EXTREME MEASURES (1996)

Directed by: Michael Apted

Based on the novel by: Michael Palmer

Starring: Hugh Grant, Gene Hackman, Sarah Jessica Parker, David Morse, Bill Nunn, John Toles-Bey, Paul Guilfoyle, Debra Monk, Shaun Austin-Olsen, Andre De Shields, J.K. Simmons, Peter Appel, Diana Zimmer, Nancy Beatty, Gerry Becker, Gene Ruffini, Bill MacDonald, Simon Reynolds, D. Garnet Harding, Derwin Jordan, Tara Rosling, Martin Roach, Bernard Browne, Sanjay Talwar, Christina Collins, Arlene Duncan, Cheryl Swarts

118 minutes

(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence)

PLOT:

Guy Luthan is a British doctor working at a hospital in New York City. He starts to make unwanted inquiries when the body of a man who died in his emergency room disappears. The trail leads Luthan to the door of eminent surgeon Dr. Lawrence Myrick, but Luthan soon finds himself in danger from people who want the hospital's secret to remain undiscovered.

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CATCHFIRE (aka BACKTRACK) (1990)

Directed by: Dennis Hopper

Starring: Jodie Foster, Dennis Hopper, Dean Stockwell, Joe Pesci, John Turturro, Fred Ward, Vincent Price, Julie Adams, Tony Sirico, Sy Richardson, Frank Gio, Helena Kallianiotes, John Apicella, Clifford Bartholomew, Kevin Bourland, Carl David Burks, Grand L. Bush, Tod Davies, Satya De La Manitou, Ayres Donno, Tomas Goros, Sarina C. Grant, Katherine LaNasa, Lauren Lloyd, Anthony Pena, Robert Rothwell, Jerry Summers, Gary Wills, Michael Yama, John Zenda, Catherine Keener, Charlie Sheen, Burke Byrnes, Toni Basil, Alex Cox, Bob Dylan

116 minutes

(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence)

PLOT:

An artist witnesses a Mafia hit and calls the police. At the police station she realizes that the Mafia has a man in the force, so she runs. Trailed by the police, who need her testimony, and a hitman hired by the Mafia, she goes to Mexico, where eventually she meets the hitman, who has become infatuated after studying her art and life to prepare for the hit.

 

INDEPENDENCE DAY (1996)

Directed by: Roland Emmerich

Starring: Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsch, Margaret Colin, Randy Quaid, Robert Loggia, James Rebhorn, Harvey Fierstein, Vivica A. Fox, Adam Baldwin, Brent Spiner, James Duval, Bill Smitrovich, Kiersten Warren, Harry Connick Jr, Mae Whitman, Ross Bagley, Lisa Jakub, Giuseppe Andrews, Gary Hecker, Frank Welker

145 minutes

(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, sci-fi/fantasy violence, intense action sequences, scenes of destruction)

PLOT:

On July 2nd, communications systems worldwide are sent into chaos by a strange atmospheric interference. It is soon learned by the military that a number of enormous objects are on a collision course with Earth. At first thought to be meteors, they are later revealed to be gigantic spacecraft, piloted by a mysterious alien species. After attempts to communicate with the aliens go nowhere, David Levinson, an ex-scientist turned cable technician, discovers that the aliens are going to attack major points around the globe in less than a day. On July 3rd, the aliens all but obliterate New York, Los Angeles and Washington, as well as Paris, London, Houston and Moscow. The survivors set out in convoys towards Area 51, a strange government testing ground where it is rumored the military has a captured alien spacecraft of their own. The survivors devise a plan to fight back against the enslaving aliens, and July 4th becomes the day humanity will fight for its freedom.

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