Days of thunder

Cole Trickle a hot shot sprint car driver gets recruited to get a new race car team off the ground and his Crew chief they bring back has been out of nascar for a long time problem is Trickle knows nothing about Nascars or cars and cant tell the team what the car is doing while he is racing and they have to firgure out how to get the car right and to get Trickle to stop breaking his car and racing hard with others then he gets in a wreck with his rival at the big race in Daytona and has allot of problems with it but him and his doctor start a relionship and it has its ups and downs along with the relionship with the other driver who he was in trouble with the other driver asks Cole to race his car at Daytona the next year and Cole says he will and wins the race. The Nascar action is very real looking and is done really well.
Director Tony Scott
Writers Robert Towne
Tom Cruise
Relase Date: June 27 1990
Genre: Action Drama Romance Sport

Academy Awards, USA
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
1991	Nominated	Oscar	Best Sound Charles M. Wilborn Donald O. Mitchell Rick Kline Kevin O'Connell
BMI Film & TV Awards
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
1991	Won	BMI Cast (Cast overview, first billed only) Tom Cruise ... Cole Trickle Robert Duvall ... Harry Hogge Nicole Kidman ... Dr. Claire Lewicki Randy Quaid ... Tim Daland Cary Elwes ... Russ Wheeler Michael Rooker ... Rowdy Burns Fred Dalton Thompson ... Big John John C. Reilly ... Buck Bretherton J.C. Quinn ... Waddell Don Simpson ... Aldo Bennedetti Caroline Williams ... Jennie Burns Donna W. Scott ... Darlene (as Donna Wilson) Chris Ellis ... Harlem Hoogerhyde Peter Appel ... Cole's Crew Stephen Michael Ayers ... Crewmember Film Music Award	Hans Zimmer

Rookie of the Year

A freak little league accident where kid slips on a ball and breaks his arm where the tendons make the arm tight and gives him a major league pitching arm. him and his friends go to Wrigley field and watch the bad cubs play where a home run is hit up to them in the bleachers he throws the ball back all the way to home plate and the cubs look for him and sign him to a contract where the manager keeps mispronucing his name and a silly goofy pitching coach and a washed up pitcher who shows him the ropes he gets comfortable and his mom never is comfortable with the whole situation and his stepfather gets jealous of the pitcher who is helping the kid and tries to conspire to get money from the kid and the owner cooks up a plan to trade him to New York where his mom fires him and breaks up with him. The end the Kid pitches the cubs into the playoffs and and the old pitcher Chet Steadman gets involved with his mom.
Director: Daniel Stern
Writer: Sam Harper
Release Date: July 7th 1993
Genre: Comedy Family Sport Fantasy

ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
1994	Won	ASCAP Award	Top Box Office Films Bill Conti
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
1994	Nominated	Saturn Award	Best Fantasy Film

Cast

(Cast overview, first billed only)

	Thomas Ian Nicholas	...	Henry Rowengartner
	Gary Busey	...	Chet 'Rocket' Steadman
	Albert Hall	...	Sal Martinella
	Amy Morton	...	Mary Rowengartner
	Dan Hedaya	...	Larry 'Fish' Fisher
	Bruce Altman	...	Jack Bradfield
	Eddie Bracken	...	Bob Carson
	Robert Hy Gorman	...	Clark (as Robert Gorman)
	Patrick LaBrecque	...	George
	Daniel Stern	...	Phil Brickma
	Colombe Jacobsen-Derstine	...	Becky
	Kristie Davis	...	Tiffany
	Tyler Ann Carroll	...	Edith
	Tom Milanovich	...	Heddo
	Ross Lehman	...	Dr. Kersten

The Firm

A young brash lawyer Mitch McDeere is a law student at a law school in Massachusetts and he gets recruited by a law firm in Memphis that has a very big secret and is being investigated by the FBI for over billing employers and the FBI recruits Mitch to get some evidence for them which is against client lawyer privilege but Mitch firgues

out the firm has his house bugged and knows everywhere he is and doing he gets his brother out of prison in exchange for files from the FBI. Mitch sleeps with a girl who is hired from the firm in the Cayman Islands to blackmail him against his wife who he tells about it. then allot happens and his wife goes to the Cayman's to help Mitch and they get some files down there and it happens where he keeps his license and the firm is brought down.The movie has long shots of conversations and has allot of close shots of emotion.
Director: Sydney Pollock
Writer: John Grisham ( Book)
David Rabe
Release Date June 30th 1993 USA
Genre: Thriller Drama

Academy Awards, USA
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
1994	Nominated	Oscar	Best Actress in a Supporting Role Holly Hunter
			Best Music, Original Score Dave Grusin
BAFTA Awards
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
1994	Nominated	BAFTA Film Award	Best Actress in a Supporting Role Holly Hunter
BMI Film & TV Awards
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
1994	Won	BMI Film Music Award	Dave Grusin
Grammy Awards
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
1994	Nominated	Grammy	Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television Dave Grusin
MTV Movie Awards
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
1994	Nominated	MTV Movie Award	Best Male Performance Tom Cruise
			Most Desirable Male Tom Cruise
People's Choice Awards, USA
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
1994	Won	People's Choice Award	Favorite Dramatic Motion Picture

Cast

(Cast overview, first billed only)

	Tom Cruise	...	Mitch McDeere
	Jeanne Tripplehorn	...	Abby McDeere
	Gene Hackman	...	Avery Tolar
	Hal Holbrook	...	Oliver Lambert
	Terry Kinney	...	Lamar Quinn
	Wilford Brimley	...	William Devasher
	Ed Harris	...	Wayne Tarrance
	Holly Hunter	...	Tammy Hemphill
	David Strathairn	...	Ray McDeere
	Gary Busey	...	Eddie Lomax
	Steven Hill	...	F. Denton Voyles
	Tobin Bell	...	The Nordic Man
	Barbara Garrick	...	Kay Quinn
	Jerry Hardin	...	Royce McKnight
	Paul Calderon	...	Thomas Richie

The Wizard of Oz

Dorothy and her dog Toto go through a tornado in her home state of Kansas and get swept to a magical land called Oz. They are met by the Munchkins of oz and show Dorothy how to get home is to go to see the wizard and ask him to get them home. She follows the yellow brick road to the wizard on the way she meets a scarecrow who needs to get a brain a lion who needs courage and a tin man who needs a heart they go through a bunch of different obsticles including the wicked witch of the west who wants the red slippers off of Dorothy's feet that belonged to her sister the wicked witch of the west. the crew get to the castle finally and go and talk to the wizard who is actually just a man behind a curtain. Dorothy finds out all she has to do is click her heels three times and say no place like home to get home. This movie has been remastered digitally and was an expensive movie for its time in 1939.
Director Victor Fleming
Writers Noel Langley
Florence Ryerson
Release Date Aug 25th 1939
Genre Adventure, Family, and Fantasy.

Academy Awards, USA
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
1940	Won	Oscar	Best Music, Original Score Herbert Stothart
			Best Music, Original Song Harold Arlen (music) E.Y. Harburg (lyrics) For the song "Over the Rainbow"
	Nominated	Oscar	Best Art Direction Cedric Gibbons William A. Horning
			Best Cinematography, Color Harold Rosson
			Best Effects, Special Effects A. Arnold Gillespie (photographic) Douglas Shearer (sound)
			Best Picture
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
2006	Won	Saturn Award	Best Classic Film DVD Release
Cannes Film Festival
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
1939	Nominated	Golden Palm	Victor Fleming
Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
2009	Won	Sierra Award	Best DVD (Packaging, Design and Content) For the 70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition.
National Film Preservation Board, USA
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
1989		National Film Registry
Satellite Awards
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
2005	Won	Satellite Award	Outstanding Classic DVD (Three Disc Collector's Edition).
	Nominated	Satellite Award	Outstanding DVD Extras (Three Disc Collector's Edition).
			Outstanding Overall DVD (Three Disc Collector's Edition).
			Outstanding Youth DVD (Three Disc Collector's Edition).
Young Artist Awards
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
1985		Jackie Coogan Award

Cast

(Complete credited cast)

	Judy Garland	...	Dorothy Gale
	Frank Morgan	...	Professor Marvel / The Gatekeeper / The Carriage Driver / The Doorman / The Wizard of Oz
	Ray Bolger	...	Hunk / The Scarecrow
	Bert Lahr	...	Zeke / The Cowardly Lion
	Jack Haley	...	Hickory / The Tin Man
	Billie Burke	...	Glinda
	Margaret Hamilton	...	Almira Gulch / The Wicked Witch of the West / The Wicked Witch of the East
	Charley Grapewin	...	Uncle Henry
	Pat Walshe	...	Nikko
	Clara Blandick	...	Auntie Em
	Terry	...	Toto (as Toto)
	The Singer Midgets	...	The Munchkins (also as The Munchkins