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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 94 min.
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Plot: True story of a thrill-seeker's adventure in a remote Utah canyon becomes the challenge of a lifetime.
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Cast: James Franco, Amber Tamblyn, Kate Mara, Treat Williams, Kate Burton. Directed by Danny Boyle.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Health ∙ Biography |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 113 min.
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Plot: Two college roommates have 24 hours to make the ultimate choice as they finalize arrangements for a black market abortion.
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Cast: Anamaria Marinca, Laura Vasiliu, Vlad Ivanov. Directed by Christian Mungiu.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Family ∙ Health |
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Rated: G Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 91 min. B&W
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Plot: A hard-line judge is tempted toward mercy-killing by his wife's terminal cancer.
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Cast: Fredric March, Edmond O'Brien, Florence Eldridge, Geraldine Brooks. Directed by Michael Gordon.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Criminal Law ∙ Health |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 140 min.
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Plot: A scientist at the Center for Disease Control battles bureaucracy and ignorance about AIDS during the outset of the disease, and ultimately fails to convince people in power to take timely action.
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Cast: Matthew Modine, Alan Alda, Phil Collins, Richard Gere, Anjelica Houston, Steve Martin, Ian McKellan, Lilly Tomlin, B.D. Wong. Directed by Roger Spottiswoode.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Health ∙ History |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 129 min.
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Plot: An older, happily married couple are surrounded over the course of one average year by friends, colleagues, and family who all seem to suffer some degree of unhappiness.
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Cast: Jim Broadbent, Lesley Manville, Ruth Sheen, Peter Wight, Oliver Maltman, David Bradley. Directed by Mike Leigh.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Marital Relations ∙ Health |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 121 min.
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Plot: Years after an encephalitis epidemic a new drug offers hope to catatonic victims.
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Cast: Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, John Heard, Julie Kavner. Directed by Penny Marshall.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Drama ∙ Health |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 125 min.
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Plot: A son tries to learn more about his dying father by reliving stories and myths he told about his life.
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Cast: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange, Helena Bonham Carter, Danny DeVito. Directed by Tim Burton.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Family ∙ Health |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 151 min.
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Plot: A troubled family is forced to come together when the matriarch becomes ill. In French, with English subtitles.
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Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Paul Roussillon, Anne Consigny, Mathieu Amalric, Melvil Poupaud. Directed by Arnaud Desplechin.
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Categories: Foreign ∙ Family ∙ Health |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 92 min.
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Plot: Activists infiltrate a cove near Taijii, Japan to expose both a shocking instance of animal abuse and a serious threat to human health.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Louie Psihoyos.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Animal ∙ Health |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 101 min.
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Plot: The inhabitants of a small Iowa town are suddenly plagued by insanity and then death after a mysterious toxin contaminates their water supply.
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Cast: Radha Mitchell, Timothy Olyphant, Danielle Panabaker. Directed by Breck Eisner.
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Categories: Horror ∙ Environmental ∙ Health |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 117 min.
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Plot: A free-wheeling Texas cowboy works around the system to help AIDS patients get the medication they need after he is himself diagnosed with the disease.
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Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Steve Zahn, Denis O'Hare. Directed by Jean-Marc Vallee.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Biography ∙ Health |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 117 min. B&W
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Plot: An alcoholic public relations man and his wife try to break the cycle of addiction.
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Cast: Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Charles Bickford, Jack Klugman. Directed by Blake Edwards.
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Categories: Domestic Relations ∙ Health ∙ Women |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 155 min.
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Plot: A dying old man, is shuttled from hospital to hospital by a loyal paramedic as doctors refuse to operate and no one can agree on a diagnosis. In Romanian with English subtitles.
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Cast: Doru Ana, Monica Barladeanu, Alina Berzunteanu. Directed by Cristi Puiu.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Health ∙ Foreign |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 115 min.
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Plot: While on a journey of physical and spiritual healing, a brilliant neurosurgeon is drawn into the world of the mystic arts.
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Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rachel McAdams. Directed by Scott Derrickson.
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Categories: Action ∙ SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Health |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 104 min.
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Plot: A woman stuck in a stale marriage struggles manage her secret drug habit.
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Cast: Vera Farmiga, Hugh Dillon, Clint Jordan. Directed by Debra Granik.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Family ∙ Health |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 94 min.
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Plot: An examination of our dietary choices and the food we put in our bodies. Based on Jonathan Safran Foer's memoir.
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Cast: Narrated by Natalie Portman. Directed by Christopher Quinn.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Consumer ∙ Health |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 114 min.
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Plot: An ensemble piece examining the health risks involved in the fast food industry and as well as its environmental and social consequences.
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Cast: Patricia Arquette, Bobby Cannacale, Paul Dano, Luis Guzman, Ethan Hawke, Greg Kinnear, Wilmer Valderrama, Catalina Sandino Moreno. Directed by Richard Linklater.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Corporations ∙ Health |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 137 min.
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Plot: A former radio DJ seeks redemption by helping a homeless man that had been the unwitting victim of one of his on-air mistakes.
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Cast: Robin Williams, Jeff Bridges, Amanda Plummer, Mercedes Ruehl. Directed by Terry Gilliam.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Entertainment ∙ Health |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 94 min.
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Plot: An unflattering look inside America's corporate controlled food industry.
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Cast: Interviewees include Eric Schlosser, Michael Pollan, Gary Hirshberg, Joel Salatin. Directed by Robert Kenner.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Corporations ∙ Health |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 110 min.
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Plot: When a man is diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) he begins a video diary for his unborn son, as well as working to raise money for other patients.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Clay Tweed.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Health ∙ Family |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 110 min.
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Plot: Story of two coalitions whose activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by David France.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Politics ∙ Health |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 100 min.
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Plot: Years after a plague kills most of humanity and transforms the rest into monsters, the sole survivor in New York City struggles to find a cure.
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Cast: Will Smith, Alice Braga, Dash Mihok. Directed by Francis Lawrence.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Medical ∙ Health |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 98 min.
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Plot: A coming-of-age film about a rebel with a cause.
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Cast: Kieran Culkin, Claire Danes, Jeff Goldblum, Jared Harris, Amanda Peet. Directed by Bur Steers.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Family ∙ Health |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 81 min. B&W
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Plot: A man encounters a mysterious radioactive mist and soon finds his life taking on a bizarre and frightening twist.
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Cast: Grant Williams, Randy Stuart, April Kent, Paul Langton, Raymond Bailey. Directed by Jack Arnold.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Health ∙ Horror |
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Rated: R Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 112 min.
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Plot: Based on a true story of friendship between a handicapped millionaire and his street-smart ex-con caretaker. In French with English subtitles.
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Cast: Francois Cluzet, Omar Sy, Anne Le Ny, Audrey Fleurot, Clotilde Mollet. Directed by Olivier Nakache & Eric Toledano.
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Categories: Foreign ∙ Biography ∙ Health |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc) 115 min.
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Plot: In San Francisco, a group of people discover the human race is being replaced one by one, with clones devoid of emotion.
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Cast: Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy, Jeff Goldblum, Veronica Cartwright. Directed by Philip Kaufman.
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Categories: Horror ∙ Health ∙ Safety |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 150 min. B&W
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Plot: During 1912 war people are quarantined for the plague/The inmates have the last say at Bethlehem Asylum.
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Cast: Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Marc Cramer, Anna Lee, Billy House. Directed by Mark Robson.
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Categories: Horror ∙ Health ∙ War |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 120 min.
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Plot: Investigates the health crisis that threatens NFL players and the long-term fortunes of football.
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Cast: Will Lyman as narrator. Directed by Michael Kirk.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Sports ∙ Health |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 112 min.
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Plot: An alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death.
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Cast: Nicolas Case, Elisabeth Shue, Julian Sands. Directed by Mike Figgis.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Health ∙ Family |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 98 min.
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Plot: A college freshman returns home for the holidays and discovers that his former best friend has an out-of-control drug habit.
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Cast: Andrew McCarthy, Jami Gertz, Robert Downey, Jr., James Spader. Directed by Marek Kanievska.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Health ∙ Romance |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 124 min.
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Plot: Explores an ironic setting for a town where many hundreds of people are sick or have already died from asbestos exposure.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Drury Gum Carr and Dough Hawes-Davis.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Health ∙ Environmental |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 90 min.
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Plot: A family's courageous fight to save their only son from the rare and fatal disease progeria.
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Cast: Documentary subjects portray themselves.. Directed by Sean Fine & Andrea Nix.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Documentary ∙ Health |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 101 min. B&W
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Plot: An unsuccessful writer, who has been sober for 10 days, falls off the wagon into a three day drinking binge due to his dissatisfaction with his life.
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Cast: Phillip Terry, Howard da Silva, Doris Dowling, Frank Faylen. Directed by Billy Wilder.
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Categories: Health ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 119 min. B&W
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Plot: A strung-out junkie deals with daily demoralizing drug addiction while crippled wife and card sharks continue to pull him down.
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Cast: Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Parker, Kim Novak, Darren McGavin, Robert Strauss. Directed by Otto Preminger.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Marital Relations ∙ Health |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 112 min.
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Plot: A small time member of the local mob must decide whether his desire for power or love for a woman and his friends is more important.
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Cast: Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, David Proval, Amy Robinson, Richard Romanus, Cesare Danova. Directed by Martin Scorsese.
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Categories: Organized Crime ∙ Drama ∙ Health |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 113 min.
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Plot: A na�ve male prostitute and his streetwise friend struggle to survive in New York City.
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Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Brenda Vaccaro, John McGiver. Directed by John Schlesinger.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Health ∙ Poverty |
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Rated: **** Stars: ****
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Format: Blu-ray-DVD 108 min.
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Plot: A boy seeks the help of a tree monster to cope with his single mother's terminal illness.
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Cast: Lewis MacDougall, Sigourney Weaver, Felicty Jones. Directed by J. A. Bayona.
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Categories: Drama ∙ SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Health |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 83 min.
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Plot: The inspiring story of a single mother caring for eleven adopted special-needs children.
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Cast: Susan Tom. Directed by Jonathan Karsh.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Family ∙ Health |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 115 min. B&W
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Plot: An aging, booze-addled father makes the trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim a million-dollar Mega Sweepstakes Marketing prize.
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Cast: Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb, Stacy Keach, Bob Odenkirk . Directed by Alexander Payne.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Family ∙ Health |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 105 min.
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Plot: After returning to her childhood home and opening an orphanage, a woman and her family release an evil spirit. In Spanish with English subtitles.
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Cast: Belén Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Roger Príncep, Mabel Rivera, Montserrat Carulla. Directed by J.A. Bayona.
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Categories: Horror ∙ Children ∙ Health |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 125 min.
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Plot: A young couple who got married for the wrong reasons, head to a small village in China to combat a cholera outbreak and possibly save their marriage.
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Cast: Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber, Toby Jones, Diana Rigg. Directed by John Curran.
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Categories: Health ∙ Marital Relations ∙ Poverty |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 96 min.
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Plot: A deadly virus infects a small Ontario town.
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Cast: Stephen McHattie, Lisa Houle, Georgina Reilly. Directed by Bruce McDonald.
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Categories: Health ∙ SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Censorship |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 100 min.
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Plot: A drug addicted lawyer takes on a health supply corporation.
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Cast: Brett Cullen, Chris Evans, Jesse L. Martin, Kate Burton, Michael Biehn, Vinessa Shaw. Directed by Adam & Mark Kessen.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Drama ∙ Health |
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Rated: G Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 111 min.
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Plot: A young rat who dreams of becoming a great chef finds himself in Paris a restaurant's garbage boy gives him the chance to live his dream.
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Cast: Patton Oswalt, Ian Holm, Lou Romano, Janeane Garofalo, Peter O'Toole. Directed by Brad Bird.
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Categories: Animation ∙ Wills ∙ Health |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 86 min. B&W
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Plot: A boxer at the end of his career ends up back in the ring as a wrestler to save his gambling manager.
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Cast: Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney, Julie Harris. Directed by Ralph Nelson.
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Categories: Sports ∙ Entertainment ∙ Health |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 137 min.
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Plot: Two U.S. Marshals investigate a patient missing from a hospital for the criminally insane.
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Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams, Emily Mortimer, Patricia Clarkson, Max von Sydow. Directed by Martin Scorsese.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Health ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 123 min.
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Plot: A documentary comparing the highly profitable American health care industry to other nations, and HMO horror stories.
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Cast: Michael Moore. Directed by Michael Moore.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Health |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 98 min.
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Plot: The world's most famous comedy duo set out on a variety hall tour of Britain in 1953.
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Cast: Steve Coogan, John C. Reilly, Shirley Henderson, Nina Arianda, Rufus Jones. Directed by Jon S. Baird.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Entertainment ∙ Health |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 101 min.
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Plot: A linguistics professor and her family find their bonds tested when she is diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease.
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Cast: Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart, Kate Bosworth. Directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Health ∙ Family |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 100 min.
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Plot: Morgan Spurlock unravels the American obesity epidemic by interviewing experts nationwide and subjecting himself to a "McDonald's only" diet.
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Cast: Morgan Spurlock, Bridget Bennett, Dr. Lisa Ganjhu, Don Gorske. Directed by Morgan Spurlock.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Corporations ∙ Health |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 125 min.
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Plot: Superman turns into his own worst enemy.
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Cast: Christopher Reeves, Richard Pryor, Jackie Cooper, Marc McClure, Margot Kidder. Directed by Richard Lester.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Computer ∙ Health |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 124 min.
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Plot: A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
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Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams, Catherine Keener, Emily Watson, Dianne Wiest. Directed by Charlie Kaufman.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Entertainment ∙ Health |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 56 min.
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Plot: The story of the 71-day occupation at Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
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Cast: Narration by Bill Means and Floyd Red Crow Westerman. Directed by Charles Abourezk.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Health ∙ Government |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 103 min.
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Plot: Story of an autistic young woman who became one of America's most remarkable success stories.
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Cast: Claire Danes, Catherine O'Hara, David Strathairn, Julia Ormond. Directed by Mick Jackson.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Drama ∙ Health |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 101 min.
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Plot: A young woman returns home to deal with her ailing mother and her father's reluctance to let go of their life together.
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Cast: Hilary Swank, Michael Shannon, Robert Forster. Directed by Elizabeth Chomko.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Family ∙ Health |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 103 min.
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Plot: A crush on a commuter leads to an extraordinary sequence of events.
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Cast: Sandra Bullock, Bill Pullman, Peter Gallagher, Peter Boyle. Directed by Jon Turteltaub.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Health ∙ Family |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 102 min.
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Plot: Centers around a classical pianist diagnosed with ALS and the brash college student who becomes her caregiver.
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Cast: Hilary Swank, Emmy Rossum, Josh Duhamel. Directed by George C. Wolfe.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Health ∙ Women |
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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.
You can view a list of all law library movies in the
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