 55% (2) 80 for Brady 98 min PG-13 [Comedy, Drama, Sport] [Kyle Marvin] [03 Feb 2023]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 58%, Metacritic: 53%, External Reviews Awards: 2 wins Actors: Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Rita Moreno Writer: Sarah Haskins, Emily Halpern External Links: External Links: IMDb Language: English Country: United States Plot: A group of friends made it their life-long mission to go to the Super Bowl and meet NFL superstar Tom Brady. 1 / 11 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  74% (1) Cuba: The Forgotten Revolution 90 min N/A [Documentary, History] [Glenn Gebhard] [01 Apr 2015]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 74%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Rita Moreno Writer: Tim Guest, Steve Krahnke, Susanne Schwibs External Links: External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA, Cuba, Puerto Rico Plot: CUBA: THE FORGOTTEN REVOLUTION tells the virtually unknown story of Cuban revolutionaries Frank Pais and Jose Antonio Echeverria - a school teacher and architecture student - whose names seldom appear alongside their more famous contemporaries, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. These young men, who worked independently from each other, played critical roles in the eventual overthrow of dictator Fulgencio Batista y Zaldíva in 1950s Cuba. New scholarship and recently accessed footage challenge the prevailing view - in part advanced by Che Guevara - that Castro's army of 200 guerillas single-handedly defeated tens of thousands of Batista's professional soldiers and liberated the people of Cuba. In actuality, Pais and Echeverria's insurgencies in Santiago and Havana held the key to generating popular support for resistance and undermining the authority of Batista and his secret police. Both Pais and Echeverria rivaled Castro in popularity and power during the height of the Revolution, yet neither man lived to see the movement succeed. Pais was gunned down in the street and Echeverria died in a daring raid on the palace. The film highlights the complexities inherent in revolutions and examines the shaping (and reshaping) of the final historical record. After Castro assumed power in 1959, he harnessed the power of television to set forth a narrative that effectively removed Pais and Echeverria from the record. Through archival stock footage and exclusive interviews with Cuban revolution participants and observers, family members, people who fought alongside Castro and Guevara, and a former CIA agent, we learn about Cuba's forgotten revolutionaries. Rotten Tomatoes: The story of Cuban revolutionaries Frank Pais (1934-57) and Juan Antonio Echeverria (1932-57), who were instrumental in the eventual overthrow of dictator Fulgencio Batista y Zaldíva. País served as an urban coordinator for the M-26-7 movement; and Echeverría led the Directorio Revolucionario Estudantil. 2 / 11 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 54% (3) Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks 107 min Not Rated [Comedy, Drama] [Arthur Allan Seidelman] [12 Dec 2014]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 67%, Rotten Tomatoes: 45%, Metacritic: 50%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Cheyenne Jackson, Gena Rowlands, Jacki Weaver, Rita Moreno Writer: Richard Alfieri (based on play by), Richard Alfieri (screenplay by) External Links: External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English Country: Hungary, USA Plot: A retired woman hires a dance instructor to give her private dance lessons at her home -- one per week for six weeks. What begins as an antagonistic relationship turns into a close friendship as they dance together. Rotten Tomatoes: This film s is a touching and human, yet madcap comedy about a formidable retired woman, Lily Harrison, who hires an acerbic dance instructor, Michael Minetti, to give her private dance lessons -one per week for six weeks- in her gulf-front condo in St. Petersburg Beach, Florida. What begins as an incompatible relationship blossoms into an intimate friendship as these two people from very different backgrounds reveal their secrets, fears, and joys while dancing the Swing, Tango, Waltz, Foxtrot, Cha-Cha, and Contemporary Dance. By the final lesson, Lily shares her most closely guarded secret and he shares his greatest gifts, his loyalty and compassion. 3 / 11 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  59% (1) Nicky Deuce 68 min Not Rated [Comedy, Crime, Family] [Jonathan A. Rosenbaum] [27 May 2013]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 59%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: James Gandolfini, Michael Imperioli, Rita Moreno, Tony Sirico Writer: Art Edler Brown, Andy Callahan, Douglas Sloan External Links: External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English Country: USA, Canada Plot: When sheltered suburbanite Nicholas Borelli II is sent to stay with his tough Uncle Frankie in Brooklyn for the summer, he gets an urban makeover and becomes Nicky Deuce. Rotten Tomatoes: A nerdy teenager is mistaken for a tough guy when he spends the summer with his uncle in Brooklyn, where he unearths some family secrets. Based on the book Nicky Deuce: Welcome to the Family, cowritten by Steve Schirripa, who also stars in the movie. ~ Jennifer Sankowski, Rovi 4 / 11 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 59% (2) The Ritz 91 min R [Comedy] [Richard Lester] [26 Dec 1976]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 76%, Rotten Tomatoes: 43%, External Reviews Awards: Nominated for 3 Golden Globes. Another 2 nominations. Actors: Jack Weston, Jerry Stiller, Kaye Ballard, Rita Moreno Writer: Terrence McNally (screenplay by), Terrence McNally (based upon the play by) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Country: UK, USA Plot: On his deathbed Carmine Vespucci's father tells him to 'get Proclo'. With 'the hit' on, Gaetano tells a cab driver to take him where Carmine can't find him. He arrives at the Ritz, a gay bathhouse where he is pursued amorously by 'chubby chaser' Paul B. Price and by entertainer Googie Gomez who believes him to be a broadway producer. His guides through the Ritz are gatekeeper Abe, habitue Chris, and bellhop/go-go-boys Tiger and Duff. Squeaky-voiced detective Michael Brick and his employer Carmine do locate Gateano at the Ritz, as does his wife Vivian. Rotten Tomatoes: With The Ritz, Terrence McNally's hit Broadway play of the same name is cinematized by director Richard Lester. Jack Weston plays Gaetano Proclo, a minor mob flunky who's been targeted for elimination by his brother-in-law, Carmine Vespucci (Jerry Stiller). Gaetano takes refuge in what he thinks is a Turkish bath. Actually, it's The Pits. That's the name, 'The Pits' -- a gay bathhouse (this is the pre-AIDS era), where the exquisitely awful Googie Gomez (Rita Moreno) entertains the homosexual patrons with her ear-splitting renditions of such show tunes as 'Everything's Coming Up Roses.' Hoping to save his neck by pretending to be gay, Gaetano effusively praises Googie. Assuming that he is a big-time Broadway producer, she plays up to him. Everything would be hunky-dory, except that the bathhouse is owned by the very mob that has put a contract on Gaetano. What follows is an old-fashioned door-slamming farce, except that there are no doors to slam. The supporting cast includes Kaye Ballard, Treat Williams, George Coulouris, F. Murray Abraham, Dave King, and (as one of the patrons) a pre-Cheers John Ratzenberger. 5 / 11 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  68% (1) Popi 113 min G [Comedy, Drama] [Arthur Hiller] [22 Oct 1969]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 68%, External Reviews Awards: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 win & 2 nominations. Actors: Alan Arkin, Miguel Alejandro, Reuben Figueroa, Rita Moreno Writer: Tina Pine, Lester Pine External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: Abraham is a Puerto Rican single parent with two boys. He is becoming very worried about them living in their run down neighborhood when one day he notices that Cubans who escape are lionized and given exceptional benefits. He thinks up a plot to have his sons washed ashore as cuban immigrants who will be adopted by rich anglos. Rotten Tomatoes: Striving for a better life for his two sons, a Puerto Rican immigrant named Popi (Alan Arkin) goes about his mission in a singularly eccentric fashion in this comedy from director Arthur Hiller. So intent is Harlem resident Abraham 'Popi' Rodriguez (Arkin) upon providing his boys with the American dream, that he puts off marrying his beautiful girlfriend Lupe (Rita Moreno) in order to carry out the mother of all harebrained schemes. After instructing his boys how to row with lessons in Central Park, Popi takes them to Florida and sets them adrift on the ocean, knowing that two cute 'refugees from Cuba' seeking asylum in the U.S. will become celebrity cases and probably be adopted by rich WASP's. Popi's plan works like a charm, with his sons even earning an audience with the president, but a visit to the hospital where they're recovering from their ordeal at sea sinks his big plans. 6 / 11 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 67% (2) Marlowe 96 min M [Crime, Drama, Mystery] [Paul Bogart] [31 Oct 1969]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 64%, Rotten Tomatoes: 71%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Carroll O'Connor, Gayle Hunnicutt, James Garner, Rita Moreno Writer: Raymond Chandler (novel), Stirling Silliphant (screenplay) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English Country: USA Plot: Quiet young Orfamay Quest from Kansas has hired private detective Philip Marlowe to find her brother. After two leads turn up with ice picks stuck in them, he discovers blackmail photos concerning TV star Mavis Wald. She rejects Marlowe's help, and this is forcibly underlined by her gangster boyfriend. So, wonders Marlowe, is there a link between Orfamay and Mavis? Rotten Tomatoes: James Garner is so good as Raymond Chandler's philosophical gumshoe Philip Marlowe that you forget he's totally wrong for the part. Based on Chandler's The Little Sister, Marlowe involves the detective's efforts to locate the missing brother of Orfamay Quest (Sharon Farrell). He follows the clues to two men who deny any knowledge of the brother's existence. Since both men soon find themselves on the wrong end of an ice pick, Marlowe deduces that there's more to this caper than a mere missing-person case. The plot thickens as more 'dramatis personae' are added to the intrigues, including TV star Gayle Hunnicutt, Hunnicutt's gangster boyfriend H.M. Wynant and stripper Rita Moreno. A pre-stardom Bruce Lee shows up as a karate-happy thug who lays waste to Marlowe's office shortly before suffering a spectacular demise. It is preferable to view Marlowe in videocassette or theatrical form; the commercial TV print cuts so much out that viewers are left with virtually nothing but protection leader and a few close-ups of James Garner. 7 / 11 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  78% (1) Summer and Smoke 118 min NOT RATED [Drama, Romance] [Peter Glenville] [01 Apr 1962]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 78%, External Reviews Awards: Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 6 nominations. Actors: Geraldine Page, Laurence Harvey, Rita Moreno, Una Merkel Writer: Tennessee Williams (play), James Poe (screenplay), Meade Roberts (screenplay) External Links: External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: Since childhood, spinster Alma Winemiller has loved handsome young Dr. John Buchanan, Jr.. But John has fallen hard for Rosa Zacharias, the town's sultry vamp, and descends into a seamy nightlife while ignoring Alma's dreams of romance and possible marriage. Rotten Tomatoes: Alma (Geraldine Page) is the sexually repressed, neurotic minister's daughter in a small Mississippi town. She loves her neighbor Dr. John Buchanan (Laurence Harvey), whose father is also a physician (John MacIntire). Father and son have different approaches in medical philosophy. John, who considers Alma to be only a lifelong friend, has eyes for the dance hall girl Rosa (Rita Moreno). Alma takes John to the dance hall in an effort to get closer, but she runs off when he makes a pass at her. John becomes engaged to Rosa, throwing a party at home when his father is out of town. A jealous Alma calls the elder Dr. Buchanan and informs him of the wild party commencing in his absence. Tragedy ensues when the two future fathers-in-law quarrel a the scene of the revelry. Alma takes comfort in the arms of a traveling salesman she meets in the park. In her efforts to find love, she is oblivious to unhappiness left in the wake of her disturbing behavior. This film of the Tennessee William's play comes nine years after the Broadway stage production. Una Merkel was nominated for best supporting actress for her role as John Buchanan's mother. Page was nominated for best actress, and Elmer Bernstein's musical score was also nominated. 8 / 11 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 85% (3) West Side Story 153 min Not Rated [Crime, Drama, Musical, Romance] [Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise] [23 Dec 1961]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 76%, Rotten Tomatoes: 94%, Metacritic: 86%, External Reviews Awards: Won 10 Oscars. Another 18 wins & 11 nominations. Actors: George Chakiris, Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno, Russ Tamblyn Writer: Ernest Lehman (screenplay), Arthur Laurents (book), Jerome Robbins (play) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English, Spanish Country: USA Plot: West Side Story is the award-winning adaptation of the classic romantic tragedy, 'Romeo and Juliet'. The feuding families become two warring New York City gangs- the white Jets led by Riff and the Puerto Rican Sharks, led by Bernardo. Their hatred escalates to a point where neither can coexist with any form of understanding. But when Riff's best friend (and former Jet) Tony and Bernardo's younger sister Maria meet at a dance, no one can do anything to stop their love. Maria and Tony begin meeting in secret, planning to run away. Then the Sharks and Jets plan a rumble under the highway - whoever wins gains control of the streets. Maria sends Tony to stop it, hoping it can end the violence. It goes terribly wrong, and before the lovers know what's happened, tragedy strikes and doesn't stop until the climactic and heartbreaking ending. Rotten Tomatoes: This romantic musical update of 'Romeo and Juliet' won ten Oscars. The tale of a turf war between rival teenage gangs in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen and the two lovers who cross battle lines has captivated audiences for four decades. The Stephen Sondheim/Leonard Bernstein score is just one of the reasons. 9 / 11 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  81% (3) The King and I 133 min G [Biography, Drama, Musical, Romance] [Walter Lang] [29 Jun 1956]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 75%, Rotten Tomatoes: 96%, Metacritic: 72%, External Reviews Awards: Won 5 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 11 nominations. Actors: Deborah Kerr, Martin Benson, Rita Moreno, Yul Brynner Writer: Ernest Lehman (screenplay), Oscar Hammerstein II (book), Margaret Landon (from their musical play based on Anna and the King of Siam by) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English, Thai Country: USA Plot: Mrs. Anna Leonowens and her son Louis arrive in Bangkok, where she has been contracted to teach English to the children of the royal household. She threatens to leave when the house she had been promised is not available, but falls in love with the children. A new slave, a gift of a vassal king, translates 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' into a Siamese ballet. After expressing her unhappiness at being with the King, the slave decides to make an attempt to escape with her lover. Anna and the King start to fall in love, but her headstrong upbringing inhibits her from joining his harem. She is just about to leave Siam but something important she finds out makes her think about changing her mind. Rotten Tomatoes: The King and I, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's 1951 Broadway musical hit, was based on Margaret Landon's book Anna and the King of Siam. Since 20th-Century-Fox had made a film version of the Landon book in 1946, that studio had first dibs on the movie adaptation of The King and I. Deborah Kerr plays English widow Anna Leonowens, who comes to Siam in the 1860s to tutor the many wives and children of the country's progressive King (Yul Brynner, recreating his Broadway role-and winning an Oscar in the process). The culture clash between Anna and the King is but one aspect of their multilayered relationship. Through Anna, the King learns the refineries and responsibilities of 'modern' western civilization; Anna meanwhile comes to realize how important it is for an Oriental ruler to maintain his pride and to uphold the customs of his people. After a successful evening entertaining foreign dignitaries, Anna and the King celebrate with an energetic dance, but this is cut short by a bitter quarrel over the cruel punishment of the King's new Burmese wife Tuptim (Rita Moreno), who has dared to fall in love with someone else. Despite the many rifts between them, Anna and the monarch come to respect and (to a degree) love one another. When the King dies, Anna agrees to stay on to offer help and advice to the new ruler of Siam, young Prince Chulalongkhorn (Patrick Adiarte). In general, The King and I tends to be somewhat stagey, with the notable exception of the matchless 'Small House of Uncle Thomas' ballet, which utilizes the Cinemascope 55 format to best advantage (the process also does a nice job of 'handling' Deborah Kerr's voluminous hoopskirts). Most of the Broadway version's best songs ('Getting to Know You', 'Whistle a Happy Tune', 'A Puzzlement', 'Shall We Dance' etc.) are retained. None of the omissions are particularly regrettable, save for Anna's solo 'Shall I Tell You What I Think of You?' This feisty attack on the King's chauvinism was specially written to suit the talents of Gertrude Lawrence, who played Anna in the original production; the song was cut from the film because it made Deborah Kerr seem 'too bitchy' (Kerr's singing, incidentally, is dubbed for the most part by the ubiquitous Marni Nixon). When all is said and done, the principal attraction of The King and I is Yul Brynner, in the role that made him a star and with which he will forever be identified. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi 10 / 11 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 59% (1) The Lieutenant Wore Skirts 99 min APPROVED [Comedy] [Frank Tashlin] [11 Jan 1956]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 59%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Rick Jason, Rita Moreno, Sheree North, Tom Ewell Writer: Albert Beich (screenplay), Albert Beich (story), Frank Tashlin External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: In this hilarious romp starring Tom Ewell, Sheree North and Rita Moreno, a middle-aged ex-serviceman who plans to re-enlist (Ewell) is shocked to learn that not only did he fail his medical exam, his wife (North) has enlisted - and is really making the grade in the Air Force. Unhappy to be a 'house husband,' he flies to Hawaii to be near her - and also to hatch a scheme to get her discharged. Rotten Tomatoes: Role reversal provides the basis of this farce when an old war horse, now a TV writer and his wife an ex-WAC find themselves called up to fight in the new war. Trouble ensues when he is rejected for medical reasons, but his wife is accepted. Now he must serve as a military wife while his real wife is out on patrol. In between his daily household chores, he attempts to cook up schemes to get her out of the military. Unfortunately, every scheme he comes up with fails until he manages to impregnate his wife. 11 / 11 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |