

Milos Forman Director

Edward Norton as Alan Isaacman

Woody Harrelson as Larry Flynt

Norm MacDonald as Network Reporter

Mike Pniewski as Trucker

Larry Flynt is the hedonistically obnoxious, but indomitable, publisher of Hustler magazine. The film recounts his struggle to make an honest living publishing his girlie magazine and how it changes into a battle to protect the freedom of speech for all people.

Swingers

1996

English

7.2

♡ 29

87%

Doug Liman Director

Heather Graham as Lorraine

Jon Favreau as Mike

Brooke Langton as Nikki

Stephen Gaghan as Onlooker at Model Party Entrance

After 6 years together, Mike's girlfriend leaves him, so he travels to LA to be a star. Six months on, he's still not doing very well— so a few of his friends try to reconnect him to the social scene and hopefully help him forget his failed relationship.

Kingpin

1996

English

6.9

♡ 33

51%

69%

Action

biblical interpretation

Peter Farrelly Director

Bill Murray as Ernie McCracken

Richard Tyson as Owner Of Stiffy's

Woody Harrelson as Roy Munson

Will Rothhaar as Young Roy

After bowler Roy Munson swindles the wrong crowd and is left with a hook for a hand, he settles into impoverished obscurity. That is, until he uncovers the next big thing: an Amish kid named Ishmael. So, the corrupt and the hopelessly naive hit the circuit intent on settling an old score with Big Ern.

Secrets & Lies

1996

English

8.0

♡ 41

95%

parent child relationship

reunion

secret

socially deprived family

Mike Leigh Director

Alison Steadman as Dog Owner

Clare Perkins as Hortense's Sister-in-Law

Phyllis Logan as Monica Purley

Lesley Manville as Social Worker

After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to Cynthia, a working class white woman.

For My Daughter's Honor

1996

English

6.0

♡ 4

68%

older man younger woman relationship

statutory rape

teenage girl

Alan Metzger Director

Deirdre O'Connell as Amy's Civil Rights Lawyer

Steve Rankin as Attorney Trenton

Gary Cole as Pete Nash

Sean Murray as Ralph

Fourteen-year-old high school student, Amy Dustin, becomes an object of romantic affection to the school's biology teacher and football coach, Pete Nash. They take a sudden interest in each other, sending each other notes and talking on the telephone. Although Pete has a family, the two begin a secret relationship. People then begin to suspect that Pete and Amy are having an affair.

Tremors II: Aftershocks

1996

English

6.0

♡ 48

64%

S.S. Wilson Director

Fred Ward as Earl Bassett

Chris Gartin as Grady Hoover

Marcelo Tubert as Señor Ortega

S.S. Wilson as War Documentary Narrator

Earl Bassett's celebrity after defeating the Graboid attack against the town of Perfection has proved short-lived, until he's recruited by a Mexican oil company whose workers have found more than they bargained for under the soil.

Sex and Zen II

1996

Cn

5.5

♡ 12

28%

Comedy

Fantasy

Horror

Man-Kei Chin Director

Ting Fong as Ken Lok

Ken Lok as Fa Qi Shu

Qi Shu as Mirage Lady / Siu-Tsui

Elvis Tsui as Sai Moon-Kin

Wealthy Sai Moon-Kin works hard to please as many women as he possibly can. When marrying off his mentally handicapped son, he finds himself attracted to his new daughter in law, so he takes her for his own, unaware that she is the evil Mirage Woman, who wields fantastical "sucking" abilities.

Blondes Have More Guns

1996

English

4.4

♡ 4

Comedy

Thriller

George Merriweather Director

André Brazeau as Captain Hook

Richard Neil as Dick Smoker

Karl-Heinz Teuber as Montana's Father

Kenneth B. Belsky as The Doctor

A scarf, a chainsaw, and a mysterious blonde are the only clues to a growing number of stiffs (and not all of them are dead bodies!) Who can the police turn to? Harry Bates, of course, the smartest officer on the force. TOO BAD HARRY CAN’T OUTWIT A HOUSEPLANT! Lucky for him he has his trusted partner Dick Smoker and his faithful dog (who seems to be a guy in a dog suit) to help him solve the case. The only suspects are a pair of beautiful sisters, Montana and Dakota. When the trigger happy Harry gets romantically involved with the twin half step-sisters will he lose more than his cool? Inspired lunacy ensues as BLONDES HAVE MORE GUNS parodies the likes of PULP FICTION and INDECENT PROPOSAL with razor… er… chainsaw sharp wit!

Forest Warrior

1996

English

3.7

♡ 16

46%

Aaron Norris Director

Wil Shriner as Jack Franklin

Trenton Knight as Justin Franklin

William Sanderson as Paul Carpio

Jimmy Ortega as Surveyor #2

John McKenna is a spiritual being who is able to transform into bear, wolf or eagle. He lives in the forests of Tanglewood and has dedicated his life to protect them. One day a gang of evil lumberjacks led by Travis Thorne arrive Tanglewood to chop the forest down. McKenna cannot let this happen, and together with his new friends - Lords of the Tanglewood, a band of children who love to play in the forest - he battles against Thorne and his evil gang.

Horrible High Heels

1996

Cn

4.4

♡ 5

Crime

Wei-An Chen Director Kuei Fu

Kuei Fu as

Chak-Ming Lam as

Yuk-Ling Chow as

Dick Wei as Police Captain

Someone has been skinning dead bodies and using their hide to make shoes. All of a sudden, a shoe factory whose business has been on the low side for some time improves tremendously.

Broken Arrow

1996

English

6.1

♡ 80

53%

John Woo Director

Christian Slater as Capt. Riley Hale

Frank Whaley as Giles Prentice

John Travolta as Maj. Vic 'Deak' Deakins

Bob Gunton as Pritchett

When rogue stealth-fighter pilot Vic Deakins deliberately drops off the radar while on maneuvers, the Air Force ends up with two stolen nuclear warheads -- and Deakins's co-pilot, Riley Hale, is the military's only hope for getting them back. Traversing the deserted canyons of Utah, Hale teams with park ranger Terry Carmichael to put Deakins back in his box.

The Fan

1996

English

5.9

♡ 34

38%

Tony Scott Director

Carl Mergenthaler as Bobby's Teammate

Jack Black as Broadcast Technician

Wayne Duvall as Detective Baker

Robert De Niro as Gil Renard

When the San Francisco Giants pay center-fielder, Bobby Rayburn $40 million to lead their team to the World Series, no one is happier or more supportive than #1 fan, Gil Renard. When Rayburn becomes mired in the worst slump of his career, the obsessed Renard decides to stop at nothing to help his idol regain his former glory—not even murder.

Striptease

1996

English

4.6

♡ 69

11%

Andrew Bergman Director

Robert Patrick as Darrell Grant

Frances Fisher as Donna Garcia

Robert Stanton as Erb Crandal

Demi Moore as Erin Grant

Bounced from her job, Erin Grant needs money if she's to have any chance of winning back custody of her child. But, eventually, she must confront the naked truth: to take on the system, she'll have to take it all off. Erin strips to conquer, but she faces unintended circumstances when a hound dog of a Congressman zeroes in on her and sharpens the shady tools at his fingertips, including blackmail and murder.

Beautiful Girls

1996

English

7.1

♡ 34

78%

Ted Demme Director

Uma Thurman as Andera

Lauren Holly as Darian Smalls

Natalie Portman as Marty

Matt Dillon as Tommy 'Birdman' Rowland

During a snowy winter in the small fictional town of Knight's Ridge, Massachusetts, a group of lifelong buddies hang out, drink and struggle to connect with the women who affect their decisions, dreams and desires.

Two If by Sea

1996

English

5.3

♡ 17

13%

23%

Action

boston, massachusetts

Bill Bennett Director

Wayne Robson as Beano Callahan

Sandi Ross as Conductor

Angela Moore as Nanny

Sandra Bullock as Roz

Frank O'Brien, a petty thief, and his 7-year-long girlfriend Roz want to put an end to their unsteady lifestyle and just do that last job, which involves stealing a valuable painting. Frank takes Roz to an island on the coast of New England, where he wants to sell the painting and also hopes that their sagging relationship will get a positive push back up. Not everything goes as planned.