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E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Rated:  PG  Stars: *****
Format:  DVD  121 min. 
Plot: A group of children help a stranded alien return home.
Cast: Dee Wallace, Peter Coyote, Drew Barrymore, Henry Thomas. Directed by Steven Spielberg.
Categories:  SciFi/Fantasy  Family  Drama

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Each Dawn I Die (1939)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD  92 min. B&W
Plot: After breaking a story about city corruption, a reporter is jailed for manslaughter and broken down by the penitentiary system.
Cast: James Cagney, George Raft, Jane Bryan, George Bancroft, Maxie Rosenbloom. Directed by William Keighley.
Categories:  Ethics  Politics

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Eagle Eye (2008)
Rated:  PG-13  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD  117 min. 
Plot: Two strangers are thrown together by a mysterious phone call from a woman they have never met, threatening their lives and family.
Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson, Michael Chiklis, Anthony Mackie, Ethan Embry, Billy Bob Thornton. Directed by D. J. Caruso.
Categories:  Privacy  Action  National Security

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Eagle Huntress (2016)
Rated:  G  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  87 min. 
Plot: A young girl trains to become the first female in twelve generations of her family to become an eagle huntress.
Cast: Aisholpan Nurgaiv, Daisy Ridley, Rys Nurgaiv. Directed by Otto Bell.
Categories:  Documentary  Foreign  Family

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Eagles, The: Farewell 1 Tour, Live From Melbourne (2005)
Rated:  G  Stars: ****1/2
Format:  DVD (2 disc) 175 min. 
Plot: Live concert in Melbourne, Australia.
Cast: Don Henley, Joe Walsh, Timothy Schmidt, Glenn Frey. Directed by Carol Dodds.
Categories:  Musical  Documentary

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Earrings of Madame de..., The (1953)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  105 min. B&W
Plot: In France in the late 19th century, the wife of a wealthy general sells the earrings her husband gave her on their wedding day to pay off debts and claims to have lost them.
Cast: Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica, Jean Debucourt. Directed by Max Ophuls.
Categories:  Debtor-Creditor  Marital Relations  Drama

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East of Eden (1955)
Rated:  PG  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD (2 disc set) 118 min. 
Plot: A wilful young man contends against his brother for the attention of their religious father while reconnecting with his estranged mother and falling for his brother's girlfriend.
Cast: James Dean, Raymond Massey, Julie Harris. Directed by Elia Kazan.
Categories:  Drama  Family  Romance

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Eastern Promises (2007)
Rated:  R  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  101 min. 
Plot: A driver for one of London's most notorious crime families loyalties are put to the test when a midwife discovers some of the family's secrets.
Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel, Armin Mueller-Stahl. Directed by David Cronenberg.
Categories:  Organized Crime  Action  Family

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Easy A (2010)
Rated:  PG-13  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD  92 min. 
Plot: A clean-cut high school student relies on the school's rumor mill to advance her social and financial standing.
Cast: Emma Stone, Penn Badgley, Thomas Haden Church, Amanda Bynes. Directed by Will Gluck.
Categories:  Comedy  Juvenile  Education

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Easy Rider (1969)
Rated:  R  Stars: *****
Format:  DVD  95 min. 
Plot: Two bikers travel across country at the height of counter-culture America.
Cast: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson. Directed by Dennis Hopper.
Categories:  Drama  Action

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Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  124 min. 
Plot: A senior chef lives with his three grown daughters; the middle one finds her future plans affected by unexpected events and the life changes of the other household members. In Mandarin with English subtitles.
Cast: Sihung Lung, Kuei-Mei Yang, Yu-Wen Wang. Directed by Ang Lee.
Categories:  Comedy  Drama  Foreign

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Eating Animals (2017)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD  94 min. 
Plot: An examination of our dietary choices and the food we put in our bodies. Based on Jonathan Safran Foer's memoir.
Cast: Narrated by Natalie Portman. Directed by Christopher Quinn.
Categories:  Documentary  Consumer  Health

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Ed Wood (1994)
Rated:  R  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  127 min. 
Plot: A stranger-than-fiction true story of the early career of Edward D. Wood, Jr., the undisputed worst movie director of all time.
Cast: Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker, Patricia Arquette, Bill Murray. Directed by Tim Burton.
Categories:  Drama  Biography

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Edge of Heaven, The (2007)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  116 min. 
Plot: A Turkish man travels to Istanbul to find the daughter of his father's former girlfriend.
Cast: Baki Davrak, Tuncel Kurtiz, Nursel Köse, Nurgül Yeşilçay, Patrycia Ziolkowska, Hanna Schygulla. Directed by Fatih Akin.
Categories:  International  Drama

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Edge of Seventeen, The (2016)
Rated:  R  Stars: ****
Format:  Blu-ray/DVD  104 min. 
Plot: High-school life gets even more unbearable for Nadine when her best friend starts dating her older brother.
Cast: Halee Steinfeld,, Haley Lu Richardson, Blake Jenner. Directed by Kelly Fremon Cray.
Categories:  Comedy  Drama  Romance

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Edie & Thea (2009)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  61 min. 
Plot: After 42 years, feisty and delightful lesbian couple Edie and Thea are finally getting married.
Cast: Edie Windsor and Thea Spyer. Directed by Susan Muska.
Categories:  Documentary  Biography  Gender

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Education of Sonny Carson, The (1974)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ***
Format:  DVD  104 min. 
Plot: A teenager who has fallen into a life of gangs and crime realizes he must rise above it when he is released from prison.
Cast: Rony Clayton, Don Gordon, Joyce Walker, Paul Benjamin, Thomas Hicks. Directed by Michael Campus.
Categories:  Biography  Drama

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Education, An (2009)
Rated:  PG-13  Stars: ***
Format:  DVD  100 min. 
Plot: A coming of age story about a teenage girl in 1960s suburban London.
Cast: Carey Mulligan, Olivia Williams, Alfred Molina, Peter Sarsgaard, Rosamund Pike. Directed by Lone Scherfig.
Categories:  Drama  Romance

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Edukators, The (2004)
Rated:  R  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  130 min. 
Plot: Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home. In German with English subtitles.
Cast: Daniel Brühl, Julia Jentsch, Stipe Erceg, Burghart Klaussner. Directed by Hans Weingartner.
Categories:  Comedy  Foreign

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Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Rated:  PG-13  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  105 min. 
Plot: An inventor's sudden death leaves his greatest creation unfinished with sharp shears of metal for hands.
Cast: Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest. Directed by Tim Burton.
Categories:  Drama  SciFi/Fantasy  Romance

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Eichmanns Ende (2010)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD  89 min. 
Plot: Rendition of encounter between Adolf Eichmann and his Israeli police captain interrogation. German, Spanish, and Hebrew with English subtitles.
Cast: Herbert Knaup, Ulrich Tukur, and Axel Milberg. Directed by Raymond Lee.
Categories:  Documentary  Biography  War

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Eight Men Out (1988)
Rated:  PG  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  120 min. 
Plot: A baseball drama about the 1919 "Black Sox" scandal, when members of the Chicago White Sox conspired to tamper with the World Series.
Cast: Charlie Sheen, John Cusack, Christopher Lloyd, D.B. Sweeney, David Strathairn, Michael Lerner, Clifton James, Studs Terkel. Directed by John Sayles.
Categories:  Sports  Drama  Fraud

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Eleanor and Franklin (1976)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD (2 disc set) 370 min. 
Plot: The story of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt as told from her point of view.
Cast: Jane Alexander, Edward Herrmann, Priscilla Pointer, Walter McGinn, Rosemary Murphy. Directed by Daniel Petrie.
Categories:  Biography  Family  Politics

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Election (1999)
Rated:  R  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  103 min. 
Plot: An obnoxious overachiever running for student body president is opposed by an unlikely candidate egged on by a vindictive teacher.
Cast: Matthew Broderick, Reese Witherspoon, Loren Nelson, Chris Klein. Directed by Alexander Payne.
Categories:  Education  Comedy

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Electric Horseman, The (1979)
Rated:  PG  Stars: ***
Format:  DVD  121 min. 
Plot: A rodeo star past his prime steals his company's horse and rides off into the desert, with a feisty female reporter accompanying him.
Cast: Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Valerie Perrine. Directed by Sydney Pollack.
Categories:  Comedy  Drama  Romance

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Elegant Criminal, The (1990)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ****
Format:  VHS  120 min. 
Plot: Based on a true story, a nineteenth-century intellectual embarks on a life of crime designed to lead to his execution. In French with English subtitles.
Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Jean Poiret, Marie-Armelle Deguy. Directed by Francis Girod.
Categories:  Biography  Foreign  Mystery/Suspense

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Elegy (2008)
Rated:  R  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD  112 min. 
Plot: A middle-aged professor sets out to seduce a student and swims into deeper feelings that he has difficulties understanding.
Cast: Penelope Cruz, Ben Kingsley, Peter Sarsgaard, Patricia Clarkson, Dennis Hopper. Directed by Isabel Coixet.
Categories:  Drama  Education  Romance

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Elephant (2003)
Rated:  R  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  80 min. 
Plot: A seemingly ordinary day at an Oregon high school suddenly turns tragic.
Cast: Alex Frost, Eric Deulen, John Robinson, Elias McConnell, Jordan Taylor, Carrie Finklea, Nicole George. Directed by Gus Van Sant.
Categories:  Education  Drama  Juvenile

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Elephant Man, The (1980)
Rated:  PG  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  124 min. 
Plot: A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak.
Cast: John Hurt, Anthony Hopkins, Anne Bancroft. Directed by David Lynch.
Categories:  Biography  Drama  Medical

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Elizabeth I (2005)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD (2 disc set) 223 min. 
Plot: Miniseries about the the public and private lives of the later years of Queen Elizabeth I.
Cast: Helen Mirren, Jeremy Irons, Hugh Dancy, Ian McDiarmid, Patrick Malahide, Toby Jones. Directed by Tom Hooper.
Categories:  Biography  Drama  Romance

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Elizabethtown (2005)
Rated:  PG-13  Stars: ***
Format:  DVD  123 min. 
Plot: A hotshot designer's world comes crashing down and on his way home for a funeral he meets a flight attendant that gets his life back on track.
Cast: Orlando Bloom, Kirsten Dunst, Susan Sarandon, Alec Baldwin, Bruce McGill, Judy Greer, Jessica Biel. Directed by Cameron Crowe.
Categories:  Romance  Estates  Comedy

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Elle (2016)
Rated:  R  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD  130 min. 
Plot: A successful businesswoman gets caught up in a game of cat and mouse as she tracks down the unknown man who raped her.
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Anne Consigny. Directed by Paul Verhoeven.
Categories:  Drama  Women  Mystery/Suspense

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Elmer Gantry (1960)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  145 min. 
Plot: A salesman teams up with an evangelist to sell religion to America in the 1920's.
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Dean Jagger, Arthur Kennedy, Shirley Jones. Directed by Richard Brooks.
Categories:  Religion  Drama

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Elvis & Nixon (2016)
Rated:  R  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  86 min. 
Plot: The untold true story behind the most requested photograph in the National Archives.
Cast: Michael Shannon, Kevin Spacey, Alex Pettyfer, Johnny KNoxville. Directed by Liza Johnson.
Categories:  History  Comedy  Politics

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Embrace of the Serpent (2015)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  125 min. 
Plot: An Amazonian shaman and two scientists work together to search the Amazon for a sacred healing plant. In Spanish with English subtitles.
Cast: Nilbio Torres, Jan Bijvoet, Antonio Bolivar. Directed by Ciro Guerra.
Categories:  Biography  Drama  Foreign

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Emmanuel's Gift (2005)
Rated:  G  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  80 min. 
Plot: Chronicles the life of a young Ghanaian man born with a severely deformed right leg, who today, against incalculable odds, is opening minds and effecting social and political change throughout his country.
Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Lisa Lax and Nancy Stern.
Categories:  Documentary  Politics  History

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Emperor's New Groove, The (2000)
Rated:  G  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD  78 min. 
Plot: The emperor is turned into a llama by his ex-administrator and must regain his throne.
Cast: Voices, David Spade, John Goodman, Eartha Kitt, Patrick Warburton, Wendie Malick. Directed by Mark Dindal.
Categories:  Animation  Adminstrative  Comedy

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Enchanted (2007)
Rated:  PG  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  107 min. 
Plot: A classic fairytale collides with modern-day New York City when a fairytale princess is sent to our world by an evil queen.
Cast: Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey, James Marsden, Timothy Spall, Susan Sarandon. Directed by Kevin Lima.
Categories:  Animation  Musical  Romance

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End of Suburbia, The: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream (2004)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  78 min. 
Plot: The modern suburbs have ultimately become an unsustainable way of living.
Cast: Hosted by Barrie Zwicker. Directed by Gregory Greene.
Categories:  Documentary  Politics  Economics

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End of Watch (2012)
Rated:  R  Stars: ****
Format:  Blu-ray/DVD  109 min. 
Plot: Two young officers are marked for death after confiscating a small cache of money and firearms.
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, America Ferrera, Michael Pena, Anna Kendrick. Directed by David Ayer.
Categories:  Drama  Organized Crime  Law Enforcement

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Endless Summer, The (1964)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  82 min. 
Plot: Two young surfers travel the world in hopes of finding the perfect wave.
Cast: Michael Hynson, Robert August. Directed by Bruce Brown.
Categories:  Documentary  Sports  International

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Enemies: A Love Story (1989)
Rated:  R  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  120 min. 
Plot: A Holocaust survivor finds himself involved with three women.
Cast: Ron Silver, Anjelica Huston, Lena Olin, Alan King, Paul Mazursky. Directed by Paul Mazursky.
Categories:  Comedy  Family  War

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Enemy of the State (1998)
Rated:  R  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD  132 min. 
Plot: A successful lawyer finds himself the target of a treacherous NSA official and his goons after receiving evidence to a politically motivated murder, the only man that can help him is a former government operative turned surveillance expert.
Cast: Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Regina King, Loren Dean, Jake Bussey. Directed by Tony Scott.
Categories:  Privacy  National Security  Government

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Enforcer, The (1976)
Rated:  R  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD  96 min. 
Plot: A terrorist organization made up of disgruntled Vietnam veterans must be foiled.
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, Bradford Dillman, John Mitchum. Directed by James Fargo.
Categories:  Drama  Action  Law Enforcement

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Enough Said (2013)
Rated:  PG-13  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  93 min. 
Plot: A divorced woman decides to pursue the man she's interested only to learn he's her new friend's ex-husband.
Cast: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, James Gandolfini, Catherine Keener. Directed by Nicole Holofcener.
Categories:  Comedy  Domestic Relations  Family

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Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  110 min. 
Plot: Presents the corrupt business practices that led to the fall of Enron Corporation.
Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Alex Gibney.
Categories:  Documentary  Corporations  Ethics

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Enter the Dragon (1973)
Rated:  R  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  102 min. 
Plot: A martial artist agrees to spy on a reclusive crime lord using his invitation to a tournament there as cover.
Cast: Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Ahna Capri. Directed by Robert Ckouse.
Categories:  Organized Crime  Sports  Action

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Entourage: The Complete Eighth Season (2011)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD (2 disc set) 3 hours, 59 min. 
Plot: An ongoing saga of a young film star navigating the absurdities and pitfalls of Los Angeles with a close circle of friends and his trusty agent.
Cast: Adrian Grenier, Kevin Dillon, Jeremy Piven, Jerry Ferrara, Kevin Connolly, Debi Mazar, Perrey Reeves, Rex Lee. Directed by Kevin Connolly and Daniel Attias.
Categories:  Entertainment  Contracts  Television

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Entourage: The Complete Fifth Season (2009)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ****1/2
Format:  DVD (2 disc set) 5 hours, 56 min. 
Plot: Ongoing saga of a young film star navigating the absurdities and pitfalls of Los Angeles with a close circle of friends and his trusty agent.
Cast: Kevin Connolly, Adrean Grenier, Kevin Dillon, Jerry Ferrara, Debi Mazar, Jeremy Piven. Directed by Adam Bernstein and Daniel Attias.
Categories:  Entertainment  Contracts  Television

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Entourage: The Complete First Season (2004)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD (2 disc set) 3 hours, 59 min. 
Plot: A young film star navigates the absurdities and pitfalls of Los Angeles with a close circle of friends and his trusty agent.
Cast: Kevin Connolly, Adrian Grenier, Kevin Dillon, Jerry Ferrara, Debi Mazar, Jeremy Piven. Directed by Adam Bernstein and Daniel Attias.
Categories:  Entertainment  Contracts  Television

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Entourage: The Complete Fourth Season (2008)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ****1/2
Format:  DVD (2 disc set) 5 hours, 56 min. 
Plot: Ongoing saga of a young film star navigating the absurdities and pitfalls of Los Angeles with a close circle of friends and his trusty agent.
Cast: Kevin Connolly, Adrean Grenier, Kevin Dillon, Jeerry Ferrara, Debi Mazar, Jeremy Piven. Directed by Adam Bernstein and Daniel Attias.
Categories:  Entertainment  Contracts  Television

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Entourage: The Complete Second Season (2006)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ****1/2
Format:  DVD (2 disc set) 5 hours, 56 min. 
Plot: Ongoing saga of a young star navigating the absurdities and pitfalls of Los Angeles with a close circle of friends and his trusty agent.
Cast: Kevin Connolly, Adrian Grenier, Kevin Dillon, Jerry Ferrara, Debi Mazar, Jeremy Piven. Directed by Adam Bernstein and Daniel Attlias.
Categories:  Entertainment  Contracts  Television

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Entourage: The Complete Seventh Season (2011)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ****1/2
Format:  DVD (2 disc set) 5 hours, 56 min. 
Plot: An ongoing saga of a young film star navigating the absurdities and pitfalls of Los Angeles with a close circle of friends and his trusty agent.
Cast: Kevin Connolly, Adrian Grenier, Kevin Dillon, Jerry Ferrara, Debi Mazar, Jeremy Piven. Directed by Adam Bernstein and Daniel Attias.
Categories:  Entertainment  Contracts  Television

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Entourage: The Complete Sixth Season (2010)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ****1/2
Format:  DVD (2 disc set) 5 hours, 26 min. 
Plot: Ongoing saga of a young film star navigating the absurdities and pitfalls of Los Angeles with a close circle of friends and his trust agent.
Cast: Kevin Connolly, Adrian Grenier, Kevin Dillon, Jerry Ferrara, Debi Mazar, Jeremy Piven. Directed by Adam Bernstein and Daniel Attias.
Categories:  Entertainment  Contracts  Television

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Entourage: The Movie (2015)
Rated:  R  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD  104 min. 
Plot: Movie star Vince and his boys aer back - and back in business with super agent-turned-studio head in a risky project that will serve as Vince's directorial debut.
Cast: Adrian Grenier, Kevin Connolly, Jerry Ferrara. Directed by Doug Ellin.
Categories:  Comedy  Business  Entertainment

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Entourage: The Third Season, Part 1 (2007)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ****1/2
Format:  DVD (2 disc set) 5 hours, 56 min. 
Plot: Ongoing saga of a young film star navigating the absurdities and pitfalls of Los Angeles with a close circle of friends and his trusty agent.
Cast: Kevin Connolly, Adrian Grenier, Kevin Dillon, Jerry Ferrara, Debi Mazar, Jeremy Piven. Directed by Adam Bernstein and Daniel Atlas.
Categories:  Entertainment  Contracts  Television

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Entourage: The Third Season, Part 2 (2007)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ****1/2
Format:  DVD (2 disc set) 3 hours, 56 min. 
Plot: Ongoing saga of a young film star navigating the absurdities and pitfalls of Los Angeles with a close circle of friends and his trusty agent.
Cast: Kevin Connolly, Adrian Grenier, Kevin Dillon, Jerry Ferrara, Debi Mazar, Jeremy Piven. Directed by Adam Bernstein and Daniel Attlias.
Categories:  Entertainment  Contracts  Television

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Eragon (2006)
Rated:  PG  Stars: **1/2
Format:  DVD  103 min. 
Plot: A farm boy happens upon a dragon's egg; a discovery that leads him on a predestined journey to save his kingdom.
Cast: Ed Speleers, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Guillory, Robert Carlyle, John Malkovich. Directed by Stefen Fangmeier.
Categories:  Action  Family  War

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Eraserhead (1977)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD  89 min. B&W
Plot: In a post-apocalyptic society, a factory worker's girlfriend delivers a mutant baby and leaves him to care for the newborn child.
Cast: Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph, Jeanne Bates. Directed by David Lynch.
Categories:  SciFi/Fantasy  Children

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Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars (2017)
Rated:  NC-17  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD  135 min. 
Plot: A look at the life and work of guitarist Eric Clapton told by those who have known him best.
Cast: Eric Clapton, Pattie Boyd, George Harrison. Directed by Lili Fini Zanuck.
Categories:  Documentary  Musical

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Erin Brockovich (2000)
Rated:  R  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  130 min. 
Plot: An unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city's water supply thereby causing cancer and other illness in the community.
Cast: Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, Aaron Eckhart, Marg Helgenberger, Cherry Jones, Peter Coyote, Scotty Leavenworth. Directed by Steven Soderbergh.
Categories:  Torts  Corporations  Environmental

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Ernest & Celestine (2012)
Rated:  PG  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  80 min. 
Plot: The story of an unlikely friendship between a bear and a young mouse.
Cast: Voices of Forest Whitaker, Mackenzie Foy, Lauren Bacall, Paul Giamatti, William H. Macy. Directed by Stephane Aubier.
Categories:  Animation  Animal  Comedy

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Escape Artist, The (2013)
Rated:  PG  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  180 min. 
Plot: A talented junior barrister of peerless intellect specializes in spiriting people out of tight legal corners.
Cast: David Tennant, Toby Kebbel, Sophie Okonedo, Ashley Jensen. Directed by Cabel Deschanel.
Categories:  Drama  Criminal Law  Television

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Escape From Alcatraz (1979)
Rated:  PG  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  111 min. 
Plot: A group of inmates attempt a daring escape from the notorious Alcatraz prison island, where no one has ever escaped.
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan. Directed by Don Siegel.
Categories:  Law Enforcement  Criminal Law

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Rated:  R  Stars: ****1/2
Format:  DVD  108 min. 
Plot: A couple undergoes a procedure to erase each other from their memories when their relationship turns sour, but it is only through the process of loss that they discover what they had to begin with.
Cast: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst, Mark Ruffalo, Elijah Wood, Tom Wilkinson. Directed by Michel Gondry.
Categories:  Privacy  Entertainment  SciFi/Fantasy

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Eureka (1983)
Rated:  R  Stars: ***
Format:  DVD  130 min. 
Plot: In the Canadian wilderness, an Artic prospector breaks through the snow to an underground cavern and becomes the world's richest man.
Cast: Gene Hackman, Rutger hauer, Theresa Russell, Mickey Rourke, Joe Pesci. Directed by Nicolas Roeg.
Categories:  Environmental  Natural Resources  Jury

Law movies
Europa Europa (1991)
Rated:  R  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  112 min. 
Plot: A Jewish boy tries to hide his identity by joining the Hitler Youth. In German with English subtitles.
Cast: Marco Hofschneider, Julie Delpy, Rene Hofschneider, Piotr Kozlowski. Directed by Agnleszka Holland.
Categories:  Foreign  History  War

Law movies
Evan Almighty (2007)
Rated:  PG  Stars: ***
Format:  DVD  96 min. 
Plot: God contacts Congressman Evan Baxter and tells him to build an ark in preparation for a great flood.
Cast: Steve Carell, Morgan Freeman, Lauren Graham, John Goodman. Directed by Tom Shadyac.
Categories:  Religion  Comedy  Politics

Law movies
Evelyn (2002)
Rated:  PG  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD  95 min. 
Plot: A Dubliner's children are placed into orphanages when his wife leaves him, and he must enlist an American lawyer to take the case all the way to Ireland's Supreme Court.
Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Aidan Quinn, Julianna Margulies, Sophie Vavasseur, Niall Beagan, Hugh McDonagh. Directed by Bruce Beresford.
Categories:  Family  International  Drama

Law movies
Evening (2007)
Rated:  PG-13  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD  117 min. 
Plot: As a woman lays dying, she conveys to her daughters the defining moments in her life.
Cast: Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Vanessa Redgrave, Patrick Wilson, Hugh Dancy, Meryl Streep. Directed by Lajos Koltai.
Categories:  Romance  Women

Law movies
Event, The (2003)
Rated:  R  Stars: ***
Format:  DVD  110 min. 
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.
Cast: Brent Carver, Olympie Dukakis, Jane Leeves, Don Mckellar, Sarah Polley, Parker Posey. Directed by Thom Fitzgerald.
Categories:  Sexuality  Medical  Drama

Law movies
Every F---king Day of My Life  (2010)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  65 min. 
Plot: Paints a revealing portrait of the seemingly desperate conditions that drove a mother and son to plead guilty to manslaughter in the killing of Aaron Maldonado.
Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Tommy Davis.
Categories:  Documentary  Domestic Relations  Biography

Law movies
Everybody Wants Some (2016)
Rated:  R  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD  111 min. 
Plot: A group of college baseball players navigate their way through the freedoms and responsibilities of unsupervised adulthood.
Cast: Blake Jenner, Tyler Hoechlin, Ryan Guzman. Directed by Richard Linklater.
Categories:  Comedy  Sports  Drama

Law movies
Everything is Illuminated (2005)
Rated:  PG-13  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  105 min. 
Plot: With the help of a local, a young Jewish American man endeavors to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II in a Ukrainian village that was razed by the Nazis.
Cast: Elijah Wood, Eugene Hutz. Directed by Liev Schreiber.
Categories:  International  Family  War

Law movies
Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex (1972)
Rated:  R  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD  88 min. 
Plot: Seven segments related to one another only in that they all purport to be based on sections of the book by David Reuben
Cast: Woody Allen, John Carradine, Tony Randall, Lynn Redgrave, Burt Reynolds, Gene Wilder. Directed by Woody Allen.
Categories:  Comedy  Sexuality

Law movies
Everything's Cool: A Toxic Comedy About Global Warming! (2007)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD  89 min. 
Plot: Explains how United States government policy has contributed to a gap between what scientists know about global warming and what the general public understands.
Cast: Narration by Daniel B. Gold. Directed by Daniel Gold and Judith Helfand.
Categories:  Documentary  Environmental  Government

Law movies
Ex Machina (2015)
Rated:  R  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  108 min. 
Plot: A young programmer participates in an experiment in synthetic intelligence by evaluating the human qualities of a breath-taking humanoid.
Cast: Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander, Sonoya Mizuno, Oscar Isaac. Directed by Alex Garland.
Categories:  SciFi/Fantasy  Drama  Mystery/Suspense

Law movies
Excalibur (1981)
Rated:  R  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD   min. 140
Plot: The legendary tale of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.
Cast: Nigel Terry, Helen Mirren, Nicholas Clay, Cherie Lunghi, Paul Geoffrey. Directed by John Boorman.
Categories:  Drama  Conflict  Religion

Law movies
Executioner's Song, The (1982)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD  135 min. 
Plot: Based on a true story, an unstable ex-con committed two cruel and senseless murders that resulted in his execution by firing squad.
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Rosanna Arquette, Christine Lahti, Eli Wallach. Directed by Lawrence Schiller.
Categories:  Biography  Sentencing  Death Penalty

Law movies
Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)
Rated:  R  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  87 min. 
Plot: An eccentric French shop keeper and amateur film maker attempted to locate and befriend a famous graffiti artist, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner.
Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Banksy.
Categories:  Documentary  Biography  Art

Law movies
Exonerated, The (2005)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD  95 min. 
Plot: After being sentenced to death row, six people tell their stories of being exonerated of the crimes that put them behind bars.
Cast: Brian Dennehy, Danny Glover, Delroy Lindo, Aidan Quinn, Susan Sarandon, David Brown. Directed by Bob Balaban.
Categories:  Biography  Sentencing  Drama

Law movies
Exorcism of Emily Rose, The (2005)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD  122 min. 
Plot: A lawyer takes on a negligent homicide case involving a priest who performed an exorcism on a young girl.
Cast: Laura Linney, Tom Wilkinson, Campbell Scott, Colm Feore, Jennifer Carpenter, Mary Beth Hurt. Directed by Scott Derrickson.
Categories:  Criminal Law  Religion  Mystery/Suspense

Law movies
Exorcist, The (1973)
Rated:  R  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  132 min. 
Plot: A mother seeks the help of two priests to save her teenage daughter, possessed by a mysterious entity.
Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Lee J. Cobb, Kitty Winn, Jack MacGowran, Jason Miller, Linda Blair. Directed by William Friedkin.
Categories:  Religion  Horror  Children

Law movies
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011)
Rated:  PG-13  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD  129 min. 
Plot: A nine-year-old amateur inventor searches New York City for the lock that matches a mysterious key left behind by his father, who died in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
Cast: Tom Hanks, Jeffrey Wright, Max Von Sydow, Sandra Bullock, Thomas Horn. Directed by Stephen Daldry.
Categories:  Drama  Family  National Security

Law movies
Eye for an Eye (1996)
Rated:  R  Stars: ***
Format:  DVD  101 min. 
Plot: When the courts fail to keep behind bars the man who raped and murdered her daughter, a woman seeks her own form of justice.
Cast: Sally Field, Keifer Sutherland, Ed Harris. Directed by John Schlesinger.
Categories:  Action  Drama  Justice

Law movies
Eye in the Sky (2015)
Rated:  R  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  Blu-ray/DVD  102 min. 
Plot: A military officer in command of an operation to capture terrorists in Kenya, sees her mission escalate when a girl enters the kill zone triggering an international dispute over the implications of modern warfare.
Cast: Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, Alan Rickman. Directed by Gavin Hood.
Categories:  Drama  War  Ethics

Law movies
Eye of the Needle (1981)
Rated:  R  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD  111 min. 
Plot: A ruthless German spy, trying to get out of Britain with vital information about D-Day, must spend time with a young woman and her crippled husband.
Cast: Donald Sutherland, Kate Nelligan, Ian Bannen, Christopher Cazenove. Directed by Richard Marquand.
Categories:  International  War  Drama

Law movies
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Rated:  R  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD (2 disc set) 159 min. 
Plot: A New York City doctor, who is married to an art curator, pushes himself on a harrowing and dangerous night-long odyssey of sexual and moral discovery after his wife admits that she once almost cheated on him.
Cast: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Stanley Pollack, Marie Richardson, Rade Sherbedgia. Directed by Stanley Kubrick.
Categories:  Marital Relations  Drama

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 online catalog.