69% (3) Coma 113 min, PG, [Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller] [Michael Crichton] [06 Jan 1978]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 69%, Rotten Tomatoes: 80%, Metacritic: 60%, External Reviews
Awards: 1 nomination.
Actors: Elizabeth Ashley, Geneviève Bujold, Michael Douglas, Rip Torn
Writer: Michael Crichton (screenplay), Robin Cook (novel)
External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA
Plot: A young doctor at a hospital, Susan Wheeler (played by Geneviève Bujold), starts noticing a pattern of strange occurrences with patients. Healthy patients are suddenly developing complications and ending up in comas. She starts investigating and what she reveals is astonishing.
Rotten Tomatoes: A feisty, feminist intern uncovers a medical conspiracy in this icy thriller about mysterious goings-on at Boston Memorial Hospital. When her best friend and aerobics partner, Nancy Greenly (Lois Chiles), emerges in a vegetative state from a routine abortion, Dr. Susan Wheeler (Genevieve Bujold) does some digging and discovers an overabundance of anesthesia-induced comas among otherwise healthy young patients. The male authority figures who challenge Susan's technically illegal tampering with medical records include her boss, Dr. Harris (Richard Widmark); the chief anesthesiologist, Dr. George (Rip Torn); and even her boyfriend, Dr. Mark Bellows (Michael Douglas), who doesn't want Susan's shenanigans to get in the way of his shot at chief resident. As Susan continues her crusade, the paper trail leads to the Jefferson Institute, a mysterious, experimental facility in which vegetative patients are stored en masse, suspended from the ceiling by wires threaded through their long bones, in order to reduce the cost of long-term care. A shadowy assailant begins to stalk Susan just as she uncovers the link between the Jefferson Institute and the comas at Boston Memorial, setting the stage for climactic suspense scenes involving morgues, malpractice and endless institutional corridors. Writer/director Michael Crichton adapted his second feature film from Robin Cook's bestseller of the same name. Tom Selleck, who would star in Crichton's Runaway several years later, appears briefly in Coma as another victim of lethal anesthesia.
Scroll To: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% [ / 7]
66% (2) Rancho Deluxe 93 min, R, [Comedy, Romance, Western] [Frank Perry] [14 Mar 1975]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 64%, Rotten Tomatoes: 69%, External Reviews
Actors: Clifton James, Elizabeth Ashley, Jeff Bridges, Sam Waterston
Writer: Thomas McGuane
External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA
Plot: Jack McKee (Jeff Bridges) and Cecil Colson (Sam Waterston) are bumbling drifters who make a living by rustling cattle in the wilds of Montana. Jack left his wealthy parents because he resented their posh lives. Cecil is of Caucasian and Native American descent seeking his own path in life away from his grumpy cowboy father (Joe Spinell). Both Jack and Cecil hustle and rustle their way in the world by targeting cattle owned by wealthy ranch-owner John Brown (Clifton James). Frustrated that someone is killing his cattle, John hires a pair of ranch hands, Burt and Curt (Richard Bright and Harry Dean Stanton), to find the rustlers. When Brown realizes he cannot trust his two inept ranch hands, he turns to the grizzled former rustler Henry Beige (Slim Pickens) to find the cattle thieves. Jack and Cecil always stay a step ahead of their pursuers, not realizing that their luck must run out sometime.
Rotten Tomatoes: In this comedy western, cattle rustlers Jack McKee and Cecil Carlson's special target is taciturn rancher John Brown. Together, they plan to lift themselves out of the penny-ante class with one big crime caper. Brown gets wind of their scheme and sends private eye Henry Beige after them.
Scroll To: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% [ / 7]
65% (1) The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker 95 min, R, [Comedy] [Lawrence Turman] [19 Aug 1971]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 65%, External Reviews
Actors: Adam West, Elizabeth Ashley, Joanna Shimkus, Richard Benjamin
Writer: Lorenzo Semple Jr. (screenplay), Charles Webb (novel)
External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA
Plot: A stock-broker is stuck in a dreary job and a marriage that's become a dull routine. To cope with the boredom and frustration, he resorts to voyeurism and extramarital love affairs.
Rotten Tomatoes: A man who can't stop looking at other women finds that it might cost him his marriage in this farcical comedy. William and Lisa Alren (Richard Benjamin and Joanna Shimkus) are a young married couple whose relationship has begun to go stale. Bored and looking for diversion, William begins spying playfully on the sexual habits of their neighbors and watching attractive women passing by; while his voyeurism falls short of criminal activity, it doesn't sit at all well with Lisa. Eventually, she becomes so troubled by William's roving eye that she leaves their home and moves in with her sister Nan (Elizabeth Ashley), a harridan who has verbally browbeaten her attorney husband Chester (Adam West) into submission. At Nan's insistence and with Chester's help, Lisa begins divorce proceedings against William, but he tries to convince her to give him another chance.
Scroll To: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% [ / 7]
61% (1) Paperback Hero 93 min, R, [Drama, Sport] [Peter Pearson] [21 Sep 1973]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 61%, External Reviews
Awards: 3 wins.
Actors: Dayle Haddon, Elizabeth Ashley, John Beck, Keir Dullea
Writer: Barry Pearson, Les Rose
External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: Canada
Plot: A hockey player in a small town begins to lose his grip on reality, and starts to believe that he is a gunslinger in the Old West.
Rotten Tomatoes: A small-time athlete is suddenly confronted by the real world in this thoughtful comedy drama from Canada. Rick (Keir Dullea) is the star player on a semi-pro hockey team in a small town on the Canadian prairie. While Rick has to hold down a job in a hardware store to pay his rent, his skills on the ice make him a local hero; he never has to pay for a beer or a meal if he doesn't want to, and he makes as much time as he wants with a number of women, though his loyal girlfriend Loretta (Elizabeth Ashley) is still convinced he'll settle down and marry her one day. To go along with his minor celebrity, Rick has constructed an outsized persona for himself, wearing a cowboy hat, carrying a pistol, and grooming himself in the model of Sheriff Matt Dillon from Gunsmoke. But Rick's world begins to fall apart when he first loses his job and then gets word that his team's owners can't afford to keep the franchise going. After the team's final game turns into an angry brawl and Rick is rejected by Joanna (Dayle Haddon), the college-age daughter of the team's manager, Rick takes a final stand in a foolish bid to prove himself. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
Scroll To: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% [ / 7]
57% (1) The Third Day 119 min, [Drama, Mystery] [Jack Smight] [13 Sep 1965]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 57%, External Reviews
Actors: Arthur O'Connell, Elizabeth Ashley, George Peppard, Roddy McDowall
Writer: Joseph Hayes (based on the novel by), Burton Wohl (screenplay), Robert Presnell Jr. (screenplay)
External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA
Plot: A man stumbles out of a car crash with no memory of what transpired. Everyone who he meets suggests that he is a ruthless man with an aggressive temper. Could he be deliberately blocking out memories of his past?
Rotten Tomatoes: In this melodrama, a man crashes his car beside a river and loses his memory. During the next three days, his memory begins to return, and few of the memories are pleasant. His wife is ready to leave him, and his cousin wants the family china-manufacturing business for himself.
Scroll To: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% [ / 7]
52% (1) Golden Needles 92 min, PG, [Action] [Robert Clouse] [17 Jul 1974]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 52%, External Reviews
Actors: Ann Sothern, Elizabeth Ashley, Jim Kelly, Joe Don Baker
Writer: S. Lee Pogostin, Sylvia Schneble
External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA
Plot: Various factions are fighting each other to gain possession of a very special statue. The statue itself is not worth much, the needles inside it are the true prize. These "golden needles" hold extraordinary and unique properties, if inserted in the right positions in a man he will gain super sexual prowess, if placed incorrectly he dies.
Rotten Tomatoes: This martial arts film has an interesting twist. The conflict is over a mythical 30-inch-tall statue with very special properties. Protruding from the sculpture are seven golden needles. If the needles are inserted into a man's body in the precisely right positions, he will become a sexual superman. If the position is incorrect, the man will instantly die. Despite the risks, several men begin fighting over the precious object.
Scroll To: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% [ / 7]
47% (1) Windows 96 min, R, [Drama, Thriller] [Gordon Willis] [18 Jan 1980]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 47%, External Reviews
Awards: 6 nominations.
Actors: Elizabeth Ashley, Joe Cortese, Kay Medford, Talia Shire
Writer: Barry Siegel
External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA
Plot: Shire is the subject of a perverse obsession by a Lesbian neighbor, Andrea, who not only is in lust with her but hires a rapist in order to get audio tapes of her moaning. Ashley turns peeping tom and watches Shire with a telescope as she begins an affair with Det. Cortese.
Scroll To: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% [ / 7]