Some Well-Connected Movies
Rocky

Rocky Balboa, a small-time boxer, gets a supremely rare chance to fight heavy-weight champion Apollo Creed in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.
1976
John G. Avildsen
director
The Outsiders

The rivalry between two gangs, the poor Greasers and the rich Socs, only heats up when one gang member kills a member of the other.
1983
Ralph Macchio
actor
The Karate Kid
A martial arts master agrees to teach karate to a bullied teenager.
1984
Elisabeth Shue
actor
John G. Avildsen
director
Pat Morita
actor
Ralph Macchio
actor
Robert Mark Kamen
writer
Leaving Las Vegas

Ben Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.
1995
Elisabeth Shue
actor
Royal Kill

When a female assassin is sent to the US to kill the last living heir to the modern day Himalayan Kingdom, royal solider is also sent to protect her. When he is face to face with the ...
2009
Pat Morita
actor
My Cousin Vinny

Two New Yorkers are accused of murder in rural Alabama while on their way back to college, and one of their cousins--an inexperienced, loudmouth lawyer not accustomed to Southern rules and manners--comes in to defend them.
1992
Ralph Macchio
actor
The Transporter

"Frank is hired to """"transport"""" packages for unknown clients and has made a very good living doing so. But when asked to move a package that begins moving, complications arise."
2002
Robert Mark Kamen
writer