A Family Thing (1996) Robert Duvall plays a white Southern Red Neck who discovers he's black and tracks down his long lost half brother James Earl Jones who doesn't want to see him.
"Silent Night" is about enemy (American) soldiers commandeering a widow's (Linda Hamilton from "Terminator") home where she and her young son have taken refuge from their war-torn town. German soldiers happen upon the property and also want to take refuge from the storm for a night. It's a story about two opposing sides of the war coming together for one peaceful night during Christmas. This is based on a real-life event and was featured on "Unsolved Mysteries" because the son wanted to reconnect with the soldiers he shared a holiday meal and good cheer, if only for one night.
I have a quirky sense of humor. I really liked... "Adam's Apples" (Dutch) "Keeping Mum" (British) "What About Bob?" (Bill Murray) "Mixed Nuts" (Steve Martin) "Clifford" (Martin Short) All make me laugh time and time again.
Dunno if its 'underrated' or just old, but 'Kelly's Heroes' is a great Fing movie from the 60s or 70s about a 'rogue' US Army platoon that breaks through German lines to steal Nazi gold. Its a good mix of comedy, adventure and war.
A lot of under-rated films are turning up on Amazon Prime or tubitv.com and if you can suffer commercials, Pluto.tv offers military, cars, how-to and other (lowers voice to whisper) masculine subjects. It also has the usual other junk but it's easy to avoid it so win-win for "free" TV (assuming you're on line at all).
The Dirty Dozen remains the gold standard of that genre, though casting in Kelley's Heroes was darn good for a genre-chaser. The modern equiv.---? Three Kings. Hideous film.
"The Circle ", with Emma Watson and a little bit of Tom Hanks. Critics hated it, but it has some wonderful sub-plots that are very relevant to today's culture/politics. I highly recommend.
The thing with movies is that my taste may be nothing like yours. Anyway, you'll never find it, but I'd love to see Viva Max again. Great story (a renegade group of Mexican soldiers sneak into the Alamo in the 1960s and recapture it) with a terrific cast. My Gal Friday is famous, but if you've never seen it, see it. Bringing Up Baby is fun, I want to see that for the 3rd or 4th time sometime. This is a New Zealand tv show, hard to find, but we bought it and we are currently watching it for the 8th or 9th time. Oh yeah, it's called The Almighty Johnsons. If you haven't seen HBO's Tuskegee Airmen, it is just superb. Prob my fave Danny Kaye is the Inspector General. If you haven't seen Dr Strangelove, its one of the best movies ever made, in my distinctly unhumble opinion. Soapdish is an absolutely perfect comedy. But.. if you're young you might not get a lot of what it's doing. Anyway, both the wife and I have seen it a number of times. It's one of those movies that has several lines that have become part of the family vocabulary, like "One more date, and we would have had a Greek tragedy." Loverboy is a lightweight comedy, but somehow even thinking about it makes me smile. It's also going to look dated. Which reminds me of Real Men. My favorite line from the movie "This IS your turn" I seem stuck in comedies, Moon over Parador. A 70s movie you might like is The Warriors. Not a comedy.. Might be fun to narrow this down and do a thread about a particular genre.
One of my favorite movies. One of the few modern movies about religion that doesn't treat all religious people like complete morons - and I'm not religious.
