Released 40 years ago, director Ivan Reitman‘s Legal Eagles is a little of everything. Part romance, part legal drama, part thriller, and part comedy, Reitman and screenwriters Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr. throw basically everything into the blender. The result is an entertaining, if a bit tonally Frankensteinish, movie that never quite clicked with audiences or critics.
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1969’s The Assassination Bureau is a bizarre farcical adventure starring Diana Rigg as women’s rights activist and aspiring reporter Sonia Winter who attempts to break the biggest story of a secret cabal of assassins by hiring the organization to kill their own leader Ivan Dragomiloff (Oliver Reed).
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Based on the 1990 The New Yorker magazine article of the same name by Ian Frazier, the film Warner Bros. Discovery attempted to kill as a write-off three years ago finally makes it to theaters. Wile E. Coyote who, after yet another failed attempt to catch the Road Runner, decides to hire an ambulance-chasing lawyer (Will Forte) to sue ACME (the company whose products have failed him for decades).
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Taking the basic idea of the United States Government covering up a scandal by starting a fake war, but changing the events and the scandal from Larry Beinhart’s novel, screenwriter David Mamet‘s 1997 darkly humorous satire casts Robert De Niro as governmental fixer Conrad Brean hired to steer media coverage from reports away from the President sexually assaulting a young girl in the Oval Office long enough for him to win re-election.
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The third film to star Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor was generally panned when it hit theaters in 1989. However, for a kid who saw this in theaters, the comedy featuring Wilder as deaf and Pryor as blind, thrown together as an odd couple both mistaken for killers and hunted by both the police (Alan North and Louis Giambalvo) and real killers (Joan Severance and Kevin Spacey) for an invaluable coin they don’t even know they posses falls squarely into the guilty pleasure category.
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