Director Richard Benjamin’s involving 1988 Cold War thriller stars Sidney Poitier and young River Phoenix as a sympathetic FBI man called Roy Parmenter and Jeff Grant, a teenage boy he helps out when it turns […]
Director Lawrence Kasdan’s intriguing, semi-successful 1990 crime black comedy has a good start in that it boasts a fine ensemble of actors to make it work – Kevin Kline, Tracey Ullman, Joan Plowright, River Phoenix, […]
The 1991 comedy romantic drama film Dogfight stars River Phoenix in an offbeat, bittersweet tale as a 18-year old young marine who dates a frumpy waitress (Lili Taylor) for a dare. Director Nancy Savoca’s 1991 […]
Writer-director Sam Shepard’s intelligent, atmospheric, offbeat Western was filmed near Roswell, New Mexico, in spring 1992, but not released until 1994. It stars River Phoenix, Richard Harris, Alan Bates, Dermot Mulroney and Sheila Tousey. It is slow moving, but […]
Director Peter Bogdanovich’s 1993 romantic comedy drama, with country music and a love triangle, is the 13th and last completed film of River Phoenix before his untimely death at the age of only 23. Phoenix plays […]
Live actors join the cartoon world of Toon Town as warm and jovial performances by Bob Hoskins and Christopher Lloyd provide the human dimension for Robert Zemeckis’s exuberant and technically perfect 1988 film Who Framed […]
Boris Karloff grabs his chance to play a pair of cursed Jekyll-and-Hyde-style brothers in director Roy William Neill’s sleek and eerie 1935 Gothic chiller showcasing two of Boris’s most effective turns. Karloff really relishes playing both […]
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