 18% (2) Head Full of Honey 139 min PG-13 [Comedy, Drama] [Til Schweiger] [21 Mar 2019]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 36%, Rotten Tomatoes: 0%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Claire Forlani, Emily Mortimer, Eric Roberts, Leigh Gill, Matt Dillon, Nick Nolte Writer: Hilly Martinek (based on the picture 'Honig im Kopf' written by), Til Schweiger (based on the picture 'Honig im Kopf' written by), Til Schweiger (screenplay by), Lo Malinke (screenplay by), Jojo Moyes (screenplay by) External Links: External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: Germany, USA Plot: A man suffering from Alzheimer's embarks on a final road trip with his granddaughter. Rotten Tomatoes: Academy-Award (R) nominee Nick Nolte stars in the poignant drama HEAD FULL OF HONEY, Til Schweiger's English language remake of his hit German film. Matilda (Lane Nolte) tries to help her grandfather, Amadeus (Nolte), who is suffering from Alzheimer's, navigate his increasing forgetfulness, and ends up going on a remarkable adventure with him. 1 / 37 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  35% (3) Asthma 90 min Not Rated [Drama, Romance] [Jake Hoffman] [24 Nov 2016]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 56%, Rotten Tomatoes: 10%, Metacritic: 41%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Benedict Samuel, Krysten Ritter, Nick Nolte, Rosanna Arquette Writer: Jake Hoffman External Links: External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English Country: USA Plot: Our filthy hero Gus mutters to himself, just before stealing a white Rolls Royce. He happens upon Ruby, a stunning tattoo artist he's always had a thing for, and waves her into the convertible. The misfits escape the city and into nature, sharing a joint, wondering why things used to be so much cooler in the '70s. Asthma is a modern romance that explores addiction in a fresh and honest way. She warns him not to fall in love with her, but the higher you are the harder you fall. Rotten Tomatoes: A guy steals a white Rolls Royce and invites a beautiful tattoo artist on a joyride out of the city where they smoke and talk about life. 2 / 37 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 53% (3) A Walk in the Woods 104 min R [Adventure, Biography, Comedy, Drama] [Ken Kwapis] [02 Sep 2015]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 63%, Rotten Tomatoes: 46%, Metacritic: 51%, External Reviews Awards: 1 nomination. Actors: Emma Thompson, Mary Steenburgen, Nick Nolte, Robert Redford Writer: Michael Arndt (screenplay), Bill Holderman (screenplay), Bill Bryson (book) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English Country: USA Plot: In this new comedy adventure, celebrated travel writer, Bill Bryson, instead of retiring to enjoy his loving and beautiful wife, and large and happy family, challenges himself to hike the Appalachian Trail - 2,200 miles of America's most unspoiled, spectacular and rugged countryside from Georgia to Maine. The peace and tranquility he hopes to find, though, is anything but, once he agrees to being accompanied by the only person he can find willing to join him on the trek - his long lost and former friend Katz, a down-on-his-luck serial philanderer who, after a lifetime of relying on his charm and wits to keep one step ahead of the law - sees the trip as a way to sneak out of paying some debts and sneak into one last adventure before its too late. The trouble is, the two have a completely different definition of the word, 'adventure'. Now they're about to find out that when you push yourself to the edge, the real fun begins. Rotten Tomatoes: In this new comedy adventure, celebrated travel writer, Bill Bryson (Academy Award winner Robert Redford), instead of retiring to enjoy his loving and beautiful wife (Academy Award winner Emma Thompson), and large and happy family, challenges himself to hike the Appalachian Trail - 2,200 miles of America's most unspoiled, spectacular and rugged countryside from Georgia to Maine. The peace and tranquility he hopes to find, though, is anything but, once he agrees to being accompanied by the only person he can find willing to join him on the trek - his long lost and former friend Katz (Academy Award nominee Nick Nolte), a down-on-his-luck serial philanderer who, after a lifetime of relying on his charm and wits to keep one step ahead of the law - sees the trip as a way to sneak out of paying some debts and sneak into one last adventure before its too late. The trouble is, the two have a completely different definition of the word, 'adventure'. Now they're about to find out that when you push yourself to the edge, the real fun begins. (C) Broad Green 3 / 37 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  29% (3) Return to Sender 92 min Not Rated [Drama, Thriller] [Fouad Mikati] [14 Aug 2015]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 51%, Rotten Tomatoes: 13%, Metacritic: 23%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Camryn Manheim, Nick Nolte, Rosamund Pike, Shiloh Fernandez Writer: Patricia Beauchamp, Joe Gossett External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: An attractive but lonely nurse accepts a blind date setup by a co-worker and arranges for them to meet at her home. A stranger arrives on her porch before the arranged time and she mistakes him for her blind date. The stranger rapes her and leaves her seriously traumatized. Her life falls apart and she enters depression. She learns much later he is in a prison an hour away and begins visiting him, first to confront him and her fears. Then she starts to flirt and her spirits improve dramatically in the rest of her life. Rotten Tomatoes: Miranda (Academy Award nominee Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl) is a dedicated nurse, an exquisite cake maker and an impeccable friend. But when she agrees to a blind date and the wrong man comes to her door...her perfect world is shattered by a brutal assault. Even after her attacker, William (Shiloh Fernandez, Evil Dead), is convicted and locked away for the crime, Miranda can't overcome the fear and trauma enough to put her orderly life back together. Desperate for closure, she reaches out to William - first through letters, then prison visits - and slowly builds a relationship with him. But when William is paroled and comes looking for her, Miranda seizes the opportunity to exact revenge. (C) RLJE/Image Entertainment 4 / 37 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 63% (1) The Trials of Cate McCall 89 min Not Rated [Crime, Drama] [Karen Moncrieff] [28 Nov 2013]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 63%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: James Cromwell, Kate Beckinsale, Mark Pellegrino, Nick Nolte Writer: Karen Moncrieff External Links: External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English Country: USA Plot: In California, Cate McCall is an alcoholic lawyer who was on probation and rehab. She had an argument with a judge who made her take a breathalyzer test and put her on probation in a small office. Cate is also fighting to recover custody of her daughter who lives with her father, who is moving to Seattle. Cate is assigned to defend Lacey Stubbs, who has appealing against her wrongful conviction of murdering another woman on the basis of a since there was a trial error. Further, Lacey also tells that she was raped by a guard in the prison. Cate, who has never lost a case, investigates the case with her friend Bridges and they find evidence that might prove that Lacey is innocent and that her case had been fabricated. But is she really innocent? Rotten Tomatoes: A disgraced lawyer uncovers a sinister police conspiracy while handling the appeal of a convicted murderess. Cate McCall (Kate Beckinsale) used to be a hot shot lawyer. These days she's lucky she's not in jail. Now, newly sober, McCall must prove a convicted killer innocent on appeal in order to get reinstated in the bar and win back custody of her daughter. Just when it starts to look like she's gathered enough evidence to make a solid case and win back her career, however, McCall uncovers shocking evidence of corruption within the police department, and realizes she is in mortal danger. Nick Nolte, James Cromwell, Clancy Brown, and Mark Pellegrino co-star. 5 / 37 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  78% (3) Warrior 140 min PG-13 [Drama, Sport] [Gavin O'Connor] [09 Sep 2011]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 82%, Rotten Tomatoes: 83%, Metacritic: 71%, External Reviews Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 6 wins & 20 nominations. Actors: Jennifer Morrison, Joel Edgerton, Nick Nolte, Tom Hardy Writer: Gavin O'Connor (screenplay), Anthony Tambakis (screenplay), Cliff Dorfman (screenplay), Gavin O'Connor (story), Cliff Dorfman (story) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English, Spanish Country: USA Plot: Two brothers face the fight of a lifetime - and the wreckage of their broken family - within the brutal, high-stakes world of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighting in Lionsgate's action/drama, WARRIOR. A former Marine, haunted by a tragic past, Tommy Riordan returns to his hometown of Pittsburgh and enlists his father, a recovered alcoholic and his former coach, to train him for an MMA tournament awarding the biggest purse in the history of the sport. As Tommy blazes a violent path towards the title prize, his brother, Brendan, a former MMA fighter unable to make ends meet as a public school teacher, returns to the amateur ring to provide for his family. Even though years have passed, recriminations and past betrayals keep Brendan bitterly estranged from both Tommy and his father. But when Brendan's unlikely rise as an underdog sets him on a collision course with Tommy, the two brothers must finally confront the forces that tore them apart, all the while waging the most intense, winner-takes-all battle of their lives. Rotten Tomatoes: Haunted by a tragic past, ex-Marine Tommy Conlon (Hardy) returns home for the first time in fourteen years to enlist the help of his father (Nick Nolte) to train for SPARTA, the biggest winner-takes-all event in mixed martial arts history. A former wrestling prodigy, Tommy blazes a path toward the championship while his brother, Brendan (Edgerton), an ex-fighter-turned teacher, returns to the ring in a desperate bid to save his family from financial ruin. But when Brendan's unlikely, underdog rise sets him on a collision course with the unstoppable Tommy, the two brothers must finally confront each other and the forces that pulled them apart, facing off in the most soaring, soul stirring, and unforgettable climax that must be seen to be believed. -- (C) Lionsgate 6 / 37 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 28% (3) Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore 82 min PG [Action, Comedy, Family, Fantasy] [Brad Peyton] [30 Jul 2010]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 43%, Rotten Tomatoes: 13%, Metacritic: 30%, External Reviews Awards: 1 win & 3 nominations. Actors: Bette Midler, Chris O'Donnell, Christina Applegate, Jack McBrayer, James Marsden, Katt Williams, Nick Nolte Writer: Ron J. Friedman, Steve Bencich, John Requa (characters), Glenn Ficarra (characters) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English Country: USA, Australia Plot: In the age-old battle between cats and dogs, one crazed feline has taken things a paw too far. Kitty Galore, formerly an agent for cat spy organization MEOWS, has gone rogue and hatched a diabolical plan to not only bring her canine enemies to heel, but take down her former kitty comrades and make the world her scratching post. Faced with this unprecedented threat, cats and dogs will be forced to join forces for the first time in history in an unlikely alliance to save themselves -- and their humans. Rotten Tomatoes: The epic struggle for control of planet Earth continues in this sequel to the 2001 comedy that confirmed everyone's worst suspicions about our furry four-legged companions. A former top spy for the clandestine feline espionage bureau MEOWS, Kitty Galore is determined to rule the world and finally gain the upper paw over her canine rivals. But when an unforeseen threat appears, cats and dogs must band together to defeat a common foe. Chris O'Donnell and 30 Rock's Jack McBrayer head up the cast of the production, with scripting duties being handled by Brother Bear's Ron J. Friedman and Steve Bencich. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi 7 / 37 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  69% (3) The Spiderwick Chronicles 96 min PG [Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy] [Mark Waters] [14 Feb 2008]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 66%, Rotten Tomatoes: 80%, Metacritic: 62%, External Reviews Awards: 2 wins & 8 nominations. Actors: David Strathairn, Freddie Highmore, Mary-Louise Parker, Nick Nolte, Sarah Bolger Writer: Karey Kirkpatrick (screenplay), David Berenbaum (screenplay), John Sayles (screenplay), Tony DiTerlizzi (books), Holly Black (books) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English Country: USA Plot: Once upon a time, upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures. Unable to explain the strange disappearances and accidents that seem to be happening on a daily basis, the family blames it all on Jared. When he, Simon and Mallory investigate what's really going on, they uncover the fantastic truth of the Spiderwick estate and of the creatures that inhabit it. Rotten Tomatoes: Peculiar things start to happen the moment the Grace family (Jared, his twin brother Simon, sister Mallory and their mom) leave New York and move into the secluded old house owned by their great, great uncle Arthur Spiderwick. Unable to explain the strange disappearances and accidents that seem to be happening on a daily basis, the family blames Jared. When he, Simon and Mallory investigate what's really going on, they uncover the fantastic truth of the Spiderwick estate and the creatures that inhabit it. 8 / 37 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 37% (3) Simpatico 106 min R [Drama, Comedy, Crime] [Matthew Warchus] [04 Feb 2000]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 45%, Rotten Tomatoes: 25%, Metacritic: 41%, External Reviews Awards: 1 nomination. Actors: Catherine Keener, Jeff Bridges, Nick Nolte, Sharon Stone Writer: Sam Shepard (original play), Matthew Warchus (screenplay), David Nicholls (screenplay) External Links: External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English Country: UK, France, USA Plot: As youths in Azusa, Vinnie, Carter, and Rosie pull off a racing scam, substituting winners for plodders and winning big bucks on long odds. When an official uncovers the scam, they set him up for blackmail. Jump ahead twenty years, Carter and Rosie are married, successful racers in Kentucky about to sell their prize stallion, Simpatico. Vinnie is a drunk in Pomona. Vinnie decides to make a play for Rosie, lures Carter to California, steals his wallet and heads for Kentucky with the original blackmail material. Carter begs Vinnie's friend, a grocery clerk named Cecilia, to follow Vinnie and get the stuff back that he has in a box. Will she succeed? Rotten Tomatoes: Old rivalries lead to new betrayals in this Sam Shepard drama with comic undertones. Vinnie (Nick Nolte) and Carter (Jeff Bridges) have known each other for years, but their relationship has grown less than cordial. Many years ago, the two men, along with Vinnie's girlfriend Rosie (Sharon Stone), were making good money in a con game at a racetrack until Simms (Albert Finney), the local racing official, got wind of their ruse. Vinnie and Carter hatched a blackmail scheme that ended Simms' career and ruined his life. Years later, Vinnie is an alcoholic low-life who still makes a living from blackmail; Carter is now a successful horse breeder, married to Rosie, and Vinnie has incriminating information about him that he uses to get Carter to pay his living expenses. Carter gets a call from Vinnie one night as he's finalizing the sale of his prize-winning stallion Simpatico; Vinnie is in jail on a morals charge regarding a woman he's been seeing named Cecilia (Catherine Keener). Vinnie makes Carter an offer: if he comes to California to help him out of this mess, he'll hand off the documents that he's been using against him for years. Carter agrees, but when he arrives, it turns out that Vinnie's not in jail, Cecilia has filed no charges against him, and this is just part of a larger scam with Carter as its target. Director Matthew Warchus made his screen debut with this film; he also adapted the screenplay (in collaboration with David Nicholls) from the play by Sam Shepard. 9 / 37 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  77% (3) The Thin Red Line 170 min R [Drama, War] [Terrence Malick] [15 Jan 1999]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 76%, Rotten Tomatoes: 79%, Metacritic: 78%, External Reviews Awards: Nominated for 7 Oscars. Another 20 wins & 40 nominations. Actors: Benjamin Green, Jim Caviezel, Kirk Acevedo, Nick Nolte, Penelope Allen, Sean Penn, Simon Billig Writer: James Jones (novel), Terrence Malick (screenplay) External Links: External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English, Tok Pisin, Japanese, Greek Country: USA Plot: U.S. Army Private Witt (AWOL) is found and imprisoned on a troop carrier by his company First Sergeant, Welsh.The men of C Company,1st Battalion,27th Infantry Regiment,25th Infantry Division have been brought to Guadalcanal as reinforcements in the campaign to secure Henderson Field and seize the island from the Japanese. They arrive near Hill 210, a key Japanese position. Their task is to capture the hill at all cost. What happens next is a story developing about redemption and the meaningless of war. Regardless the outcome. Rotten Tomatoes: The return of director Terrence Malick to feature filmmaking after a twenty year sabbatical, this World War II drama is an elegiac rumination on man's destruction of nature and himself, based on James Jones' semi-autobiographical novel, his follow-up to From Here to Eternity. James Caviezel stars as Private Witt, a deserter living in peace and harmony with the natives of a Pacific island paradise. Captured by the Navy, Witt is debriefed by a senior officer (Sean Penn) and returned to an active duty unit preparing for what will be the Battle of Guadalcanal. As Witt goes ashore in the company of his fellow soldiers, they meet diverse fates. Sergeant Keck (Woody Harrelson) is killed by an exploding grenade. Captain John Gaff (John Cusack) is an intelligent, sober leader facing the destruction of his command because his commanding officer Colonel Tall (Nick Nolte) is bucking for a general's star. Sergeant McCron (John Savage) loses his mind. Private Bell (Ben Chaplin) gets a 'Dear John' letter from his beloved wife. However, as the U.S. troops advance up grassy slopes toward entrenched Japanese positions, it is Witt's voiced-over ruminations on life, death, and nature that are the real heart and soul of The Thin Red Line (1998). Adrien Brody appears as Private Fife, the major character of Jones' novel and the author's alter-ego, although Fife has been relegated to a minor supporting role by Malick's filmed adaptation. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi 10 / 37 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 38% (3) Breakfast of Champions 110 min R [Comedy] [Alan Rudolph] [18 Feb 1999]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 46%, Rotten Tomatoes: 26%, Metacritic: 42%, External Reviews Awards: 1 nomination. Actors: Albert Finney, Barbara Hershey, Bruce Willis, Nick Nolte Writer: Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (book), Alan Rudolph (screenplay) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: A portrait of a fictional town in the mid west that is home to a group of idiosyncratic and slightly neurotic characters. Dwayne Hoover is a wealthy car dealer-ship owner that's on the brink of suicide and is losing touch with reality. Rotten Tomatoes: Dwayne Hoover, the most respected businessman in Midland City, is on the verge of a nervous breakdown- yet his identity as the leader of the town's financial empire continues to flourish as he slowly descends from semi-sanity into madness. At the same time, Kilgore Trout, a misunderstood, impoverished writer is making a cross-country odyssey to Midland City to be the guest of honor at the town's first fine arts festival. In search of answers in his crumbling world and in desperation to hear a new voice, Dwayne Hoover attends the festival. When Hoover and Trout finally meet their two worlds collide, setting forth a ripple of events that will alter both men's lives- along with Midland City forever. 11 / 37 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  60% (3) U Turn 125 min R [Crime, Drama, Thriller] [Oliver Stone] [03 Oct 1997]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 68%, Rotten Tomatoes: 60%, Metacritic: 54%, External Reviews Awards: 1 win & 2 nominations. Actors: Abraham Benrubi, Billy Bob Thornton, Jennifer Lopez, Nick Nolte, Richard Rutowski, Sean Penn Writer: John Ridley (screenplay), John Ridley (book) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: France, USA Plot: When Bobby's car breaks down in the desert while on the run from some of the bookies who have already taken two of his fingers, he becomes trapped in the nearby small town where the people are stranger than anyone he's encountered. After becoming involved with a (unbeknownst to him) young married woman, her husband hires Bobby to kill her. Later, she hires Bobby to kill the husband. Rotten Tomatoes: Oliver Stone takes a breather from politics with this violent and frequently very funny black comedy about a gambler whose car breaks down near an Arizona mining town filled with thieves, vamps and killers. 12 / 37 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 67% (2) Mother Night 114 min R [Drama, Romance, War] [Keith Gordon] [01 Nov 1996]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 72%, Rotten Tomatoes: 63%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Anthony J. Robinow, Michael McGill, Nick Nolte, Sheryl Lee, Shimon Aviel Writer: Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (novel), Robert B. Weide (screenplay) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English, German, Yiddish Country: USA Plot: Howard W. Campbell, Jr., an American expatriate playwright, Nazi radio propagandist, and Allied spy, writes his memoirs during his pre-trial confinement in 1961 Haifa and learns that people are what they pretend to be. Rotten Tomatoes: Howard W. Campbell Jr. (Nick Nolte) is an American playwright living in pre-World War II Berlin. He is happily married to his lovely wife Helga (Sheryl Lee), and is acclaimed for his work, which gains him entree into Berlin's highest political and social circles. Then one day he's approached by Frank Wirtenan (John Goodman), an American intelligence agent who offers Campbell the opportunity to spy for his country. Campbell refuses. He wonders why he was asked. 'You're obsessed with the notion of pure hearts and heroism. You love good and you hate evil ...and you'd sacrifice anything in the name of romance,' Wirtenan tells him. So Campbell agrees. He seamlessly infiltrates the Nazis and gets a job spewing hateful Nazi propaganda on a weekly radio show beamed across Europe. He barely survives the war, his wife supposedly doesn't, and finds himself living in New York City, penniless and befriended by a next-door neighbor, a painter and fellow widower (Alan Arkin). He might have lived quietly beyond that, but gets found by a ragged group of American neo-Nazis -- and, incredibly, his wife. The neo-Nazis publicize his presence and he learns that his neighbor is actually a spy and that his wife is really her little sister. Guilt-stricken and alone, Campbell turns himself in to the Israelis, who charge him with being a war criminal. He's about to go on trial in Israel when he receives a letter from Wirteman promising to reveal his heroic spying and exonerate him, but Campbell hangs himself in his cell. 13 / 37 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  46% (2) Mulholland Falls 107 min R [Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller] [Lee Tamahori] [26 Apr 1996]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 62%, Rotten Tomatoes: 30%, External Reviews Awards: 1 win & 1 nomination. Actors: Chazz Palminteri, Jennifer Connelly, Melanie Griffith, Michael Madsen, Nick Nolte Writer: Peter Dexter (story), Floyd Mutrux (story), Peter Dexter (screenplay) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: This film is about the adventures of a 1940's special anti-gangster police squad in Los Angeles, the infamous 'Hat Squad.' The four members of this squad are big, tough, no-nonsense cops who don't hesitate to break the law, if it suits their purposes. When a local woman is murdered, their investigation turns up the fact that she had been romantically linked to several prominent men and had secret films taken of her liaisons. Since one of those men is the powerful U.S. Army General at the head of the then-new Atomic Energy Commission and another is the (married) leader of the Hat Squad, complications ensue. The FBI even gets involved in an attempted cover-up. Rotten Tomatoes: Set in 1950s Los Angeles, this film centers on the crime investigation of the notorious 'Hat Squad,' members of the LAPD noted for being natty dressers. They were also known for using unorthodox and violent methods for taking care of crooks. 14 / 37 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 44% (3) Jefferson in Paris 139 min PG-13 [Biography, Drama, History, Romance] [James Ivory] [31 Mar 1995]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 57%, Rotten Tomatoes: 31%, Metacritic: 45%, External Reviews Awards: 2 nominations. Actors: Estelle Eonnet, Greta Scacchi, Gwyneth Paltrow, Nick Nolte, Thandie Newton Writer: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English, French Country: USA, France Plot: One of the obsessive speculations in American history is whether Thomas Jefferson, in the years before he became president, had an affair with (and fathered a child with) his 15-year-old slave Sally Hemings. JEFFERSON IN PARIS follows Jefferson to France (as the U.S. ambassador to the court of Louis XVI), following the death of his wife his friendships and flirtations with the French, his relationship with his daughters and slaves from home (especially Sally), against the backdrop of the beginning of the French Revolution. Rotten Tomatoes: This historical drama takes place during future American president Thomas Jefferson's term as an ambassador in Paris, in the years preceding the French Revolution. Much attention is paid to Jefferson's private life, particularly his affair with young slave Sally Hemmings (a detail felt by many critics to be historically inaccurate). 15 / 37 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  58% (2) I'll Do Anything 115 min PG-13 [Comedy, Drama] [James L. Brooks] [04 Feb 1994]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 56%, Rotten Tomatoes: 61%, External Reviews Awards: 1 win & 2 nominations. Actors: Albert Brooks, Julie Kavner, Nick Nolte, Whittni Wright Writer: James L. Brooks External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: Matt Hobbs is a talented but unsuccessful actor. When estranged (and strange) ex-wife Beth dumps their daughter Jeannie on Matt, father and daughter have a lot of adjusting to do. His budding relationship with attractive production assistant Cathy Breslow is made complicated, while the precocious child is overly accustomed to getting her own way. Matt eventually faces the choice of family vs career in a particularly difficult way. Rotten Tomatoes: Writer/director James L. Brooks takes satiric aim at Hollywood in this comedy about an unemployed actor who becomes the sole guardian of his estranged six-year-old daughter. 16 / 37 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 50% (3) Blue Chips 108 min PG-13 [Drama, Sport] [William Friedkin] [18 Feb 1994]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 61%, Rotten Tomatoes: 37%, Metacritic: 54%, External Reviews Awards: 1 nomination. Actors: Ed O'Neill, J.T. Walsh, Mary McDonnell, Nick Nolte Writer: Ron Shelton External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: Pete Bell, a college basketball coach is under a lot of pressure. His team isn't winning and he cannot attract new players. The stars of the future are secretly being paid by boosters. This practice is forbidden in the college game, but Pete is desperate and has pressures from all around. Rotten Tomatoes: Winning is everything, even if you have to lie, and cheat to do it. That is the under-lying message of this dramatic expose of college basketball recruiters. Up till recently, Pete Bell has been a winning coach for Western U's basketball team. But this year has been different. The film opens with the coach ripping into the team for another dreadful game. Bell knows that if his team continues to lose, he will lose his job. He has no choice but to recruit more talent. He begins his search for better players and finds three good prospects: Chicago player Butch McRae, an accurate shooter; Ricky, an enormously tall boy form French Lick, Indiana; and Neon, a temperamental giant. Together these three offer unbeatable potential if he can get them to come to Western. But it's not easy. The first two make exorbitant demands involving a lot of cash, new homes, and farm equipment. Neon asks for nothing but gets a new luxury car. Coach Pete is already dealing with allegations of shadiness and does not want to give in, but he is forced to by the alumni organization leader. Pete does not cope well. 17 / 37 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  37% (2) I Love Trouble 123 min PG [Action, Comedy, Romance] [Charles Shyer] [29 Jun 1994]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 53%, Rotten Tomatoes: 22%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: James Rebhorn, Julia Roberts, Nick Nolte, Saul Rubinek Writer: Nancy Meyers, Charles Shyer External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: Veteran reporter Peter Brackett is enjoying new found fame after his book, 'White Lies' is published. When he is asked by his newspaper 'The Chicago Chronicle' to report on a train crash, he notices new reporter Sabrina Peterson. Brackett's complacency gets rudely shocked by Peterson's report for the rival 'Chicago Globe.' What follows next is a mad race between the reporters who then cook up possible events that lead up to the crash. After an initial spate of mad reporting, both settle down to get the facts straight, which leads them to uncover opposing information. When each gets setup to be killed at the same place, they escape, and then agree to work together. While they initially do not trust one another, they eventually come to work together to uncover the truth behind the train crash. Rotten Tomatoes: Two reporters for rival newspapers, one an embittered veteran, the other a bright newcomer, reluctantly team up to investigate a conspiracy involving corporate espionage. Their hesitant partnership takes on new dimensions when circumstance forces them to pretend to be lovers in this modern attempt at screwball comedy. 18 / 37 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 81% (3) Lorenzo's Oil 129 min PG-13 [Drama] [George Miller] [29 Jan 1993]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 73%, Rotten Tomatoes: 92%, Metacritic: 80%, External Reviews Awards: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 6 nominations. Actors: Kathleen Wilhoite, Nick Nolte, Peter Ustinov, Susan Sarandon Writer: George Miller, Nick Enright External Links: External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English, Italian Country: USA Plot: Until about the age of 7, Lorenzo Odone was a normal child. After then, strange things began to happen to him: he would have blackouts, memory lapses, and other strange mental phemonenons. He is eventually diagnosed as suffering from ALD: an extremely rare incurable degenerative brain disorder. Frustrated at the failings of doctors and medicine in this area, the Odones begin to educate themselves in the hope of discovering something which can halt the progress of the disease. Rotten Tomatoes: Director George Miller's fact-based drama stars Nick Nolte and Susan Sarandon as Augusto and Michaela Odone, the parents of a boy (Zack O'Malley Greenburg) diagnosed with ALD (adrenolenkodystrophy), a rare degenerative disease with fatal results. Refusing to accept the death sentence the doctors have handed young Lorenzo, the Odones devote every ounce of their being to finding a breakthrough to battle the disease. 19 / 37 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  73% (3) Cape Fear 128 min R [Crime, Thriller] [Martin Scorsese] [15 Nov 1991]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 73%, Rotten Tomatoes: 75%, Metacritic: 73%, External Reviews Awards: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 17 nominations. Actors: Jessica Lange, Juliette Lewis, Nick Nolte, Robert De Niro Writer: John D. MacDonald (novel), James R. Webb (earlier screenplay), Wesley Strick (screenplay) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte)is a small-town corporate attorney/'Leave It to Beaver' type family-man. Max Cady (Robert De Niro) is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, bible-quoting, rapist. What do they have in common? Fourteen years, ago Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey, bibliophile Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss. Rotten Tomatoes: A remake of the 1962 version, this nail-biting and brutal thriller tells the story of a vengeful ex-con who sets out to ruin the lawyer who sent him to prison for committing a series of rapes 14 years before. The plot is based on a story by John D. MacDonald. Look carefully and see cameo appearances by a few stars from the original version. 20 / 37 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 66% (3) The Prince of Tides 132 min R [Drama, Romance] [Barbra Streisand] [25 Dec 1991]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 67%, Rotten Tomatoes: 68%, Metacritic: 65%, External Reviews Awards: Nominated for 7 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 11 nominations. Actors: Barbra Streisand, Blythe Danner, Kate Nelligan, Nick Nolte Writer: Pat Conroy (novel), Pat Conroy (screenplay), Becky Johnston (screenplay) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: The Wingo family is from South Carolina, they growing up in a house on a tidal plain. The oldest offspring, Lucas, largely acted as the protector for his younger twins siblings, Tom and Savannah, in light of their dysfunctional growing up, with their shrimper father, Henry, distant and abusive if/when he did pay them any attention, and their mother, Lila, while not doting on them most concerned about appearances and striving for social standing. Now in middle age, Savannah is a New York based poet, Tom, still living on the South Carolina coast outside of Charleston with his wife Sally and their own three doting daughters, taking a break from his high school teaching/football coaching job, while Lucas has long since died while still standing up for himself and his beliefs. Lila, divorced and now remarried with that wealth and social standing she so long desired, receives news that Savannah is in the hospital following her most recent suicide attempt. Not wanting to face the blame directly as she suspects, she assigns Tom to go to New York to speak to Savannah's therapist, Susan Loewenstein, to provide any information of a family history nature that could help in Savannah's recovery. Tom agrees despite hating New York, and it being not a good time since he and Sally are experiencing marital problems, they both just knowing that things between them are not working, and not having been intimate in months. As Tom and Loewenstein (as he calls her) begin their sessions, Tom is slow to divulge the Wingo family problems to her. But he learns that she too is having her own family problems, with her concert violinist husband Herbert Woodruff being self absorbed and condescending, with their young adult son, Bernard, hating both largely because of they predestining his life also as a concert violinist. Tom and Loewenstein's sessions blossom into a friendship and romance, where their talks, in addition to helping Savannah, may help them both in dealing with their own life problems, Tom's which have been long buried figuratively and literally. Rotten Tomatoes: Nick Nolte stars as Tom Wingo, a football coach grappling with his family's tragic history with the help of psychiatrist Susan Lowenstein (played by Barbra Streisand, who also directed) is this melodramatic adaptation of the Pat Conroy novel. 21 / 37 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  34% (2) Everybody Wins 97 min R [Drama, Mystery, Thriller] [Karel Reisz] [19 Jan 1990]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 51%, Rotten Tomatoes: 17%, External Reviews Awards: 1 nomination. Actors: Debra Winger, Judith Ivey, Nick Nolte, Will Patton Writer: Arthur Miller (play), Arthur Miller (screenplay) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: UK, USA Plot: A seeming good Samaritan (Debra Winger) hires a private detective (Nolte) to prove a teen sitting in prison on a murder charge is innocent. His investigation discovers deep corruption in a Connecticut town and finds the woman isn't everything she pretends to be. Rotten Tomatoes: Private investigator Tom O'Toole (Nick Nolte) is reluctant to take on a case offered to him by cryptically offbeat Angela Crispini (Debra Winger), but he lets himself be seduced by her. Angela believes that Felix Daniels (Frank Military) was wrongly convicted of murdering his uncle. As O'Toole learns more about the crime, he becomes convinced that Felix was framed by corrupt local officials, including States Attorney, and old rival, Charlie Haggerty (Frank Converse). O'Toole also falls in love with Angela, who increasingly appears to be a psychologically disturbed woman who may have been involved with several of the principals. When Angela admits that she doesn't always know when she is telling the truth, she speaks to O'Toole's predicament and the film's theme: the dangers of relying on an unreliable narrator. 22 / 37 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 33% (3) Another 48 Hrs. 93 min R [Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller] [Walter Hill] [08 Jun 1990]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 58%, Rotten Tomatoes: 18%, Metacritic: 23%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Brion James, Eddie Murphy, Kevin Tighe, Nick Nolte Writer: Roger Spottiswoode (characters), Walter Hill (characters), Larry Gross (characters), Steven E. de Souza (characters), Eddie Murphy (story), John Fasano (screenplay), Jeb Stuart (screenplay), Larry Gross (screenplay) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English, Cantonese Country: USA Plot: For the past four years, San Francisco cop Jack Cates has been after an unidentified drug kingpin who calls himself the 'Ice Man'. At the Hunter's Point Raceway, Jack confronts Tyrone Burroughs and Arthur Brock. Jack kills Brock in self defense, but Burroughs escapes, and Jack is in danger of going to prison because Brock's gun can't be found. Jack finds a picture that proves that the Ice Man has put a price on the head of Reggie Hammond, who is scheduled to be released from prison on the next day. Jack tries to convince Reggie to help him clear his name and find the Ice Man, but Reggie says he won't help unless Jack gives Reggie the $500,000 that Jack has been holding on to for Reggie. Jack refuses to give Reggie the money unless Reggie helps him. After the bus that is transporting Reggie away from the prison is forced to crash by two bikers and Jack gets shot by the same two bikers, Jack forces Reggie to help him by having the hospital release Reggie into his custody. Reggie recognized one of the bikers as Richard 'Cherry' Ganz, the brother of Albert Ganz, the escaped convict Jack killed years ago. Jack got shot because Cherry wants revenge for Albert's death, and Cherry and his partner Willie Hickok are the hitmen who have been hired to kill Reggie. Burroughs, who works for the Ice Man, was trying to hire Brock as insurance, just in case Cherry and Hickok fail. Blake Wilson, the head of the Internal Affairs division, obviously doesn't like Jack, because Wilson will stop at nothing to prosecute Jack for manslaughter in Brock's death, and it turns out that the Ice Man put a price on Reggie's head because Reggie knows who the Ice Man is someone Jack never expected it to be. Rotten Tomatoes: At times, Another 48 Hrs. seems less like a sequel to than a parody of the first 48 Hrs., especially when Nick Nolte, repeating his role from the earlier film, begins commenting on the cliched absurdity of the goings on. This time, Nolte risks life, limb and career as he obsessively tries to bring an elusive master criminal known as 'The Iceman' to justice. Eddie Murphy, who stole the show in the first 48 Hrs. as the wheeler-dealer convict who becomes Nolte's reluctant partner, is brought into the plotline of the second film when a contract is taken out on his life. The adversarial relationship between Nolte and Murphy, supposedly dissipated by the end of the first film, is revivified in the sequel via a couple of plot devices. Still, Murphy rallies to the occasion, in the process saving Nolte from being thrown off the force. Though not as successful as the first film, Another 48 Hrs. proved that there were still enough Eddie Murphy fans around in 1990 to insure a strong box-office showing. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi 23 / 37 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  68% (2) New York Stories 124 min PG [Comedy, Drama, Romance] [Woody Allen, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese] [10 Mar 1989]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 64%, Rotten Tomatoes: 73%, External Reviews Awards: 1 win. Actors: Mae Questel, Marvin Chatinover, Mia Farrow, Nick Nolte, Rosanna Arquette, Woody Allen Writer: Richard Price, Woody Allen, Francis Ford Coppola, Sofia Coppola External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: A middle-aged artist obsessed with his pretty young assistant, a precocious 12 year old living in a hotel, and a neurotic lawyer with a possessive mother make up three Gotham tales. Rotten Tomatoes: The omnibus film New York Stories is the product of three powerhouse filmmakers. The film is divided into three stories, each exploring a different aspect of life in the Big Apple. Life Lessons, directed by Martin Scorcese, is a Dostoevsky-like tale of the rarefied Art World, with Nick Nolte as a self-indulgent abstractionist who loves Rosanna Arquette, but can't bring himself to lie to her about her negligible artistic talents. Life Without Zoe, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, is more than a little reminiscent of Kay Thompson's Eloise stories, with 12-year-old Zoe (Heather McComb) running amok at the Sherry-Netherland hotel while her parents are embarked upon a world-girdling vacation. The last and is Woody Allen's Oedipus Wrecks, wherein a schnooky lawyer (guess who?) inadvertently 'creates' the Jewish Mother From Hell: thanks to a misguided magic trick, Allen's mama (the incomparable Mae Questel) becomes a huge spectral vision on the New York skyline, telling everyone within earshot about her son's inadequacies. The cinematographer lineup on New York Stories includes Nestor Almendros, Vittorio Storaro and Sven Nykvist. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi 24 / 37 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 59% (2) Farewell to the King 117 min PG-13 [Action, Adventure, Drama, War] [John Milius] [03 Mar 1989]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 63%, Rotten Tomatoes: 55%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Frank McRae, Gerry Lopez, Nick Nolte, Nigel Havers Writer: Pierre Schoendoerffer (book), John Milius (screenplay) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: An American soldier who escapes the execution of his comrades by Japanese soldiers in Borneo during WWII becomes the leader of a personal empire among the headhunters in this war story told in the style of Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling. The American is reluctant to rejoin the fight against the Japanese on the urging of a British commando team but conducts a war of vengeance when the Japanese attack his adopted people. Rotten Tomatoes: Though officially based on Pierre Schoendoerffer's novel L'Adieu au Roi, Farewell to the King also bears echoes of Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim--with a lot of filmmaker John Milius' own Hemingwayesque slant thrown in. During World War II, American POW Learoyd (Nick Nolte) escapes a Japanese firing squad. Hiding himself in the wilds of Borneo, Learoyd is adopted by a head-hunting tribe of Nyak Indians, who consider him 'divine' because of his elaborate tattoos. Before long, Learoyd is the reigning king of the Nyaks. When British soldiers approach him to rejoin the war against the Japanese, Learoyd resists (in language so flowery that it could have been written by Sir Walter Scott). But when his own tribe is threatened by the invaders, the 'king' deigns to fight for their rights. Farewell to the King is breathtakingly photographed and quite exciting at times. 25 / 37 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  38% (3) Three Fugitives 96 min PG-13 [Action, Comedy] [Francis Veber] [27 Jan 1989]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 61%, Rotten Tomatoes: 14%, Metacritic: 40%, External Reviews Awards: 1 nomination. Actors: James Earl Jones, Martin Short, Nick Nolte, Sarah Rowland Doroff Writer: Francis Veber External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: On his first day after being released from jail for 14 armed bank robberies, Lucas finds himself caught up in someone else's robbery. Perry has decided to hold up the local bank to raise money so that he can keep his daughter, Meg, and get her the treatment she needs. Dugan, a detective, assumes Lucas helped plan the robbery, and hence Lucas, Perry and Meg become three fugitives. Rotten Tomatoes: After stumbling upon a bank robbery, an ex-con is taken hostage by the bumbling thief, who is stealing the money for the sake of his mute daughter. The three reluctantly band together, and the unlikely trio are soon on the run from the law in this comedy. 26 / 37 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 70% (2) Extreme Prejudice 104 min R [Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, Western] [Walter Hill] [24 Apr 1987]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 66%, Rotten Tomatoes: 75%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Maria Conchita Alonso, Michael Ironside, Nick Nolte, Powers Boothe Writer: John Milius (story), Fred Rexer (story), Deric Washburn (screenplay), Harry Kleiner (screenplay) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English, Spanish Country: USA Plot: When they were kids Texas Ranger Jack Benteen used to be best friends with drug kingpin Cash Bailey. At present, however, the only element linking them together is Jack's girlfriend Sarita, who used to be with Cash. She returns to Cash as a voluntary hostage to make certain that Jack keeps his hands off the drug lord's operation. On top of that, there is a meticulously planned drug bust, in which both Jack and Cash butt heads with CIA-funded paramilitary Maj. Paul Hackett, following his own agenda. Rotten Tomatoes: Walter Hill's modern western stars Nick Nolte as a Texas Ranger in pursuit of Powers Boothe, an infamous drug czar who was once Nolte's best friend. 27 / 37 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  70% (2) Weeds 115 min R [Drama] [John D. Hancock] [16 Oct 1987]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 60%, Rotten Tomatoes: 80%, External Reviews Awards: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 nomination. Actors: Ernie Hudson, Mark Rolston, Nick Nolte, Rita Taggart Writer: Dorothy Tristan, John D. Hancock External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: A San Quentin inmate, sentenced to life without parole, writes a play that catches the interest of a reporter. Rotten Tomatoes: In this film, based on a true story, convicted criminal Lee Umstetter (Nick Nolte) is sentenced to life in San Quentin prison, with no possibility of parole. Despairing at his interminable sentence, Lee spends his time reading and educating himself. When he writes and performs a play that attracts the notice of a film critic (Rita Taggart), she sets out on a quest to have him paroled. 28 / 37 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 75% (3) Down and Out in Beverly Hills 103 min R [Comedy] [Paul Mazursky] [31 Jan 1986]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 62%, Rotten Tomatoes: 81%, Metacritic: 82%, External Reviews Awards: Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 1 win & 3 nominations. Actors: Bette Midler, Little Richard, Nick Nolte, Richard Dreyfuss Writer: René Fauchois (play), Paul Mazursky (screenplay), Leon Capetanos (screenplay) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: Beverly Hills couple Barbara and Dave Whiteman are very rich but not happy Dave is a hard working business man, his wife is only interested in yoga, aerobics and other meditation classes, and he sleeps with the house maid. Their teenage son is confused about his sexuality and their daughter is suffering from eating disorders. While they are celebrating thanksgiving having plenty of food, street tramp Jerry is hungry, homeless, sleeping rough and has lost his dog. Jerry decides to end his life by drowning himself in their swimming pool. Dave rescues him and invites him to stay for a while. How does this stranger change the life style of this family? Rotten Tomatoes: When a suicidal hobo attempts to drown himself in their swimming pool, a wealthy family adopts the reluctant tramp. The family and their new companion clash and form unexpected bonds in this popular comedy inspired by Jean Renoir's Boudu Saved By Drowning. 29 / 37 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  61% (2) Teachers 107 min R [Comedy, Drama] [Arthur Hiller] [05 Oct 1984]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 60%, Rotten Tomatoes: 62%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: JoBeth Williams, Judd Hirsch, Nick Nolte, Ralph Macchio Writer: W.R. McKinney External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: A teacher overcomes his frustration in a high-school full of flunkies. As he attempts to educate his students, his attempts to help them gets him into trouble with the school board, which only adds to his problems. With the support of his students he beats the school board and his frustration. Rotten Tomatoes: In this film, Alex is a middle-aged high-school teacher who attempts to contribute to the lives of his students while playing politics between them and the school system. The plot includes a lawsuit filed against the school for allowing an illiterate student to graduate. 30 / 37 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 80% (2) Under Fire 128 min R [Drama, War] [Roger Spottiswoode] [21 Oct 1983]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 71%, Rotten Tomatoes: 89%, External Reviews Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 6 nominations. Actors: Ed Harris, Gene Hackman, Joanna Cassidy, Nick Nolte Writer: Clayton Frohman (screenplay), Clayton Frohman (story), Ron Shelton External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA, Mexico Plot: Nicaragua 1979: Star photographer Russel Price covers the civil war against president Somoza. Facing the cruel fighting - people versus army - it's often hard for him to stay neutral. When the Guerillas have him take a picture of the leader Rafael, who's believed to be dead, he gets drawn into the happenings. Together with his reporter friends Claire and Alex he has to hide from the army. Rotten Tomatoes: This gripping, emotional story of a roving photographer's transformation from a neutral artist with a camera to an involved human rights activist with a camera begins in Chad, travels to Nicaragua in the early 1980s, and ends when the Nicaraguan dictator Somoza takes off for the palm trees and beaches of Florida. Nick Nolte brilliantly interprets his role as the photographer Russell Price, and Joanna Cassidy is Claire, the radio journalist he meets while in Chad, along with her lover, Time Magazine reporter Alex (Gene Hackman), who ends up opting for a plush job as a TV anchorman and a quiet life on Long Island. When Alex leaves, Claire heads off to the next hot spot, Nicaragua, and Russell decides to tag along -- not because he is that interested in Nicaragua, but because he is interested in Claire. Once in the war-torn, Central American country, it does not take Russell long to see the vast difference between the corrupt, U.S.-backed dictatorship and the struggling guerrilla forces who have been fighting for a decade already. As his eyes are opened, he and Claire decide to go along with the rebels and film their fighting behind the lines. During one battle, the much-venerated rebel leader is shot dead, and Russell reluctantly agrees to fake a photo of the man as though he were still living, so as not to demoralize the army that looks up to him for leadership. The photo appears in the news around the world and causes such a furor that Alex shows up to demand an interview with the leader for national American television. It is on the way to this supposed interview that Alex leaves the car for a moment and is senselessly shot and killed by a government soldier, the whole episode filmed for the world by Russell's camera. This outrage (which actually occurred when journalist Bill Stewart was inhumanly shot by a Somoza soldier in full view of the video camera) soon makes global news and helps to hasten the overthrow of the corrupt dictatorship. Meanwhile, Russell has new issues to consider once his camera has become an 'active' and not a 'passive' observer of political unrest. René Enriquéz who plays the dictator Somoza in this film is a native Nicaraguan, related to a newspaper reporter killed by Somoza's government. 31 / 37 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  73% (2) Cannery Row 120 min PG [Comedy, Drama, Romance] [David S. Ward] [12 Feb 1982]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 66%, Rotten Tomatoes: 80%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Audra Lindley, Debra Winger, Frank McRae, Nick Nolte Writer: John Steinbeck (novels), David S. Ward (written for the screen by) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: Monterey, California in the 1940's. Cannery Row - the section of town where the now closed fish canneries are located - is inhabited primarily by the down and out, although many would not move away even if they could. Probably the most upstanding citizen in the area is Doc, a marine biologist who earns a living primarily by collecting and selling marine specimens for research. He is a lost soul who is looking for his place in life. He is running away from his past, one where he is trying to make amends for what he considers a past wrong. But his current life isn't totally satisfying either. He believes that his recent collection of eight baby octopi will help him define that future in conducting research on their behavior. However, he is finding that research is not as easy as he had hoped, and that he is still feeling restless. Into the area comes drifter Suzy DeSoto. She too is a lost soul. With few job skills, she gets a job as what she calls a floozy in the local whorehouse, despite her openly headstrong demeanor not making her well suited to the work. Doc and Suzy are immediately attracted to each other, but theirs is a clash of personalities, despite each truly liking the other. The other residents of Cannery Row do their part for a Doc/Suzy coupling, not always with successful results. Doc and Suzy will first have to find their own lot in life before they can commit to someone else, be it the other or anyone else. Rotten Tomatoes: This highly anecdotal film centers upon Doc (Nick Nolte), a self-employed marine biologist who lives by the ocean and interacts with the neighborhood denizens, trying to conceal a troubled past. Across from Doc's digs stands the local bordello, the Bear Flag Restaurant. Across the entrance ambles Suzy (Debra Winger), a drifter who tries to become one of the girls and fails miserably. However, she does set her sights on Doc and acts accordingly. 32 / 37 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 58% (1) Heart Beat 110 min R [Drama] [John Byrum] [24 Sep 1980]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 58%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: John Heard, Nick Nolte, Ray Sharkey, Sissy Spacek Writer: John Byrum External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: The life and friendship between the icons of the Beat Generation - Neal Cassady, Carolyn Cassady and Jack Kerouac. Rotten Tomatoes: Based on a book by Carolyn Cassady, the former wife of Beat icon Neal Cassady, Heart Beat explores the couple's relationship with On the Road author Jack Kerouac, and stars John Heard as Kerouac, Nick Nolte as Neal and Sissy Spacek as Carolyn. 33 / 37 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  79% (3) North Dallas Forty 119 min R [Comedy, Drama, Sport] [Ted Kotcheff] [03 Aug 1979]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 70%, Rotten Tomatoes: 87%, Metacritic: 80%, External Reviews Awards: 1 win & 2 nominations. Actors: Charles Durning, Dayle Haddon, Mac Davis, Nick Nolte Writer: Peter Gent (novel), Frank Yablans (screenplay), Ted Kotcheff (screenplay), Peter Gent (screenplay) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: A semi-fictional account of life as a professional (American-style) football player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s. Rotten Tomatoes: Onetime Dallas Cowboy Peter Gent's tell-all novel about the big business of football is the source for Ted Kotcheff's film, which explores the destructive world faced by NFL players both on and off the field. 34 / 37 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 78% (2) Who'll Stop the Rain 126 min R [Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War] [Karel Reisz] [08 Sep 1978]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 68%, Rotten Tomatoes: 88%, External Reviews Awards: 3 nominations. Actors: Anthony Zerbe, Michael Moriarty, Nick Nolte, Tuesday Weld Writer: Robert Stone (novel), Judith Rascoe (screenplay), Robert Stone (screenplay) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: Vietnam veteran Ray Hicks gets conned into helping his buddy John Converse smuggle some heroin, only to wind up on the lam with John's wife when the deal goes sour. Rotten Tomatoes: Thoroughly disillusioned by the Vietnam War, John, a journalist (Michael Moriarty), turns to heroin smuggling. Acting as John's go-between is the equally burnt-out Ray (Nick Nolte), who delivers the narcotics stateside to the journalist's wife, Marge (Tuesday Weld). Soon, however, Ray and Marge are on the lam, chased down by the minions of crooked narcotics agent Antheil (Anthony Zerbe). Who'll Stop the Rain? was based on Robert Stone's award-winning novel Dog Soldiers. 35 / 37 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  45% (3) The Deep 123 min PG [Adventure, Mystery, Thriller] [Peter Yates] [17 Jun 1977]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 62%, Rotten Tomatoes: 33%, Metacritic: 41%, External Reviews Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 2 nominations. Actors: Dick Anthony Williams, Jacqueline Bisset, Nick Nolte, Robert Shaw Writer: Peter Benchley (novel), Peter Benchley (screenplay), Tracy Keenan Wynn (screenplay) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English, French Country: UK, USA Plot: A pair of young vacationers are involved in a dangerous conflict with treasure hunters when they discover a way into a deadly wreck in Bermuda waters. Featuring extended underwater sequences and a look into the affairs of treasure hunting. Based on a novel by Peter 'Jaws' Benchley. Rotten Tomatoes: Peter Benchley, who wrote Jaws, also wrote The Deep. Scuba divers David Sanders and Gail Berke (Nick Nolte and Jacqueline Bisset), assisted by Romer Treece (Robert Shaw), discover a sunken treasure off the Bermuda coast. They also find a stash of narcotics. David and Gail spend the rest of the picture avoiding bad guys who stashed the drugs and want the treasure as well. 36 / 37 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 84% (1) Rich Man, Poor Man 60 min TV-PG [Drama] [N/A] [01 Feb 1976]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 84%, External Reviews Awards: Won 4 Golden Globes. Another 6 wins & 26 nominations. Actors: Dorothy McGuire, Nick Nolte, Peter Strauss, Susan Blakely Writer: N/A External Links: External Links: Wikipedia IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: An examination of the trials and tribulations of the Jordache family, from the period following World War II to the late 1960s. 37 / 37 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |