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Guilty Until Proven Innocent (1991)
Presumed guilty
This is the true story of 19-year-old Bobby McLaughlin, accused and committed for a murder that took place in a Brooklyn park in 1979. 15-year-old Jimmy O'Neil, the only eyewitness to the murder, is eager to please the place and incorrectly identifies Bobby as the murderer and helps convict him.
For the next six years Bobby's foster father, Harold Hoeny (Martin Sheen), fights to find new evidence so the case can be re-opened. Does he succeed?
you'll have to watch the movie to find out. Luckily, watching this is a pleasure.
Opportunity Knocks (1990)
Feel good, night in type of movie
After a scam goes wrong, con-artist Eddy Farrell (Dana Carvey) finds himself on the run from a mobster who wants money that Eddy knew nothing about. Eddy heads for an empty house that he'd panned to rob - it's the perfect hide-out.
What he hadn't planned on was the owner's parents popping in to welcome him and mistake him for a university friend of their son's. Taking a jon in the father's firm, he is soon thought of as a member of the family, has more money than he could have imagined, drives a red sports car and finds himself falling for Annie, their daughter.
Eddy must decide if he is going to rip off this very rich family, or leave before he gets any more attached and someone finds out who he really is.
Oscar (1991)
Watch it again and again! Never disappionts.
Sylvester Stallone in a comedy is hard to imagine after classic movies like Rambo - he has done so many biffo films, all of them action packed and bloody.
In Oscar Sly plays Angelo 'snaps' Provalone, a gangster in the mid 1920's trying to 'go straight'. There are no rippling muscles or gun wars in this movie. In fact, it is hilarious, with great sub plots that all come together with great delight.
'Snaps' must find a husband for his daughter Lisa (who has told him she is pregnant by the former chauffeur), a new maid, somehow get the money back from rival gangster Little Anthony, find out why some random woman says he is her father and prepare for a 10am meeting with bankers...
A Sunburnt Christmas (2020)
A Homegrown Christmas Movie
Think of all the great Christmas movies you have seen. Now relocate them to Australia (where it is Summer), sprinkle on some Australian humour, and add a just a dash of Christmas cliché. What you then have is a Christmas movie like no other - a guaranteed future classic. Welcome to history, A Sunburnt Christmas!
The Raley's, wily 15-year-old Hazel (Tatiana Goode), along with and her siblings, the fearless Daisy (Lena Nankivell) and hypochondriac Tom (Eadan McGuinness) are keeping things together as best they can since the death of their father. When a strange man dressed as Santa (Henshall) crashes a car full of Christmas toys into their shed, turning Christmas and their entire lives upside down in ways that could never have been imagined....
Without giving too much away, what ensues next has all the Christmas trademarks - it is funny, sweet and a touch sad.
I understand the M rating, the film does contain religious references, mild language use, some contentious issues (mostly around Santa potentially being blown up, his powers and his existence, as well as the subtext of suicide). It also has a shotgun toting 6-year-old! However, with no sex scenes, toilet talk or other inappropriate scenes or themes - you decide. This film is boldly fresh with the topics and references seamlessly and often humourlessly integrated.
If you loved watching Elf, Home Alone or Die Hard, you will love A Sunburnt Christmas.
Thank you @StanAustralia, @ScreenAustralia and director @ChristiaanVanVuuren, as well as the entire cast and crew for making such a standout Christmas movie!