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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 92 min. B&W
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Plot: A wrongly convicted man serves in intolerable conditions of a southern chain gang, which later comes back to haunt him.
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Cast: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson, Preston Foster. Directed by Mervyn LeRoy.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Justice |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 100 min.
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Plot: Years after a plague kills most of humanity and transforms the rest into monsters, the sole survivor in New York City struggles to find a cure.
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Cast: Will Smith, Alice Braga, Dash Mihok. Directed by Francis Lawrence.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Medical ∙ Health |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 93 min.
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Plot: Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House.
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Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, James Baldwin, Harry Belafonte. Directed by Raoul Peck.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Civil Rights ∙ History |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 132 min.
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Plot: A mentally retarded man fights for custody of his 7-year-old daughter, and in the process teaches his cold-hearted lawyer the value of love and family.
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Cast: Sean Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dakota Fanning, Dianne Wiest, Laura Dern. Directed by Jessie Nelson.
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Categories: Family ∙ Disability ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 94 min. B&W
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Plot: A priest is unable to reveal a killer's confession, even when he is fingered as the prime suspect.
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Cast: Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden, Brian Aherne. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
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Categories: Religion ∙ Ethics ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 105 min.
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Plot: A friendless man goes on a series of man-dates to find a Best Man for his wedding, and when he does find a new BFF, it puts a strain on his relationship with his fiancee.
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Cast: Paul Rudd, Jason Segel, Rashida Jones. Directed by John Hamburg.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Romance |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 85 min.
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Plot: An undependable spouse and mother makes one last desperate attempt at redemption just before the destruction of her family.
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Cast: Sarah Silverman, Josh Charles, Thomas Sadoski, Mia Barron. Directed by Adam Salky.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Family ∙ Marital Relations |
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Rated: G Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 82 min. B&W
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Plot: Why is an inspector trying to railroad a man for the murder of a model?
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Cast: Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Carole Landis, Laird Cregar. Directed by Bruce Humberstone.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Women ∙ Criminal Procedure |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 146 min. B&W
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Plot: Canadian nurse travels to the West Indies to care for a mental paralysis victim/A fight to the death over exhumed cadavers.
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Cast: James Ellions, Frances Dee, Tom Conway, Boris Karloff, Edith Atwater, Russell Wade. Directed by Jacques Tourneur/Robert Wise.
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Categories: Horror ∙ Mental Health ∙ Medical |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 120 min. B&W
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Plot: After being arrested for the murder of an older woman, two gamblers try to frame a former partner.
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Cast: Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland, Virginia Vincent, Theodore Bikel. Directed by Robert Wise.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Women ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 135 min.
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Plot: Ruminations on the life of Bob Dylan.
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Cast: Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger, Ben Whishaw, Julianne Moore, Michelle Williams. Directed by Todd Haynes.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Entertainment ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 108 min.
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Plot: A documentary of Joaquin Phoenix's transition from the acting world to a career as an aspiring rapper.
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Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Casey Affleck, Sean "P. Diddy" Combs. Directed by Casey Affleck.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Comedy ∙ Musical |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars:
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Format: DVD 117 min.
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Plot: A woman struggles to interact with her family and find her place in society after spending fifteen years in prison. In French, with English subtitles.
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Cast: Serge Hazanavicius, Laurent Grevill, Frederic Pierrot. Directed by Philippe Claudel.
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Categories: Women ∙ Sentencing ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD (5 disc set) 650 min.
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Plot: The history of the Roman Empire as experienced by one of its rulers.
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Cast: Derek Jacobi, Sian Phillips, Brian Blessed, George Baker. Directed by Herbert Wise.
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Categories: History ∙ Government ∙ Television |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 110 min.
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Plot: After having suffered a heart-attack, a 59-year-old carpenter must fight the bureaucratic forces of the system in order to receive Employment and Support Allowance.
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Cast: Dave Johns, Hayley Squires, Sharon Percy. Directed by Ken Loach.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Government ∙ Welfare |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 114 min.
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Plot: In the year 2035 a techno-phobic cop investigates a crime that may have been perpetrated by a robot, which leads to a larger threat to humanity.
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Cast: Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan, Bruse Greenwood, James Cromwell, Chi McBride, Alan Tudyk. Directed by Alex Proyas.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Human Rights ∙ Ethics |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 119 min.
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Plot: A competitive ice skater rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.
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Cast: Margot Robbie, Sebastian Stan, Allison Janney, Julianne Nicholson, Paul Walter Hauser, Bobby Cannavale, Bojana Novakovic, Caitlin Carver . Directed by Craig Gillespie.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Criminal Law ∙ Sports |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 85 min.
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Plot: Explores the country's shocking current fiscal condition and ways to avoid a national economic disaster.
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Cast: Actors portraying themselves and archival film footage. Directed by Patrick Creadon.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Government ∙ Social Security |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 89 min.
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Plot: A lawyer attempts a Christmas Eve crime, hoping to swindle the local mob out of some money. But his partner, a strip club owner, might have different plans for the cash.
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Cast: John Cusack, Billy Bob Thorton, Connie Nielsen, Randy Quaid. Directed by Harold Ramis.
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Categories: Organized Crime ∙ Fraud ∙ Drama |
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Ida (2013)
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 82 min. B&W
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Plot: A young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland, is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a dark family secret dating back to the years of the Nazi occupation.
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Cast: Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska, Dawd Ogrodnik, Joanna Kulig. Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski.
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Categories: Drama ∙ History ∙ Religion |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 90 min.
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Plot: When a nasty storm hits a hotel, ten strangers are stranded within. As they get to know each other, they discover they are being killed off one by one.
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Cast: John Cusack, Ray Liotta, Amanda Peet, John Hawkes, Alfred Molina. Directed by James Mangold.
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Categories: Horror ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 101 min.
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Plot: An idealistic staffer for a newbie presidential candidate gets a crash course on dirty politics during his stint on the campaign trail.
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Cast: Ryan Gosling, George Clooney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Marisa Tomei. Directed by George Clooney.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Politics ∙ Media |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 87 min.
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Plot: An average guy placed in suspended animation wakes up 500 years in the future to a society so incredibly dumbed-down that he's easily the most intelligent person alive.
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Cast: Luke Wilson, Maya Randolph, Dax Shepard. Directed by Mike Judge.
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Categories: Government ∙ Comedy ∙ SciFi/Fantasy |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 119 min.
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Plot: A young woman in Harlem struggles to prove her fiancé innocent of a crime.
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Cast: KiKi Layne, Stephan James, Regina King, Teyonah Parris, Colman Domingo . Directed by Barry Jenkins.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Racism ∙ Criminal Procedure |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 112 min.
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Plot: A pupil leads a revolution at an old established private school in England.
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Cast: Malcolm McDowell, David Wood, Richard Warwick, Christine Noonan, Rupert Webster. Directed by Lindsay Anderson.
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Categories: Education ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 98 min.
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Plot: A coming-of-age film about a rebel with a cause.
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Cast: Kieran Culkin, Claire Danes, Jeff Goldblum, Jared Harris, Amanda Peet. Directed by Bur Steers.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Family ∙ Health |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 160 min. B&W
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Plot: An overly aggressive district attorney sends an innocent man to the chair,and is forced to resign and defend criminals/An army lieutenant accused of robbery pursues the real thief through Mexico.
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Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Nina Foch Hugh Marlowe, Jayne Mansfield, Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, William Bendix. Directed by Lewis Allen and Don Siegel.
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Categories: Law Enforcement ∙ Death Penalty ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 54 min.
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Plot: Explores the shadowy world of illicit trade.
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Cast: . Directed by Helen Fitzwilliam.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Organized Crime |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 110 min.
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Plot: In turn-of-the-century Vienna, a magician uses his abilities to secure the love of a woman far above his social standing.
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Cast: Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti, Jessica Biel, Rufus Sewell, Eddie Marsan, Jake Wood, Tom Fisher. Directed by Neil Burger.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Romance |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 80 min.
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Plot: A French illusionist traveling to Scotland encounters a young girl, who will change his life forever.
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Cast: Duncan MacNeil, Eilidh Rankin, Jean-Claude Donda, Raymond Mearns, Sylvain Chomet. Directed by Sylvain Chomet.
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Categories: Animation ∙ Children ∙ Entertainment |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 123 min.
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Plot: A traveling theatre company gives its audience more than they are expecting.
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Cast: Andrew Garfield, Christopher Plummer, Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell, Jude Law, Heath Ledger. Directed by Terry Gilliam.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Children ∙ Entertainment |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 114 min.
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Plot: During World War II, mathematician Alan Turing tries to crack the enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians.
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Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Mark Strong, Rory Kinnear. Directed by Morten Tyldom.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Biography ∙ History |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 114 min.
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Plot: A tourist family in Thailand is caught in the chaotic aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
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Cast: Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Tom Holland, Samuel Joslin. Directed by Juan Antonio Bayona.
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Categories: Drama ∙ History ∙ Environmental |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 99 min.
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Plot: Centers on a young Frenchman who claims to a grieving Texas family that he is their 16-year-old son who has been missing for 3 years.
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Cast: Frédéric Bourdin, Adam O'Brian, Carey Gibson, Anna Ruben. Directed by Bart Layton.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Family ∙ Biography |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 119 min.
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Plot: The lives of two Danish families cross each other, and an extraordinary but risky friendship comes into bud. In Danish with English subtitles.
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Cast: Mikael Persbrandt, Trine Dyrholm, Ulrich Thomsen, William Jøhnk, Juel Nielsen, Markus Rygaard. Directed by Susanne Bier.
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Categories: Foreign ∙ Drama ∙ Family |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 94 min.
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Plot: A potentially violent screenwriter is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him; but she begins to have doubts.
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Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy, Carl Benton Reid, Art Smith. Directed by Nicholas Ray.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Domestic Relations ∙ Ethics |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 93 min.
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Plot: An unsuccessful vocal coach competes against her arrogant father in the movie trailer voice-over business.
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Cast: Lake Bell, Demetri Martin, Fred Melamed, Rob Corddry. Directed by Lake Bell.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Entertainment ∙ Family |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 105 min.
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Plot: An impoverished Irish family searches for a better life amidst the dangers of New York City's Hell's Kitchen.
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Cast: Samantha Morton, Paddy Constantine, Djimon Hounsou. Directed by Jim Sheridan.
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Categories: Immigration ∙ Poverty ∙ Family |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 107 min.
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Plot: Holed up in Bruges, Belgium after a difficult job, two hit men begin to reevaluate their views of life and death as they become acclimated to local customs.
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Cast: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes. Directed by Martin McDonagh.
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Categories: Criminal Law ∙ Organized Crime ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: R Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 134 min. B&W
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Plot: Two ex-convicts break into a Kansas farmer's home, and try to avoid being caught.
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Cast: Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe, Jeff Corey. Directed by Richard Brooks.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Evidence ∙ Sentencing |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 145 min.
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Plot: A sewer worker and petty thief in Nazi occupied Poland hides Jews in the town's sewers, which leads his conscience to an alliance with the Jews.
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Cast: Herbert Knaup, Benno Furmann, Agnieszka Grochowska, Robert Wieckiewicz, Maria Schrader. Directed by Agnieszka Holland.
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Categories: Drama ∙ War ∙ Racism |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD min.
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Plot: Suggests corrupt practices by financial and government institutions are fostering citizens' dependence on credit while creating a ballooning debt towards fiscal disaster.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Danny Schechter.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Banking ∙ Economics |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 109 min.
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Plot: A middle-aged ad executive is faced with a new boss who's nearly half his age and who also happens to be dating his daughter.
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Cast: Dennis Quaid, Topher Grace, Scarlett Johansson. Directed by Paul Weitz.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Corporations |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 116 min.
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Plot: When Norwegian citizen Nil's son is mistakenly murdered, Nil ignites a war between the vegan gangster "the Count" and the Serbian mafia boss Papa.
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Cast: Stellan Skarsgard, Bruno Ganz, Pal Sverre Hagen. Directed by Hans Petter Moland.
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Categories: Action ∙ Drama ∙ War |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 130 min.
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Plot: A New England couple's college-aged son begins a relationship with an older woman.
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Cast: Sissy Spacek, Tom Wilkinson, Nick Stahl, Marisa Tomei. Directed by Todd Field.
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Categories: Family ∙ Drama ∙ Conflict |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 109 min.
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Plot: Racial tension ensues when a rural southern sheriff and a black northern detective reluctantly join forces to solve the murder of a wealthy industrialist in Sparta, Mississippi.
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Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant. Directed by Norman Jewison.
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Categories: Racism ∙ Law Enforcement ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 127 min.
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Plot: A veteran secret service agent who is haunted by his failure to protect JFK, must overcome his past to protect the current president.
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Cast: Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich, Rene Russo, Dylan McDermott, Gary Cole, Fred Dalton. Directed by Wolfgang Peterson.
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Categories: Law Enforcement ∙ Politics ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 98 min.
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Plot: Two neighbors form a strong bond after both suspect extramarital activities of their spouses. In Cantonese with English subtitles.
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Cast: Tony Leung Chu-Wai, Maggie Cheung, Ping Lam Sui. Directed by Kar-Wai Wong.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Romance ∙ Foreign |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 125 min.
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Plot: Based on the true story of a Belfast youth who, along with family members and friends, was wrongly convicted of bombing two pubs outside of London.
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Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Emma Thompson, Pete Postlethwaite. Directed by Jim Sheridan.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 57 min.
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Plot: Focuses on the Hutu and Tutsi as they struggle through Rwanda's unique reconciliation process: Gacaca, a network of grassroots community courts.
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Cast: Narration by Margaret Travolta. Directed by Jahn Coll Metcalfe.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Justice ∙ Negotiation |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 121 min.
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Plot: A career officer and his wife work with a police detective to uncover the truth behind their son's disappearance following his return from a tour of duty in Iraq.
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Cast: Tommy Lees Jones, Charlize Theron, Francis Fisher, Susan Sarandon. Directed by Paul Haggis.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Law Enforcement ∙ War |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 130 min.
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Plot: Twins journey to the Middle East to discover their family history, and fulfill their mother's last wishes. In French with English subtitles.
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Cast: Lubna Azabal, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette, Remy Girard. Directed by Denis Villeneuve.
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Categories: Drama ∙ War ∙ Family |
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Rated: R Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 148 min.
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Plot: A team of corporate spies invade the dreams of their clients' competition.
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Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cottillard, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger, Michael Caine. Directed by Christopher Nolan.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Corporations ∙ Privacy |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 98 min.
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Plot: Explores the controversy and potential abuse of justice surrounding the1975 incident where armed FBI agents illegally entered the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
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Cast: Narration by Robert Redford. Directed by Michael Apted.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ History ∙ Government |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 108 min.
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Plot: An art forger who paints a fake Rembrandt, falls for the art expert his clients are using to check the counterfeit picture he painted.
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Cast: Jason Patric, Irene Jacob, Ian Richardson, Rod Steiger. Directed by John Badham.
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Categories: Fraud ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 96 min.
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Plot: Al Gore's campaign to raise awareness for the crisis of global warming.
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Cast: Al Gore. Directed by Davis Guggenheim.
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Categories: Environmental ∙ Documentary ∙ Government |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 184 min.
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Plot: A young woman is transported to an Australian penal colony in 1788.
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Cast: Romola Garai, Jack Davenport, Alex O'Loughlin, Sam Neill. Directed by Peter Andrikidis.
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Categories: Sentencing ∙ Women ∙ Television |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 81 min. B&W
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Plot: A man encounters a mysterious radioactive mist and soon finds his life taking on a bizarre and frightening twist.
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Cast: Grant Williams, Randy Stuart, April Kent, Paul Langton, Raymond Bailey. Directed by Jack Arnold.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Health ∙ Horror |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 118 min.
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Plot: Mr. Incredible is left to care for the kids, while Elastigirl is out saving the world.
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Cast: Voices of Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, and Sarah Vowell. Directed by Brad Bird.
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Categories: Animation ∙ Action ∙ Family |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 115 min.
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Plot: A family of former superheroes, while trying to live the quiet suburban life, are forced into action to save the world.
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Cast: Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Samuel L. Jackson, Jason Lee, Spencer Fox, Sarah Vowell, Dominique Louis, Eli Fucile, Maeve Andrews, Wallace Shawn. Directed by Brad Bird.
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Categories: Animation ∙ Action ∙ Justice |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 145 min.
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Plot: Spaceships appear and wonder turns to terror as they attack cities all over the earth.
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Cast: Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsch, Margaret Colin, Randy Quaid. Directed by Roland Emmerich.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ War ∙ Safety |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 120 min.
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Plot: Two decades after the first Independence Day invasion, Earth is faced with a new extra-Solar threat.
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Cast: Liam Hensworth, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman. Directed by Roland Emmerich.
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Categories: Action ∙ SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Military |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 127 min.
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Plot: From America to Venice to the deserts of the Middle East, it's up to Indy to save his father and the Grail.
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Cast: Harrison Ford, Denholm Elliott, Alison Doody, John Rhys-Davies, Julian Glover, River Phoenix, Sean Connery. Directed by Steven Spielberg.
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Categories: Action ∙ Religion ∙ Family |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 115 min.
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Plot: Indiana Jones embarks on an incredible worldwide quest for the mystical Ark of the Covenant.
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Cast: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, Ronald Lacey, John Rhys-Davies. Directed by Steven Spielberg.
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Categories: Action ∙ Art ∙ Religion |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 118 min.
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Plot: Indiana Jones brings non-stop thrill adventure in India while on the trail of a sacred stone.
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Cast: Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Amrish Puri, Roshan Seth. Directed by Steven Spielberg.
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Categories: Action ∙ Religion ∙ Children |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 132 min.
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Plot: A powerful district attorney and a strong-willed defense attorney go head to head in a courtroom struggle where everyone proves to be a victim, yet no one can be found guilty.
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Cast: James Woods, Mercedes Ruehl, Sade Thompson, Henry Thomes. Directed by Mick Jackson.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 89 min.
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Plot: Examines economics professor and Clinton Administration cabinet member Robert Reich's crusade to expose the problem of income inequality.
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Cast: Robert B. Reich. Directed by Jacon Kornbluth.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Government ∙ Economics |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 108 min.
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Plot: A coming-of-age story about two inner city boys who are left to fend for themselves over the summer after their mothers are taken away by the authorities.
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Cast: Jeffrey Wright, Jennifer Hudson, Jordin Sparks, Anthony MacKie. Directed by George Tillman Jr..
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Categories: Drama ∙ Children ∙ Urban |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 118 min.
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Plot: While researching his book In Cold Blood, writer Truman Capote develops a relationship with two convicted murderers on death row.
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Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Toby Jones, Gwyneth Paltrow, Lee Pace, Daniel Craig, Juliet Stevenson, Michael Panes, Hope Davis, Sandra Bullock, Isabella Rossellini, John Benjamin Hickey, Peter Bogdanovich, Jeff Daniels. Directed by Douglas McGrath.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 127 min.
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Plot: A U.S. Customs official uncovers a money laundering scheme involving Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.
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Cast: Bryan Cranston, Diane Kruger, John Leguizamo, Benjamin Bratt, Yul Vazquez, Amy Ryan. Directed by Brad Furman.
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Categories: Criminal Law ∙ Law Enforcement ∙ International |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 108 min.
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Plot: A company vice president secretly records evidence of price-fixing by agri-business executives.
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Cast: Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Joel McHale, Melanie Lynskey. Directed by Steven Soderbergh.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Business ∙ Economics |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 153 min.
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Plot: In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by brutally killing Nazis.
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Cast: Brad Pitt, Christopher Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger. Directed by Quentin Tarantino.
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Categories: International ∙ War ∙ Politics |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 148 min.
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Plot: A 1970s drug-fueled Los Angeles detective investigates the disappearance of a former girlfriend.
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Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson, Katherine Waterston, Reese Witherspoon. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ History |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 127 min. B&W
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Plot: Based on the famous 1925 Monkey Trial, this courtroom melodrama examines the rights of the teacher who violated state law and taught a theory of evolution other than divine creation.
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Cast: Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Claude Akins, Florence Eldridge, Donna Anderson. Directed by Stanley Kramer.
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Categories: Education ∙ Religion ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 120 min.
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Plot: A hapless store clerk must foil criminals to save the life of the man who, miniaturized in a secret experiment, was accidentally injected into him.
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Cast: Dennis Quaid, Martin Short, Meg Ryan, Kevin McCarthy. Directed by Joe Dante.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Comedy ∙ SciFi/Fantasy |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 113 min.
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Plot: To cover up their own mistake, two crooked cops frame an innocent man as a drug dealer.
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Cast: Tom Sellek, F. Murray Abraham. Directed by Peter Yates.
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Categories: Sentencing ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 100 min.
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Plot: A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted.
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Cast: Peter Wyngarde, Megs Jenkins, Michael Redgrave, Pamela Franklin, Martin Stephens. Directed by Jack Clayton.
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Categories: Horror ∙ Children |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 105 min.
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Plot: Takes a closer look at what brought about the financial meltdown.
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Cast: Narrated by Matt Damon; featuring Paul Volcker, George Soros, Eliot Spitzer, Barney Frank, Dominique Strauss-Kahn. . Directed by Charles Ferguson.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Banking ∙ Fraud |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 104 min.
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Plot: Portrays a week in the life of a young singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961.
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Cast: Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman, Garrett Hedlund. Directed by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Musical ∙ History |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 129 min.
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Plot: The perfect bank robbery goes sour when a criminal mastermind comes up against a determined detective and a mysterious power broker.
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Cast: Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, Christopher Plummer, Willem Dafoe, Chiwetel Ejiofor. Directed by Spike Lee.
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Categories: Criminal Law ∙ Law Enforcement ∙ Mediation |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****1/2
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 94 min.
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Plot: After young Riley is uprooted from the Midwest and moved to San Francisco, her emotions conflict on how best to navigate her new life.
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Cast: Voices of Amy Poehler, Bill Hader, Lewis Black, Mindy Kaling, Phyllis Smith. Directed by Pete Docter & Ronnie Del Carmen.
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Categories: Animation ∙ Comedy ∙ Children |
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Rated: R Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 157 min.
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Plot: A scientist with a major tobacco company reveals potentionally damaging, top-secret industry information to a "60 Minutes" producer, only to have his career and life threatened.
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Cast: Al Pacino, Russell Crowe, Christopher Plummer, Diane Venora, Rip Torn. Directed by Michael Mann.
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Categories: Ethics ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 97 min.
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Plot: A brilliant detective with a tarnished past attempts to cover up a fatal error during his investigation of the murder of a beautiful young woman. (Subtitled in English.)
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Cast: Maria Mathiesen, Stellan Skarsgaerd, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Gisken Armand. Directed by Erik Skjoldbjaerg.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 118 min.
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Plot: Two homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.
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Cast: Al Pacino, Hilary Swank, Robin Williams. Directed by Christopher Nolan.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Mental Health ∙ Criminal Procedure |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 126 min.
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Plot: When a noted anthropologist who left society to live in the jungle is imprisoned for murder, it's up to young psychologist to get through to him.
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Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Cuba Gooding Jr., Donald Sutherland, Maura Tierney. Directed by Jon Turteltaub.
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Categories: Mental Health ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 112 min.
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Plot: When an emotional exchange between a Lebanese Christian and a Palestinian refugee escalates, the men end up in a court case that gets national attention. In Arabic with English subtitles.
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Cast: Adel Karam, Kamel El Basha, Camille Salameh. Directed by Ziad Doueiri.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Foreign ∙ Domestic Relations |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 92 min.
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Plot: Three emotionally distant daughters must come to terms with their disintigrating family when their father abandons their mother.
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Cast: Kristin Griffith, Mary Beth Hurt, Richard Jordan, Diane Keaton, E.G. Marshall, Geraldine Page, Maureen Stapleton, Sam Waterston. Directed by Woody Allen.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Domestic Relations |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 105 min.
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Plot: A variety of losers in Dublin have harrowingly farcical intersecting stories of love, greed and violence.
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Cast: Shirley Henderson, Kelly MacDonald, Colm Meaney, Cillian Murphy, Colin Farrell. Directed by John Crowley.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Domestic Relations ∙ Mental Health |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 118 min.
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Plot: An Interpol agent attempts to expose a high-profile financial institution's role in an international arms dealing ring.
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Cast: Clive Owen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Brian F. O'Bryne. Directed by Tom Tykwer.
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Categories: Action ∙ Criminal Law ∙ International |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 105 min.
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Plot: The story of programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz, who took his own life at the age of 26.
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Cast: Aaron Swartz, Tim Berners-Lee, Cindy Cohn. Directed by Brian Knappenberger.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Biography ∙ Mental Health |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 129 min.
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Plot: A U.S. Secret Service agent is assigned to investigate an interpreter who overhears an assassination plot.
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Cast: Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener. Directed by Sydney Pollack.
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Categories: International ∙ Government ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 169 min.
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Plot: A team of explorers travel through a wormhole in an attempt to ensure humanity's survival.
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Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Matt Damon, Michael Caine. Directed by Christopher Nolan.
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Categories: Drama ∙ SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Action |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 104 min.
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Plot: A duel between a suspected murderer and a detective pressed by people who want results. But whose skin is really wanted.
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Cast: Hugo Weaving, Tony Martin, Aaron Jeffery. Directed by Craig Monahan.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Criminal Procedure ∙ Law Enforcement |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 112 min.
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Plot: When a tabloid show lands an interview with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, they are recruited by the CIA to turn their trip to Pyongyang into an assassination mission.
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Cast: Seth Rogen, James Franco, Lizzy Caplan, Randall Park, Timothy Simons. Directed by Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Media ∙ Government |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 107 min.
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Plot: Conversations with death row inmate Michael Perry and those affected by his crime serve as an examination of why people - and the state - kill.
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Cast: Jason Burkett, Werner Herzog, Michael Perry. Directed by Werner Herzog.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Criminal Law ∙ Death Penalty |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 115 min.
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Plot: Ed's life is somewhat out of control; especially after a chance encounter that leads to a wild, as well as funny, chase through the streets of Los Angeles.
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Cast: Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Pfeiffer, David Bowie, Dan Aykroyd. Directed by John Landis.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Comedy ∙ Action |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 97 min.
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Plot: Mystical fable about two Irish brothers traveling across the country on a magical white horse.
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Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Ellen Barkin, Ruaidhri Conroy, Ciaran Fitzgerald. Directed by Mike Newell.
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Categories: Animation ∙ Family ∙ SciFi/Fantasy |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 148 min.
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Plot: After graduating from college, a young man gives up his worldly possessions and takes to life on the road, in a journey that leads him to the Alaskan wilderness.
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Cast: Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt, Jena Malone, Catherine Keener, Vince Vaughn. Directed by Sean Penn.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Drama ∙ Environmental |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 125 min.
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Plot: A witch tasks a childless baker and his wife with procuring magical items from classic fairy tales to reverse the curse put on their family tree.
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Cast: Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, James Corden, Anna Kendrick. Directed by Rob Marshall.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Musical |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: **
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Format: DVD 100 min.
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Plot: A revenge-seeking gold digger marries a womanizing Beverly Hills lawyer with the intention of making a killing in the divorce.
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Cast: George Clooney, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Geoffrey Rush, Cedric the Entertainer, Billy Bob Thornton. Directed by Joel Coen.
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Categories: Romance ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 112 min.
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Plot: Based on a true story of friendship between a handicapped millionaire and his street-smart ex-con caretaker. In French with English subtitles.
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Cast: Francois Cluzet, Omar Sy, Anne Le Ny, Audrey Fleurot, Clotilde Mollet. Directed by Olivier Nakache & Eric Toledano.
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Categories: Foreign ∙ Biography ∙ Health |
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Rated: G Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 87 min.
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Plot: In 1940s Mississippi two teenage boys and an elderly woman combine forces to prevent a miscarriage of justice and clear a black man of a murder charge.
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Cast: David Brian, Claude Jarman, Jr., Juano Hernandez, Porter Hall. Directed by Clarence Brown.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Racism ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 80 min. B&W
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Plot: A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
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Cast: Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Larry Gates, King Donovan. Directed by Don Siegel.
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Categories: Horror ∙ Medical ∙ Government |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc) 115 min.
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Plot: In San Francisco, a group of people discover the human race is being replaced one by one, with clones devoid of emotion.
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Cast: Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy, Jeff Goldblum, Veronica Cartwright. Directed by Philip Kaufman.
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Categories: Horror ∙ Health ∙ Safety |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 99 min.
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Plot: In a world where everyone tells the truth, a screenwriter discovers that you don't always have to and changes the world.
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Cast: Ricky Gervais, Jennifer Garner, Jonah Hall, Louis C.K., Jeffrey Tambor, Fionnula Flanagan, Rob Lowe, Tina Fey. Directed by Ricky Gervais and Matthew Robinson.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Ethics ∙ Romance |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 134 min.
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Plot: Nelson Mandela finds hope of national unity on the rugby field.
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Cast: Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon, Tony Kgoroge, Julian Lewis Jones, Margaret Wheatley. Directed by Clint Eastwood.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Human Rights ∙ International |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 55 min.
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Plot: Explores children's life, general social conditions, and child soldiers in Uganda in 2003.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Ted Braun.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ History ∙ Children |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 106 min.
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Plot: A semi-biographical account of Yip Man, the first martial arts master to teach the Chinese martial art of Wing Chun. In Chinese with English subtitles.
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Cast: Donnie Yen, Simon Yam, Fan Siu-Wong, Lynn Hung, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi. Directed by Wilson Yip.
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Categories: Foreign ∙ Biography ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 107 min.
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Plot: A counter-espionage agent investigates the kidnapping and brainwashing of British scientists.
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Cast: Michael Caine, Nigel Green, Guy Doleman, Sue Lloyd. Directed by Sidney J. Furie.
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Categories: National Security ∙ Drama ∙ International |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 86 min.
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Plot: A young boy befriends a giant robot from outer space that a paranoid government agent wants to destroy.
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Cast: Voices of Jennifer Aniston, Harry Connick, Jr., Vin Diesel, James Gammon, Cloris Leachman. Directed by Brad Bird.
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Categories: Animation ∙ Action ∙ Government |
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Rated: Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 123 min.
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Plot: Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.
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Cast: Hilary Swank Margo Martindale, Anjelica Huston. Directed by Katja von Garnier.
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Categories: Drama ∙ History ∙ Women |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 105 min.
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Plot: A surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher, the first and only female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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Cast: Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Olivia Colman, Iain Glen, John Sessions, Anthony Head, Richard E. Grant. Directed by Phyllida Lloyd.
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Categories: Biography ∙ History ∙ Government |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 125 min.
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Plot: After being kidnapped, a wealthy industrialist is forced to build an armored suit which he uses to overcome his captors and their armies.
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Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges, Shaun Toub, Gwyneth Paltrow. Directed by Jon Favreau.
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Categories: War ∙ SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Action |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 124 min.
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Plot: Tony Stark must deal with personal deadly issues as well as his alter ego superhero enemies.
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Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Don Cheadle, Scalett Johansson, Gwyneth Paltrow, Mickey Rourke. Directed by Jon Faureau.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ War ∙ Action |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 130 min.
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Plot: When Tony Stark's world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution.
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Cast: Robert Downey, Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce. Directed by Shane Black.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ War ∙ Action |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 113 min.
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Plot: A precocious girl sues her selfish, career-driven parents for emancipation.
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Cast: Ryan O'Neal, Shelley Long, Drew Barrymore. Directed by Charles Shyer.
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Categories: Family ∙ Custody ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 136 min.
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Plot: A man goes on the run after he discovers that he is in a utopian facility.
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Cast: Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson, Djimon Hounsou, Sean Bean, Michale Clarke Duncan, Steve Buscemi. Directed by Michael Bay.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Action |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 104 min.
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Plot: A sculptor's self-imposed exile to the Bahamas is ended by a visit from his sons and the outbreak of the second world war.
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Cast: George C. Scott, David Hemmings, Gilbert Roland, Claire Bloom. Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner.
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Categories: Drama ∙ War ∙ Family |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 101 min.
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Plot: A boy's odyssey in search of his lost dog in Japan.
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Cast: Bryan Cranston, Koyu Rankin, Edward Norton, Bob Balaban, Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum . Directed by Wes Anderson.
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Categories: Animation ∙ Comedy ∙ Animal |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 150 min. B&W
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Plot: During 1912 war people are quarantined for the plague/The inmates have the last say at Bethlehem Asylum.
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Cast: Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Marc Cramer, Anna Lee, Billy House. Directed by Mark Robson.
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Categories: Horror ∙ Health ∙ War |
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It (2017)
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 135 min.
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Plot: A group of bullied kids band together when a shapeshifting monster, taking the appearance of a clown, begins hunting children.
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Cast: Bill Skarsgard, Jaeden Lieberher, Finn Wolfhard. Directed by Andy Muschietti.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Horror ∙ SciFi/Fantasy |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: VHS 65 min. B&W
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Plot: An immigrant's son defends his adopted brother against a murder charge.
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Cast: Alan Baxter, Andrea Leeds. Directed by Phil Rosen.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 101 min.
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Plot: A NYC cop is too short on cash to tip his waitress, so he promises to split his potential winnings on a lottery ticket with her.
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Cast: Nicolas Cage, Bridget Fonda, Rosie Perez, Issac Hayes, Seymour Cassel. Directed by Andrew Bergman.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Drama ∙ Romance |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 105 min. B&W
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Plot: A spoiled heiress, on the run from her family, is helped by an out-of-work reporter looking for a story.
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Cast: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns, Jameson Thomas, Alan Hale, Arthur Hoyt, Blanche Friderici, Charles C. Wilson. Directed by Frank Capra.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Romance ∙ Employment |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 98 min.
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Plot: A documentary on the electric guitar from the point of view of three significant rock musicians.
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Cast: Jimmy Page, The Edge, Jack White. Directed by Davis Guggenheim.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Musical |
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Rated: G Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 192 min.
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Plot: The dying words of a thief spark a madcap cross-country rush to find some treasure.
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Cast: Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney. Directed by Stanley Kramer.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Action |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 130 min. B&W
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Plot: A beleaguered businessman at the end of his rope is given a chance to see what the world would be like if he had never been born.
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Cast: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Beulah Bondi, Gloria Grahame,. Directed by Frank Capra.
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Categories: Banking ∙ Bankruptcy ∙ Corporations |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 120 min.
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Plot: A couple reignites the spark in their relationship while attending their son's college graduation.
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Cast: Meryl Streep, Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin, John Krasinski. Directed by Nancy Meyers.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Marital Relations ∙ Family |
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Rated: G Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 99 min.
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Plot: To steal $4 million in gold, a team of thieves must bring the traffic in Turin, Italy to a screeching halt.
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Cast: Michael Caine, Noel Coward, Benny Hill, Raf Vallone, Tony Beckley, Rossano Brazzi, Maggie Blye. Directed by Peter Collinson.
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Categories: Action ∙ Organized Crime |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 111 min.
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Plot: After being betrayed by one of their own, a band of professional thieves plots to steal back their loot.
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Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Charlie Croker, Charlize Theron, Donald Sutherland, Jason Statham, Seth Green. Directed by F. Gary Gray.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Partnership |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 99 min.
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Plot: An abandoned 5-year-old boy living in a rundown orphanage in a small Russian village is adopted by an Italian family. In Russian, subtitled in English.
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Cast: Kolya Spiridonov, Maria Kuznetsova, Nikolai Reutov, Yuri Itskov. Directed by Andrei Kravchuk.
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Categories: Children ∙ International ∙ Poverty |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 91 min.
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Plot: A journey into the customs and beliefs of Mayans living on a coffee plantation at the base of an active volcano. In Spanish with English subtitles.
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Cast: Maria Mercedes Coroy, Maria Telon, Manuel Antun. Directed by Jayro Bustamante.
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Categories: Foreign ∙ Documentary ∙ Land Use |
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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
online catalog.
