95% (3)  12 Angry Men  96 min,  Not Rated,  [Crime, Drama]  [Sidney Lumet]  [10 Apr 1957]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 89%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 100%,   Metacritic: 96%,   External Reviews
Awards:  Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 16 wins & 8 nominations.
Actors:  E.G. Marshall, Henry Fonda, John Fiedler, Lee J. Cobb, Martin Balsam
Writer:  Reginald Rose (story), Reginald Rose (screenplay)
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Plot:  The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young man is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open-and-shut case of murder soon becomes a detective story that presents a succession of clues creating doubt, and a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other. Based on the play, all of the action takes place on the stage of the jury room.
Rotten Tomatoes:   A Puerto Rican youth is on trial for murder, accused of knifing his father to death. The twelve jurors retire to the jury room, having been admonished that the defendant is innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Eleven of the jurors vote for conviction, each for reasons of his own. The sole holdout is Juror #8, played by Henry Fonda. As Fonda persuades the weary jurors to re-examine the evidence, we learn the backstory of each man. Juror #3 (Lee J. Cobb), a bullying self-made man, has estranged himself from his own son. Juror #7 (Jack Warden) has an ingrained mistrust of foreigners; so, to a lesser extent, does Juror #6 (Edward Binns). Jurors #10 (Ed Begley) and #11 (George Voskovec), so certain of the infallibility of the Law, assume that if the boy was arrested, he must be guilty. Juror #4 (E.G. Marshall) is an advocate of dispassionate deductive reasoning. Juror #5 (Jack Klugman), like the defendant a product of "the streets," hopes that his guilty vote will distance himself from his past. Juror #12 (Robert Webber), an advertising man, doesn't understand anything that he can't package and market. And Jurors #1 (Martin Balsam), #2 (John Fiedler) and #9 (Joseph Sweeney), anxious not to make waves, "go with the flow." The excruciatingly hot day drags into an even hotter night; still, Fonda chips away at the guilty verdict, insisting that his fellow jurors bear in mind those words "reasonable doubt." A pet project of Henry Fonda's, Twelve Angry Men was his only foray into film production; the actor's partner in this venture was Reginald Rose, who wrote the 1954 television play on which the film was based. Carried over from the TV version was director Sidney Lumet, here making his feature-film debut. A flop when it first came out (surprisingly, since it cost almost nothing to make), Twelve Angry Men holds up beautifully when seen today. It was remade for television in 1997 by director William Friedkin with Jack Lemmon and George C. Scott. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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87% (3)  The Odd Couple  105 min,  G,  [Comedy]  [Gene Saks]  [16 May 1968]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 77%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 100%,   Metacritic: 86%,   External Reviews
Awards:  Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 7 nominations.
Actors:  Herb Edelman, Jack Lemmon, John Fiedler, Walter Matthau
Writer:  Neil Simon (from the play by), Neil Simon (screenplay)
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Plot:  Felix's (Jack Lemmon) wife has left him and he is contemplating suicide. His friends sense his depression and one of them, Oscar (Walter Matthau), volunteers to take him in until he is fine again. The two of them are like chalk and cheese - Oscar is fun-loving, gregarious and slovenly, Felix is a shy, stay-at-home, obsessive-compulsive neat-freak. Being around Oscar brightens Felix up, but he quickly starts to irritate Oscar.
Rotten Tomatoes:   In this film, compulsive neatnik Felix Unger is thrown out of his house by his wife. He gravitates to the apartment of his best friend, incorrigibly-sloppy sportswriter Oscar Madison. Oscar invites Felix to move in with him, but within days the mismatched pair is on the verge of mutual murder.
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69% (3)  Pooh's Heffalump Movie  68 min,  G,  [Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Mystery]  [Frank Nissen]  [11 Feb 2005]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 64%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 80%,   Metacritic: 64%,   External Reviews
Awards:  1 nomination.
Actors:  Brenda Blethyn, Jim Cummings, John Fiedler, Kath Soucie, Kyle Stanger, Nikita Hopkins
Writer:  Brian Hohlfeld (screenplay), Evan Spiliotopoulos (screenplay), A.A. Milne (characters)
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Plot:  A heffalump is heard trumpeting in the hundred acre woods. Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, and Piglet are scared and rush to Rabbit's house for advice. Roo joins them and they all agree that heffalumps are nearby after finding a huge footprint. They decide to set out on an expedition to catch the heffalump. Roo is not allowed to come along because he is too little.
Rotten Tomatoes:   Something mysterious is happening in the Hundred Acre Wood. There are strange rumblings in the night, and the ground shakes and quakes. Pooh, Piglet, Tigger and Roo are told by Rabbit that it can only be one thing: Heffalumps. Whether or not Heffalumps are friends or foes remains to be seen.
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64% (3)  Piglet's Big Movie  75 min,  G,  [Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical, Mystery]  [Francis Glebas]  [21 Mar 2003]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 61%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 70%,   Metacritic: 62%,   External Reviews
Awards:  1 nomination.
Actors:  Andre Stojka, Jim Cummings, John Fiedler, Kath Soucie, Ken Sansom
Writer:  Brian Hohlfeld (screenplay), A.A. Milne (books), Ted Henning (additional screenplay material)
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Plot:  When the gang from the Hundred Acre Wood begin a honey harvest, young Piglet is excluded and told that he is too small to help. Feeling inferior, Piglet disappears and his pals Eeyore, Rabbit, Tigger, Roo, and Winnie the Pooh must use Piglet's scrapbook as a map to find him. In the process they discover that this very small animal has been a big hero in a lot of ways.
Rotten Tomatoes:   When the gang from the Hundred Acre Wood begins a honey harvest, young Piglet is excluded and told that he is too small to help. Feeling inferior, Piglet disappears and his pals Eeyore, Rabbit, Tigger, Roo and Winnie the Pooh must use Piglet's scrapbook as a map to find him. In the process they discover that this very small animal has been a big hero in a lot of ways.
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59% (3)  The Tigger Movie  77 min,  G,  [Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical]  [Jun Falkenstein]  [11 Feb 2000]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 63%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 62%,   Metacritic: 53%,   External Reviews
Awards:  4 nominations.
Actors:  Jim Cummings, John Fiedler, Ken Sansom, Nikita Hopkins
Writer:  Eddie Guzelian (story), Jun Falkenstein (screenplay), A.A. Milne (characters)
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Plot:  Tigger goes looking through the hundred-acre-wood to find his family.
Rotten Tomatoes:   Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Owl, Kanga, Roo, Rabbit and the ever-exuberant Tigger are busy preparing a suitable winter home for dismal donkey Eeyore. Everyone is into the effort except Tigger who is too playful to work. When Rabbit suggests Tigger go find some other "tiggers" to cavort with--at first, Tigger thinks the notion absurd since he believes he's the only "tigger." But an amazing journey through the Hundred-Acre Wood brings surprises.
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80% (1)  Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day  25 min,  G,  [Animation, Short, Comedy, Family, Musical]  [Wolfgang Reitherman]  [20 Dec 1968]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 80%,   External Reviews
Actors:  John Fiedler, Jon Walmsley, Sebastian Cabot, Sterling Holloway
Writer:  Larry Clemmons (story), Ralph Wright (story), Julius Svendsen (story), Vance Gerry (story), A.A. Milne (books)
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Plot:  Pooh is back and this time he's gonna blow you away. Almost literally. When Pooh's friend Gopher warns him that it's Windsday, Pooh goes off to wish Piglet a Happy Windsday, but Piglet is lifted into the air by the strong winds, Pooh grabs Piglet's scarf, which unravels into a single string, and looks to be flying Piglet like a kite. They arrive at Owl's house, the wind blows it down and Owl inquires as to whether Pooh did it. Eeyore agrees to find a new house for Owl, but one night, Pooh gets a visit from an unusual new friend - Tigger, a rambunctious tiger who likes honey but hates it just the same, and warns Pooh about Heffalumps and Woozles, who steal honey. But Heffalumps and Woozles are only half of Pooh's worries now, for a huge rain storm has set on the Hundred Acre Wood. Everybody is swimming in their homes. Pooh inadvertently saves Piglet from a waterfall so they have a hero party. Eeyore then barges in and announces he has found a new home for Owl; unfortunately the house he found was Piglet's. But Piglet does a heroic thing and turns over his domicile to Owl, so they have a Two Hero Party and the storm dies down. At least until next Windsday.
Rotten Tomatoes:   Winnie The Pooh & the Blustery Day was the second Disney animated featurette based on characters created by A. A. Milne. It was released December 20, 1968, two years and ten months after the first Disney "Pooh Corner" tales, Winnie the Pooh & the Honey Tree. As in the earlier film, Sterling Holloway delightfully supplies the voice of Pooh bear, while Sebastian Cabot serves as narrator. The light-as-a-feather storyline concerns the efforts by Pooh and his pals-Christopher Robin, Eeyore, Owl, Piglet et. al.-to contend with a windstorm. Of Disney's four "Pooh Corner" cartoon shorts, only Winnie the Pooh & the Blustery Day received an Oscar.
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74% (1)  Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore  25 min,  G,  [Animation, Short, Comedy, Family]  [Rick Reinert]  [11 Mar 1983]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 74%,   External Reviews
Actors:  Hal Smith, John Fiedler, Laurie Main, Ralph Wright
Writer:  A.A. Milne (books), Peter Young (story), Steve Hulett (story), Tony Marino (story)
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Plot:  Eeyore is gloomy, like always, but more so now. His birthday is right around the corner and everybody has forgotten. It didn't cheer him up any when Tigger "accidentally" knocks Eeyore into the river. Pooh invents a new game, "Pooh Sticks", and everyone contributes to Eeyore's party, there's flat balloons, storage honey pots with Owl's hand writing on them, and a game of Pooh Sticks which Tigger claims he likes, but immediately hates it because he lost. It turns out to be a happy birthday celebration after all.
Rotten Tomatoes:   In this animated Walt Disney feature, Winnie the Pooh and friends decide to throw a birthday celebration for gloomy old Eeyore.
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