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Necessary Roughness, a review by KinkyCyborg

Title:Necessary Roughness
Year: 1991
Director: Stan Dragoti
Rating: PG-13
Length: 108 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital: 5.1, English: Dolby Digital: Dolby Surround, French: Dolby Digital: Dolby Surround
Subtitles: English

Stars:
Scott Bakula
Hector Elizondo
Robert Loggia
Harley Jane Kozak
Larry Miller

Plot:
THE TEXAS STATE ARMADILLOS are fourth down and nowhere-to-go after a corruption scandal nearly ends the football program. Now upstanding coach Ed Dennaro (Hector Elizondo) must put together a brand new team.

For the position of quarterback Gennaro recruits Paul Blake (Scott Bakula, 'Quantum Leap'), a 34-year-old former high school star whose field of dreams turned out to be the family farm. Blake still has the arm, but can he score with a team that includes a samurai lineman, a butterfingered receiver, and a Samoan strongman with eyes for the place-kicker (Kathy Ireland)?

Extras:
Scene Access
Closed Captioned


A favorite comedy of mine and even after a half dozen viewings now the laughs still hold up.

There have been a lot of misfit sports comedies in the past but this one sustains the laughs from start to finish. Larry Miller as the conniving school dean is a scene stealer! 

This is one of those movies I throw in when I want some laughs and it delivers every time.

KC

Rating:

(From KinkyCyborg's Random Reviews 2010 on September 21st, 2010)

Moonlighting, a review by Tom

Moonlighting (1985/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia (Germany) Director: Robert Butler Writing: Glenn Gordon Caron (Writer) Length: 93 min. Video: Full Frame 1.33:1 Audio: German: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, English: Dolby Digital 1 Subtitles:

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Stars:
Cybill Shepherd as Madelyn "Maddie" Hayes
Bruce Willis as David Addison
Allyce Beasley as Agnes DiPesto
Robert Ellenstein as Heinz
Jim MacKrell as Plastic Surgeon

Plot:Awards:
Won:

Golden Globe (1986)		Actor in a Leading Role - Musical or Comedy Series (Bruce Willis)
Golden Globe (1985)		Actress in a Leading Role - Musical or Comedy Series (Cybill Shepherd)
Golden Globe (1986)		Actress in a Leading Role - Musical or Comedy Series (Cybill Shepherd)

Nominated:

Golden Globe (1985)		Actor in a Leading Role - Musical or Comedy Series (Bruce Willis)
Golden Globe (1987)		Actor in a Leading Role - Musical or Comedy Series (Bruce Willis)
Golden Globe (1987)		Actress in a Leading Role - Musical or Comedy Series (Cybill Shepherd)
Golden Globe (1987)		Actress in a Supporting Role - Series, Mini-Series or Television Movie (Allyce Beasley)
Golden Globe (1985)		Television Series - Musical or Comedy
Golden Globe (1986)		Television Series - Musical or Comedy
Golden Globe (1987)		Television Series - Musical or Comedy

Extras:

• Production Notes
• Scene Access
• Trailers

I just stumbled across this one in my collection. I overlooked it because I had forgotten to tag this as a TV series. This is the pilot TV movie for the series "Moonlighting".
This is the only episode I have ever seen of this series. I enjoyed it. I am almost tempted to buy the series.

Rating:

(From Tom's TV Pilots marathon on June 11th, 2012)

Pete's Pilots, a review by addicted2dvd

Kolchak: The Night Stalker


The Ripper
A serial killer who is terrorizing women continually avoids capture, and Kolchak comes to believe that the murderer is none other than the original Jack the Ripper.

My Thoughts:
When I popped on this pilot episode the first thing I did was check the running time. This is a good example of how much commercials take up today compared to the '70s when this show aired. This episode runs for almost 52 min. Today's series runs for about 42 min. That is a good 10min. extra of story they got back then!

This is an old series that I blind bought because I thought it sounded good. I bought it four years ago... and yet to watch it all. I have purposely took my time on this show since only 20 episodes exist. It is a series I found I enjoy quite a bit. And this is a good pilot episode. But it is not a favorite episode. It is a little on the slow side. But it does have a fairly interesting story.

My Rating:

(From Pete's Pilots on February 24th, 2010)