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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 124 min.
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Plot: A shy, reclusive girl starts work at a solarium and becomes emotionally attached to her fellow worker whom she appears to swap personalities with after an accident.
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Cast: Sissy Spacek, Shelley Duvall, Janice Rule. Directed by Robert Altman.
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Categories: Women ∙ Medical |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 138 min.
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Plot: An epileptic taxidermist dreams of committing the perfect crime and gets his chance on his first hunting trip. In Spanish, subtitled in English.
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Cast: Ricardo Darin, Dolores Fonzi, Pablo Cedrón. Directed by Fabian Bielinsky.
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Categories: Medical ∙ Criminal Law ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 84 min.
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Plot: While undergoing open heart surgery, a man's failed anesthetic leaves him completely alert, and paralyzed.
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Cast: Hayden Christensen, Jessica Alba, Lena Olin, Arliss Howard, Terrence Howard. Directed by Joby Harold.
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Categories: Medical ∙ Drama ∙ Domestic Relations |
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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: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 64 min.
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Plot: The U.S. Army's premier medical facility in Iraq puts a human face on the war's cold casualty statistics.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ War ∙ Medical |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 105 min.
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Plot: A doctor working in 1980s East Germany finds herself banished to a small country hospital. German with English subtitles
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Cast: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Rainer Bock, Christina Hecke, Claudia Geisler, Deniz Petzold, Susanna Bormann, Kristen Block, Rosa Enskat, Jasna Fritzi Bauer, Peer-Uwe Teska, Elisabeth Lehmann, Mark Waschke, Peter Benedict, Thomas Neumann. Directed by Christian Petzold.
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Categories: Foreign ∙ Medical ∙ Romance |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 105 min.
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Plot: An examination of America's win-at-all-cost culture.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Chris Bell.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Sports ∙ Medical |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 121 min.
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Plot: Afflicted with a mysterious blindness, a group of those infected must band together to survive a government-imposed quarantine.
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Cast: Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Alice Braga, Yusuke Iseya, Yoshino Kimura, Don McKellar, Maury Chaykin, Mitchell Nye, Danny Glover, Gael García Bernal. Directed by Fernando Meirelles.
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Categories: Disability ∙ Medical ∙ Human Rights |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 110 min.
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Plot: In a dystopian near-future, the human race has lost the ability to reproduce.
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Cast: Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Charlie Hunnam. Directed by Alfonso Cuarón.
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Categories: Medical ∙ Government ∙ Human Rights |
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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: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 125 min.
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Plot: A compassionate young man, raised in an orphanage and trained by the resident doctor, decides to leave to experience the world.
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Cast: Tobey Maguire, Charlize Theron, Delroy Lindo, Paul Rudd, Michael Caine. Directed by Lasse Hallstrom.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Ethics ∙ Medical |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 113 min.
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Plot: A young woman doctor discovers something sinister going on in her hospital.
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Cast: Genevieve Bujold, Michael Douglas, Elizabeth Ashley, Rip Torn, Richard Widmark. Directed by Michael Crichton.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Medical ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 165 min.
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Plot: A man is born in his eighties and proceeds to age backwards.
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Cast: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Taraji P. Henson, Julia Ormond, Jason Fleming, Elias Koteas, Tilda Swinton. Directed by David Fincher.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Drama ∙ Medical |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 84 min. B&W
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Plot: An accountant goes to San Francisco for a week to relax and ends up with more than just a hangover.
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Cast: Edmond O'Brien, Pamela Britton, Beverly Darland. Directed by Rudolph Maté.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Medical ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 97 min.
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Plot: A man has 24 hours to figure out who poisoned him.
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Cast: Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan, Daniel Stern. Directed by Rocky Morton & Annabel Jankel.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Medical |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 106 min.
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Plot: A young American soldier in the First World War lies in a hospital bed, a quadruple amputee who has lost the ability to see, speak, or hear.
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Cast: Timothy Bottoms, Jason Robards, Kathy Fields, Donald Sutherland, Marsha Hunt, Diane Varsi. Directed by Dalton Trumbo.
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Categories: War ∙ Medical ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 109 min. B&W
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Plot: A vet posing as a doctor, a race horse owner and his friends struggle to help keep a sanitarium open with the help of a misfit racehorse.
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Cast: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Allan Jones, Maureen O'Sullivan. Directed by Sam Wood.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Medical |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 112 min.
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Plot: The true story of Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby who suffers a stroke and has to live with an almost totally paralyzed body and uses his left eye to blink out his memoir.
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Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze. Directed by Julian Schnabel.
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Categories: Medical ∙ Biography ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 124 min.
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Plot: A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak.
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Cast: John Hurt, Anthony Hopkins, Anne Bancroft. Directed by David Lynch.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Drama ∙ Medical |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 110 min.
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Plot: A district attorney is investigating a series of unexplained deaths that have occured among the gay community in New York's fashionable Chelsea district.
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Cast: Brent Carver, Olympie Dukakis, Jane Leeves, Don Mckellar, Sarah Polley, Parker Posey. Directed by Thom Fitzgerald.
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Categories: Sexuality ∙ Medical ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 138 min.
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Plot: A revolutionary medical technique allows an undercover agent to take the physical appearance of a major criminal and infiltrate his organization.
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Cast: John Travolta, Nicholas Cage, Joan Allen, Gina Gershon, Alessandro Nivola. Directed by John Woo.
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Categories: Law Enforcement ∙ Medical ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 96 min.
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Plot: Through time and space, one man embarks on a bold, thousand-year odyssey to defeat death.
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Cast: Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz, Ellen Burstyn. Directed by Darren Aronofsky.
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Categories: Romance ∙ SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Medical |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 71 min. B&W
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Plot: An obsessed scientist assembles a living being from parts of exhumed corpses.
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Cast: Colin Clive, Mae Clark, John Boles, Boris Karloff, Edward Von Sloan. Directed by James Whale.
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Categories: Horror ∙ Medical |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 100 min.
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Plot: Alex Honnold vies to become the first person to ever free solo climb Yosemite's El Capitan, without ropes or safety gear.
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Cast: Dierdre Wolownick, Tommy Caldwell, Jimmy Chin, Alex Honnold, Sanni McCandless. Directed by Jimmy Chin, and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Environmental ∙ Medical |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 102 min.
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Plot: A quietly troubled young man returns home for his mother's funeral after being estranged from his family for a decade.
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Cast: Zach Braff, Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Ian Holm, Method Man. Directed by Zach Braff.
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Categories: Family ∙ Medical ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: **1/2
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Format: DVD 102 min.
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Plot: Devastated by the death of their eight-year-old, two parents accept an offer from a fertility expert to resurrect their boy through a secret and illegal cloning procedure.
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Cast: Greg Kinnear, Rebecca Romjin-Stamos, Robert De Niro, Cameron Bright. Directed by Mark Bomback.
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Categories: Medical ∙ Ethics ∙ Horror |
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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: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 146 min. B&W
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Plot: Canadian nurse travels to the West Indies to care for a mental paralysis victim/A fight to the death over exhumed cadavers.
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Cast: James Ellions, Frances Dee, Tom Conway, Boris Karloff, Edith Atwater, Russell Wade. Directed by Jacques Tourneur/Robert Wise.
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Categories: Horror ∙ Mental Health ∙ Medical |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 80 min. B&W
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Plot: A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
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Cast: Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Larry Gates, King Donovan. Directed by Don Siegel.
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Categories: Horror ∙ Medical ∙ Government |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 103 min.
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Plot: A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he loves.
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Cast: Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Kris Kristofferson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Brad Renfro. Directed by John Maybury.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Medical ∙ Evidence |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 118 min.
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Plot: The life of Alfred Kinsey, a pioneer in the area of human sexuality research, whose 1948 publication "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" was one of the first recorded works that saw science address sexual behavior.
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Cast: Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O'Donnell, Peter Sarsgaard, Timothy Hutton, John Lithgow, Tim Curry, Oliver Platt, Dylan Baker. Directed by Bill Condon.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Medical ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 110 min.
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Plot: A woman convinces her husband to sell illegal drugs and then runs off with the money.
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Cast: Linda Fiorentino, Peter Berg, J.T. Walsh, Bull Nunn. Directed by John Dahl.
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Categories: Ethics ∙ Medical ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 93 min.
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Plot: A plastic surgeon gets suspicious when models he has operated on begin to die in mysterious ways.
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Cast: Albert Finney, James Corburn, Susan Dey, Leigh Taylor-Young. Directed by Michael Crichton.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Medical ∙ Ethics |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 116 min.
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Plot: The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.
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Cast: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt, Sally Kellerman, Robert Duvall, Jo Ann Pflug, Rene Auberjonois. Directed by Robert Altman.
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Categories: Medical ∙ War ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: *****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 132 min.
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Plot: A determined young woman wins over a hardened trainer in order to establish herself as a boxer.
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Cast: Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman. Directed by Clint Eastwood.
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Categories: Sports ∙ Medical ∙ Women |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 123 min.
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Plot: A secret agent is sent to Sydney to find and destroy a genetically modified disease.
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Cast: Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott, Thandie Newton, Richard Roxburgh, John Polson. Directed by John Woo.
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Categories: Action ∙ National Security ∙ Medical |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 109 min.
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Plot: A child looks to earn medical emancipation from her parents who have been relying on their youngest child to help their leukemia-stricken daughter alive.
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Cast: Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin, Alec Baldwin. Directed by Nick Cassavetes.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Family ∙ Medical |
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Rated: NR Stars: *****
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Format: DVD (26 disc set) 87 hours, 15 minutes min.
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Plot: A new doctor is required to practice in a small Alaskan town to repay his student loans.
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Cast: Barry Corbin, Janine Turner, John Cullum, Darren E. Burrows, John Corbett, Cynthia Geary, Elaine Miles, Peg Phillips, Rob Morrow. Directed by Michael Fresco, Nick Marck, and others.
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Categories: Contracts ∙ Medical ∙ Indian |
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Rated: R Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 134 min.
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Plot: A man sent to a mental hospital finds the head nurse a lot more dangerous than the other patients. Won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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Cast: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher. Directed by Milos Forman.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Medical |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 128 min.
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Plot: Extreme measures are taken to contain an epidemic of a deadly airborne virus.
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Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman, Cuba Gooding Jr., Patrick Demsey, Donald Sutherland, Kevin Spacey. Directed by Wolfgang Peterson.
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Categories: Medical ∙ SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 90 min.
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Plot: A machine that allows therapists to record dreams is stolen and it must be recovered before it falls into the wrong hands.
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Cast: Megumi Hayashibara, Toru Emori, Katsunosuke Hori, Tôru Furuya. Directed by Satoshi Kon.
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Categories: Animation ∙ Privacy ∙ Medical |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 115 min.
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Plot: A medical student's unorthodox methods, including warmth and laughter, cast him against many of the doctors and deans of the university.
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Cast: Robin Williams, Monica Potter, Peter Coyote. Directed by Tom Shadyac.
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Categories: Medical ∙ Ethics ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 107 min.
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Plot: A sleazy lawyer is shot in the head and falls into a coma. After he awakens, he must learn his life all over again.
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Cast: Harrison Ford, Annette Bening, Bill Nunn, Donald Moffat, Nancy Marchland, Elizabeth Wilson. Directed by Mike Nichols.
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Categories: Ethics ∙ Drama ∙ Medical |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 97 min.
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Plot: After a worldwide epidemic, a biotech company launches an organ-financing program, complete with a repossession clause.
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Cast: Alexa Vega, Anthony Stewart Head, Sarah Brightman, Paris Hilton, Ogre, Terrance Zdunich, Bill Moseley, Paul Sorvino. Directed by Darren Lynn Bousman.
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Categories: Musical ∙ Medical ∙ Property |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 105 min.
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Plot: A scientist attempting to find a cure for Alzheimer's disease accidentally creates a super-intelligent ape.
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Cast: James Franco, Freida Pinto, John Lithgow, Brian Cox, Tom Felton, David Oyelowo, Tyler Labine. Directed by Rupert Wyatt.
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Categories: Medical ∙ Ethics ∙ SciFi/Fantasy |
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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-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 125 min.
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Plot: The story of Ramon Sampedro, who fought a 30 year campaign in favor of euthanasia and his own right to die. In Spanish, with English subtitles.
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Cast: Javier Bardem, Belen Rueda, Lola Dueñas, Mabel Rivera, Celso Bugallo, Clara Segura. Directed by Alejandro Amenábar.
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Categories: Medical ∙ Human Rights ∙ Foreign |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 95 min.
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Plot: A man in an iron lung contacts a professional sex surrogate.
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Cast: John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, William H. Macy, Moon Bloodgood, Annika Marks, Adam Arkin, Rhea Perlman. Directed by Ben Lewin.
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Categories: Disability ∙ Sexuality ∙ Medical |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 117 min.
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Plot: A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a type of synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig is a woman who holds the key to his obsession. In Spanish with English subtitles.
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Cast: Elena Anaya, Jan Cornet, Marisa Paredes, Antonio Banderas, Roberto Alamo. Directed by Pedro Almodovar.
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Categories: Foreign ∙ Medical ∙ Ethics |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 110 min.
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Plot: Two men defied the rules in 1940s Baltimore and started a medical revolution that saved the lives of thousands of infants.
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Cast: Alan Rickman, Mos Def, Kyra Sedgewick, Gabrielle Union, Charles Dutton, Mary Staurt Masterson. Directed by Joseph Sargent.
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Categories: Medical ∙ Racism ∙ Discrimination |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 125 min.
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Plot: Unbeknownst to her family, a devoted wife and mother in 1950's England secretly helps women terminate unwanted pregnancies.
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Cast: Imelda Staunton, Phil Davis, Peter Wight, Daniel Mays, Alex Kelly, Adrain Scarborough. Directed by Mike Leigh.
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Categories: Women ∙ Medical ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 128 min.
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Plot: An alcoholic lawyer stumbles upon one last chance to redeem himself by taking on a controversial case that no one is supposed to win.
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Cast: Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, Jack Warden, James Mason, Milo O'Shea. Directed by Sidney Lumet.
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Categories: Medical ∙ Ethics ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 171 min. B&W
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Plot: A young doctor falls in love with a disturbed young woman, is involved in her husband's death, and flees with her to the Mexican border/A pharmacist creates an alter ego under which he plans to murder his wife's lover.
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Cast: Robert Mitchum, Faith Domergue, Claude Rains, Richard Basehart, Anthony Totter, Cyd Charisse, Barry Sullivan. Directed by John Farrow and John Berry.
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Categories: Marital Relations ∙ Medical ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: TV-14 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 134 min.
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Plot: The story of Jack Kevorkian, a man whose passionate belief is that people have the right to die.
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Cast: Al Pacino, Brenda Vaccaro, Danny Huston, Susan Sarandon, John Goodman . Directed by Barry Levinson.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Biography ∙ Medical |
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