The Call of the Wild (2020)

The Call of the Wild (2020)

[6] Harrison Ford co-stars with a computer-animated dog in this retelling of Jack London's The Call of the Wild. The adaptation is somewhat faithful to the source material, at least in its broad strokes, but it cuts back on a lot of…
A Perfect World (1993)

A Perfect World (1993)

[8] Clint Eastwood directs and costars with Kevin Costner in A Perfect World. Costner plays an escaped convict who kidnaps a young boy (T.J. Lowther) as hostage while he tries to flee Texas for Alaska. Eastwood plays the ranger in pursuit, accompanied…
Scent of a Woman (1992)

Scent of a Woman (1992)

[7] Al Pacino took home the Best Actor Oscar playing a blind, cantankerous veteran who hires a reluctant prep school student, played by Chris O'Donnell (Fried Green Tomatoes), to escort him on a trip to New York City. O'Donnell is confounded by…
Adventures in Babysitting (1987)

Adventures in Babysitting (1987)

[6] Elisabeth Shue (Leaving Las Vegas, The Karate Kid) stars as a high school senior who resigns herself to babysitting when her date cancels at the last minute. But when her friend runs away from home and makes a panicked call from…
Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987)

Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987)

[6] The 'Nerds' return for a slightly inferior sequel centering around a fraternity conference in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, where the adversarial Alpha Beta fraternity frames the nerds for a crime they didn't commit and tries to get them expelled from the fraternal…
Get Out (2017)

Get Out (2017)

[7] Jordan Peele of Key and Peele comedy fame takes an auspicious stab at writing and directing a horror film with Get Out, the story of a young black man who starts to get the heebie jeebies after being introduced to his…
The Cabin in the Woods (2012)

The Cabin in the Woods (2012)

[8] A group of college kids go to a cabin in the woods, but that's as far as we get into the story before director Drew Goddard and producer Joss Whedon turn the trope on its head. In a Scream-like fashion, The…