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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 119 min.
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Plot: The story of three women who explore love and freedom in Southern California during the late 1970s.
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Cast: Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig. Directed by Mike Mills.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Drama ∙ Women |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 111 min.
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Plot: A young woman wrestles with the idea of standing by her sister's side as her sibling marries the man with whom she's secretly in love.
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Cast: Katherine Heigl, James Marsden, Malin Akerman, Judy Greer. Directed by Anne Fletcher.
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Categories: Women ∙ Comedy ∙ Romance |
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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: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 105 min.
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Plot: When a waitress is gang-raped, she finds herself battling the legal system, not once but twice, as she and her attorney go after her attackers and the onlookers whose cheering fueled and encouraged the assault.
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Cast: Jodie Foster, Kelly McGillis, Bernie Coulson, Steve Antin, Leo Rossi, Woody Brown. Directed by Jonathon Kaplan.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Women ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: **1/2
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Format: DVD 110 min.
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Plot: A female boxing promoter endures and succeeds in the male-dominated sport.
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Cast: Meg Ryan, Omar Epps, Tony Shaloub, Tim Daly, Kerry Washington. Directed by Charles S. Dutton.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Sports ∙ Women |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 113 min.
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Plot: Alfie is a confident, charming lothario whose quest for immediate pleasure leaves behind a trail of emotional wreckage.
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Cast: Michael Caine, Shelley Winters, Millicent Martin. Directed by Lewis Gilbert.
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Categories: Women ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 91 min.
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Plot: A dying millionnaire has her soul transferred into a younger woman. But something goes wrong, and she finds herself in her lawyer's body - together with the lawyer.
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Cast: Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin, Richard Libertini, Victoria Tennant. Directed by Carl Reiner.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Women |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 85 min.
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Plot: Best friends take a weekend trip hopeful to re-establish their bond, which leads to a confrontation that forever changes their lives.
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Cast: Mackenzi Davis, Caitlin FitzGerald, Lawrence Michael. Directed by Sophia Takal.
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Categories: Women ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 94 min.
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Plot: An ambitious woman is hired as a news anchor in the male-dominated broadcasting of the 70's.
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Cast: Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate, Paul Rudd, Steve Carell. Directed by Adam McKay.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Entertainment ∙ Women |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 102 min.
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Plot: A Dutch matron establishes and, for several generations, oversees a close-knit, matriarchal community where feminism and liberalism thrive.
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Cast: Willeke van Ammelrooy, Els Dottermans. Directed by Marleen Gorris.
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Categories: Foreign ∙ Comedy ∙ Women |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 89 min.
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Plot: An Orthodox Jewish woman and a Muslim woman who meet as first-year teachers at a public school in Brooklyn and discover that they have much in common, including that they are both going through the process of arranged marriages.
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Cast: Zoe Lister Jones, Francis Benhamou, John Rothman. Directed by Diane Crespo & Stefan Schaefer.
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Categories: Women ∙ Religion ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 110 min.
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Plot: As the civil rights movement heats up, a former slave recants her memories of the black experience of working on a southern plantation to fetching water for soldiers in the Civil War to her views on the current and turbulent equal rights movement.
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Cast: Cicely Tyson, Barbara Chaney, Richard Dysart, Katherine Helmond, Michael Murphy. Directed by John Korty.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Civil Rights ∙ Women |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 99 min.
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Plot: A single businesswoman who dreams of having a baby discovers she is infertile and hires a working class woman to be her surrogate.
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Cast: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Greg Kinnear, Dax Shephard. Directed by Michael McCullers.
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Categories: Children ∙ Women ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 120 min.
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Plot: A biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman.
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Cast: Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy, Julie Waters, James Cromwell, Maggie Smith. Directed by Julian Jarrold.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Romance ∙ Women |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 93 min.
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Plot: The unexpected arrival of a wounded Union soldier at a girls' school in Virginia during the American Civil War leads to jealousy and betrayal.
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Cast: Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, Elle Fanning. Directed by Sofia Coppola.
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Categories: Drama ∙ War ∙ Women |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 115 min.
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Plot: A God-fearing bluesman takes to a wild young woman who, as a victim of childhood abuse, looks everywhere for love without ever quite finding it.
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Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Christina Ricci, Justin Timberlake, S. Epatha Merkerson. Directed by Craig Brewer.
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Categories: Women ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 103 min.
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Plot: A federal agent uncovers a pattern of murder where a cunning woman marries millionaires, poisons them, and inherits their fortunes before disappearing and resurfacing in search of new victims.
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Cast: Debra Winger, Theresa Russell, Sami Frey, Dennis Hopper, Nicol Williamson. Directed by Bob Rafelson.
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Categories: Insurance ∙ Wills ∙ Women |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 104 min. B&W
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Plot: A twist on the Snow White fairy tale filmed as a 1920s silent picture, set in Spain and featuring a female bullfighter.
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Cast: Maribel Verdú, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Ángela Molina, Pere Ponce, Macarena García, Sofía Oria, Josep Maria Pou, Inma Cuesta, Ramón Barea, Emilio Gavira, Sergio Dorado. Directed by Pablo Berger.
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Categories: Foreign ∙ Gender ∙ Women |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 118 min.
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Plot: The story of Teena Brandon, a cross-dressing youth who preferred life as her male identity, Brandon Teena.
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Cast: Hilary Swank, Chloë Sevigny, Peter Sarsgaard, Brendan Sexton III,
Alicia Goranson. Directed by Kimberly Peirce.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Women ∙ Discrimination |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 125 min.
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Plot: Competition between the maid of honor and a bridesmaid, over who is the bride's best friend, threatens to upend the life of an out-of-work pastry chef.
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Cast: Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Ellie Kemper, Melissa McCarthy, Chris O'Dowd. Directed by Paul Feig.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Domestic Relations ∙ Women |
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Rated: NR Stars: *** 1/2
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Format: DVD 97 min.
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Plot: A woman transforms from loving wife to a murderess.
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Cast: Farrah Fawcett, Paul LeMat, Richard Masur, Grace Zabriskie, Penelope Milford, James Callahan. Directed by Robert Greenwald.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Women ∙ Television |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 113 min. Color/B&W
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Plot: Depicts the infamous reign of terror conducted by the occupying Japanese army in the Chinese capitol of Nanking in 1937, based on recorded witness testimony from survivors. In Mandarin with English subtitles.
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Cast: Ye Liu, Yuanyuan Gao, Hideo Nakaizumi. Directed by Chuan Lu.
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Categories: War ∙ Foreign ∙ Women |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 90 min.
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Plot: Two 18-year-old girls are assigned to work together during their compulsory military service and an unlikely friendship forms. In Hebrew with English subtitles.
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Cast: Smadar Sayar, Naama Schendar, Irit Suki, Dani Geva. Directed by Dalia Hager and Vidi Bilu.
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Categories: Foreign ∙ Women ∙ Military |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 71 min.
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Plot: Explores the deep-seated biases and attitudes about skin color---particularly dark skinned women, outside of and within the Black American culture.
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Cast: . Directed by D. Channsin & Bill Duke.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Racism ∙ Women |
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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: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 113 min.
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Plot: A stuntman who has a habit of stalking young women tangles with the wrong group.
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Cast: Kurt Russell, Rosario Dawson, Vanessa Ferlito, Jordan Ladd, Rose McGowan, Sydney Portier. Directed by Quentin Tarantino.
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Categories: Action ∙ Women |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 109 min.
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Plot: A naive young women lands a job as assistant to a demanding fashion magazine editor.
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Cast: Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Stanley Tucci, Simon Baker, Emily Blunt, Adrian Grenier. Directed by David Frankel.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Women ∙ Ethics |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 116 min. B&W
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Plot: The wife of a cruel headmaster and his mistress conspire to kill him, but after the murder is committed, his body disappears, and strange events begin to plague the two women.
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Cast: Simone Signoret, Vera Clouzot, Paul Meurisse. Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Women ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 110 min.
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Plot: Two con men working the same con, in the same town, discover it isn't big enough for both of them.
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Cast: Steve Martin, Michael Cane, Glenne Headley, Anton Rodgers, Barbara Harris. Directed by Frank Oz.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Women ∙ Ethics |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 99 min.
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Plot: An elderly Jewish widow living in Atlanta is extremely independent, butcan no longer drive so her son insists on hiring a driver.
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Cast: Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Dan Akroyd. Directed by Bruce Beresford.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Women ∙ Racism |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 130 min.
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Plot: A successful businesswoman gets caught up in a game of cat and mouse as she tracks down the unknown man who raped her.
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Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Anne Consigny. Directed by Paul Verhoeven.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Women ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 117 min.
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Plot: As a woman lays dying, she conveys to her daughters the defining moments in her life.
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Cast: Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Vanessa Redgrave, Patrick Wilson, Hugh Dancy, Meryl Streep. Directed by Lajos Koltai.
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Categories: Romance ∙ Women |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 168 min.
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Plot: A willful, flirtatious, young woman unexpectedly inherits a large farm and becomes romantically involved with three widely divergent men.
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Cast: Julie Christie, Terence Stamp, Peter Finch, Alan Bates. Directed by John Schlesinger.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Women ∙ Romance |
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Rated: R Stars: **1/2
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Format: VHS 119 min.
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Plot: A high-powered attorney goes through a psychological meltdown as she navigates bisexual relationships, a nomination for a judgeship and the shoplifting arrest of her rebellious sister.
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Cast: Tilda Swenton, Amy Madigan, Karen Sillas. Directed by Susan Streitfield.
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Categories: Women ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 109 min.
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Plot: A retiring janitor convinces a glass-ceiling constrained executive to help him steal a handful of diamonds from their employer.
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Cast: Demi Moore, Michael Caine, Lambert Wilson, Joss Ackland. Directed by Michael Radford.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Criminal Law ∙ Women |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 133 min.
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Plot: Women portray characters represented in a collection of poems revealing different issues that impact women in general and women of color in particular.
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Cast: Janet Jackson, Loretta Devine, Michael Ealy, Kimberly Elise, Omari Hardwick. Directed by Tyler Perry.
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Categories: Domestic Relations ∙ Public Land ∙ Women |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 86 min. B&W
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Plot: A New York woman apprentices for a dance company and throws herself headlong into her dreams, even as their possible reality dwindles.
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Cast: Greta Gerwig, Mickey Sumner, Michael Esper, Adam Driver, Michael Zegen, Charlotte d'Amboise, Grace Gummer. Directed by Noah Baumbach.
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Categories: Romance ∙ Women |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 116 min.
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Plot: London is terrorized by the neck tie murderer.
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Cast: Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Alec McCwen, Billie Whitelaw. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Evidence ∙ Women |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 123 min.
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Plot: A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work.
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Cast: Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Valeria Golino, Geoffrey Rush. Directed by Julie Taymor.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Politics ∙ Women |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 121 min.
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Plot: In Victorian era London, a troubled clairvoyant police detective investigates the murders committed by Jack the Ripper.
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Cast: Johnny Depp, Heather Graham, Ian Holm, Robbie Coltrane. Directed by The Hughes Brothers.
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Categories: Criminal Law ∙ Women ∙ Law Enforcement |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 111 min.
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Plot: A teenager on the verge of being kicked out of school begins training as a boxer and discovers her true talent.
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Cast: Michelle Rodriguez, Jaime Tirelli, Paul Calderon, Santiago Douglas. Directed by Patrick Cady.
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Categories: Women ∙ Drama ∙ Sports |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 109 min.
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Plot: A divorced woman with grown children spends her nights at social dance clubs for singles. In Spanish, with English subtitles.
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Cast: Paulina García, Sergio Hernández, Diego Fontecilla, Fabiola Zamora, Luz Jiménez, Alejandro Goic, Liliana García . Directed by Sebastián Lelio.
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Categories: Foreign ∙ Women ∙ Domestic Relations |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 3 hours, 52 min.
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Plot: Documentary on the oppression and girls worldwide in the 21st-century.
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Cast: America Ferrera, Nicholas Kristof, Diane Lane, Dipti Mehta, Eva Mendes, Meg Ryan, Gabrielle Union, Olivia Wilde. Directed by Maro Chermayeff.
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Categories: Women ∙ Documentary ∙ Human Rights |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 108 min.
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Plot: In a dystopicly polluted rightwing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.
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Cast: Natasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway, Richard Duvall. Directed by Volker Schlondorff.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Women ∙ SciFi/Fantasy |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD (3 disc set) 8 hours, 45 min.
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Plot: Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.
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Cast: Elisabeth Moss, Yvonne Strahovski, Max Minghella, Amanda Brugel, Joseph Fiennes, Madeline Brewer, O-T Fagbenle, Ann Dowd, Samira Wiley, Alexis Bledel. Directed by Mike Barker, and others.
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Categories: Women ∙ SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Television |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 136 min.
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Plot: Two women with guy-problems swap homes in each other's countries, where they each meet a local guy and fall in love.
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Cast: Kate Winslet, Cameron Diaz, Jack Black, Jude Law. Directed by Nancy Meyers.
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Categories: Romance ∙ International ∙ Women |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 106 min.
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Plot: Explores the tragic story of Viola Liuzzo, the only white woman killed during the civil rights movement.
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Cast: Narration by Stockard Channing . Directed by Irwin Winkler.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Civil Rights ∙ Women |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 103 min.
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Plot: Weaves together rape crimes on college campuses, institutional cover-ups, and the devastating toll they take on students and families.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Kirby Dick.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Safety ∙ Women |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 115 min.
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Plot: An aging pimp struggles for redemption by attempting to become a respected rapper.
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Cast: Terrence Howard, Anthony Anderson, Taryn Manning, Taraji P. Henson, Paula Jai Parker, Elise Neal, D.J. Quallis, Ludacris. Directed by Craig Brewer.
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Categories: Entertainment ∙ Women ∙ Drama |
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Rated: G Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 82 min. B&W
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Plot: Why is an inspector trying to railroad a man for the murder of a model?
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Cast: Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Carole Landis, Laird Cregar. Directed by Bruce Humberstone.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Women ∙ Criminal Procedure |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 120 min. B&W
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Plot: After being arrested for the murder of an older woman, two gamblers try to frame a former partner.
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Cast: Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland, Virginia Vincent, Theodore Bikel. Directed by Robert Wise.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Women ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars:
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Format: DVD 117 min.
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Plot: A woman struggles to interact with her family and find her place in society after spending fifteen years in prison. In French, with English subtitles.
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Cast: Serge Hazanavicius, Laurent Grevill, Frederic Pierrot. Directed by Philippe Claudel.
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Categories: Women ∙ Sentencing ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 184 min.
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Plot: A young woman is transported to an Australian penal colony in 1788.
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Cast: Romola Garai, Jack Davenport, Alex O'Loughlin, Sam Neill. Directed by Peter Andrikidis.
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Categories: Sentencing ∙ Women ∙ Television |
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Rated: Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 123 min.
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Plot: Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.
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Cast: Hilary Swank Margo Martindale, Anjelica Huston. Directed by Katja von Garnier.
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Categories: Drama ∙ History ∙ Women |
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Rated: G Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 97 min. B&W
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Plot: Orphan Jane Eyre is hired by the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house to care for his young daughter.
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Cast: Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine, Margaret O'Brien, Peggy Ann Garner. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Domestic Relations ∙ Women |
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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: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 96 min. B&W
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Plot: While traveling in continental Europe, a young woman realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train.
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Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, Dame May Whitty. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Transportation ∙ Women |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 103 min.
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Plot: A young lawyer is assigned to the clemency case of a woman convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death.
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Cast: Sharon Stone, Rob Morrow, Randy Quaid, Peter Gallagher, Jack Thompson. Directed by Bruce Beresford.
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Categories: Women ∙ Death Penalty ∙ Advocacy |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 103 min.
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Plot: A comedy about making choices, making friends, and making a mess.
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Cast: Angelina Jolie, Edward Burns, Tony Shalhoub, Christian Kane, Stockard Channing. Directed by Stephen Herek.
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Categories: Romance ∙ Media ∙ Women |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 153 min. B&W
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Plot: A middle-aged professors marries a women after becoming infatuated with her teenage daughter.
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Cast: James Mason, Shelley Winters, Peter Sellers, Sue Lyon. Directed by Stanley Kubrick.
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Categories: Women ∙ Drama ∙ Family |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 119 min.
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Plot: Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.
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Cast: Geraldine McEwan, Anne-Marie Duff, Nora-Jane Noone, Dorothy Duffy. Directed by Peter Mullan.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Religion ∙ Women |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 145 min.
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Plot: An impoverished girl becomes a renowned geisha, trained in all the artistic and social skills she must master in order to survive in her society.
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Cast: Ziyi Zhang, Ken Watanabe, Michelle Yeoh, Koji Yakusho, Youki Kudoh, Kaori Momoi, Gong Li. Directed by Rob Marshall.
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Categories: Women ∙ Gender ∙ Discrimination |
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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 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 93 min.
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Plot: The story of the children's book author Beatrix Potter and her struggle for love, happiness, and success.
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Cast: Renee Zellweger, Ewan McGregor, Bill Paterson, Emily Watson. Directed by Chris Noonan.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Women |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 120 min.
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Plot: A free-thinking art professor teaches conservative 1950s college girls to question their traditional societal roles.
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Cast: Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ginnifer Goodwin, Dominic West, Juliet Stevenson, Marcia Gay Harden, John Slattery
. Directed by Mike Newell.
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Categories: Education ∙ Women |
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Rated: NR Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 109 min.
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Plot: Biopic of female serial killer Aileen Wuornos, executed for killing seven men in the state of Florida during the 1980s.
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Cast: Charlize Theron, Christina Ricci, Bruce Dern, Lee Tergesen, Annie Corley, Scott Wilson. Directed by Patty Jenkins.
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Categories: Women ∙ Biography ∙ Sentencing |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 146 min. B&W
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Plot: A woman who used her beauty to manipulate the men in her life must come to terms with the loss of this attribute after an illness.
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Cast: Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Walter Abel. Directed by Vincent Sherman.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Marital Relations ∙ Women |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 103 min.
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Plot: A well-to-do widow buys an old London theater and opens it up as the Windmill, a performance hall which goes down in history for, among other things, its all-nude revues.
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Cast: Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins, Christopher Guest, Kelly Reilly. Directed by Stephen Frears.
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Categories: Entertainment ∙ Women ∙ Censorship |
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Rated: R Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 147 min.
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Plot: Two beautiful women are caught up in a lethally twisted mystery.
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Cast: Justin Theroux, Naomi Watts, Laura Elena Harring, Ann Miller, Robert Forster. Directed by David Lynch.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Mental Health ∙ Women |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 96 min.
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Plot: A documentary exploring the sex-trade and the enslavement of more than 27 million people worldwide.
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Cast: Christian Simpson, Jon Morgan Woodward, Sarah Agor, Julie Alexander. Directed by Benjamin Nolot .
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Human Rights ∙ Women |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 94 min.
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Plot: Riveting testimonials from Black women rape survivor stories who defy victimization.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Aishah Shahidah Simmons.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Women ∙ Safety |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (3 disc set) 451 min.
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Plot: Based on the books written by Alexander McCall Smith, a woman in Botswana opens her the first female detective agency in the country.
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Cast: Jill Scott, Anika Noni Rose, Lucian Msamati, Desmond Dube. Directed by Anthony Minghella, Charles Sturridge, & Tim Fywell.
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Categories: Television ∙ Criminal Law ∙ Women |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 113 min.
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Plot: A young single mother and textile worker agrees to help unionize her Southern textile mill despite the problems and dangers involved.
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Cast: Sally Field, Ron Leibman, Pat Hingle, Beau Bridges, Barbara Baxley. Directed by Martin Ritt.
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Categories: Employment ∙ Women ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 126 min.
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Plot: As women began to inflitrate the ranks of the Minnesota iron mines, they endured abuse from the male miners.
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Cast: Charlize Theron, Frances McDormand, Sissy Spacek, Woody Harrelson, Sean Bean. Directed by Niki Caro.
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Categories: Women ∙ Employment ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 115 min.
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Plot: An Iranian doctor convinces his American wife and daughter to go on vacation to Iran, but once there he refuses to return to America.
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Cast: Sally Field, Alfred Molina, Sheila Rosenthal, Roshan Seth. Directed by Brian Gilbert.
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Categories: Government ∙ Religion ∙ Women |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 83 min.
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Plot: Under the brutal Taliban regime in Afganistan, a desperate mother disguises her daughter as a boy. Subtitled in English.
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Cast: Marina Golbahari, Arif Herati, Zubaida Sahar. Directed by Siddiq Barmak.
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Categories: Foreign ∙ Women ∙ Biography |
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Rated: R Stars: **1/2
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Format: DVD 98 min.
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Plot: When a racist kills two women, his attorney becomes caught between his client, his wife, and the law.
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Cast: Dennis Hopper, Barbara Hershey, Ed Harris. Directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal.
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Categories: Television ∙ Racism ∙ Women |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 101 min.
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Plot: A study of a voyeuristic maniac who kills women while filming them with his 16mm camera.
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Cast: Carl Boehm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey, Maxine Audley. Directed by Michael Powell.
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Categories: Horror ∙ Mental Health ∙ Women |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 147 min.
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Plot: A French peasant born with a superior olfactory sense, creates the world's finest perfume, but takes a dark turn as he searches for the ultimate scent.
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Cast: Ben Whishaw, Alan Rickman, Alan Rickman, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Dustin Hoffman. Directed by Tom Tykwer.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Women |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 95 min.
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Plot: A precocious and outspoken young Iranian girl has her world turned upside down by the Islamic Revolution.
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Cast: Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Darrieux, Simon Abkarian. Directed by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud.
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Categories: Religion ∙ Women ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 103 min.
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Plot: A brief fling between a male disc jockey and an obsessed female fan takes a frightening, and perhaps even deadly turn when another woman enters the picture.
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Cast: Jessica Walter, Donna Mills, John Larch. Directed by Clint Eastwood.
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Categories: Criminal Law ∙ Women ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 108 min.
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Plot: A fisherman's life dramatically when a famous Chilean poet is exiled to his island. In Italian with English subtitles.
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Cast: Philippe Noiret, Massimo Troisi, Maria Grazia Cucinotta. Directed by Michael Radford.
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Categories: Romance ∙ Politics ∙ Women |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****1/2
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Format: VHS 92 min.
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Plot: Three women, all strangers, beat a man to death in a dress boutique while other shoppers ignore the situation. Subtitled in English.
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Cast: Cox Habbema, Nelly Frijda, Henriette Tol, Edda Barenda. Directed by Marlene Gorris.
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Categories: Women ∙ Criminal Law ∙ Mental Health |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 77 min. B&W
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Plot: A young girl is tricked into a life of prostitution as she tries to escape her small town.
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Cast: Priscilla Bonner, Tyrone Power Sr., Theodore Von Eltz. Directed by Walter Lang.
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Categories: Women ∙ Criminal Law ∙ Media |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 117 min.
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Plot: A young English woman finds herself at war with the snobbery of her class and her own conflicting desires when she is attracted to someone socially unsuitable.
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Cast: Maggie Smith, Denholm Elliot, Judi Dench, Simon Callow, Helena Bonham Carter. Directed by James Ivory.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Women ∙ Economics |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 129 min.
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Plot: A retired legal counselor writes a novel hoping to find closure for one of his past unresolved homicide cases. In Spanish with English subtitles.
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Cast: Soledad Villamil, Ricardo Darín, Carla Quevedo, Pablo Rago. Directed by Juan Jose Campanella.
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Categories: Foreign ∙ Criminal Law ∙ Women |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 142 min.
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Plot: A young black woman searches for her birth parents and finds that her mother is white.
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Cast: Timothy Spall, Brenda Blethyn, Phyllis Logan, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Claire Rushbrook. Directed by Mike Leigh.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Family ∙ Women |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 127 min.
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Plot: Two brilliant young women discover their own voices in a repressive orthodox culture where women are forbidden to speak out. In Hebrew and French with English subtitles.
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Cast: Fanny Ardant, Ania Bukstein, Michal Shtamler, Adir Miller. Directed by Avi Nesher.
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Categories: Women ∙ Religion ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 90 min.
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Plot: A documentary chronicling Vogue's editors preparations for the 2007 fall-fashion issue.
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Cast: Anna Wintour, Vera Wang, Ocsar De la Renta. Directed by R. J. Cutler.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Comedy ∙ Women |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 360 min.
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Plot: The first season of the show about dating, mating, and relating in New York.
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Cast: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Charlotte York. Directed by Martha Coolidge and Allen Coulter.
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Categories: Women ∙ Television ∙ Sexuality |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 106 min.
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Plot: A young woman's world unravels when a drug prescribed by her psychiatrist has unexpected side effects.
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Cast: Rooney Mara, Jude Law, Channing Tatum, Catherine Zeta-Jones. Directed by Steven Soderbergh.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Mental Health ∙ Women |
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Rated: G Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 84 min.
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Plot: Snow White, pursued by a jealous queen, hides with the Dwarfs; the queen feeds her a poison apple, but Prince Charming awakens her with a kiss.
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Cast: Voices of Adriana Caselotti, Harry Stockwell, Lucille La Verne, Moroni Olsen. Directed by William Cottrell.
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Categories: Animation ∙ Women ∙ Family |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 84 min. B&W
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Plot: A serial killer is targeting disabled young women in a small town, and the mute servant in the Warren mansion fears that she is next.
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Cast: Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore, Kent Smith, Rhinda Fleming, Gordon Oliver, Else Lanchester. Directed by Robert Spiodmak.
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Categories: Disability ∙ Horror ∙ Women |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 94 min.
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Plot: Four college girls land in jail after robbing a restaurant in order to fund their spring break vacation.
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Cast: James Franco, Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Rachel Korine, Ashley Benson. Directed by Harmony Korine.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Criminal Law ∙ Women |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 99 min.
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Plot: A young girl comes to suspect her mysterious, charming Uncle has ulterior motives and becomes increasingly infatuated with him.
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Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Matthew Goode, Nicole Kidman, Dermot Mulroney, Jacki Weaver. Directed by Chan-wook Park.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Women ∙ Family |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 85 min. B&W
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Plot: A small town librarian stands up to local pressure to remove a controversial book from the shelves.
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Cast: Bette Davis, Brian Keith, Kim Hunter, Paul Kelly, Joe Mantell, Kevin Coughlin. Directed by Daniel Taradash.
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Categories: Free Speech ∙ Censorship ∙ Women |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 103 min.
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Plot: A British mystery author visits her publisher's home in the South of France, where friction with his unusual daughter sets off some touchy dynamics.
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Cast: Charlotte Rampling, Ludivine Sagnier, John Bosload, Franck
Marc Fayolle. Directed by François Ozon.
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Categories: Entertainment ∙ Women ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 94 min.
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Plot: Still a stranger to her own body, a high school student discovers she has a physical advantage when she becomes the object of male violence.
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Cast: Jess Weixler, John Hensley, Josh Pais, Hale Appleman, Lenny Von Dohlen. Directed by Mitchell Lichtenstein.
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Categories: Horror ∙ Comedy ∙ Women |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 129 min.
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Plot: An Arkansas waitress and a housewife shoot a rapist and take off in a '66 Thunderbird.
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Cast: Susan Saradon, Geena Davis, Brad Pitt. Directed by Ridley Scott.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Women |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 102 min.
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Plot: A philosophy teacher soldiers through the death of her mother, getting fired from her job, and dealing with a husband who is cheating on her.
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Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Andre Marcon, Roman Kolinka. Directed by Mia Hansen-Love.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Foreign ∙ Women |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 91 min. B&W
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Plot: A psychiatrist diagnoses a young housewife with multiple personalities disorder.
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Cast: Joanne Woodward, David Wayne, Lee J. Cobb. Directed by Nunnally Johnson.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Mental Health ∙ Women |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 112 min.
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Plot: A young woman goes on a 1,700-mile trek across the deserts of West Australia with four camels and her faithful dog.
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Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Adam Driver, Rainer Bock, Rolley Mintuma. Directed by John Curran.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Biography ∙ Women |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 125 min.
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Plot: Having thought that monogamy was never possible, a commitment-phobic career woman may have to face her fears when she meets a good guy.
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Cast: Amy Schumer, Bill Hader, Brie Larson, John Cena, Colin Quinn, Tilda Swinton. Directed by Judd Apatow.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Romance ∙ Women |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 95 min.
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Plot: A young woman has only one weekend to convince her colleagues to give up significant pay bonuses so that she can keep her job. In French with English subtitles.
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Cast: Marion Cotillard, Fabrizio Rongione, Pili Groyne, Simon Caudry, Catherine Salée. Directed by Jean-Pierie Dardenne.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Foreign ∙ Women |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 102 min.
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Plot: A lawyer decides that she's used too much like a nanny by her boss, so she walks out on him.
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Cast: Sandra Bullock, Hugh Grant, Alicia Witt, Dana Ivey, Robert Klein, Heather Burns. Directed by Marc Lawrence.
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Categories: Employment ∙ Women ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 101 min.
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Plot: Provides a look into the secrets and deep pockets of the pro-life movement.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves.. Directed by Stephen Fell and Will Thompson.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Women ∙ Ethics |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 124 min.
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Plot: A wealthy woman struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband leaves her for a younger woman.
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Cast: Jill Clayburgh, Alan Bates, Michael Murphy, Cliff Gorman, Pat Quinn. Directed by Paul Mazursky.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Domestic Relations ∙ Women |
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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: ****
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Format: DVD 121 min.
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Plot: When the aunt of two orphaned girls dies, the spirit of their dead mother reappears.
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Cast: Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas, Blanca Portillo, Yohana Cobo, Chus Lampreave. Directed by Pedro Almodóvar.
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Categories: Women ∙ Romance ∙ Estates |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 94 min.
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Plot: Two dateless teens stuck at home on a Friday night decide to create the perfect woman.
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Cast: Anthony Michael Hall, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Kelly LeBrock. Directed by John Hughes.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Women |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 101 min.
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Plot: A small New Zealand village faces a crisis when the chiefdom, bound by tradition to go to a male heir, falls to a twelve-year old girl.
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Cast: Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rawiri Paratene, Vicky Haughton, Cliff Curtis, Grant Roa. Directed by Niki Caro.
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Categories: Women ∙ Discrimination ∙ Foreign |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 111 min.
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Plot: An indie-rock loving misfit finds a way of dealing with her small-town misery after she discovers a roller derby league in a nearby city.
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Cast: Ellen Page, Marcia Gay Harden, Kristen Wiig, Drew Barrymore, Juliette Lewis, Jimmy Fallon, Daniel Stern. Directed by Drew Barrymore.
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Categories: Sports ∙ Women ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 129 min.
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Plot: Four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands' criminal activities, take fate into their own hands, and conspire to forge a future on their own terms.
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Cast: Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki. Directed by Steve McQueen.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Organized Crime ∙ Women |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 99 min.
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Plot: A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Cast: Glenn Close, Jonathan Price, Max Irons. Directed by Bjorne Runge.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Marital Relations ∙ Women |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 115 min.
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Plot: A detective and slick attorney trail a guidance counselor accused of raping two scheming high school vixens.
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Cast: Kevin Bacon, Matt Dillon, Neve Campbell, Theresa Russell, Denise Richards, Daphne Rubin-Vega. Directed by John McNaughton.
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Categories: Juvenile ∙ Women |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 133 min.
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Plot: A study of the lives and romantic entanglements of various interconnected women.
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Cast: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosiland Russell. Directed by George Cukor.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Drama ∙ Women |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 137 min.
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Plot: A Jewish girl disguises herself as a boy to enter religious training.
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Cast: Barbra Streisand, Mandy Patinkin, Amy Irving. Directed by Barbra Streisand.
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Categories: Religion ∙ Women ∙ Musical |
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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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