Showing posts with label 1995. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1995. Show all posts
Showgirls (1995) 720p
Produced on a then-sizable budget of approximately $45 million, significant controversy and hype surrounding the film's amounts of sex and nudity preceded its theatrical release. In the United States, the film was rated NC-17 for "nudity and erotic sexuality throughout, some graphic language and sexual violence." Showgirls was the first NC-17 rated film to be given a wide release in mainstream theaters. Distributor United Artists dispatched several hundred staffers to theaters across North America playing Showgirls in order to assure that patrons would not be sneaking into the theater from other films, and to make sure the filmgoers were over the age of 17.
Despite a poor theatrical and critical consensus, Showgirls enjoyed success on the home video market, generating more than $100 million from video rentals and became one of MGM's top 20 all-time bestsellers. For its video premiere, Verhoeven prepared an R-rated cut for rental outlets that would not carry NC-17 films. This edited version runs 3 minutes shorter (128 minutes) and deletes some of the more graphic footage. While it has been consistently ranked as one of the worst films ever made, Showgirls has become regarded as a cult classic and was released on Blu-ray in June 2010. Showgirls 2: Penny's from Heaven was released direct-to-video in 2011.
| Directed by | Paul Verhoeven |
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| Produced by | Lynn Ehrensperger Charles Evans Mario Kassar Alan Marshall |
| Written by | Joe Eszterhas |
| Starring | Elizabeth Berkley Kyle MacLachlan Gina Gershon Glenn Plummer Robert Davi Alan Rachins Gina Ravera |
| Music by | David A. Stewart |
| Cinematography | Jost Vacano |
| Editing by | Mark Goldblatt Mark Helfrich |
| Studio | Carolco Pictures |
| Distributed by | MGM/UA Distribution Co. United Artists (North America/Japan) Pathé (International) |
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| Running time | 131 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $45 million |
| Box office | $37,702,961 |
Die Hard (1995)
Die Hard with a Vengeance is a 1995 American action thriller film and the third in the Die Hard film series. It was produced and directed by John McTiernan (who directed the first film), written by Jonathan Hensleigh, and stars Bruce Willis as NYPD Lieutenant John McClane, Samuel L. Jackson as McClane's reluctant partner Zeus Carver, and Jeremy Irons as Simon Peter Gruber. It was released on May 19, 1995, five years after Die Hard 2, and was followed by Live Free or Die Hard twelve years later.
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox (USA) Touchstone Pictures (International) |
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| Running time | 131 minutes[1] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $90 million[1] |
| Box office | $366,101,666[1] |
John McClane is now almost a full-blown alcoholic and is suspended from the NYPD. But when a bomb goes off in the Bonwit Teller Department Store the police go insane trying to figure out what's going on. Soon, a man named Simon calls and asks for McClane. Simon tells Inspector Walter Cobb that McClane is going to play a game called "Simon Says". He says that McClane is going to do the tasks he assigns him. If not, he'll blow off another bomb. With the help of a Harlem electrician, John McClane must race all over New York trying to figure out the frustrating puzzles that the crafty terrorist gives him. But when a bomb goes off in a subway station right by the Federal Reserve (the biggest gold storage in the world) things start to get heated up.A man calling himself "Simon" begins a reign of terror in the streets of New York: he threatens to detonate bombs around the city unless Detective John McClane cooperates in a game of "Simon Says". McClane has a bad hangover and a bad attitude, and isn't in the mood for games, especially this one
Bad Boys (1995)
Bad Boys is a 1995 American action-comedy film directed by Michael Bay in his directorial debut, and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, producers of Top Gun and Beverly Hills Cop. The film, starring Martin Lawrence and Will Smith, spawned a 2003 sequel, Bad Boys II.
| Directed by | Michael Bay |
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| Produced by | Don Simpson Jerry Bruckheimer |
| Screenplay by | Michael Barrie Jim Mulholland Doug Richardson |
| Story by | George Gallo |
| Starring | Martin Lawrence Will Smith Téa Leoni Tchéky Karyo Theresa Randle Joe Pantoliano |
| Music by | Mark Mancina |
| Cinematography | Howard Atherton |
| Editing by | Christian Wagner |
| Studio | Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | April 7, 1995 |
| Running time | 118 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $19 million |
| Box office | $141,407,024 (worldwide) |
Marcus Burnett is a hen-pecked family man. Mike Lowry is a foot-loose
and fancy free ladies' man. Both are Miami policemen, and both have 72
hours to reclaim a consignment of drugs stolen from under their
station's nose. To complicate matters, in order to get the assistance of
the sole witness to a murder, they have to pretend to be each other.
Written by
James Hastie <jdh1000@cus.cam.ac.uk>
Marcus Burnett is a hen-pecked family man. Mike Lowrey is more of a
loose cannon. They are partners on the Miami Police Department, and they
are about to take on a highly dangerous case. 100 million dollars in
heroin, from the biggest drug bust of their careers, is stolen from
police headquarters. Now, they have 72 hours to reclaim the heroin
before the Internal Affairs Division gets involved. This puts Mike and
Marcus hot on the trail of a French drug kingpin named Fouchet. Mike
asks Maxine Logan, a hooker he knows, to keep an eye open for high
rollers. Later, she gets a call from a guy who's high on drugs and wants
to spend $2000. Maxine asks her best friend Julie Mott to tag along
with her to the home of former cop Eddie Dominguez. Julie is not a
hooker but the guy's so out of it that they'll be out of there with the
money in just minutes. But at Dominguez's house, Fouchet kills Maxine.
Julie witnessed the murder, so she contacts the police. But Julie, who
doesn't know what Mike looks like, is willing to talk only to Mike. Mike
is not around, so Marcus is forced to pretend to be Mike, and when Mike
returns, he's forced to pretend to be Marcus. Marcus is a family man
who has a wife named Theresa and three kids named James, Megan, and
Quincy, while Mike is not, so this is not a very close fit. Mike and
Marcus's pursuit of Fouchet kicks into overdrive when Fouchet's henchmen
kidnap Julie right out from under their noses.
Written by
Todd Baldridge
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