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Big (1988) IMDb NeoDB TMDB Douban WikiData
Big
7.2 (5 ratings) director: Penny Marshall actor: Tom Hanks / Elizabeth Perkins …
When a young boy makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big—he wakes up the following morning to find that it has been granted and his body has grown older overnight. But he is still the same 13-year-old boy inside. Now he must learn how to cope with the unfamiliar world of grown-ups including getting a job and having his first romantic encounter with a woman.
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Big Business (1988) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Big Business
director: Jim Abrahams actor: Bette Midler / Lily Tomlin …
other title: Affari d'oro / Alle disse kvinder …
In the 1940s in the small town of Jupiter Hollow, two sets of identical twins are born in the same hospital on the same night. One set to a poor local family and the other to a rich family just passing through. The dizzy nurse on duty accidentally mixes the twins unbeknown to the parents. Our story flashes forward to the 1980s where the mismatched sets of twins are about to cross paths.
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Risky Business (1983) TMDB Douban NeoDB IMDb WikiData
Risky Business
director: Paul Brickman actor: Tom Cruise / Rebecca De Mornay …
other title: Risky Business - Fuori i vecchi... i figli ballano / Fræk business …
Meet Joel Goodson, an industrious, college-bound 17-year-old and a responsible, trustworthy son. However, when his parents go away and leave him home alone in the wealthy Chicago suburbs with the Porsche at his disposal he quickly decides he has been good for too long and it is time to enjoy himself. After an unfortunate incident with the Porsche Joel must raise some cash, in a risky way.
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The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) NeoDB TMDB KevGa-NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData Melon Log
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
7.3 (15 ratings) director: David Zucker actor: Leslie Nielsen / Priscilla Presley …
other title: Una pallottola spuntata / Høj pistolføring …
When the bumbling Lieutenant Frank Drebin investigates events following the shooting of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.
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The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991) Douban TMDB IMDb NeoDB WikiData
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
7.4 (10 ratings) director: David Zucker actor: Leslie Nielsen / Priscilla Presley …
other title: Una pallottola spuntata 2½ - L'odore della paura / Høj pistolføring 2½: Lovens lange næse …
Bumbling lieutenant Frank Drebin is out to foil the big boys in the energy industry, who intend to suppress technology that will put them out of business.
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Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994) NeoDB Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
7.8 (6 ratings) director: Peter Segal actor: Leslie Nielsen / Priscilla Presley …
other title: Una pallottola spuntata 33⅓ - L'insulto finale / Høj pistolføring 33⅓: Den ultimative fornærmelse …
Frank Drebin is persuaded out of retirement to go undercover in a state prison. There he has to find out what top terrorist, Rocco, has planned for when he escapes. Adding to his problems, Frank's wife, Jane, is desperate for a baby.
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The Lady Eve (1941) TMDB IMDb WikiData NeoDB Douban
The Lady Eve
director: Preston Sturges actor: Barbara Stanwyck / Henry Fonda …
other title: Lady Eva / As Três Noites de Eva …
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.
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From Beijing with Love (1994) IMDb WikiData Douban NeoDB TMDB
國產凌凌漆
8.1 (15 ratings) director: Stephen Chow / Lee Lik-Chi actor: Stephen Chow / Anita Yuen Wing-Yee …
other title: Liebesgrüße aus Peking / Bons baisers de Pékin …
A Chinese secret agent travels to Hong Kong to reclaim a dinosaur fossil but experiences hilarious incidents because of his incompetence.
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The Frighteners (1996) Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Frighteners
director: Peter Jackson actor: Michael J. Fox / Trini Alvarado …
other title: Sospesi nel tempo / Agarrem-me esses Fantasmas …
Once an architect, Frank Bannister now passes himself off as an exorcist of evil spirits. To bolster his facade, he claims his "special" gift is the result of a car accident that killed his wife. But what he does not count on is more people dying in the small town where he lives. As he tries to piece together the supernatural mystery of these killings, he falls in love with the wife of one of the victims and deals with a crazy FBI agent.
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The Return of the Living Dead (1985) TMDB IMDb WikiData NeoDB Douban
The Return of the Living Dead
7.4 (9 ratings) director: Dan O'Bannon actor: Clu Gulager / James Karen …
other title: Il ritorno dei morti viventi / Ligene er ligeglade …
When foreman Frank shows new employee Freddy a secret military experiment in a supply warehouse in Louisville, Kentucky, the two klutzes accidentally release a gas that reanimates corpses into flesh-eating zombies. As the epidemic spreads throughout the town, and the creatures satisfy their hunger in gory and outlandish ways, Frank and Freddy fight to survive with the help of their boss and a mysterious mortician.
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Cars (2006) Douban NeoDB TMDB IMDb
Cars
7.6 (19 ratings) director: John Lasseter actor: Owen Wilson / Paul Newman …
other title: Cars - Motori ruggenti / Biler …
Lightning McQueen, a hotshot rookie race car driven to succeed, discovers that life is about the journey, not the finish line, when he finds himself unexpectedly detoured in the sleepy Route 66 town of Radiator Springs. On route across the country to the big Piston Cup Championship in California to compete against two seasoned pros, McQueen gets to know the town's offbeat characters.
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Withnail & I (1987) NeoDB Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
Withnail & I
director: Bruce Robinson actor: Richard E. Grant / Paul McGann …
other title: Shakespeare a colazione / Withnail e Eu …
Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When they take a holiday "by mistake" at the country house of Withnail's flamboyantly gay uncle, Monty, they encounter the unpleasant side of the English countryside: tedium, terrifying locals and torrential rain.
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The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) Douban TMDB IMDb KevGa-NeoDB WikiData
The Little Shop of Horrors
director: Roger Corman actor: Jonathan Haze / Jackie Joseph …
other title: La piccola bottega degli orrori / Gys i blomsterbutikken …
Seymour works in a skid row florist shop and is in love with his beautiful co-worker, Audrey. He creates a new plant that not only talks but cannot survive without human flesh and blood.
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Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe (2022) TMDB
Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe
director: John Rice / Albert Calleros actor: Mike Judge / Andrea Savage …
other title: Beavis & Butt-Head alla conquista dell'Universo / Beavis et Butt-head se font l'Univers …
In 1998, Beavis and Butt-Head are sentenced to Space Camp by a “creative” judge. Their obsession with a docking simulator (huh huh) leads to a trip on the Space Shuttle, with predictably disastrous results. After going through a black hole, they re-emerge in our time, where they look for love, misuse iPhones, and are hunted by the Deep State. Spoiler: They don’t score.
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Hopscotch (1980) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Hopscotch
director: Ronald Neame actor: Walter Matthau / Glenda Jackson …
other title: Due sotto il divano / Den vilde flugt …
When CIA operative Miles Kendig deliberately lets KGB agent Yaskov get away, his boss threatens to retire him. Kendig beats him to it, however, destroying his own records and traveling to Austria where he begins work on a memoir that will expose all his former agency's covert practices. The CIA catches wind of the book and sends other agents after him, initiating a frenetic game of cat and mouse that spans the globe.
Oct. 3, 2025 watched
A light dramedy of an aging irrrascible man having some fun at the expense of those passing him over.

Watched in the #Comedon #WatchParty on Mastodon, I was the guest host
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