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Director John Huston’s honest and touching 1972 story of loneliness and failure is written by Leonard Gardner and based on his 1970 novel. It provides ideal roles for Stacy Keach and Jeff Bridges, in their excellent […]
Executive producer Francis Coppola supervises director Carroll Ballard’s sumptuous 1979 film version of Walter Farley’s 1941 children’s classic novel about a boy’s adventures with the spirited Arab horse he saves from a shipwreck and takes […]
Ralph Macchio stars as bullied Italian-American teenager Daniel LaRusso in the 1984 martial arts drama film The Karate Kid. Macchio becomes more macho when his apartment’s handyman Mr Miyagi (Oscar-nominated Pat Morita) teaches him karate […]
Director John G Avildsen’s 1976 prize-winning champion boxing movie Rocky is a great old-style, feel-good film, directed with a lot of punch by the Oscar-winning film-maker. A triple Oscar-winner, it was the highest-grossing movie of 1976. Best […]
Director Martin Campbell’s 1998 American swashbuckler movie The Mask of Zorro is a brilliant, old-style adventure entertainment that proves they could still make them like they used to. It is based on the character of […]
Director George Tillman Jr’s 2000 drama stars Cuba Gooding Jr as the real-life hero Carl Brashear, who comes up against tough, embittered US Navy Dive School instructor Billy Sunday (Robert De Niro) and a load […]
Directors Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook’s likeable, intriguing and attractively different 1998 Walt Disney animated feature retells an old Chinese folk tale about the story of Mulan (voice of Ming-Na Wen), a young Chinese maiden who learns that […]