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1. This movie spoof stars Charlie Sheen as a pilot who battles his own self doubts while battling another pilot for the woman he loves.
2. A lady, reliant on others to take care of her, must learn to fend for herself with the help of an assertive young woman, while she waits for her sweetheart to come back to her.
3. Kate Beckinsale stars as a young woman in 1930's England who goes to stay with distant relatives in the country when the death of her parents leaves her with little money. She finds an eccentric lot whose lives she promptly begins to improve, at the same time improving her own.
4. Led by the Reverend Brooks (Dick Van Dyke), an entire town in Iowa accepts a challenge, made by a tobacco company, to stop smoking for thirty days. Since a large amount of money is being offered if they succeed, the tobacco company's representative is trying everything he can to get someone to smoke.
5. Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis play two musicians who must pose as members of a female band in order to escape mobsters whose handiwork they inadvertently witnessed.
6. Brothers Brick and Gooper are visiting their parents to celebrate their father's 65th birthday. While Gooper and his wife have a brood of children, Brick and wife Maggie have none. In fact he doesn't want anything to do with her since he suspects she's the reason his best friend killed himself.
7. John Cusack plays a prep school student who is supposed to go to the Caribbean with his girlfriend and her family. A bad grade on a test keeps him from going, but he is reprieved at the last moment and just misses the plane. Trying to catch up to them, he encounters smugglers, murderers and a crazy captain.
8. Jim Dale plays three roles in this Disney movie which also stars Don Knotts. Aging Jasper Bloodshy announces that his twin sons Eli, a nice caring fella, and Billy, an outlaw, must complete a race to see who will inherit his fortune. The two orphans that nice guy Eli cares for must warn both brothers that they are in danger after overhearing the mayor's plan to kill them and take the cash himself.
9. Trying to catch people fencing stolen goods, three cops (Dom DeLuise, Suzanne Pleshette and Jerry Reed) set up their own shop. When the police force won't finance it anymore, they begin reselling the goods they have purchased to keep the operation running, catching the interest of the local mob.
10. Richard Burton stars as a burned-out British spy who, instead of taking a desk job, agrees to masquerade as a Communist defector in order to spread disinformation. While being interrogated by the Communists, he realizes that the cynicism he feels as a spy is universal among the intelligence community.
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