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- DirectorPenelope SpheerisStarsRichard PryorFranklyn AjayeWhile it's unclear what the film was about, it is believed that it followed a group of Black Panthers who kidnap a wealthy white man and put him on trial for all the racial crimes in American history.
- DirectorPenelope SpheerisStarsChris PedersenBill CoyneJennifer ClayWhen household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society.Penelope Spheeris's Suburbia is a clear- eyed, compassionate melodrama about a bunch of young dropouts who call themselves ''The Rejected'' or, for short, the TR's.
- DirectorPenelope SpheerisStarsMaxwell CaulfieldCharlie SheenPatti D'ArbanvilleRoy and Bo leave their small California town the weekend after graduation for a short road trip to Los Angeles. Soon, they find themselves lashing out and leaving a trail of bodies behind them. The violence escalates throughout.
- DirectorPenelope SpheerisStarsRonny CoxFrank GorshinLeon Isaac KennedyA mother goes to Hollywood to find her runaway daughter. The Vice Squad discovers that a dangerous gangster has turned the girl into one of his junkie teen prostitutes. The Squad also investigates illegal betting and a BDSM pornographer.
- DirectorPenelope SpheerisStarsJon CryerDaniel RoebuckFleaThree punk-loving New York City dudes need a change and drive a VW Beetle to California. After rednecks kill one of them in Arizona, they want justice. A cute girl helps them.The violent clash between cultures makes for absurdist adolescent drama, but it's weirdly entertaining.
- DirectorPenelope SpheerisStarsJames Earl JonesKarl BakkeStephen HeldA special reenacting the experiences of people who have had documented encounters with extraterrestrial life forces. A British policeman has a close encounter with a UFO, a wood-cutter spots a spacecraft and is abducted, and a civil rights leader and his son come face-to-face with alien beings.
- DirectorDonna DeitchJoan Micklin SilverPenelope SpheerisStarsLolita DavidovichSilvana GallardoKimberly ScottThree dramatic stories inside the walls of a women's prison.
- DirectorPenelope SpheerisStarsMike MyersDana CarveyRob LoweTwo slacker friends try to promote their public-access cable show.An oddball comedy that revels in its silliness and memorable catch phrases, Wayne's World is also fondly regarded because of its endearing characters.
- DirectorPenelope SpheerisStarsDiedrich BaderErika EleniakJim VarneyNice guy redneck Jed Clampett strikes it rich when he finds black oil. He and his kin move to posh Beverly Hills.Imagine the dumbest half-hour sitcom you've ever seen, spin it out to 93 minutes by making it even more thin and shallow, and you have this movie. It's appalling. It's not even really a good version of whatever it was that made the TV series appealing.
- DirectorPenelope SpheerisStarsTravis TedfordBug HallBrittany Ashton HolmesAlfalfa is wooing Darla and his "He-Man-Woman-Hating" friends attempt to sabotage the relationship.Spheeris appears caught between her desire to make a film for little children and amuse their parents, resulting in a mess that will do anything for a cheap laugh.
- DirectorPenelope SpheerisStarsChris FarleyDavid SpadeTim MathesonA gubernatorial candidate hires a wormy special assistant whose only job is to make sure the candidate's well-meaning but incompetent brother doesn't ruin the election.A little comedy that succeeds in its modest aim to provide 87 minutes of harmless diversion.
- DirectorPenelope SpheerisStarsMarlon WayansDavid SpadeBrad DourifA student gets his senses enhanced by an experimental drug. But abuse is not an option.Moments are simply that, moments, which are not enough to lift this fantasy/comedy above its one-joke premise.
- DirectorPenelope SpheerisStarsChristian KaneShannon ElizabethCameron BancroftThe rise and fall of the Enron company, as seen from the perspective of employee Brian Cruver, based on his book.
- DirectorPenelope SpheerisStarsTom ArnoldJoe MantegnaEric GoresAaron Roman (Gores) is a teenager with cerebral palsy who dreams of starring in a big-time action movie. When his father (Mantegna) grants Aaron his wish for his 18th birthday, he experiences the reality a bit hard to manage.Well-intentioned but sappy, The Kid & I is a strange hybrid of comedy and cinema verite.
- DirectorPenelope SpheerisStarsJoe HursleyJenna DewanDustin YbarraAn engaged guy is forced by his future father-in-law to take a side job moonlighting as an exotic dancer in order to pay extravagant wedding neither of them can afford.
- DirectorJennifer AnistonPatty JenkinsAlicia KeysStarsPatricia ClarksonRosario DawsonLyndsy FonsecaAn anthology of five short films exploring the impact of breast cancer on people's lives.
- DirectorPenelope SpheerisStarsTorrey DeVittoCallard HarrisRoma MaffiaA pretty psychiatrist is saved from an accident by a man who, after hitting his head on a rock, believes he is Santa Claus. As she nurses him back to health at her institute, he brings the spirit of Christmas to the hospital.