Product placement reached a new high/nadir with the hilariously shameless 1989 family melodrama The Wizard, a feature-length commercials for all things Nintendo, but particularly the Power Glove and Super Mario Brothers 3.
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Hal Ashby made the big leap from hotshot editor to director with the lovely and charming 1970 comedy-drama The Landlord and ended with the 1986 cop drama 8 Million Ways to Die.
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Phil Hartman Month closes on a high note with a fond look back at Hartman’s hilarious performance as a ragingly ineffectual President of the United States in 1997’s The Second Civil War, Joe Dante’s almost eerily prescient political and media satire about a near-future US driven to the point of civil war over the issue of immigration.
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Pranks turn murderous and mad in this exploration of death without death featuring Beau Bridges and Tony Goldwyn as medically-minded brothers with a VERY complicated relationship.
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