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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 127 min.
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Plot: A handyman and martial arts master agrees to teach a bullied boy karate and shows him that there is more to the martial art than fighting.
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Cast: Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita, Elisabeth Shue. Directed by John G. Avildsen.
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Categories: Children ∙ Sports ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 122 min.
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Plot: Dramatization of the massacre of 20,000 people by the Soviet secret police 1940. In Polish with English subtitles.
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Cast: Andrzej Chyra, Maja Ostaszewska, Artur Żmijewski, Jan Englert, Danuta Stenka. Directed by Andrzej Wajda.
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Categories: Foreign ∙ History ∙ War |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 5 hours, 30 min.
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Plot: A barrister oversees difficult criminal cases while dealing with the demands of his family life over the course of the four episodes of the first season.
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Cast: John Thaw, Ewan McGregor, Anna Chancellor, Oliver Ford Davies. Directed by Colin Gregg, Paul Greengrass, and Renny Rye.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Criminal Law ∙ Television |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 230 min.
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Plot: A barrister oversees difficult criminal cases while dealing with the demands of his family life.
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Cast: John Thaw, Oliver Ford Davies, Lisa Harrow, Nicholas Jones. Directed by Jack Gold and Tristram Powell.
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Categories: Television ∙ Drama ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 229 min.
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Plot: A barrister oversees difficult criminal cases while dealing with the demands of his family life.
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Cast: John Thaw, Oliver Ford Davies, Lisa Harrow, Nicholas Jones, Anna Chancellor. Directed by Ken Grieve and Charles Beeson.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Television ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: R Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 104 min.
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Plot: An absent-minded vicar of a rural parish is so distracted by the pressures of his job that he fails to notice his family is unravelling around him.
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Cast: Rowan Atkinson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith, Patrick Swayze, Tamsin Egerton, Toby Parkes, Liz Smith, Emilia Fox. Directed by Niall Johnson.
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Categories: Family ∙ Marital Relations ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 100 min. B&W
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Plot: A man visits his old friend's hotel and finds a gangster running things.
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Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall. Directed by John Huston.
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Categories: Organized Crime ∙ Criminal Law ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 111 min.
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Plot: The richest Russian challenges President Putin and a fight of the titans begins. Khodorkovsky journeys to exile, but returns to Russia knowing he will be imprisoned.
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Cast: Mikhail Khodorkovsky and narrated by Jean-Marc Barr. Directed by Cyril Tuschi.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Politics ∙ History |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 117 min.
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Plot: A teenage comics-reader dons a wetsuit and becomes a masked vigilante.
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Cast: Aaron Johnson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Mark Strong, Chloe Moretz, Omari Hardwick, Xander Berkeley, Nicolas Cage. Directed by Matthew Vaughn.
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Categories: Action ∙ Organized Crime ∙ Media |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 106 min.
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Plot: A comedic surprise with poignant emotional truth about a couple in a long term, committed, loving but by no means perfect relationship.
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Cast: Annette Bening, Josh Hutcherson, Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Mia Wasikowska. Directed by Lisa Cholodenko.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Family ∙ Gender |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 102 min.
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Plot: Beyond the millions paid and high stakes corruption, this documentary exposes a shocking American secret of the notorious judicial scandal.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves.. Directed by Robert May.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Drama ∙ Children |
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Rated: G Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 105 min.
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Plot: A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community difficult while she supports herself by running an air courier service.
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Cast: Minami Takayama, Rei Sakuma, Kappei Yamaguchi, Keiko Toda. Directed by Hayao Miyazaki.
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Categories: Animation ∙ Business ∙ SciFi/Fantasy |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 111 min.
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Plot: A female assassin wakes from a coma and seeks revenge on her former leader, after a violent attack on her wedding day.
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Cast: Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Michael Madson, Darryl Hannah, David Carradine. Directed by Quentin Tarantino.
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Categories: Organized Crime ∙ International ∙ Action |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 137 min.
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Plot: "The Bride" continues her bloody quest for vengeance against her ex-boss and his associates.
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Cast: Uma Thurman, Gordon Liu, Michael Madson, Darryl Hannah, David Carradine. Directed by Quentin Tarantino.
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Categories: Organized Crime ∙ Family ∙ Action |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 112 min.
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Plot: A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide.
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Cast: Jeremy Renner, Rosemarie DeWitt, Ray Liotta, Tim Blake Nelson. Directed by Michael Cuesta.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 81 min. B&W
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Plot: A slaughterhouse employee finds solace in simple beauties of life to prevent his work from leaving him numb.
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Cast: Henry G. Sanders, Kaycee Moore. Directed by Charles Burnett.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Family ∙ Poverty |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 111 min.
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Plot: A disillusioned assassin accepts one last hit in hopes of using his earnings to restore vision to a singer he accidentally blinded, only to be double-crossed by his boss. In Cantonese, subtitled in English.
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Cast: Yun-Fat Chow, Danny Lee, Sally Yeh. Directed by John Woo.
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Categories: Foreign ∙ Organized Crime ∙ Action |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 196 min. B&W/Color
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Plot: This set contains the 1946 and 1964 adaptations of Ernest Hemingway's short story of the same title.
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Cast: Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Albert Dekker, Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes, Clu Gulager, Ronald Reagan. Directed by Robert Siodmak and Don Siegel.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Criminal Law ∙ Insurance |
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Rated: R Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 142 min.
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Plot: An aide, translator, and friend of a NY Times journalist covering the war in Cambodia sends his family with American forces when they pull out, but stays behind to help his journalist friend cover the event.
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Cast: Sam Waterson, Haing S. Ngor, John Malkovich, Julian Sands, Craig T. Nelson. Directed by Roland Joffe.
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Categories: International ∙ Government ∙ War |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 115 min.
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Plot: A dramatization of Mark Champman's plan to murder John Lennon.
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Cast: Jonas Ball, Krisha Fairchild, Gunter Stern, Gail Kay Bell. Directed by Andrew Piddington.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Drama ∙ Mental Health |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 100 min.
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Plot: Two brothers found tremendous success with their company, but as their company grew, they made decisions that would have lasting impact on both the public and their increasingly skeptical customer base.
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Cast: Rich Smith, Tom Smith. Directed by Nick Berardini.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Drama ∙ Business |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 85 min. B&W
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Plot: Crooks plan and execute a daring race-track robbery.
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Cast: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen. Directed by Stanley Kubrick.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Sports ∙ Organized Crime |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 93 min.
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Plot: Irma Miko, Jewish Communist and political activist from age 14, joined the French Resistance in Paris in 1941. In French, Romanian & German with English subtitles.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Yonathan Levy.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Biography ∙ War |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 86 min.
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Plot: During World War I, an army private is accused of desertion during battle. The officer assigned to defend him at his court-martial uncovers the story of the accused's enlistment.
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Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Tom Courtenay. Directed by Joseph Losey.
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Categories: War ∙ History ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: G Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 1956 min.
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Plot: A widow accepts a job as a live-in governess of the King of Siam's children.
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Cast: Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner, Rita Moreno, Martin Benson. Directed by Walter Lang.
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Categories: Children ∙ International ∙ Musical |
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Rated: NR Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 104 min. B&W
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Plot: A film crew stumbles upon a giant ape on a prehistoric island.
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Cast: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Willis O'Brien. Directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack.
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Categories: Entertainment ∙ Environmental ∙ SciFi/Fantasy |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 102 min.
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Plot: An army private has been sent on a mission to detonate a bomb in a French village, only to find that the inhabitants have been replaced by escapees from the local asylum.
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Cast: Alan Bates, Pierre Brasseur, Jean-Claude Brialy. Directed by Philippe De Broca.
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Categories: War ∙ Foreign ∙ Mental Health |
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Rated: R Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 118 min.
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Plot: The story of King George VI of Britain, his impromptu ascension to the throne and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch become worthy of it.
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Cast: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Guy Pearce, Timothy Spall, Derek Jacobi. Directed by Tom Hopper.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Drama ∙ History |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 185 min.
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Plot: Chronicles the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Cast: Readings by Joanne Woodward, James Earl Jones, and Paul Newman. Directed by Sidney Lumet and Joseph Mankie.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Biography ∙ Civil Rights |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 110 min.
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Plot: A team of U.S. government agents is sent to investigate the bombing of an American facility in the Middle East.
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Cast: Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, Danny Huston, Richard Jenkins. Directed by Peter Berg.
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Categories: International ∙ Law Enforcement ∙ Action |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 150 min.
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Plot: Two former lovers find their lives once again inexplicably linked. In French with English Subtitles.
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Cast: Emmanuelle Devos, Mathieu Amalric, Catherine Deneuve, Maurice Garrel, Nathalie Boutefeu, Jean-Paul Roussillon. Directed by Arnaud Desplechin.
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Categories: Romance ∙ Family ∙ Foreign |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 118 min.
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Plot: The life of Alfred Kinsey, a pioneer in the area of human sexuality research, whose 1948 publication "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" was one of the first recorded works that saw science address sexual behavior.
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Cast: Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O'Donnell, Peter Sarsgaard, Timothy Hutton, John Lithgow, Tim Curry, Oliver Platt, Dylan Baker. Directed by Bill Condon.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Medical ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 95 min.
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Plot: A money-hungry student kills his girlfriend and makes it look like suicide when he discovers her pregnancy will cause her to lose her inheritance.
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Cast: Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Virginia Leith, Joanne Woodward. Directed by Gerd Oswald.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Estates ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 103 min.
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Plot: A petty thief posing as an actor is brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation.
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Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Val Kilmer, Michelle Monaghan, Corbin Bernsen. Directed by Shane Black.
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Categories: Entertainment ∙ Fraud ∙ Action |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 106 min.
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Plot: A doomed female hitchhiker pulls Mike Hammer into a deadly whirlpool of intrigue, revolving around a mysterious "great whatsit".
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Cast: Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart. Directed by Robert Aldrich.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Drama ∙ War |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 119 min.
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Plot: A homosexual and a political prisoner are cell mates in a South American prison.
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Cast: William Hurt, Raul Julia, Sonia Braga. Directed by Hector Abenco.
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Categories: Sentencing ∙ Sexuality ∙ SciFi/Fantasy |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 127 min.
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Plot: After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help the son of his childhood friend.
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Cast: Khalid Abdalla, Homayoun Ershadi, Shaun Toub, Atossa Leoni, . Directed by Marc Foster.
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Categories: International ∙ War ∙ Children |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 114 min.
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Plot: When his old friend, a laboratory engineer vanishes, a detective is hired by his friend's colleague to search for the missing man.
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Cast: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Nathan George, Dorothy Tristan, Roy R. Scheider, Rita Gam. Directed by Alan J. Pakula.
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Categories: Law Enforcement ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 100 min. B&W
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Plot: A lawyer who clawed his way out of the slums finds himself defending an underprivileged teen accused of murder, making the case that the boy is more a victim of society than a cold-hearted killer.
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Cast: John Derek, Humphrey Bogart, Susan Perry, Arlene Roberts, George Macready. Directed by Nicholas Ray.
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Categories: Advocacy ∙ Criminal Law ∙ Juvenile |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 133 min.
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Plot: For a fun loving party animal, the last thing he ever expected was for his one night stand to show up on his doorstep eight weeks later to tell him she's pregnant.
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Cast: Seth Rigen, Katherine Heigl, Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann. Directed by Judd Apatow.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Children |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 118 min.
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Plot: A team of scientists explore an uncharted island in the Pacific, venturing into the domain of the mighty Kong, and must fight to escape a primal Eden.
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Cast: Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, Brie Larson. Directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts.
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Categories: Action ∙ SciFi/Fantasy |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 104 min.
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Plot: A father must learn to be a single parent to his son while fighting his wife for custody of their child.
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Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Jane Alexander, Howard Duff, JoBeth Williams. Directed by Robert Benton.
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Categories: Family ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 101 min.
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Plot: A young boy must locate a magical suit of armor in order to defeat a vengeful spirit from the past.
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Cast: Voices of Charles Theron, Art Parkinson, Matthew McConaughey. Directed by Travis Knight.
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Categories: Animation ∙ Animal ∙ SciFi/Fantasy |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 88 min.
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Plot: The laziest animal in all of the Valley of Peace unwittingly becomes the chosen one when enemies threaten their way of life.
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Cast: Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffman, Ian McShane, Jackie Chan, Seth Rogen, Lucy Lui. Directed by John Stevenson and Mark Osborne.
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Categories: Animation ∙ Comedy ∙ Action |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 90 min.
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Plot: Friends fight to stop a peacock villain from conquering China with a deadly new weapon.
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Cast: Voices of Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Jackie Chan. Directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson.
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Categories: Animation ∙ Action |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 95 min.
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Plot: Continuing his "legendary adventures of awesomeness", Po must face two hugely epic, but different threats: one supernatural and the other a little closer to his home.
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Cast: Voices of Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie Pitt. Directed by Alessandro Carloni & Jennifer Yuh.
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Categories: Action ∙ Animation ∙ Animal |
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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.
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