Detroit Rock City (New Line Platinum Series)
from New Line Home Video
It's hard to call Detroit Rock City a "coming of age" movie--since it's hard to argue that any of the characters do any genuine growing up. But even though it's about four young metalheads trying to get to a KISS concert, the movie actually has more in common with sincere portraits of adolescence than it does with raucous teen comedies. The four heroes are members of a teen metal band called Mystery (the s is written in the same font as the letters of KISS, lest anyone mistake their source of inspiration). After the drummer's religiously zealous mother burns their tickets to a long-awaited concert in nearby Detroit, the boys go anyway and try to get tickets through theft, skullduggery, and entering a male stripper contest. The jokes are broad and the movie culminates in an orgy of male adolescent wish-fulfillment, but here and there some loving attention is paid to the details of 1970s teenage life--the haircuts, clothes, and toys the filmmakers probably had when they were kids. Edward Furlong, as the band's singer, is his usual scruffy self and exudes his particular lopsided charm; the rest of the cast play their parts with similar high spirits. Though Detroit Rock City was probably meant to be a no-holds-barred comedy in the vein of American Pie, the end result is curiously wistful; no one's going to mistake it for The Last Picture Show, but something sincere and elegiac lurks in those bang-covered eyes. --Bret Fetzer
The Chase
by Adam Rifkin
from 20th Century Fox
Hang on tight for non-stop action in this high-speed romantic action comedy starring Charlie Sheen and Kristy Swanson. When a falsely accused bank robber (Sheen) decides to escape, he grabs the nearest hostage- a billionaire's daughter (Swanson) with an ideal getaway car. Pursued by a multitude of police cars and an equal amount of outrageous media coverage, the unlikely twosome races toward the Mexican border and into unexpected romance.
Something About Sex
from Allumination
A comedic roller coaster ride through the love, sex, trust monogamy and cheating rituals of three seemingly happy couples, all observed by one cynical bachelor played by Jason Alexander.
Night At The Golden Eagle
from Universal Studios
Over the course of a long night at a decrepit L.A. hotel, a cross-section of equally decrepit people live out their desperate, dead-end lives. This is the jaundiced vision of director Adam Rifkin, best known for the raucously enjoyable Detroit Rock City and the cult curiosity The Dark Backward. He's corralled some good people for this low-budget offering (Natasha Lyonne and Ann Magnuson as hookers, Vinnie Jones as a cruel pimp), but the lion's share of screen time goes to a pair of small-time crooks (Donnie Montemarano and Vinny Argiro) planning to split for Vegas in the morning. It's diverting for a while, but the bleached-sepia look and unrelenting rancidity take their toll, grinding the picture down. Even a soft-shoe shuffle for Fayard Nicholas (of the awesome Nicholas Brothers), a grace note if there ever was one, can't lift the movie out of its determined sense of gloom. --Robert Horton
The Nutt House
by Adam Rifkin
from Allumination
 Genre: Comedy
Title: The Nutt House (aka Nutty Hut)
Catalog ID: ARD27275
Synopsis:
Identical twins Philbert and Nathan were separated at birth. Philbert is married to a wealthy heiress (Amy Yasbeck) with a mistress (Traci Lords) and a political campaign for President of the United States. Nathan suffers from a severe case of multiple personality disorder and has spent his life in a lunatic asylum. Nathan shows up on his brother's doorstep and what begins as a case of mistaken identity spirals out of control with hilarious consequences.
Something About Sex
from Image Entertainment
Marriage, what a wonderful institution! Sit back for a roller coaster ride through love, sex, trust, monogamy and cheating. Through the cynical vision of a bachelor nerd (Jason Alexander), doubts about faithfulness are planted in the minds of three seemingly happy couples. Follow the exploits and sexploits as the couples set about hiding or exposing the naked truth in the upside-down and steamy world of your favorite subject--sex!
Psycho Cop Returns
by Rif Coogan
from Allumination
Joe Vickers is not your normal police officer. A crazed cop turned serial killer, he's ready to bust anyone who violates the law with the ultimate penalty: death. When Psycho Cop crashes an illegal bachelor party full of drugs and hookers in an office building the fun and the screams really begin.
Perfect Date Movies Vol. 3 - Love & Adventure (The Beach / A Life Less Ordinary / The Last of the Mohicans / The Chase)
by Michael Mann
from 20th Century Fox
Disc 1: THE BEACH Disc 2: LAST OF THE MOHICANS Disc 3: THE CHASE Disc 4: A LIFE LESS ORDINARY
The Nutt House
by Scott Spiegel
from Image Entertainment
Sometimes you feel like a nut...sometimes you are... An outrageous comedy about identical twins separated at birth--one, an ambitious politician and the other, a charming lunatic with multiple personalities. When the two are reunited all hell breaks loose in this hilarious rib-tickler with the zaniness of The Marx Brothers, the wackiness of The Three Stooges and the pure silliness of Monty Python! Starring Traci Lords (Blade) and Amy Yasbeck (The Mask).
Tale of Two Sisters
by Adam Rifkin
from Simitar Ent.
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