That Thing You Do!(1996)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 63

A local Pennsylvania band scores a one hit wonder in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as they can, with lots of help from its manager.



Sleepers(1996)

Combined Rating:
66
Combined Critics Rating: 51

After a prank goes disastrously wrong, a group of boys are sent to a detention center where they are brutalized; over 10 years later, they get their chance for revenge.



Beautiful Girls(1996)

Combined Rating:
64
Combined Critics Rating: 56

A piano player at a crossroads in his life returns home to his friends and their own problems with life and love.



La promesse(1996)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 55

Roger uses his son Igor to ruthlessly traffic and exploit undocumented immigrants. When one of the immigrants is killed, Igor is guilt-ridden and wants to care for the dead man's family against his father's orders.



The Craft(1996)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 28

A newcomer to a Catholic prep high school falls in with a trio of outcast teenage girls who practice witchcraft and they all soon conjure up various spells and curses against those who even slightly anger them.



SubUrbia(1996)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 46

A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults.



Dunston Checks In(1996)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 40

A young boy befriends a larcenous orangutan in a luxury hotel.



Freeway(1996)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 31

A twisted take on 'Little Red Riding Hood' with a teenage juvenile delinquent on the run from a social worker traveling to her grandmother's house and being hounded by a charming, but sadistic, serial killer/pedophile.



Jack(1996)

Combined Rating:
40
Combined Critics Rating: 16

Because of an unusual aging disorder that has aged him four times faster than a normal human being, a boy enters the fifth grade for the first time with the appearance of a 40 year old man.



High School High(1996)

Combined Rating:
40
Combined Critics Rating: 28

Richard Clark has just left the well-known Wellington Academy to teach at Marion Barry High School. Now, he will try to inspire the D-average students into making good grades and try to woo a fellow teacher.



Nun va Goldoon(1996)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 35

A semi-autobiographical account of Makmahlbaf's experience as a teenager when, as a 17-year-old, he stabbed a policeman at a protest rally. Two decades later, he tracks down the policeman he injured in an attempt to make amends.



First Kid(1996)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 11

A former boxer turned Secret Service agent is assigned to protect the President's son, who seems determined to make life difficult for his new protector.



The Pallbearer(1996)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 14

A young man's life is thrown into a loop when he is asked to be a pallbearer for the funeral of a classmate he doesn't remember, and his old high school crush temporarily returns to town.



Bogus(1996)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 12

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.



Hotel de Love(1996)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 31

Twin brothers meet a childhood sweetheart at a tacky hotel and rediscover their love as they renew their competition for her affection.



Heaven's Prisoners(1996)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 13

A hardened New Orleans cop, Dave Robicheaux, finally tosses in the badge and settles into life on the bayou with his wife. But a bizarre plane crash draws him back into the fray when his family is viciously threatened.



Ponette(1996)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 15

A four-year-old girl tries to come to terms with the sudden death of her mother.



Lepa sela lepo gore(1996)

Combined Rating:
21
Combined Critics Rating: 0

At the Belgrade army hospital, casualties of Bosnian civil war are treated. In the hospital they remember their youth and the war. Two young boys, Halil, a Muslim, and Milan, a Serb, have ...



Jane Eyre(1996)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Jane Eyre is an orphan cast out as a young girl by her aunt, Mrs. Reed, and sent to be raised in a harsh charity school for girls. There she learns to become a teacher and eventually seeks ...



Manny & Lo(1996)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 14

A pregnant teen and her younger sister run away from foster homes and kidnap a woman whom they believe can help with the pregnancy.




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