Paul Dooley
1) Popeye
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English
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Based on the long-running comic strip created by E.C. Segar, POPEYE follows the sailor with the mighty arms (played by Robin Williams in his first major film role) as he arrives in the seaside community of Sweethaven in search of his long-lost father. Popeye meets and quickly falls for the slender Olive Oyl (Shelley Duvall), but Olive's hand has already been promised to the hulking Bluto. Eventually, Popeye and Olive are brought together by Swee'...
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English
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Almost no one's ever heard of flamboyant, would-be Broadway director Corky St. Clair's hometown of Blaine, Missouri. But Corky fully expects Blaine will be his ticket to Broadway when he writes, directs, choreographs and costumes a local show celebrating Blaine's 150th anniversary in this hilarious comic spoof.
5) Strange brew
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
All the McKenzie brothers want is a free case of beer and a quiet place to blech, so they put a mouse in a beer bottle and go to the Elsinore Brewery to complain. There they encounter the diabolical Brewmeister Smith who has concocted a scheme to rule the world by contaminating Elsinore Beer with a mind-controlling chemical.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Maggie Carpenter has developed a well-deserved reputation for being gunshy, having left three men at the altar. Newspaper columnist Ike Graham thinks it will make great copy so he goes to Maggie's hometown to get the dirt on the story. In the process he falls in love with her.
8) Guinevere
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English
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Awkward young Harper Sloane was always the odd one out, until she draws the attention of a brilliant older phtographer. He soon opens her world to possibilities she'd never imagined, and Harper comes out of her shell realizing her full potential.
9) Insomnia
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Crime never sleeps and neither does the veteran LAPD homicide detective invited to Nightmute, Alaska to head a murder investigation there. He finds the investigation disrupted by an ever-shining midnight sun that wreaks sleep-depriving havoc on his body clock. As his consciousness becomes more unstable, he is nagged by a sense of personal guilt over a second crime that might just be real.
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English
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In the continuing comic adventures of a middle-aged woman, her younger husband, and her grown-up kids, Marget Becker Hix's daughter Mary announces wedding plans to her excited family. But when a financial mix-up renders the banquet hall canceled, the wedding dress sold to someone else, and the caterer kaput, it looks doubtful that the gala wedding will happen at all in this lighthearted comedy about the often frantic preparations for a wedding.
11) Popeye
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Language
English
Description
Based on the long-running comic strip created by E.C. Segar (and less on the animated cartoons created by Max Fleischer, which were decidedly different in tone and approach), Popeye follows the sailor man with the mighty arms (played by Robin Williams in his first major film role) as he arrives in the seaside community of Sweethaven in search of his long-lost father. Popeye meets and quickly falls for the slender Olive Oyl (Shelley Duvall, in the...
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English
Description
For years, Johnny Dingle has harbored a seemingly unattainable dream, to win the heart of the town beauty, Missy McCloud. In an act born as much in desperation as devotion, Johnny schemes to pose as a masked thief who holds up the convenience store where Missy works. According to his plan, Johnny prevents the "robbery," saves the day, and convinces Missy to go on a date - all in one heroic gesture. But fate intervenes. Johnny discovers too late that...
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