John G. Avildsen
Total Credits at Criticker: 1 (Actor), 23 (Director), 1 (Writer)
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A small time boxer gets a once in a lifetime chance to fight the heavyweight champ in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect (imdb)
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Reluctantly retired from boxing and back from riches to rags, Rocky takes on a new protege who betrays him; As the champ's son must adjust to his family's new life after bankruptcy. (imdb)
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A handyman/martial arts master agrees to teach a bullied boy karate and shows him that there is more to the martial art than fighting. (imdb)
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The dedicated, but tyrannical, Joe Clark is appointed as principal of a decaying inner city school and he is determined to improve it. (imdb)
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A quiet man's peaceful suburban lifestyle is threatened by the new, obnoxious couple that moves in next door. (imdb)
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Bill, a wealthy businessman, confronts his junkie daughter's drug-dealing boyfriend; in the ensuing argument, Bill kills him. (imdb)
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Daniel accompanies his mentor to Okinawa who is off to see his dying father and confront his old rival, while Daniel inadvertently makes an enemy of his own. (imdb)
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A bad guy from KK1 attempts to gain revenge on Daniel and Miyagi, with the aid of an old army buddy. (imdb)
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Determined young Oklahoman Lane Frost (Luke Perry) learns to ride bulls in an attempt to win his emotionally detached father's respect. As Lane moves up the tough rodeo circuit, he meets a spirited rider named Kellie (Cynthia Geary) and, after a fiery courtship, the two get hitched. Lane's devotion to the rodeo and to his fans threatens their marriage, but his efforts pay off when he captures the 1987 world title. Based on a true story.
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Darcy, editor at her highschool paper, and her long-term boyfriend Stan are in their last months of school and already have found places in good colleges. Recently they started to sleep with each other and, surprise, surprise, Darcy gets pregnant... (imdb)
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The film takes place in about a day and a half in Harry Stoner's life. Harry is down on his luck, and trapped in his own indulgences. He daydreams about his youth, trying to escape from the fact that business is rotten and his company owes bundles of money... (imdb)
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The Power of One is an intriguing story of a young English boy named Peekay and his passion for changing the world. Growing up he suffered as the only English boy in an Afrikaans school. Soon orphaned, he was placed in the care of a German national named Professor von Vollensteen (a.k.a. "Doc"), a friend of his grandfather. Doc develops Peekay's piano talent and Peekay becomes "assistant gardener" in Doc's cactus garden... (imdb)
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Eddie Lomax (Van Damme) is a vetern soldier sick of life, wandering the desert looking for a reason to die. An incident with a few thugs from the nearby town who steal Eddies motorbike and beat him almost to death, starts in Eddie a flame for revenge. Helped by Mr. Early, and some other good fellows, Eddie is out for vengeance. (imdb)
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Small time crooksters Nick and Charlie have an elaborate plan to rob an exclusive jewelers store. Using a variety of disguises and posing as rich old men and women they begin the set-up, but then Nick falls for the owner of a neighbouring antique store and things get a little complicated. (imdb)
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A detective uncovers a formula that was devised by the Nazis in WW II to make gasoline from synthetic products, thereby eliminating the necessity for oil--and oil companies. A major oil company finds out about it and tries to destroy the formula and anyone who knows about it. (imdb)
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Back in 1957, sweet-talking W.W. lived in a '55 Olds, loved bubble gum, Errol Flynn, country music, fried chicken, robbing filling stations, and a girl named Dixie. Not necessarily in that order. (imdb)
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Private detective takes on a case and gets mixed up in murder, sex and blackmail. (imdb)
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A successful stockbroker periodically hops on a hog and heads for Greenwich Village in hopes of becoming a counterculture hippy. (allmovie)
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Faye Hanlon is a community-college professor with an emotionally depressed husband and an abundance of sexual frustration. Her sister drags her to a male strip-club for a girls-night out, where she discovers that one of the dancers is her failing student Rick Monroe, a.k.a. "Ricky the Rocket". A heated affair between teacher & student ensues... (imdb)
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Parents in a small, conservative community don't think that the sex drive is a normal thing for children to experience. So much so, that they label education in that regard as a communist plot. The group of prudes is led by an impotent alcoholic and a gay policeman. (imdb)
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Three vignettes about a man who buys a weird doll, a writer who is visited by his muse and a kidnapper with very odd demands who holds a VIP. (imdb)
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Roger Pitman, a small-time grifter and crook, works with police-detective Alex Brogan in trapping fellow thieves with bait money. Pitman decides to take some of this money and seek the good life in Miami Beach, but Brogan is never far behind.
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