Crispin Glover
1) River's Edge
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The lives of a group of teenagers are thrown into a moral spin when one of them murders his girlfriend. Faced with the brutal reality of death, each must decide whether to turn their friend in to the police, or to help him escape the consequences of his dreadful deed.
2) Willard
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Life has become one big trap for 32-year-old Willard Stiles. Haunted by the ghost of his dead father, psychologically suffocated by his mother and ridiculed by his co-workers, Willard (Crispin Glover) makes an eerie discovery: he shares a powerful bond with the rats that dwell in his basement. Suddenly, WILLARD has friends--hundreds of them. But a storm is brewing, and when tragedy strikes, an unstoppable tide of hungry, merciless rats rampage, seeking...
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Aside from a secret affair with a housewife (Mary Steenburgen), Gilbert Grape (Johnny Depp) spends his days stocking shelves at a grocery store, caring for his mentally handicapped brother (Leonardo DiCaprio), and holding together a large family headed by Mama, a former beauty queen whose weight tops 500 pounds. But just when Gilbert thinks nothing will ever change, a beautiful stranger (Juliette Lewis) arrives on the scene, capturing his heart. Nominated...
5) Beowulf
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This is not your high school teacher's Old English epic poem, but something palpably of this century. In the age of heroes comes the mightiest warrior of them all, Beowulf, to aid King Hrothgar by slaying the monster Grendel. The troubled Danish kingdom has been bedeviled by the demon for years, but in killing him, Beowulf incurs the undying wrath of the beast's ruthlessly seductive mother. After killing her, Beowulf returns to the castle and becomes...
10) The Donner Party
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Based on the harrowing true story, "The Donner Party," picks up after William Hastings steers a group, nicknamed "Forlorn Hope," off course by promising a shorter route to California through the Sierra Nevada mountains. After several early snowstorms, the group and its leaders (Crispin Glover and Clayne Crawford) find themselves lost, freezing and without any source of food.
13) Bartleby
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Cult figure Crispin Glover lends his eerie presence to Bartleby, a modern adaptation of the classic short story by Herman Melville (author of Moby Dick). The manager of a public records firm hires a new clerk named Bartleby. However, Bartleby is eccentric and with each passing day, he begins to refuse his boss' orders. Eventually, the boss discovers even stranger things about him.
14) My Tutor
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My Tutor is a romantic comedy about Bobby Chrystal, a high school senior on the verge of graduation who flunks his French final and Terry Green, an attractive and well talented French tutor that Bobby's parents will hire to help him pass the makeup exam. During their encounter it is clear that Bobby's got more on his mind than collegiate affairs.
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Get ready to kick some serious past with "Hot Tub Machine!" The outrageous laughs bubble up when four friends share a crazy night of drinking in a ski resort hot tub, only to wake up with nasty hangovers...in 1986. Now, nice-guy Adam (John Cusack), party animal Lou (Rob Corddry), married man Nick (Craig Robinson) and mega nerd Jacob (Clark Duke) must survive the acid-washed 80's!
16) Twister
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A tornado writhes across the sprawling family estate of soda pop and miniature golf magnate, Eugene Cleveland, but the family inside is oblivious to the weather because they are caught up in their own private whirlwind of off-beat opulence.
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Excelsior Union High senior J.J. Manners navigates the cliques and rivalries that high school entails, all while pursuing Beth Franklin, who happens to be the girlfriend of quarterback and class president Beau Middleton. There's only one way to settle the rivalry for Beth's affection: a drag race, whose outcome turns Excelsior's social hierarchy on its head and causes further pandemonium.