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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) - As Indiana Jones
Plot Summary
- George Lucas produced and Steven Spielberg directed the Indiana Jones trilogy as cliff hanging movie serials. In the Temple of Doom, he goes to India in search of the Ankara Stone, and in the process saves hundreds of kids who have been enslaved by a mysterious cult.
- Indiana Jones is an archeologist that leads a double life as a lecturer in a university and is a fearless adventurer hunting the world for religious and occult artifacts. |
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Witness (1985) - As Detective Captain John Book
Plot Summary
- This thriller has a young Amish boy, witnesses a murder in the restroom of a Philadelphia bus station. When Officer John Book discovers that the crime was part of a conspiracy involving several officials in his department, he flees Philadelphia to the Amish community where Samuel lives with his widowed mother. Slowly assimilating himself into the Amish community, Book eventually falls in love with the kids mother and the corrupt cops track Book down. Book is forced to confront them, while trying to protect Samuel and his mother.
- John Book is the police detective investigating the murder. |
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The Mosquito Coast (1986) - As Allie Fox
Plot Summary
- Allie Fox picks up and moves his family to an isolated Caribbean island, where he puts his ideas into practice. Under his guidance, his new home at first becomes a paradise, but bit by bit, both his mind and his world begin to fall apart.
- Allie Fox is a brilliant and obsessive inventor, fed up with modern society. |
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Frantic (1988) - As Dr. Richard Walker
Plot Summary
- An American doctor tries to rescue his wife from terrorists in Paris after she is kidnapped. His lack of the language, and the odd way she disappeared makes it nearly impossible for him to find any official help in his search as he enters the punk/drug culture to find out what has happened to her.
- Dr. Richard Walker is the American surgeon trying to rescue his wife from the terrorists. |
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Working Girl (1988) - As Jack Trainer
Plot Summary
-Tess McGill (Melanie Griffith) is a young secretary that has dreams of moving up the corporate ladder thinking that her brains will help her achieve it. And when she finds a job with a seemingly helpful and sympathetic boss in Katharine Parker (Sigourney Weaver), that's also a woman, it looks as if she's on her way. But it turns out that Katharine is underhanded, stealing the secretary's ideas for her own. Now the secretary is determined to get revenge and get herself to the top.
-The secretary teams up with Jack Trainer to close a deal before Katharine returns and they slowly fall in love little knowing that Jack is already Katharine's boyfriend. |
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) - As Indiana Jones
Plot Summary
- George Lucas produced and Steven Spielberg directed the Indiana Jones trilogy as cliff hanging movie serials. In the Last Crusade Indy is after the Holly Grail and he partners with his father (Sean Connery) too!
- Indiana Jones is an archeologist that leads a double life as a lecturer in a university and is a fearless adventurer hunting the world for religious and occult artifacts. |
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Presumed Innocent (1990) - As Rusty Sabich
Plot Summary
- This is a courtroom murder mystery where Rusty Sabich, is a Philadelphia prosecutor that is accused of killing his former mistress Carolyn Polhemus (Greta Scacchi), after he digs too deeply and finds himself framed for the murder. His wife Barbara (Bonnie Bedelia) doubts his innocence, and his boss Raymond Horgan (Brian Dennehy), who is running for re-election, wants the killer caught. He hires top defense attorney Sandy Stern (Raul Julia) to handle his case while he tries to sort things out with his bitter wife Barbara. |
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Regarding Henry (1991) - As Henry Turner
Plot Summary
- Henry Turner is a wealthy, highly successful Manhattan lawyer that has a perfect life. In fact, Henry is completely cold and unable to experience love or joy. Everything changes when he is gunned down in an act of random violence, has to go through a slow, difficult recovery. While re-learning the basic skills he discovers how to love his family and friends again and how to find true happiness in life. |
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Patriot Games (1992) - As Jack Ryan
Plot Summary
- Jack Ryan is forced to kill an IRA terrorist while preventing the assassination of a British Royal by the IRA. Jack Ryan and his family are hunted by the dead IRA man's brother. It's somewhat based on the novel by Tom Clancy.
- Jack Ryan is a CIA analyst and the reluctant hero of the movie. He is also the star and main character of the movie. |
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The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1993) (TV) - As Indiana Jones at age 50
Plot Summary
- The episodes start out with Indiana Jones as an elderly man telling a story from his past. The stories go back to when he was ten years old and on a world tour with his father.
- In "Young Indiana Jones and the Mystery of the Blues", Indy looks back at his days as a college student in Chicago in the 1920s. Young Indy (Sean Patrick Flanery) lands a job at a speakeasy, where he learns about a new form of music from a trumpet player. Things get dangerous when he meets Al Capone and heads a murder investigation with the help of his roommate Elliot Ness and a reporter named Ernest Hemingway. |
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The Fugitive (1993) - As Dr. Richard Kimble Plot Summary
- After the murder of his wife by the one-armed man, Richard Kimble is framed, convicted and sentenced to death. But when an escape attempt by others helps him escape, Kimble runs back to find the man who murdered his wife, but the U.S. Marshals are close on his trail.
- Dr. Richard Kimble is the character that is being chased through most of the movie and is the one that leaps from a great height at the sewer hole.
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Clear and Present Danger (1994) - As Jack Ryan Plot Summary
- Patriotic American Jack Ryan has just been promoted to Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA. But before he can adjust to the demands of his position as advisor to the President, Jack's got to investigate a massacre that took the lives of several dignitaries. Probing relentlessly, Jack uncovers the disturbing truth about criminal activities involving an international drug cartel and a close friend of the United States President. Based on Tom Clancy's best selling novel. | |
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Sabrina (1995) - As Linus Larrabee Plot Summary
- Young Sabrina (Julia Ormond) is the chauffeur's lovesick daughter with a crush on David Larrabee. Sabrinamoves to Paris to work as as a photographer's assistant. When she returns a year later, David is engaged to another and his older brother, Linus Larrabee, sees their romance as threatening David's engagement, which is potentially a very lucrative business arrangement. Linus attempts to distract Sabrina from David by spending time with her.
- Linus Larrabee is the son of a very wealthy family. Linus is all work, running the family corporate empire, he has no time for a wife and family, until he meets Sabrina. | |
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The Devil's Own (1997) - As Tom O'Meara Plot Summary
- A thriller where Tom O'Meara, an Irish-American cop in New York opens his home and family to Francis "Frankie" McGuire (Brad Pitt), whom they believe is a refuge from Belfast. They later discover that their visitor is an IRA rebel on a terrorist mission. It explores the unexpected friendship of two men from similar ethnic roots, yet of different places, times, and values, and the cruel and senseless violence they face.
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Air Force One (1997) - As President James Marshall Plot Summary
- The president's plane, Air Force One, is hijacked by Russian terrorists with the president on board. He is an ex-soldier and when the Russians take everybody hostage, including the First Lady and their daughter he has to take action.
- Since the President is the main focal character and very obvious, we won't explain the character's role except to say that this particular President kicks terrorist butt, flies a large airplane, and can do many other Bond type stunts. | |
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Six Days Seven Nights (1998) - As Quinn Harris Plot Summary
- Robin Monroe (Anne Heche) is an uptight magazine editor out to meet her deadline and Quinn Harris is a cranky cargo pilot who agrees to fly her to her destination. When the plane is forced down on a desert island, their mutual hatred turns into a lust for each other as they find themselves under the guns of some seagoing bad guys. | |
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Random Hearts (1999) - As Sergeant William 'Dutch' Van Den Broeck Plot Summary
- The wife of Police Sergeant Dutch Van Den Broek and the husband of politician Kay Chandler (Kristin Scott Thomas) are killed in a plane crash. Now Dutch discovers some anomalies in what he told her before she left and discovers that she and Chandler's husband were travelling together. Dutch then goes to Chandler and tells her that he suspects that they were having an affair. He tells her that he wants to know the truth; she tells him that she doesn't but she later joins him and they grow close. | |
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What Lies Beneath (2000) - As Doctor Norman Spencer Plot Summary
- Dr. Norman Spencer betrayed his beautiful wife Claire (Michelle Pfeiffer). But with Claire oblivious to the truth and the affair over, Norman's life and marriage seem perfect. Then Claire tells him she hears mysterious voices and sees a young woman's ghostly image in their home. As Claire moves closer to the truth, it becomes clear that this apparition will not go away. It has come back for Dr. Norman Spencer and his wife. | |
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K-19: The Widowmaker (2002) - As Alexei Vostrikov Plot Summary
- Based on a a true story, this movie is about Captain Alexi Vostrikov and he is ordered to take over command of the nuclear missile submarine K-19 during the cold war. His assignment is to take the K-19 out on patrol. But they have problems that could lead to a core meltdown and explosion that will kill everybody, and possibly trigger nuclear war. Vostrikov must choose between his orders from the Kremlin and the lives of his men. | |
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Hollywood Homicide (2003) - As Sergeant Joe Gavilan Plot Summary
- When not solving murders in Tinseltown, Detective Joe Gavilan and his rookie partner Kasey Calden (Josh Hartnett) both moonlight in other fields. Gavilan sells real estate (poorly), and Calden aspires to become an actor. Assigned to the vicious in-club slaying of a promising young rap act, the two detectives delve into the recording industry where they hope to find answers - ideally ones that also come with property buyers or auditions. | |
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Water to Wine (2004) (V) - As Jethro the Bus Driver
Plot Summary
- The film is about half-documentary, half-comedy about a kid who is thought to be the top snowboarder in the world until the day he gets put in jail. When released, he's picked up by all the other top snowboarders in the world in a party van, and to celebrate, they all go up the mountain the van for a snowboard party. All of the snowboarders in the film are real people and the story is semi-true. |
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Firewall (2006) - As Jack Stanfield Plot Summary
- A ruthless criminal kidnaps Jack Stanfield's family, and Jack is forced to hack into his workplaces system and steal 100 million dollars. His wife and children are taken hostage, and he has only a few hours to find out who the bad guy really is, and to rescue his family.
- Jack Stanfield is a bank security expert, whose specialty is designing high security computer systems. He is the main character and the hero of the movie. | |
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) - As Indiana Jones
Plot Summary
- In this last of the four part series (so far), it is during the Cold War, and Soviet agents watch Professor Henry Jones when a young man brings him a coded message from an aged, demented colleague, Henry Oxley. Led by the brilliant Irina Spalko, the Soviets tail Jones and the young man, Mutt, to Peru. With Oxley's code, they find a legendary skull made of a single piece of quartz. If Jones can deliver the skull to its rightful place, all may be well; but if Irina takes it to its origin, she'll gain powers that could endanger the West. Aging professor and young buck join forces with a woman from Jones's past to face the dangers of the jungle, Russia, and the supernatural. |
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