Movies by Release Date: 1996 − Letter T

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That Thing You Do!

Tom Hanks

19961 h 48 min
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A Pennsylvania band scores a hit in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as it can, with lots of help from its manager.

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Title That Thing You Do!
Director Tom Hanks
Director of Photography Tak Fujimoto
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Runtime 1 h 48 min
Release Date 4 October 1996
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Starring: Tom Everett Scott, Johnathon Schaech, Tom Hanks, Steve Zahn, Ethan Embry, Liv Tyler, Charlize Theron, Bill Cobbs, Giovanni Ribisi, Obba Babatundé, Alex Rocco, Chris Isaak, Holmes Osborne, Chris Ellis, Peter Scolari, Rita Wilson, Kevin Pollak, Robert Torti, Claudia Stedelin, Dawn Maxey, Jonathan Demme, Paul Feig, Bryan Cranston, Colin Hanks, Sarah Koskoff
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The Birdcage

Mike Nichols

19961 h 57 min
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A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancé's right-wing moralistic parents.

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Title The Birdcage
Director Mike Nichols
Director of Photography Emmanuel Lubezki
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Runtime 1 h 57 min
Release Date 8 March 1996
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Starring: Robin Williams, Gene Hackman, Nathan Lane, Dianne Wiest, Grant Heslov, Hank Azaria, Dan Futterman, Calista Flockhart, Christine Baranski, Tom McGowan
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The Cable Guy

Ben Stiller

19961 h 36 min
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When recently single Steven moves into his new apartment, cable guy Chip comes to hook him up -- and doesn't let go. Initially, Chip is just overzealous in his desire to be Steven's pal, but when Steven tries to end the "friendship," Chip shows his dark side. He begins stalking Steven, who's left to fend for himself because no one else can believe Chip's capable of such behavior.

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Title The Cable Guy
Director Ben Stiller
Director of Photography Robert Brinkmann
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Runtime 1 h 36 min
Release Date 10 June 1996
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Starring: Jim Carrey, Matthew Broderick, Leslie Mann, Jack Black, George Segal, Diane Baker, Ben Stiller, Eric Roberts, Janeane Garofalo, Andy Dick, Harry O'Reilly, David Cross, Amy Stiller, Owen Wilson, Keith Gibbs, Kathy Griffin, Misa Koprova
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The Craft

Andrew Fleming

19961 h 41 min
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A Catholic school newcomer falls in with a clique of teen witches who wield their powers against all who dare to cross them -- be they teachers, rivals or meddlesome parents.

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Title The Craft
Director Andrew Fleming
Director of Photography Alexander Gruszynski
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Runtime 1 h 41 min
Release Date 3 May 1996
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Starring: Robin Tunney, Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell, Rachel True, Skeet Ulrich, Christine Taylor, Breckin Meyer, Nathaniel Marston, Cliff DeYoung, Assumpta Serna, Helen Shaver, Jeanine Jackson, Brenda Strong, Endre Hules, Rod Britt
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The English Patient

Anthony Minghella

19962 h 42 min
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Beginning in the 1930s, "The English Patient" tells the story of Count Almásy who is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics that is later revealed in a series of flashbacks while Almásy is on his death bed after being horribly burned in a plane crash.

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Title The English Patient
Director of Photography John Seale
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Runtime 2 h 42 min
Release Date 14 November 1996
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Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Kristin Scott Thomas, Naveen Andrews, Colin Firth, Julian Wadham, Torri Higginson, Jürgen Prochnow, Kevin Whately, Clive Merrison, Nino Castelnuovo, Hichem Rostom, Peter Rühring, Geordie Johnson, Liisa Repo-Martell, Raymond Coulthard, Philip Whitchurch, Jason Done, Roger Morlidge, Simon Sherlock, Sebastian Schipper, Fritz Eggert, Sonia Mankaï, Rim Turkhi, Sebastian Rudolph, Thoraya Sehill, Sondos Belhassen, Gregor Truter, Salah Miled, Abdellatif Hamrouni, Samy Azaiez, Habib Chetoui, Philippa Day, Amanda Walker, Paul Kant, Matthew Ferguson, Anthony Smee, Lee Ross, Dominic Mafham
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The Frighteners

Peter Jackson

19961 h 50 min
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Once an architect, Frank Bannister now passes himself off as an exorcist of evil spirits. To bolster his facade, he claims his "special" gift is the result of a car accident that killed his wife. But what he does not count on is more people dying in the small town where he lives. As he tries to piece together the supernatural mystery of these killings, he falls in love with the wife of one of the victims and deals with a crazy FBI agent.

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Title The Frighteners
Director Peter Jackson
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Runtime 1 h 50 min
Release Date 18 July 1996
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Starring: Michael J. Fox, Jeffrey Combs, Jake Busey, Chi McBride, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson, John Astin, Jim Fyfe, Troy Evans, Julianna McCarthy, R. Lee Ermey, Elizabeth Hawthorne, Melanie Lynskey, Stuart Devenie, Leslie Wing, Dee Wallace
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The Ghost and the Darkness

Stephen Hopkins

19961 h 49 min
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Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson to right the ship, Beaumont expects results. Everything seems great until the crew discovers the mutilated corpse of the project's foreman, seemingly killed by a lion. After several more attacks, Patterson calls in famed hunter Charles Remington, who has finally met his match in the bloodthirsty lions.

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Title The Ghost and the Darkness
Director Stephen Hopkins
Director of Photography Vilmos Zsigmond
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Runtime 1 h 49 min
Release Date 11 October 1996
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Starring: Michael Douglas, Val Kilmer, Tom Wilkinson, John Kani, Emily Mortimer, Bernard Hill, Brian McCardie, Om Puri, Henry Cele, Kurt Egelhof, Satchu Annamalai, Teddy Reddy, Raheem Khan, Jack Devnarain, Glen Gabela
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise

19961 h 31 min
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When Quasi defies the evil Frollo and ventures out to the Festival of Fools, the cruel crowd jeers him. Rescued by fellow outcast the gypsy Esmeralda, Quasi soon finds himself battling to save the people and the city he loves.

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Title The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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Runtime 1 h 31 min
Release Date 21 June 1996
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Starring: Tom Hulce, Demi Moore, Tony Jay, Kevin Kline, Paul Kandel, Charles Kimbrough, Jason Alexander, Mary Wickes, David Ogden Stiers, Mary Kay Bergman, Corey Burton, Heidi Mollenhauer, Jim Cummings, Bill Fagerbakke, Patrick Pinney, Gary Trousdale, Frank Welker
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The Long Kiss Goodnight

Renny Harlin

19962 h 00 min
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Samantha Caine, suburban homemaker, is the ideal mom to her 8 year old daughter Caitlin. She lives in Honesdale, PA, has a job teaching school and makes the best Rice Krispie treats in town. But when she receives a bump on her head, she begins to remember small parts of her previous life as a lethal, top-secret agent

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Title The Long Kiss Goodnight
Director Renny Harlin
Director of Photography Guillermo Navarro
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Runtime 2 h 00 min
Release Date 11 October 1996
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Starring: Geena Davis, Samuel L. Jackson, Yvonne Zima, Craig Bierko, Tom Amandes, Brian Cox, Patrick Malahide, David Morse, Joseph McKenna, Melina Kanakaredes, Rex Linn, Alan North, Dan Warry-Smith, Kristen Bone, Jennifer Pisana
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The Nutty Professor

Tom Shadyac

19961 h 35 min
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Eddie Murphy stars as shy Dr. Sherman Klump, a kind, brilliant, 'calorifically challenged' genetic professor. When beautiful Carla Purty joins the university faculty, Sherman grows desperate to whittle his 400-pound frame down to size and win her heart. So, with one swig of his experimental fat-reducing serum, Sherman becomes 'Buddy Love', a fast-talking, pumped-up , plumped down Don Juan.

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Title The Nutty Professor
Director Tom Shadyac
Director of Photography Julio Macat
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Runtime 1 h 35 min
Release Date 26 June 1996
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Starring: Eddie Murphy, Jada Pinkett Smith, James Coburn, Larry Miller, Dave Chappelle, John Ales, Patricia Wilson, Jamal Mixon, Nichole McAuley, Hamilton von Watts, Chao Li Chi, Tony Carlin, Quinn Duffy, Montell Jordan, Doug Williams, David Ramsey, Chaz Lamar Shepherd, Lisa Halpern, Arthur Tovey, Lisa Boyle, Athena Massey
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The People vs. Larry Flynt

Miloš Forman

19962 h 09 min
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Larry Flynt is the hedonistically obnoxious, but indomitable, publisher of Hustler magazine. The film recounts his struggle to make an honest living publishing his girlie magazine and how it changes into a battle to protect the freedom of speech for all people.

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Title The People vs. Larry Flynt
Director Miloš Forman
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Runtime 2 h 09 min
Release Date 12 October 1996
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The Rock

Michael Bay

19962 h 16 min
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A group of renegade marine commandos seizes a stockpile of chemical weapons and takes over Alcatraz, with 81 tourists as hostages. Their leader demands $100 million to be paid, as restitution to families of Marines who died in covert ops – or he will launch 15 rockets carrying deadly VX gas into the San Francisco Bay area.

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Title The Rock
Director Michael Bay
Director of Photography John Schwartzman
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Runtime 2 h 16 min
Release Date 6 June 1996
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Starring: Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris, John Spencer, David Morse, William Forsythe, Michael Biehn, Vanessa Marcil, John C. McGinley, Bokeem Woodbine, Claire Forlani, Gregory Sporleder, Tony Todd, Greg Collins, Brendan Kelly, Steve Harris, Danny Nucci, Celeste Weaver, Todd Louiso, David Bowe, Raquel Krelle, Jim Maniaci, Billy Devlin, Xander Berkeley, Raymond Cruz
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Trainspotting

Danny Boyle

19961 h 33 min
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Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.

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Title Trainspotting
Director Danny Boyle
Director of Photography Brian Tufano
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Runtime 1 h 33 min
Release Date 23 February 1996
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Starring: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle, Kelly Macdonald, Kevin McKidd, Peter Mullan, James Cosmo, Eileen Nicholas, Susan Vidler, Pauline Lynch, Shirley Henderson, Stuart McQuarrie, Keith Allen, Kevin Allen, Irvine Welsh, Eddie Nestor, Annie Louise Ross, Billy Riddoch, Dale Winton, Hugh Ross, Victor Eadie, Kate Donnelly
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Twister

Jan de Bont

19961 h 53 min
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TV weatherman Bill Harding is trying to get his tornado-hunter wife, Jo, to sign divorce papers so he can marry his girlfriend Melissa. But Mother Nature, in the form of a series of intense storms sweeping across Oklahoma, has other plans. Soon the three have joined the team of stormchasers as they attempt to insert a revolutionary measuring device into the very heart of several extremely violent tornados.

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Title Twister
Director Jan de Bont
Director of Photography Jack Green
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Runtime 1 h 53 min
Release Date 9 May 1996
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Starring: Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Cary Elwes, Jami Gertz, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Lois Smith, Alan Ruck, Sean Whalen, Scott Thomson, Todd Field, Joey Slotnick, Wendle Josepher, Jeremy Davies, Zach Grenier, Gregory Sporleder, Alexa PenaVega
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