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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 107 min.
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Plot: The error of a New York hedge-fund magnate throws his life into a tailspin and threatens the future of his financial empire.
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Cast: Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, Brit Marling, Tim Roth. Directed by Nicholas Jarecki.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Banking ∙ Fraud |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 141 min.
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Plot: Based on the true story of a successful con-artist and the FBI agent on his trail.
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Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, Nathalie Baye. Directed by Steven Spielberg.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Fraud ∙ Family |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 92 min.
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Plot: A colonial reenactor by day and con-man by night pays for his mother's hospital bills by playing on the sympathies of those who rescue him from choking to death.
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Cast: Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Houston, Kelly MacDonald, Brad William Henke, Jonah Bobo. Directed by Clark Gregg.
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Categories: Fraud ∙ Medical ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 99 min.
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Plot: The true story of the largest counterfeiting operation in history, set up by the Nazis in 1936 to fund their war effort. In German with English subtitles.
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Cast: Karl Markovics, August Diehl, Devid Striesow, Marie Baumer. Directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky.
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Categories: International ∙ War ∙ Fraud |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 107 min. B&W
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Plot: A smooth-talking insurance salesman is lured into a scheme to murder his lover's husband.
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Cast: Fred MacMurray, Walter Neff, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall, Jean Heather, Tom Powers, Byron Barr, Richard Gaines, Fortunio Bonanova, John Philliber. Directed by Billy Wilder.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Romance ∙ Fraud |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 120 min.
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Plot: A baseball drama about the 1919 "Black Sox" scandal, when members of the Chicago White Sox conspired to tamper with the World Series.
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Cast: Charlie Sheen, John Cusack, Christopher Lloyd, D.B. Sweeney, David Strathairn, Michael Lerner, Clifton James, Studs Terkel. Directed by John Sayles.
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Categories: Sports ∙ Drama ∙ Fraud |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 126 min. B&W
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Plot: A hobo becomes an overnight celebrity.
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Cast: Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa, Walter Matthau, Lee Remick. Directed by Elia Kazan.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Fraud ∙ Entertainment |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 125 min. B&W
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Plot: When a man is injured at a football game, his brother-in-law sees his misfortune as an opportunity to make some lawsuit money.
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Cast: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ron Rich, Cliff Osmond. Directed by Billy Wilder.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Fraud |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 109 min.
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Plot: An aging gambler on a losing streak attempts to rob a casino in the South of France. Someone, however, has tipped off the cops before he even makes a move.
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Cast: Nutsa Kukhianidze, Ouassini Embarek, Marc Lavoine, Nick Nolte. Directed by Neil Jordan.
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Categories: Art ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Fraud |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 82 min.
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Plot: Ground breaking investigation of election fraud during the 2004 U.S. presidential election.
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Cast: Narration by James Naughton. Directed by Simon Ardizzone and Russell Michaels.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Politics ∙ Fraud |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 99 min.
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Plot: A businessman flees to the Cayman Islands to avoid persecution and a chain reaction of violence ensues on the island.
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Cast: Raz Adoti, Orlando Bloom, Bill Paxton, Zoe Saldana, Anthony Mackie. Directed by Frank E. Flowers.
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Categories: Fraud ∙ International ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 89 min.
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Plot: A lawyer attempts a Christmas Eve crime, hoping to swindle the local mob out of some money. But his partner, a strip club owner, might have different plans for the cash.
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Cast: John Cusack, Billy Bob Thorton, Connie Nielsen, Randy Quaid. Directed by Harold Ramis.
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Categories: Organized Crime ∙ Fraud ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 108 min.
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Plot: An art forger who paints a fake Rembrandt, falls for the art expert his clients are using to check the counterfeit picture he painted.
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Cast: Jason Patric, Irene Jacob, Ian Richardson, Rod Steiger. Directed by John Badham.
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Categories: Fraud ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 105 min.
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Plot: Takes a closer look at what brought about the financial meltdown.
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Cast: Narrated by Matt Damon; featuring Paul Volcker, George Soros, Eliot Spitzer, Barney Frank, Dominique Strauss-Kahn. . Directed by Charles Ferguson.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Banking ∙ Fraud |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 103 min.
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Plot: A petty thief posing as an actor is brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation.
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Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Val Kilmer, Michelle Monaghan, Corbin Bernsen. Directed by Shane Black.
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Categories: Entertainment ∙ Fraud ∙ Action |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 96 min. B&W
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Plot: When a nice old man who claims to be Santa Claus is institutionalized as insane, a young lawyer decides to defend him.
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Cast: Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Edmund Gwenn, Gene Lockhart, Natalie Wood. Directed by George Seaton.
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Categories: Advocacy ∙ Fraud ∙ Testimony |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 114 min.
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Plot: A software engineer who works from home has her identity stolen while she is on vacation and must fight to regain it before she is erased.
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Cast: Sandra Bullock, Jeremy Northam, Dennis Miller. Directed by Irwin Winkler.
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Categories: Action ∙ Fraud ∙ Computer |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 89 min.
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Plot: Thanks to a hypnotic suggestion Peter Gibbons decides not to go to work and is quickly promoted to upper management while his two friends are laid off.
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Cast: Ron Livingston, Stephen Root, Gary Cole, Jennifer Aniston, David Herman, Ajay Naidu. Directed by Mike Judge.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Corporations ∙ Fraud |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 118 min.
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Plot: Tale of a talented mimic, moocher, forger and all-around criminal improviser; but there's more to him than even he can guess. In French with English subtitles.
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Cast: Alain Delon, Marie Laforet, Maurice Ronet, Erno Crisa, Frank Latimore. Directed by Rene Clement .
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Categories: Drama ∙ Foreign ∙ Fraud |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 100 min.
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Plot: An eternal optimist falls for the beautiful valedictorian the summer before she goes off to college; however he must overcome her father's disapproval to win her heart.
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Cast: John Cusack, Ione Skye, John Mahoney. Directed by Cameron Crowe.
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Categories: Romance ∙ Tax ∙ Fraud |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 94 min.
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Plot: The true story of a young journalist who fell from grace when it was found he had fabricated over half of his articles.
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Cast: Hayden Christensen, Peter Sarsgaard, Chloe Sevigny. Directed by Billy Ray.
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Categories: Fraud ∙ Ethics ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 142 min.
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Plot: Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency.
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Cast: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler, Clancy Brown, Gil Bellows, Mark Rolston, James Whitmore. Directed by Frank Darabont.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Fraud ∙ Sentencing |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 113 min.
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Plot: A man changed by the Civil War returns home, but his widow suspects he may not be the same man who left.
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Cast: Richard Gere, Jodie Foster, Bill Pullman, James Earl Jones. Directed by Jon Amiel.
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Categories: War ∙ Fraud ∙ Romance |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 100 min.
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Plot: When a womanizing private investigator's wife and client are murdered, he becomes the prime suspect.
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Cast: Liam Neeson, Laura San Giacomo, Kenneth Craham, Maggie O'Neil. Directed by Simon Moore.
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Categories: Law Enforcement ∙ Fraud ∙ Drama |
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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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