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The 1982 Flop Six Weeks is a Stone Cold Christmas Bummer

If you enjoy watching children die onscreen then check out the hilariously awful 1982 melodrama Six Weeks, AKA The Book of Henrietta.

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Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #214 Mr. Rice's Secret (1999)

David Bowie made a lot of movies. The wildly overwrought kiddie Cancer drama Mr. Rice’s Secret was one of them.

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The Travolta/Cage Project #52 City of Angels (1997)

Nicolas Cage is an angel in love with Meg Ryan in Brad Siberling’s ridiculously sappy, shockingly effective remake of Wings of Desire as a glorified perfume commercial with a Goo Goo Dolls soul.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #154 Somebody is Waiting (1996)

My patron-funded jaunt through the filmography of disgraced former Noxzema pitch-woman Rebecca Gayheart continues with a look back at the dreary 1996 coming of age youth gone wild melodrama Somebody is Waiting.

The Travolta/Cage Project #5 The Boy in the Plastic Bubble (1976)

Travolta won our hearts as a strapping, virile bubble boy in the iconic 1976 television movie The Boy in the Plastic Bubble.