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Lady in White. (1988) Lukas Haas, Len Cariou, Alex Rocco, Jason Presson, Katherine Helmond. Directed by Frank LaLoggia. A ghost story set in a small northeastern town pits a boy with dreams of becoming a mystery writer against a serial killer when the boy sees an apparition re-enacting the ten year old unsolved murder of a young girl. Categories: Drama, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Crime and Mystery.
Ladybugs. (1992) Rodney Dangerfield, Jackee Harry, Jonathan Brandis, Ilene Graff, Vinessa Shaw, Tom Parks. Directed by Sidney J. Furie. Rodney Dangerfield stars as Chester Lee, a salesman bucking for a promotion, who gets saddled with the job of coaching the company-sponsored girls soccer team, which had a winning record but now has nothing but klutzy newcomers. Luck intervenes when he persuades his fiancee's jock son Matthew to compete on the team disguised as a girl. Categories: Comedy, Sports.
Lassie. (1994) Tom Guiry, Helen Slater, Jon Tenny, Brittany Boyd, Frederic Forrest, Richard Farnsworth, Michele Williams. Directed by Daniel Petrie. This 1994 film updates the classic Lassie Come Home film of the forties and the television series of the fifties and sixties. Instead of Timmy and Tommy, the story focuses around Matt Turner, a young teenaged kid from Baltimore who sports a headband, earring, rock t-shirts and high top chucks, and displays a negative attitude about most things. Can Lassie bring this kid around? Bet the farm! Categories: Family, Drama, Coming of Age.
The Last Prostitute. (1991) Sonia Braga, David Kaufman, Dennis Letts, Dru Mouser, Cotter Smith, Wil Wheaton. Directed by Lou Antonio. Danny and Burt, two teenaged boys ditch summer camp and journey to Texas to find Loah, a prostitute elevated to legendary status by Danny's late uncle. Their quest for a quick initiation into manhood hits a snag when they discover that Loah is retired and now runs a horse farm. Exhausted and penniless, they boys convince her to hire them on as farm hands. While Burt manages only to alienate himself, Danny befriends the headstrong woman and learns the true meaning of love. Categories: Drama, Coming of Age.
The Lawnmower Man. (1981) Jeff Fahey, Pierce Brosnan, Jenny Wright, Mak Bringleson, Geoffrey Lewis, Jeremy Slate, Dean Norris, Colleen Coffey, Jim Landis, Troy Evans, Rosalee Mayeux, Austin O'Brien. Directed by Brett Leonard. A mentally retarded man is turned into a genius through the application of an experimental virtual reality program originally designed for primates. Categories: Drama, Science Fiction/Fantasy.
The Legend of Cryin' Ryan. (1998) Michael Heidemann, Andi Eystad, Harrison Myers, Ernie Lively, Harold Smith, Rhelda Mortensen, Rob Lenn. Written and directed by Deanna Shapiro. After young Kris accidentally knocks over the tombstone of Cryin' Ryan, a thirteen year old kid who was killed under mysterious circumstances forty years earlier, she begins seeing his ghost. With her best friend Billy, Kris begins to investigate the events of his death to help lay his spirit to rest. Categories: Drama, Crime and Mystery, Family.
The Legend of Gator Face. (1996) John White, Dan Warry-Smith, Charlotte Sullivan, Gordon Michael Woolvett, Kathleen Laskey, C. David Johnson, Paul Winfield, Pam Hyatt, Roger Dunn. Directed by Vic Sarin. Two bored young boys living in a sleepy Mississippi town fake appearances of a legendary swamp creature. Everyting is going great for them until the media appears and the National Guard is sent in to kill the creature. Categories: Comedy, Adventure, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Family.
Leprechaun. (1993) Jennifer Aniston, Mark Holton, Warwick Davis, Ken Olandt, Robert Gorman, Shay Duffin, John Sandeford. Directed by Mark Jones. A mean leprechaun goes on a rampage after his precious bag of gold coins is stolen. Categories: Horror.
Let It Be. (1970) John Lennon, George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Ringo Star, Billy Preston, Yoko Ono, Heather McCartney, George Martin, Mal Evans. Directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg. A documentary of the Beatle in the studio preparing music for the Let It Be album, and ending with their famous rooftop impromtu performance in London. Categories: Musical, Documentary.
The Liar's Club. (1993) Wil Wheaton, Brian Krause, Michael Cudlitz, Soleil Moon Frye, Jennifer Burns, Aron Eisenberg, Sevonne Durkin. Directed by Jeffrey Porter. The loyalties of a tight group of high school friends is severely tested when a sexual encounter between one of them and young girl results in her death. Categories: Drama, Crime and Mystery.
Liar's Moon. (1981) Matt Dillon, Cindy Fischer, Hoyt Axton, Yvonne de Carlo, Jim Greenleaf, Broderick Crawford. Directed by David Fischer. Jack and Ginny are two teenagers from different sides of the tracks who meet and fall in love despite the opposition of Ginny's parents. The two eventually elope, and live happily for a few months until Ginny becomes pregnant and a dark family secret is revealed. Categories: Drama, Romance, Teenagers.
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. (2004) Bill Murray, Cate Blanchette, Owen Wilson, Anjelica Huston, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Michael Gambon, Noah Taylor. Written and directed by Wes Anderson. Steve Zissou, an internationally famous oceanographer in the style of Jacques Cousteau, is facing a lot of problems: his documentaries are no longer well received, his longtime partner was eaten by a "jaguar" shark on his last voyage, and he has family and financial problems. But he somehow is able to take Team Zissou on one last voyage to kill the shark and try to redeem his life and career. Categories: Comedy, Adventure, Drama.
A Light in the Forest. (2002) Lindsay Wagner, Danielle Nicolet, Christian Oliver, Edward Albert, Amy Amerson, Frank Bonner. Directed by John Carl Buechler. Holly Boy, the spirit of Christmas is pursued through the ages by evil spirits and ends up in Hollywood, turned into stone by an evil spell. But a young girl unwittingly unlocks his spirit and brings the continuing battle to Highland High School, where she has just moved after her parents were killed in Europe. Categories: Fantasy, Family.
Lightning Bug. (2004) Bret Harrison, Lauren Prepon, Kevin Gage, Ashley Laruence, bob Penny, Lucas Till, Shannon Eubanks, Hal Sparks, Jonathan Spencer. Written and directed by Robert Hall. A teenager from a poor family with a talent for creating grisly special effects for the local Halloween haunted house dreams of leaving his small parochial town in Alabama and going to Hollywood. But first he must deal with his abusive stepfather, a church group who thinks he is a Satanist, and the troubled secrets of his girl friend. Categories: Drama, Coming of Age.
Little Darlings. (1980) Kristy McNichol, Tatum O'Neal, Matt Dillon, Armand Assante. Directed by Ronald F. Maxwell. When a well traveled and well educated child of priviledge meets up with a tough streetwise girl from the slums at a summer camp, an instant rivalry is born. Goaded on by the other girl campers, the two take on a high stakes bet -- with the winner determined by whoever loses her virginity first. Categories: Drama, Romance, Teenagers.
Little Giants. (1994) Rick Moranis, Ed O'Neill, Shawna Waldron, Devon Sawa, Todd Bosley, Michael Zweiger, Danny Pritchett, Troy Simmons, Sam Horrigan, Joey Simmrin, Marcus Toji, Christopher Walberg. Directed by Duwayne Dunham. Danny O'Shea has always lived in the shadow of his older brother, Kevin, who was a football star. When Kevin cuts Danny's daughter from the town's Pee-wee football team, he decides to organize a rival team to take Kevin's team on. Categories: Comedy, Family, Sports.
Little Marines. (1990) Stephen Baker, Steve Landers, Jr. Noah Williams. Directed by A. J. Hixon. Three young friends journey alone into the wilderness for a three day survival test. Categories: Drama, Family, Coming of Age.
Little Miss Millions.(aka Home for Christmas) (1994) Howard Hesseman, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Anita Morris, James Avery, Robert Fieldsteel, Steve Landesberg. Directed by Jim Wynorski. When a a nine year old heiress escapes from her money-grubbing step mother, the step mother hires a private detective to bring her back. When he succeeds she is too cheap to pay him off and instead reports him to the FBI for kidnapping. Categories: Comedy, Family, Action/Adventure.
Little Nikita. (1988) Sidney Poitier, River Phoenix, Richard Bradford, Richard Lynch, Caroline Kava, Richard Jenkins. Directed by Richard Benjamin. Jeff Grant, a high school senior who wants to attend the Air Force Academy becomes involved in international intrigue when a routine background check by the FBI uncovers the fact that his parents have forged birth certificates. In fact his parents are Russian sleepers, inactive spies who have been placed in America by the KGB for call up during an emergency. Such an emergency has occurred, and the KGB uses the Grants as bait to track down a rogue agent who is killing their operatives in America. Categories: Drama, Action/Adventure, Crime and Mystery.
Looking for Miracles. (1989) Greg Spotiswood, Zachary Bennett, Joe Flaherty, Patricia Gage, Paul Haddad. Directed by Kevin Sullivan. Set in the Depression of the 1930's, this film is the story of two brothers who learn to come to terms with each other when they both end up spending the summer together in a camp. Categories: Drama, Family, Coming of Age.
Loser. (2000) Jason Biggs, Mena Suvari, Greg Kinnear. Directed by Amy Heckerling. Paul, a naive but good natured student from North Dakota gets a crash course in New York City life. To keep his scholarship, he must study hard. That makes him a loser to his partying roommates, who connive to have him kicked out of their suite and assigned to a room in an animal hospital. In class he meets Dora, who's the very young lover of their sarcastic and selfish English literature professor. When Dora is slipped some drugs at a party, Paul nurses her back to health, and a friendship follows. For Paul, though, it's more than friendly feelings. But will Dora reciprocate? Categories: Comedy, Romance, Coming of Age.
Losin' It. (1982) Tom Cruise, Jackie Earle Haley, Shelley Long, John Stockwell, John P. Navin, Jr., Henry Darrow. Directed by Curtis Hanson. Four high school boys going to school in southern California plan an overnight adventure in the brothels of Tijuana. An otherwise routine coming of age comedy is notable for early performances by Tom Cruise, Shelley Long, and John Stockwell. Categories: Comedy, Teenagers, Sexually Explicit.
Lucky. (2002) Michael Emanuel, Piper Cochrane, David Reivers, Jillian Bach. Directed by Steve Cuden. Failing cartoon writer Millard Mudd is falling into an alcohol-induced life of failure and isolation, until a stray dog he hits changes his life for good and bad. It seems that the dog can "talk" and get inside Millard's head. Categories: Comedy, Horror, Sexually Explicit.