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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 124 min.
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Plot: A man in his 60s realizes he has wasted his life while trying to run his daughter's.
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Cast: Jack Nicholson, Hope Davis, Dermot Mulroney, Kathy Bates. Directed by Alexander Payne.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Elder ∙ Family |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 110 min.
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Plot: An Ontario couple, married for over 40 years, are forced to face the fact that the wife's forgetfulness is actually Alzheimer's disease.
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Cast: Julie Christie, Gordon Pinsent, Olympia Dukakis, Kristen Thomson, Michael Murphy, Wendy Crewson. Directed by Sarah Polley.
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Categories: Elder ∙ Medical ∙ Mental Health |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 124 min.
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Plot: Seven cash-strapped seniors decide to 'outsource' their retirement to a resort in far-off India.
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Cast: Dev Patel, Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, Maggie Smith, Penelope Wilton, Ronald Pickup. Directed by John Madden.
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Categories: International ∙ Elder ∙ Marital Relations |
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Rated: PG Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 91 min.
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Plot: A depressed, death-obsessed 20-year-old man-child, spends his free time attending funerals and staging fake suicides in front of his mother.
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Cast: Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort, Vivian Pickles, Cyril Cusack, Charles Tyner. Directed by Hal Ashby.
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Categories: Elder ∙ Family ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: R Stars:
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Format: DVD 101 min.
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Plot: A family is so burdened with their own quirks, neuroses, and problems that they can barely make it through a day without some disaster.
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Cast: Abigail Breslin, Greg Kinnear, Paul Dano, Alan Arkin, Toni Collette, Steve Carell, Marc Turtletaub. Directed by Jonathan David, Valerie Faris.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Elder ∙ Family |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 118 min.
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Plot: It a future Utopia, everyone must submit to a supposed rebirth at age 30.
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Cast: Michael York, Jenny Agutter, Richard Jordan, Roscoe Lee Browne, Farrah Fawcett-Majors, Peter Ustinov. Directed by Michael Anderson.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Elder ∙ Natural Resources |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 114 min.
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Plot: A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.
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Cast: Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Philip Bosco. Directed by Tamara Jenkins.
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Categories: Elder ∙ Comedy ∙ Medical |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 91 min.
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Plot: When a lottery winner dies of shock, his fellow townsfolk attempt to claim the money.
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Cast: Ian Bannen, David Kelly, Fionnula Flanagan, Susan Lynch, James Nesbitt, Paul Vaughan. Directed by Kirk Jones.
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Categories: Elder ∙ Ethics ∙ Foreign |
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The Wolf Law Library welcomes your suggestions for additions to the Feature Film Collection! If there is a law-related movie you feel we might be missing, please submit your suggestion to the Circulation & Reserve Desk at lawcir@wm.edu.
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