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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 105 min.
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Plot: A group of friends discover a plot to unleash a dangerous computer virus, and use their hacking skills to find the evidence while being pursued by the Secret Service and the virus' creator.
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Cast: Jonny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie, Fisher Stevens, Lorraine Bracco. Directed by Iain Softley.
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Categories: Computer ∙ National Security ∙ Environmental |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 82 min.
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Plot: Ground breaking investigation of election fraud during the 2004 U.S. presidential election.
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Cast: Narration by James Naughton. Directed by Simon Ardizzone and Russell Michaels.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Politics ∙ Fraud |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 139 min.
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Plot: A WWII American Army Medic that refuses to kill people becomes the first man in American history to receive the Medal of Honor without firing a shot.
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Cast: Andrew Garfield, Sam Worthington, Luke Bracey. Directed by Mel Gibson.
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Categories: Drama ∙ History ∙ War |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 88 min.
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Plot: A man may be the best office temp around, but he is terrible as a permanent employee when he accepts a position as secretary for a top tax attorney who seems like Satan himself.
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Cast: Josh Kornbluth, Warren Keith, Leah Alperin, Jacob Kornbluth. Directed by Jacob Kornbluth and Josh Kornbluth.
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Categories: Employment ∙ Comedy ∙ Tax |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 106 min.
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Plot: A Hollywood fixer in the 1950s works to keep the studio's stars in line.
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Cast: Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Alden Ehrenreich. Directed by Ethan Cohen & Joel Coen.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Entertainment |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 117 min.
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Plot: The Corny Collins television dance show holds auditions for the chance to star in the show and through perseverance and the support of her friends and family Tracy becomes the atypical star of the show.
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Cast: John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Amanda Bynes, James Marsden, Queen Latifah. Directed by Adam Shankman.
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Categories: Entertainment ∙ Discrimination ∙ Musical |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 107 min.
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Plot: An inner-city junior high school teacher with a drug habit forms an unlikely friendship with one of his students after she discovers his secret.
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Cast: Ryan Gosling, Shareeka Epps, Anthony Mackie. Directed by Ryan Fleck.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Education |
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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: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 102 min.
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Plot: A hard-living superhero who has fallen out of favor with the public enters into a questionable relationship with the wife of the public relations professional who's trying to repair his image.
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Cast: Will Smith, Jason Bateman, Charlize Theron, Eddie Marsan. Directed by Peter Berg.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Action |
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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: NR Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD (4 disc set) 12 hours 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, Kari Skogland, and others.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Television ∙ Gender |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 144 min.
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Plot: A woman hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress is secretly involved in a plot to defraud her. In Korean with English subtitles.
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Cast: Min-hee Kim, Jund-woo Ha, Jin-woong Jo. Directed by Chan-wook Park.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Foreign ∙ Romance |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 100 min.
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Plot: Three groomsmen lose their about-to-be-wed buddy during their drunken misadventures in Las Vegas, then must retrace their steps in order to find him.
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Cast: Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Heather Graham, Justin Bartha. Directed by Todd Phillips.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Criminal Law ∙ Law Enforcement |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 107 min.
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Plot: As the eldest of three daughters, Hannah is the one that holds the family together, that is until her sisters begin relationships with her current and former husbands.
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Cast: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Michael Caine, Barbara Hershey, Dianne Wiest, Lloyd Nolan, Max Von Sydow, Carrie Fisher. Directed by Woody Allen.
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Categories: Family ∙ Marital Relations |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 113 min.
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Plot: A look at the life of philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt, who reported for The New Yorker on the war crimes trial of the Nazi Adolf Eichmann.
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Cast: Barbara Sukowa, Axel Milberg, Janet McTeer, Julia Jentsch. Directed by Margarethe von Trotta.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Biography ∙ War |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 109 min.
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Plot: Margaret is a nurse in England during WW2, and married to a secret agent, when she falls for David, an American pilot.
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Cast: Harrison Ford, Lesley-Anne Down, Christopher Plummer, Alec McCowen, Richard Masur, Michael Sacks, Patsy Kensit, Max Wall, Shane Rimmer. Directed by Peter Hyams.
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Categories: War ∙ Romance |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 108 min.
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Plot: Into the world of the Emperor Penguins, who find their soul mates through song, a penguin is born who cannot sing.
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Cast: Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Brittany Murphy, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman. Directed by George Miller.
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Categories: Animation ∙ Family |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 119 min.
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Plot: A cheery and colorful North London schoolteacher's optimism tends to exasperate those around her.
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Cast: Sally Hawkins, Eddie Marsan, Alexis Zegerman, Sylvestra Le Touzel. Directed by Mike Leigh.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Education |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 247 min.
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Plot: A tough-as-nails cop teams up with an undercover agent to shut down a sinister mobster and his crew.
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Cast: Chow Yun-Fat, Tony Leung, Teresa Mo, Philip Chan. Directed by John Woo.
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Categories: Law Enforcement ∙ Organized Crime |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 87 min.
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Plot: A lively, good-natured spoof of "Beatlemania" portraying a frantic 36 hours in the lives of the rock group.
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Cast: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Wilfrid Brambell. Directed by Richard Lester.
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Categories: Musical ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 97 min.
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Plot: A woman hires a drifter as her guide through New Orleans in search of her father, who has gone missing.
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Cast: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Lance Henriksen, Yancy Butler, Wilford Brimley. Directed by John Woo.
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Categories: Action ∙ Law Enforcement |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 108 min.
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Plot: A conservative Midwest businessman ventures into the sordid underworld of pornography in California to look for his runaway teenage daughter.
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Cast: Peter Boyle, Season Hubley. Directed by Paul Schrader.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Children |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 104 min.
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Plot: The coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973.
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Cast: Norman Yarborough, Houston Elmore, Phil Sparks. Directed by Barbara Kopple.
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Categories: Employment ∙ History ∙ Corporations |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 100 min.
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Plot: Explores one of Nazi Germany's most notorious filmmakers. In German with English subtitles.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Felix Moeller.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Foreign ∙ Biography |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 101 min.
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Plot: Suspected of being terrorists, the pot-smoking duo try to outrun the authorities.
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Cast: John Cho, Kal Penn, Rob Cordry, Roger Bart, Neil Patrick Harris. Directed by Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ National Security ∙ Law Enforcement |
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Rated: PG Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 91 min.
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Plot: A depressed, death-obsessed 20-year-old man-child, spends his free time attending funerals and staging fake suicides in front of his mother.
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Cast: Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort, Vivian Pickles, Cyril Cusack, Charles Tyner. Directed by Hal Ashby.
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Categories: Elder ∙ Family ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 121 min.
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Plot: A cool private investigator, is hired by a wealthy California matron to locate her kidnapped husband.
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Cast: Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris, Arthur Hill. Directed by Jack Smight.
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Categories: Criminal Law ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 115 min.
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Plot: A retired lifelong New Yorker goes on a cross country odyssey with his beloved cat Tonto.
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Cast: Art Carney, Ellen Burstyn, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Larry Hagman. Directed by Paul Mazursky.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Animal ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 161 min.
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Plot: Harry ignores warnings not to return to Hogwarts, only to find the school plagued by a series of mysterious attacks.
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Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, John Cleese, Robbie Coltrane, Warwick Davis, Alan Rickman. Directed by Chris Columbus.
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Categories: Education ∙ Children ∙ SciFi/Fantasy |
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Rated: PG13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 146 min.
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Plot: Harry, Ron, and Hermione set out on their perilous mission to track down and destroy the secret to Voldemort's immortality.
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Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint. Directed by David Yates.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Education ∙ Censorship |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 130 min.
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Plot: Harry, Ron and Hermione search for Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes in their effort to destroy the Dark Lord.
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Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Helena Bonham Carter, Robbie Coltrane. Directed by David Yates.
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Categories: Children ∙ Education ∙ SciFi/Fantasy |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 157 min.
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Plot: In his fourth year, Harry finds himself selected as an underage competitor in a dangerous multi-wizarding school competition
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Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Robbie Coltrane, Ralph Fiennes, Alan Rickman. Directed by Mike Newell.
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Categories: Children ∙ Education ∙ SciFi/Fantasy |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 153 min.
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Plot: In his sixth year at Hogwarts Harry must delve into Lord Voldemort's past to learn how to defeat him.
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Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Jim Broadbent, Helena Bonham Carter, Robbie Coltrane. Directed by David Yates.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Education ∙ Conflict |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 139 min.
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Plot: The wizarding world refuses to believe that Lord Voldemort has returned and Harry endures a difficult fifth year trying to convince them of the truth.
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Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Robbie Coltrane, Ralph Fiennes, Alan Rickman. Directed by David Yates.
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Categories: Education ∙ SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Children |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 142 min.
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Plot: In Harry's third year at Hogwarts, a convicted murderer has escaped the wizard's prison and is coming after him.
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Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Robbie Coltrane, Alan Rickman. Directed by Alfonso Cuaron.
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Categories: Children ∙ Education ∙ SciFi/Fantasy |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 152 min.
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Plot: Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
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Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, John Cleese, Robbie Coltrane, Warwick Davis, Alan Rickman. Directed by Chris Columbus.
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Categories: Education ∙ SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Children |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 125 min.
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Plot: During World War II, a former law student is chosen to defend a black prisoner of war accused of murder.
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Cast: Bruce Willis, Colin Farrell, Terrence Dashon Howard, Cole Hauser. Directed by Gregory Hoblit.
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Categories: Military ∙ Criminal Law ∙ War |
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Rated: G Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 104 min. B&W
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Plot: Tale of a mild-mannered, pleasant man, who just happens (he says) to have an invisible friend resembling a 6-foot rabbit.
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Cast: Jimmy Stewart, Josephine Hull, Charles Drake, Cecil Kellaway. Directed by Henry Koster.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Family ∙ Mental Health |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 154 min.
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Plot: Birdman (Arlen Papazian) is out of the superhero business, in a suit, late for court, and constantly in contempt.
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Cast: Gary Cole, Stephen Colbert, John Michael Higgins, Steve Landesberg, Maurice LaMarche, Thomas Allen. Directed by Michael Ouweleen, Erik Richter.
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Categories: Animation ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 60 min.
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Plot: Explores the 250,000 hate crimes committed in America each year.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Rachel Lyon.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ History ∙ Racism |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 133 min.
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Plot: A witnesses to a fatal shooting at the hands of a police officer faces pressure from all sides of the community.
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Cast: Amandla Stenberg, Regina Hall, Russell Hornsby. Directed by George Tillman Jr..
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Categories: Drama ∙ Civil Rights ∙ Law Enforcement |
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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: Follows three young men in a French ghetto over a span of 24 hours. In French with English subtitles.
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Cast: Vincent Cassel, Hubert Kounde, Said Taghmaoui, Abdel Ahmed Ghili. Directed by Mathieu Kassovitz.
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Categories: Foreign ∙ Drama ∙ Racism |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 168 min.
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Plot: In the dead of a Wyoming winter, a bounty hunter and his prisoner find shelter in a cabin currently inhabited by a collection of nefarious characters.
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Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Goggins. Directed by Quentin Tarantino.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Western ∙ Action |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 4 hours, 50 min.
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Plot: It's the true American story of a legendary family feud that spanned decades and nearly launched a war between Kentucky and West Virginia.
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Cast: Kevin Costner, Bill Paxton, Matt Barr, Tom Berenger, Powers Boothe, Andrew Howard. Directed by Kevin Reynolds.
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Categories: Television ∙ History ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 99 min.
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Plot: A businessman flees to the Cayman Islands to avoid persecution and a chain reaction of violence ensues on the island.
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Cast: Raz Adoti, Orlando Bloom, Bill Paxton, Zoe Saldana, Anthony Mackie. Directed by Frank E. Flowers.
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Categories: Fraud ∙ International ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 95 min.
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Plot: An unknown local politician from down-and-out Washington D.C. is unexpectedly selected to run as a presidential candidate.
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Cast: Chris Rock, Bernie Mac, Dylan Baker, Nick Searcy, Robin Givens, Lynn Whitfield, Tamala Jones, James Rebhorn. Directed by Chris Rock.
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Categories: Politics ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 118 min.
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Plot: A couple marries for convenience, only to discover that their arrangement leads them to fall in love. In German and Turkish with English subtitles.
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Cast: Birol Ünel, Sibel Kekilli, Catrin Striebeck. Directed by Fatih Akin.
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Categories: Romance ∙ Family ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 141 min.
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Plot: A psychologist discovers troubling links between Nazism and modern-day big business. In French with English subtitles.
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Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Michael Lonsdale, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Lou Castel. Directed by Nicolas Klotz.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Business ∙ Ethics |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 116 min.
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Plot: A newlywed man who believes he's just gotten hitched to the perfect woman encounters another lady on his honeymoon.
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Cast: Ben Stiller, Michelle Monaghan, Jerry Stiller, Malin Akerman, Carlos Mencia. Directed by Bobby Farrelly.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Marital Relations |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 97 min.
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Plot: A father and daughter form an unlikely songwriting duo in the summer before she leaves for college.
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Cast: Nick Offerman, Kiersey Clemons, Ted Danson. Directed by Brett Haley.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Musical ∙ Family |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 96 min.
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Plot: An in-depth and engrossing look into the making of Francis Ford Coppola's epic Apocalypse Now.
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Cast: Cast portrayed by themselves. Directed by Various directors.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ History ∙ War |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 171 min.
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Plot: A Los Angeles crime saga, focusing on the similarities between the lives of a workaholic detective and a master thief.
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Cast: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Tom Sizemore, Diane Venora. Directed by Michael Mann.
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Categories: Law Enforcement ∙ Criminal Law ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 103 min.
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Plot: When two teens accidentally begin murdering the most popular kids in school, suicide suddenly becomes the 'in' thing to do.
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Cast: Christian Slater, Winona Ryder, Patrick Labyorteaux, Shannen Doherty. Directed by Michael Lehmann.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Juvenile ∙ Education |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 105 min.
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Plot: Two young women accuse nine black youths of rape in the segregated South.
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Cast: Anthony Mackie, Bill Sage, Azura Skye, Bill Smitrovich. Directed by Terry Green.
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Categories: Racism ∙ Jurisprudence ∙ Civil Rights |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 85 min.
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Plot: Santa Claus' evil son Damien does away with the Christian patriarch and launches a campaign to eradicate Hannukah.
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Cast: Adam Goldberg, Judy Greer, Mario Van Peebles, Nora Dunn, Peter Coyote, Richard Whalen, Tony Cox, Andy Dick. Directed by Jonathan Kesselman.
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Categories: Comedy |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 99 min.
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Plot: Fifty years after the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, their granddaughter reflects on their lives, principles, and ultimate sacrifice.
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Cast: Ivy Meeropol, Michael Meeropol, Robert Meeropol, Ethel Rosenberg, Julius Rosenberg. Directed by Ivy Meeropol.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Government ∙ National Security |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 109 min.
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Plot: A jewel thief's nephew is sent along on a heist to ensure a longtime partner in crime stays honest about the division of the loot.
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Cast: Gene Hackman, Sam Rockwell, Rebecca Pidgeon, Danny DeVito, Delroy Lindo. Directed by David Mamet.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Drama ∙ Organized Crime |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 102 min.
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Plot: A divorced father and his ex-con older brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family's ranch in West Texas.
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Cast: Dale Dickey, Ben Foster, Chris Pine. Directed by David MacKenzie.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Family |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 90 min.
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Plot: Ringo finds himself the human sacrifice target of a cult and the band must try to protect him from it.
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Cast: Ringo Starr, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison. Directed by Richard Lester.
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Categories: Musical ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 146 min.
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Plot: An aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960's decides to write a book detailing the African-American maid's point of view on the white families for which they work.
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Cast: Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer, Cicely Tyson, Sissy Spacek. Directed by Tate Taylor.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Civil Rights ∙ Domestic Relations |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 114 min.
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Plot: The investigation of two horrific mass murders leads to the capture and trial of the psychotic pseudo-hippie Charles Manson and his "family".
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Cast: George DeCenzo, Steve Railsback, Nancy Wolfe, Marilyn Burns. Directed by Tom Gries.
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Categories: Criminal Law ∙ Drama ∙ Law Enforcement |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 137 min.
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Plot: English King Henry V's military campaign at Agincourt, France, in 1415.
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Cast: Laurence Olivier, Leslie Banks, Felix Aylmer, Robert Helpmann, Vernon Greeves. Directed by Laurence Olivier.
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Categories: Biography ∙ History ∙ War |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 137 min.
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Plot: Great adventure of a King who defied the odds to prove himself a man.
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Cast: Brian Blessed, Derek Jacobi, Ian Holm, Simon Shepherd, Kenneth Branagh, James Larkin. Directed by Kenneth Branagh.
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Categories: Action ∙ Drama ∙ History |
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Her (2013)
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 126 min.
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Plot: A lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with a new computer operating system that's designed to meet his every need.
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Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Chris Pratt, Rooney Mara, Bill Hader, Kristen Wiig, Scarlett Johansson, Amy Adams. Directed by Spike Jonze.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Computer ∙ Human Rights |
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Rated: PG Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 89 min. B&W
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Plot: While trying to earn the money to bring his family to the US, a recent Jewish immigrant becomes increasingly Americanized.
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Cast: Anna Berger, Ed Crowley, Paul Freedman, Sol Frieder, Lauren Frost, Martin Garner, Carol Kane. Directed by Joan Micklin Silver.
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Categories: Immigration ∙ Family ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 82 min.
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Plot: Explores the To Kill a Mockingbird phenomenon and unravels some of the mysteries surrounding Harper Lee.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Mary McDonagh Murphy.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Biography ∙ History |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 108 min.
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Plot: When an American human rights lawyer is assassinated in Belfast, it remains for the man's girlfriend and a police detective to find the truth.
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Cast: Frances McDormand, Brian Cox, Brad Dourif, Mai Zetterling. Directed by Ken Loach.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Government ∙ Politics |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 127 min.
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Plot: The story of a team of African-American women mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the US space program.
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Cast: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae. Directed by Theodore Melf.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Drama ∙ History |
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Rated: G Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 96 min.
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Plot: A doctor plans a devilish revenge against his wife's lover.
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Cast: Robert Newton, Sally Gray, Naunton Wayne, Phil Brown. Directed by Edward Dmytryk.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Domestic Relations ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 143 min. B&W
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Plot: An executive mortgages all he owns to stage a coup and gain control of the National Shoe Company. In Japanese with English subtitles.
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Cast: Mifune Toshirō, Nakadai Tatsuya, Kagawa Kyōko, Mihashi Tatsuya. Directed by Akira Kurosawa.
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Categories: Criminal Law ∙ Drama ∙ National Security |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 94 min.
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Plot: A renowned Harvard psychiatrist with a paralyzing fear of heights becomes head of the Psycho-Neurotic Institute for the Very Very Nervous.
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Cast: Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Harvey Korman, Ron Carey, Howard Morris, Dick Van Patten. Directed by Mel Brooks.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Mental Health ∙ Criminal Procedure |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 115 min.
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Plot: A high-powered lawyer finds her world turned upside down when her husband is arrested and revealed to be another man on trial for murdering Latin American villagers while he was in the Marines.
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Cast: Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, James Caviezel. Directed by Carl Franklin.
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Categories: Military ∙ Criminal Law ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 114 min.
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Plot: When his girlfriend walks out on him, the owner of an unsuccessful record store is forced to examine his failed attempts at romance.
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Cast: John Cusack, Iben Hjejle, Todd Louiso, Jack Black, Lisa Bonet, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Joan Cusack, Tim Robbins. Directed by Stephen Frears.
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Categories: Romance ∙ Comedy ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 85 min. B&W
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Plot: A lawman stands alone to protect a town against a gang of revenge-seeking criminals.
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Cast: Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges, Katy Jurado. Directed by Fred Zinnemann.
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Categories: Western ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 96 min.
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Plot: Sparks fly when a hip hop violinist busking in the New York subway encounters a classical dancer on scholarship at the Manhattan Conservatory of the Arts.
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Cast: Keenan Kampa, Nicolas Galitzine, Jane Seymour. Directed by Michael Damon.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Musical ∙ Romance |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 103 min.
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Plot: Widower and millionaire hamburger restaurateur Harvey Howard decides to go to college at age 51.
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Cast: Bing Crosby, Fabian, Tuesday Weld. Directed by Blake Edwards.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Musical ∙ Education |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 109 min.
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Plot: A chronicle of one woman's lifelong struggle with her faith.
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Cast: Norbert Leo Butz, Dagmara Dominczyk, Vera Farmiga, John Hawkes. Directed by Vera Farmiga.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Religion ∙ Domestic Relations |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 116 min.
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Plot: An immortal swordsman confronts the last of his immortal opponents, in a contest for a fabled "Prize." Soundtrack by Queen.
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Cast: Christopher Lambert, Roxanne Hart, Clancy Brown, Sean Connery, Beatie Edney, Alan North, Jon Polito, Sheila Gish, Hugh Quarshie, Christopher Malcolm, Peter Diamond. Directed by Russell Mulcahy.
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Categories: Action ∙ Estates ∙ Criminal Procedure |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 103 min.
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Plot: The crew of a Danish cargo ship is hijacked by Somali pirates who proceed to engage in escalating negotiations with authorities in Copenhagen.
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Cast: Pilou Asbaek, Soren Malling, Dar Salim. Directed by Tobias Lindholm.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Maritime ∙ Negotiation |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 123 min. B&W
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Plot: During WWII, in a British disciplinary camp in the Libyan desert, prisoners are forced to repeatedly climb an artificial hill in the middle of the camp and ally themselves against their keepers.
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Cast: Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Alfred Lynch, Ossie Davis. Directed by Sidney Lumet.
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Categories: Drama ∙ War |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 125 min.
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Plot: Rebellious youth in 1955 Moscow wage a cultural battle against Soviet conformity. In Russian with English subtitles.
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Cast: Anton Shagin, Oksana Akinshina, Eugenia Khirivskaya, Maksim Matveyev, Igor Voynarovskiy, Ekaterina Vilkova, Konstantin Balakirev, Aleksandr Stefantsov, Georgiy Sivokhin, Olga Smirnova, Yanina Buiko. Directed by Valeriy Todorovskiy.
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Categories: Foreign ∙ Free Speech ∙ History |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 90 min. B*W
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Plot: In postwar Hiroshima, a French actress shares a brief affair with a Japanese architect. In French with English subtitles.
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Cast: Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada. Directed by Alain Resnais.
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Categories: Romance ∙ International ∙ War |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 92 min. B&W
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Plot: A newspaper editor attempts to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.
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Cast: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart. Directed by Howard Hawks.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Media ∙ Death Penalty |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 112 min.
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Plot: An unruly class of gifted boys pursue admittance into England's most prestigious universities with the guidance of two opposite-minded teachers.
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Cast: Richard Griffiths, Francise De La Tour, Stephen Campbell Moore, Clive Merrison. Directed by Nicholas Hytner.
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Categories: Education ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (5 disc set) 9 hours, 38 min.
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Plot: Hundreds of interviews, classic footage and concert performances from the 1950's to the 1990's.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Ted Haimes.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ History ∙ Musical |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (3 disc set) 5 hours, 30 min.
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Plot: The story of the life and times of the super successful American soft-rock band, Eagles.
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Cast: The Eagles. Directed by Alison Ellwood.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Musical ∙ Biography |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 92 min.
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Plot: From the dawn of man to the distant future, mankind's evolution (or lack thereof) is traced.
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Cast: Mel Brooks, Dom DeLuise, Madeline Kahn, Harvey Korman, Cloris Leachman, Ron Carey. Directed by Mel Brooks.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ History |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 96 min.
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Plot: A bloody self defense incident involving a mild mannered man brings his hidden past back to haunt him and his family.
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Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, William Hurt, Ed Harris. Directed by David Cronenberg.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Organized Crime |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 98 min.
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Plot: Two hit men pick up an ex-gangster as an escort to Paris to face betrayed colleagues but the road trip suffers complications.
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Cast: John Hurt, Terence Stamp, Tim Roth, Laura del Sol, Jim Broadbent. Directed by Stephen Frears.
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Categories: Action ∙ Drama ∙ Organized Crime |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 70 min. B&W
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Plot: Two carefree young travelers make the mistake of their lives when they pick up a mysterious, and slightly psychotic, hitch-hiker
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Cast: Jose Torvay, Sam Hayes, Wendel Niles, Jean Del Val. Directed by Ida Lupino.
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Categories: Transportation ∙ Drama ∙ Mental Health |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 98 min.
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Plot: Hollywood legend Alfred Hitchcock risks his reputation when he becomes obsessed with a grisly murder story that studios won't back.
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Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson, Toni Collette. Directed by Sacha Gervasi.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Drama ∙ Entertainment |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 7 hours, 11 min. B&W
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Plot: Classic thrillers include Suspicion, Strangers On a Train, I Confess, and The Wrong Man.
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Cast: Joan Fontaine, Cary Grant, Robert Walker, Farley Granger, Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden, Henry Fonda, Vera Miles. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Criminal Procedure ∙ Mental Health |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 115 min.
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Plot: Clifford Irving sells his bogus biography of Howard Hughes to a premiere publishing house in the early 1970s.
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Cast: Richard Gere, Alfred Molina, Hope Davis, Marcia Gay Harden. Directed by Lasse Hallstrom.
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Categories: Ethics ∙ Drama ∙ Entertainment |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD (5 disc set) 2 hours, 49 min.
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Plot: A peaceful hobbit joins a group of dwarves in their quest to retake their home from the dangerous dragon Smaug.
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Cast: Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, James Nesbitt. Directed by Peter Jackson.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 144 min.
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Plot: Bilbo and Company are forced to engage in a war to keep the Lonely Mountain from falling into the hands of a rising darkness.
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Cast: Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, Evangeline Lilly, Benedict Cumberbatch. Directed by Peter Jackson.
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Categories: Action ∙ SciFi/Fantasy ∙ War |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 161 min.
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Plot: The dwarves, along with Bilbo and Gandalf, continue their quest to reclaim their homeland from Smaug.
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Cast: Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, Benedict Cumberbatch. Directed by Peter Jackson.
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Categories: Action ∙ SciFi/Fantasy |
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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: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 127 min.
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Plot: A detective examines the mysterious death of George Reeves, TV's Superman.
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Cast: Adrien Brody, Diane Lane, Ben Affleck, Bob Hoskins. Directed by Allen Coulter.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Entertainment |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 115 min.
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Plot: A man travels around Paris to a series of nine appointments, transforming into new characters at each stop. In French with English subtitles.
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Cast: Denis Lavant, Édith Scob, Eva Mendes, Kylie Minogue, Élise Lhomeau. Directed by Leos Carax.
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Categories: Foreign ∙ SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Automobile |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 92 min.
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Plot: Follows the rise of arguably the largest and most well-funded blackjack team in America made up entirely of churchgoing Christians.
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Cast: . Directed by Bryan Storkel.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Religion ∙ Ethics |
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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: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 88 min.
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Plot: Five remarkable Native American activists in four communities who are fighting to protect Indian lands.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Roberta Grossman.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Environmental ∙ Energy |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 101 min.
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Plot: A Jewish detective investigating a murder falls in with a Zionist group.
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Cast: Joe Mantegna, William H. Macy, Vincent Guastaferro, Charles Stransky, Colin Stinton. Directed by David Mamet.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Law Enforcement ∙ Religion |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 108 min. B&W
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Plot: A stark portrayal of the desperate lengths to which a lonely heart will go in order to find true love.
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Cast: Shirley Stoler, Tony Lo Bianco, Mary Jane Higby, Doris Roberts. Directed by Leonard Kastle.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Drama ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 142 min.
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Plot: A middle-aged lawyer needs some convincing that he was once the legendary Peter Pan.
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Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams, Julia Roberts, Bob Hoskins, Maggie Smith. Directed by Steven Spielberg.
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Categories: Children ∙ Maritime ∙ SciFi/Fantasy |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 171 min.
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Plot: The lives of two African American boys who struggle to become college basketball players on the road to going professional.
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Cast: Arthur Agee, William Gates. Directed by Steve James.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Sports |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 115 min.
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Plot: A coach with a checkered past and a local drunk train a small town high school basketball team to become a top contender for the championship.
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Cast: Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey, Dennis Hopper. Directed by David Anspaugh.
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Categories: Sports ∙ Education ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 100 min.
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Plot: After 30 years of marriage a couple enters a week long intense marriage therapy program.
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Cast: Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, Jean Smart, Steve Carell. Directed by David Frankel.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Family ∙ Romance |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 93 min.
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Plot: Armed only with cameras, Peabody and Emmy Award-winning conflict Journalist Mike Boettcher, and his son, Carlos, provide unprecedented access into the longest war in U.S. history.
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Cast: Mike Boettcher, Carlos Boettcher. Directed by Christian Turead & David Salzberg.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ War ∙ History |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 68 min. B&W
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Plot: As the fun-loving president of Huxley College, Groucho tries to keep the student body in line while attempting to keep his own body near a flirtatious floozie.
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Cast: Marx Brothers (Groucho, Harpo, Chico, Zeppo), Thelma Todd, David Landau, Florine McKinney. Directed by Norman Z. McLeod.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Education ∙ Sports |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 119 min.
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Plot: A monster emerges from Seoul's Han River and focuses its attention on attacking people.
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Cast: Kang-ho Song, Hie-bong Byeon, Hae-il Park, Du-na Bae, Ah-sung Ko. Directed by Bong Joon-Ho.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Foreign ∙ Family |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 88 min.
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Plot: How the infamous McDonald's hot coffee lawsuit and similar cases were exploited as part of a right wing crusade to weaken civil justice.
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Cast: Al Franken, John Grisham. Directed by Susan Saladoff.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Damages ∙ Torts |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 121 min.
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Plot: Jealous colleagues conspire to get a top London cop transferred to a small town and paired with a witless new partner. On the beat, the pair stumble upon a series of suspicious accidents and events.
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Cast: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Jim Broadbent. Directed by Edgar Wright.
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Categories: Law Enforcement ∙ Employment ∙ Action |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 105 min.
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Plot: A tale of two jewel theives out to score the biggest heist of their lives.
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Cast: Robert Redford, George Segal, Zero Mostel. Directed by Peter Yates.
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Categories: Comedy |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 121 min.
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Plot: A humble hotel manager shelters more than a thousand "guests" from tribal genocide.
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Cast: Xolani Mali, Don Cheadle, Desmond Dube, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Tony Kgoroge, Rosie Motene, Neil McCarthy, Kid Sitholo, Nick Nolte, Fana Mokoena, Jeremiah Ndlovu, Sophie Okonedo. Directed by Terry George.
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Categories: International ∙ Human Rights ∙ Discrimination |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 106 min.
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Plot: A struggling circus performer emerges as the world's most captivating magician and escape artist.
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Cast: Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Torin Thatcher, Angela Clarke, Stefan Schnabel. Directed by George Marshall.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Biography ∙ Marital Relations |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 108 min.
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Plot: A penetrating look inside America's criminal justice system, revealing the profound human rights implications of U.S. drug policy.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Eugene Jarecki.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Justice ∙ Human Rights |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD (3 disc set) 225 min.
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Plot: The Chief Whip in the House of Parliament manipulates his way to the top but a young reporter may be his downfall.
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Cast: Ian Richardson, Susannah Harker, Miles Anderson, David Lyon, Malcolm Tierney. Directed by Paul Seen.
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Categories: Government ∙ Politics ∙ Media |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD (4 disc set) 7 hours, 15 min.
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Plot: A Congressman works with his equally conniving wife to exact revenge on the people who betrayed him.
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Cast: Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright, Kate Mara, Corey Stoll. Directed by Various directors.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Politics ∙ Domestic Relations |
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Rated: Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD (4 disc set) 11 hours, 3 min.
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Plot: Continuing saga of a congressman working to exact revenge on the people who betrayed him.
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Cast: Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright, Kate Mara, Corey Stoll. Directed by Various directors.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Politics ∙ Domestic Relations |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 126 min.
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Plot: An abandoned wife is wrongly evicted from her house and starts a tragic conflict with her home's new owners.
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Cast: Jennifer Connelly, Ben Kingsley, Ron Eldard, Frances Fisher, Kim Dickens. Directed by Vadim Perelman.
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Categories: Property ∙ Contracts ∙ Family |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 90 min.
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Plot: History of The Beatles and their cultural influence.
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Cast: Tony Bramwell, Robert Christgau, Anthony DeCurtis. Directed by Tom O'Dell.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ History ∙ Musical |
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Rated: G Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 155 min.
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Plot: A dauntless pioneer family's trek tells the history of Western expansion in the United States.
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Cast: Carroll Baker, Lee J. Cobb, Henry Fonda, Carolyn Jones, Karl Malden, Gregory Peck, George Peppard, Robert Preston, Debbie Reynolds, James Stewart, Eli Wallach, John Wayne, Richard Widmark. Directed by Henry Hathaway, John Ford, and George Marshall.
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Categories: Western ∙ Drama ∙ History |
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Rated: G Stars: ****
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Format: DVVD 123 min.
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Plot: A woman must steal a statue from a Paris museum to help conceal her father's art forgeries.
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Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Charles Boyer. Directed by William Wyler.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Art ∙ Family |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 110 min.
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Plot: Story of two coalitions whose activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by David France.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Politics ∙ Health |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 98 min.
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Plot: A young viking befriends a dragon and together they fight to save both of their worlds.
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Cast: Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera. Directed by Dean DeBlois.
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Categories: Animation ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 102 min.
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Plot: Two friends find themselves at the center of a battle to protect the peace.
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Cast: Voices of Jonah Hill, Kristen Wiig, Craig Ferguson, Jay Baruchel, Cate Blanchett. Directed by Dean DuBlois.
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Categories: Animation ∙ Action ∙ SciFi/Fantasy |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 104 min.
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Plot: Hiccup and Toothless must journey to a hidden world thought only to exist in myth.
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Cast: Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera, F. Murray Abraham, Cate Blanchett, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Kristen Wiig, Kit Harington. Directed by Dean DeBlois.
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Categories: Animation ∙ SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Children |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 84 min.
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Plot: As Alan Ginsberg talks about his life and art, his most famous poem is illustrated in animation while the obscenity trial of the work is dramatized.
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Cast: James Franco, Jon Hamm, Mary Louise Parker, David Strathairn, Jeff Daniels. Directed by Rob Epstein.
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Categories: Domestic Relations ∙ Censorship ∙ Free Speech |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 119 min.
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Plot: When an unconfident young woman is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, her only chance of breaking the spell lies with a self-indulgent yet insecure young wizard and his companions in his walking home.
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Cast: Chieko Baisho, Takuya Kimura, Akihiro Miwa, Tatsuya Gashuin. Directed by Hayao Miyazaki.
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Categories: Animation ∙ SciFi/Fantasy |
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Hud (1963)
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 111 min. B&W
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Plot: The son of a respectable rancher is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches.
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Cast: Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal, Brandon de Wilde. Directed by Martin Ritt.
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Categories: Western ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 111 min.
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Plot: When the head of the hugely successful Hudsucker Industries commits suicide, his board of directors comes up with a brilliant plan to make a lot of money by appointing a moron to run the company.
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Cast: Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Paul Newman, John Mahoney, Charles Durning, Jim True, Bill Cobbs. Directed by Joel Coen.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Drama ∙ Corporations |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 126 min.
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Plot: An orphan living in the walls of a Paris train station gets wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton.
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Cast: Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz, Ray Winstone, Emily Mortimer, Christopher Lee. Directed by Martin Scorsese.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Family ∙ History |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 140 min.
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Plot: A detailed exploration into the global refugee crisis.
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Cast: Israa Abboud, Hiba Abed, Rami Abu Sondos, Fadi Abou Akleh, Yamama Al-Awaad, Asmaa Al-Bahiyya, Eman Al-Masina, Maya Ameratunga . Directed by Ai Weiwei.
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Categories: International ∙ Documentary ∙ Human Rights |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 106 min.
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Plot: A classics professor with a terrible secret that is about to shatter his life in a small New England town.
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Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris. Directed by Robert Benton.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Romance ∙ Racism |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 1 hour, 36 min.
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Plot: The last six weeks of the life of the Irish republican hunger striker Bobby Sands.
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Cast: Michael Fassbender, Liam Cunningham, Stuart Graham, Brian Milligan. Directed by Steve McQueen.
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Categories: Politics ∙ Drama ∙ International |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: *** 1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 142 min.
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Plot: In a dystopian near-future, children are chosen to fight to the death on live television.
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Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutchinson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Lenny Kravitz, Stanley Tucci, Donald Sutherland. Directed by Gary Ross.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Children ∙ Government |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 146 min.
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Plot: Katniss and Peeta become targets of the Capitol after their victory in the 74th Hunger Games sparks a rebellion in the Districts of Panem.
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Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks. Directed by Francis Lawrence.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Family ∙ Government |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 137 min.
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Plot: As the war escalates the reluctant leader of the rebellion must bring together an army, while all she holds dear hangs in the balance.
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Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson. Directed by Francis Lawrence.
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Categories: Action ∙ SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Government |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 123 min.
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Plot: Katniss is in District 13 after she shatters the games forever. Under the leadership of President Coin she spreads her wings as she fights to save Peeta and a nation moved by her courage.
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Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson. Directed by Francis Lawrence.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Drama ∙ Government |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 135 min.
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Plot: In 1984, the USSR's best submarine captain in charge of their newest sub violates orders and heads for the USA.
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Cast: Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, James Earl Jones, Sam Neill. Directed by John McTiernan.
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Categories: Action ∙ Military ∙ National Security |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 111 min.
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Plot: A national manhunt is ordered for a rebellious kid and his foster uncle who go missing in the wild New Zealand bush.
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Cast: Sam Neill, Julian Dennison, Rima Te Wiata. Directed by Taika Waititi.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Civil Rights ∙ Family |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 115 min.
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Plot: A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son's custody. In Danish and French with English subtitles.
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Cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Annika Wedderkopp, Lasse Fogelstrøm, Susse Wold, Anne Louise Hassing, Lars Ranthe, Alexandra Rapaport. Directed by Thomas Vinterberg.
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Categories: Custody ∙ Family ∙ Foreign |
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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: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 90 min.
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Plot: Story of a sustained and well-funded effort to discredit and defeat Bill Clinton
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Cast: Bill Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, James Carville, Susan McDougal, and Jerry Fallwell. Directed by Nicholas Perry and Henry Thomason.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Politics ∙ History |
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Rated: G Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 110 min.
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Plot: An unjustly imprisoned Polynesian sailor is relentlessly persecuted by his island's martinet French governor.
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Cast: Dorothy Lamour, John Hall, Mary Astor, Thomas Mitchell, Raymond Massey. Directed by John Ford.
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Categories: Action ∙ Racism ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 144 min.
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Plot: A Brooklyn-born teenager and his Canadian guardians spur an investigation leading to the release of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder decades earlier.
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Cast: Denzel Washington, Vicellous Reon Shannon, Deborah Unger, Liev Schreiber. Directed by Norman Jewison.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Sports ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 130 min.
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Plot: Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb.
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Cast: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Evangeline Lilly. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow.
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Categories: War ∙ Action ∙ Military |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 108 min.
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Plot: When their best friends announce that they're separating, a professor and his wife discover the faults in their marriage.
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Cast: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Judy Davis, Sydney Pollack, Blythe Danner, Juliette Lewis, Liam Neeson. Directed by Wood Allen.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Marital Relations |
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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: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 134 min. B&W
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Plot: An up-and-coming pool player plays a long-time champion in a single high-stakes match.
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Cast: Paul Newman, Piper Laurie, George Scott, Jackie Gleason. Directed by Robert Rossen.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Organized Crime |
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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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