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Written by James M. Tate / 9/30/2025 / No comments / charlie sheen , clint howard , desert , eighties , exploitation , griffin o'neal , nick cassavetes , randy quaid , science-fiction , sherilyn fenn , small town

CHARLIE SHEEN, SHERILYN FENN & NICK CASSAVETES 'THE WRAITH'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5NTzHk6YJcLfS1r8Lw8bM-FSVVOLnNKb1zAAkCws1kMKK_PyE3SnJdLprYHaUi4M_b3eraRRpsqU6ymqzTzITCYmcqtSOFmvCcjbuYDfu2FFcVibTRr3zuDsnS2TKj-VDjB7NlZRrUwfOA-rWzM7ep2l-dLhBlq8imoKwUZxnPJxhcktoNnuQH82iqcl2/s1866/Screen%20Shot%202025-09-21%20at%2010.42.57%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1034" data-original-width="1866" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5NTzHk6YJcLfS1r8Lw8bM-FSVVOLnNKb1zAAkCws1kMKK_PyE3SnJdLprYHaUi4M_b3eraRRpsqU6ymqzTzITCYmcqtSOFmvCcjbuYDfu2FFcVibTRr3zuDsnS2TKj-VDjB7NlZRrUwfOA-rWzM7ep2l-dLhBlq8imoKwUZxnPJxhcktoNnuQH82iqcl2/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-09-21%20at%2010.42.57%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sherilyn Fenn, Charlie Sheen, Nick Cassavetes & Matthew Barry in THE WRAITH Year: 1986 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Right before Oliver Stone flew overseas to begin filming his game-changing PLATOON, he had heard about the kind of b-movie he probably grew up watching... a small town gang of ruffians race cars along winding desert roads... <br><br>All for pink slips to own the losing vehicle, but there's a twist since one black car seems to have come from outer space... and Stone's Vietnam-opus leading man, Charlie Sheen, could have possibly ruined his potential star-power...</p><p><span></span></p>

charlie sheen, clint howard, desert, eighties, exploitation, griffin o'neal, nick cassavetes, randy quaid, science-fiction, sherilyn fenn, small town

CHARLIE SHEEN, SHERILYN FENN & NICK CASSAVETES 'THE WRAITH'

Sherilyn Fenn, Charlie Sheen, Nick Cassavetes & Matthew Barry in THE WRAITH Year: 1986 Rating: *** Right before Oliver Stone flew overse...

CHARLIE SHEEN IN THE NEON-NOIR CRIME-THRILLER 'NO MAN'S LAND'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSbFVvGiRJBtS5ONlFbdxHJirN0n__RPan92D9ODP528MIJNYT4GkIepB2nbuWTJ2gVXGPm37qmLauqGQOEBihFkU23-iZoKQavsDdsm5K8SCP6Wsj31hhqxBGLBJ9XpKa2T0TcOTIBVm64wcYRatXhhwaWDyromUVQ0-sLbgcooYR13pAnfrRfuFrT2Ab/s1860/Screen%20Shot%202025-09-23%20at%201.56.51%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1020" data-original-width="1860" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSbFVvGiRJBtS5ONlFbdxHJirN0n__RPan92D9ODP528MIJNYT4GkIepB2nbuWTJ2gVXGPm37qmLauqGQOEBihFkU23-iZoKQavsDdsm5K8SCP6Wsj31hhqxBGLBJ9XpKa2T0TcOTIBVm64wcYRatXhhwaWDyromUVQ0-sLbgcooYR13pAnfrRfuFrT2Ab/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-09-23%20at%201.56.51%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Charlie Sheen in NO MAN'S LAND Year: 1987 Rating: *****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Executive Producer Dick Wolfe's 1987 crime-thriller NO MAN'S LAND is said to have influenced the likes of THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS and before that POINT BREAK... and yet the inside-man-befriending-a-dangerous-kingpin-he's-out-to-bust device has been around since WHITE HEAT, THE STREET WITH NO NAME and countless others...<br><br>Herein the central character's second-billed D.B.Sweeney (working for timid chief-detective Randy Quaid), a lowly cop with the specific skills to go undercover as a mechanic at a stolen-car-ring garage... soon meeting young rich owner Charlie Sheen in the Hollywood Hills, starting up his broken-down dream-car and setting the bond between poor vs rich boy in rip-roaring camaraderie...  </p><span></span>

bill duke, brad pitt, charlie sheen, crime, d.b. sweeney, eighties, randy quaid, thriller, undercover

CHARLIE SHEEN IN THE NEON-NOIR CRIME-THRILLER 'NO MAN'S LAND'

Charlie Sheen in NO MAN'S LAND Year: 1987 Rating: ***** Executive Producer Dick Wolfe's 1987 crime-thriller NO MAN'S LAND is sai...

JACK NICHOLSON WITH OTIS YOUNG TAKING ON 'THE LAST DETAIL'

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comedy, counter culture, cult, drama, hal ashby, indie, jack nicholson, luana anders, military, nancy allen, otis young, randy quaid, road movie, seventies

JACK NICHOLSON WITH OTIS YOUNG TAKING ON 'THE LAST DETAIL'

Jack Nicholson and Otis Young in THE LAST DETAIL Year: 1973 Rating: ***** What makes THE LAST DETAIL as much comedy as drama is the brillian...

CHARLES BRONSON & ROBERT DUVALL BAND APART FOR 'BREAKOUT'

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jailbreak flick is so Sam Peckinpah you could call it BRING ME THE HEAD OF ROBERT DUVALL, and the Bloody Sam similarities include echoed gunshots under the hot Mexico 
sun; a white shirt soaked with gory, bright red blood; a slow-motion body falling to
 the ground as the opening credits appear across  paused-images as Jerry Goldsmith's score opens with soft, skeletal vibes into a Spanish groove... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And even beyond all that, BREAKOUT is a modern Spaghetti Western (released the same year as Gries/Bronson's actual Western BREAKHEART PASS) wherein action hero Charles Bronson is similar to his colorful MR. 
MAJESTYK character, only even more playfully cocky and wisecracking... </p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, alan vint, charles bronson, escape, jailbreak, jill ireland, john huston, mexico, prison, randy quaid, robert duvall, roy jenson, rural, seventies, sheree north, tom gries

CHARLES BRONSON & ROBERT DUVALL BAND APART FOR 'BREAKOUT'

Charles Bronson in BREAKOUT Year: 1975 Rates: ***1/2 The violent prologue of the 1975 Tom Gries jailbreak flick is so Sam Peckinpah you cou...

CHEVY CHASE DRIVES ORIGINAL 'NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VACATION'

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 of a suburban dad driving reluctant yet resilient son Anthony Michael Hall and moody wannabe stoner daughter Dana Barron as the original Rusty and Audrey... and co-starring mostly perfect wife in Beverly D'Angelo: all stuck on a cross-country trip... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Our ever-optimistic hero remains stridently hopeful till exploding in a 
curse-laden diatribe; this after an unlucky string of adventurous 
stopovers at various tourist traps including a Wild West Town and (above
 and within) the Grand Canyon while Randy Quaid, as D'Angelo's white trash 
step-brother, takes things to another level: not only comically but, as 
Chase's polar-opposite, we see our put-upon hero more clearly...</p><p><span></span></p>

anthony michael hall, beverly d'angelo, chevy chase, comedy, cult, dana barron, eighties, franchise, harold ramis, national lampoon, randy quaid, road movie

CHEVY CHASE DRIVES ORIGINAL 'NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VACATION'

Title: NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VACATION Year: 1983 Rating: ****1/2 Chevy Chase's best actual acting performance, capturing the naive opti...

LAST STRETCH AND DECLINE OF RODNEY DANGERFIELD CINEMA

<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When he turned fifty, the age most comic-actors would be considered has-beens, he was cast in a now classic golf comedy, CADDYSHACK, that was originally written about the caddies, like ANIMAL HOUSE (with the same co-writers, SHACK director Harold Ramis and Doug Kenney) centered on the Delta fraternity house. It's impossible to imagine the evil Dean Wormer (John Vernon) and the hippie professor (Donald Sutherland) as the focal points, leaving all but one rebellious frat boy in the buried lead role, like Michael O'Keefe's Danny Noonan in CADDYSHACK... But sometimes the side-characters shine brighter than the leads, or at least the most memorable, iconic...</span><br>

andrew dice clay, burt reynolds, cindy williams, comedy, howard stern, john byner, jonathan brandis, nineties, randy quaid, retrospective, rodney dangerfield, sidney j. furie, sport, vinessa shaw, zeroes

LAST STRETCH AND DECLINE OF RODNEY DANGERFIELD CINEMA

Twelve Year Decline of Rodney Dangerfield Movies from 1992 to 2004 Rodney Dangerfield was one of the most beloved comedic actors of all ...

JACK NICHOLSON IN THE LAST DETAIL

hal ashby, jack nicholson, otis young, randy quaid, robert towne, seventies

JACK NICHOLSON IN THE LAST DETAIL

Our Official 2016 Memorial Weekend Post will center on a 1973 Navy Film, Kinda, starring Jack Nicholson, never better While Burt Reynold...

MARLON BRANDO & JACK NICHOLSON IN 'THE MISSOURI BREAKS'

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Marlon Brando would kill Frederic Forrest twice on film, and in each case the death would serve as a physical warning to the main character while both APOCALYPSE NOW and THE MISSOURI BREAKS were altered and ultimately hindered by Brando, behind the scenes, which is par for the difficult icon's course… And in BREAKS, Jack Nicholson and his eccentric Hollywood womanzing neighbor appearing together was, perhaps, too good to be true...<br />
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Despite several scenes with their characters together, the Oscar-winning giants are only in the same frame for an instant, twice. Thus Brando’s hired gun, Lee Clayton, has a story occurring on its own bizarre level, contrasting from rather than adding to the more earthy and legitimate mainline...<br />
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With long hippie hair and the aesthetic countenance of John Belushi's SNL Samurai combined with an Indian just beginning to catch a buzz, Brando's Clayton whimsically hangs out along mountainsides, looking down binoculars or a gun scope at either birds or those rustlers, strategically using a dilapidated ranch as a middle-point for running stolen horses from Canada to their rural hideaway.<br />
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This anti-Western written by Thomas McGuane and directed by Arthur Penn is a unique patchwork that entertains despite an awkward blend of violence and comedy. Depending on the fickle mood of composer John Williams, the thieves morph from THE WILD BUNCH to THE APPLE DUMPLING GANG...<br />
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And the necessary romantic element breezily plays out like Nicholson’s directorial GOIN’ SOUTH two years later...<br />
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His scruffy MISSOURI BREAKS Tom Logan is a leading man in anti-hero form, or vice versa, romancing Kathleen Lloyd’s virginal yet surprisingly promiscuous (an early woman's libber) Jane, the progressive daughter of John McLiam’s David Braxton, a small town tyrant who hired Brando’s cutthroat gunman after one of his own employees was killed. But that’s skipping ahead…<br />
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The movie starts with the youngest member of Nicholson’s gang being hung for horse theft following a rushed Kangaroo court. The result of this important catapulting death, leading to a ranch purchased from stolen train money, is unveiled through ragged dialogue between the outlaws in a darkened bunk house, introducing each without seeing them clearly. And after the boys carry the picture for a strong 35-minutes, a whimsical Brando is finally introduced with an Irish accent so preposterously contrived it distracts from his nefariously lethal "Regulator" character...<br />
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Although he does become a genuine threat when the gang… including the aforementioned Frederic Forrest, Nicholson regular John P. Ryan, Jack's LAST DETAIL McGuffin Randy Quaid and a wise, scene-stealing Harry Dean Stanton… are picked-off like campers in a slasher flick, yet in an even more violently bizarre, creepy and unrelenting, torturous fashion.<br />
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If it had only centered more on the main plot, of these outlaw rustlers, in seeking revenge by using the ranch near the town's hangman boss to filter stolen horses, then THE MISSOURI BREAKS – named after a section of Montana where the Missouri River splits into hilly terrain not so perfect for a stealthy getaway – would have been a nice, tight addition to the Western genre, more avant-garde than mainstream at the crest of the Renaissance 1970’s.<br />
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Too bad Marlon Brando, the otherwise groundbreaking method actor, whose performance feels like an overboard satire, nearly ruined this unique ride. It’s one thing having an unimportant character sporadically hinder the pace, but when the starring role seems tacked-on, things can only go downhill, especially since they had little room to climb in the first place. But what Brando does successfully is make Nicholson a fantastic revenge-driven tough guy, and for good reason. No villain ever deserved death like Brando's, and not only for what he did to the fictional characters but to the film itself. <br />
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frederic forrest, harry dean stanton, hunter von leer, jack nicholson, kathleen lloyd, marlon brando, quirky, randy quaid, thomas mcquane, western

MARLON BRANDO & JACK NICHOLSON IN 'THE MISSOURI BREAKS'

year of release: 1976 Marlon Brando would kill Frederic Forrest twice on film, and in each case the death would serve as a physical warn...

Written by James M. Tate / 2/26/2013 / No comments / comedy , dana barron , ed asner , franchise , randy quaid , sequel , tens

CHRISTMAS VACATION 2: COUSIN EDDIE'S ISLAND ADVENTURE

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>year:</b> 2003<b> cast:</b> Randy Quaid, Dana Barron, Miriam Flynn, Fred Willard <b>rating:</b> *1/2</td></tr>
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That’s right, a sequel to a sequel where Cousin Eddie, played by Randy Quaid – that endearingly gross white trash slob from the NATIONAL LAMPOON VACATION universe – has his own straight-to-DVD movie, and it’s so awful you might just enjoy yourself.<br />
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Eddie works at a nuclear physics lab. He and a monkey are both used for testing and the monkey is smarter. Eddie loses his job and they keep the monkey. He goes back to complain and the monkey bites Eddie on the ass. Instead of pursuing a lawsuit, he gets a free vacation to an unnamed tropical Island. That’s the plot in a nutshell.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dana Barron returns as Audrey Griswold</td></tr>
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Much like Hawaii, there are beautiful brown-skinned bikini girls and… let’s back up a bit. Eddie lives in the snow-laden Chicago based Griswold house from the first CHRISTMAS VACATION film (the third in the franchise).<br />
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His patient and loyal wife Catherine (Miriam Flynn) is still around, and instead of an eclectically messy brood of children he has only one kid, an impatient thirteen-year-old boy who actually has a brain. This uptight jerk keeps riding dad on his lack of intelligence, and thus becomes the most annoying character, especially since he wants Eddie to be like everyone else.<br />
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Also on board is the original Audrey Griswold, played by the lovely Dana Barron instead of CHRISTMAS Audrey Juliette Lewis... Audrey is frantically brokenhearted over a boyfriend, joins Eddie, his wife, son, and grumpy grandfather (Ed Asner) on the island vacation that soon turns into a Swiss Family Robinson when their boat gets shipwrecked.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dana Barron and Sun Hi Lee</td></tr>
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Eddie has to learn to hunt wild boar and build a hut of leaves, and eventually fly a plane. There are but a few unsuccessfully signature moments that made Cousin Eddie famously sloppy from the previous films, especially because there’s no Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) to act as a Felix to counter-balance Eddie’s Oscar. Plus, this is supposedly a Christmas Vacation, but there’s hardly any sign of Christmas anywhere.<br />
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One scene after another, the movie keeps getting worse, and yet, somehow, you won’t be able to stop watching. So let’s enjoy some more pictures featuring Dana Barron… She’s the reason this reviewer paid any attention at all…<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dana Barron's Audrey attempts to console herself with the wrong book</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dana Barron's Audrey helps prepare a meal</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dana Barron's Audrey's in love with an unfit Australian guy</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Miriam Flynn and Dana Barron</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dana Barron's Audrey spots a rescue plane</td></tr>
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CHRISTMAS VACATION 2: COUSIN EDDIE'S ISLAND ADVENTURE

year: 2003 cast: Randy Quaid, Dana Barron, Miriam Flynn, Fred Willard rating: *1/2 That’s right, a sequel to a sequel where Cousin ...

Written by James M. Tate / 2/25/2013 / No comments / beverly d'angelo , chevy chase , comedy , diane ladd , e.g. marshall , franchise , randy quaid , sequel

NATIONAL LAMPOON'S CHRISTMAS VACATION

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The third VACATION and the second written by story creator John Hughes, CHRISTMAS is more of a reboot than a sequel, starting everything from scratch for a new generation: as if there were no other trips beforehand...<br />
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Daughter Audrey is more bitter and frustrated than ever, and somehow Rusty, now with brown hair instead of blonde, is thirteen-years-old again... <br />
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The kids and mom don’t amount to much anyway, merely witnessing Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase at the tail-end of his comedic peak) and his clumsy misadventures as the host of an overcrowded holiday home: including both sets of in-laws. The only real input for family’s sake is Randy Quaid’s white trash Cousin Eddie: A scene-stealer in the first film given his own fifteen minute layover, Eddie becomes Clark’s partner-in-crime. But Quaid seems to be doing an exaggerated imitation, turning Eddie into an over-the-top comic book character. Meanwhile, Clark's reactionary disdain for his cousin-in-law's gross-out personality becomes redundant, especially after the first ten times.<br />
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Most of the film's spoken jokes are limp and somewhat forced. The funniest moments rely on physical gags: the fate of a curious cat; an enraged squirrel; and Christmas house lights that refuse to work.<br />
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The direction, including handheld camera and intentionally awkward moments, flows pretty well with the John Hughes script that, as usual, mixes semi dark comedy with pathos and hijinx. While the soundtrack can be spooky and ominous, befitting what’s going on in Clark’s troubled mind, successfully contrasting with the old fashion Norman Rockwell house and backdrop.<br />
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Touted as a Holiday classic, this is really a hit-and-miss outing. The most family oriented Lampoon venture keeps some of the blue humor hidden yet it’s implied throughout.<br />
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Glimpses of a brooding Clark at work in the office, hoping for a bonus check to buy a swimming pool, and the intrusion of a put-upon yuppie couple who live next door – victims of whatever Clark’s doing outside – are distractions to get us out of the crowded house. Yet with these sporadic reminders of real life, we often forget we’re on vacation.

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NATIONAL LAMPOON'S CHRISTMAS VACATION

year: 1989 rating: *** The third VACATION and the second written by story creator John Hughes, CHRISTMAS is more of a reboot than a sequ...

Written by James M. Tate / 2/01/2013 / No comments / anthony michael hall , beverly d'angelo , chevy chase , comedy , dana barron , eighties , randy quaid

DANA BARRON CINEMA SPECIAL: VACATION, STAGEGHOST, MAGIC KID 2, XMAS VACATION 2, DEATH WISH 4

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Perhaps Chevy Chase's best performance, brilliantly capturing the naive optimism of a corny suburban dad driving reluctant kids Anthony Michael Hall and Dana Baron, and wife Beverly D'Angelo, on a cross-country trip. The nightmare begins with the wrong car at the car lot, resembling a sick-green turtle with a Hefty air bag.<br />
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Our ever-optimistic hero remains stridently hopeful till exploding in a curse-laden diatribe; this after an unlucky string of adventurous stopovers at various tourist traps including a Wild West Town and (above and within) the Grand Canyon. Randy Quaid, as D'Angelo's white trash step-brother, takes things to another level: not only comically but, as Chase's polar-opposite, we see our put-upon hero more clearly.<br />
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Although hilarious through and through, there's a dark side to this VACATION. As bad luck piles on, Clark gets more and more annoyed at his family, who simply refuse to enjoy the trip: they would have rather gone to Hawaii anyhow. But Clark's blind determination never refrains, another reason Chevy Chase should be given more credit as an actor and not just a funny guy.<br />
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Supermodel Christy Brinkley, as a roaming babe in a convertible, is a memorable distraction: all leading to a wonderfully bizarre finale at their destination, Wally World. And not to forget the glorious Lindsay Buckingham theme song "Holiday Road," second only to Kenny Loggin's "I'm Alright" from a previous Chase vehicle, CADDYSHACK.</div>
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In STAGEGHOST, a dark Western falsely promoted as a horror flick, Dana Barron plays good girl Renee Bloomer, who falls for bad boy Christopher Atkins as a character named Bronson, a bank robbing prisoner of world-weary U.S. Marshall Colburn. A gruff Edward Albert fits more within the cowboy genre yet he brings out something in Atkins, who’s constantly joking around – even when things get dire.</div>
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The film begins at a coach station run by John Vernon and Terry Moore. Directed by Stephen Furst, famous for Flounder in ANIMAL HOUSE, it’s neat that he’s cast his Faber College Dean but the two old-timers don’t last long. They’re important though, massacred by a mysterious wraith that left a note on a knife on the door, after which an empty stage coach filled with blood rolls up to the station: hence the title and thus our story begins. <br />
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For such a low budget with terrible nighttime lighting, it’s not such a bad movie. The action rolls with the ghost-coach as the characters go from one location to the next, haunted and/or picked off by a group of horse-riding marauders who wear neon skeleton costumes.  </div>
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It’s when we actually take part in the bad guy’s perspective that all suspense is gone. While our heroes are still unaware, the audience knows way too much, too soon. But then, narrowing onto a shootout climax, we learn that the real “antagonists” are still out there, resulting in a lame, politically-correct twist ending that involves Native Americans.</div>
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Dana looks great in the time-period costumes and even has a character-arc as she gets less uptight and even becomes part of the action.<br />
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The next Dana Barron outing came out a few years earlier and was also directed by Stephen Furst. Furst and Barron are cinematically related, as in, both co-starred in (the best) films produced by NATIONAL LAMPOON magazine: Barron as Chevy Chase’s daughter Audrey in VACATION and Furst as fat frat boy Flounder in ANIMAL HOUSE.</div>
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This is the sequel to an ultra low budget family karate film THE MAGIC KID, where Stephen Furst plays shifty but lovable Uncle Bob to Ted Jan Robert’s Kevin, a kid who can really kick some butt.<br />
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In the first film he’s trained by Don the Dragon Steele and hangs around the Universal Studios lot with his uncle, acting as a pseudo tour guide and thus promoting the theme park (probably to help fund the project: the ultimate product placement). And in this sequel, with a higher budget but lacking the overall charm, Kevin is a hot young actor in a popular show called “The Ninja Kid.”</div>
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A fame-reluctant Kevin is forced into interviews and even goes to a nightclub with a sexy older woman, part of the nefarious producer’s plans to make him garner publicity, but since he works so hard he’s not learning much of the scholastic nature.<br />
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Thus his whiny in-studio teacher quits, making Kevin so guilty he runs away from his lucrative day job as Uncle Bob’s being chased by bearded bikers, that is, when he’s not playing poker with his former ST. ELSEWHERE cast members.<br />
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Meanwhile, a brooding Kevin spends time with his tutor’s gorgeous daughter Maggie… that’s right, Dana Barron. Here’s another example of how young Dana Barron can make herself look. In VACATION you’d think she was around thirteen but she was sixteen or seventeen during filming, and here she’s hooked up with Kevin, who hasn’t even finished growing, and she’s in her middle twenties playing his teenage girlfriend.  </div>
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But as an actress, Dana not only looks young but she pulls off the sweet innocence of youth, and her scenes make up for the rest of the film’s convoluted plotline, or lack of. In other words, Maggie’s 11th hour relationship with Kevin means more than all the karate fights and frantic arguments leading up to that eventual romantic closure. <br />
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That’s right, it's CHRISTMAS VACATION 2: COUSIN EDDIE'S ISLAND ADVENTURE, a sequel to a sequel where Eddie, played by Randy Quaid – that endearingly gross white trash slob from the NATIONAL LAMPOON VACATION universe – has his own straight-to-DVD movie, and it’s so awful you might just enjoy yourself.<br />
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Eddie works at a nuclear physics lab. He and a monkey are both used for testing and the monkey is smarter. Eddie loses his job and they keep the monkey. He goes back to complain and the monkey bites Eddie on the ass. Instead of pursuing a lawsuit, he gets a free vacation to an unnamed tropical Island. That’s the plot in a nutshell.</div>
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Much like Hawaii, there are beautiful brown-skinned bikini girls and… let’s back up a bit. Eddie lives in the snow-laden Chicago based Griswold house from the first CHRISTMAS VACATION film (the third in the franchise).</div>
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His patient and loyal wife Catherine (Miriam Flynn) is still around, and instead of an eclectically messy brood of children he has only one kid, an impatient thirteen-year-old boy who actually has a brain. This uptight jerk keeps riding dad on his lack of intelligence, and thus becomes the most annoying character, especially since he wants Eddie to be like everyone else.</div>
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Also on board is the original Audrey Griswold, played by the lovely Dana Barron (then replaced by Dana Hill and Juliette Lewis), who, frantically brokenhearted over a boyfriend, joins Eddie, his wife, son, and grumpy grandfather (Ed Asner) on the island vacation that soon turns into a Swiss Family Robinson when their boat gets shipwrecked.</div>
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Eddie has to learn to hunt wild boar and build a hut of leaves, and eventually fly a plane. There are but a few unsuccessfully signature moments that made Cousin Eddie famously sloppy from the previous films, especially because there’s no Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) to act as a Felix to counter-balance Eddie’s Oscar. Plus, this is supposedly a Christmas Vacation, but there’s hardly any sign of Christmas anywhere.</div>
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It makes complete sense that Charles Bronson’s iconic vigilante Paul Kersey, who works as an architect by day and, whenever a problem arises, takes care of business by night, would become a bonafide hit man. After three entire films he’s gotten so good at killing criminals, he's hired by a mysterious "millionaire" (John P. Ryan) to infiltrate a rival gang by any means possible.</div>
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For those new to the DEATH WISH franchise, Kersey’s wife was murdered in the first movie, his daughter raped – then in part two his daughter's killed and now he’s up against the mafia after his girlfriend’s teenage daughter, played by VACATION actress Dana Barron, takes a lethal dose of crack cocaine from a mob-connected street dealer. This death makes the millionaire's offer that much more lucritive.</div>
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Kersey's vendetta begins with the dealer himself, but this isn't as basic as it sounds. After being hired he doesn’t just go around offing bad guys. Upon every hit, the two targeted mob "families" fight amongst themselves. With a crooked cop in the mix, Kersey gets caught in-between. And then a third act twist puts our mustached hero on the run. </div>
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The direction by Bronson collaborator J. Lee Thompson is tight and focused, but unfortunatly, instead of the urban-gritty Jimmy Page soundtrack of parts two and three, there’s a glossy saxophone score popular in the eighties and making the film, even in the best action sequences, feel like a straight-to-video release.</div>
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But directing and music doesn’t matter. As Bronson goes from bad guy to bad guy with interesting setups and/or missions for each hit, whether going undercover in a factory or sneaking into a high rise penthouse leading to a final shootout in an arcade, there’s much more involved than revenge: it's an actual job this time around.<br />
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