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New York's Calvin Coolidge High begins the new school year. With no chalk. No books. Too many students. Over clanging bells, the P.A. booms, "Please disregard all bells." It might say, "Please disregard all learning." Academy Award -winner Sandy Dennis* stars as an idealistic new teacher in this straight-A movie from Bel Kaufman's beloved best seller. To Kill a Mockingbird producer Alan J. Pakula and director Robert Mulligan memorably bring it to the screen. Eileen Heckart, Ruth White and Jean...

Here, there and everywhere else she wants to be in Born to Be Wild is Katie, a hilariously playful three-year-old gorilla who knows how to communicate using sign language. But what makes her even more special to 14-year-old Rick (Wil Horneff) is that she's his friend. So when Katie is reclaimed by her former owner (Peter Boyle) and penned up as an attraction at a flea market, Rick unlocks the cage and hits the road with his 400-pound furball of a pal! Pursued from California to Canada, the...

"Beverly Hills. The most beautiful women in the world. Plastic surgery. What do these three things have in common?" Dr. Ben Stone (Michael J. Fox) asks. "Me, in less than a week!" It turns out to be an eye-opening week. And Doc Hollywood turns out to be a witty charmer. Stone is a newly minted MD whose medical fast-lane cruise takes a small-town detour. Grady, South Carolina, Squash Capital of the South, is home to salt-of-the-earth folks (Julie Warner, Woody Harrelson, Bridget Fonda, David...

Teenager Samantha Hughes (Emily Lloyd) of Hopewell, KY, is pretty, headstrong...and curious. About the father she never knew -- and about the war that took him away. The war nobody wants to remember. Bruce Willis plays a reclusive vet and Lloyd his niece in In Country, which reveals a family's struggle to heal the wounds of Vietnam. Directed by Norman Jewison (In the Heat of the Night), the film captures the horror of battle -- and the disillusionment of a soldier who thought war meant glory...

They used to run the country. Now they're running for their lives! Hail to the comedy chiefs! Jack Lemmon and James Garner win a landslide of laughs as two on-the-lam former presidents of the United States. Framed in a scandal by the current president (Dan Aykroyd) and pursued by armed agents, the two squabbling political foes plunge into a desperate and delightfully frantic search for the evidence that will establish their innocence. As they scramble through the real America, they get an...

For ex-ballplayer Billy Wyatt (Mark Harmon), whose drive never matched his big-league prospects, the high point of his life was the summer of 1964. Decades later, Billy returns home to recall the past -- and the person who made it special. Harmon and Jodie Foster star in Stealing Home, a bittersweet story "beautifully written a la Moonstruck" in which "you'll spend a couple of hours lost in a wonderful world" (Bill Cosford, Miami Herald). As a burnout seeking redemption, Chicago Hope's Harmon...

The mirthful military-school comedy Brother Rat gets a spirited musical makeover as About Face, starring velvet-voiced Gordon MacRae and comedy pros Eddie Bracken and Dick Wesson as conniving cadets who mix their reveille revelry with song, dance and parade-splashy Technicolor . Their romantic maneuvers aren't quite regulation: Bracken is secretly married to Phyllis Kirk, with a baby due soon; Wesson eyes pretty new arrival Virginia Gibson, unaware she's the colonel's daughter; and MacRae...

Perhaps world's only animated sketch comedy educational series, Histeria delivers lessons that stick -- to your funny bone. Hosted by Father Time (voice of Frank Welker), the cartoon cast careens through time to deliver historical facts from Siberia to Sumeria, despite the efforts of Miss Information (voice of Laraine Newman), the claims of The World's Oldest Woman (voice of Tress MacNeille) and the perpetually poopy diapers of the egg shaped Big Fat Baby (Luke Ruegger).Histeria comes complete...

As groundbreaking hospital drama Medical Center enters its seventh and final season, Drs. Gannon (Chad Everett) and Lochner (James Daly) continue to offer up cutting-edge TV replete with social conflicts, commentaries and controversies. Medical Center hits the ground stunning with a daringly cast "viewer discretion recommended" two-parter, "The Fourth Sex," which examines transgender issues on television at a time when they were taboo. Adding extra frisson is the episode's main guest star,...

Prohibition's over and bombastic bootlegger Remy Marko is heading for the straight-and-narrow, the up-and-up, the strictly legit. But in the new booze-friendly legit world, the beer baron's brew is a big bust -- and all his troubles with creditors, coppers, a fugitive mobster carrying stolen loot, a marriage-minded daughter, a rascally orphan and four unwanted corpses are coming to a frantic, foaming head during a wild-and-woolly weekend at his Saratoga Springs mansion. Join the party for this...

"An adventure that makes the blood race romance, mystery -- and peril!" So promised the North American Newspaper Alliance in 1928 when they sponsored an Amazon expedition to determine the fate of a famous explorer who hadn't been seen in three years. Led by George M. Dyott (Robin Hughes), a commander in the British Naval Reserve, the team ventured deep into the jungle in search of P. H. Fawcett (James Wilson), a British colonel who disappeared in Brazil's Mato Grosso region in 1925. Following...

Family Matters' blockbuster seventh season starts off with a bang as Urkel's transformation chamber runs amok and creates the incredible shrinking Carl (Reginald VelJohnson) and Urkel (Jaleel White). You'd think things might get easier after surviving giant fruit and monstrous house cats but then you wouldn't know Urkel. Quicker than a "Did he do that?" the Winslow clan and company are faced with accidental nude encounters, entomologist infatuations, IRS audits; foreign jails; Urkel on diet...