I liked it. Why didn't you see it? (Part I)
by countermoon01 | created - 11 Apr 2014 | updated - 18 May 2014 | PublicThe top-rated movie on this site received over one million ratings. The following movies received less than 5000 ratings, which means not many of you saw them. I gave every one of them a 10. Give them a chance.
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1. Bill Cosby: Far from Finished (2013 TV Special)
TV-14 | 95 min | Documentary, Comedy
Bill Cosby is "Far From Finished." In his first special in thirty years, he leaves the audience asking, "How did he get inside our house?" Whether he's talking about friendship, love or ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Townsend | Stars: Bill Cosby, Deana J. Becker, Stephanie Stallaing, Darryl M. Bell
Votes: 499
The most recent concert by the king of comedy, still making it looking easy after all these years. Don't call it the Mark Twain Award. Call it the Bill Cosby Award.
2. Lakeboat (2000)
R | 98 min | Drama
Film adaptation of David Mamet's comic play Lakeboat about a grad student who takes a summer job on a Great Lakes freighter and sees life through the eyes of his low-brow crew members.
Director: Joe Mantegna | Stars: Charles Durning, Peter Falk, Denis Leary, Robert Forster
Votes: 747
College boy learns about real life on a real boat. Funny but not stupid, poignant but not depressing, with a great cast and directed by Joe Mantegna. David Mamet wrote it. And you didn't see it. What were you thinking?
3. Seize the Day (1986)
Unrated | 93 min | Drama
Tommy Wilhelm is a good honest man who's fallen on hard times after losing his job, but what really gets to Tommy is seeing both his friends and family turning their backs on him one after the other. He tries to seize the day - in vain.
Director: Fielder Cook | Stars: Robin Williams, Richard B. Shull, David Bickford, Glenne Headly
Votes: 1,527
Faithful adaptation of the novella by Nobel-prize winning author Saul Bellow. Leaving behind his usual foolishness, Robin Williams, for once, nails a serious role.
4. Grassroots (2012)
R | 98 min | Comedy, Drama
After losing his job, a journalist reluctantly agrees to help his oddball friend with his bid to earn a seat on the Seattle City Council.
Director: Stephen Gyllenhaal | Stars: Jason Biggs, Joel David Moore, Lauren Ambrose, Cobie Smulders
Votes: 1,156 | Gross: $0.01M
A local campaign in Seattle depicts the clash between the idealism of youth and the practical world of politics. Fine acting. Off-beat without being off-putting or freakish.
5.
American Masters (1985– )
Episode:
Woody Allen: A Documentary
(2011)
Not Rated | 192 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A documentary on Woody Allen that trails him on his movie sets and follows him back to Brooklyn as he visits his childhood haunts.
Director: Robert B. Weide | Stars: Woody Allen, Letty Aronson, Marshall Brickman, Josh Brolin
Votes: 5,285
Hard to believe that all the Woody Allen fans out there missed the best retrospective of his life and work.
6. Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius (2004)
PG | 120 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Jim Caviezel stars as golf legend Bobby Jones, the icon who retired from competition at the tender age of 28.
Director: Rowdy Herrington | Stars: Jim Caviezel, Claire Forlani, Jeremy Northam, Malcolm McDowell
Votes: 4,117 | Gross: $2.69M
Even golf can be entertaining when you have the true story of a legend and a cast headed by Jim Caviezel.
7. Barcelona (1994)
PG-13 | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An American working in Barcelona, having sworn off beautiful women, is forced to be host to his playboy cousin in this witty comedy of good intentions and mixed signals.
Director: Whit Stillman | Stars: Taylor Nichols, Chris Eigeman, Tushka Bergen, Mira Sorvino
Votes: 6,655 | Gross: $7.27M
Whit Stillman's second movie in a loosely connected trilogy. I find it incomprehensible, maybe unacceptable, that so many people are unfamiliar with his writing and directing.
8. Prefontaine (1997)
PG-13 | 106 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Based on the life of Olympic hopeful Steve Prefontaine, a long distance runner who lived in Oregon and died young.
Director: Steve James | Stars: Jared Leto, R. Lee Ermey, Ed O'Neill, Breckin Meyer
Votes: 7,672 | Gross: $0.53M
9. A Christmas Carol (1999 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 95 min | Drama, Fantasy
An old bitter miser who makes excuses for his uncaring nature learns real compassion when three ghosts visit him on Christmas Eve.
Director: David Hugh Jones | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Richard E. Grant, Joel Grey, Ian McNeice
Votes: 10,922
The best adaptation of Dickens's perfect novel. Starring Patrick Stewart, no less. And you haven't seen it?
10. I Am David (2003)
PG | 90 min | Adventure, Drama
A twelve-year-old boy escapes from a Bulgarian Communist concentration camp and sets out on a journey to reach Denmark.
Director: Paul Feig | Stars: Ben Tibber, Jim Caviezel, Joan Plowright, Hristo Shopov
Votes: 8,131 | Gross: $0.28M
11. Bright Lights, Big City (1988)
R | 107 min | Drama
A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the memories of his dead mother and estranged wife.
Director: James Bridges | Stars: Michael J. Fox, Kiefer Sutherland, Phoebe Cates, Swoosie Kurtz
Votes: 8,969 | Gross: $16.12M
This is where Michael J. Fox decided to do some real acting. Based on the popular novel by Jay McInerny.
12. Salinger (2013)
PG-13 | 120 min | Documentary
An unprecedented look inside the private world of J.D. Salinger, the reclusive author of The Catcher in the Rye.
Director: Shane Salerno | Stars: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Edward Norton, Judd Apatow, John Cusack
Votes: 2,688 | Gross: $0.58M
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