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The Paperboy. (1994) Alexandra Paul, Marc Marut, Brigid Tierney, William Katt, Frances Bay, Krista Errickson, Barry Flatman. Directed by Douglas Jackson. A psychotic young boy murders an elderly grandmother to lure the lady's divorced daughter and granddaughter to the small Ohio town where he lives so that he can become part of their family, which he has grown obsessed with. Categories: Drama, Horror.
Paradise. (1991) Melanie Griffith, Don Johnson, Elijah Wood, Thora Birch, Sheila McCarthy, Eve Gordon, Louise Latham. Directed by Mary Agnes Donoghue. A visit by their young nephew helps to rekindle the lost love between a married couple, who have been unable to cope with tragedy in their own lives. Category: Drama.
Party Camp. (1986) Andrew Ross, Kerry Brennan, Dean R. Miller, Billy Jayne, Jewel Shepard, Kirk Cribb, Peter Jason. Directed by Gary Graver. A teenaged boy takes a job as a counselor at a summer camp run like a military training camp and resolves to turn it into Party Central. Category: Comedy, Sexually Explicit.
Pecker. (1998) Edward Furlong, Christina Ricci, Bess Armstrong, Martha Plimpton, Brendan Sexton III, Mark Joy, Mary Kay Place. Directed by John Waters. A Baltimore teenaged photographer who uses his eccentric family and friends as subjects becomes an overnight sensation when his work is spotted by a New York art dealer and placed in an exhibit. Categories: Comedy, Sexually Explicit.
The People Under the Stairs. (1991) Brandon Quintin Adams, Everett McGill, Wendy Roie, A. L. Langer, Ving Rhames, Sean Whalen. Directed by Wes Craven. Trapped inside a fortified home owned by a mysterious couple, an impoverished young boy is suddenly thrust into a nightmare where he must battle the couple and their sadistic security devices. In his efforts to do so, he befriends an elusive and abused girl and discovers other kids hidden deep within the walls of the house in this combination fairy tale and horror story. Category: Horror.
A Perfect World. (1993) Clint Eastwood, Kevin Costner, Laura Dern, T. J. Lowther. Directed by Clint Eastwood. Butch Haynes escapes from prison with another inmate, and is on the run from the law, led by Texas Ranger Red Garnett, leading deputies and and a criminologist in a statewide pursuit. Butch takes a young boy as a hostage, but surprisingly the two end up bonding, with each enjoying the father-son relationship that they never had, while the law continues to hunt them down. Categories: Drama, Crime and Mystery.
Permanent Record. (1988) Keanu Reeves, Alan Boyce, Michelle Meyrink, Jennifer Rubin, Barry Corbin, Kathy Baker, Pamela Gidley, Michael Elgart, Dakin Matthews, Joshua Taylor, Richard Bradford. Directed by Marisa Silver. When a popular and talented high school student inexplicably commits suicide, his friends and family are left to deal with the tragedy and try to make sense out of it. Categories: Drama, Teenagers.
Pet Shop. (1995) Leigh Ann Orsi, Spencer Vrooman, Joanne Baron, David Wagner, Jane Morris, Jeff Michalski, Terry Kiser. Directed by Hope Perello. A street smart New York girl and her family who have relocated to a small town in Arizona run into Mr. and Mrs. Zim, the oddball alien owners of a pet shop, who plan to use critters from outer space to lure local kids into their store so that they can be captured and sold as human pets. Categories: Comedy, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Family.
The Phoenix and the Magic Carpet. (1995) Peter Ustinov, Dee Wallace-Stone, Timothey Hegemann, Laura Kamrath, Nick Klein, Ewen Bremner, Nicole Lengenberg. Directed by Zoran Perisic. Three kids and their mom go to an isolated cottage in England to settle the affairs of her late father. They discover an old egg which falls in a bonfire and emerges as a magical firebird. The phoenix then leads the kids on a series of adventures. Categories: Action/Adventure, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Family.
Picture Perfect. (1995) Richard Karn, Christian Campbell, Dave Thomas, Mary Page Keller, Lisa Jakub, Cecilley Carroll. Directed by Joseph L. Scanlon. Two teenagers with single parents who live next door to each other join their families together in order to win the grand prize in a perfect family contest. Categories: Comedy, Family.
Pie in the Sky. (1996) Josh Charles, Anne Heche, John Goodman, Peter Riegert, Christine Ebersole, Wil Wheaton, Brian Davila, A. J. Merton, Jesse Stock, and Christine Lahti. Directed and written by Bryan Gordon. A light hearted romance about a young man with two obsessions -- understanding traffic patterns and pursuing Amy, the girl of his dreams. Categories: Romance, Drama, Sexually Explicit.
A Pig's Tale. (1995) Joe Flaherty, Sean Babb, Mike Damus, Jonathan Hilario, Lisa Jakub, Andrew Harrison Leeds, Olumiji Aina Olawumi, Graham Sack, Chaz Lamar Shepherd, Jimmy Zepeda, Christopher Daniel Barnes. Directed by Paul Tassie. A summer camp flick about two rival groups at Kamp Kipperman, the Wolves (rich kids who have it all), and the Pigs, the loser kids who are fed up with being treated like "slop". Categories: Comedy, Family.
The Pistol: The Birth of a Legend. (1991) Adam Guier, Nick Benedict, Millie Perkins, Murrell Garland, Tom Lester, Buddy Petrie, Darrel Campbell, Wendy Leblanc, John Richardson, Rodney Stone, Eddie Hailey, David Brantley. Joe Chrest, Edward Layrisson, Paul Henderson. Directed by Frank Schroeder. The story of how Pete Maravich began to pursue his dream to become one of the world's greatest basketball players with the support and encouragement of his father, a visionary basketball coach at Clemson University. The film deals with young Pete's early high school years, when he was a freshman on the Daniel High School varsity team. Categories: Sports, Drama, Family.
Plain Clothes. (1988) Arliss Howard, Suzy Amis, Max Perlich, James D. Parker, Jr., George Wendt, Larry Pine, Dianne Ladd, Robert Stack, Abe Vigoda, Seymour Cassell, Peter Dobson. Directed by Martha Coolidge. When his brother is framed for the murder of a teacher, a young cop returns to high school undercover as a student. Categories: Comedy, Crime/Mystery, Action/Adventure.
Playing Dangerous 2. (1996) Mikey LeBeau, Jack Harrison, David Kreigel, Tom Wright, Kathe Mazur, Adam Hendershot. Directed by Lawrence Lanoff. This sequel to the original has young genius Stuart joining a team of computer programmers on a research project, and then trying to foil spies who are trying to use the research to steal government secrets. Categories: Drama, Crime/Mystery, Action/Adventure.
Pleasantville. (1998) Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon, Jeff Daniels, Joan Allen, William H. Macy, J. T. Walsh, Don Knotts. Written and directed by Gary Ross. 1990's teenaged culture clashes with the perfect suburbia of the fifties, when a brother and sister accidentally get zapped back in time. Categories: Drama, Romance, Teenagers, Fantasy.
Plunge. (2000) Joseph Scheibelhut, Randy Colborn, George Schricker, Jamie Talboom, Michael Kouroubetes. Directed by Tim Richardson. A short film set in the fifties about a boy who is dreamer and would rather draw old cars than learn fractions. This is a problem since he lives in a fast-paced, multi-tasking culture where productivity is praised and creativity scorned. Category: Drama.
Pontiac Moon. (1994) Ted Danson, Mary Steenburger, Ryan Todd, Eric Schweig, Cathy Moriarity, Max Gail. Directed by Peter Medak. During the summer of 1969, an eccentric science teacher goes off on a journey with his eleven-year-old son in a 1949 Pontiac with the goal of arriving at the spires of Moon National Park just as the Apollo XI mission lands on the moon. Categories: Drama.
Popcorn. (1991) Jill Schoelen, Tom Villard, Dee Wallace-Stone, Derek Rydall, Malcolm Danare, Elliott Hurst, Ivette Soler, Tony Roberts, Ray Walston. Directed by Mark Herrier. A group of film students put on an all-night horror show at at old abandoned theater with the help of a retired effects man. But a murderer in their midst seeking revenge uses the occasion to start a killing spree. Categories: Horror, Drama.
Porky's. (1981) Dan Monahan, Mark Herrier, Wyatt Knight, Roger Wilson, Kim Catrell. Directed by Bob Clark. A raunchy comedy about six high school students in Angel Beach, Florida whose most fervent wish is to find some sexual satisfaction at Porky's, a notorious strip-joint in the next county. But when they are ripped off and thrown out by the owner, they plot a scheme for revenge. Categories: Comedy, Coming of Age, Sexually Explicit.
Porky's Revenge. (1985) Dan Monahan, Mark Herrier, Wyatt Knight, Kaki Hunter, Tony Ganios. Directed by James Komack. This sequel to Porky's again pits Angel Beach high school students against the corpulent club owner, now firmly established on a lavish showboat. Categories: Comedy, Sexually Explicit.
Prehysteria!. (1993) Brett Cullen, Austin O'Brien, Samantha Mills, Colleen Morris, Stephen Lee. Directed by Albert Band. An archaeologist discovers five frozen dinosaur eggs in South America and brings them back to America. But the cooler get mixed up with another one owned by a local farmer and his two kids. When the family dog grabs the cooler and finds the eggs, she thinks they are hers, and soon hatches five miniature dinosaurs. Categories: Comedy, Science Fiction, Family.
Prehysteria! 3. (1995) Fred Willard, Whitney Anderson, Pam Matteson, Dave Buzzotta, Matt Letscher. Directed by Julian Breen. The second sequel finds the five miniature dinosaurs brought to a failing miniature golf course/amusement park. When the dinos begin to pump up the business, the owner's brother plots to take over the property. Categories: Comedy, Science Fiction, Family.
Pretty in Pink. (1986) Molly Ringwald, Harry Dean Stanton, Jon Cryer, Annie Potts, James Spader, Andrew McCarthy. Directed by Howard Deutch. A love story about a romance between a girl from the wrong side of the tracks and her wealthy boyfriend. As fast as the romance builds, it is threatened by the painful reality of peer pressure on both sides. Categories: Drama, Romance, Teenagers.
The Prince of Central Park. (2000) Danny Aiello, Frankie, Harvey Keitel, Cathy Moriarty, Frank Nasso, Jerry Orbach, Paul Sorvino, Kathleen Turner, Carmen Moreno. Written and directed by John Leekly. A young boy living with an abusive foster mother runs away to find his real mother. His only recollections are a picture of the two of them at the merry-go-round in Central Park. Categories: Drama, Coming of Age.
Proof. (2005) Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins, Jake Gyllenhaal, Danny McCarthy, Hope Davis. Directed by John Madden. The daughter of a brilliant but mentally disturbed mathematician, recently deceased, tries to come to grips with her possible inheritance: his insanity. Complicating matters are one of her father's ex-students who wants to search through his papers and her estranged sister who shows up to help settle his affairs. Categories: Drama, Romance.
The Protector. (2005) Tony Jaa, Petchtai Wongkamlao, Bongkoj Khongmalai, Xing Jing, Nathan Jones, Johnny Nguyen, Lateef Crowder, Jon Foo, Damian De Montema, David Asavanond, Sotorn Rungruaeng. Directed by Prachya Pinkaew. A young fighter named Kham trained in martial arts as a "protector of royal elephants" goes to Australia to retrieve two stolen elephants, taken by a well-connected gang of smugglers. With the help of a Thai-born Australian detective, Kham must take on the deadly gang and their police insiders who try to kill him and frame him for murder. Categories: Action/Adventure, Crime.
Pulp Fiction. (1994) Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, Laura Lovelace, John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Phil LaMarr, Frank Whaley, Burr Steers, Bruce Willis. Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. The stories of two mob hit men, a boxer, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption. Categories: Drama, Crime.
Pulse. (1995) Cliff De Young, Roxanne Hart, Joey Lawrence, Matthew Lawrence, Charles Tyner, Dennis Redfield. Written and directed by Paul Golding. An evil force has gotten into the electricity in a suburban community and no one knows how to pull the plug. Categories: Action/Adventure, Science Fiction.
In Pursuit of Happyness. (2006) Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Thandie Newton, Brian Howe, James Karen, Dan Castellaneta, Kurt Fuller, Takayo Fischer, Kevin West. A struggling and homeless salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional endeavor as a stockbroker. Categories: Drama.
Quicksilver. (1986) Kevin Bacon, Jami Gertz, Paul Rodriguez, Rudy Ramos, Nelson Vails, Laurence Fishburne. A former stock broker turned bicyle messenger tries to stop a local drug dealer from using his girl friend bicycle messenger to peddle his wares. Categories: Drama, Action/Adventure.
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