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Star-ving

Having been screwed out of “Married ... with Children” residuals by his convalescent manager, David “Bud Bundy” Faustino is now a pathetic, washed-up porn store proprietor.  Star-ving follows his attempt at regaining stardom.  Bringing along his old buddy, Corin Nemec (“Parker Lewis Can’t Lose”), Faustino gets attacked by an angry black mob, reunites with his “Married ... with Children” cast members, kidnaps Alan Thicke, steals money from Coolio, and kills Gilbert Gottfried’s 34-year-old mentally challenged son - all to get back into the Hollywood game.

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Parker Lewis Can't Lose

For most teenagers, high school is filled with obstacles nearly impossible to traverse. But then there is Parker Lewis (Corin Nemec), the one teenager able to overcome any barrier with the use of his wits and the help of his best buds, rock n roller Mikey (William Jayne) and their quintessential nerd assistant Jerry (Troy Slaten). Of course, that does not mean Principal Grace Musso (Melanie Chartoff) will give up her attempts to foil the Buds' plans to maintain total coolness!

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RoboDoc

Sleazy lawyers and heartless insurance companies are only a few of those spoofed in this Airplane!-esque send up of modern healthcare, as a high tech efficiency initiative is taken to hilarious lengths. Plagued by uninsured patients, greedy insurance companies and indifferent staff, North Mercy ("No Mercy") Hospital is on the verge of total collapse. To cut costs and malpractice suits, R.I.P Healthcare introduces MD 63 (a.k.a. Robo-Doc), a robotic doctor that can't make a mistake. An overzealous malpractice lawyer sees Robodoc as a threat to his livelihood, and joins forces with greedy, golf obsessed Dr. Callaby (Corin Nemec) in a plot to see Robodoc crushed into a tin can.

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High Hopes

Hollywood hopeful Tom Murphy and his roommates are pinning their hopes of industry success on Tom's famous girlfriend starring in their first feature. When she dumps him, their plan falls to pieces. Tom and his pals devise a plan to steal a fenced case of government issued marijuana, return it to the FBI and use the reward money to finance their movie. Little do they know a scorned girlfriend and her deaf mute brother have other plans.

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The Stand

A mishap at a biological weapons lab unleashes a deadly virus nicknamed "Captain Trips." As it spreads, the United States becomes a graveyard inhabited by a few isolated survivors immune to the disease. They gravitate towards either the side of good or evil, driven by vivid dreams of two rival leaders in the aftermath of the plague. Gradually, they mobillize into two opposing camps; the good folks rally around Mother Abigail in Boulder, Colorado, while the bad apples flock to demonic despot Randall Flagg in Las Vegas. Soon, the stage is set for a battle of epic proportions

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Cop Dog

Robbie North's (Billy Unger) life sucks. His father, a police officer with the K-9 unit, fell down a well and croaked but nobody seems to care but him. His mom is getting sick of taking him to visit his dad's grave every day and wants to ship him off to an ominous school called Walden Pines. For a brief moment, things start to look up for Robbie when he adopts his Dad's old partner... a dog named Marlowe (Kuma the dog). Robbie is hopeful that Marlowe's crime fighting skills will help him resolve some lingering questions about Dad's demise.

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Solar Crisis

When a massive solar flare threatens to fry the Earth, astronauts must undertake a daring mission to the Sun to divert the flare with an antimatter bomb. IXL Corp CEO Teague (Peter Boyle) is out to sabotage the mission and buy up most of the earth's resources while the world is distracted by possible armageddon. While Steve Kelso (Tim Matheson) commands the mission to the sun, Admiral Skeet Kelso (Charlton Heston) is searching the desert for grandson Mike (Corin Nemec) who's gone AWOL from military school and fallen into the hands of IXL henchmen.

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