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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 116 min.
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Plot: A Miami reporter writes a story implicating an innocent man in the mysterious disappearance - and possible murder - of a union leader.
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Cast: Paul Newman, Sally Field, Bob Balaban, Melinda Dillon, Wilford Brimley. Directed by Sydney Pollack.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Romance ∙ Justice |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 98 min.
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Plot: Sister Agnes remembers neither the birth or the murder of her baby and court-appointed psychiatrist uses hypnotism to help discover the identity of the baby's father and murderer.
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Cast: Meg Tilly, Ann Bancroft, Jane Fonda. Directed by Norman Jewison.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Justice ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 104 min. B&W
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Plot: History of gang lord Al Capone follows his rise and fall in Chicago gangdom during the Prohibition era.
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Cast: Rod Steiger, Fay Spain, James Gregory, Martin Balsam. Directed by Richard Wilson.
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Categories: Banking ∙ Organized Crime ∙ Justice |
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Rated: G Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 97 min.
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Plot: When her father is murdered a woman hires a has-been gunfighter to help her gain revenge.
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Cast: Jane Fonda, Lee Marvin, Michael Callan,Nat King Cole. Directed by Elliot Silverstein.
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Categories: Western ∙ Comedy ∙ Justice |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 119 min.
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Plot: Chronicles America's complicated perceptions of race and crime through a group of minority teenagers wrongfully convicted and jailed for brutally raping a white woman.
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Cast: Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana, Kharey Wise, Yusef Salaam, Angela Black, Calvin O. Butts III. Directed by Ken Burns.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Justice ∙ Racism |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 95 min.
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Plot: The story of the battle to free Debbie Peagler, an incarcerated survivor of brutal domestic violence.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Yoav Potash.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Biography ∙ Justice |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 83 min. B&W
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Plot: A young man that is wrongfully convicted has a chance at being pardoned, but must break the criminal code and identify an inmate who has murdered another.
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Cast: Boris Karloff, Walter Huston, Philips Holmes. Directed by Howard Hawkes.
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Categories: Criminal Law ∙ Justice ∙ Jurisprudence |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 117 min.
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Plot: A lawyer successfully defends a man on trial for murder, only to determine that his client is guilty.
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Cast: Gary Oldman, Kevin Bacon, Tess Harper, Karen young, Joe Don Baker. Directed by Martin Campbell.
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Categories: Ethics ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Justice |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: * 1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 103 min.
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Plot: A lawyer blinded by toxic waste acquires enhanced senses which help him fight crime as an acrobatic martial arts superhero.
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Cast: Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner, Colin Farrell, Michael Clarke Duncan, Jon Favreau, Joe Pantoliano. Directed by Mark Steven Johnson.
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Categories: Action ∙ Justice |
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Rated: G Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 106 min. B&W
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Plot: A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.
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Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett, Agnes Moorehead. Directed by Delmer Daves.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Justice ∙ Domestic Relations |
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Rated: R Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 165 min.
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Plot: A former slave turned hired gun heads back to the plantation to free his wife.
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Cast: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo Dicaprio, Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson. Directed by Quentin Tarantino.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Marital Relations ∙ Justice |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 101 min.
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Plot: When the courts fail to keep behind bars the man who raped and murdered her daughter, a woman seeks her own form of justice.
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Cast: Sally Field, Keifer Sutherland, Ed Harris. Directed by John Schlesinger.
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Categories: Action ∙ Drama ∙ Justice |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 82 min.
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Plot: Chronicles two female inmates - victims of horrific violence and tragedy - who are serving time in a Maryland juvenile detention center.
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Cast: Mia Guzman, Rachel Lloyd. Directed by Liz Garhus.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Juvenile ∙ Justice |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 108 min.
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Plot: A penetrating look inside America's criminal justice system, revealing the profound human rights implications of U.S. drug policy.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Eugene Jarecki.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Justice ∙ Human Rights |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 92 min. B&W
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Plot: A wrongly convicted man serves in intolerable conditions of a southern chain gang, which later comes back to haunt him.
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Cast: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson, Preston Foster. Directed by Mervyn LeRoy.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Justice |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 57 min.
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Plot: Focuses on the Hutu and Tutsi as they struggle through Rwanda's unique reconciliation process: Gacaca, a network of grassroots community courts.
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Cast: Narration by Margaret Travolta. Directed by Jahn Coll Metcalfe.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Justice ∙ Negotiation |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 115 min.
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Plot: A family of former superheroes, while trying to live the quiet suburban life, are forced into action to save the world.
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Cast: Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Samuel L. Jackson, Jason Lee, Spencer Fox, Sarah Vowell, Dominique Louis, Eli Fucile, Maeve Andrews, Wallace Shawn. Directed by Brad Bird.
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Categories: Animation ∙ Action ∙ Justice |
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Rated: NR Stars: **1/2
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Format: DVD 69 min. B&W
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Plot: A hotshot criminal lawyer blackmails a client into participating in a plan to murder the lawyer's cheating wife and her lover.
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Cast: Milburn Stone, Katherine deMille, Paul Guilfoyle. Directed by Elmer Clifton.
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Categories: Justice ∙ Criminal Law ∙ Advocacy |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 30 min.
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Plot: A woman is jailed after her husband is found murdered in his sleep.
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Cast: Diane de Lorian, Dorothy Lancaster, Sheila Hinchliffe, Mark Margolis. Directed by Sally Heckel.
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Categories: Women ∙ Justice |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 136 min.
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Plot: A shooting at an all-night diner is investigated by three Los Angeles detectives in their own unique ways.
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Cast: Kevin Spacey, Russel Crowe, Guy Pearce, James Cromwell, Kim Basinger, Danny DeVito. Directed by Curtis Hanson.
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Categories: Law Enforcement ∙ Justice ∙ Evidence |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: Blu-ray 109 min.
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Plot: A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free.
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Cast: Gerard Butler, Jamie Foxx, Leslie Bibb. Directed by F. Gary Gray.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Action ∙ Justice |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 119 min.
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Plot: A time travel hired gun must chase himself down to close the loop.
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Cast: Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emily Blunt, Paul Dano. Directed by Rain Johnson.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Organized Crime ∙ Justice |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 132 min.
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Plot: Seven gunmen in the old west gradually come together to help a poor village against savage thieves.
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Cast: Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke. Directed by Antoine Fuqua.
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Categories: Action ∙ Western ∙ Justice |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 104 min.
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Plot: A resolute vigilante becomes obsessed with finding the man who is responsible for his brother's death.
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Cast: James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp, Cathy O'Donnell, Alex Nichol, Aline MacMahon. Directed by Anthony Mann.
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Categories: Western ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Justice |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 146 min.
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Plot: In Mexico City, a former CIA operative swears vengeance on those who kidnapped the girl he was hired to protect.
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Cast: Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, Christopher Walken, Giancarlo Giannini, Radha Mitchell, Marc Anthony, Rachel Ticotin, Mickey Rourke. Directed by Tony Scott.
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Categories: Action ∙ Juvenile ∙ Justice |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: (2 disc set) 104 min.
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Plot: A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court.
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Cast: David Niven, Kim Hunter, Robert Coote, Kathleen Byron, Richard Attenborough. Directed by Michael Powell, and Emeric Pressburger.
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Categories: Justice ∙ SciFi/Fantasy ∙ War |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 102 min.
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Plot: An attorney is terrorized by a criminal he put away years ago.
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Cast: Denzel Washington, John Lithgow, Ice T, Kevin Pollack. Directed by Russell Mulcahy.
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Categories: Action ∙ Justice ∙ Organized Crime |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 207 min. B&W
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Plot: A poor village under attack by bandits recruits seven unemployed samurai to help them defend themselves. In Japanese with English subtitles.
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Cast: Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune, Yoshio Inaba, Seiji Miyaguchi, Minoru Chiaki. Directed by Akira Kurosawa.
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Categories: Justice ∙ Foreign |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 85 min. B&W
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Plot: With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer
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Cast: Woody Allen, Kathy Bates, John Cusack, Mia Farrow, Jodie Foster, Fred Gwynne, Julie Kavner, Madonna, John Malkovich, Kenneth Mars, Kate Nelligan, Donald Pleasance, Lily Tomlin. Directed by Woody Allen.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Justice |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 121 min.
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Plot: In 1850s Oregon, a gold prospector is chased by the infamous duo of assassins, the Sisters brothers.
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Cast: John C. Reilly, Joazuin Phoenix, Jake Gyllenhaal. Directed by Jacques Audiard.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Natural Resources ∙ Justice |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 154 min.
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Plot: The Man of Steel, mysteriously absent for several years, returns to Earth.
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Cast: Brandon Routh, Kate Bosworth, James Marsden, Frank Langella, Eva Marie Saint, Parker Posey, Kal Penn, Sam Huntington, Kevin Spacey. Directed by Bryan Singer.
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Categories: Justice ∙ Law Enforcement ∙ SciFi/Fantasy |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 135 min.
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Plot: The restaging of the 1987 trial of Bernhard Goetz.
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Cast: Peter Crombie, Richard Libertini, Andrew Robinson, Dann Florek. Directed by Harry Moses.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Justice ∙ Trial |
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Rated: G Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 128 min.
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Plot: A 14 year old is determined to avenge her father's blood by capturing the man who shot and killed him for two pieces of gold.
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Cast: John Wayne, Glen Campbell, Kim Darby, Jeremy Slate, Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper, Alfred Ryder, Strother Martin, Jeff Corey. Directed by Henry Hathaway.
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Categories: Western ∙ Drama ∙ Justice |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 110 min.
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Plot: A 14 year old is determined to avenge her father's blood by capturing the man who shot and killed him for two pieces of gold.
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Cast: Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Barry Pepper, Hailee Steinfeld. Directed by Ethan Coen.
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Categories: Western ∙ Drama ∙ Justice |
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Rated: R Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 131 min.
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Plot: A retired gunslinger agrees to avenge a brutalized prostitute and has to take on a corrupt sheriff. Won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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Cast: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris. Directed by Clint Eastwood.
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Categories: Western ∙ Action ∙ Justice |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 147 min.
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Plot: An examination of a failure of justice in the case against the West Memphis Three.
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Cast: Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, Jessie Miskelly. Directed by Amy Berg.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Criminal Procedure ∙ Justice |
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