Breaking Away (1979)
starring Dennis Christopher
Undoubtedly the best cycling movie ever made, director Peter Yates' classic is based on the Oscar-winning script by Steve Tesich. The movie focuses on Dave Stoller, aspiring bike racer and high school grad stuck in a college town (Bloomington, Indiana) trying to figure out what he wants to do in life. Nominated for five Oscars in 1980.
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The Simpsons: Complete Second Season (1990)
starring Bart Simpson, Homer Simpson
Season two goes all the way back to 1990. The four-disc set includes 22 classic episodes, from "Treehouse of Horror" (the Halloween episode), "The Way We Were" (where we learn how Homer met Marge), and tragic "Bart's Dog Gets an F."
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Mission to Mars (2000)
starring Gary Sinise, Tim Robbins
The rule of Brian de Palma (director of this inadvertent disaster movie) is that for every good movie he makes, he has to make a stinker. So Mission to Mars is the price we must pay for classics such as The Untouchables and Dressed to Kill. One wonders how normally reliable stars such as Gary Sinise and Tim Robbins agreed to do this tripe.
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