Some Well-Connected Movies
Close Encounters of the Third Kind

After an encounter with U.F.O.s, a line worker feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.
1977
Melinda Dillon
actor
Fiddler on the Roof

In prerevolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant contends with marrying off three of his daughters while growing anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village.
1971
Norman Jewison
director
Young Frankenstein

An American grandson of the infamous scientist, struggling to prove that he is not as insane as people believe, is invited to Transylvania, where he discovers the process that reanimates a dead body.
1974
Peter Boyle
actor
Waterloo

Facing the decline of everything he has worked to obtain, conqueror Napoleon Bonaparte and his army confront the British at the Battle of Waterloo.
1970
Rod Steiger
actor
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
Sylvester Stallone
actor
F.I.S.T.
A rebellious Cleveland warehouse worker rises through the ranks of a trucking industry union to become union president but his organized crime links cause his eventual downfall.
1978
Joe Eszterhas
writer
Melinda Dillon
actor
Norman Jewison
director
Peter Boyle
actor
Rod Steiger
actor
Sylvester Stallone
actor
Nowhere to Run

Escaped convict Sam Gillen single handedly takes on ruthless developers determined to evict Clydie - a widow with two young children. Nobody knows who Sam is.
1993
Joe Eszterhas
writer
A Christmas Story

In the 1940s, a young boy named Ralphie attempts to convince his parents, his teacher, and Santa that a Red Ryder B.B. gun really is the perfect Christmas gift.
1983
Melinda Dillon
actor
Bogus

Recently orphaned, a young boy is taken in by his godmother who is shocked to realize that she can see the boy's imaginary friend: a flamboyant, French magician named Bogus.
1996
Norman Jewison
director
The Shadow

In 1930s New York City, the Shadow battles his nemesis, Shiwan Khan, who is building an atomic bomb.
1994
Peter Boyle
actor
The Specialist

A woman entices a bomb expert she's involved with into destroying the mafia that killed her family.
1994
Rod Steiger
actor
Nighthawks

"Conservative street cop DaSilva reluctantly agrees to terminate an international terrorist who has demanded media attention. But DaSilva's """"at-home"""" tactics are very much put to the challenge."
1981
Sylvester Stallone
actor