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The Last Boy Scout

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  • Title: The Last Boy Scout
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“You’re trying the save the life of the man who ruined your career, and avenge the death of the guy that fucked your wife.”

1991’s The Last Boy Scout is the kind of odd couple action story screenwriter Shane Black has explored over his long career before perfecting it in Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang. The film stars Bruce Willis as down on  his luck private investigator Joe Hallenbec who gets roped into a case by a colleague (Bruce McGill) secretly screwing his wife (Chelsea Field) that involves a dead stripper (Halle Berry), a washed-up NFL quarterback (Damon Wayans), and a greedy NFL owner (Noble Willingham).

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West Side Story

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  • Title: West Side Story (1961)
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The first big-screen adaptation of West Side Story stars Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer as the star-crossed lovers in the musical adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Winning 10 Academy Awards (still a record for a musical), the film was released to universal acclaim (even if Wood’s casting at the supposedly Puerto Rican Maria is still a bit cringeworthy in terms of classic Hollywood whitewashing).

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Nancy Drew… Reporter

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  • Title: Nancy Drew… Reporter
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Mystery Monday takes us back for the second Nancy Drew film to star Bonita Granville. Notably not adapted from any of the novels, Nancy Drew… Reporter puts Nancy Drew in an amateur reporter contest where she trades the story she’s been assigned by the disinterested editor to look into a murder case. With her usual pluck, Nancy muddles through mostly relying on coincidence and dumb luck, including the real killers literally running into her and leading her to the scene of the crime.

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Forbidden Planet

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  • Title: Forbidden Planet
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Loosely inspired by William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, 1956’s Forbidden Planet is regarded as one of the best science fiction films of its era. The story follows the crew of  a United Planets starship to the far off planet Altair IV where a scientific expedition disappeared years ago. On arriving at the planet, Commander Adams (Leslie Nielsen) is warned by the soul surviving member of the lost crew not to land.

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Sleepy Hollow

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  • Title: Sleepy Hollow (1999)
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Tim Burton’s stylish 1999 adaptation of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” turns Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp) from schoolteacher to constable sent to Sleepy Hollow by superiors tired of him spouting nonsense about using evidence, science, and logic to solve crimes. The small hamlet in upstate New York has had a series of recent murders, all decapitated by a figure on horseback who the locals believe to be the ghost of a Hessian mercenary in search of a head.

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