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Gerrit Graham has 15 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 1990s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Phantom of the Paradise.
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Singer-songwriter Winslow Leach seeks revenge on the nefarious music producer Swan, who steals both Winslow's music and his favorite singer for the grand opening of Swan's new rock palace, the Paradise.
Dir. Brian De Palma · With William Finley, Paul Williams, Jessica Harper

Chucky is reconstructed by a toy factory to dispel the negative publicity surrounding the doll, and tracks young Andy Barclay to a foster home where the chase begins again.
Dir. John Lafia · With Alex Vincent, Brad Dourif, Christine Elise

In 1917 New Orleans, a 12-year-old girl is raised in a brothel by her prostitute mother.
Dir. Louis Malle · With Brooke Shields, Keith Carradine, Susan Sarandon

When the owner of a struggling used car lot is killed, it's up to the lot's hot-shot salesman to save the property from falling into the hands of the owner's ruthless brother and used-car rival.
Dir. Robert Zemeckis · With Kurt Russell, Jack Warden, Gerrit Graham

A scientist creates Proteus, an organic supercomputer with artificial intelligence which becomes obsessed with human beings, and in particular the creator's wife.
Dir. Donald Cammell · With Julie Christie, Fritz Weaver, Gerrit Graham
Vietnam vet Jon Rubin returns to New York and rents a rundown flat in Greenwich Village. It is in this flat that he begins to film, 'Peeping Tom' style, the people in the apartment across the street. His obsession with making films leads him to fall in with a radical 'Black Power' group, which in turn leads him to carry out a bizarre act of urban terrorism.
Dir. Brian De Palma · With Robert De Niro, Jennifer Salt, Allen Garfield
After Stanley Putterman installs a state-of-the-art satellite dish in his backyard, a strange monster leaps off the screen and needs to feed on humans for survival. The Putterman children Sherman and Suzy—along with Suzy's metalhead boyfriend O.D.—are left to figure out what to do.
Dir. Ted Nicolaou · With Diane Franklin, Gerrit Graham, Mary Woronov

A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.
Dir. Carl Franklin · With Meryl Streep, Renée Zellweger, William Hurt

Vada Sultenfuss has a holiday coming up, and an assignment: to do an essay on someone she admires and has never met. She decides she wants to do an assignment on her mother, but quickly realises she knows very little about her. She manages to get her father to agree to let her go to LA to stay with her Uncle Phil and do some research on her mother.
Dir. Howard Zieff · With Anna Chlumsky, Austin O'Brien, Dan Aykroyd
Long ago in a land with an ailing king, there was a pair of boys who looked exactly alike, a pauper called Mickey and the other, the Crown Prince.
Dir. George Scribner · With Wayne Allwine, Arthur Burghardt, Bill Farmer
A man is mistaken as a spy by the CIA when he arrives at the airport with one red shoe.
Dir. Stan Dragoti · With Tom Hanks, Dabney Coleman, Lori Singer
Coy "Cannonball" Buckman and his blazing red Pontiac enter the Trans-America Grand Prix, an underground road race spanning the continent in which there are no rules, no speed limits and no heed for the law. En route, Buckman jockeys with an international ensemble of racers for a $100,000 purse. But there are none more important than Cade Redman, his direct competition for a guaranteed spot on the elite Modern Motors racing team.
Dir. Paul Bartel · With David Carradine, Bill McKinney, Veronica Hamel

Jay Sherman is a TV movie critic who is forced to review the most pathetic films which he always rates as "It stinks." In addition to the film parodies, the show also deals with his personal life: working for a tyrannical media mogul boss, his lovelife and his family.
Dir. Mike Reiss, Al Jean · With Jon Lovitz, Christine Cavanaugh, Park Overall
Three friends in New York City discuss how to dodge the draft and Vietnam, JFK's assassination, voyeurism, computer dating, and everything else.
Dir. Brian De Palma · With Jonathan Warden, Robert De Niro, Gerrit Graham
Asthmatic teenager Barry Gabrewski is a daydreamer. Troubled by bullying, he escapes into a fantasy world where he is the sidekick to his martial arts hero, Chuck Norris, in a series of high-octane adventures taken right out of his movies. With help from his teacher's wise old uncle, Mr. Lee, Barry learns the finer points of martial arts and enters a karate championship.
Dir. Aaron Norris · With Jonathan Brandis, Chuck Norris, Beau Bridges
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