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Lethal Weapon 4

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Lethal Weapon 4 (1998) Director:  Richard Donner Writers:  Shane Black (characters), Jonathan Lemkin (story), Alfred Gough (story) Miles Millar (story), Channing Gibson (screenplay) Cast:  Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo, Chris Rock, Jet Li, Steve Kahan, Kim Chan, Darlene Love, Traci Wolfe, Eddy Ko, Mary Ellen Trainor Synopsis: After blowing up a city block in process of stopping a maniac with a flamethrower, Detectives Riggs (Gibson) and Murtaugh (Glover) are promoted to Captain because the LAPD will lose its insurance carrier if they're kept on the street. Things have also changed in their personal lives as Riggs and Lorna (Russo) are expecting their first child, while Murtaugh is about to be a grandfather for the first time. The pair become embroiled in a case involving a Chinese human trafficking ring and enlist the help of the irascible Leo Getz (Pesci), who is now a PI, and the young Detective Lee Butters (Rock) to investigate local Chinese gangster ...

Valkyrie

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Valkyrie (2008) Director: Bryan Singer Writers: Christopher McQuarrie, Nathan Alexander Cast:  Tom Cruise, Bill Nighy, Carice van Houten, Kenneth Branagh, Tom Wilkinson, Thomas Kretschmann, Terence Stamp, Eddie Izzard, Kevin McNally, Christian Berkel Jamie Parker, David Bamber, Tom Hollander, David Schofield. Kenneth Cranham, Halina Reijn Synopsis: Disillusioned by the Third Reich and Adolph Hitler's (Bamber) leadership, crippled war hero Col. Claus von Stauffenberg and a group of like-minded German officers decide to try and save their country, and thousands of lives, before the Allies close in on Berlin. They realize the only way to save Germany is to kill Hitler and overthrow the government. Stauffenberg partners with an influential cabal of high-ranking officials and politicians and together they devise a scheme to modify Operation Valkyrie, Hitler's emergency plan intended to restore civil order in the event of a coup. The also devise a plan to kill Hitler using concealed ...

Platoon

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Platoon (1986) Director:  Oliver Stone Writer:  Oliver Stone Cast: Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Keith David, Forest Whitaker, Francesco Quinn, Kevin Dillon, John C. McGinley, Reggie Johnson, Mark Moses, Corey Glover, Johnny Depp, Chris Pedersen, Bob Orwig, Corkey Ford, David Neidorf, Richard Edson, Tony Todd Synopsis: In 1967, Chris Taylor (Sheen) opts to drop out of university to volunteer for combat in the Vietnam War. However, things aren't as he imagined they would be as he is ostracized by the rest of his platoonmates because he hasn't put his time in yet. The platoon is led by two non-commissioned officers, the intense and ill-tempered SSgt. Barnes (Berenger) and the more pleasant Sgt. Elias (Dafoe), who often butt heads when it comes to leading them men. The conflict between the two NCOs is intensified when Barnes commits an illegal killing during the raid of a Vietnamese village pulling the whole platoon into conflict. As the war drags on, Chris is pulled...