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  • Adventures in Dinosaur City picture
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    Adventures in Dinosaur City (1991)

    Two boys (Omri Katz, Shawn Hoffman) and a girl (Tiffanie Poston) are magically transported into...

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    Shanks (1974)

    A mute puppeteer uses a deceased scientist's invention to control dead bodies like puppets.

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    The Misadventures of Merlin Jones (1964)

    A wacky college student (Tommy Kirk) reads his girlfriend's (Annette Funicello) mind, then the mind...

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    Fly Away Home (1996)

    A Canadian sculptor (Jeff Daniels) builds an ultralight plane so his teen daughter (Anna Paquin) can...

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    Steel and Lace

    Revived as a cyborg by her scientist brother (Bruce Davison), a rape victim (Clare Wren) seeks...

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    Static (1986)

    A man invents a device which he claims shows images of heaven. When no one else can see what he...

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    Honey, I Shrunk The Kids (1989)

    An inventor's (Rick Moranis) ray gun zaps his son, his daughter and a neighbor's (Matt Frewer) boys...

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    Master of the World (1961)

    A Victorian madman (Vincent Price) with a huge airship takes captives (Charles Bronson, Henry Hull)...

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    Brainstorm (1983)

    Researchers (Christopher Walken, Louise Fletcher) develop a helmet which allows its wearer to feel...

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    Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001)

    A smart child (Debi Derryberry) and his mechanical dog blast into outer space after aliens kidnap...

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    The Squeeze (1987)

    A con man (Michael Keaton) and a would-be detective (Rae Dawn Chong) flee thugs involved with a...

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    The Chairman (1969)

    A U.S. scientist (Gregory Peck) goes to China with a transmitter in his head, to meet Mao and spy on...

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    Blowback (1991)

    A straight-arrow federal agent is sent to Miami Beach to stage a mock communist-terrorist attack...

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    Hello Down There (1969)

    A wacky inventor creates an underwater home and takes his family, including his teenage rock-band...

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    Don't Die Without Telling Me Where You're Going

    It is the fantastic story of a couple that has the chance to live for centuries loving one another...

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    Chouans!

    The conflicts of the French Revolution are explored with the story of one family torn apart by war.

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    The Creeps (1997)

    A mad scientist animates Dracula, Frankenstein and other movie monsters, but they're only three feet...

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    Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey (1995)

    Filmmaker Steven M. Martin profiles Russian Leon Theremin, inventor of the world's first electronic...

  • And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird picture
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    And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird (1991)

    Two boys (Joshua Miller, Edan Gross) help their mother (Marcia Strassman) by inventing a robot,...

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    The Strongest Man in the World (1975)

    A college student (Kurt Russell) accidentally discovers that a chemical experiment mixed with a...

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    Killing Cars

    In this tale of espionage, corporate corruption ensues when a car is manufactured which runs without...

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    Until the End of the World (1991)

    Sam Farber must get a special camera, that records dreams, to his blind Mother while being pursued...

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    The Monkey's Uncle (1965)

    Campus brain Merlin Jones (Tommy Kirk) teaches athletes as they sleep and invents a man-powered...

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    Project Grizzly (1998)

    Filmmaker Peter Lynch follows an Ontario scrap-metal merchant's efforts to create a bear-proof...

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    Real Genius (1985)

    Tech-school prodigies (Val Kilmer, Gabe Jarret) learn their laser project is actually a death beam...

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    The 30-Foot Bride of Candy Rock (1959)

    Lou Costello made his only film appearance without Bud Abbott in 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock. Lou...

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    Malcolm (1986)

    In this hilarious, award-winning comedy, Malcolm (Colin Friels) is an innocent, naive mechanical...

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    Never Too Young to Die (1986)

    A spy's son (John Stamos) inherits the case of a heavy-metal he-she (Gene Simmons) out to foul city...

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    Nightmare Weekend (1986)

    A female scientist performs experiments on three college girls that turn them into drooling,...

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    Johnny Dark (1954)

    Angry that his boss has manipulated him as a pawn in a business deal, a race-car designer takes his...