The Nicolas Cage Project

  • City of Angels (1998)

    City of Angels (1998)

    What’s this all about? In City of Angels, director Brad Silverling gives us a vision of what the world looks like to a group of angels, who walk through Los Angeles unseen,…

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  • Con Air (1997)

    Con Air (1997)

    What’s this all about? An Airborne Ranger kills a man in a fist fight, and because the filmmakers don’t understand how trials work, he is sentenced to a really long time in…

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  • Kiss of Death (1995)

    Kiss of Death (1995)

    What’s this all about? Do you remember when David Caruso left his extremely popular and lucrative role as “Detective John Kelly” on NYPD Blue to go make movies? I do. And at…

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  • It Could Happen To You (1994)

    It Could Happen To You (1994)

    What’s this all about? It Could Happen To You is a light romantic comedy about a beat cop who promises to split the proceeds of a lottery ticket with a diner waitress…

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  • Guarding Tess (1994)

    Guarding Tess (1994)

    What’s this all about? Guarding Tess tells the story of a Secret Service agent assigned to protect the titular “Tess,” the widow of a former American president.He wants to move on to…

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  • Deadfall (1993)

    Deadfall (1993)

    What’s this all about? Deadfall is the story of a family of conmen, who pull off some of the most basic cons you’ve ever seen, and manage to (sometimes accidentally) kill each…

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  • Red Rock West (1993)

    Red Rock West (1993)

    What’s this all about? Michael (Nicolas Cage), an injured Marine Corps veteran travels from Texas to Wyoming in search of a job working on oil rigs.Finding himself destitute when his only prospect…

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  • Honeymoon in Vegas (1992)

    Honeymoon in Vegas (1992)

    What’s this all about? Honeymoon in Vegas is a romantic comedy about an ill-fated pair of lovers who decide, on a whim, to run off to Vegas to get married, and complications…

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  • Zandalee (1991)

    Zandalee (1991)

    What’s this all about? Zandalee is a work of soft-core pornography that tells the story of several trashy, but somehow also pretentious New Orleans residents who have problems that I don’t care…

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  • Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted (1990)

    Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted (1990)

    What’s this all about? Oh, man. Here we go. There’s a lady who looks like “Pinky” from the Beauty School Dropout number in Grease, who can fly, and sings a bunch of…

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  • Fire Birds (1990)

    Fire Birds (1990)

    What’s this all about? Fire Birds is the story of how the United States Army won the war on drugs through the direct application of attack helicopters. It features no subplots, no…

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  • Wild at Heart (1990)

    Wild at Heart (1990)

    Editor’s Note: We watched this film on Friday, January 10th, 2025. I wrote my review the next day. On January 15th, 2025, David Lynch, the director and screenwriter for Wild At Heart…

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